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The US last held a public execution in the 1930's. The Pentagon wants to change that · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 2: Pete Hegseth sort of outdid himself this time. He's on
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  Speaker 2: the USS Lincoln welcoming the soldiers back from that record deployment.
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  Speaker 2: And he is on a podcast that was there with
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  Speaker 2: a right-wing podcaster named And he said that the army psychiatrist,
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  Speaker 2: Nidal Hassan, who in 2009 killed 13 people and wounded
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  Speaker 2: 32 at Fort Hood, is going to be executed.
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  Speaker 3: That's sort of a given.
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  Speaker 2: He's been on military death row since 2013, since his
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  Speaker 2: conviction and sentencing.
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  Speaker 3: And what Hegseth said is.
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  Speaker 2: We are going to live stream the execution. It'll be
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  Speaker 2: an execution by way of firing squad. And that the
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  Speaker 2: president has approved the death by firing squad. And this
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  Speaker 2: is the first time for the military since World War II,
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  Speaker 2: a firing squad execution.
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  Speaker 3: Now, in World War II, that's how they kill people.
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  Speaker 3: They execute it. I think there.
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  Speaker 2: Were 98 American soldiers were executed during World War II
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  Speaker 2: for rape, murder, that sort of thing.
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  Speaker 3: One was executed for desertion.
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  Speaker 2: It's the only time that happened since, I believe, the
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  Speaker 2: Civil War. if memory serves. So it's going to happen
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  Speaker 2: on December 3rd at Fort Hood, exactly where the shooting
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  Speaker 2: took place. And we'll make sure that people, this is Hexeth,
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  Speaker 2: are able to watch it. And it's the public because
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  Speaker 2: people need to understand there's serious consequences for these type
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  Speaker 2: of things.
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  Speaker 3: Now, the question is.
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  Speaker 2: Do we not understand there are serious consequences when we
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  Speaker 2: read about or the news coverage tells us this guy
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  Speaker 2: has been executed? Do we not believe that? So this
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  Speaker 2: is panoply. This is being accused of this basically as
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  Speaker 2: a circus, which I agree. However, even though J.D. Vance
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  Speaker 2: said he's not going to watch it, I sure as
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  Speaker 2: hell am. Now, I've told you many times I have
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  Speaker 2: was a witness to one execution, and it was, well,
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  Speaker 2: as I left, I turned to some of the reporters
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  Speaker 2: who were there, and I said, I'm going to Disneyland. And,
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  Speaker 2: of course, it's the first execution that will be live streamed. Now,
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  Speaker 2: there were public executions, plenty of them. And the last one,
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  Speaker 2: I think, was 1936. And that was quite an execution, public,
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  Speaker 2: 20,000 people, western Kentucky.
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  Speaker 3: Workers had built a gallows near the waterfront.
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  Speaker 2: And people were celebrating with necktie parties the night before,
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  Speaker 2: soft drinks.
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  Speaker 3: Sandwiches, Coca-Cola.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you'd have thought it was a picnic, according to
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  Speaker 2: one of the attendees in oral history. Now, that prompted
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  Speaker 2: a public backlash over the barbarity executions. And that is
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  Speaker 2: what's happening here. It's a lot of people are upset
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  Speaker 2: about this, including the president's party, even J.D. Vance. Well,
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  Speaker 2: he wouldn't specifically say the president is wrong or Pete
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  Speaker 2: has said is wrong. He did say he wasn't going
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  Speaker 2: to watch it. And the argument is, and there's some
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  Speaker 2: good arguments against this. One is that, you know, who
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  Speaker 2: does public executions? Afghanistan does. North Korea does. regimes that
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  Speaker 2: are accused of, and rightly so, of completely barbaric practices.
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  Speaker 2: Saudi Arabia used to do public education execution. It wasn't
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  Speaker 2: too long ago when they did that. And so they
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  Speaker 2: gave that up.
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  Speaker 4: Now they do it in secret. American journalists and stuff
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  Speaker 4: like that, they just whisk them away.
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  Speaker 2: Not in Saudi Arabia, but certainly in those other countries,
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  Speaker 2: they don't do it as publicly.
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  Speaker 4: No, it wasn't?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 4: Can you tell me the last time France, the year
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  Speaker 4: that they.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think it was– was it 1973? No, 1977. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: that's close.
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  Speaker 4: The year Star Wars came out was the last time
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  Speaker 4: they used the guillotine in an execution.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, very impressive. So there's a lot of controversy.
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  Speaker 2: So one of the arguments is that the barbarity of
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  Speaker 2: it because it's only done– by those countries, those regimes
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  Speaker 2: that are, well, basically terrorist regimes. The argument is that
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  Speaker 2: that's going to turn people away from the death penalty
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  Speaker 2: because of the brutality of it. And so that's the problem.
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  Speaker 2: The other problem is political. And here's the legal problem,
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  Speaker 2: is that Hassan would file and will file, has filed
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  Speaker 2: a lawsuit saying that a public education or a public
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  Speaker 2: execution live stream is somehow a violation of the Eighth Amendment,
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  Speaker 2: cruel and unusual punishment, which I don't know how he's doing.
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  Speaker 2: But that may end up in court for a few years.
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  Speaker 2: So is it going to happen?
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  Speaker 3: No, no, it's not. Is it political theater? Yeah, I
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  Speaker 3: think so. And I would watch it. I would watch it.
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  Speaker 2: Unfortunately, the reality is even though I'm for the death penalty,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not for the death penalty. All you guys, it's
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  Speaker 2: just too damn expensive. By the time someone is put
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  Speaker 2: to death, it's hundreds of million dollars worth of legal
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  Speaker 2: if you add all of the legal costs when automatic
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  Speaker 2: appeals are given to people of the death penalty.
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  Speaker 3: I was reading something and it's 20 years.
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  Speaker 4: 35 in California.
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  Speaker 3: 35 in California. Yeah. People die of old age on
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  Speaker 3: death row. All right.
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  Speaker 2: Coming up, lawsuits is costing L.A., has cost L.A. billions
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  Speaker 2: of dollars since 2019. And what do you think is
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  Speaker 2: the biggest cause of those lawsuits? What is the issue?
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you when we come back.
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  Speaker 2: You know, there's a reason too many people have died.
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  Speaker 2: to make sure you have the right to vote during
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  Speaker 2: the history of this country. Okay, a little bit about
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  Speaker 2: the LAPD, a little history of the LAPD. The LAPD
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  Speaker 2: has had a very checkered past. At one point, it
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  Speaker 2: was considered the most racist police department in the country.
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  Speaker 2: Did you know that during the 30s, during the Depression,
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  Speaker 2: and the Okies, and that is the farmers in Oklahoma,
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  Speaker 2: left Oklahoma because of the Dust Bowl and would drive
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  Speaker 2: to Los Angeles to through the roads of Nevada. LAPD
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  Speaker 2: put officers on the California-Nevada border and stopped people from
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  Speaker 2: coming into California because they were on their way to LA.
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  Speaker 2: Americans could move in. That was LAPD. And then for
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  Speaker 2: a very long space of time, and this was all
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  Speaker 2: over the country, that police departments, police officers would beat
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  Speaker 2: someone with an inch of their death and claim and
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  Speaker 2: say it was officer arrest and no one ever argued.
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  Speaker 3: It was a given.
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  Speaker 2: Well, things have changed rather dramatically, as you know. And
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  Speaker 2: today it is very tough to defend oneself or as
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  Speaker 2: a police department. Things have changed radically. And police lawsuits
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  Speaker 2: have cost the city of LA nearly half a billion
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  Speaker 2: dollars since 2019.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, hundreds of millions of dollars. How is that? Well,
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  Speaker 3: because the pendulum has swung.
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  Speaker 2: Police departments, especially since the Black Lives Matter movement, have
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  Speaker 2: taken a big hit in terms of reputation. And LAPD
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  Speaker 2: is one of the cities that is one of the
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  Speaker 2: poster childs of being, if you want to call it,
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  Speaker 2: the victim of some of these lawsuits. So it is
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  Speaker 2: the philosophy of LAPD de-escalation, not get into these fights,
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  Speaker 2: especially firefights.
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  Speaker 3: Shoot someone by accident.
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  Speaker 2: Now, keep in mind, someone has a weapon or someone
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  Speaker 2: looks like he or she has a weapon and a
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  Speaker 2: cop has a split second to make a decision and
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  Speaker 2: fires a gun. And by accident, someone is shot during
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  Speaker 2: that melee. A lawsuit ensues. And one of the reasons
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  Speaker 2: these astronomical amounts of money are paid is because of
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  Speaker 2: what he called these called nuclear verdicts. where plaintiffs get
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  Speaker 2: hundreds of millions of dollars in wrongful death cases or
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  Speaker 2: excessive violence cases or police wrongdoing cases. Now, to be fair,
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  Speaker 2: rarely does that money actually change hands because immediately when
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  Speaker 2: there's an excessive verdict, the defendant goes in front of
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  Speaker 2: the judge and asks for something called remitter. And the
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  Speaker 2: judge on his or her own lessens the amount of
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  Speaker 2: money that is awarded. But still, these nuclear verdicts are there.
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  Speaker 2: And so what ends up happening, more and more lawsuits
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  Speaker 2: are filed. And the plaintiffs go in front of juries
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  Speaker 2: because a jury can be swayed. A judge is not
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  Speaker 2: going to be emotionally swayed. The judge has heard it all.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you can argue all you want in front
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  Speaker 2: of a judge. They're going to say, OK, I've heard it.
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  Speaker 3: I've heard it. I heard it. But not juries.
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  Speaker 2: Juries can come back and make these astronomical awards, which
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  Speaker 2: means that the city is more apt to settle in
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  Speaker 2: most cases and settle for big money. And the problem
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  Speaker 2: is when you're talking about this kind of money, according
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  Speaker 2: to the city controller, here's what happens. Streetlights are out,
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  Speaker 2: not fixed. Sidewalks don't get fixed. Animal shelters are understaffed
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  Speaker 2: or underfunded and have to close down.
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  Speaker 3: And this is all over the country.
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  Speaker 2: New York has more money in that because it's a
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  Speaker 2: much bigger city and it has many more police officers.
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  Speaker 3: So it is not fun. It is not easy.
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  Speaker 2: And as I often said, today, I think you're out
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  Speaker 2: of your mind to be a police officer. It's an
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  Speaker 2: almost impossible job. I talked to a cop once and
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  Speaker 2: I've shared this story with you. And the police officer
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  Speaker 2: said he has two choices. If he runs across someone
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  Speaker 2: who has a weapon and decides to shoot that person,
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  Speaker 2: which clearly is a policy shooting after an investigation, two
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  Speaker 2: things happen. Either he goes ahead and successfully defends himself
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  Speaker 2: and is instantly sued individually and bought himself a hearing
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  Speaker 2: to see if he was at fault.
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  Speaker 3: Or he dies. It's that simple.
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  Speaker 2: That's to become a cop. And today it is really,
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  Speaker 2: really tough. Although to the credit of the LAPD, they
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  Speaker 2: have not lowered their standards. It is still very difficult
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  Speaker 2: to become a police officer and go through the academy
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  Speaker 2: and make it. And that's the only saving grace. I
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  Speaker 2: think cops are underpaid because, well, because they're cops. And
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  Speaker 2: it is 10 times more difficult today. Also, you can't
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  Speaker 2: get free donuts today. They don't give them to you.
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  Speaker 2: You can't go into a deli and the owner says, hey,
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  Speaker 2: it's on me.
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  Speaker 4: You're lucky to have food that's not spit in.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true.
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  Speaker 2: You don't see cops that have white powder on their
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  Speaker 2: shoulders and you think it's dandruff.
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  Speaker 3: It is usually powdered sugar. Okay, coming up. How about this?
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  Speaker 2: Wines that used to cost $ 130.
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  Speaker 3: Several years ago, you can now get for under $ 10.
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  Speaker 5: Same wine.
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  Speaker 3: I'll explain that and how that works when we come back.
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  Speaker 5: You're listening to Bill Handel on demand from KFI AM 640.
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  Speaker 2: 22 days before the election, the midterms. And it looks
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  Speaker 2: like it's going to be a rough one for the Republicans.
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  Speaker 2: And it seems like it's rougher and rougher by the day.
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  Speaker 2: And now what Republicans are doing are trying to minimize
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  Speaker 2: the damage. And that's where they're going. Hold on to
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  Speaker 2: the Senate. I think you've pretty well given up on
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  Speaker 2: the House already. That looks like it's going to flip.
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  Speaker 2: And so we're certainly going to be talking about that
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  Speaker 2: a whole lot more. OK, let's switch gears for a moment.
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  Speaker 2: If you're a wine drinker, used to be a wine drinker.
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  Speaker 2: Neil is a wine drinker. On occasion.
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  Speaker 3: Occasion.
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  Speaker 2: I have seen Neil drink wine and he is– I
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  Speaker 2: have seen him falling down drunk on the floor, blabbering
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  Speaker 2: about religion.
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  Speaker 3: That sounds good. Yeah, it does. And Neil is a
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  Speaker 3: delight to see that way. That wasn't wine, by the way. No,
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  Speaker 3: it wasn't. It was hard alcohol. That's true.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You make me sound like a wimp.
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  Speaker 1: It does.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. But let me tell you what is going on.
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  Speaker 3: You went to.
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  Speaker 2: a wine store, a Costco, or a major supermarket, let's
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  Speaker 2: say five years ago, you could buy a $ 130 bottle
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  Speaker 2: of wine for $ 130. Today, that same wine, you can
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  Speaker 2: get for under 30 bucks. Boy, you think that's a discount?
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  Speaker 2: And why is that? Well, there's an oversupply of premium wines.
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  Speaker 2: So you have these wineries... that they create these very
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  Speaker 2: high-end wines selling their products to major retailers at a
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  Speaker 2: fraction of their price. Why would they do that? Well,
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  Speaker 2: they have too much wine, a huge oversupply, and they
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  Speaker 2: want to keep their brand. They can't sell it for
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  Speaker 2: $ 130 because no one's buying it. And so what they're
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  Speaker 2: doing is they're selling it to the Costcos, to the Aldis,
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  Speaker 2: to the Kroger's, and then they white label it. In
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  Speaker 2: other words, they put their own brand, Kirkland, for example.
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  Speaker 2: And you're buying high-end wines at a fraction of the cost,
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  Speaker 2: and how do you know? Well, Costco has those wine
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  Speaker 2: reviews at every box where they sell wine. And the
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  Speaker 2: wine reviewers give wines grades 92, 95, 98. And you'll
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  Speaker 2: see more and more wines in the 98, 99, 96 category,
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  Speaker 2: which is considered a very high-end wine for a fraction
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  Speaker 2: of the cost.
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  Speaker 3: Americans are drinking less wine. It's that simple. The entire U.S.
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  Speaker 2: Wine industry is facing declining sales today. For example, according
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  Speaker 2: to U.S. Wine Industry Report, that's Valley Bank to 2026.
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  Speaker 2: It was the state of the Wine Industry Report, which
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  Speaker 2: is looked at pretty carefully. Americans purchased an estimated 329
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  Speaker 2: million cases of wine in 2025. The year before, it
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  Speaker 2: was 335. That is a hell of a drop. So
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  Speaker 2: you've got inflation. You have changing drinking habits. Shifting consumer
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  Speaker 2: preferences because it costs just as much to make the wine.
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  Speaker 3: As it did before.
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  Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, labor has gotten more expensive.
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  Speaker 2: Fertilizer has gotten far more expensive and will increase. And
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  Speaker 2: so you have these wineries, they have to unload their wines.
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  Speaker 2: And better to sell them off in bulk at low,
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  Speaker 2: low prices. And these retailers are able to turn around
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  Speaker 2: and take these $ 150 wines and sell them for $ 30.
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  Speaker 2: So when you go to the store and used to
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  Speaker 2: buy a $ 30 bottle of wine for $ 30, do a
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  Speaker 2: little bit of research. Talk to the wine buyer. You know,
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  Speaker 2: look at the stores that give you those wine reviews.
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  Speaker 2: Costco does that. And look at the number. And you
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  Speaker 2: can find yourself having a tremendous bargain. Now, granted, it's
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  Speaker 2: Kirkland wine. Which is, you think of it as almost
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  Speaker 2: two buck, two buck, what is it? Two buck chuck. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: two buck chuck. And is it that same quality? No.
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  Speaker 3: Two buck chuck, which is no longer chuck.
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  Speaker 2: Two buck chuck, chuck, that is a peppercorn peppering your pepper,
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  Speaker 2: is an incredible deal today. Just do a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of research and you're going to do just fine.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm not a wine drinker. I'll tell you one
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  Speaker 3: thing that hasn't gone down in price. Diet Coke. Bastards. Bastards.
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  Speaker 3: It's like tripled. It's crazy.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm limiting my Diet Coke from about, I don't know, 18,
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  Speaker 2: 20 a day down to 15.
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  Speaker 3: And it's killing me.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, we're coming back. And the mosquitoes are coming. The
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  Speaker 2: mosquitoes are coming.
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  Speaker 5: Well.
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  Speaker 3: They're already here. The killer bees are coming. The bees
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  Speaker 3: are coming. Remember that one? The killer bees are coming.
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  Speaker 2: I remember the killer bees. Great KFI story, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: with the bees are coming.
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  Speaker 3: Was that Terry Ray Elmer? It was Terry Ray Elmer.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. And we had to change our lives because of it.
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  Speaker 2: Our show took a dramatic turn. I'll even share that
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  Speaker 2: story with you because it's fun. And we'll be right
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  Speaker 2: back with that.
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  Speaker 5: You're listening to Bill Handel on demand from KFI AM 640.
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  Speaker 1: I'm back.
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  Speaker 2: It's Monday, October 12th, exactly 22 days to go before
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: the midterm elections.
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  Speaker 3: We'll talk about that a whole lot.
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  Speaker 2: Some of the big stories we are looking at, the
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  Speaker 2: attacks on Saudi Arabia by the Houthis, and the president
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  Speaker 2: is weighing in, do I go in or do we
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: go in, boy, between Iraq and a hard place. And
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  Speaker 2: the pope is going to have a nodule removed from
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  Speaker 2: one of his lungs. However, it is a small nodule.
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  Speaker 2: It is a papal nodule, which has some religious significance.
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  Speaker 4: Of some kind.
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  Speaker 3: The holy nodule? It'll be a relic.
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  Speaker 2: There it is, a nodule that'll be in some church
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  Speaker 2: in a jar of formaldehyde. Now, when we think of
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  Speaker 2: mosquitoes and places that have a huge number of mosquitoes,
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  Speaker 2: you think of, I don't know, New Orleans, maybe?
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  Speaker 3: You think of Miami? You think of Houston?
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  Speaker 2: The center of mosquitoes is right here in Southern California, L.A.,
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  Speaker 2: Orange County.
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  Speaker 3: And how is that possible? Well, heat and humidity.
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  Speaker 2: And a decade-high incidence of West Nile because of mosquitoes. L.A.,
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  Speaker 2: the most mosquito-infested city in the United States of America.
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  Speaker 2: Heat waves, the extra-powerful El Nino. It's been a summer
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  Speaker 2: of living hell, as locals have called it.
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  Speaker 3: Clouds of mosquitoes are swarming backyards. And it is no fun.
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  Speaker 2: Now, the rising fears is that the mosquitoes could spread
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  Speaker 2: even other diseases, not just West Nile, but dengue and
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  Speaker 2: other diseases. And it has to do with warm weather
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  Speaker 2: at night. And this week's forecast overnight temperatures are going
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  Speaker 2: to stay high and seems like there's no end in
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  Speaker 2: sight for the mosquitoes. And man, so what do you do? Well,
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  Speaker 2: there's one answer, and I think it's almost impossible. Now,
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  Speaker 2: there are a couple of kinds of mosquitoes that we
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  Speaker 2: suffer from. The most common one is the Culex quinquefasciitis mosquito,
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  Speaker 2: often referred to by its more pronounceable name, mosquito. And
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  Speaker 2: it prefers to target birds.
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  Speaker 3: The other one.
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  Speaker 2: Is called the Aedes genus, also known, strangely enough, as
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  Speaker 2: the mosquito. And that's the one that everybody happens to
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  Speaker 2: pay a particular attention. They're called ankle biters. They're the
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  Speaker 2: chihuahuas of the mosquito world.
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  Speaker 3: They are ankle biters. And the reason they're worse is
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  Speaker 3: they like human blood better.
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  Speaker 2: And they might bite you multiple times to get a
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  Speaker 2: full-blood meal.
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  Speaker 3: So it's seconds for them. So you're an all-you-can-eat buffet
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  Speaker 3: for these mosquitoes.
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  Speaker 2: And not only associated with West Nile, but spreaders of dengue, chikungunya,
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: which is some kind of a Vietnamese rice dish, zika,
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  Speaker 2: That is god-awful terrible. You've seen those kids suffering from Zico.
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  Speaker 2: Mothers suffer from Zico. And they have those smaller heads.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, man, it is brutal. Yellow fever.
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  Speaker 2: If you've ever had yellow fever, just the inoculation for
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: yellow fever. If you get a vaccine and happen to
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: go to one of the countries where there's yellow fever,
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: I don't get– I don't usually get any kind of
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: reaction to vaccines. I'm pretty good about that. When I
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: had my yellow fever vaccine, I was knocked out for
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: three days. So which are the ways that the vector districts–
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  Speaker 2: that's what they call it. Look at your– If you
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: happen to be a homeowner, look at your tax bill,
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: and there will be a few dollars for the mosquito
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: vector district to fight mosquitoes. So they spray adulticide, which
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: is known as the killing of adults. And actually, they
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: say it is a way of dealing with mosquitoes. It
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: is a concentration of two tablespoons per acre. And it
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: is a kind of insecticide. Do you remember, what was that,
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  Speaker 2: 10 years ago, 12 years ago? You saw driving along
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  Speaker 2: the street, these trucks that were spraying both sides of
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: the street, they were using that insecticide.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: And then the easiest way of dealing with them is
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  Speaker 3: standing water at your house. But here's the problem. When
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  Speaker 3: you talk about standing water, you know.
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  Speaker 2: A capful of water, if there is a capful sitting
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  Speaker 2: there someplace, that's a breeding ground for mosquitoes. Who doesn't
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: have a little bit of standing water in their home?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's mosquitoes. And there's nothing good about mosquitoes, by
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: the way.
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  Speaker 2: More people have died in this world on Earth because
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: of mosquitoes than anything, any singular other.
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  Speaker 3: Item.
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  Speaker 4: I know it sounds like you're being hyperbolic, but that's true.
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: I'm not being hyperbolic at all.
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: It's the number one killing animal on the planet.
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: We use bleach and stuff in our wells because we
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: have some wells here at the house. And then Dean
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: Sharp said, and I think this is great, if you
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: have bird baths and stuff like that, you can get
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: one of those little dribblers. All they do is they
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: just take the tension off the water and Mosquitoes won't
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: lay eggs if there's any moving source of water at all.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I had an old girlfriend that is now a dribbler
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: and it's gross. Thank you. Greatly appreciated.
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: Why does your brain automatically go to that place?
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: Uh, it's, uh, it's just one of those things. Uh, I,
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: I yet have yet to figure it out. Uh, now I'm,
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: when I'm talking about the dribbling, I'm talking about drooling
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: from the mouth. I am not talking about the other
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: kind of dribble, which a lot of, which a lot.
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: Of our men deal with and incontinence. That's correct.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: We're done guys.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: Uh, we're done with that topic coming up, uh, the
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: botched execution. And, uh, Man, the governor says, OK, maybe
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: I'll stop. Maybe I'll not only have the moratorium continue
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: on with the next governor, but commute all the sentences.
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: Over 500 people on death row.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Done. Finished.
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: I'll explain that one coming up.
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