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Handel on the News · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
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  Speaker 1: six forty.
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 3: I'm a trader when I say the speed limit is
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  Speaker 3: sixty five miles an hour, because what you're saying is, uh, well,
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  Speaker 3: it's a.
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  Speaker 4: Stupid analogy that went no place.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, let's just you know, sometimes I even impress myself
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  Speaker 3: with the stupidity.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, and now Handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 2: here's Bill Handle.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning everybody.
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  Speaker 3: It is a Friday morning, January the ninth, as we're
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  Speaker 3: well into the new year, and today is foody Friday
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  Speaker 3: without the food and ask handle anything without the handle,
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  Speaker 3: and so we're well, anything without the anything you can
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  Speaker 3: ask handle. In other words, we're not doing the eight
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  Speaker 3: thirty segment today. Neil is gone and he is involved
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  Speaker 3: in putting that together. And Neil usually has a foody
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  Speaker 3: Friday segment with Neil Savedra. And that's how to do
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  Speaker 3: without Neil Savedra. Okay, there's our lineup. I guess's back.
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  Speaker 4: Ko Oh, car broke down yesterday on Surday. Sure, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it's great.
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  Speaker 1: So it's great.
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  Speaker 4: Are you gonna replace a repair of the car? Replace
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  Speaker 4: the car?
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  Speaker 5: They didn't call me back yesterday, so I don't know
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  Speaker 5: the damage, which I'm guessing that's not good.
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  Speaker 6: What do you mean you don't know the damage? Did
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  Speaker 6: you hit something?
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  Speaker 5: No, but I don't know what's wrong with it. And
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  Speaker 5: they didn't call me to tell me, Hey, this is
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  Speaker 5: how much? So I'm guessing it's gonna be a pretty penny.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll see.
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  Speaker 5: It depends if it's over three. If it's over three,
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  Speaker 5: I'll probably think about the over three?
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  Speaker 1: What thousand?
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  Speaker 7: Who?
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  Speaker 3: And that is a minor repair to cars these days?
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  Speaker 3: So how'd you get in?
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  Speaker 1: I have my wife's, I have my other the I
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  Speaker 1: have the good car, right, and.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, your wife drives a good car, so how is
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  Speaker 4: she going to get to work?
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  Speaker 1: She doesn't work today?
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  Speaker 4: Oh okay, yeah, so thats good.
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  Speaker 3: And by the way, if you do get a reasonable
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  Speaker 3: under three thousand dollars repair estimate ninety nine dollars for example,
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  Speaker 3: it's still going to take you days to get that fix,
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  Speaker 3: if not.
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  Speaker 5: Longer, Yeah, not too long ago, like two weeks ago,
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  Speaker 5: I got breaks and a belt.
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  Speaker 1: It was eleven, so that was that was a small repair. Breaks?
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  Speaker 4: And what year is your car?
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  Speaker 1: The one I drive is at twenty sixteen?
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  Speaker 4: Well that's not bad. That's not bad.
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  Speaker 1: So but I drive six hundred miles a week, so.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that's bad. Yeah. And what car is that?
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  Speaker 1: That's the model. It's a Volkswagen.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, they're still making that. I had.
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  Speaker 3: My aunt is a Jeta, not a Jedi, a Jedi
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  Speaker 3: actually pronounced Jeta. That's good, you know. I just wanted
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  Speaker 3: to point that out, not that it matters. All right, Amy,
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  Speaker 3: good morning?
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  Speaker 6: How are you?
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  Speaker 3: I am?
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  Speaker 4: Okay?
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  Speaker 3: Will is not here because Will is up in the
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  Speaker 3: sky someplace. He was at the Fiesta Bowl and now
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  Speaker 3: he's at some other event.
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  Speaker 6: He's doing one of the wild card playoff games this weekend.
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  Speaker 4: Oh okay. And then there's Anne last and certainly least.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you are cold that you're wearing this like winter park,
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  Speaker 3: I thing freezing.
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  Speaker 4: I have to be layered in here. It's like look
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  Speaker 4: at this. I'm like, it's freezing.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know so far the jacket has just come off,
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  Speaker 3: the shirt underneath is about to come off, and there
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  Speaker 3: we go.
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  Speaker 4: And what color? Okay? Black? Fair enough?
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  Speaker 7: I need music to this, conto, Yeah you do. Actually
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  Speaker 7: I don't have that type of music. Oh, here come
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  Speaker 7: the tassels. Okay, very exciting stuff. All right, And are
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  Speaker 7: you working this weekend playoff games going?
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  Speaker 4: No, we don't have a home game, no home playoffs.
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  Speaker 4: Rams are not in, Chargers are not in. Both are
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  Speaker 4: in the playoffs. They're both in playoffs, but they're both
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  Speaker 4: playing somewhere else.
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  Speaker 3: You know, as I said, wouldn't it be absolutely terrific
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  Speaker 3: if the Rams and the Chargers played against each other?
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  Speaker 3: The trifeca would trifecta would be the Rams the Chargers
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  Speaker 3: at home.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you do realize that the Super Bowl is coming
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  Speaker 4: so far, so that could happen.
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  Speaker 3: If when is it? Oh well I'm talking about this
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  Speaker 3: time around. What was it coming to so far?
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  Speaker 4: Next year?
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  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 4: And you're gonna be working uh huh Oh that's exciting. Oh,
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  Speaker 4: it be so awesome. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Super Bowl Week the players hate it, you know, because
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  Speaker 3: it's a week of talking to thousands of reporters and
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  Speaker 3: going to meetings and you know, under contract, the ballplayers
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  Speaker 3: have to deal with all that. Who was that one
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  Speaker 3: player a few years ago who hated it to the
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  Speaker 3: point where whenever he was interviewed, and he went to
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  Speaker 3: all the interviews, he was forced to under contract and
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  Speaker 3: all he did was grunt.
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  Speaker 1: There will be Marshall Lynch.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, oh hey, so what do you think it's gonna
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  Speaker 3: happen at Super Bowl?
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  Speaker 4: So what do you think defense offense is going to prevail? Hm?
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  Speaker 4: And how much does he make or did he make
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  Speaker 4: a lot? Yeah? And he met and he met the
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  Speaker 4: terms of the contrast. He was there and he responded.
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  Speaker 4: That was interview. I did that interview with Rodney King.
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  Speaker 3: I think it was his first interview that he had
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  Speaker 3: after his incident. And this was subsequent to him taking
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  Speaker 3: a crowbar to the or beating up that that transvestite hooker,
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  Speaker 3: if you remember. And I had him on the interviewed,
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  Speaker 3: and he brought his attorney and that there was a
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  Speaker 3: lot of grunting on that one too, every question.
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  Speaker 4: It was a grunt. Not not one of.
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  Speaker 3: My better interviews, I must add, Okay, fair enough with that,
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  Speaker 3: all right, the job, interview, the story, what we're going
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  Speaker 3: to do later on. In the meantime, we've got a
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  Speaker 3: fair amount of news. At the forefront, of course, is
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  Speaker 3: what's happening in Minneapolis. But at the same time there's
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  Speaker 3: a lot going on. Well, first of all, we're waiting
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  Speaker 3: for the Supreme Court today may come down with a
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  Speaker 3: decision as to the power the president has in regards
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  Speaker 3: to tariffs. Does the president have unbridled, uncontrolled tariff powers.
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  Speaker 4: We'll see what the Supreme Court has to say.
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  Speaker 3: In the meantime, let's go through some more news and
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  Speaker 3: there's a lot of it today. Handle on the news
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  Speaker 3: with Amy Neils not here and me lead story.
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  Speaker 4: Let's make a deal. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: So now the bill that was put onto the floor
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  Speaker 3: by Congress, and this had to do with doing an
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  Speaker 3: end around Mike Johnson, who normally decides the speaker decides
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  Speaker 3: what bill is going to even hit the floor for
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  Speaker 3: a vote, and he tried as hard as he could
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  Speaker 3: to make sure that the bill was objections. What do
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  Speaker 3: they call that? I keep on always forgetting that the
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  Speaker 3: name of the procedure. In any case, a bunch of Democrat,
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  Speaker 3: bunch over a dozen House Republicans joined every Democrat to
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  Speaker 3: pass the bill extending the Affordable Care Act subsidies for
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  Speaker 3: three years, exactly what the Democrats wanted. Well, it's passed
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  Speaker 3: in the House, contrary to the leadership and certainly contrary
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  Speaker 3: to what the President wants. It's going to stall in
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  Speaker 3: the Senate probably, and even if it passes the Senate
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  Speaker 3: and the House, it'll be vetoed by the President.
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  Speaker 6: Do you think you to veto it? Yeah, I just
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  Speaker 6: think that's political suicide.
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  Speaker 3: No, whatever Trump does that, nothing is political suicide for
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 4: Nothing, nothing, nothing, you know.
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  Speaker 3: He said, what was that New York Times interview where
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  Speaker 3: he was asked yesterday? Is there any to what you
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  Speaker 3: can do in foreign affairs? Any limit whatsoever? And he said,
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  Speaker 3: only my morality. I can do whatever I want. And
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  Speaker 3: I've made this point before, and Amy, I know you
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  Speaker 3: and I maybe have disagreed, But give me a number
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  Speaker 3: that you had to guess. The President calls for the
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  Speaker 3: dissolution of Congress because Congress is getting in the way
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  Speaker 3: of his agenda. How many Republicans would vote in favor
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  Speaker 3: of the dissolution of Congress.
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  Speaker 2: They're not going to vote. They wouldn't even be asked
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  Speaker 2: to vote. You're playing the what if game?
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  Speaker 3: Of course, I'm playing the what if game. What do
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  Speaker 3: you think we do? You think I rely on facts
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  Speaker 3: on reality? I mean, the life is a what if game. No,
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  Speaker 3: I am known as the straw man host. The point
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  Speaker 3: I'm making is the point obviously that is a little hyperbolic.
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  Speaker 4: Although there maybe a couple of them.
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  Speaker 3: Is that no matter what the President says, MAGA supporters
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  Speaker 3: and the super concervve members of Congress, which there are plenty,
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  Speaker 3: will back him up, absolutely, back him up, no question.
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  Speaker 3: Even when Constitution clearly calls for Congress to act, they
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  Speaker 3: what they will do is say the President can overrun
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  Speaker 3: or interpret the Constitution as to give himself full power.
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  Speaker 4: That's what he said.
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  Speaker 3: The only thing that stops me from doing anything is
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  Speaker 3: my feelings about it.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Can you imagine any other president saying that, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: it would blow up? And this is oh okay, here's
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  Speaker 3: another one.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 3: So the AACA subsidies American the Affordable Care Act, which Obamacare,
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  Speaker 3: which the Republicans have been fighting since the day it
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  Speaker 3: was passed, bill after bill after bill to kill the pill,
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  Speaker 3: to kill the bill, and so now it was adopted
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  Speaker 3: on the floor for the extension.
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  Speaker 6: Blocked by the Feds Minnesota.
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  Speaker 2: She'll say the FBI has blocked them from investigating the
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  Speaker 2: shooting of a woman by a.
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  Speaker 6: US ICE agent.
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  Speaker 2: The Vice President Vance said the investigation is a federal issue,
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  Speaker 2: and DHS Secretary Christinman basically said the same thing. She
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  Speaker 2: said this is a federal issue, and so they don't
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  Speaker 2: have jurisdiction. Officials have offered differing accounts of what happened.
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  Speaker 2: The Trump administration says the ICE agent was acting in
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  Speaker 2: self defense, but local officials say the woman did not
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  Speaker 2: pose a danger to them.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Coming up at seven twenty, I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: dive into that because life is a lot more complicated
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  Speaker 3: than simple statements.
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  Speaker 4: Jd.
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  Speaker 3: Vance talking about absolute immunity. It's a little more complicated
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  Speaker 3: than that. That's coming up at seven twenty.
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  Speaker 2: Ice agent ided. So the ICE agent who shot the
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  Speaker 2: woman in Minneapolis has been identified, and it turns out
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  Speaker 2: that this guy had been dragged and injured by a
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  Speaker 2: driver during another ICE operation last year. He is an
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  Speaker 2: experienced officer with more than ten years at ICE.
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  Speaker 3: All right, So you have an officer who is being
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  Speaker 3: described as this rogue, renegade cop or ICE agent who
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  Speaker 3: shoots this woman good sort of not out of the blue,
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  Speaker 3: but in self defense according to the government and the
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  Speaker 3: state's according to the Fed, State is saying no, it
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  Speaker 3: was a shooting that was unjustified. Now does that take
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  Speaker 3: into account and think about this, do you think of
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  Speaker 3: it differently than six months ago he was dragged by
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  Speaker 3: a car for one hundred yards, needing dozens of stitches. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I think you take that into account. Why, because the
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  Speaker 3: determination of whether or not the killing is justified unless
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  Speaker 3: it is crazy. Of course, shooting someone in the back
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  Speaker 3: that're running away is the put your you put yourself
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  Speaker 3: into the cops position. And whether or not that is
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  Speaker 3: going to be determinative, it's not because it's never going
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  Speaker 3: to go to state court. It's going to go to
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  Speaker 3: federal court. And I'll explain why later on. But yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I think that would change things. Maybe he's a little
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  Speaker 3: bit more sensitive than other police officers under the circumstances.
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  Speaker 3: And if you were to convict it, now this is
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  Speaker 3: a what if amy. If you were to be convicted
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  Speaker 3: and he was looking at jail time, which he would
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  Speaker 3: be if he was found to have shot unreasonably, is
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  Speaker 3: that a mitigating factor?
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  Speaker 2: Another shooting, another one from Minnesota over to Oregon. There
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  Speaker 2: was there were two people who were shot by Federal
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  Speaker 2: Border Patrol AI in Portland yesterday afternoon. Apparently Home On
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  Speaker 2: Securitiesa's Border Patrol agents were doing a vehicle stop in Portland.
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  Speaker 2: The Stevens said the driver who is a suspected member
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  Speaker 2: of Trenda Arragua, that's the Venezuelan really nasty gang. Attempted
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  Speaker 2: to weaponize his vehicle and run over the agents.
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  Speaker 6: That's when they were shot.
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  Speaker 2: They then took off and then called on one one
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  Speaker 2: on their own and now they're in the hospital recovery.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, not much to say about that.
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  Speaker 6: I haven't said this for a while. California is drought free.
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  Speaker 2: Not a single square mile of the state is categorized
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  Speaker 2: as dry for the first time in twenty twenty five years.
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  Speaker 2: According to the latest US Drought Monitor, zero percent of
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  Speaker 2: the state's total area is experiencing drought conditions.
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  Speaker 4: See I called it.
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  Speaker 3: I said that the drought was going to end or
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  Speaker 3: going to be well, actually I didn't call it.
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  Speaker 4: I won.
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  Speaker 6: I thought you said it was in a forever drought.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's exactly what I said. I was just about
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  Speaker 3: to say, except that I went the other way. And
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  Speaker 3: this does not mean that global warming and does that
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  Speaker 3: mean that drought long term is not going to be here,
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  Speaker 3: But it does come in waves that we know so
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  Speaker 3: drought rainy season. Because the other argument is hurricanes are
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  Speaker 3: more powerful, they're more of them. Floods are bigger, greater,
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  Speaker 3: more water, more dangerous.
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  Speaker 4: That is happening.
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  Speaker 3: We know that, and so just rack one up to
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  Speaker 3: handle being wrong. Now, Am I wrong more than I
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  Speaker 3: am right?
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  Speaker 4: You know what? I really don't want to say, yep,
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  Speaker 4: I certainly am.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Moving on, Donations are pouring in a GoFundMe campaign
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  Speaker 2: for the family of Renee Good. She's the woman who
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  Speaker 2: was shot and killed by the ice agent in Minneapolis.
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  Speaker 2: The GoFundMe is now up to more than seven hundred
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  Speaker 2: thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 4: It's a big one, and and I want to talk
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  Speaker 4: about that.
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  Speaker 3: We and do we have that for the eight to
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  Speaker 3: fifty segment the gofund me campaign, that would be a
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  Speaker 3: thirty Okay, we have that at Okay, trying to figure
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  Speaker 3: out that we do this on the fly as topics
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  Speaker 3: go in and out and news items come in. So
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  Speaker 3: I mean, this show is.
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  Speaker 4: Clearly the prodcast the latest. We broadcast the latest. Yeah. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: that's another way of saying we did this on the fly.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: We want to see what's coming in, so we'd and
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  Speaker 3: you see my in depth analysis which people rely on
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  Speaker 3: come up virtually every day.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, Okay, let me write that down. Did you send
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  Speaker 4: me that a thirty segment thing? You already had it
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  Speaker 4: sent yesterday. You got to send it to me again. No,
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  Speaker 4: I have the story, I think, Oh, the updated rundown,
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  Speaker 4: got it? Okay?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, just give me an updated rundown. Okay, Inside baseball,
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  Speaker 3: Inside baseball.
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  Speaker 4: Moving on an.
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  Speaker 2: Act of s escalation, the Russian Defense Ministry says it
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  Speaker 2: has hit western Ukraine with a nuclear capable intermediate range
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  Speaker 2: ballistic missile. The attack only the second time in the
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  Speaker 2: war that Moscow had fired that type of missile. It's
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  Speaker 2: known as the Orshnik. The choice of western Ukraine as
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  Speaker 2: a target near the border with Poland, which is an
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  Speaker 2: EU and a NATO member, seems to be intended to
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  Speaker 2: send a message to Europe as it strongly backs Kiev
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  Speaker 2: in talks to end the war.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, while the talks are going on, Russia is attacking
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  Speaker 3: more and more with weaponry that is more and more,
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  Speaker 3: both in terms of numbers and the lethal abilities. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I didn't launch a nuclear missile, nuclear tit missile, but
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  Speaker 3: they launched the delivery system with this Rishnik Arishnik missile,
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  Speaker 3: and I think it's a ballistic missile. I think anyway.
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  Speaker 3: It's a sends an message, as you said, and Putin
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  Speaker 3: is playing this game.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yes, oh yes, I absolutely want a piece deal.
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  Speaker 3: Have you noticed that the president, our president is no
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  Speaker 3: longer saying how much he believes of Vladimir Putin, what
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  Speaker 3: a great guy Putin is, that he believes Putin over
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  Speaker 3: the intelligence community here in the United States. That's all gone,
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  Speaker 3: and the president realizes what an sob Putin really is
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  Speaker 3: and hopefully does something about it.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, time to talk takeover. Denmark and Greenland's envoys are
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  Speaker 2: in Washington, d C. Denmark's ambassador and Greenland's chief representative
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  Speaker 2: to Washington have met with White House national security officials
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  Speaker 2: to discuss a renewed push by President Trump to acquire Greenland.
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  Speaker 2: They've also held a series of meetings with American lawmakers
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  Speaker 2: there of trying to get lawmaker's help in persuading Trump
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  Speaker 2: to back off his threat to take over the little island.
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  Speaker 2: Secretary of State Marco Rubio is expected to meet next
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  Speaker 2: week with Danish officials.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, this is a fun one. And let me tell
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  Speaker 4: you why it's fun.
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  Speaker 3: The President wants Greenland, and he wants it under any circumstances.
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  Speaker 4: There is talk of buying Greenland.
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  Speaker 3: There is no chance in hell that Denmark is going
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  Speaker 3: to sell Greenland to the United States. I think that's
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  Speaker 3: off the table, which means that the President is intimating
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  Speaker 3: more and more that we will invade Greenland to take
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  Speaker 3: it over. Now I'm going to ask for a figure.
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  Speaker 3: I guess Greenland does not have its own defense forces.
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  Speaker 3: These are Danish forces that in fact guard.
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: Greenland.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: There's some other stuff going on, but we're talking about
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: defensive Danish army personnel who are on Greenland who would
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: fight any Okay, numbers, Amy, how many do you think
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: there are there?
• 19:06
  Speaker 6: You mean total people or militaries.
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: Oh, not people, fifty six thousand people, but I'm talking
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: about Danish. Don't even look at this up because I
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: want you to really guess the number of Danish army
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: personnel that are on Greenland for defensive purposes, in other words,
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: of Greenland gets invaded.
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: Two hundred, right, it's one hundred to two hundred people.
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: Oh really, Yeah, you're absolutely right on.
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: It's one hundred to two hundred, depending on how many
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: they send over any given time. So the might of
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: the US Armed services are going to be put to
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: are going to be invading a country that has one
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: to two hundred military personnel guarding it. Who do you
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: think is gonna win on that one?
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: Huh?
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: I would love for Greenland to win, to just obliterate them.
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's probably an My guess is is probably not
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: going to happen. No, yeah, not going to happen anyway.
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: I found that fascinating when I look that up, and
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: I do not put it past the president. Prior to
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: the invasion of Venezuela, if you want to call it that,
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: or the special forces going in and grabbing Maduro, I
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: thought that was all bluster by the President when he
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: said boots on the ground, We're going to go in militarily.
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: I thought it was all bluster. Well, clearly not, and
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: certainly the rest of the world acknowledges and understands that's
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: not bluster. The president will do it.
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: Now Greenland, that is.
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: On a whole different level because it's part of NATO
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: and it gets crazy and if that happens or comes
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: close to happening, you think I'm going to talk about
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: that or what? All right, and Amy, I'm going to
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: just start this one because this has to do with
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: evictions and We talk a lot about evictions here, especially
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: on a handle on the law. If you're a landlord,
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: I want you to pay attention to this eviction story.
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: This may work for you.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: A five hundred and fifty pound bear that had been
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: camped out or living under a home in Alta, Dina
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: for more than a month has finally been removed.
• 21:14
  Speaker 6: Poor guy, the.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: Homeowner says he's relieved, no more banging under the house
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: and smelling him and wondering what's going on under there.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: That's Ken Johnson, who's the homeowner. The bear was camping
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: out there. Wildlife officials tried to scare him out. They
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: used paintball guns, airhorns, but no luck. And then the
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: Bear League, a nonprofit based in Lake Tahoe, came in
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: to help and apparently they one of the guys even
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: crawled into the crawl spot space and shoot him out
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: and out came the bear.
• 21:46
  Speaker 6: So he's been evicted.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so those people who are looking at evictions and
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: you have a a tenant who's in pay, it doesn't pay.
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: And this is handling the log giving me this. Used
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: paintball guns, use horns. Also, they electrified when the bear
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: was out electrified the opening, so you may want to
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: do that. I'll elect try the front door. I mean
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: this good stuff. This is how you get a ten
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: and out.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: I feel bad for the bear. Bear's fine, Well, you
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: know you had found a place to hang out for
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: the winter. Now he asked to go find a new place.
• 22:21
  Speaker 6: What does that do to them?
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly, Okay, all right, Iran does.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: Not want you to see what's going on. There's an
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: internet blackout in Iran. Authorities cut internet access and also
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: telephone lines immediately after protests in the capital city of
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: Tehran yesterday and other cities also got underway. The blackout
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: did not immediately prevent the posting of videos of protests,
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: which are now into their second week. And they're protesting
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: because the economy is collapsing and inflations like at forty
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: percent and people are angry.
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's how you can control a population, or try
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: to as you cut off internet.
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: North Korea does this all the time.
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: It just cuts off internet, where you've got the North
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: Korean citizens simply not able to use the internet.
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: China does this.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: It can cut off internet because they control the pipeline
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: coming in.
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: This is not good for.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: The regime and I think it's fair to say of
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: Iran the Mulahs, they quickly are realizing that they're in trouble,
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: and so they're allowing women to walk around without a
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: hey job, for example. They're loosening some of the social mores,
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: but still want to hang on to as much power
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: as possible.
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you may see.
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: Iran just going the other way. I remember the revolution
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: brought into theocracy in nineteen seventy nine.
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: It may go the other way.
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: Amy Harvey Weinstein might plead guilty.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: Apparently he's weighing a potential guilty plea to resolve a
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: rape charge and to avoid going to trial for a
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: third time in New York. That's according to his lawyer
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: and a judge. But the disgraced movie mogul still insists
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: he never assaulted anyone.
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah, there goes the guilty plea.
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: Because the only way the court accepts a guilty plea
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: is you say I did it.
• 24:27
  Speaker 6: So if you plead guilty, can the court not accept
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: the plea?
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: If you plead guilty and then say I did it, yeah,
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: the court is going to say no, thank you, that's
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: not a guilty plea. So we'll see what happens. I
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: think for public consumption, he never assaulted anyone. Well, he's
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: going to trial. It doesn't really matter. He's seventy three
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: and has gotten a bunch of prison time for charges
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: all over the country. So he's dying in prison. It's
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: that simple, no matter what he does.
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: The trip short.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: NASA is going to bring a crew of four astronauts
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: home from the International Space Station early. They're supposed to
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: come back in late February. They've been up there since August,
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: but somebody's got a medical condition, and so they're going
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: to bring them home probably in the next few days.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: During the twenty five year history of the International Space Station,
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: this is the first time astronauts have returned early because
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: of a medical issue.
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: Now there are the other way has happened where astronauts
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: stay longer than anticipated. We just talked about a group
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: of astronauts that we're supposed to return to Earth I
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: think it was two thousand and nine, and have stayed
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: a little bit longer than anticipated before they're bringing them
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: down to Earth.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: You know what, I always start to take you seriously,
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: then more stuff comes out of your mouth.
• 25:50
  Speaker 6: I'm like, wait, oh, he's joking.
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: And that's why the show works as far as we're concerned.
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: I don't know about listeners, but we serve have a
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: rip roaring good time.
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: Political prisoners are free.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: Venezuela has released a number of imprisoned high profile opposition figures,
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: activist journalists. It's been called a gesture to seek peace
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: and basically do what Trump wants them to do. President
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: Trump said the releases came at the request of the
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: United States, and he says that Venezuela has been great.
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: Everything we've wanted. They've given us.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: Okay, a lot of pieces here, all right, So Maduro's
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: taken out, leaving the vice president. Legally, if you accept
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: the Maduro regime as having been legitimately elected, which very
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: few countries do. This last election, and the president who
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: had been in touch with Mashado, Maria Maschado, who actually
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: won the election last time out, or at least her
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: proxy did, because she was in exile, because they would
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: have arrested her and probably lost her in jail for
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: thirty years. Okay, why is the president at not going
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: to the opposition the legitimately elected new government, which our
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: government said it was. Here's why, because when you bring
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: in a new government, keep in mind, what does that mean.
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: That means you're gonna have new cabinet members, That means
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: you're gonna have new technocrats. That means you're gonna have
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: new heads of nationalized companies. And the infrastructure is already
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: there now it is corrupt, but you've got a vice
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: president says, oh, oh, we better do what the United
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: States does. And it's just easier, much easier for the
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: US to take this ridiculous regime, this corrupt regime, and
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: turn it around and say, Okay, you're going to do
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: what we.
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: Tell you to do.
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: And effectively, there's a new government in town, and that
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: is the American government unnationalize the oil industry, for example,
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: the infrastructure is going to belong to the United States,
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: or at least controlled by the United States. The oil
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: is going to be come to the United States. You've
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: got various other major geopolitical issues because Venezuela is selling
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: oil to China, to Russia. And now what the president
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: is stopping that one too, saying you're gonna do what
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: we want you to do. It's a practical way of
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: going about it. It is a practical way of going
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: about it.
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: And why are they caving?
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: Well, because when the president says, you don't do it,
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: we're invading you. And there's no government on the planet
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: that would do that except the US government. He is
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: fully prepared to do that and they know it. So
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: on a practical level, I think it makes a lot.
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: I think it makes sense to do what he's doing.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: Okay, big Bucks earned in Burbank best place to watch
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: a movie in Los Angeles in twenty twenty five. Apparently
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: the AMC sixteen in Burbank Deadline since Deadline says that
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: that is the number one theater at the bottom of
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: the country, in the country.
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I haven't been to that one AMC Bourbank, have you.
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: You know?
• 29:05
  Speaker 6: I think I have, but I'm I don't.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: I don't know for sure. I mean, they're all kind
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: of the same to me. Yeah, it's in the movie
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: theaters in Burbank. I think it's probably that one.
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, isn't that the one with the lie down seats,
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: the reclining seats and then you have food brought to
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: your to the chair.
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: I don't think so, but I do like those ones best.
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: Those are great.
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: And then you have the servers all have to hunch
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: down and serve the plates up because you can't. They
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: can't block the view, which is why so many hunchback
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: dwarfs work at those theaters, because it just works physiologically
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: to serve people sitting down.
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: Okay, Okay, you.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: Know, Bill, you've complained a lot that the rides at
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: Disneyland are just too darn short, don't last long enough.
• 29:55
  Speaker 6: Well, not this one.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: A group of people riding the monorail yesterday. They were
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: near the park entrance and the Montoreil came to a
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: dead stop and it didn't start again. Apparently the beam
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: that the monorail travels along lost power, according to Disneyland.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: They didn't say why, but it did, and so about
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: sixty people were stuck on the monorail for four hours
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: and then Anaheim fire finally came in and they used
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: ladders to get them down.
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: Okay, being a Disneyland a ficionado like you are, I
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: would use the word fanatic.
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: Do you think people would.
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: Be excited now if you had over the speaker system
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: as they were waiting in line for the Montoreil be
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: prepared for the next forty five minute monorail ride, how
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: many people would get aboard?
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: I know you would. No.
• 30:45
  Speaker 6: Okay, this was four hours.
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: Oh that's what I meant, four hour monorail ride.
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: And it wasn't really ride because they were stuck, but
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: they did get a unique experience because they got to
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: climb down ladders and you don't get to do that
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: every day at Disneyland.
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: Did I ever tell you?
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: I think I shared that story that I got stuck
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: on It's a Small World for forty five minutes.
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: Right in the middle of the damn thing.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: And did they keep the music going?
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: I was in therapy for years and because every time
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: I heard that song, I immediately went into PTSD.
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: You want to get me going, It's a Small World.
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: This is a true story.
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: Every year, not that the other ones aren't true, but
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: every year I host IMC the Lawyer's Philharmonic, as you know,
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: and I talk about it. And last year it was
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: last year, or the year before, I think it was
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: last year, it was a Disney tribute where Disney songs
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: were played Disney music and it was terrific. And the
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: last we're up on stage saying goodbye to everybody who
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: were taking our last bows, and the orchestra breaks into
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: It's a Small World. People who were on the stage
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: with me said, I started sweating, literally just pouring a sweat,
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: and you could see my face turn red, and I
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: had to get I had to get out of there.
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: I would have had a nervous breakdown.
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: You would have seen me on the floor of that stage,
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: curled up in a fetal position and moaning if I
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: had stayed a second longer listening to It's a Small World,
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: Oh Cono. God, I wish I hadn't said that, because
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: we know what's going to happen next time we do
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: a Disney story, don't we. I should not have said that.
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: You're saying that Cono would use that music against you
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: to create trauma in your life. Oh yes, looks at
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: me just sitting there all dead pamp reacting like you.
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: All right, let's do one moren and I think we'll
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: finish it up.
• 32:49
  Speaker 6: You are terminated.
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: The Los Angeles Angels and eight other Major League teams
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: have terminated their broadcast deals with fan Dual Sports Network
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: and it's parent company, Main Street Sports Group. According to
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: the AP Commissioner Rob manfreds to, the league is ready
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: to produce and distribute the broadcast of all nine teams
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: if it needs to, said, no matter what happens, whether
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: it's Main Street, a third party, or MLB media, fans
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: will have the games.
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: So and why did they stop broadcasting? Why did they
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: cut their ties with main Street? Because they didn't pay
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: their they didn't make their payments. Because this is a
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: licensing agreement between Major League Baseball and fan duel.
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: And or is that dual fan? Or is that two fans,
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: multiple duals, multiple fans?
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: Ye, yes, exactly, thank you, And you don't pay. Guess
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: what your contract basically disappears. Boy, there's a there's a
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: shocker for you. We live in a capitalist society. You
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: cut a deal, you're supposed to pay, you don't pee,
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: you don't pay. That's it, it's over. This is kf
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: I Am six forty.
• 34:04
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