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Ig Nobel Prizes 2026 | No College Degree? No Problem · 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: Here's Neil Saavedra. Wow, that's fancy. That's some fancy music
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  Speaker 1: morning with the Morning Show crew. I'm Neil Saavedra. Bill
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  Speaker 1: Handel is... Taking the day off, and then he will
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  Speaker 1: be back at a laboring tomorrow with us all. So
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  Speaker 1: join us there, won't you? Coming up next, you've got
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  Speaker 1: Gary and Gary. So stick around for that. All right.
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  Speaker 1: I love the Ig Nobel Awards. And Ann sent me
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  Speaker 1: this story, and I was laughing because the headline is
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  Speaker 1: just candy stealing, nose blowing, and splash free urinals. So
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  Speaker 1: what the Ig Nobel Awards are, and they are back
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  Speaker 1: as usual, the winners come up with very strange ways
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  Speaker 1: to do science. So it's kind of instead of the
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  Speaker 1: Nobel Awards, these are the Ig Nobel Awards. And they
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  Speaker 1: are meant to celebrate research that kind of makes people
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  Speaker 1: laugh at first, really. But then you kind of actually
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  Speaker 1: think about it and see whether it's something of value.
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  Speaker 1: But this year's ceremony was held in Zurich, Switzerland. Never
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  Speaker 1: been to Switzerland as far as any length of time.
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  Speaker 1: Passed through it, stopped there for a small amount of time. Gorgeous.
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  Speaker 1: Looks like a freaking postcard. Expensive, though. They recognized studies
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  Speaker 1: ranging from the science of kissing to the best way
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  Speaker 1: to blow your nose. And they came up with, don't
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  Speaker 1: do the two together. Thank you, Amy. But, no, these
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  Speaker 1: were separate studies. After 35 years in the U.S., the
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  Speaker 1: ceremony moved to Europe because organizers have had concerns about
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  Speaker 1: international guests traveling to the United States. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what that's about. Anyways, one of the more attention-grabbing awards
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  Speaker 1: went to researchers who studied whether wealthy people are more
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  Speaker 1: likely to behave badly. Let's see. There's me, Ann, Will...
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  Speaker 1: Amy Kono. None of us are wealthy. God, there was
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  Speaker 1: one more person. Oh, Handel. Handel's also a member of
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  Speaker 1: the show. He is wealthy. Which one of us acts
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  Speaker 1: most badly? Study done. And their experiments found that people
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  Speaker 1: from higher social classes are more likely to do things
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  Speaker 1: that cut off other drivers, lie at work, and even
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  Speaker 1: take candy that was supposedly meant for children. Trust me.
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  Speaker 1: Trust me. If there was candy that was brought here
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  Speaker 1: for free and he knew That we all had children,
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  Speaker 1: he being handled, we all had children at home, he'd
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  Speaker 1: still take it. You know he would. I'm not making
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  Speaker 1: that up. He takes everything free. On the Fork Report,
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  Speaker 1: it's most important to me that everybody that works on
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  Speaker 1: the show gets to take whatever somebody brings and says here,
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  Speaker 1: unless it's like a special gift or something like that.
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  Speaker 2: Trust me, that's why I miss working with you on
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  Speaker 2: The Forger Point.
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  Speaker 1: Because everybody works on the show, right? Anywho, that is
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  Speaker 1: one of the sweet things about Handel that we love
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  Speaker 1: so deeply. Another team tackled a much more, let's say,
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  Speaker 1: romantic subject, kissing. So researchers from Oxford and the Florida
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  Speaker 1: Institute of Technology, what does that have to do with tech,
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  Speaker 1: came up with a scientific definition of a kiss and
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  Speaker 1: looked at how the behavior may have evolved across different Species.
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  Speaker 1: Potentially even among our ancient relatives. Because I have a
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  Speaker 1: joke with my wife. And when she does something, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I crave my wife. When I see her, everything about
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  Speaker 1: her delights me. Shut up, Kono. He's making a face.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry if human sexuality bothers you, bro.
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  Speaker 2: No, just yours.
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  Speaker 1: Deserved. Move on. You get it. You love your wife.
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  Speaker 1: But I tell her because I think it's such a
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  Speaker 1: silly thing. God, I like you so much. I want
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  Speaker 1: to press our faces together because it's such a like
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  Speaker 1: who was the first person that did that? Who was
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  Speaker 1: the first person that received it? Someone leaned in. They're like,
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  Speaker 1: what the hell? Are you going to eat me? Are
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  Speaker 1: you going to eat me? What did I do? So
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  Speaker 1: that's kind of fascinating to me to learn about that.
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  Speaker 1: But then there were studies that sounded very, very weird.
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  Speaker 1: They were invented for like some sort of comedic act
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  Speaker 1: or something. Scientists designed a urinal that could dramatically reduce splashback.
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  Speaker 1: I'm all right with that. While another group figured out
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  Speaker 1: how mosquito mouth parts could be used as incredibly tiny
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  Speaker 1: 3D printing nozzles. As a 3D printer enthusiast, I would
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  Speaker 1: like to see that. That would do some very small
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  Speaker 1: layer lines, man. So researchers also buried 1,000 pairs of
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  Speaker 1: underwear in more than 25 countries and dug them up
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  Speaker 1: two months later to see how much they had decomposed.
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  Speaker 1: Don't do that in Japan. They'll pull them up and
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  Speaker 1: they'll put them in one of those vending machines. So
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  Speaker 1: they used the results as a way of measuring soil health.
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  Speaker 1: And yes, another award-honored research showing that cockroach milk proteins
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  Speaker 1: can contain about three times as much energy as cow's milk.
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  Speaker 1: Cockroach milk. All right. So a lot of oddballs in this,
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  Speaker 1: but always fun and a great Great run of science. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: science is weird. It's observation, man. You got to look
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  Speaker 1: at things to know things, right? So that's what they do.
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  Speaker 1: KFI AM 640. Good Labor Day morning to you. Neil
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  Speaker 1: Saavedra in the morning crew here. Handle's taking the day off.
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  Speaker 1: He'll be back tomorrow, of course. Talking Tech with Rich DiMuro.
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  Speaker 1: Pretty good. Look at that. I know what's going on
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  Speaker 1: around here. Hey, if I just posted a picture of
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  Speaker 1: The morning crew save for Kono, who wasn't there, at
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  Speaker 1: Bill Handel's birthday party, which was a costume party. If
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  Speaker 1: you didn't know about that, if it wasn't talked about,
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  Speaker 1: didn't hear that. What do you keep your nose to
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  Speaker 1: the grindstone, your ear to the tracks? What do you
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  Speaker 1: have to do, Kono, to know things there in the IE? Nothing? Okay.
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  Speaker 1: But if you want to see the morning crew, but
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  Speaker 1: in costume... You've got Will and then you've got Lindsay,
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  Speaker 1: Bill's new wife. And then you have Bill and then
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  Speaker 1: you have me and you have Amy and you have Anne.
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  Speaker 1: All in our cute little costumes. Y'all look ridiculous. Shut up.
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  Speaker 1: Why are you guys in costume? It was a costume party.
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  Speaker 1: It was supposed to be villains and- It's August, right?
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  Speaker 1: It was August that you took it? Yeah, it was hot.
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  Speaker 1: Just making sure. Let me tell you something, and I
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  Speaker 1: was layered. Big man, layered, not a good mix. Wearing
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  Speaker 1: a mask, a little rough. Mask lasts about 20 minutes,
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  Speaker 1: so did the jacket, the big heavy jacket. And it's August, right?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: August for costume? I know you were- Sounds like somebody's jealous. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I know you were busy, you were working, but can
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  Speaker 1: you at least give us a hint? Were you going
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  Speaker 1: to be grumpy or dopey? I would never go to
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  Speaker 1: a costume party in August.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you were missed.
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  Speaker 3: Jerk.
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  Speaker 1: So you can find that at Fork Reporter on Instagram,
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  Speaker 1: at Fork Reporter on Instagram. You can see that picture
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  Speaker 1: of all the lovelies here from the morning show. Um,
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  Speaker 1: good looking crew. I don't put myself in that category,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, radio, there's a lot of thugs, right?
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  Speaker 1: You've been in radio for a long time. It just
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  Speaker 1: looked at me like, you know it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So anyhow, back to the story. Shall we go? Uh,
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  Speaker 1: Americans without a college degrees having a great year. Job
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  Speaker 1: markets are changing, you know, talking with Mark hood from
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  Speaker 1: the union rescue mission. Again, if you want to donate,
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  Speaker 1: Amy King and I are going over the edge at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the month to raise money for the
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  Speaker 1: Union Rescue Mission, who actually does something about the homeless
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  Speaker 1: situation here in Los Angeles, truly. No drugs, no drinking,
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  Speaker 1: gets them jobs, all kinds of things. You can go
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  Speaker 1: to URM, Union Rescue Mission, URM.org slash O-T-E for Over
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  Speaker 1: the Edge. And anything you could donate would be great.
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  Speaker 1: And it can be to Amy. It could be to me.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. It all goes to the same place.
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  Speaker 1: We're just trying to raise money. And we appreciate those
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  Speaker 1: of you who are giving.
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  Speaker 3: Mark.
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  Speaker 1: Shifflet. Thank you so much. Donated this morning and we
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  Speaker 1: appreciate you very, very much. Okay. College. So the reason
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  Speaker 1: why I brought up Mark and because they're doing– they're
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  Speaker 1: teaching trades. And I will tell you, I've had this
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  Speaker 1: conversation with my wife who is a college robust. You
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  Speaker 1: go to college, everyone goes to college. I did not
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  Speaker 1: go to college. I had a burst a little bit
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  Speaker 1: later after high school that made me want to go,
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  Speaker 1: and I didn't. I ended up studying theology and logic
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  Speaker 1: and stuff like that. on my own auditing through programs
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  Speaker 1: and just going sitting in classes, no degrees. I probably
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  Speaker 1: have the equivalent of a master's when it comes to
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  Speaker 1: apologetics and things like that and philosophy, Christian philosophy and
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  Speaker 1: the like, but nothing to show for it other than,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, a show that's been on for 30 years,
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  Speaker 1: I guess. So, I'm a fan of meet yourself where
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  Speaker 1: you are. College has a purpose. It really does. I
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  Speaker 1: think you meet people in college, you connect with people
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  Speaker 1: that can be lifelong friends and can be partners in
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  Speaker 1: business and things like that. I don't find most colleges
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  Speaker 1: producing particularly smart people necessarily. I think academics or being learned,
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  Speaker 1: consuming information, memorization is the lowest form of learning. You're
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  Speaker 1: just tapping into it. I think exploring things, curiosity and
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  Speaker 1: the like can be powerful. And I think the trades
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  Speaker 1: often come from that. The trades often come from curiosity
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  Speaker 1: of taking things apart, putting them back together, having concept
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  Speaker 1: to completion type minds. And I think that's a powerful thing.
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  Speaker 1: I've been very blessed and very lucky. I am.
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  Speaker 1: Overconfident in myself in a way that has been productive
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  Speaker 1: for me, meaning that I will do anything. I will
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  Speaker 1: try anything and I will do it for free. I
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  Speaker 1: will come and I will say, have me work here
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  Speaker 1: for two weeks. And if you don't want me to stay,
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  Speaker 1: that's fine. Because I believe in myself to want to learn.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that we need that too. We need
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  Speaker 1: the college learners and we need that, but we also
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  Speaker 1: need people that want to do things a little different,
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  Speaker 1: want to be skilled tradespeople, otherwise we're screwed. A lot
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  Speaker 1: of the other stuff can be taken by AI. The
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  Speaker 1: trades cannot. And so Burning Glass Institute did this analysis
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  Speaker 1: and they show that unemployment rate for workers under 35
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  Speaker 1: without college degrees has rarely been lower in two decades. Conversely,
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  Speaker 1: college-educated workers between 22 and 34 are experiencing one of
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  Speaker 1: their worst periods in employment over the past 20 years.
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  Speaker 1: So this divergence seems to be stemming from shortage of
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  Speaker 1: skilled tradespeople and growing supply of college graduates as AI
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  Speaker 1: handles more and more entry-level work. So it used to
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  Speaker 1: be that apprentice kind of the passing down. There are
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  Speaker 1: things we used to be great at here. Die-making. uh
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  Speaker 1: production factories things like that in the united states we
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  Speaker 1: don't do anymore like you literally one of the biggest
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  Speaker 1: problems is that we have to go to china to
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  Speaker 1: have certain things made like the dyes now we have
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  Speaker 1: dive we have factories that can take that dye and
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  Speaker 1: make things with them we still but we don't have
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  Speaker 1: the people that make those dyes anymore so you know
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  Speaker 1: what ends up happening Someone gets a patent here in
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  Speaker 1: the United States. They have to go outside of the
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  Speaker 1: United States to China to get the dye made for production,
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  Speaker 1: mass production of these things. China keeps the molds and
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  Speaker 1: the dyes, and they do knockoffs, and they flood the
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  Speaker 1: market with knockoffs on Timu and things like that. And then...
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  Speaker 1: The people that made them and designed them and crafted,
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  Speaker 1: you know, came up with everything, patented them in the
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  Speaker 1: United States can't battle that because that becomes a big
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  Speaker 1: legal thing. And we see how just this small one
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  Speaker 1: part of the puzzle, we've got the factories, but that
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  Speaker 1: one piece that makes the factories actually make something is
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  Speaker 1: made in China and we get screwed for it. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling you, I'm very, do I want my kid
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  Speaker 1: to go college? Sure. If he wants to go to college,
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  Speaker 1: we're starting, his fund has already started. However, I'm also
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  Speaker 1: big on trades, and I think trades are good, hard,
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  Speaker 1: honest living, and I think they're imperative to the oiling
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  Speaker 1: of the system that is the United States. All right, polyester.
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  Speaker 1: People just figuring this out. It's a natural fiber clothing,
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  Speaker 1: and it's having a– it's not– it's a– Petroleum product
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  Speaker 1: is what I mean. And natural fiber clothing is having
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  Speaker 1: this major moment right now. So across the internet, people
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  Speaker 1: are ditching polyester, nylon, spandex. How are you going to
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  Speaker 1: do it without spandex? Or other synthetic fabrics. Looking for
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  Speaker 1: clothes made of cotton, wool, linen, hemp, and silk. Well,
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  Speaker 1: silk can't be worn by vegans. Nor can wool. But...
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  Speaker 1: You want to go, you want to do a deep
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  Speaker 1: dive that's fascinating? Look into hemp. Hemp is one of
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  Speaker 1: the most amazing plants on the planet. Rope, clothing, all
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  Speaker 1: kinds of things come from hemp. And I will tell you,
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  Speaker 1: the shirts that they make, T-shirts and stuff they make
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  Speaker 1: from hemp, you could be wearing them for 30 years.
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  Speaker 1: They won't look any different than day one. Try that
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  Speaker 1: with cotton. So polyester is up there with all those
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  Speaker 1: other things, nylon spandex and stuff. But, you know, these
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  Speaker 1: natural fiber clothings is because people are freaking out about microplastics.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm not saying that that's not a legitimate reason.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm also not saying that I don't leave a
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  Speaker 1: bottle of water in my car every now and then
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  Speaker 1: and then chug it later. You really got to let
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  Speaker 1: it sit in the sun if you want all those microplastics.
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  Speaker 1: You want to hear them plugging up every part of
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  Speaker 1: your body. But I realize this is one of those
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  Speaker 1: things that people are concerned about right now. They're worried
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  Speaker 1: about possible health effects from chemicals used in clothing. I
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  Speaker 1: will tell you one thing. Polyester, don't lean over the
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  Speaker 1: candles on your birthday cake. Polyester is a torch and
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  Speaker 1: it melts. But, man, people are freaking out because it
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  Speaker 1: was like in the 70s. Do you remember? Everything was polyester.
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  Speaker 1: I have polyester shirts. Anybody else?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and you remember this, too? Have you ever heard this,
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  Speaker 3: that when you go on a plane, you're not supposed
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  Speaker 3: to wear polyester?
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  Speaker 1: Why is that?
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  Speaker 2: Because if there's any kind of an incident, it will
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  Speaker 2: melt on you.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, if you're in any incident that's going
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  Speaker 1: to melt your clothing.
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  Speaker 2: Well, right, but like a cotton. That would.
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  Speaker 1: Burn off you?
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  Speaker 2: If it burned, you could put it out. The polyester
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  Speaker 2: will melt.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's... Okay.
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  Speaker 2: That's just something I heard.
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  Speaker 1: You know, socks are probably half and half. Cotton and
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  Speaker 1: polyester blend. What do you do then? So, the idea
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  Speaker 1: of anything natural is automatically better is not always the
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  Speaker 1: best way.
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  Speaker 2: But if you did the hemp... And it's a derivative
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  Speaker 2: of cannabis.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's not.
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  Speaker 2: And there was an incident on the plane.
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  Speaker 1: You'd be cool. You're like, no, you get off.
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  Speaker 2: Dude, all right.
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  Speaker 1: You get off. Oh. But I will tell you that
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  Speaker 1: there is a lot of assumptions made. Natural is one
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  Speaker 1: of those words that's thrown around that I don't think
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  Speaker 1: people understand all the time. Because I hear things. I
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  Speaker 1: heard someone saying, I never eat anything with more than
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  Speaker 1: five ingredients or four ingredients. I said, have you ever
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  Speaker 1: looked at the chemical compound of an apple? Trust me,
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  Speaker 1: there's more than five ingredients in an apple. And there's
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  Speaker 1: chemicals in an apple. Things are chemicals. So understanding those
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  Speaker 1: things is going to be more important. But synthetic fabrics
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  Speaker 1: actually exist for legitimate reasons. It's durable, quick drying, good
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  Speaker 1: at keeping its shape. It's useful for everything from workout
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  Speaker 1: clothes to rain gear. A little nylon can make a
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  Speaker 1: wool sock stronger so you're not going through them as much.
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  Speaker 1: Spandex gives leggings and jeans the stretch people expect. Synthetic
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  Speaker 1: materials can also make clothes easier to wash and maintain.
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  Speaker 1: So let's not get on the bandwagon because this is
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  Speaker 1: what happens. We get so far away from understanding that
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  Speaker 1: we keep going back through these cycles. Well, that's got it.
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  Speaker 1: We got it. Natural is better. But then science goes, hey,
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  Speaker 1: if you put a little bit of this in there,
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  Speaker 1: it makes it stronger, lasts longer, less turnover, better for
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  Speaker 1: the environment. And then people forget that and go, they
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  Speaker 1: feel like they found out what polyester was made out
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  Speaker 1: of for the first time and have to rebel against it.
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  Speaker 1: So kind of silliness. Very generously covered the transaction fee
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  Speaker 1: as well. Amy King and I are going over the
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  Speaker 1: edge for Union Rescue Mission again this year. This will
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  Speaker 1: be our third year. They have just done a wonderful
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  Speaker 1: job in getting people off the streets legitimately and in
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  Speaker 1: a home and training them for jobs and tech jobs,
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  Speaker 1: not tech jobs, trades and things like that. And I
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  Speaker 1: think that's huge, although they might have a tech series
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  Speaker 1: as well, too. From classes, getting people sober, the real deal,
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  Speaker 1: not just, hey, they need shelter. I actually think that's
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  Speaker 1: the smallest part of rehabilitation from being on the streets. Well,
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  Speaker 1: we're proud to be a part of it. If you
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  Speaker 1: go to URM.org, Union Rescue Mission, URM.org slash O-T-E, over
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  Speaker 1: the edge, you'll see a little KFI, Team KFI. Click
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  Speaker 1: on that and please donate. I'm not asking you to
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  Speaker 1: do anything that Amy King and I have not already done.
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  Speaker 1: We've donated as well. As a matter of fact, they're
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  Speaker 1: one of my monthly donations. every month because I really
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  Speaker 1: believe in what they do. And they're doing something and
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  Speaker 1: getting people sober. Anything helps. And we're a little behind
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  Speaker 1: this year, not just Amy King and I, because we
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  Speaker 1: just started, but Union Rescue Mission. Their goal is to
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: try and hit 2 million. And I think we're at
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  Speaker 1: 1.1 right now.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Mark Hood, the CEO who you talked to earlier,
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  Speaker 3: had also told me that just this year overall, and
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  Speaker 3: I think it's because everybody's feeling the pinch more. you know,
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: with the cost of everything up that not only this nonprofit,
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: but all of them. And he said, I don't like
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: to beg, but this year I'm going to beg, you know,
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  Speaker 3: because they can't, they can't do this without your help
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: because they don't get federal funding.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, we're cutting back on things too at our house.
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  Speaker 1: And it's the first time that I even, even 2008,
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: which is when Tracy, my wife and I got married.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't feel it. Thank God. We're going through a
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: recession and I felt pretty secure in my position and
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: things at that time. This time, I don't know. I
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: could be here. I could not be here tomorrow. I
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: have no idea. I don't sign contracts anymore. Haven't in
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: three years or more. So they could toss me any time.
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  Speaker 1: But I will tell you, all of us have at
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: least a little bit more than somebody who's on the streets.
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  Speaker 1: That's for sure. And I would not give my money
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  Speaker 1: to any organization that doesn't have the numbers, doesn't have
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: the receipts to show you that people are getting better.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: And so, yeah, a big, big thanks to those of
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  Speaker 1: you that are supporting us in this. Tim Easton, Mark
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: Shifflett are the newest names up there. But any of you, $ 1, $ 5, $ 10.
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  Speaker 1: I know people say that, and you can go, oh,
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: but that's embarrassing. No, it's not. Every bit helps. Again,
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: you can go to urm.org slash O-T-E for Over the Edge,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: and you'll see the KFI team. And it doesn't matter.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: You want to give to Amy, please do. You want
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: to give to me, please do. The key is that
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: it all goes to the same place. Yes, Amy?
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: Neil, did you tell... people how they could also go
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: over the edge with us?
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: No, please, please.
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  Speaker 3: Well, if you do have a little extra spare change,
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: if you'd like to do this and rappel 26 stories
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: down a building, it's the Universal City Hilton in Hollywood.
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: You see it every time you drive by the 101,
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: the big black building. We're going to be doing it
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: on September 25th and 26th. If you can donate $ 1, 000,
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: you too can go over the edge with us. And
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: if you want to do it, we would love to
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: do it like with you right around the same time.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: So you make a big donation like that. plan our
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: schedules around you and we'll all go and.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: Do it together.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And you can, you know, make it a team
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: or you can get your, you know, go to family
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: members and they all pitch in for you to get
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: that thousand dollars to go over the edge. But it is,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: it is thrilling. I am not a fan of heights
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: and Amy is not. I'm probably worse than Amy. I really,
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: really don't like heights. So every time I'm challenged, I've
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: bungee jumped, I've done stuff. Every time I'm challenged, I
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: try and live up to that challenge. And in this
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: particular case, it's for a great cause.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: And it's bucket list stuff for some people.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: Overcoming fears and that kind of stuff.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: Like you said, I still get really woozy when I
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: look over the edge of that building.
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  Speaker 2: But you're doing it for a good cause. And again,
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: you said it's thrilling. It's terrifying. When you get about
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: halfway down, it becomes a lot of fun.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. Yeah, that is about halfway down is the
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: fun mark.
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd only break my back.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: You'd still break more than your back.
• 24:22
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• 24:25
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