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Struggling Colleges | A Threat to Free Press · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: six forty man out of college. I love drinking, I
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  Speaker 1: Let me tell you what's going on well before I
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  Speaker 1: ninety five is the price for dinner, and boy is
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  Speaker 1: And Lindsay's going to be there. And as I said,
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  Speaker 1: special guest star that I'm going to mention tomorrow. Okay, colleges,
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  Speaker 1: So let me tell you what's going on in the
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  Speaker 1: world of colleges, and that is they're running out of money.
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  Speaker 1: It's just that simple, totally running out of money. And
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  Speaker 1: so what do they do, Well, they close They just
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  Speaker 1: shut down the law school I went to consider the
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  Speaker 1: Harvard of the West. If you're in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: an LSD trip shut down, it is now defunct. Look
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  Speaker 1: at my diploma, my law school diploma. There is now
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  Speaker 1: a big red circle with a line through it where
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  Speaker 1: it talks about graduation of law school just went out
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  Speaker 1: of business. And one of the reasons it did there
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  Speaker 1: was no money. There are not enough students, but there
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  Speaker 1: was no endowment either. Schools have endowments, even public public
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  Speaker 1: schools have endowments. And so the endowments are one of
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  Speaker 1: two kinds. The general endowment. They can be the money
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  Speaker 1: and we're talking about the proceeds and the money the
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  Speaker 1: interest usually the profits, if you will, because a board,
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  Speaker 1: there's a board on the programs that then invests the
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  Speaker 1: money theoretically, and they generally do a pretty decent job
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  Speaker 1: because they hire professional to do this. So the two kinds,
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  Speaker 1: one general endowment and the other one's specific endowment, and
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  Speaker 1: that is, you know, for Indian kids that have no
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  Speaker 1: arms and legs and can't speak English and they're in
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  Speaker 1: a wheelchair. I mean, you can get pretty specific about endowments.
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  Speaker 1: There's one that's just for Italian students. I mean that
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  Speaker 1: you can discriminate like crazy and endowments, so that's no issue.
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  Speaker 1: So those are the two types of endowments that exist.
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  Speaker 1: And the schools hustle you like crazy. If you've graduated
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  Speaker 1: from school, well you know that your kids are hustling.
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  Speaker 1: You know that school's hustling for money. If you're in
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  Speaker 1: a lum, they hustle you for money. Here's what's happening, though,
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  Speaker 1: is the schools that are going broke are taking the
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  Speaker 1: money from endowments and using it for general purposes, using
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  Speaker 1: it simply keep the lights on. You can't do that.
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  Speaker 1: You can't do that. Endowments are for specific purposes, and
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  Speaker 1: the schools are using those just to keep the lights on.
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  Speaker 1: And and here's what the board says, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: board that runs the schools, the board of the of
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  Speaker 1: the college, is we have no choice. So effectively, we
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  Speaker 1: have to steal money. Now they don't call it stealing.
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  Speaker 1: What they're doing is dipping into their endowment fund. And
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  Speaker 1: when you do that, and if you're running at a deficit,
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  Speaker 1: and that happens for several years, the money disappears. The
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  Speaker 1: whole point of endowment is to keep that money alive
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  Speaker 1: and the interest that it generates. Is where is where
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  Speaker 1: the scholarships go, and it's generally scholarships. For example, you
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  Speaker 1: have schools like Harvard. I think Harvard has a sixty
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  Speaker 1: five billion dollar endowment fund, and most of the students
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  Speaker 1: at Harvard actually are subsidized not only by the government,
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  Speaker 1: also by the school itself. Even though tuition at Harvard
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  Speaker 1: is what sixty thousand dollars a year, not too many
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  Speaker 1: people say sixty thousand dollars a year because of the endowment.
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  Speaker 1: And of course Harvard has enough applicants and enough money
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  Speaker 1: coming in to be able to pay all the bills
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  Speaker 1: and the teachers, et cetera. But a lot of schools
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  Speaker 1: don't have sixty five billion dollars. I went to undergrad
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  Speaker 1: at cal State northrich It has an endowment. Graduates who
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  Speaker 1: do well leave money to the school. Now, is this
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  Speaker 1: sixty five billion dollars. No, it's four dollars and thirty cents.
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  Speaker 1: There just isn't much money. And so I don't think
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  Speaker 1: cal State is doing that. I think it's private colleges
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  Speaker 1: doing that. But it is a mess that's going on
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  Speaker 1: out there, and that's just one of the issues. We
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  Speaker 1: know that education is really in trouble and the issue
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  Speaker 1: are there are enough students out there? The problem is
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  Speaker 1: students are decreasing, but it still costs just as much
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  Speaker 1: for the utility bills and the people that work there
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  Speaker 1: and the professors, their their prices are the cost of
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  Speaker 1: keeping them doesn't go down, that goes up every year.
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  Speaker 1: So they're between a rock and a hard place. Particularly
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  Speaker 1: the geography classes between a rock and a hard place. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: that's deep. Okay, that I'm telling you that is metaphysical,
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  Speaker 1: between a rock and a hard place in geography, geology.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I meant geography is You're right, what I
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  Speaker 1: was thinking of something else at the timeprehension. No, No,
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  Speaker 1: I was thinking of geography, and I was thinking that
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  Speaker 1: I have to go step by step in geography, step
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  Speaker 1: the steps step one. No, no, no, we're talking about
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  Speaker 1: steps in terms. No, no, like the Russian steps. You're right,
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  Speaker 1: Never mind a little confusion, right, Amy, exactly, that's not
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  Speaker 1: going down.
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  Speaker 2: I know, I know that was a just one, right,
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  Speaker 2: and you just go brook, Yeah he came to you, buddy, Yeah, no,
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  Speaker 2: also a joke.
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  Speaker 1: All right, have a question, and uh, this is another
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  Speaker 1: what I think is overreach by the Trump administration. I
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  Speaker 1: know you listen to the complaints I have about Trump,
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  Speaker 1: and believe me, I search for things that I agree
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  Speaker 1: with that the administration is doing, and I'm I'm there
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  Speaker 1: at the table. I give the President the kudos when
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  Speaker 1: I think he deserves it. Not very often, but I
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  Speaker 1: do whenever I think that something positive comes out of
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  Speaker 1: the administration. So now let me tell you the other
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  Speaker 1: side of it. There is a story that came out.
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  Speaker 1: New York Times broke it about the jet. The seven
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  Speaker 1: forty seven Katari jet was given to the US, and
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  Speaker 1: it had to be refurbished in the set. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: know it was seventeen years old, but it is, and
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  Speaker 1: it had to be taken apart and then put together again.
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  Speaker 1: Because the president needs a whole lot more security than
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  Speaker 1: you or I do. So it has to be hardened,
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  Speaker 1: which means in the event of a nuclear attack and
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  Speaker 1: they're radioactive, their radiation that comes out, and so they
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  Speaker 1: all of the wiring, the equipment has to be hardened
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  Speaker 1: against that. And there are anti missile there are all
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  Speaker 1: kinds of defense features to that plane which didn't The
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  Speaker 1: plane didn't have because it was just a luxury jet
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  Speaker 1: that the Katari government bought seventeen years ago, and I
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  Speaker 1: mean really luxurious and was given the United States, actually
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  Speaker 1: given to Donald Trump. But the president can't personally accept
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  Speaker 1: gifts of any kind, much less a what three four
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  Speaker 1: hundred million dollar jet, And so the Secret Service comes
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  Speaker 1: in and says, we have to redo the jet completely,
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  Speaker 1: and okay, that's fine, and hundreds of billions of dollars,
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  Speaker 1: And we're actually being told it's north of a billion
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  Speaker 1: dollars to fix the jet up pursuant to the recommendations
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  Speaker 1: and the requirements of the Secret Service and the military.
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  Speaker 1: Hundreds of billions of dollars. We have no idea what
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  Speaker 1: the actual figure is why, because we're not going to
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  Speaker 1: be told ever what the figure is. One of the
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  Speaker 1: things that we are never told is how much it
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  Speaker 1: costs to run the Air Force fleet. Air Force one.
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  Speaker 1: Air Force one is actually two jets, one and a
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  Speaker 1: backup that always flies when the president flies in case
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  Speaker 1: number one gets a flat tire, there's always a backup.
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  Speaker 1: There's also the doomsday plane, in which it is a
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  Speaker 1: traveling White House. In the event there is an attack,
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  Speaker 1: the President jumps on that one and flies overhead and
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  Speaker 1: run the country from the doomsday plane, so it is expensive. Also,
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  Speaker 1: they have all kinds of other airplanes Air Force two,
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  Speaker 1: the State Department has a plane Secretary of State, and
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  Speaker 1: they all have executive jets that the cabinet officials run
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  Speaker 1: around in. It's pretty expensive stuff. But back we go
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  Speaker 1: to this particular plane. It turned out that when the
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  Speaker 1: President went to Europe to go to one of these
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  Speaker 1: summits and he flew in that plane, the Secret Service said,
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  Speaker 1: you're not flying back on that plane because it does
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  Speaker 1: not meet our requirements, our security requirements for international flying.
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  Speaker 1: You're flying back on the old Air Force one. The
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  Speaker 1: President thought that was an affront to him because he
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  Speaker 1: takes everything personally, and so what he did is, as
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  Speaker 1: he got onto Air Force one, original Air Force one,
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  Speaker 1: what he said is he is sending the new plane
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  Speaker 1: over to England so our Armed forces soldiers in England
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  Speaker 1: can tour the plane. And he wanted to show the
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  Speaker 1: armed forces the plane. Not because the Secret Service said,
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  Speaker 1: you're not going on this airplane. You are not going.
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  Speaker 1: So the story that he was not flying on the
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  Speaker 1: original Air Force one, and that was a secret. The
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  Speaker 1: New York Times broke the story, and the administration was
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  Speaker 1: not happy so what did the administration do? What did
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  Speaker 1: the Department of Justice do through the FBI? Okay, And
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  Speaker 1: before we go through the rest of the story, let's
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  Speaker 1: All right, I want to revisit or come back and
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  Speaker 1: finish up the story about the new presidential plane was
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  Speaker 1: given to the US by the Katari government, which was
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  Speaker 1: accepted by the President and spent a billion dollars give
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  Speaker 1: or take to redo the plane for security purposes. And
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  Speaker 1: as I told you, the Secret Service would not let
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  Speaker 1: the President fly back from Europe on the plane because
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  Speaker 1: it felt that it didn't have enough defense mechanisms. So
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  Speaker 1: they're redoing it again to put an additional defense mechanism,
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  Speaker 1: and President was not happy. And so the story broke
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  Speaker 1: by the New York Times. And what happened was the
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  Speaker 1: US Department of Justice trying to get information from the
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  Speaker 1: reporters in terms of where their sources were, subpoena their's
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  Speaker 1: reporters for sources and additional information. The reporters told to
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  Speaker 1: go pound sand, which reporters do, and it was the
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  Speaker 1: FBI that served the subpoena. Now keep in mind, we're
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  Speaker 1: not talking about and arrest a search warrant. We're talking
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  Speaker 1: about a subpoena that is served on someone for either
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  Speaker 1: documents or to appear in court as a witness. And
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  Speaker 1: the FBI went to these reporters' homes and served the
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  Speaker 1: subpoenas in direct violation of what the Department of Justice
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  Speaker 1: owned procedures are. And the other thing is the procedures
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  Speaker 1: the policy of the Department of Justice is not to
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  Speaker 1: go after reporter sources. That's just something that's in violate
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  Speaker 1: for the most part. Well, the Trump administration says, too bad,
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  Speaker 1: we want sources, and we want you to come in
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  Speaker 1: and we want to I want you to give up
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  Speaker 1: the sources. And by the way, we're going to serve
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  Speaker 1: you with a subpoena buy the FBI at your home. Now,
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  Speaker 1: they could have just gone to a process server and
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  Speaker 1: pay the process server to show up and here you go,
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  Speaker 1: or call the reporter and said we're going to meet
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  Speaker 1: you someplace and come on into the office and we
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  Speaker 1: want to talk to you about a subpoena. And people
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  Speaker 1: would no. They go to the house and these people
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  Speaker 1: are watching TV with their kids and they're enjoying themselves,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, they don't knock on the door. Here's
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  Speaker 1: a subpoena in front of the kids. And so the
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  Speaker 1: The New York Times takes the government to court to
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  Speaker 1: quash the subpoena, saying you can't do that, you can't
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  Speaker 1: serve that way. And so what happened, By the way,
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  Speaker 1: that's not the first time the Trump administration has sent
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  Speaker 1: government agents to reporters' homes. There was a search warrant
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  Speaker 1: at the home of a Washington Post reporter and they
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  Speaker 1: seize or electronic devices as a part of investigation into
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  Speaker 1: a contractor issue. And so the Post also challenged that subpoena.
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  Speaker 1: An issue to the National Security reporter Ellen Nakashima, and
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  Speaker 1: the government withdrew that petition because the Time successfully challenged
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  Speaker 1: the Pentagon's credential policy. The entire Pentagon Press Court, as
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  Speaker 1: you know, was tossed out by Pete Hegseth rather than
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  Speaker 1: agree to giving up information. So they're all gone. So
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  Speaker 1: now you have these FBI. Then you now you have
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  Speaker 1: these reporters that were subpoena by the FBI at their
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  Speaker 1: homes when subpoena could be served by anybody. And so
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  Speaker 1: here they go in court and the judge is nailing
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  Speaker 1: the government, I mean just nailing them with question after
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  Speaker 1: question and it and the government had no answer. It
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  Speaker 1: isn't procedure that you normally don't do this, Well, yes,
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  Speaker 1: your honor. Isn't policy that reporters aren't served at home? Well, yes,
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  Speaker 1: your honor. Isn't it policy that sources are protected? Well, yes,
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  Speaker 1: your honor. But this is an issue of national importance
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  Speaker 1: and national security. Breaking a story about the airplane. That
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  Speaker 1: was the national security story. Oh and another thing quickly
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  Speaker 1: about the airplane itself. It was given to the US government,
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  Speaker 1: and the deal that was struck with Qatar and the
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  Speaker 1: federal government was that the president was going to use
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  Speaker 1: that airplane until the end of his term. Now there
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  Speaker 1: are two others being built right now by Boeing to
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  Speaker 1: replace the original air Force one that's up in the air.
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  Speaker 1: It's thirty years up there and it's time to retire him.
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  Speaker 1: And so this Katari airplane is going to serve for
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  Speaker 1: two terms after a billion dollar refurbishment of it or
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  Speaker 1: a billion dollar change up, and then it goes to
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  Speaker 1: the Trump Presidential Library. It's no longer going to be
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  Speaker 1: used by the president. It's a two year stint with
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  Speaker 1: all of the money being spent to reinforce the airplane
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  Speaker 1: for security purpose. A billion dollars two years, and then
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  Speaker 1: off it goes to the presidential libey. I mean, how
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  Speaker 1: crazy is that? So back to the court case in
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  Speaker 1: which the Department of Justice is trying somehow to defend
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  Speaker 1: serving the FBI agents at home with a subpoena, and
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  Speaker 1: the judge at the end of the hearing says you,
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  Speaker 1: says to the Department of Justice, You've got two choices here.
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  Speaker 1: Either I'm going to order that these be quashed and
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  Speaker 1: give you a scathing report or scathing decision, or you
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  Speaker 1: can just withdraw the subpoenis right now, right now, and
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  Speaker 1: the government chose to withdraw the subpoenas in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of the hearing. I mean, not later on. It's not
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  Speaker 1: that David Hearn case in which he was accused of
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  Speaker 1: vandalizing the reflecting pool, in which and he was charged
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  Speaker 1: with indicted on a federal chart, which later on was dropped.
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  Speaker 1: This was in the hearing where the judge basically said,
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  Speaker 1: I'm either going to make an ass out of you
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  Speaker 1: or you're going to walk away with the charges being dropped,
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  Speaker 1: and that's what they elected to do. Okay, now I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to end with something that you probably know, but
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  Speaker 1: the second part you may not know. Bars, bowling alleys,
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  Speaker 1: ballgames cost too much to visit. Matter of fact, even groceries.
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  Speaker 1: The grocery stores cost two muths. So we're running out
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  Speaker 1: of places to hang with friends, even strangers, and that
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  Speaker 1: is costing we're paying with our health. The Bureau of
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  Speaker 1: Labor Statistics has its quarterly Census of employment and wages,
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  Speaker 1: and that counts business establishment industry by industry, down to
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  Speaker 1: the counting the county level, and back to nineteen ninety
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  Speaker 1: has lost a fifth of US movie theaters a third
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  Speaker 1: of its bowling alleys since two thousand and one. There
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  Speaker 1: was a study last year. I love the names of
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  Speaker 1: these studies, uneven access to Essential Services and Amenities, Geographic
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  Speaker 1: disparities in third place availability across the United States from
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  Speaker 1: twenty ten to twenty twenty one, and researchers tracked twelve
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  Speaker 1: categories of what sociologists are calling third places coffee shops, libraries, museums,
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  Speaker 1: recreation centers, restaurants, widespread closures across the board. And why
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  Speaker 1: is that? Well a bunch of reasons. First of all,
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  Speaker 1: rents for these places are astronomical, The cost of labor
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  Speaker 1: for these places are astronomical. You've got Internet shopping, so
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  Speaker 1: brick and mortar stores are having a harder time. And
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  Speaker 1: the cost of products and services have gone up traumatically,
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  Speaker 1: not as much as the cost of running the place.
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  Speaker 1: That's what costs. So you know what happens when we
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  Speaker 1: don't go there anymore. And there are studies this. There
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  Speaker 1: is a study that put together or looked at other
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  Speaker 1: studies one hundred and forty eight other studies. This is
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  Speaker 1: called meta analysis. Jim talks about this all the time.
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  Speaker 1: One hundred and forty eight studies tracking millions of people
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  Speaker 1: over years, off in decades, chronic loneliness. Not going to
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  Speaker 1: those places becomes isolation, and the mortality risk is comparable
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  Speaker 1: to smoking fifteen cigarettes a day. I mean, look at
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  Speaker 1: that stat you don't go to these places and you
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  Speaker 1: are isolated, that's equivalent to fifteen cigarettes today. We are
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  Speaker 1: not good at isolation. That's not what we as human
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  Speaker 1: beings want. We are a herd community, we are a
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  Speaker 1: herd species. We want to be around people, and we're
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  Speaker 1: not being able to do that. There are simply not
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  Speaker 1: enough places. They're all closing down. It's so unfortunate. People
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  Speaker 1: used to go down to the bar, the local bar,
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  Speaker 1: and hang out for decades. You see the same people,
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  Speaker 1: you talk, you'd bs, you'd have a drink. Well, today
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  Speaker 1: a drink is fifteen bucks. Who can afford to go there?
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  Speaker 1: You have two or three drinks? You know, there's thirty
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  Speaker 1: forty five dollars per night. I mean, it's expensive as
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  Speaker 1: hell a restaurant. If you go with friends. What does
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  Speaker 1: a restaurant cost you? What is going to the movies
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  Speaker 1: cost you? When you go with family and friends. Movies
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  Speaker 1: are different because that's kind of fun because you don't
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  Speaker 1: have to talk to anybody. But the cost I just
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  Speaker 1: went to see The Odyssey in Imax, and I was
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: not that impressed with that film. By the way, I
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: want to point that out. Everybody thought it was the
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  Speaker 1: greatest thing since slice spread. It wasn't my opinion. Thirty
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  Speaker 1: bucks to see a movie. Whoever paid thirty dollars to
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  Speaker 1: see a movie? And that's what I ended up paying.
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  Speaker 1: And so I'm walking away now. I went by myself
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  Speaker 1: because it was the middle of the day, and actually
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  Speaker 1: I found myself kind of neat with the group of
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  Speaker 1: people that I was with. Comfortable. I talked to myself
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  Speaker 1: a lot comfortable. I was with friends. That's me by myself,
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of sex afterwards. It was very comfortable. Hea, there,
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  Speaker 1: don't give me that.
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  Speaker 3: Look, Okay, did you do that popcorn trick on yourself?
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  Speaker 1: Oh with a whole the bottom of the box? Well, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: except it costs so much money.
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  Speaker 2: All right, breakfast, what are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: That's Neil who came up with that? Neil, not me.
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  Speaker 1: Neil came up with that. Okay, I just want to
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  Speaker 1: put that on the only time you ever.
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  Speaker 3: Remember any one of our names is when you throw
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  Speaker 3: us under the bus with something.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, thank you, And that just described our show, and
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna end on that one. We are done for
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  Speaker 1: the day. Coming up Gary and Shannon, Heather, thank you
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: for being here for the day. You've done basically a
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: mediocre jobs, but I appreciate you being here. And tomorrow
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: we start with Amy. She comes back, Amy and Will
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  Speaker 1: in his Costco Hawaiian shirt, and then Neil and I
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: jump aboard at six am, and then we continue on
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  Speaker 1: right here, same time, same station. Have a good hot day,
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: go on outside and you know have some seat heat stroke?
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Why not? You know that gets entertaining two KFI a
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