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Handel on the News · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handel on demand from KFI AM 640.
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  Speaker 1: And now, Handel on the News. Ladies and gentlemen, here's
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  Speaker 1: Bill Handel.
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  Speaker 2: Liars.
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  Speaker 3: Liars.
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  Speaker 4: There's no Bill. Oh, come on, Bill.
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  Speaker 2: Hurry.
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  Speaker 1: Hurry.
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  Speaker 4: Put on the headset.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, buddy. You can do it.
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  Speaker 4: KFI, you know how to do it, buddy.
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  Speaker 2: I had to pee.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, well, good.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I just had to pee just as we
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  Speaker 2: were going to go on the air.
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  Speaker 5: When you got to go, you got to go.
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  Speaker 2: That's true. And this is a pretty expensive office chair
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  Speaker 2: that I bought to broadcast in.
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  Speaker 6: So you tell me what the priorities are.
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  Speaker 4: Saran wrap.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well done.
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  Speaker 6: Well said. No, never mind.
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  Speaker 2: I was going to go into all kinds of anatomical
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  Speaker 2: issues there, and I'm not going to.
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  Speaker 6: In the meantime, hello, everybody. It is a Thursday morning,
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  Speaker 6: September 10th. And welcome.
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  Speaker 2: It's not going to be as hot today, is it, Amy?
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  Speaker 2: Yesterday was just brutal outside.
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  Speaker 5: It's still going to be brutal, but not quite as brutal.
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  Speaker 5: It's going to be just a few degrees cooler. But
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  Speaker 5: then we have some pretty significant cooling as we head
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  Speaker 5: into the weekend.
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  Speaker 4: So that's good.
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  Speaker 2: And it's still schvitz-y today?
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  Speaker 5: Still schvitz-y.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. I mean, yesterday was, you know, I stepped outside
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  Speaker 2: and it was just brutal.
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  Speaker 6: It was horrible.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. All right. There's that. What else?
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  Speaker 6: Let me say hello.
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  Speaker 2: Ann's back.
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  Speaker 6: She was gone for the day.
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  Speaker 5: Good morning.
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  Speaker 6: Good morning. And Will is with us. Hello, Will.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning. And I tell you, what kind of, you
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  Speaker 2: have some seal or something on your T-shirt. What does
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  Speaker 2: that say?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, it's a bar in Texas.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: With an all-you-can-eat buffet attached?
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Shh.
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  Speaker 6: I happen to like those. I actually got thrown out
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  Speaker 6: of one of those.
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  Speaker 4: All you can eat?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: They tossed me.
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  Speaker 4: You ate too much.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. Well, I took too much for sure. And
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  Speaker 2: I said, but it says all you can eat. So
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  Speaker 2: you've breached your contract. And they smiled and said, that's correct.
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  Speaker 2: Get out.
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  Speaker 6: But you advertise this.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we do.
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  Speaker 6: Get out. What were you doing?
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  Speaker 2: I was eating.
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  Speaker 4: And they just said no more?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. It was a small place and they just said, no,
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  Speaker 2: you're done. I should have filed a lawsuit.
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  Speaker 4: That's embarrassing.
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  Speaker 2: For them, yeah, because they advertise one thing and they
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  Speaker 2: say another, you're damn right, that's embarrassing.
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  Speaker 4: No, that's not where I was going.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, oh, I misread that then.
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  Speaker 6: Kono, hello.
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  Speaker 2: You had to have eaten a lot. You were at
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  Speaker 2: the peak fat, right? Yeah, I was well over 300 pounds,
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  Speaker 2: if you want to see pictures.
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  Speaker 4: He's been here for three hours.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you know, if you pace yourself, you can,
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  Speaker 2: over a period of two, three hours, really pump a
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  Speaker 2: lot of food in your body. You know, and then
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  Speaker 2: standing up, walking around... Talking to the other patrons saying, hey,
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  Speaker 2: try the roast beef. It's really good.
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  Speaker 6: You have too much chicken on your plate. You want
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  Speaker 6: to mix it up.
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  Speaker 4: I've been to many buffets with you. That must have
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  Speaker 4: been a lot. You and I could put away food.
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  Speaker 2: It was a lot.
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  Speaker 4: We've never been kicked out.
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  Speaker 2: Well, no, because we order and pay for the food.
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  Speaker 2: Have we?
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  Speaker 6: And we've gone to what all you can eat buffet.
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  Speaker 2: We did. We've done all kinds.
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  Speaker 4: We've done sizzler. We've done round table. We've done all kinds.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's true. Yeah. They ran out of pizzas with
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  Speaker 2: a round table. Oh, no.
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  Speaker 3: He would stand there at the buffet, tapping, waiting for
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  Speaker 3: them to refill it.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, pretty much.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 2: I think everybody's here.
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  Speaker 4: That's it.
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  Speaker 2: The whole team is here, and we've got a fair
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  Speaker 2: amount to talk about. Oh, real quickly, Ann, you were
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  Speaker 2: at the Padres game last night?
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  Speaker 5: Two nights ago.
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  Speaker 2: And how'd they do?
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  Speaker 5: They won.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, okay. And did anybody watch the football game yesterday? Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Seattle game?
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  Speaker 6: Who won that one? I just tuned in for a
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  Speaker 6: second or two.
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  Speaker 5: Well, Seattle won it.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. 13-10. Okay, so it was a reasonably close game.
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  Speaker 2: It was a good game.
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  Speaker 5: Well, except for the four interceptions.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you had the two Super Bowl teams playing
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  Speaker 2: each other, so they played the Super Bowl again.
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  Speaker 5: Kind of.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: And which quarterback got injured, by the way?
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  Speaker 2: Sam Darnold.
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  Speaker 6: Sam Donald, and he's the quarterback, right?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, he's the Super Bowl champion.
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  Speaker 2: Five snaps into the game. Right, so he's the $ 30
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  Speaker 2: million a year guy, and they got— is he out for
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  Speaker 2: a while?
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  Speaker 4: It looks like he might be out, yeah, for a minute.
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  Speaker 4: He hurt his hip.
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  Speaker 2: Huh. Oh. Huh.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, what was with the one player who had the
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  Speaker 5: big helmet?
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  Speaker 3: Well, some players now wear the new cushioned helmets to
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  Speaker 3: prevent concussions.
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  Speaker 5: And they do look very funny. They do. They look
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  Speaker 5: like aliens or something.
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  Speaker 2: These big puffy heads. Yeah. And what they do is
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  Speaker 2: they cover, at least they cover them so they try
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  Speaker 2: to approximate the helmet look. Do you see them in
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  Speaker 2: practice what those things look like?
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  Speaker 4: Well, they have them in games now. The player, the
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  Speaker 4: wide receiver had it last night. He looks like a
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  Speaker 4: big head.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. But they do cover it with... Yeah, it's padding.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's got like an extra layer of foam or something.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, no, I've seen them. Okay. Oh, and then we'll...
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  Speaker 2: Pick up the story, of course, what happened last night
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  Speaker 2: because you remember, well, of course you remember, but how
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  Speaker 2: often have I said that when I was in the
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  Speaker 2: fourth grade, the kid who won the presidency of the
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  Speaker 2: fourth grade, ran for fourth grade president and won because
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  Speaker 2: he promised free pizzas on Friday during recess. Well, the
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  Speaker 2: president not only promised free pizzas, he promised the full
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  Speaker 2: pizza parlor. And that will be our lead story. Amy,
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  Speaker 2: Neil and me handle on the news lead story.
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  Speaker 4: Here comes the money.
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  Speaker 2: OK, so the Republican midterm convention, which has never been
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  Speaker 2: done before, but the president wanted to pull that one
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  Speaker 2: off for a couple of reasons, which makes sense both.
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  Speaker 6: On the gee, aren't I a great guy as well
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  Speaker 6: as some.
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  Speaker 2: Turning public attention to the Republicans and what Republicans have done.
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  Speaker 2: And so amongst his other $ 10, 000 statements that he made
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  Speaker 2: that are just not quite true, here's his promise. If
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  Speaker 2: the Republicans keep control of Congress after November, he is
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  Speaker 2: going to give every single American adult a $ 5, 000 dividend.
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  Speaker 2: That's 270 million people will get $ 5, 000 a piece.
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  Speaker 3: Not getting into the details of what that would take.
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  Speaker 2: Like the numbers? Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Is that, that can't be legal.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think it is. I don't think it is. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And he would need Congress.
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  Speaker 5: Couldn't they though? Because like there have been times when
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  Speaker 5: like during COVID.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 5: Newsom said, hey, we're going to give everybody some like
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  Speaker 5: a cash infusion. You have to do it through Congress, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they have to do Congress. And the government has
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  Speaker 2: said yes to those. Simulus packages were given. This is
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  Speaker 2: a bribe.
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  Speaker 4: This is partisan.
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  Speaker 3: This is a little different than a cash infusion.
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  Speaker 2: Because we're going through a distressing time. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 2: just crazy. This is let's build a wall and Mexico
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  Speaker 2: will pay for it. Let's cut prices in half on
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  Speaker 2: day one of the office. I mean, it's just every
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  Speaker 2: time I think of how is it possible? It just
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  Speaker 2: keeps on going. It keeps on going. You know, Air
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  Speaker 2: Force One. Someone deploys the emergency chute while the president
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  Speaker 2: is waiting on the tarmac on Marine One to get
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  Speaker 2: onto the new Air Force One. And somebody aboard the plane,
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  Speaker 2: one of the military people, accidentally deploys the emergency chute.
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  Speaker 2: And the president said when he said, didn't someone deploy?
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  Speaker 2: He goes, no, they were just checking it out. They
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  Speaker 2: just wanted to make sure that it was working. You
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  Speaker 2: were on Marine One waiting to get on the airplane.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, has anybody ever been waiting for an
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  Speaker 2: airplane at the gate and the emergency chute was deployed
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  Speaker 2: to see if it was working while people were waiting
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  Speaker 2: to get on?
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  Speaker 4: How long does it take to restuff that?
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  Speaker 2: Not very long. It's like checking an airbag. I don't
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  Speaker 2: think it's restuffing an airbag or a parachute. I think
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  Speaker 2: they did it pretty quickly, didn't they, Amy?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, they had it rolled up in about 10 minutes.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it didn't take very long. And it checked out okay.
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  Speaker 4: I've never heard of them checking airbags.
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  Speaker 2: That's correct. You never heard of them checking. You have
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  Speaker 2: heard of emergency chutes being deployed when they shouldn't have been.
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  Speaker 3: If you like someone's policies, good for you. But that
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  Speaker 3: absurdity of paying everyone an adult, what is it?
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  Speaker 4: It's over a trillion dollars.
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  Speaker 6: It's over a trillion dollars.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, there you go. Free pieces, lots. And you can
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  Speaker 2: buy a lot of pieces for $ 1. 2 trillion with a
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  Speaker 2: lot of toppings, even expensive toppings.
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  Speaker 3: What if, what if he, he does it, but he says,
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  Speaker 3: unfortunately it's 100% taxed.
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  Speaker 4: So we never see it.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, no, we would see it. Here in California, we'd
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  Speaker 6: see half of it.
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  Speaker 2: And the rest of the country, the states that have
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  Speaker 2: no income tax, you see two-thirds of it, but it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't even matter.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, it's just, sure, why not?
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  Speaker 2: And was everybody standing up? And I didn't watch this.
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  Speaker 2: Were they standing up and giving them a standing ovation? Yes,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to get $ 5, 000. Sure, why not? Okay.
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  Speaker 5: Lots of questions, including, were the brakes broken? Braking systems
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  Speaker 5: did not deploy properly. During Sunday's deadly plane crash at
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  Speaker 5: Miami International Airport, the aircraft's wheel brakes were applied, but
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  Speaker 5: data indicates the speed brakes and the thrust reversers did
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  Speaker 5: not deploy. That's according to NTSB. Five people were killed
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  Speaker 5: when the jet overshot the runway and crashed into a
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  Speaker 5: van and an SUV. The pilot can be heard on
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  Speaker 5: the cockpit voice recorder saying, we're going too fast, and
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  Speaker 5: said that the landing should be aborted.
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  Speaker 6: And they tried, but it looked like too late.
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  Speaker 2: Listening to an interview with one of these pundits experts
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  Speaker 2: in the world of flight said, you have to go
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  Speaker 2: one way or the other. You have to commit. And
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  Speaker 2: it looks like for several seconds, they didn't commit. And
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  Speaker 2: then they said, oh, okay, we now have to abort.
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  Speaker 2: But it was several seconds too late. This happens in
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  Speaker 2: a split second. So These pilots have a lot to
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  Speaker 2: talk to. Someone's going to lose their license. That's for sure.
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  Speaker 2: As in both the pilots. Okay. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: So we've been hearing and watching as oil prices spike
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  Speaker 3: because of the Iran war and president Donald Trump came
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  Speaker 3: out yesterday and said those same oil prices that have
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  Speaker 3: surged most likely won't come down until after the U
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  Speaker 3: S midterm elections.
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  Speaker 2: So, um, So now the issue is you have to
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  Speaker 2: believe me. You for those of you that are Republicans,
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  Speaker 2: you have to get out there. And for those of
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  Speaker 2: you that are sort of in the middle, you have
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  Speaker 2: to swing back to Republicanism. Democrats, I don't think he's
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  Speaker 2: even talk about it. And it's going to be I
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  Speaker 2: know I said it. I know it hasn't come to pass,
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  Speaker 2: but it will.
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  Speaker 4: It will.
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  Speaker 2: Just sit back and inflation will go down and prices
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  Speaker 2: of oil will go down and gasoline will go down
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  Speaker 2: to under $ 2 a gallon. What is oil today, Amy?
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  Speaker 2: Have you looked at it or Neil?
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  Speaker 5: That Brent crude, we were talking to John Tucker with Bloomberg,
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  Speaker 5: that Brent crude was up over $ 105.
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  Speaker 4: Wow.
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  Speaker 5: And in the U.S., crude oil, it just topped $ 100
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  Speaker 5: a barrel.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Expensive stuff. That is gasoline. Now that I got
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  Speaker 2: rid of my EV and I bought myself a gasoline car,
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  Speaker 2: which gets way too crappy gas mileage, I'm actually looking
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  Speaker 2: at my mileage indicator explode for the amount of gas
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  Speaker 2: I'm putting in. $ 5.
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  Speaker 5: 95 a gallon on average in L.A. County this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's regular, and I put in premium. Because
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  Speaker 2: any new car today is premium gas.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know if any car has regular anymore.
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  Speaker 5: Really?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: I think cars have regular.
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  Speaker 5: My car has regular.
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  Speaker 6: Well, okay, a lot of new cars have premium.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, well, that's nothing, because we got a talkback from
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  Speaker 5: a wake-up call listener, and he said that the average
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  Speaker 5: price of Diesel in the Cajon Pass?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: $ 8. 49 a gallon.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's not going, since everything is delivered by
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  Speaker 2: truck in the United States, that's not going to affect
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  Speaker 2: prices at all. Because inflation is going down, too.
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  Speaker 4: Isn't diesel supposed to be cheaper?
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  Speaker 2: Yep. It always historically has been cheaper, except the last
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  Speaker 2: few years it's gotten even more expensive. It's crazy. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: some news about tomorrow.
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  Speaker 5: We're adding a moment of silence. So during September 11th
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  Speaker 5: commemoration ceremonies at Ground Zero, every year a bell tolls
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  Speaker 5: at the exact minute each of the four planes crashed
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  Speaker 5: and then when each of the twin towers fell. And
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  Speaker 5: that happens as they're reading the names. After the bell tolls,
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  Speaker 5: there's a moment of silence. This year, they're adding a
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  Speaker 5: seventh moment of silence. It's being held for the nearly
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  Speaker 5: 7,000 people more who have died since the attacks in
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  Speaker 5: 2001 because of the diseases linked to their exposure to
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  Speaker 5: the toxic ash and rubble at the World Trade Center.
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  Speaker 6: So that's the change.
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  Speaker 2: And tomorrow on the morning show, we're going to replay
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  Speaker 2: the broadcast of 9-11 here on KFI. And it's a
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  Speaker 2: compilation of the six hours that I was on the air.
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  Speaker 2: And as far as a moment of silence, unlike my
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  Speaker 2: normal broadcasts where people are always asking for a moment
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  Speaker 2: of silence and praying that that's what we broadcast. Tomorrow
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  Speaker 2: actually is going to be worth listening to big time.
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  Speaker 2: It's every time I listen to it, it's it sends
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  Speaker 2: chills down my spine.
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  Speaker 6: And that's tomorrow at 830.
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  Speaker 3: I have the weirdest feeling about Mom Dobby or whatever
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  Speaker 3: his name is and that whole thing.
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  Speaker 4: It's almost like.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, Muslim terrorists killed 3,000, but look what America did
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  Speaker 3: to 7,000 people afterwards.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. It feels weird and gross.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Mayor Karen Bass stepping down from LAHSA, the
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  Speaker 3: LA Homeless Services Authority Commission. And she said in a
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  Speaker 3: statement Tuesday, Bass will be appointing a new appointee to
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  Speaker 3: fill her spot. This was in an interview last week.
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  Speaker 3: Bass told KFI's Gary and Shannon she would be leaving
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  Speaker 3: Lhasa Commission due to scheduling conflicts and other time constraints.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, except in a statement from the office, the mayor's office.
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  Speaker 2: And I quote the mayor's firsthand experience at Lhasa Commission.
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  Speaker 2: reinforced her understanding that our current system is broken and
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  Speaker 2: in need of a major overhaul. That's why she went
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  Speaker 2: on to LASA and became the commission head, because it's
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  Speaker 2: for her understanding how broken it really is. The fact
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  Speaker 2: that she led it for two years, now she has
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  Speaker 2: a better understanding. And by the way, since it's so broken,
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  Speaker 2: someone else is going to run it.
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  Speaker 6: Again, free pizzas on Friday.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, how do we put up with these utter
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  Speaker 2: BS lies over and over and over again by these politicians?
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  Speaker 3: And NIFIA helped run it as well, so we're screwed
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  Speaker 3: on both sides.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, we're just— you know what the answer is? Become
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  Speaker 2: homeless and you'll do just fine in the city.
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  Speaker 5: Well, here's a hell of a development. You may soon
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  Speaker 5: be able to carry a bottle of water on a
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  Speaker 5: plane with you. The TSA is actively considering allowing TSA
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  Speaker 5: pre-check passengers to bring water bottles through security at select
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: airports in the coming months. They didn't say which airports
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: are select, but they plan to roll it out initially
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: at airports who have the newer CT screening technology and
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: automated detection capabilities that can distinguish water from other liquids.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: Or you can just pour water on the TSA agent
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: and say, this is water, and then they let you through.
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  Speaker 5: I wouldn't recommend that.
• 18:08
  Speaker 6: Yeah, but that's pretty low tech. I mean, that wouldn't
• 18:10
  Speaker 6: cost a lot of money.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: True.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: All right. Some good news out of Hollywood for a change.
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: It's closing out the best summer since the pandemic. A
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: lot of mix of blockbusters this year.
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: And the U.S.
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: And Canadian box office generated more than $ 4. 6 billion in
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: ticket sales from the first weekend in May through August 30th.
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: That's according to a measurement firm, Rentrack. But you had
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: the Odyssey, you had Pixar's Toy Story, you had Spider-Man
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: Brand New Day, which I think is still running top.
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: It's still number one, six weeks in.
• 18:52
  Speaker 6: I have a question to ask.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: Have you seen, and probably Kono is yes on this one,
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: Spider-Man Brand New Day.
• 18:58
  Speaker 6: Have you seen the movie? Has anybody, have any one
• 19:01
  Speaker 6: of us seen the movie?
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: No, it's on our list to go see it, but
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: we haven't.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I just, yeah, I want to, is it that
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: good where it's doing that kind of box office?
• 19:10
  Speaker 6: Now, I saw The Odyssey, and I thought it sucked, personally.
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: Why did you think it sucked?
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: Because I didn't like it. I didn't think... didn't match
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: the book well yeah sort of the book it was
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: just yeah i just the story uh i thought the
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: story was contrived even though it's based on the odyssey
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: which has been around for thousands of years contrived yeah
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: it was uh they took uh there was yeah they
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: just took they wrote it up too loosely but no
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: i just didn't think it was that good and maybe
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: because it has such rave reviews and i was so
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: it was so highly anticipated i go oh, okay.
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: Did you watch it by yourself?
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: I did actually watch it by myself.
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: You enjoy going to the movies by yourself?
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: Only when I'm very lonely, you know, those times. And
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: I never mind.
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: Not those movies. Hey, Pee Wee, can you hand me
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: a tissue?
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: Stop it.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: Those movies are gone. VHS killed those movies. Oh, some
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: Girl Scout news.
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: Well, don't get too excited.
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: Yeah, this is not for you, Bill. Girl Scouts going
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: to the dogs. The organization has collaborated with Bark for
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: its first canine cookie called Patch Pals. It'll debut in
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: the next lineup for 2027. Inspired by Girl Scouts' deep
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: love for their dogs, the soft-baked Blueberry muffin flavored dog
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: cookies celebrate the bond between people and their pups.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: I don't know how that works. That's a little cloying, treacly,
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: the way you said that. But I'm for this. I mean,
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: I would feed my little ones this.
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: Blueberry muffin flavored dog treats?
• 20:52
  Speaker 6: I don't know. It's kind of weird.
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: How about some good old-fashioned meat?
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 20:59
  Speaker 6: Yeah, bacon-flavored little bits and pieces.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: They're also unveiling an allergy-friendly cookie, which is going to
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: be a crunchy oatmeal cookie featuring chocolate chips dotted with
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: colorful sprinkles.
• 21:13
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: I'm allergic to oats.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: I love a good oatmeal cookie.
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: I'm kidding. All right, Justice Department launches an investigation.
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: What?
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: They do that? This time into L.A. County's men's jails.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: I guess.
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: We got to keep jails clean? For some time now,
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: there's been pressure mounting on L.A. County to fix its
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: jail system. Whether a person, they say, whether a person
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: is held in county jail awaiting trial or after conviction,
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: the environmental conditions in that jail need to meet constitutional standards.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. The jails have been infamous.
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: L.A.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: County jails, the sheriffs running the jails. Yeah. We've heard
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: over many different administrations. It's been very tough. Lawsuits have
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: hit and have been paid.
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: God, if there was only a way to stay out
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: of them.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, that could be, yeah, yeah. But you're not
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: going to stop everybody from staying out of them. And
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: now does that translate into treating people inhumanely?
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: In Mexico, yes.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: That's correct.
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: Mexico, dinner is the rat that you've just caught.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: That's correct.
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: But share. But share with your other cellies.
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: China is telling the U.S. to back off on the accusations.
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: The FBI, the National Security Agency, and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: Security Agency– that's a mouthful– have issued a joint cyberspace
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: advisory saying that Chinese AI developers– had, as they put it,
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: extracted or distilled capabilities from some of the most advanced
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: AI models in the U.S. Things like Anthropix Clawed, OpenAI's GPT,
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: Google Gemini, and SpaceX AI's Grok. They say they've been
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: doing it for at least 2024. China said, shush. They said,
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: refrain from making unfounded accusations or smears against China. adding
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: that both China and the U.S. are major A.I. powers
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: and should strengthen cooperation, not go at each other's throats.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: Right. While China is not only sabotaging, but certainly stealing
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: all of this technological information and the technology itself. Yeah.
• 23:31
  Speaker 6: And China, of course, denies everything. Just denies. That's not us.
• 23:34
  Speaker 6: We didn't do it.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: Even though they're right there and there are orders for
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: food from Chinese restaurants in the A.I., And so it's
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: they're just a bunch of liars is what they are.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: And most experts will tell you or tell us that
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: the real enemy of the future is China way more
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: than than any other country.
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: I mean, that's a serious, serious issue.
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: Well, it looks like UC Berkeley is under the Justice Department.
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: That Justice Department is so busy right now.
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: Pesky. Yeah, Pesky.
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: UC Berkeley's law school discriminated against white and Asian applicants
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: by illegally using race in admissions. That is what the
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: Department of Justice is alleging in their investigation, finding that
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: it expands the Trump administration's probe into University of California
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: admission practice. So this is UCLA, UC Davis.
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: Are being looked at. as well as UC Berkeley.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, first of all, you have the Trump administration
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: going after the UCs because it's California. Also, I want
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: to point something out about the Trump administration. It's absolutely
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: right when it accuses the UC system of using race.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: It is illegal. Supreme Court has ruled several times you
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: cannot use race as even a consideration. You cannot look
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: at race at all. It used to be you can
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: look at race as one of the considerations. Now you
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: can't look at it at all. as a consideration. But
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: do they do an end around you? Damn right they do.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: They look at your application and then they start figuring
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: out where you live. And they look at your home
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: address and are you in a primarily minority school? They
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: look at, you know, are you the first one to
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: go to college, which is a good thing. But it
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: turns out that race is, in fact, being used. They
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: just do an end around on that. Then the other
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: side of it is, You have so few minorities that
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: are actually going to school.
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: Do you want to push it?
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: Because you have, for example, blacks and Hispanics have been
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: so discriminated against. Historically, do you give them an upper
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: hand and say, yep, it's unfair and we're going to
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: make it right?
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: Don't know the answer to that. That's beyond my pay
• 25:57
  Speaker 6: grade to make that decision.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: You would think there's a way to do it all.
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, you can't have special classes or or opportunity
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: to see.
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: But that becomes but that becomes discriminatory because what happens
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: when you have a white person who is not a
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: protected class and also does miserable and the first one
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: to go to college? See, there's no easy answer.
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: I think reparations would a great.
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: Type of reparations would have been free schooling for African-Americans,
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: especially being tied back to slavery.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: I think that's- Well, you make us, now we're going
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: back to reparations, you know?
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but I'm just saying like those types of things
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: to me is to bring the level up.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: I get it.
• 26:38
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it is.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: But how do you do that without discriminating? How do
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: you do that without giving them extra breaks? And they're
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: in is the problem because the Trump administration is right
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: in terms of what the law is. And now the
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: moral aspects of it is something very different. I believe
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: in meritocracy. But at the same time, if you're not
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: given the opportunity to be on the same level playing field,
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: which is what the argument is, you know, where do
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: you go with that? I remember when I took state bar,
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: when I took the bar exam and just a tiny
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: percentage of blacks were passing the bar, there was a lawsuit.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: saying that the bar was racist because how it handled
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: the questions. Yeah, and of course that was tossed out
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: because the bar was seen through racist eyes. Oh, come on.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: Give me a break. Car accident through racist eyes. Well, yeah,
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: because so few minorities actually own cars and we take
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: the bus. So therefore, I mean, that's the kind of
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: argument that was used during my time. Okay, let's go ahead. Ooh,
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: we've got plenty more to do, and we only have
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: another minute or two.
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: Okay, speaking of public transportation, this is going to get
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: more people to take the train, right? Metrolink is raising fares.
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: The one-way tickets are going up by 14%. The SoCal
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: Day Pass is increasing from $ 15 to $ 19 on weekends,
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: from $ 10 to $ 12 on weekdays, from $ 10 to $ 12
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: on weekends and holidays. That's a 27% increase.
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: Over, what, the last 13 years. But, you know, keep
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: in mind, I mean, that's ridiculous, you know, to raise
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: it that much because wages haven't gone up in the
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: last 13 years at all. And the cost of those
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: cars or maintenance hasn't gone up at all. And the
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: cost of materials hasn't gone up at all. So, therefore, gee,
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: they shouldn't raise rates. Hey, you know, welcome to inflation. No,
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: costs go up. And the only people that are keeping
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: costs down is the company we work for, where wages
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: have not gone up in the last 13 years. And
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: they don't spend much money on the maintenance part either.
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: The whole place.
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: They're building new bathrooms right now.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: They are. They are. But reusing the urinals.
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: The urinals are now sitting in the old KFI newsroom.
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah, all the toilets are.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I bag on iHeart a lot, but the reality
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: is the reality. I do bag on them unfairly in
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: many cases.
• 29:14
  Speaker 6: Okay, that's it.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: We're done. You've been listening to The Bill Handel Show.
• 29:18
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• 29:21
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