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Handel on the News · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handel on demand from KFI AM 640.
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  Speaker 2: And so people tend to be lonely. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if you're frightened of being lonely. You know, I kind
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  Speaker 2: of am.
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  Speaker 1: You're weird, though. You don't like being around people and
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  Speaker 1: then you say you're lonely.
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  Speaker 3: I am.
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  Speaker 2: That's true. I am lonely and I don't like being
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  Speaker 2: around people.
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  Speaker 4: It's a little bit of a contradiction. It's a lot
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  Speaker 4: of a contradiction. I have a hard time understanding it.
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  Speaker 4: My shrink has a hard time understanding it.
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  Speaker 1: And I hate her. And now, Handel on the News.
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  Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, here's Bill Handel. Okay, it is a
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  Speaker 2: hump day, September 2.
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  Speaker 4: Now, September 2 or September 3?
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  Speaker 2: September 2, got it. Yeah, I'm just having a hard
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  Speaker 2: time seeing the board for a moment there.
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  Speaker 4: All right. We have a chunk, as always, we have
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  Speaker 4: a chunk going on. Quick reminder, today I'm leaving at 8.30.
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  Speaker 4: I have a doctor's appointment. So Neil will be hosting
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  Speaker 4: the show. He'll be interviewing a medical expert, Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Jim Keeney. And unfortunately, and I feel very bad for.
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  Speaker 4: You because we normally get a great Keeney segment, but
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  Speaker 4: I don't think Neil and Jim are going to talk
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  Speaker 4: about how you're going to die next week. which is
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  Speaker 4: what I love to talk about. Everything relating to your
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  Speaker 4: bad health, your inability to live past next week, all
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  Speaker 4: the good stuff in life, all the diseases you're probably
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  Speaker 4: going to pick up, the accidents, the overdoses you're going
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  Speaker 4: to have. There's a lot talking about what's going.
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  Speaker 3: On with Jim.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, let's do a quick hello to the crowd.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Amy. Good morning, Bill.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, happy yellow... Yellow day. Yeah, it's a yellow day.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, fair enough. And then, Neil, good morning to you.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Will, there you are, blue shirt.
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  Speaker 4: You know why I describe, I feel like Blackwell or.
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  Speaker 2: Whatever the hell his name is. Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Blackwell.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the fashion guy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Kono in his, oh, unusual today, baseball cap and black T-shirt.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning. Thank you. Good morning. And Anne.
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  Speaker 1: Hi.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, there you are, blue. Okay. What am I wearing?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I'm wearing one of my Tommy Bahama shirts that
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  Speaker 4: Lindsey got for me.
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  Speaker 1: It looks like clouds.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it is. I mean, I love the fabric here.
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  Speaker 4: I am quickly running out of Costco shirts. I'm down
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  Speaker 4: to my last two or three.
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  Speaker 1: You still have the Route 66 shirt?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I do.
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  Speaker 4: I do. And that's way too big for me. And
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  Speaker 4: I'm keeping that only because Michelle hates it so much.
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  Speaker 4: that I just wear it for her benefit. It is, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I'm actually running around with expensive shirts. These shirts drive
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  Speaker 4: me nuts, the amount of money that these shirts cost.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it drives me completely crazy. Okay, let me
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  Speaker 2: see what else is going on. We got that going
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  Speaker 2: on today.
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  Speaker 1: What about your pants? Are they Costco? Please tell us more.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, pants are Costco. Underwear is Costco. T-shirts are Costco.
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  Speaker 4: Socks are Costco. And it used to be shirts, Costco. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: everything now other than shirts. And it used to be
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  Speaker 4: all Costco, like 100% Costco, except for my sneakers. Those
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  Speaker 4: I spend real money on. Those I'll actually spend $ 130,
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  Speaker 4: $ 140 for a pair.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, get the New Balance, the white.
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  Speaker 4: No, I don't wear New Balance anymore. They're sort of
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  Speaker 4: out of my size, which is really weird. So I'm getting,
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  Speaker 4: what do I have? I got some Skechers. I have
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  Speaker 4: some Brooks, but- Really expensive ones, because your feet are
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  Speaker 4: your feet. Boy, isn't that, hey, okay, got it. Now,
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  Speaker 4: put that one on a promo. This is Bill's analysis.
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  Speaker 4: Your feet are your feet.
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  Speaker 1: Today will be the philosophical musings of one Bill Handel.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: And your nose is your nose.
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  Speaker 2: That's correctamundo there, too.
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  Speaker 1: And your ears are thine ears.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we go forward with that. And I know that
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  Speaker 2: Neil does a good show when he fills in for me.
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  Speaker 2: How I know that? Because I'm being told that.
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  Speaker 4: Have I ever actually listened to Neil fill in for me?
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  Speaker 2: I have not. Have I ever listened to anybody fill
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  Speaker 2: in for me? I have not.
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  Speaker 4: The other thing, a little inside baseball here, is that
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  Speaker 4: what happens when you're on the air, usually a program
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  Speaker 4: director or whoever sits you down and you do an
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  Speaker 4: air check. just to see what you sound like with management. Amy,
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  Speaker 4: you've done air checks before, right?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, sure. Okay. Of course you have. Everybody does.
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  Speaker 1: Neil, air checks? It's been a long time, but yes,
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  Speaker 1: I can't stand them. I'd rather chew foil.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, that's a great, great analogy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Do you know how many sound checks or air checks
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  Speaker 4: I have done in my entire career?
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  Speaker 2: Zip. I will not listen to me. I refuse.
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  Speaker 4: I am part of that crowd that refuses to listen
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  Speaker 4: to me. These are the people that have taste. Okay,
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  Speaker 4: I think we're done with that.
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  Speaker 2: Let's do it.
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  Speaker 4: We start with, of course, some Trump news. We have
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  Speaker 4: Jim coming up. Social security news today. And as Ann
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  Speaker 4: pointed out this morning, just before we went on the air,
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  Speaker 4: is defining what middle class is. And in Southern California,
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  Speaker 4: you have to make a tub full of money in
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  Speaker 4: order to be considered middle class.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, guys, let's do it. It's time for Handle on
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  Speaker 2: the News. Amy, Neil, and me, lead story. All right,
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  Speaker 2: Iran is.
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  Speaker 4: Now retaliating after, what, three days of U.S. strikes, defying
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  Speaker 4: the president's warning it could be hit much harder.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it could be. Will it be? Yeah, maybe.
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  Speaker 4: But as far as we're going to bomb it, he
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  Speaker 4: is going to bomb Iran into the Stone Age and
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  Speaker 4: will destroy the culture, will destroy the entire country.
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  Speaker 2: It's just a lot of hot air.
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  Speaker 1: How much would you really have to bomb Iran to
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  Speaker 1: knock it into the Stone Age, though?
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  Speaker 4: Well, look what's happening in Gaza, right? where 80% of
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  Speaker 4: Gaza has been destroyed.
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  Speaker 2: Hamas is still there controlling what's left. Much smaller space.
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  Speaker 4: It is much smaller space, but I'm talking about, it's
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  Speaker 4: an analogy here though. And that is before the people
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  Speaker 4: in power, governments in power give it up, you basically
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  Speaker 4: have to have nobody left. Or you have to have
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  Speaker 4: this insurrection where the people revolt.
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  Speaker 2: They've tried that already.
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  Speaker 4: And it's estimated that 50,000 people were mowed down by
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  Speaker 4: the government.
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  Speaker 1: And people are still defending Iran.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, of course they are, because it's politics.
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  Speaker 4: People are defending Iran because they're actually anything the United
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  Speaker 4: States wants is bad.
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  Speaker 2: Anybody that fights the United States is good.
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  Speaker 3: Russia may be testing the waters, pushing the boundaries. European
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  Speaker 3: Union members have called for new sanctions against Russia after
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  Speaker 3: an attempted drone attack at the Leipzig Halle Airport in Germany.
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  Speaker 3: Airport workers say they found a drone last month laden
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  Speaker 3: with explosives and a detonator at the airport.
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  Speaker 2: Which is also a base for.
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  Speaker 3: Several giant Ukrainian Antonov An-124 cargo planes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, those are huge cargo planes.
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  Speaker 3: Russia denies any involvement.
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  Speaker 2: Of course they always do.
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  Speaker 4: But here's a, Neil, to your point, okay, does Russia
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  Speaker 4: really care about the Iranian position? Does Russia really get
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  Speaker 4: involved with the fact that Iran is a state sponsor
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  Speaker 4: of terrorism all over the world? Does that really offend Russia?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 4: Russia is backing Iran because Iran is our enemy. And
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  Speaker 4: this is the way that Putin gets involved in helping
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  Speaker 4: out or being part of the anti-American philosophy.
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  Speaker 2: That he has. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The enemy of my enemy is my enemy.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. Precisely.
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  Speaker 1: All right. This is I don't know why we report
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  Speaker 1: this way about defendants pleading not guilty. Isn't that just
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  Speaker 1: the standard?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Of course it is.
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  Speaker 2: So you always plead not guilty.
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  Speaker 3: Of course.
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  Speaker 1: So Tyler Robinson, the man who accused who's accused of
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  Speaker 1: fatally shooting conservative activist Charlie Kirk on that Utah campus
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  Speaker 1: last year, pleaded not guilty yesterday to a murder charge
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  Speaker 1: that the judge ruled could carry the death penalty. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: we go back to Kirk's killing and it was captured
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  Speaker 1: on cell phone and was really polarizing.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, the thing, what's at issue here is the death
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  Speaker 4: penalty itself. And herein is why you plead or these
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  Speaker 4: people plead not guilty. And it was going to go
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  Speaker 4: forward to trial. I mean, there was such overwhelming evidence
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  Speaker 4: that it was a given a preliminary hearing.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to go forward.
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  Speaker 2: Boom, done.
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  Speaker 4: Now, the issue, the judge ruled that this did happen.
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  Speaker 4: subject Tyler Robinson to the death penalty, which the prosecutors
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  Speaker 4: are going to go after.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, you plead not guilty.
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  Speaker 4: And the argument now starts between the prosecutors and Tyler's
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  Speaker 4: attorney saying, okay, we'll plead guilty if you take the
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  Speaker 4: death penalty off the table. And prosecutors will look at
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  Speaker 4: a case knowing that this is going to be months
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  Speaker 4: and months of testimony. It's going to cost millions of dollars.
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  Speaker 4: The death penalty does not mean that Robinson will ever
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  Speaker 4: be executed because no one is anymore unless you're in
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  Speaker 4: Texas and you are in Florida.
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  Speaker 2: And this is Utah also, but not.
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  Speaker 4: Nearly as much.
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  Speaker 1: I was going to say, isn't Utah pretty?
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  Speaker 4: It is, but the number of people that are executed
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  Speaker 4: in Utah is really small numbers. It's Florida and Texas.
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  Speaker 4: And so you plead not guilty so the negotiations can start.
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  Speaker 2: That's all it's about. And people say, well, he's guilty.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody knows he's guilty. Well, yeah, okay. In the meantime,
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  Speaker 2: you start arguing. In this case, no death penalty. We'll
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  Speaker 2: plead out.
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  Speaker 4: Prosecutors are going to go for the death penalty, I
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  Speaker 4: guarantee you. And then sometimes these cases are such high
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  Speaker 4: profile that the prosecutors won't even take a plea bargain.
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  Speaker 2: They go, we don't care. We're going for the death
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  Speaker 2: penalty no matter what you say, which I think may
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  Speaker 2: happen here.
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  Speaker 3: Well, MapQuest is back, thanks to President Trump. MapQuest, which
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  Speaker 3: I had people say the other day, is that even
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  Speaker 3: a thing anymore? Well, it is.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't even know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, it is because it's.
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  Speaker 3: Now the top downloaded app in the Apple Store as
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  Speaker 3: of yesterday morning. And that is after Trump refused to
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  Speaker 3: rename Lake Ontario, or actually, sorry, that's after MapQuest said
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  Speaker 3: it was not going to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America.
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  Speaker 3: They said that they would not do it. And apparently
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  Speaker 3: people who do not back this decision like that. So
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  Speaker 3: they downloaded the app. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And MapQuest, good for them.
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  Speaker 4: First of all, what Trump has done is put MapQuest
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  Speaker 4: on the map in a major, major way. And so
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  Speaker 4: what was that the general manager is saying? We're getting
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  Speaker 4: 50 times our usual rate in terms of logins. And
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  Speaker 4: the company is also offering its subscribers the chance to
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  Speaker 4: generate their name for Lake Ontario.
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  Speaker 2: Can't wait for that one. That should be great.
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  Speaker 3: Lay candle.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You remember the days when your front seat would be
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  Speaker 1: covered with printouts of MapQuest because you're going to visit
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  Speaker 1: somebody and we all printed them out because we didn't
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  Speaker 1: have the ability to have it in the car to
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  Speaker 1: tell you where to go.
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  Speaker 2: Well, how about Thomas Brothers guides?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I remember that. The early days of KFI, I remember
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  Speaker 1: having to have one of those in my car. All right.
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  Speaker 1: Rams owner, Stan Kronkle. agrees to buy the Angels. So
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  Speaker 1: he agreed to buy the Angels, adding Major League Baseball
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  Speaker 1: to his portfolio that spans six leagues in two continents.
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  Speaker 2: Who's Dan Kronkle?
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  Speaker 3: Kronky.
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  Speaker 1: Your mom.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. It's Kronky. Oh, Kronky.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry.
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  Speaker 2: That's all right. Don't be sorry. I love correcting you. No,
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  Speaker 2: I love correcting you. What is he?
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  Speaker 3: Is he?
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  Speaker 2: He's your great Kronkle?
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  Speaker 1: No, I don't know why.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, you're right. Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Gosh, it must feel weird for you to correct me.
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  Speaker 1: The deal marks the end of Art Marino's. That's right, everyone.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Art Marino.
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  Speaker 1: Turbulent ownership of the angels. Isn't it Artie Marino?
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  Speaker 2: It is Artie Marino. But it also goes by Art.
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  Speaker 1: Good.
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  Speaker 2: But he's mainly known as Artie. And that's A-R-T-I-E, right?
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  Speaker 1: It's a nickname.
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  Speaker 2: The news. Okay, moving on. Oh, boy.
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  Speaker 1: The only person in the world, me, who knows less
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  Speaker 1: about sports than Handel. Triggering shock, followed by a celebration
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  Speaker 1: because a lot of fans were beleaguered and thought it
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  Speaker 1: was going to continue to auger.
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  Speaker 4: Now, when does Kroenke buy the entire NFL? At this point,
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  Speaker 4: he's a developer.
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  Speaker 2: He owns SoFi. He built SoFi. It's his.
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  Speaker 4: And that was without tax money. It was privately owned.
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  Speaker 4: It is privately held. And so because a lot of
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  Speaker 4: stadiums are owned by the city, whatever city they're in.
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  Speaker 4: Lambeau Field, for example, in Green Bay is owned.
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  Speaker 2: By the city of Green Bay. OK, let's do a
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  Speaker 2: couple more and then we'll take our break. OK, well,
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  Speaker 2: this is just tragic.
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  Speaker 3: A Haitian immigrant who was here on temporary protected status
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  Speaker 3: is dead. He had just recently graduated. His name is
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  Speaker 3: Pierre Damas Bell. He parked on the shoulder of Interstate
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  Speaker 3: 70 in Springfield, Ohio, sometime before 845 a.m. on Monday,
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  Speaker 3: got out of his vehicle and walked into traffic. They're
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  Speaker 3: saying that they believe that it was because he had
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  Speaker 3: become increasingly distraught after losing his temporary protected status.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a deeper story here.
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  Speaker 4: And that is the president, as you know, eliminated the
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  Speaker 4: protective status of the Haitian immigrants based on I mean,
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  Speaker 4: based on reasoning, because they came over because of natural disaster,
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  Speaker 4: which is one of the elements. You can come and
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  Speaker 4: the government allowed you to do that and you could
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  Speaker 4: work with the temporary status. And the president said, no,
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  Speaker 4: there's no longer any need for this kind of exemption.
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  Speaker 4: And so you have 350,000 Haitian immigrants who are no
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  Speaker 4: longer protected. Supreme Court upheld the president's ability to remove
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  Speaker 4: the protection. And what he did, he had a pending
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  Speaker 4: asylum claim and was summoned to an ICE office.
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  Speaker 3: And he just recently came. He came here in 2024.
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  Speaker 3: His parents came here three years before that in 2021.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he came here on an asylum claim.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, and, uh, everybody who is, uh, well, everybody who
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  Speaker 4: claims asylum and that's legal, just walk into the country,
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  Speaker 4: claim asylum.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, you were given a hearing date.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, theoretically you should be held at detention centers
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  Speaker 4: pending your hearing, but they don't do that.
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  Speaker 3: Well, they don't have room for.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 2: That's the point. There are millions and millions. Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You can't do that. So, uh, they, uh, what the
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  Speaker 2: government does let you go.
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  Speaker 4: And you walk out the door, and then you have
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  Speaker 4: an appointment two years later in front of an ICE court,
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  Speaker 4: in front of an immigration court, which is not a
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  Speaker 4: real court. Immigration judges work for the government. They're not independent.
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  Speaker 4: They actually work for the government. I don't even know
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  Speaker 4: why they call them judges. And what ends up happening
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  Speaker 4: is what ICE is doing is saying no, and they're
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  Speaker 4: just picking people up. Remember the story that I told
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  Speaker 4: you about one of Lindsay's best friends, her son? or
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  Speaker 4: her son-in-law, was deported. He was on his way to Texas,
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  Speaker 4: going on an airplane, and he was married to an
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  Speaker 4: American citizen, and he had overrun his visa.
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  Speaker 2: They picked him up and tossed him. And he's in
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  Speaker 2: El Salvador now. He's living there. And that's exactly what
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  Speaker 2: the law does allow.
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  Speaker 1: Is this not explained to people? Do people not understand
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  Speaker 1: this is the law? I mean, it's a horrible story, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: but are they not explained like, hey, you're asylum or this?
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  Speaker 2: I think they are.
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  Speaker 4: I think people know that, but they just don't know
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  Speaker 4: where are they going to go. And it's been so
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  Speaker 4: easy here to disappear into the U.S.
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  Speaker 2: And work under the table. Under Trump, it is much harder.
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  Speaker 4: Trump is making it very difficult to be an illegal
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  Speaker 4: alien in this country. Where the accusation against Biden, and
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  Speaker 4: I rarely enjoy this administration screaming about how Biden is
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  Speaker 4: at fault for everything, including the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby.
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  Speaker 2: This one is legitimate. And it's just a way of
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  Speaker 2: perceiving what the law is and what the law allows.
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  Speaker 1: But why is it always assumed that America will back,
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  Speaker 1: will look the other way, but every other country, this
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  Speaker 1: is normal?
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  Speaker 4: Well, not every other country, but most other countries. It's
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: a question of immigration. You know, do they need immigration?
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: Do they not need immigration? At one point, there was
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: no issue. There was no such thing as an illegal immigrant.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: What's another country that is, that allows immigrants to run
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: wild and.
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: Well, it used to be, for example, the Scandinavian countries
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: used to be the European countries would let immigrants in
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: like crazy.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: How's that working?
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: Because, oh, no, they changed it around. Oh, yeah, they've
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: gone right wing. Sweden, for example, was probably one of
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: the most left-leaning countries on the planet.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: And it has turned right around.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: Because it's unscalable.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: There's the argument there, too.
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: And yeah, immigration is a huge problem for countries, especially
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: when they offer financial help to anybody in the country.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: One big ship with a lot of people, excuse me,
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln has arrived in Thailand today.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: And the first port call in more than eight months.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: Marathon stint there at sea. in the Middle East, raised
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: a lot of concerns about the welfare of the crew,
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: of course. It departed San Diego last November. So it's
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: kind of a special place for those of us here
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: in Southern California. And it returns to Southern California later
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: this year. It will have completed at that point the
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: longest deployment in modern history there with the U.S.
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: Navy. Yeah, it's a long time these guys have been
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: at sea. So Thailand, so there's going to be uh
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: plenty of rip-roaring good fun in thailand it's a co-ed
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: ship right yeah it is a co-ed ship yeah so
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: is there oh there's lady boys is there that's in
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: yeah that's in uh boy ladies you're not going to
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: see boy ladies or lady boys uh on uh U.S.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: Warships.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: That isn't going to happen. No, no, no. But you
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: are going to see them in Thailand is what I'm saying.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: You're going to see plenty in Thailand.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: You have ladyboys for the guys, I guess?
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, by the way, for those people that don't know,
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: why don't you define what a ladyboy is, Neil?
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: I've been to a ladyboy show.
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: Okay, what is a ladyboy? It's not just a drag show.
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: It's not just guys dressed as women. It's men who
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: are women with their junk. In other words, they have
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: the boobs because they get the hormone shots.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: The hair.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: They are dressed, but they dance and they do their whole.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they are because they hide their junk.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: They hide their business.
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: Which is why you see so many Japanese and Jewish ladyboys.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: But there's no reason to put the kickstand down if
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: you're dancing, I suppose.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: Oh, there you are. Well said. Well said.
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: Okay. Okay.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: You're a resident.
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: You got to prove it. The State Department has proposed
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: requiring parents who are applying for passports for their children
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: to provide proof of their own citizenship or immigration status
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: as part of Trump's latest effort to limit birthright citizenship.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: The draft guidance is the first detailed look at how
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: the State Department could enforce the executive order signed by
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: Trump on August 6th. targeting what it calls birth tourism
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: and broadening historical exceptions to birthright citizenship.
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah, the only interesting part about this story is the
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: Supreme Court ruled that the 14th Amendment, as written, specifically
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: because it is written specifically, says that anybody born in
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: the United States is a citizen. I thought it would
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: be unanimous. The court actually went six to three on that.
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: You had three justices agreed.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: With the president.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: Wasn't that written for slavery?
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: It was, but it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter.
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: If you look at what the Second Amendment is written by,
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: how about the words about the militia? We don't have
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: a militia anymore.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: Kono and I do.
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: I understand, but you've got plenty of concepts that were
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: written in the Constitution that are interpreted differently, but this
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: is specifically right on, no issue, boom. So the six
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: to three decision, I didn't understand. But the point is
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: that the birthright citizenship, I think Trump has given up
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: the ghost on that one.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: Hopefully we stop people that are pregnant from coming into the.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: That's a different issue, isn't it? Yeah.
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: You can stop what you can't stop as an American
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: citizen from coming in. Can you stop people from coming in?
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: You can stop anybody from coming in.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: Anybody.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: There's no right for people coming into this country who
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: are not U.S. citizens. None at all.
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: It's what the government allows. The only thing a government
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: cannot do is stop U.S. citizens.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: That's us.
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: We are American citizens. Theoretically also, you know what? Let
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: me rephrase that. The government can stop American citizens from
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: coming in if they're coming in from a country for
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: extraordinary reasons. Let's say they're coming from a country where
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: there's an Ebola breakout.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: Gotcha.
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: There the government can say, no one's coming in until
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: we figure this out, citizens or not.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: Health officials in the Netherlands- Sounding the alarms, this is
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: potentially deadly. They haven't had any deaths from this, but
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: it's ecstasy pills shaped like President Donald Trump's head. They
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: have an NL on them. I don't know what that means,
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: but the Dutch health officials issued this red alert because
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: This particular pill is green and yellow or they're green
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: and yellow pills were found to contain something called PMMA.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: It's a chemical similar to ecstasy, but it's slower to
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: take effect. So the problem here is that people take them.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: They don't, they have like this delayed response. So they
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: keep taking them thinking that they're not working and then
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: they all kind of flood in. And so they're saying,
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: absolutely do not take these pills. Not the first time,
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: by the way, In Germany back in 2017, there were
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: ecstasy pills shaped in the they were orange and they
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: were shaped in the face of Trump as well. So
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: don't eat Trump's face. Exactly.
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: About 4.2 million gallons of untreated sewage has spilled into
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: the Arkansas River near Pueblo, Colorado. And it's expected to
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: reach the John Martin Reservoir State Park. I think I've
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: been there before when I used to live in Colorado.
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: It's a fun little reservoir.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: Not anymore.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: Not anymore.
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: They're saying people need to stay out of the water.
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: And yeah, because there's millions of gallons of sewage in it.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: My question is, and Amy, maybe you know this.
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: This is the state park will remain open, but the
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: activities are described involving water are discouraged. Avoid swimming, wading, tubing,
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: paddle boarding, fishing, and keep pets out of effective waters.
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: Why would they say it's discouraged as opposed to stay
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: the hell out of the water?
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: And maybe just stay the hell away because I have
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: been to this reservoir. And lakes in Colorado are different
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: than lakes here because they're just big puddles in the
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: middle of nowhere. And there's nothing to do if you
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: can't go in the water.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Oh.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: Well, except drink. Yeah, well, yeah, great.
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: But I'm assuming if you go into this water, you're
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: not going to do much spooning that night.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: Okay, let's just move on. Moving on, moving on.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: This is unfortunate and stupid. Dolly Parton's Walk of Fame
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: star apparently vandalized, but they're replacing it. The Hollywood Walk
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: of Fame is fabulous about that, getting out there and
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: making sure that they're taken care of. But apparently... You know,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: people were putting their flowers and memorializing Dolly Parton and
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: maybe someone was stealing flowers and scratched the star or
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: something is how the story stands at this point. But
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: they are on it and they're replacing it and it
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: will be able to view the new star by the
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: end of this week.
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: And it's happening quick because they had already planned to
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: do maintenance on the star.
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: A little inside baseball, when anybody gets a star, you
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: have to actually pay for the star in the sense
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: that you've put X number of dollars into a trust
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: account that pays for maintenance and pays for replacement in
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: case something like this happens.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, when you nominate somebody, you have to, part of
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: the nomination is putting in, back in the day, in
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: your day, it was $.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: 25, 000.
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: I'm sure it's a lot more than that. And the
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: shame of it is there are people who, that old
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: film stars, et cetera, who should be and are nominated,
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: but they can't afford the money into the trust account,
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: so they don't get the star, which is heartbreaking.
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: Tiger's not going to be driving for a while. Tiger
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: Woods was in court in Florida this morning. He withdrew
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: a not guilty plea to a DUI charge that followed
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: him getting into a rollover crash. near his home. Instead,
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: he pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of reckless driving.
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: And the judge took away his license for five years.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: Five years. That's no joke.
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: Now, he can afford a driver, of course, but still,
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: you lose your ability to drive and a lot of
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: your independence is gone. That really is punishment.
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: Or he can take his $ 150 million in endorsements and
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: hire a driver.
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: You could do that.
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: How many endorsements does he have left? I don't even know.
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: I don't know, but he, I think Gary and Shannon
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: were just talking about this. He's worth $ 1. 5 billion.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know. He's just, well, he was getting such
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: insane money.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: All right. Longtime Wheel of Fortune announcer suspended. We don't
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: know a whole lot about this. I saw it on
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: KTLA yesterday. Jim Thornton, he's the announcer for Wheel of Fortune.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: Charlie O'Donnell, O'Donnell died back in 2011. He was the
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: Wheel of Fortune announcer. And then Jim took... And he
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: was on a plane.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: And wasn't he also a KNX reporter, Jim Thornton?
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: I think he was a traffic reporter or something.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: I think he was.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: I'm getting a nod from Will. He's in the know.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: But he's been suspended by Sony Pictures Television Studios. And
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: all we know is that he was on a plane
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: wearing a Wheel of Fortune jacket. A little weird. But
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: on a commercial flight back in May, a passenger complained
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: to a flight attendant about him about something. And the cops,
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: the pilot called ahead for law enforcement to meet Thornton
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: when they arrived at the gate in Los Angeles. That's
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: all we know. And I'm assuming they took him off
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: the plane.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: The law enforcement.
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: Usually that's the case.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: They asked him questions and then I think they released him.
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there was an update from TMZ. Late last night,
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: Jim Thornton's attorney said that he didn't engage in any
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: illegal conduct. He was not arrested and has not been
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: charged with any crime.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: So why would he be suspended?
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: He was just obnoxious, I guess.
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: I mean, today, the— staff, the crew of any airplane
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: are so sensitive to anything.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: I get it. But why would you get suspended by
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: your company?
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: Don't know. Pending an investigation. No idea. But they have
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: someone else, I think. You get paid for being obnoxious.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true. That's a given. Okay. It's just... I'm
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: just lucky.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: That's all. Okay.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: We're done with the hour.
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: Let's start the next hour with a court order about
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: voting by mail. It's the president's obsession with this fraudulent
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: mail-in voting, as he says. And we'll tell you what
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: the court's done and what he is doing in response
• 30:21
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• 30:24
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