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Handel on the News · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from kf I
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  Speaker 1: am six forty.
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  Speaker 2: I know this war is expanding at a pretty rapid rating.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, did the houthis first start this fight?
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  Speaker 2: And the question is Whothy's on first? Okay, that didn't work,
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  Speaker 2: an oh, okay, who these blowfish?
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  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 3: Play?
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  Speaker 4: Oh well, hey, we're starting this morning, aren't we.
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  Speaker 1: And now Handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen. Here's
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  Speaker 1: Bill Handle.
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  Speaker 4: Every morning, everybody. It's Friday morning, July twenty fourth. Is
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  Speaker 4: we end the week?
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  Speaker 2: And I am pleased to announce that Amy has gone
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  Speaker 2: from a straight laced newscaster and has joined the dark
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  Speaker 2: side in referencing news and items and bad pun and
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  Speaker 2: it's fantastic.
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  Speaker 4: That was Anne? Oh was that Anne?
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  Speaker 5: Anne?
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  Speaker 4: I thought it was you, Amy.
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  Speaker 5: I just parroted her.
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  Speaker 4: It was it was we laughed.
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  Speaker 3: It was when you repeat something funny.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, that was sad in this case by Anne.
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  Speaker 4: I thought it was I thought for some reason I
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  Speaker 4: thought it was Amy. Not that I ever confused Amy
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  Speaker 4: and Anne. Of course, No, that never happens.
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  Speaker 2: No, never ever. All right, A hello to one and all.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, hey will good morning, Good morning, Bill.
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  Speaker 2: I know you're wearing your dodger hat. Usually when the
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  Speaker 2: ladies wear their dodger hats, it's because they haven't washed
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  Speaker 2: their hair that morning. Now in your case, it really
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  Speaker 2: doesn't matter. Actually cut off all my hair last night.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god, I love it. I went back to
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  Speaker 2: shaved head. You are all the beautiful buddy. Yeah. Wow,
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  Speaker 2: I mean it doesn't help, but it's shaved head.
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  Speaker 3: It looks great.
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  Speaker 4: I took control. I made my hair short by choice. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: that's it.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's you know, shaving the head is. You can
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  Speaker 2: cut yourself up pretty good if you don't do it correctly. Neil,
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  Speaker 2: you have that shaver device thing.
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  Speaker 6: I use a head blade, yes, specifically designed for me
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  Speaker 6: to shave my eye. I used to bick it at first,
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  Speaker 6: but head blades are pretty fantastic.
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  Speaker 4: If you know how to use them. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Well they're kind of fool proof if you use them right.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I assume that I've never been completely shaved yet, and
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  Speaker 2: I probably.
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  Speaker 3: Should grow go tea. It'll make you handsome.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that'll work.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you have not died your go tea in
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  Speaker 2: a while. And July fourth used to be red, white
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  Speaker 2: and blue and.
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  Speaker 4: Hanukkah used to be blue and white. And Halloween's coming up.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Halloween, Halloween, black and orange.
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  Speaker 3: I've done black and orange in the past.
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  Speaker 2: You should keep on doing that anyway, all right, will
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  Speaker 2: Neil Cono, good morning, good morning, and An there you are, Hi,
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  Speaker 2: Bill there?
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  Speaker 4: And Amy the petite.
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  Speaker 2: Han, the petita hilarious hand. Yes she has gotten very petite.
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  Speaker 2: Yes yes, yes, yes I have also gotten petit. You
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  Speaker 2: have noticed that, Nor would you ever say that, because
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  Speaker 2: this actually something positive you would say about me. I
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  Speaker 2: am now wearing a thirty four pant thirty four inches.
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  Speaker 2: I have not had a thirty four inch waist since
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  Speaker 2: I've been three years old.
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  Speaker 6: Can I just say something? First of all, you look great,
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  Speaker 6: you really really do it. I know you hate compliments,
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  Speaker 6: but for God's sake, buy a shirt that fits you
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  Speaker 6: still dress like a fat.
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  Speaker 4: Man, you know what?
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  Speaker 3: Only only your shirts are way too big.
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  Speaker 2: Only the shirts that I've had the other ones are
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  Speaker 2: now the ones that Lindsay buys me. And you know
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  Speaker 2: who else buys me shirts? And this is Jim Keeney.
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  Speaker 2: On our birthdays. We just buy shirts for each other.
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  Speaker 4: That's it.
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  Speaker 3: He keeps he keeps giving you like his scrubs and stuff.
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  Speaker 2: No, he let me know. He let me tell you.
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  Speaker 2: He spends money on his shirts.
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  Speaker 6: He's a very nice Oh he's very handsome. Yes, I mean,
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  Speaker 6: you know, beautiful girlfriend as well.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Tony, Uh what he buys Tony Bahamas for
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  Speaker 2: me and I and there?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah whatever and yeah whatever.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, I think we're ready to start on this
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  Speaker 2: Friday as we in the weekend as usual, there's tons
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  Speaker 2: and tons and tons of news. So let's do it.
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  Speaker 2: It's time for Handle on the News with Amy Neil
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  Speaker 2: and me lead stories.
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  Speaker 7: It's not a homeless not just taking good news for
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  Speaker 7: Karen Bass, because it turns out that the number of
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  Speaker 7: people living on the street in the city of La
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  Speaker 7: and across a whole lot of La County is up
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  Speaker 7: compared to last year.
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  Speaker 2: That's a problem for Karen Bass as she runs for
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  Speaker 2: re election. LA's unsheltered homeless population went up by eight
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  Speaker 2: percent after two years of decreases and a big.
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  Speaker 4: Setback for Bass.
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  Speaker 2: You made the fight against homelessness a central part of
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  Speaker 2: her agenda of her campaign and touting her administration's progress
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  Speaker 2: and moving people indoors. That's another one, because what they
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  Speaker 2: do is they move into motel rooms, and the city
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  Speaker 2: and the county and.
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  Speaker 4: The feds pay for that.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, that's not permanent residence, that's not even
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  Speaker 2: medium time residents. Anyway, she said, the increases are certainly
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  Speaker 2: not my fault. Fundraising cuts or funding cuts by the state,
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  Speaker 2: federal government, lack of adequate county services, not enough mental
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  Speaker 2: health and substance counseling, all really were contributors.
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  Speaker 6: Oh so she if she can't control those things, then
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  Speaker 6: why would she say she could. Why would you say
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  Speaker 6: if that's what it takes to control homelessness, why would
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  Speaker 6: you come out and say I'm going to control homelessness
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  Speaker 6: if you don't have control over those very things.
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  Speaker 2: Because if because if homelessness goes down, she takes credit
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  Speaker 2: and controls everything.
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  Speaker 6: Homelessness only goes down in Los Angeles when they die.
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  Speaker 3: That's it.
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  Speaker 4: That's a good point.
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  Speaker 3: That is a very, very five hundred year are.
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  Speaker 2: Also people that lose If people lose their jobs and
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  Speaker 2: end up on the street, and it's.
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  Speaker 6: Your right story, Bill, the vast majority of them have
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  Speaker 6: mental problems.
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  Speaker 2: Or about thirty percent of mental problems is what I understand.
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  Speaker 4: And the other seventy of drug problems.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's not a number of not going, you know,
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  Speaker 3: boll im down on my life.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to talk more about this at seven o'clock
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  Speaker 2: because it could be that the mayor, any mayor, cannot
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  Speaker 2: deal with this successfully because there are too many overriding
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  Speaker 2: issues and concern She still needs to be re Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think so. I think she's in a lot of trouble.
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  Speaker 2: I'll do more of that work at seven o'clock. I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to pick up that story.
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  Speaker 5: It's Abraham Accords or else. President Trump has put a
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  Speaker 5: new condition on the nuclear agreement that it apparently just
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  Speaker 5: signed with Saudi Arabia, now saying the country must join
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  Speaker 5: the Abraham Accords. He said yesterday on a social media
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  Speaker 5: post that the agreement is totally subject to Saudi Arabia
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  Speaker 5: joining the very respected and successful Abraham Accords. The president
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  Speaker 5: also said that there would be no enrichment of uranium,
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  Speaker 5: even though the agreement says it's a nuclear agreement. He
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  Speaker 5: says the new program is for non military use only.
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  Speaker 2: YEA, no, well it is, but it leaves open what
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  Speaker 2: they can do with the enriched uranium that they are
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  Speaker 2: allowed to.
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  Speaker 4: Have or will be allowed to have. Like what around did.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm going to talk more about this at seven twenty.
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  Speaker 2: But a couple of things. The Abraham Accords are consists
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  Speaker 2: of countries that have in fact normalized relationships with Israel
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  Speaker 2: that actually in the Middle East is becoming a real
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  Speaker 2: area where like what the European block, everybody recognizes everybody else.
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  Speaker 4: And they don't in the Mid East.
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  Speaker 2: So there's that one, And there's a lot to say
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  Speaker 2: about this, but this is the president being very Mid Eastern,
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  Speaker 2: very very part, very much part of the Mid East.
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  Speaker 4: Thinking.
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  Speaker 2: I have had clients my surrogacy business for years that
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  Speaker 2: came from Saudi Arabia and Qatar and Oman obviously very
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  Speaker 2: wealthy people to use the services of surrogate. And we
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  Speaker 2: would sign an agreement. I mean, they would sign the
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  Speaker 2: retainer agreement. You know, here are the terms, here's what
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  Speaker 2: we're going to do, here's what we expect you to do,
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  Speaker 2: here's the money. And then after the signing, they said, okay,
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  Speaker 2: let's talk about a discount.
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  Speaker 4: I go, what do you mean talk about a discount?
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  Speaker 2: You just signed the agreement, Because that's right now, let's
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  Speaker 2: talk about it discount. Here's a philosophy, and this is
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  Speaker 2: where the president is joining that group of thinking in
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  Speaker 2: the Mideast. Well, here in the West, we shake hands.
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  Speaker 2: That's the deal. Okay, we've come to a deal. Over there,
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  Speaker 2: they shake hands and that begins the deal, and they
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  Speaker 2: begin negotiations after agreeing, and you go, what.
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  Speaker 4: Are you doing?
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  Speaker 2: Well, we begin the negotiations. But you just signed. Yes, Now,
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  Speaker 2: let's talk discount. It's fantastic, it really is. And that's
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  Speaker 2: exactly what the President has just done. But you signed
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  Speaker 2: the deal. Yes, I signed. But now let's talk about
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  Speaker 2: Abraham Accords. It's not in the document.
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  Speaker 4: That's right.
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  Speaker 2: Now, let's talk about Abraham, the Abraham Accords. I have
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  Speaker 2: a lot more to talk about and say at seven
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  Speaker 2: twenty when we dive into that topic.
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  Speaker 6: All right, back to the Middle East, You've got the
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  Speaker 6: United States launching fresh, fresh groupings and strikes on Iran.
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  Speaker 3: Overnight.
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  Speaker 6: President Donald Trump is threatening even more and more escalation
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  Speaker 6: to Iran. I opened a second front in its pressure
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  Speaker 6: campaign on the world economy, sending briefly a surge of
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  Speaker 6: oil to above one hundred dollars a barrel.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is not voting well, and he posted going
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  Speaker 2: to launch the biggest attack there ever was or that
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  Speaker 2: was yeah, and now is he gonna pull that back? Well,
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  Speaker 2: how many times has he said I'm doing this, I'm
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  Speaker 2: doing this, I'm doing this. I know I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: do this. Now I'm going to turn around and do this.
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  Speaker 2: It's on a daily basis, so we'll see. And I
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  Speaker 2: think Iran is a they're playing hardball on this. They
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  Speaker 2: are playing hardball and they're willing to suck up a
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  Speaker 2: lot of pain. But this is a regime that's willing
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  Speaker 2: to let half its people be destroyed, be killed.
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  Speaker 3: Thing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, US is not there, and so Ron plays a
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  Speaker 2: long game. It's better off not in terms of its
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  Speaker 2: own infrastructure or the future of its economy, or the
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  Speaker 2: future of his position in the world. It's simply it's
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  Speaker 2: more important to fight the US than for their kids
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  Speaker 2: to eat.
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  Speaker 4: It was you know Gold on my Ear who was
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  Speaker 4: the premiere.
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  Speaker 2: Her quote was, we will always be at war until
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  Speaker 2: the Arab countries.
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  Speaker 4: Like their children more than they hate us.
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  Speaker 3: And that the Superman villain.
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  Speaker 6: Every single movie that says the weakness of Superman is
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  Speaker 6: that he cares.
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  Speaker 3: About the people. Yeah, and Kryptonite, well that too, you know.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, and about face for the DOJ the Department of
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  Speaker 5: Justice has withdrawn subpoenas it had obtained. It was looking
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  Speaker 5: to get some reporters from New York Times to turn
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  Speaker 5: over their phone records and to testify in front of
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  Speaker 5: a grand jury over thee of that security information about
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  Speaker 5: Air Force One. I remember when President Trump flew to
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  Speaker 5: Turkey and the new Air Force one, but he left
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  Speaker 5: Turkey and the old Air Force one, apparently because the
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  Speaker 5: new one isn't equipped with anti missile defense systems, that
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  Speaker 5: kind of thing. Well, the judge had warned the prosecutor
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  Speaker 5: that he would quash the subpoenas at the request of
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  Speaker 5: the Times if the DOJ didn't withdraw them, that's according
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  Speaker 5: to ms NOW. But then the judge later issued an
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  Speaker 5: order noting that the DOJ had voluntarily withdrawn those subpoenas.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a definition of what is national security. Trump
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  Speaker 2: was livid that it was released that he had to
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  Speaker 2: fly Air Force one, the old Air Force one back
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  Speaker 2: based on well, the new security concerns that the new
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  Speaker 2: Air Force one just wasn't up to par security wise,
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  Speaker 2: And of course he immediately said, oh no, no, I
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  Speaker 2: took the old one back and I wanted to send
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  Speaker 2: the new one to England, so our armed forces, so
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  Speaker 2: our armed forces could toure it. And I wanted to
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  Speaker 2: show them the airplane. Yeah, give me a break. And
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  Speaker 2: this is really interesting stuff. Now national security? What is
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  Speaker 2: involved in national security by saying the president is flying
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  Speaker 2: the old one back because the new one doesn't have
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  Speaker 2: the security issues. Okay, so they fly the old one.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's see one of those things. Whenever anything
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  Speaker 2: is said against Trump or even can be construed in
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  Speaker 2: the light and the slightest, it goes crazy. So the
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  Speaker 2: DOJ immediately issued the subpoena is against reporters, and they're saying, no,
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  Speaker 2: First Amendment, we have a right to keep our sources
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  Speaker 2: secure and private. And the problem is those subpoenas were
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  Speaker 2: being issued for phone records of people that were related
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  Speaker 2: to the reporters, not even the reporters themselves. And one
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  Speaker 2: was a mother in law that was a subpoena in
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  Speaker 2: her record.
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  Speaker 4: So the.
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  Speaker 2: State, the government looked ridiculous, and the judge just just
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  Speaker 2: ripped into them. I hate being a prosecutor. I would
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  Speaker 2: hate being a prop comuter representing the government on these
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  Speaker 2: issues in front of judges. I mean, it has to
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  Speaker 2: be humiliating.
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  Speaker 6: Oh yeah, most attorneys are, you know, totally above board.
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  Speaker 6: And we'll go into criminal court.
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  Speaker 4: And why don't we go on to the next topic.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, all right, sure, mister Trump.
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  Speaker 6: California lawmakers approve up to fourteen weeks of paid pregnancy
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  Speaker 6: leave for public school and community college teachers. You're looking
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  Speaker 6: at three hundred thousand teachers in California and most of
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  Speaker 6: them burned through sick days. They take Steve pay cuts
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  Speaker 6: after childbirth. They're going to gain that security at this point.
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  Speaker 3: So Gov.
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  Speaker 6: Gav Newsom late term reversal of leave for educators enabled
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  Speaker 6: unexpected tax wind falls and aligned with bipartisan paid leave push.
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  Speaker 6: This just when you heard Andy Reesemeyer promo for filling
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  Speaker 6: in for Conway talking about AI teaching in the classroom.
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  Speaker 6: No pregnancy problems there, no sick leave, no nothing.
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  Speaker 2: Are you surprised that teachers were exempt from the paid
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  Speaker 2: policy laws? Well, I mean, every private sector has to
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  Speaker 2: pay for maternity leave, and so I'm surprised that it
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  Speaker 2: took this long for the teachers to get the to
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  Speaker 2: get the same benefit.
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  Speaker 5: They have to do it now. I got a note
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  Speaker 5: from editor Carla earlier, and she said that when she
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  Speaker 5: was on maternity leave, she had to go on short
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  Speaker 5: term disability.
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  Speaker 4: That was years ago.
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  Speaker 3: But they've changed law.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, they've changed it.
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  Speaker 2: In the meantime, go to any of those Scandinavian countries,
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  Speaker 2: you go to Finland, you go to Sweden, it's a
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  Speaker 2: year paid leave for both the mother and the father.
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  Speaker 6: What if the teacher is impregnated by one of the students,
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  Speaker 6: does that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you get paid. No, you don't get paid. What
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  Speaker 2: you do is you get free meals.
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  Speaker 4: And the three hots in a god yea hotel pretty much.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, it's my share covering their tracks. Mayor Bass's press
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  Speaker 5: relations office, community communicate through what's app Okay, that's great,
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  Speaker 5: and guess what they have the auto delete turned on,
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  Speaker 5: so every twenty four hours the messages go away. It
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  Speaker 5: all became an issue because an unpaid consultant who was
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  Speaker 5: acting as a spokesperson for the first half of the
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  Speaker 5: year named us off Rob was talking about is what's happened.
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  Speaker 5: They wanted to see what those messages were, and they
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  Speaker 5: did a Freedom of information Act and they said, oh,
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  Speaker 5: we don't have those.
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  Speaker 3: The Bass is declining.
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  Speaker 5: Bass administration is declining to comment on the use of
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  Speaker 5: disappearing messages on WhatsApp. The city administrative code requires records
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  Speaker 5: to be retained for at least two years.
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  Speaker 2: So the appears to be a violation of code. Also,
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  Speaker 2: there was a problem as some of her top consultants,
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  Speaker 2: we're talking to each other on grinder.
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  Speaker 4: And that is fact. That is fake news.
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  Speaker 2: Oh okay, it's a good story, though, isn't there?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, if I was her, every time she's asked a
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  Speaker 6: question she doesn't want to answer, she said, I put
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  Speaker 6: up a post on WhatsApp.
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  Speaker 3: They can go find it there.
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  Speaker 4: I think we time one more before we take a break,
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  Speaker 4: all right.
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  Speaker 6: The US troops or US to imposed tariffs rather Trump
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  Speaker 6: administration imposing those tariffs he loves so much, ten percent
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  Speaker 6: on goods from more than eighty countries today. It'sa's latest
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  Speaker 6: effort to put in place this big protectionist policy. It's
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  Speaker 6: been repeatedly challenged in court. These particular tariffs range from
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  Speaker 6: ten percent to twelve point five percent depending. They take
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  Speaker 6: effect at twelve oh one today, replacing a GLO global
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  Speaker 6: ten percent duty.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, only because it lapses today. The ten percent across
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  Speaker 2: the board, it's not going to change the numbers very much.
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  Speaker 2: And there are plenty of countries where the tariffs are
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  Speaker 2: much much higher. And one of the complaints is in
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  Speaker 2: terms of the president royaling the world economy, no one
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  Speaker 2: knows what the tariffs are going to be day to
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  Speaker 2: day or morning to afternoon.
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  Speaker 4: The President is very mercurial about this.
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  Speaker 2: Shoots from the hip, and it's the economy loves stability.
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  Speaker 2: That's one thing that people involved in economic financial issues
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  Speaker 2: do is they like stability. You don't get much from
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: this administration. It's a whole new way of thinking. It's
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: a whole new way the world has to economically react
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: to the United States, not to the good of us
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: or the world.
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: I don't think so.
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: A lot of people say gigwork is a snap. Gig
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: workers need snap. A growing number of Amazon and gig
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: economy workers say they're just not earning enough, so they're
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: relying on public assistance for both food and health insurance'.
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: According to the Government Accountability Office study, the number of
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: Amazon workers receiving food stamps and medicaid in September nearly
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: tripled since the GAO's previous report in twenty twenty's. According
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: to Vermont's Senator Bernie Sanders, nearly twelve three hundred and
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: fifty Amazon staffers were enrolled in food stamps, and nearly
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: eleven three hundred and fifty were covered by medicaid in
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: the States examined by the Government Accountability Office.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: Okay, let's look at the number twelve thousand Amazon workers
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: out of how many.
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: I mean?
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: Is that an infinitisibly small number. Although this and other
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: stories like it show the disparity between people that have
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: no money, people who have no money have less than
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: no money these days, and people who have.
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: A lot of money have more than a lot of money.
• 20:04
  Speaker 6: These are low skill I mean gig economy. That's ridiculous.
• 20:08
  Speaker 6: The whole point of gig economy was to be able
• 20:11
  Speaker 6: to make your own hours whenever you want to supplement
• 20:14
  Speaker 6: your coming. And now it's just people a full time job.
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: You're right, But now when people don't have any other work, sorry,
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: sorry about that.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: Okay, Now, when people don't have any other work, they
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: don't have the marketable skills. And today the skill level
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: needed for many many jobs which heretofore you didn't need
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: make it very very difficult.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: So we have a skill level problem.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: I think we do, okay, and we have and we
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: have an employment problem because if you need skills, and
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: a lot of people get skills and the number of
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: jobs remain the same or relatively the same, it's it's.
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: A tough it's a tough way to go.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: It's a new it's a new way of Yeah, it's
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: just a new way of doing life.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: And it's you didn't have jobs that when you were
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: younger that.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but those were part time jobs that kids have
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: while they're going to school.
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: Why you want.
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: But now people are trying to use those jobs as
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: their main jobs.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: I understand because either they have no other work, or
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: they just don't want to work at full time jobs,
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: or they don't have the skill to get to the
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: work itself. And also I think a lot of it
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: has to do with just your mentality. There's an eleven
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: year old kid that was going door to door that
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: it was handing out a flyer eleven years old, and
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: he said, I have a new business. I will take
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: out your trash for five bucks and put your trash
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: back in the yard. I will clean your trash cans
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: fifteen bucks a month. I will pick up stuff, I
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: will take care of your dog. I will walk your dog.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: He's eleven years old. I mean, that's the kid who's.
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: Going to do just fine.
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah I did those things.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I understand. But that's the different You are you
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: and not everybody is you. You can't be held with
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: the same standards as you. As a matter of fact,
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: your standards are pretty low.
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: To be honest with you. Yes said yes to doing
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: this show. Okay, let's move on, excellent.
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: Before we move on, there are one point one million
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: Amazon workers in the US. Over one hundred and seventy
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: thousand of those are in California.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: Okay, and twelve thousand are on foodstamps at one point.
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, okay.
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: This is sad.
• 22:21
  Speaker 6: Us PS postal worker died while on delivery route in
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: North Texas. They're looking into this, obviously, doing an investigation
• 22:30
  Speaker 6: to find out what it was. There's extreme heat, obviously,
• 22:34
  Speaker 6: and so emergency crews responded about two pm on Monday,
• 22:38
  Speaker 6: July twentieth to a postal vehicle there in Texas, and
• 22:45
  Speaker 6: firefighters gave CPR and did all that. But the here's
• 22:51
  Speaker 6: the thing, it's very simple to do, and this is
• 22:53
  Speaker 6: not this is We love our male carrier, Charlie.
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: He's a good guy.
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: Put a little ice chest out fill it with water
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: with gatorade. We put a note on it that says ups,
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: USPS drivers, delivery drivers, help yourself and we were fresh
• 23:12
  Speaker 6: at each day. When it's hot, it's really.
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: Not much to do.
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: That's actually a good idea.
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: Can put snacks in there.
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: That is a very good idea and every way to
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: say thanks.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: And we do it because it's been so hot.
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: Another big issue is air conditioned vehicles. And some are
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: and some or not, and by law you can. It's
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: very easy to say postal post office trucks and vans,
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: et cetera have to have air conditioning. And although how
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: about people that walk their roots on our rooms?
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's almost all uphill.
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's really tough.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: I would do the same thing, except our dogs would
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: chew the postal carriers nuts off, So that is yeah,
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: it's not going to work for me.
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: Okay, guys getting behind AI. President Trump has announced twenty
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: three have signed his pledge that seeks to protect households
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: from having to absorb the higher utility costs tied to
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: data centers, you know, the big ones that fuel AI.
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: The governors, all Republicans, are among nearly two hundred stakeholders,
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: majority utility companies, data center developers, public power, and co
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: ops who've signed Trump's rate payer Protection Pledge.
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't understand this. I don't.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: It's obviously pro consumer unless I'm missing something, and that's
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: usually not the case with the administration. And it was
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: Republicans that are the vast majority who have signed this
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: to protect household from the increase. So where am I
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: missing here? And the Democrats voted against it for the
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: most part, Well, they haven't.
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: They're not voting on it. They've just signed a pledge.
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: Ah okay, Yeah, and they're basically.
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: Saying they want to protect people from having consumers have
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: to foot the bill for these data centers.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And I'm sure the President wouldn't go to Democrats
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: to sign, and if he did, they wouldn't anything the
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: President has to do to do with there's so much,
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: so much polarity between the two.
• 25:13
  Speaker 6: All Right, to another snake bite in Southern California on
• 25:18
  Speaker 6: one of our beautiful hiking trails. Twenty two year old
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: Southern California man recovering after rattlesnake bit him during a
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: hike in Claremont Beautiful Area. By the way left him
• 25:29
  Speaker 6: hospitalized for three days, requiring thirty four doses of anti venom.
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: Hole. I'd rather get a rabies shot.
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: Ooh, So this guy Jake and Trump was running with
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: his dog along the Wilderness Park trail near I don't
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: know higgin Offham Park, not familiar with it, just ahead
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: of his mother on July eighteenth. Rattlesnake struck him as
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: he rounded the corner. It's like I've been bit.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and he knew it was pretty serious almost immediately.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: And then do you put your mouth on the wound
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: and suck out the venom? That is a myth, That
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: is an urban myth. You don't do that, although it
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: leads into a great rattlesnake biting you joke, which I
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: am not going to share with you.
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: I know exactly what doctor says.
• 26:23
  Speaker 6: You're going to die, Yes, very much so surrender.
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: A sixteen year old boy from Las Vegas has turned
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: himself in. He is the one identified as the suspected
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: shooter at the Santa Monica Pier. A twenty four year
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: old was killed at about twelve thirty early Monday morning
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: in a parking lot. Hours before the shooting, the pier
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: and the surrounding downtown area had been flooded with soccer
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: fans or football fans attending watch party events for the
• 26:59
  Speaker 5: World Cup.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: So they got into an altercation. He takes out a
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: gun and shoots the place up. You know, my dad's
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: bigger than your dad. Boom, out come the guns. You
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: want to stay away from crowded places because you gotta
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: be caught in the crossfire. You ever think of that
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: when you go into a crowded place with a lot
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: of people.
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: I do.
• 27:25
  Speaker 6: I'm very aware of my surroundings. Yeah, try to be
• 27:30
  Speaker 6: to the best of my ability, all right. So the
• 27:33
  Speaker 6: Dodgers did visit the White House, of course, to celebrate
• 27:37
  Speaker 6: their World Series win, and President Trump spared no expense.
• 27:42
  Speaker 6: He didn't get those one inch seat covers. He got
• 27:45
  Speaker 6: the four inch ones, the nice added ones, and he
• 27:49
  Speaker 6: made a sure everybody knew about it. So he emerged
• 27:53
  Speaker 6: from the building behind the Dodger players. There stood right
• 27:58
  Speaker 6: there front row his chairs with four inch yellow cushions
• 28:02
  Speaker 6: on them. He made sure to point out in his
• 28:04
  Speaker 6: closing remarks a lot of the Dodger blue snap back
• 28:10
  Speaker 6: hats all throughout the garden.
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: There rose garden.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: This was the Rose garden which is still has roses
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: on the outside of it, but no longer grass. And
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: he said that you have all these events with people
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: in chairs, and the chairs on grass sink into the grass.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: So he put concrete there, and he has those umbrellas.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: If you're ever into an in and out burger stand,
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: you'll notice how you do it On the outside. He
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: basically bought a bunch of those.
• 28:40
  Speaker 6: Got a couple of palm trees that did an X
• 28:43
  Speaker 6: at the front.
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: Nice.
• 28:45
  Speaker 6: Well, it's nice all around that we get to celebrate
• 28:49
  Speaker 6: our local dodgers here.
• 28:53
  Speaker 5: How long do you want to live? How about one
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: hundred and fifty six years? Researchers at the school Covo
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: Institute of Science and Technology used a model to determine
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: the maximum human age if all aging hallmarks were eliminated
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: except somatic mutations. I'm not sure what somatic mutations are,
• 29:13
  Speaker 5: but according to the OH, they're changes in the DNA
• 29:18
  Speaker 5: and cells. But their analysis said that you could live
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: to be one hundred and fifty six years old.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would guess that's pretty theoretical at this point. Also,
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: what happens to you with one hundred and fifty six
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: what happens to you when you get dementia. More and
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: more people I know that, and it's really scary are
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: suffering from early onset dementia. Also, major players out there,
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: major personalities I have announced, and you think, Okay, now
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: it's really hitting these people know they used to keep
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: it quiet and now it's become less of a stigma.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: I know that's a little bit of a tangentle here,
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: but it's you know, I think things are up for
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: the better and we do live a lot longer. I
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: mean a lot longer. What was it at the after
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: World War Two? The age people died with sixty five
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: was the average death and today it's at seventy eight
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: for men and eighty something for women. And if you
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: live till if you're sixty five years old today and
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: in reasonable health, be prepared to live in your late
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: eighties and nineties. But they haven't yet cracked the code
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: in terms of your ability for your brain not to age. Okay,
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: we are done. I'm going to come back and revisit
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: the homelessness story and Karen Bass and what's going on.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: And the news is not particularly good for Karen Bass either,
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: and we'll come back with that.
• 30:46
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