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Frog Poison & The Kremlin | Monks & Merrill on KFI · The Bill Handel Show

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Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
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Speaker 1: six forty.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, everybody, and it is Monday morning, February sixteenth.
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Speaker 2: coming up at the bottom of the hour, Michael Monks
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Speaker 2: and Chris Merrill.
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Speaker 3: Are joining us.
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Speaker 2: They have a new show starting tomorrow from twelve to three.
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Speaker 2: There is a new lineup, well, same lineup, it's just
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Speaker 2: still happening and will for at least another week. And
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Speaker 2: the Olympics are going on and America is not doing
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Speaker 2: very well. There's some absolutely delicious scandals which we always enjoy. Now, well,
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Speaker 2: this is some information that just came out and this
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Speaker 2: week accusations of Russian poisoning well came out again because
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Speaker 2: Western governments and a laboratory analysis found that there is
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Speaker 2: a toxin called epitodine and it's derived from the Ecuadorian
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Speaker 2: poison dart frogs. And this was found in a body
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Speaker 2: of Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny.
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Speaker 3: Now did they didn't.
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Speaker 2: Actually find the frog in the blood of Navalny, but
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Speaker 2: they did find the poison, and therein lies a story
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Speaker 2: because this is just some more proof that Putin is
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Speaker 2: a dictator who will kill people who are in opposition,
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Speaker 2: and he has done so several times.
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Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 2: It's a long and deeply contested narrative around this very
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Speaker 2: high profile poison. Russia has used radio active tea nerve agents,
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Speaker 2: which of course it denies, and this is why Putin
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Speaker 2: has this reputation among others. So a joint statement by
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Speaker 2: the UK, France, Germany, Sweden the Netherlands said forensic tests
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Speaker 2: concluded that Epitodine was president in the Valny system after
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Speaker 2: his death in a Siberian prison in twenty twenty four.
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Speaker 2: And what did the prison system do when he died
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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty four, They said in the Vaal, Andy
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Speaker 2: forty seven years old, died because he wasn't feeling well
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Speaker 2: following a walk around the facility. It's right above the
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Speaker 2: Arctic Circle and it's a maximum security facility. He was
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Speaker 2: serving a thirty and a half year jail sentence for
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Speaker 2: opposition to Putin and tax evasion and just all kinds
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Speaker 2: of infractions, and he didn't have to come back to Russia.
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Speaker 2: He was poisoned in Russia. He was on an airplane
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Speaker 2: and the poison was going through his system, and he
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Speaker 2: survived and went to Germany for recovery and then went
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Speaker 2: back even knowing he was going to get arrested, and
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Speaker 2: he did. Of course, Russia dismisses the allegations completely. Now
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Speaker 2: let me tell you about this poison. It comes from
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Speaker 2: a frog, Anthony's Poison arrow frog found in Ecuador. It
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Speaker 2: is about three quarters of an inch long, that's how
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Speaker 2: small this frog is. Lethal doses are measured in micrograms,
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Speaker 2: minuscule amounts, as little as one point four micrograms. And
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Speaker 2: if you look up what one point for micrograms equals,
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Speaker 2: you'll see.
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Speaker 3: That it's teamy ween.
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Speaker 2: See, tiny amount of this poison can kill. And the
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Speaker 2: other thing, it's possible to synthesize it chemically, so you
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Speaker 2: don't even have to go to Ecuador. You know what
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Speaker 2: the airfare is to Ecuador, it's pretty pricey. It's one
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Speaker 2: of those countries where it's not cheap to go to.
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Speaker 2: So The scientists are telling us that once someone starts
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Speaker 2: developing system, it's too late. International law bars the use
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Speaker 2: of chemical agents to harm people. Do you know that
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Speaker 2: during World War Two even Hitler didn't use chemical weapons
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Speaker 2: against fighting forces. On the other side, he did use
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Speaker 2: chemical weapons against Jews and some ten million or eight
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Speaker 2: million other people. But even he held off because chemical
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Speaker 2: weapons were used in World War One and they're so
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Speaker 2: dangerous that international treaty banned them.
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Speaker 3: Russians have a document.
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Speaker 2: They documented a history or we have documented a history
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Speaker 2: of toxic targeted attacks.
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Speaker 3: Two thousand and six, I don't know if you remember this.
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Speaker 2: There was a defector, a former Russian spy, Alexander litton
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Speaker 2: Venko or Lytton lit Venenko got it so good names.
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Speaker 3: He died after.
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Speaker 2: Drinking green tea laced with polonium two ten at a
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Speaker 2: London hotel. He was poisoned radioactively. There was an agent
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Speaker 2: we know that nerve agent Navachuk used against the former
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Speaker 2: double agent Sergei Skripoll and his daughter. And they put
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Speaker 2: this agent this particular it was actually a powder they
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Speaker 2: put on the doorknob of his house and as he
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Speaker 2: touched the doorknob, he was infected with this.
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Speaker 3: Particularly nerve agent.
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Speaker 2: And it goes on and on and on with the
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Speaker 2: Russians doing what they did, and it's just more proof,
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Speaker 2: not that it matters. It doesn't matter. They will deny
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Speaker 2: it totally. It's none of it is true. And Russia
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Speaker 2: continues to be a pariah in the world. And what
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Speaker 2: happened and what's been happening after the Ukraine invasion is
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Speaker 2: it became a true pariah. And I wonder if Putin
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Speaker 2: wakes up in the morning and says, maybe I blew this.
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Speaker 2: You know, maybe this wasn't such a good idea to
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Speaker 2: invade Ukraine because everybody thought Kiv would fall in three
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Speaker 2: would fall in three days, and now we're entering year four.
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Speaker 2: Or maybe in terms of what's happening in Gaza, do
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Speaker 2: any of the Kamas people wake up in the morning
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Speaker 2: and go, Wow, maybe we made a mistake in attacking
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Speaker 2: Israel with that terrorist attack October seventh. Do they look
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Speaker 2: in the mirror, Well, they don't have any mirrors because
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Speaker 2: they're all broken, you know, they've all been bombed to hell.
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Speaker 2: But you know, at what point do you go, hey,
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Speaker 2: you know, this isn't such a good idea. But when
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Speaker 2: it comes to poisoning with various toxins. Those people who
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Speaker 2: are against the Russians, the Russian govern opposition forces, politicians, writers, journalists.
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Speaker 2: Bottom line, as you die, you die. Okay, all right,
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Speaker 2: I want to tell you a story about Ford Ford
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Speaker 2: Motor Company. There is a factory in Louisville, about an
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Speaker 2: hour's drive south of Louisville, Kentucky, belonging to Ford. It
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Speaker 2: is about eight million square feet and it is empty.
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Speaker 2: There ain't anything there now that gets expensive. What used
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Speaker 2: to be produced in that factory were batteries for EVS
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Speaker 2: electric vehicles, which have not sold as well as Ford expected,
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Speaker 2: as every other manufacturer is in.
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Speaker 3: The same position.
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Speaker 2: So what Ford is doing and they're doing batteries again,
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Speaker 2: but making large batteries, some as big as shipping containers
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Speaker 2: that utilities and data centers and companies are using to
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Speaker 2: manage fluctuation and energy supply inshore against blackouts. And they
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Speaker 2: figure converting the factory will help Ford avoid the cost
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Speaker 2: of maintaining an unused plant for starters and at the
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Speaker 2: same time tap into this fast growing demand for large
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Speaker 2: storage batteries. Kentucky Governor Andyabasher said, I'm confident they can
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Speaker 2: compete because the.
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Speaker 3: Demand for these large batteries is enormous.
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Speaker 2: So Ford is going to start production next year and
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Speaker 2: it's enormous. It is investing another two million, two billion
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Speaker 2: dollars into that plant. What happened well, President Trump's tariffs
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Speaker 2: have totally up ended supply chains. The Biden administration, its views,
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Speaker 2: and its laws on alternative energy have been just scrapped.
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Speaker 3: So you got to figure out something else.
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Speaker 2: To do if you've been building car batteries, and that's
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Speaker 2: exactly what they're doing.
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Speaker 3: They are. Ford is going to the bigger batteries.
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Speaker 2: Trump administration is gutting clean air rules, which means Ford
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Speaker 2: and others are going to sell more. Big gas powered
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Speaker 2: pickups and sport utility vehicles tend to be the most
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Speaker 2: profitable and cause emissions and are very people just like
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Speaker 2: doing them. Just everybody likes big vehicles. We're enough people
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Speaker 2: that Ford does just well as well as the other companies.
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Speaker 2: So the US market is out of sync with the
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Speaker 2: rest of the world because the rest of the world
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Speaker 2: is rapidly moving to electric vehicles. Now, this factory made
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Speaker 2: batteries for the F one fifty Lightning, the F one
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Speaker 2: fifty of course, the biggest seller for the last generation
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Speaker 2: of pickup trucks, and they stop producing the Lightning Why
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Speaker 2: because it's an electric vehicle, it's an ev So companies
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Speaker 2: while General Moltors, Delantis, Ford have taken multi billion dollar hits.
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Speaker 2: Now is Ford going to be able to pull it off? Well.
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Speaker 2: Ford has been around since the beginning of the twentieth century.
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Speaker 2: It was the first major car manufacturer under Henry Ford,
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Speaker 2: and they're hoping that's going to give customers the confidence
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Speaker 2: that Ford will be able to service its products.
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Speaker 3: Ford has a.
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Speaker 2: Real interesting history and that is at one point, this
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Speaker 2: is at the turn of the last century, they had
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Speaker 2: rubber plantations, iron and coal mines. However, now it's just
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Speaker 2: a car company. As you know, here's a little bit
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Speaker 2: of a little factoid, a little bit of history that
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Speaker 2: I know you don't know, and that is in the teens,
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Speaker 2: we're talking about one hundred years ago. In the teens,
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Speaker 2: Henry Ford decided that he was going to supply his
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Speaker 2: own rubber for the cars. So he went to the
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Speaker 2: middle of the jungle in Brazil, right outside of Manaos,
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Speaker 2: which is the capital of Amazonia, which is the state,
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Speaker 2: and he built ford Longia, ford Landia's like Disneyland, except
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Speaker 2: it's ford Land ford Land, but in Portuguese is Fordlandia.
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Speaker 2: And he set up an entire city, I mean the
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Speaker 2: whole thing, infrastructure, fire department, police department, housing, roads, toilet
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Speaker 2: facilities or sanitation lighting for the whole town. He built
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Speaker 2: an entire city, and it didn't work out so well.
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Speaker 2: He shut it down after just a few years. So
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Speaker 2: in case you ever get asked at at in jeopardy,
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Speaker 2: you'll know it's ford Lngia fordlandiay.
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Speaker 3: Neili didn't know that, did you. I had no freaking clue.
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Speaker 2: I know historical factoy, which is completely completely useless.
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Speaker 3: Okay, that's it.
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Speaker 4: Okay, Tomorrow, every time you choke on something, you've got
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Speaker 4: Gary Hoffman running in Mike exactly.
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Speaker 2: Today's the day talking about choking up on something. A
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Speaker 2: new show starts tomorrow. How is that for a segue?
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Speaker 2: New show starts tomorrow. It's uh, Michael Monks and Chris Merrill.
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Speaker 2: You know who Michael is. He's our newsperson here or
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Speaker 2: one of the news people. Chris Merrill, who's been Philly
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Speaker 2: in forever. And tomorrow at noon, noon to three they
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Speaker 2: start their show. So, Michael and Chris, good morning, welcome aboard.
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Speaker 3: I give you about I give you about a month.
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Speaker 3: That's generous. Yeah, I'll take the under.
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Speaker 2: So, uh, you've both been around and you, Michael, you've
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Speaker 2: had a show for a bunch of times on weekends,
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Speaker 2: a bunch of of time, and then Chris is filled
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Speaker 2: in across the board for years.
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Speaker 3: Tell us a little bit about what the show is about.
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Speaker 4: Well, I think what we are looking to do is
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Speaker 4: to bring the topical nature of KFI into a robust
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Speaker 4: conversation between Chris and I and also the community. We
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Speaker 4: really want to integrate the talkbacks. We think we're going
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Speaker 4: to flip the phone on. It's been a long time,
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Speaker 4: you know. I used to see clips of you Bill
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Speaker 4: taking phone calls all those years ago, and like it's
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Speaker 4: good radio sometimes. And that's something that I think we're
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Speaker 4: interested in exploring is making sure that we are talking
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Speaker 4: about the entirety of southern California, all the important issues,
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Speaker 4: but also doing it with personality and genuine interest in
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Speaker 4: what's going on out there.
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Speaker 1: And we want to dive a little bit deeper into
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Speaker 1: these things, like we want to understand why the Amazonian
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Speaker 1: dart frog is so poisonous, and why the ticket fares
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Speaker 1: to fly to Ecuador to pick one up are so high.
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Speaker 3: It seems ridiculous and I think we want to get
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Speaker 3: into it deeply.
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Speaker 2: By the way, guys, that was a good read that
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Speaker 2: both of you just had very very well done. I
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Speaker 2: must tell you we up to six weeks now, So
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Speaker 2: are you going to be taking phone calls?
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Speaker 3: I don't know when.
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Speaker 4: It's certainly not going to be the first day is
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Speaker 4: we have to work out just the kinks of getting
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Speaker 4: started and finding our own rhythm. The cool thing about
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Speaker 4: this opportunities we're going to be learning how to do
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Speaker 4: it together in front of everyone, with everybody watching. You know,
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Speaker 4: Between the announcement and the technical maneuvering that has to
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Speaker 4: take place with getting people physically into Kafi, it hasn't
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Speaker 4: really allowed for a lot of just rehearsal. Even so well,
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Speaker 4: we were both you know, knowledgeable about how to perform
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Speaker 4: on the air. But it's going to be fun to
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Speaker 4: get to do this together with everyone watching. And I
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Speaker 4: know that we can both take we can both take
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Speaker 4: a punch. So we're looking forward to the feedback that's
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Speaker 4: both positive and constructive.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, one of the things.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, one of the things about working as a team
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Speaker 2: is working on the chemistry and working on how you
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Speaker 2: get along. For example, when I first started broadcasting, I
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Speaker 2: had a very difficult time because I hated me all right.
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Speaker 3: So dealing with both of us was very difficult. So
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Speaker 3: have you guys, have you sat.
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Speaker 2: Down already and spent time talking about the show? Which
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Speaker 2: way it's going to go?
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Speaker 1: I would say a little bit. It's been just broad conversations.
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Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of trepidation. I think that's
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Speaker 1: a fair word. I'm scared. This is an arranged marriage.
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Speaker 1: I love Michael, I've ever reasonab believe everything's going to
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Speaker 1: be great. But you know, we don't know each other's tempo,
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Speaker 1: we don't know each other's you know, quirks, speech patterns,
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Speaker 1: those sorts of things that really like you talked about,
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Speaker 1: chemistry that comes out very quickly, and we're going to
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Speaker 1: find out real fast. But like Michael said, you kind
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Speaker 1: of get to watch this in real time, which is
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Speaker 1: exciting and terrifying all.
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Speaker 3: At the same time. Yeah, it's no joke.
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Speaker 2: John and Ken, for example, we're together for together for
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Speaker 2: thirty five years, and obviously they were flawless staring. Shannon
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Speaker 2: been together now for I don't know how long, you know,
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Speaker 2: a dozen years maybe, and it does take a little
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Speaker 2: bit of time to get together. So the show is
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Speaker 2: is Monks and Merrill. Correct, yes, okay, how did the
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Speaker 2: billing come out? How did Monks come out first and
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Speaker 2: Meryll come out second? And why aren't you really pissed off?
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Speaker 3: Chris? No, it's not that at all.
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Speaker 1: I was.
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Speaker 4: I was happy to yield top billing to Meryl. He
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Speaker 4: mentioned that this was an arranged marriage. He's right, he
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Speaker 4: paid quite a dowry for me. I want to make
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Speaker 4: sure he gets his money worth. But yeah, that's not fun.
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Speaker 4: We wanted to make sure that when you say the
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Speaker 4: name it it, it doesn't sound like something else. And
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Speaker 4: when you say Monks and Merril, it's clear what the
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Speaker 4: show is. If you say Marilyn Merril and Monks and
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Speaker 4: you're not clear, it sounds like, you know, it sounds
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Speaker 4: like my aunt.
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Speaker 3: No, No, you're right, No, that that works.
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Speaker 2: I hadn't thought about that, but it does roll off
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Speaker 2: the tongue a little bit easier.
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Speaker 3: Okay, I'll buy that. If you were my agent, would
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Speaker 3: you a fought harder to have me as top Biller. Absolutely,
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Speaker 3: that's why, that's why.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, Okay, Michael Monks and Chris Merrill new show tomorrow
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Speaker 2: from twelve to three, and the times have changed. The
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Speaker 2: only time has not changed is our show wake Up
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Speaker 2: Calls still at five and the rest of the show
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Speaker 2: six to nine, and then it changes completely. It's Gary
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Speaker 2: and Shannon nine to noon. Then you have Monks and
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Speaker 2: Merrill coming from noon to three. John then takes over
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Speaker 2: from three to six, and then Tim Conway goes back
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Speaker 2: to is old time. He goes till ten o'clock. He's
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Speaker 2: the only one that has a four hour stint. And
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Speaker 2: so here we go. We're back with Michael Monks and
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Speaker 2: Chris Merrill on their new show starting tomorrow.
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Speaker 3: And we got a little.
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Speaker 2: Bit of explanations to which way the show's going to go.
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Speaker 2: But you guys really don't know, do you how this
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Speaker 2: show is going to spin out.
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Speaker 4: We're both news commentators or analysts or reporters, so it's
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Speaker 4: gonna be that. And for big, diehard KFI listeners who
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Speaker 4: catch our shows on the weekends, Mine on Saturday night,
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Speaker 4: Chris Merrill on Sunday nights, you get a sense of
17:54
Speaker 4: our vibes and our areas of expertise the rhythm that
17:57
Speaker 4: we have.
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Speaker 3: So it's what we don't know.
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Speaker 4: What we're saying we don't know is how those blend
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Speaker 4: for three hours every single day, and that's what we're
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Speaker 4: looking forward to figuring out together on the air.
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Speaker 3: Now. You have not actually tried a three hour show together,
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Speaker 3: have you? On weekends?
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Speaker 4: We did election night coverage together in November of last year,
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Speaker 4: so we were in here doing that together, and we
18:20
Speaker 4: also did some coverage of the immigration protest back in June.
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Speaker 4: He was from the studio and I was out in
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Speaker 4: the streets.
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Speaker 3: All right, so how did this come together that you
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Speaker 3: suggested it?
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Speaker 2: Program director Brian Long came in and when eeny meenie,
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Speaker 2: my nemo, you two are it?
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Speaker 3: Kind of yeah?
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Speaker 1: I think I think what happened was Brian boss Long
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Speaker 1: came through and he said he wanted something fresh and
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Speaker 1: you kind of mix things up a little bit. And
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Speaker 1: he said, you know, Monks is one of the best
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Speaker 1: guys in the building, and then I have dirt on him,
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Speaker 1: and so he said, well, I think there's something here.
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Speaker 1: I think we can put this together. And I've worked
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Speaker 1: with Brian for many years actually, and I'm mean I
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Speaker 1: don't think he's listening. So I feel comfortable saying this,
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Speaker 1: and that is that I trust him implicitly when it
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Speaker 1: comes to programming radio. The man is absolutely a genius.
19:17
Speaker 1: He's brilliant, and he sees he sees radio in a
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Speaker 1: way that most people don't. And and he's far more
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Speaker 1: confident than even I am. You know, I've I've still
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Speaker 1: got this imposter syndrome going on in my head. So
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Speaker 1: I'm excited to put my faith in his vision and
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Speaker 1: then see what happens here.
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Speaker 2: God, you, your head is so far up his ass.
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Speaker 3: I know, right, I can't believe it.
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Speaker 2: Okay, you already have the gig, so I don't know
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Speaker 2: the second contract.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know why you're doing that.
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Speaker 2: Now you are moving to Los Angeles, Southern California, right, yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 2: I have a place in Pasadena. Oh what you decided?
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Speaker 2: Which under which bridge in Pasadena are you living? Considering
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Speaker 2: the cost of living here, Yeah, I rotate bridges.
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Speaker 1: What I found is that there are some areas where
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Speaker 1: the police are they really try to keep it cleaning.
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Speaker 1: Other places where they kind of let you go, you know,
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Speaker 1: they go, you can just stay there like the closer
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Speaker 1: I get to Arcadia the closer. They said, that's fine,
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Speaker 1: you can just Yeah.
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Speaker 2: On a serious note, Chris, because I know Michael's already
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Speaker 2: been here for a while.
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Speaker 3: So this goes to you.
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Speaker 2: And that is, did you really know the price of
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Speaker 2: housing here or as you started looking it hit you
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Speaker 2: big time that this is an insanely expensive place to live.
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Speaker 3: It was both. So I knew it on paper.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I've been doing the show for a while,
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Speaker 1: and so I pay I pay attention, and I cruise
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Speaker 1: Zillow like like any middle aged white guy does, and
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Speaker 1: so I kind of keep an eye on things, and
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Speaker 1: I've and I've noted, you know, where the areas are
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Speaker 1: that are more expensive. But then it's a little bit
20:47
Speaker 1: different when you're actually writing the check. You know when
20:50
Speaker 1: when when all of a sudden they go, okay, well
20:51
Speaker 1: you have to have your four thousand dollars just to
20:53
Speaker 1: move in, and then we'll start charging you rent. That
20:56
Speaker 1: That's that's a conversation I had to have with my
20:57
Speaker 1: wife and I went, Okay, well, you know the dog
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Speaker 1: doesn't get fed this month.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess, depending on the dog. So I want
21:04
Speaker 2: I want to point something out too, is uh that
21:07
Speaker 2: uh there's a lot of talk out there about de
21:11
Speaker 2: I and inclusivity, and I want to point out that
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Speaker 2: our new new show is two white guys, and I'm
21:18
Speaker 2: sure we're not going to get any flak from that.
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Speaker 3: At all, are we? I probably think so from our listeners.
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Speaker 2: No. Yeah, I just wanted to prove that's a that's
21:28
Speaker 2: an anti KFI jibe as all that was. Anyways, this
21:33
Speaker 2: is exciting and you guys start tomorrow, and you know,
21:36
Speaker 2: keep in mind, uh and uh I sort of mean
21:39
Speaker 2: this seriously, uh in kind of a weird way.
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Speaker 3: Uh.
21:43
Speaker 2: If you guys, if the two of you know you're
21:46
Speaker 2: going to suck, uh starting tomorrow. And I mean it
21:49
Speaker 2: by the way, Uh, if you're comfortable with the idea
21:52
Speaker 2: that you start off completely sucking until the rhythm comes
21:56
Speaker 2: into place, until you know what you're doing, Uh, then
21:59
Speaker 2: just relax and know that it's going to suck. People
22:02
Speaker 2: going to tell you that's the worst show they've ever heard.
22:05
Speaker 2: And that's basically the best advice I could ever give anybody.
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Speaker 3: Advice. It means a lot real thanks all.
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Speaker 2: Actually, I remember once, matter of fact, when I just
22:15
Speaker 2: started here at KFI and I was only doing weekends
22:19
Speaker 2: and I talked to a talk show host who was
22:23
Speaker 2: pretty popular here.
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Speaker 3: I'm not going to I don't want to mention any names.
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Speaker 3: Tom Alikus and.
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Speaker 2: The advice, the advice that he gave me, and I said,
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Speaker 2: you know, Tom, how do you get to be as
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Speaker 2: good as you are? Those were the days where I
22:35
Speaker 2: was parly, I was fairly naive in this world. And
22:38
Speaker 2: he said, you know what, today you're horrible. Five thousand
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Speaker 2: or a thousand hours from now, you'll be better.
22:45
Speaker 3: And it's just a question. It's a ten thousand steps business. Obviously,
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Speaker 3: it doesn't take ten thousand steps.
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Speaker 2: So I'm looking forward to you guys completely sucking for
22:54
Speaker 2: a while, and then when you start getting better, I'm
22:56
Speaker 2: out of it.
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Speaker 3: I stopped this sole handle motivational. Yes, correct, Hey, good
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Speaker 3: luck to you guys.
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Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to seeing what happens to you. It's
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Speaker 2: a new show, and we're thrilled here. I'm not, but
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Speaker 2: we are thrilled here, all right, guys, Michael Monks, Chris
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Speaker 2: Merril tomorrow, starting noon, the new show, and we are
23:17
Speaker 2: done Boys and Girls tomorrow. Well, obviously Gary and Shannon
23:22
Speaker 2: who come aboard and they will what is at nine o'clock.
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Speaker 2: They're going to go till noon starting tomorrow, so they
23:28
Speaker 2: basically this day the same, and then wake up call happens,
23:31
Speaker 2: of course tomorrow morning with Amy and Amy.
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Speaker 3: And Will Coleschreiber, and then Neil and I.
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Speaker 2: Jump aboard, and Ann and Kno are always here, unfortunately
23:42
Speaker 2: and as much as they don't want to be.
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Speaker 3: This is KFI A M six forty.
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