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No, Iran is Not Winning | Newsom Sides with Utility Companies · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handel on demand from KFI AM 640. Hey, everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Neil Saavedra here with the morning crew. Bill's out today,
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  Speaker 1: should be back tomorrow. I want to get to this.
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  Speaker 1: This story I read about leverage in the war with
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  Speaker 1: Iran and that we keep coming to the conclusion that
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  Speaker 1: Iran is winning. And I'll give that perspective in a second.
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  Speaker 1: But I turned up a lot of, I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: insights and curiosity about the last story about the exploding sunroofs.
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  Speaker 1: So many of you responded. One, Ray called in on
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  Speaker 1: the talkback. So for those of you who don't know
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  Speaker 1: how to use the talkback, if you're listening to us
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  Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app, which is free, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: then you'll see a circle at the top, a red
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  Speaker 1: circle with a white line. emblem of a microphone. And
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  Speaker 1: you press that, you've got about 30 seconds. It comes
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  Speaker 1: right to my face right here. And you guys have
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  Speaker 1: been very kind and I appreciate that, you listening. But
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  Speaker 1: you can comment on the stories as well. So we
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  Speaker 1: got Ray calling in and saying, Neil, one of the
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  Speaker 1: reasons a piece of glass would break is the heat differential.
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  Speaker 1: I think I mentioned that. 112 outside and you've got
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  Speaker 1: the air conditioning on the inside. I thought that was
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  Speaker 1: an interesting take. Someone else called and corrected me. It's
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  Speaker 1: not ceramic. It's a what, as far, it's not ceramic, it's, no,
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  Speaker 1: it's ceramic, not, I don't know what I said. But anyways,
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  Speaker 1: talking about throwing it out the window. Then I got
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  Speaker 1: a text from my buddy who knows these things, knows
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  Speaker 1: a thing or two about a thing or two when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to cars. And that's Dave Koontz from ABC.
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  Speaker 1: And he's their car guy. He says, I think shattering
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  Speaker 1: could be tied to the size of the sunroofs over
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  Speaker 1: the past 10 to 15 years. This is an interesting take.
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  Speaker 1: So he says, remember, they used to be about a
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  Speaker 1: foot and a half or two and a half feet.
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  Speaker 1: Now they tend to cover the entire front section of
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  Speaker 1: the roof with a much larger sheet of glass. And
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  Speaker 1: that makes sense too. While thinking about it, the larger
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  Speaker 1: glass and going over bumps and things like that may
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  Speaker 1: cause more turbulence in the size of the glass. Usually,
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  Speaker 1: if there's a curve in glass, that can make it stronger.
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  Speaker 1: That's why when you see cops with their PR-24s, their batons,
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  Speaker 1: trying to break them, and it's bouncing off the side
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  Speaker 1: window or the front, because they're designed that way so
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  Speaker 1: that they don't break inwards. You could break them outwards.
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  Speaker 1: So if you're in an accident, it's easier to break
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  Speaker 1: your cars from the inside out or your windows from
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  Speaker 1: the inside out. But they're meant to not do that.
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  Speaker 1: And then... Uh, listeners knowing the scoop, I, you know, um,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's awesome. They know so much about the
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  Speaker 1: station and everybody in it. Someone called in to say that, uh,
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  Speaker 1: Shannon Farren's sunroof exploded not too long ago. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: hear about that. Anybody hear about that? Amy on the news?
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  Speaker 1: I did not hear about that. Our very own. I would,
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  Speaker 1: I was that traumatic. Yeah. What happened? What happened with us?
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  Speaker 1: With that, she should be waking up soon. We'll ask her. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: she's awake. No. Yeah, she listens to wake-up call. No,
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  Speaker 1: she doesn't. Yeah, she does. No, she tells me all
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  Speaker 1: the time, I do not listen to wake-up call. It's
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  Speaker 1: the last thing I want to do. Hello? Now you're
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  Speaker 1: just being mean. No, I'm teasing. Of course she's up.
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  Speaker 1: She's got to prepare. You got to do her morning
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  Speaker 1: workout before her afternoon workout and her evening workout. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's what they do. So I just thought that was
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  Speaker 1: kind of an interesting take, some of the insights here
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  Speaker 1: of people that are, you know, have had this done.
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  Speaker 1: So people are saying they've had it happen to their
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  Speaker 1: cars as well. They're popping out. I just thought that
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  Speaker 1: was an unusual reaction. How could that not be a problem?
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  Speaker 1: How can you have that many problems in a car?
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  Speaker 1: or different cars and someone not say, okay, we can't
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  Speaker 1: make them, it no longer is engineerially safe to put
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  Speaker 1: those large ones in. Because I think Dave's insights were pretty,
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  Speaker 1: probably pretty interesting or accurate. I'd be curious to see
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  Speaker 1: if they're doing a study or any of the studies
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  Speaker 1: or inquiries that they're doing are based on the size
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  Speaker 1: of the window at this point. Like if they're looking
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  Speaker 1: at what the similarities are, are they breaking on? Because
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  Speaker 1: if that's happening, that's a possibility. Problem. I mean, think–
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  Speaker 1: because it pops when they shatter, but they don't always fall.
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  Speaker 1: Safety glass sometimes holds together. Sometimes they have like a
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  Speaker 1: little film on them or something. And I'd be curious
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  Speaker 1: if across the board, if these things are popping off,
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  Speaker 1: why they wouldn't just– I don't know. Look at that
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  Speaker 1: and say, hey, there's a problem. No more of the
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  Speaker 1: large glass. I don't know why I'm becoming an investigator
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  Speaker 1: right now. I don't know. You know what? I'm going
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  Speaker 1: down this deep dive like I've got to solve the problem.
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  Speaker 1: I don't. Look, I don't even have to do the
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  Speaker 1: show right now. Watch this. All right. Came across a
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  Speaker 1: story on CNN last night. As you know, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're constantly preparing for the show. And I go back
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  Speaker 1: and forth when I'm hosting as to what's going on
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  Speaker 1: in the world. And I came across a story written
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  Speaker 1: by Brett McGurk. You may not know his name. He's
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  Speaker 1: an American diplomat, an attorney, and an academic. And he
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  Speaker 1: served in senior national security positions under President George W. Bush,
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  Speaker 1: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden. So the guy's
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  Speaker 1: got credentials. And reading his story was fascinating. The title
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  Speaker 1: is No, Iran is Not Winning in Act Four of
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  Speaker 1: the War. it's losing its leverage in Hormuz. What a statement, right?
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  Speaker 1: And it's basically arguing that Iran may look like it
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  Speaker 1: has gained some power in the war, especially because of
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  Speaker 1: its ability to disrupt shipping through the Strait. That's a
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  Speaker 1: big chunk of leverage. We'll all agree on that. However,
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  Speaker 1: as he breaks down, he says it doesn't mean that
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  Speaker 1: Iran is actually winning. In fact, the longer the conflict continues,
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  Speaker 1: the belief is more that Iran can lose the influence
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  Speaker 1: it has over this important waterway. I think emotionally, it's
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  Speaker 1: very easy not to like the president. For those that
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  Speaker 1: do like Trump, I try and look at this outwardly
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  Speaker 1: and try and see the best, and he's our president.
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  Speaker 1: He's in that seat. But the reality is he's a
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  Speaker 1: very unlikable guy, especially if you don't– not even about
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  Speaker 1: his belief system. It's his execution. His execution arguably would–
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  Speaker 1: everybody agreed that something needed to be done about immigration.
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  Speaker 1: and the lack of any control on immigration. Nobody wants
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  Speaker 1: to see actual human beings being treated poorly. If they're
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  Speaker 1: true criminals, yes, I get it. Rapists, all that, do
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  Speaker 1: what you want. But if it's somebody who's here and
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  Speaker 1: the crime is coming here, I personally believe that we
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  Speaker 1: should have a good neighbor policy and they should be
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  Speaker 1: able to come and work here as our neighbors. But
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  Speaker 1: that's a whole other thing. My point is that we
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  Speaker 1: get emotional about these things and we don't often think
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  Speaker 1: through them. So here's a guy, who knows, who's been
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  Speaker 1: through all this. And he's talking about the importance of
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  Speaker 1: the Strait of Hormuz. Huge amount of the world's oil
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  Speaker 1: passes through it. Iran has been able to use that
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  Speaker 1: location to threaten or restrict shipping, created problems for other
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  Speaker 1: countries that depend on oil, obviously moving through that region.
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  Speaker 1: This gives Iran leverage, some. But in this article, he
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  Speaker 1: argues that this advantage may not last forever. And when
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  Speaker 1: you think about war in general, war is always, they say, oh,
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  Speaker 1: it's a war of attrition, which really means we're just
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  Speaker 1: going to just paper cuts, paper cuts. We're going to, um,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to charge them this. We're going to charge
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  Speaker 1: them that we're going to sanction this. We're going to
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  Speaker 1: sanction that. We're going to bomb here. We're going to
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  Speaker 1: bomb that. And eventually, uh, someone says, okay, we're not
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  Speaker 1: going to do this anymore. So I think all wars
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  Speaker 1: are a war of attrition. All wars are wars where
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  Speaker 1: we can't take anymore and you send up the flag.
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  Speaker 1: So in this problem, in this problem for Iran, is
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  Speaker 1: keeping that straight disrupted also causes pain to them. So
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of an arm wrestling situation and the fatigue
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  Speaker 1: because it hurts their own economy. It hurts their own relationships.
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  Speaker 1: It hurts other countries. Countries that depend on the waterway
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  Speaker 1: have strong reason to find ways around the problem or
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  Speaker 1: push back against Iran. The longer Iran tries to use
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  Speaker 1: the Strait as a weapon, the more likely other countries
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  Speaker 1: that are being affected are going to work together to
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  Speaker 1: reduce Iran's influence there. It's just like the people that
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  Speaker 1: complain to corporations or they boycott The boycotts don't normally work.
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  Speaker 1: I say normally, sometimes they do, but the boycotts don't
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  Speaker 1: normally work because corporations are designed to make money. They
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  Speaker 1: will find other places to take their goods. They will
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  Speaker 1: find other ways to make the money, and they often do.
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  Speaker 1: So in this article, again, written by Brett McGurk, who
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  Speaker 1: worked in the security department for four presidents, two Republicans,
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  Speaker 1: two Democrats, I thought broke the war apart beautifully. Do
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  Speaker 1: we want to be in war? No. Should we be
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  Speaker 1: in war? Probably not. but I'll be damned if Iran
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  Speaker 1: gets nuclear weapons. So this article points out that Iran
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  Speaker 1: has taken serious damage during the war. Military capabilities, infrastructure,
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  Speaker 1: love Trump, hate Trump, doesn't matter. They've been hit. Replacing
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  Speaker 1: lost equipment and resources could be very difficult. Iran may
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  Speaker 1: still be able to cause problems. They can make conflict
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  Speaker 1: that is expensive to for its opponents, i.e. us, Israel.
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  Speaker 1: But that is different from actually kicking us in the
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  Speaker 1: testes and having the upper hand. And I think that
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  Speaker 1: narrative is damaging, not to Trump, but to us. And
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  Speaker 1: we have to rethink, those of us who may not
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  Speaker 1: like Trump have to rethink how we attack him, especially
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  Speaker 1: when we are America. Trump will, he'll leave office, believe
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  Speaker 1: it or not, he will. And this is on us.
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  Speaker 1: We need to look at these things and be aware
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  Speaker 1: of them, not just from our triggers, but what the
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  Speaker 1: reality is. And overall, the author of this CNN article,
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  Speaker 1: No Iran is Not Winning, his point is that Iran's
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  Speaker 1: ability to cause trouble should not be confused with winning
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  Speaker 1: the war. Iran can still make the conflict painful and dangerous.
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  Speaker 1: That is what war is, especially by putting pressure on
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  Speaker 1: shipping and energy supplies. That's going to freak everybody out,
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  Speaker 1: piss them off, and get them involved or interested. But
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  Speaker 1: as the war continues, the costs to us are one thing.
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  Speaker 1: The cost to Iran could keep growing as well. While
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  Speaker 1: its leverage... over the Strait of Hormuz could gradually disappear.
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  Speaker 1: Situations changing day by day, as Amy talked about already
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  Speaker 1: with some strikes that happened this weekend. But the article
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  Speaker 1: argues that Iran is in a weaker position than it
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  Speaker 1: might appear. We don't want to end this war and
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  Speaker 1: lose it because we don't like Trump, if that's your stance.
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  Speaker 1: We want to win because... We're America, and the reality
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  Speaker 1: is if that part of the world, if Iran gets
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  Speaker 1: nuclear weapons, we're screwed. You cannot like what Israel's doing
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  Speaker 1: to Gaza because there's children, women, and innocents there. But
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  Speaker 1: we need Israel because they are the only real ally
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  Speaker 1: we have in that region and have been. And anybody
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  Speaker 1: who's played a game of risk can look at this
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  Speaker 1: and say that would be highly problematic to have Iran
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  Speaker 1: have those kinds of weapons. So as much as we
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  Speaker 1: may not like the execution and the way this is
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  Speaker 1: going and may not like the person pulling the strings
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  Speaker 1: right now in the Oval Office, there are things that
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  Speaker 1: we need to win. There are things as Americans we
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  Speaker 1: need to come together for. And we shouldn't count our–
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  Speaker 1: don't bet against us. Because we are the people, and
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  Speaker 1: we the people are the only thing that matters. And
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  Speaker 1: we need to start coming together on that and looking
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  Speaker 1: at these things from the standpoint of how is it
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  Speaker 1: going to affect us in the long term once this
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  Speaker 1: president goes and another president comes and another president and
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  Speaker 1: another president and another president. All right. Mental health. We
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  Speaker 1: talked about homelessness earlier in the program. And mental health
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  Speaker 1: is a huge deal right now. We have problems with homelessness.
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  Speaker 1: We have problems with ourselves when it comes to mental health.
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  Speaker 1: We know more about ourselves than we ever did. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: I think a lot of it is too much, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of feely stuff about ourselves. And we don't
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  Speaker 1: focus on, especially in schools, they focus more on how
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  Speaker 1: people are feeling, the kids are feeling all over the place,
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  Speaker 1: which is important. I went through things when I was
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  Speaker 1: a kid. I think in the third grade, I started
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  Speaker 1: having panic attacks. And people didn't talk about that back then.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody knew what they were. But having a panic attack
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  Speaker 1: as a small child is pretty crazy. And I dealt
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  Speaker 1: with them through my youth, off and on, and into
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  Speaker 1: my adulthood. I've had them on the air here. It's nuts.
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  Speaker 1: And for complete transparency, I'm on a medication called Lexapro.
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  Speaker 1: which makes that all go away. As an artist, I
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  Speaker 1: thought it was going to change the way I saw things,
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  Speaker 1: and I didn't want to take it, all this stuff,
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  Speaker 1: and I went through that. And it changed my life
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  Speaker 1: for the better. I love what it did. It took away,
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  Speaker 1: it took the edge off. It took that weird thing
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  Speaker 1: where I always felt like the next shoe was going
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  Speaker 1: to drop or something like that. What? Seriously, Kono? Sorry?
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  Speaker 1: Play it on the air. Yeah? Was that an accident?
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  Speaker 1: It was a total accident. I've been nice to you
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  Speaker 1: all day. I want that noted. But no, there is.
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  Speaker 1: It does. And now we look at medication and people
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  Speaker 1: talking about maybe too much, talking about the medications they're on.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you follow anybody on social media and you
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  Speaker 1: see it. But there's something going on. This recent trial
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  Speaker 1: that we've all been following about Lindsey Clancy. is bringing
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  Speaker 1: a lot of attention back to the forefront on mental
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  Speaker 1: health medications. Doctors who treated Clancy said she had been
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  Speaker 1: prescribed and asked to change many different medications for conditions
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  Speaker 1: including depression and anxiety. Her defense even argued that she
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  Speaker 1: had been over-medicated and was experiencing postpartum psychosis, while prosecutors
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  Speaker 1: argued that she understood what she was doing. and didn't
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  Speaker 1: always take her medications as directed. And the case showed
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  Speaker 1: how difficult it could be to figure out exactly what
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  Speaker 1: is happening with somebody who has serious mental illnesses. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: we do this with non-mental illnesses. How many think, you know,
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  Speaker 1: my poor wife is going through something with her feet
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  Speaker 1: and they can't find, they've taken a bunch of tests
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  Speaker 1: and then they finally start going, well, it can be
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  Speaker 1: a complication of multiple things. And sometimes it gets kind
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  Speaker 1: of scary. And that's with physical things where they have
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  Speaker 1: x-rays and where they can, you know, poke, prod, and
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  Speaker 1: put a stethoscope to you and do MRIs. You can't
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  Speaker 1: do that with the mental stuff. You can't see it
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  Speaker 1: in the same way unless it's damage. Neurological, maybe you
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  Speaker 1: see something. But nearly 20% of adults take some type
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  Speaker 1: of medication for mental health conditions. I would have thought
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  Speaker 1: it was larger. The problem is that there isn't one
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  Speaker 1: medication that works, and often they're doing them off prescription.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe they were for something else, and they try it or,
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  Speaker 1: you know, what do they call that off script or
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  Speaker 1: whatever doctors call it? But there isn't one. It's not
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  Speaker 1: like this is the medication you take for heart disease
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  Speaker 1: or whatever. Antidepressants, anti-anxiety medications, mood stabilizers, stimulants. They all
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  Speaker 1: work in different ways. Serotonin reuptake inhibitors are one that
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  Speaker 1: that's the natural, your body's natural procedure of pushing. It's
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  Speaker 1: like a tennis match, pushing out serotonin that your body
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  Speaker 1: makes naturally and then catching it on the other side
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  Speaker 1: is a balance. It's going back and forth. But sometimes
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  Speaker 1: the mechanics of your body stops doing that or it's
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  Speaker 1: not pushing it out or it's not grabbing it. And you,
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  Speaker 1: you know, or it's doing it too much or it's
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  Speaker 1: doing things are out of balance. And we're getting to
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  Speaker 1: this place where we're seeing things that, that are experimentation. Basically,
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  Speaker 1: you got to put a cocktail together. Sometimes Prozac, Zoloft,
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  Speaker 1: or antidepressants, that could take four to eight weeks to
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  Speaker 1: fully kick in. I think with Prozac, it was two weeks.
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  Speaker 1: I can't remember, um, Handel's– he's on– I can't remember it.
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  Speaker 1: But with him, he would get angry. He would get screaming,
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  Speaker 1: blood red mad in his face. And I'd get the call.
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  Speaker 1: If I wasn't in the office, Handel's losing it. Come down.
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  Speaker 1: And I'd come in there and I'd talk Handel down
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  Speaker 1: off it. And since he's been on it, he's been
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  Speaker 1: a thousand times better. Tried to explain to poor Ann
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  Speaker 1: what it was like in those days. Have a drink
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  Speaker 1: with Michelle. But, you know, the doctors are looking at
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  Speaker 1: the symptoms, medical history, the medications overall. Some will work
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  Speaker 1: for some people. Some won't work. Some will make them tired. This,
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  Speaker 1: they call it pharmacogenic testing, is what they're looking at now,
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  Speaker 1: which uses a person's genes. And they're going to see
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  Speaker 1: how their body might process certain medications. You know, that's
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  Speaker 1: one way. I have a big family. Someone older than
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  Speaker 1: me or someone, one of my brothers or sisters needs something,
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  Speaker 1: then I know that's probably going to work for me.
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  Speaker 1: I go, okay, well, that's, you know, so I kind
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  Speaker 1: of do that already. And so I know, but I
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  Speaker 1: get asked all the time. friends, coworkers and such saying,
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  Speaker 1: you know, what do you think about these things? And
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  Speaker 1: I say, hey, it's worked for me, but you got
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  Speaker 1: to find, go to a psychiatrist. Don't just get it
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  Speaker 1: from your gen prac and find, you know, let them
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  Speaker 1: do a deep dive if necessary to get you on
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  Speaker 1: the right thing. But we have a crisis of sorts,
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  Speaker 1: not only on the streets, but everybody, the people you're
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  Speaker 1: looking across the table at at work and your desks.
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  Speaker 1: having to deal with things as well, because life is
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  Speaker 1: different than it used to be. Things come at us
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  Speaker 1: in full force, a lot at one time with not
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  Speaker 1: only social media, but the news cycle doesn't break. Fire
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  Speaker 1: cycles here in Southern California year round now, there's just,
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  Speaker 1: it's different. So you got to take care of your
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  Speaker 1: mental health, man. You got to, this poor woman in
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: that situation, Being at a place, could you imagine, that
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  Speaker 1: would want to take the life of your children and
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  Speaker 1: know it and tell people, I'm having these suicidal and
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  Speaker 1: infecidal thoughts and nobody could do anything or didn't. It's
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  Speaker 1: just crazy. Lamictal. Thank you, Darren. DMACC just hit me up.
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  Speaker 1: Lamictal is what... He knows. Everyone knows what candle's on.
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  Speaker 1: All right. I give, you know, I tease Handel about
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  Speaker 1: being the voice of reason on the show. And I
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: give him a hard time because I've known him for
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  Speaker 1: over 30 years, and he's a pretty damn balanced guy
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  Speaker 1: and a smart guy. And so I find MAGA hats
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  Speaker 1: and anti-MAGA hats to be the same people. They're the
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  Speaker 1: same people. So when you love something so much or
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  Speaker 1: you hate something so much, it always makes me raise
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  Speaker 1: an eyebrow. It just is a thing that is a
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  Speaker 1: turnoff to me. And so I often will jump in
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  Speaker 1: with handle when he's just having his TDS, you know, uh, Issues.
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  Speaker 1: And he freaks out. And I tell him constantly, you
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  Speaker 1: do not notice what's going on in your own backyard.
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  Speaker 1: And you're thinking nationally about stupid stuff that he's renaming something.
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  Speaker 1: Who cares? Joy Bayhart. Who cares? But then he doesn't
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  Speaker 1: look at the news of things that are going on
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  Speaker 1: right here. Two stories, back-to-back stories in the LA Times.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just going to read the headlines, and I'll get
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  Speaker 1: into them a little bit. Governor Newsom backs off from
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  Speaker 1: shameful gambit, and it's a victory for California coast. The
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  Speaker 1: other one, facing protests, Newsom drops most of plan, limiting
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  Speaker 1: utility wildfire liabilities. These are two massive stories that deal
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  Speaker 1: right with us here in California. And that they often,
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  Speaker 1: because our hatred or people that hate Trump get lost
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  Speaker 1: in their hate so much that stupid things are happening
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  Speaker 1: by people that have a D by their name. And
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  Speaker 1: so you just let it slide because it's better than
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: an R and it's better than those Republicans and those
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: MAGA hats. And we've gotten to the place where we're
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: not thinking through these things. Holy smokes. So you had
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  Speaker 1: Governor Hansom. Gav quietly backing out of a last-minute bill
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  Speaker 1: to exempt a waterfront project from the Coastal Act. He's
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: going to carve out tailored to benefit a longtime campaign donor.
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Worth, I think is how it's pronounced. I see
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  Speaker 1: the name written. I know who he is. So environmental groups,
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  Speaker 1: coastal advocates, and lawmakers mobilized against this measure. And warning
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  Speaker 1: that the exemption would set a dangerous precedent for California's
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  Speaker 1: 50-year-old protections. To help a donor. That, you know, gave him,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, almost $ 300, 000, I think is what the
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  Speaker 1: total was. It was $ 270- something. $ 274, 000 to Newsom's campaigns and
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  Speaker 1: the inaugural fund between 2018 and 2022. Could you imagine
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  Speaker 1: if someone with an R in their name did this?
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  Speaker 1: California would have been up in arms. But we're thankful
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  Speaker 1: that you had the Coastal Act or the environmental groups,
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  Speaker 1: the coastal advocates rather, and the lawmakers not let this
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  Speaker 1: slide because of a hate for the other side. We
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  Speaker 1: should all be keeping an eye on all of it.
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  Speaker 1: But we assume the side that we vote for, and
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  Speaker 1: I get it, I get those of you who hate
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  Speaker 1: me because I pick and choose based on information rather
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  Speaker 1: than an R and a D. Same way you play chess.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: You don't just play with the queen and the king.
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  Speaker 1: There's a whole lot of other pieces on the board.
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  Speaker 1: Drives people nuts. There's an old saying, if you make
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  Speaker 1: people think they're thinking, they will love you. If you
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  Speaker 1: actually make people think, They will hate you. Governor Gav,
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  Speaker 1: on the other one facing protest, he dropped a plan
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  Speaker 1: limiting utility wildfire, that's easy, liabilities. Check this out. He
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  Speaker 1: agreed to drop his push for legislation that would have
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  Speaker 1: shifted more of the cost of utilities, sparked wildfires, as
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  Speaker 1: we know, to property insurers. What would that cause? How
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  Speaker 1: does that affect us? We're not either of those. Well,
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  Speaker 1: that's going to raise premiums across the state. You already
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: have insurers leaving California or saying they're not going to
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  Speaker 1: cover fire areas, and this would have made that only worse.
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  Speaker 1: After weeks of closed-door negotiations with lawmakers, the governor also
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  Speaker 1: backed away from a proposal that reduced amounts fire victims
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  Speaker 1: could receive. I know, right? and transferred more of the
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  Speaker 1: damage cost to local government instead of the people who
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: lose their house. Wildfire victims, others called the governor's plan
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  Speaker 1: a corporate bailout. But do we hear about these stories?
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  Speaker 1: Not often. Because people would rather bitch about a particular
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: side that's not their side instead of calling out balls
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  Speaker 1: and strikes. This is our backyard. This is California. I
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: don't care if you call the, you know, what you
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: call Lake Ontario. I don't give a rat's ass. But
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: I do care about this because I have a house
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  Speaker 1: that could be in a fire zone in the mountains.
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  Speaker 1: You know, these things affect us. Man, I got to
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: get off my soapbox today. Gary and Shannon coming up.
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  Speaker 1: Happy to have been with you. Thanks for listening. Thanks
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  Speaker 1: to Amy and Randy and Kono. Randy was in for
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  Speaker 1: Will today. And, of course, Annie. Thanks, Annie. Stick around
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  Speaker 1: for Gary and Shannon. I'll catch you in the morning.
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