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Year-Round Holiday Decorations | Boomers Buying Bigger Homes · 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: He's a mens guy.
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  Speaker 1: You are listening to Bill Handle show fine. I am
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  Speaker 1: six forty Bill Handle. It is a Monday morning, July twentieth.
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  Speaker 1: The World Cup is over. Yesterday was the final and
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  Speaker 1: it is Spain that became the International champions after really
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  Speaker 1: pummeling Argentina. But the score was only one zero. But
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  Speaker 1: it should have been much higher than that. All Right.
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  Speaker 1: We have often talked, Neil and I have often talked.
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  Speaker 1: Matter of fact, all of us is often talked about.
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  Speaker 1: How you know, Trump is in many ways one of
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  Speaker 1: the smartest guys out there. I mean he think he's
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  Speaker 1: a businessman. I mean he is truly a businessman. So
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  Speaker 1: his social media company, Trump Media and Technology Group, which
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  Speaker 1: owns Truths, is now discussing charging Wall Street traders and
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  Speaker 1: investment firms a monthly subscription for faster access to the
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  Speaker 1: US the President's post on truth social and a subscription
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  Speaker 1: that you normally, you know, pay for five eight dollars
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  Speaker 1: a month, twelve dollars a month, this one would be
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  Speaker 1: one hundred thousand dollars a month a month for faster
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  Speaker 1: as for faster access now you can get it for
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  Speaker 1: sixty thousand dollars a month, get a huge forty percent
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  Speaker 1: discount if you sign up for a three year plan.
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  Speaker 1: And the media company Unveiled is paid for licensed data
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  Speaker 1: feed called truth Api to provide banks and trading firms
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  Speaker 1: the fastest access to posts. Now that is first of all,
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  Speaker 1: you got a You really have to give a lot
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  Speaker 1: of credit to the folks at Trump the Trump Organization
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  Speaker 1: for coming up with revenue streams that are astounding. Just
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  Speaker 1: you never thought this was going to happen.
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  Speaker 3: Some very clever this Phil doesn't just come right after
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  Speaker 3: he was accused of inside trading. Yes, yes, now he's
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  Speaker 3: basically saying, hey, if you pay for it, you get
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  Speaker 3: my inside treating.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, pretty much, and his posts. I mean it can
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  Speaker 1: move markets all over the world and does. And this
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  Speaker 1: would be the first step in data licensing new revenue
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  Speaker 1: stream Although you can imagine the criticism mainly from Democrats.
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  Speaker 1: US Enator Ron Wyden Oregon, the highest ranking Democrat on
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  Speaker 1: the Senate Finance Committee, said this would financially benefit the
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  Speaker 1: Trump family and make Wall Street traders rich. Well, when
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  Speaker 1: you have inside information that you are buying, that you
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  Speaker 1: were paying for one hundred thousand dollars per month. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: now we're talking in terms of nanosecond of advantages. That's
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  Speaker 1: all these companies need because these supercomputers are running trades
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  Speaker 1: for these major companies far faster than any human ever could,
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  Speaker 1: and so the trades happen instantaneously. And if a company
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  Speaker 1: that pays one hundred thousand dollars a month can get
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  Speaker 1: even a second or two information quicker, that is a big,
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  Speaker 1: big hit. You know. For example, when Trump April ninth,
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, after he said many of his new
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  Speaker 1: tariffs for ninety days would be paused, the INDEXUS turned
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  Speaker 1: way up instantly. And if you could get that information
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  Speaker 1: before anybody else, guess what, Yeah, you're gonna do just fine.
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  Speaker 1: Now is this inside information? At this point, who the
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  Speaker 1: hell knows, because we don't know what's going on. You know.
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  Speaker 1: For example, one of the things that the president did
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  Speaker 1: is take his assets, and every other president in modern
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  Speaker 1: times has put assets into a blind trust where he
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  Speaker 1: has no idea what the money is doing, where it's going.
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  Speaker 1: Is the money and whatever is happening is not reported
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  Speaker 1: to the president. And then after the president finishes the term,
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  Speaker 1: then the money goes back to him and he now
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  Speaker 1: can control his own money. Well, the President did the
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  Speaker 1: same thing. He didn't put into a blind trust, though
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  Speaker 1: he put it into a trust that are run by
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  Speaker 1: his sons, and it ain't blind. Trump knows exactly what's
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  Speaker 1: going on, although the President said, I don't talk to
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  Speaker 1: them about it. I don't talk to my sons about business.
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  Speaker 1: I have nothing to do with any decisions whatsoever. It's
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  Speaker 1: all on them and I have nothing to do with
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  Speaker 1: any of that. Hmm okay. An interesting story about New
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  Speaker 1: York mayor Mom Donnie, who said that there's act conversation
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  Speaker 1: among your staff whether to arrest Benjamin Natanyahu when he
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  Speaker 1: comes to September to the UN General Assembly. Now, how
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  Speaker 1: do you arrest a head of state? And I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if he's under a diplomatic immunity. I would think
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  Speaker 1: he is, would not be, Yeah, I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: that is a immunity. Yeah, I don't know how he
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  Speaker 1: would do that. I really don't. Boy, would that that
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  Speaker 1: would be a story. We'd be covering that one like crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Now I'm going to go again to the topic about
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  Speaker 1: True Social. The president and a company that owns True
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  Speaker 1: Social and it is Trump Media and Technology Group. And
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  Speaker 1: the I think that the Trump family or Donald Trump
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  Speaker 1: or no longer the Trump Trust his revocable trust. It's
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  Speaker 1: the kids who run it. What I think they own
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  Speaker 1: forty one percent of all outstanding stock in the company.
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  Speaker 1: The trust is kids Oversea and it administers all of
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  Speaker 1: Trump investments. One things about this President Neil brought this
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  Speaker 1: up earlier, is that Donald Trump has come up with
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  Speaker 1: revenue streams that no president has ever been able to touch.
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  Speaker 1: You've got Trump coins, you have Trump watches, you have
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  Speaker 1: Trump sneakers. I think there were Trump ties. There were
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  Speaker 1: Trump steaks you could buy I think frozen steaks from
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  Speaker 1: the Trump family. Then you have some real those I
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  Speaker 1: don't care about. Those are just ludicrous. Those are just fun.
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  Speaker 1: You know, God bless you. You know you want to
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  Speaker 1: buy Trump watch and spend forty thousand dollars, Go right ahead.
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  Speaker 1: Now this one is a little bit tougher because this
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  Speaker 1: is a new program that they're considering, and I'm betting
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  Speaker 1: it's going to go through. And that's truth AP. Truth
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  Speaker 1: API is a subscription to Truth Social of which companies
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  Speaker 1: or anybody actually pays one hundred thousand dollars a month
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  Speaker 1: subscription rate for getting quicker information on the Trump social
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  Speaker 1: for example, post. If you are a member, you then
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  Speaker 1: get it quicker than anybody else does. And the issue
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  Speaker 1: here is when I post or you post, it's not
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  Speaker 1: going to change anything. It's gonna be interesting. But when
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  Speaker 1: the president posts, the world markets turnaround. For example, I
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  Speaker 1: gave the example of when Trump posted that there was
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  Speaker 1: going to be a moratorium on his ninety day or
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  Speaker 1: moratorium for ninety days on some of his tariffs. The
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  Speaker 1: market went crazy immediately responded. So Trump has to file
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  Speaker 1: the financial disclosures. Not his tax return, mind you, but
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  Speaker 1: just financial disclosures. And the big one last year in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five was one point four billion dollars in
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  Speaker 1: income to his companies that are no longer his. They
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  Speaker 1: belong to well, they're his, but they're what they're doing
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  Speaker 1: is managed by his sons in a trust, so he
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  Speaker 1: has nothing to do with it. And the family's crypto ventures. Now,
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  Speaker 1: keep in mind, a few years ago Trump absolutely hated crypto.
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  Speaker 1: He said that crypto is basically a scam. And then
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  Speaker 1: his family gets involved in crypto, he changes everything. The
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  Speaker 1: Feds no longer investigate crypto, a couple of major crypto
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  Speaker 1: managers who were convicted of major fraud were pardon now.
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  Speaker 1: Donald Sherman, president of the nonpartisan Watchdock group Citizens for
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  Speaker 1: Responsibility and Ethics in Washington against Nonpartisan, says that this
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  Speaker 1: arrangement is wildly unethical. Wildly. And then the argument is,
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  Speaker 1: how about the Emolliens clause in the Constitution where the
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  Speaker 1: president cannot receive anything by ahead of state. Here's why
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  Speaker 1: technically the president can get away with this because the
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  Speaker 1: Emollient's clause, designed to thwart court corruption, does not apply here.
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  Speaker 1: What the Emolliens clause does is bar federal officials from
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  Speaker 1: accepting gifts from foreign governments without congressional approval, which is
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  Speaker 1: why every time a gift is given to the president,
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  Speaker 1: heads of state always do this. When you have Ahead
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  Speaker 1: and State visiting the US, that you have gifts that
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  Speaker 1: change hands. Some of them are really expensive gifts, some
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  Speaker 1: not so expensive. I mean, there have been presidents that
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  Speaker 1: have given, for example, a creative oranges, have given another
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  Speaker 1: head of state of creative oranges. Saudi Arabia does pretty well.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they tend to give ruby encrusted swords that
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  Speaker 1: are worth millions of dollars. I think once a horse
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  Speaker 1: was given one of these incredible horses, that these stud
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  Speaker 1: horses worth millions of dollars is Arabian horses. So the
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  Speaker 1: the Emollien's clause does not apply. And what is going
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  Speaker 1: to happen, Well, it skirts the law. So technically it's
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  Speaker 1: within the law. And what I really enjoy is when
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  Speaker 1: members of the administration are asked about this, the response
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  Speaker 1: is that this is within the law. Well, how about
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  Speaker 1: the ethics of this? All we can say is it's
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  Speaker 1: within the law and were and the president is not
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  Speaker 1: breaking any laws. There has never been a president, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: think about this for a moment. There has never been
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  Speaker 1: a president as wealthy as Donald Trump. He came into
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  Speaker 1: the White House as a billionaire. He has become more
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  Speaker 1: of a billionaire. He has earned about two billion dollars
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  Speaker 1: so far as in his presidency. Most presidents come out
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  Speaker 1: either broke or close to broke. Harry Truman had no money.
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  Speaker 1: Matter of fact, that's why they started the pension because
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  Speaker 1: he had no money. You have presidents like John F.
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  Speaker 1: Kennedy who donated their salary to charity because he was
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  Speaker 1: immensely wealthy. But it was in a trust that he
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  Speaker 1: had nothing to do with whatsoever. He was just a
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  Speaker 1: recipient of his father's trust, Joseph P. Kennedy. And then
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  Speaker 1: you have Donald Trump, who is the wealthiest and has
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  Speaker 1: become far wealthier. And hey, you know, he gives this
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  Speaker 1: salary to charity too. By the way, Trump does this
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  Speaker 1: entire four hundred thousand dollars year salary. And having noted
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  Speaker 1: there's been no president in history that has ever given
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  Speaker 1: a salary to charity except for JFK. But he leaves
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  Speaker 1: that out.
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  Speaker 2: What about Nancy Pelosi, whether two hundred and fifty million
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  Speaker 2: or possibly two hundred and eighty five million dollars made
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  Speaker 2: while she was in office?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I understand, But let me ask you, this
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  Speaker 1: is it Her husband runs you know, the runs the
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  Speaker 1: amount of money, or runs the fund, and I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what it is, but it is also that is
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  Speaker 1: an ethical issue. Also, I am offended here. And the only,
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  Speaker 1: the only, the only reason I make a much bigger
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  Speaker 1: deal about President Trump is Nancy Pelosi can't move markets.
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  Speaker 1: That's the problem. It's the influence, and it's the extent,
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  Speaker 1: and it is just the brazen aspect of this. That's
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  Speaker 1: all Nancy Pelosi if she had to earn it, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not aware of how much. By the way, Neil, if
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  Speaker 1: she had earned two hundred and fifty million dollars or
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  Speaker 1: her husband had earned two hundred and fifty million dollars,
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  Speaker 1: the same thing goes. The same thing goes. And I
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  Speaker 1: don't mind a blind trust making money. They never do
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  Speaker 1: because the trustees are not there to earn money on
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  Speaker 1: the trust. On the money they're there is simply not
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  Speaker 1: lose money. So it is, you know, And I do
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  Speaker 1: nail the president more so than anybody else.
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  Speaker 2: Put me in the position of defending Trump.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, I understand that. No, you're attacking Nancy Pelosi.
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  Speaker 2: I get it pretty scummy as well.
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  Speaker 1: Some aren't, some aren't. Some actually pay attention politician. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so on the record, Neil, thank you for bringing that up.
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  Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi also made a lot of money. How she
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  Speaker 1: made a lot of money, It's yeah, I think people
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  Speaker 1: would major corporations wanted to deal with Nancy Pelosi because
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  Speaker 1: of her influence as Speaker of the House. I'll buy that.
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  Speaker 1: But again, when you compare the two, nothing even close,
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  Speaker 1: nothing even close. All right. In twenty twenty, Home Depot
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  Speaker 1: what they came out with was a Halloween prop skelly,
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  Speaker 1: which is a twelve foot skeleton, and it has since transmogrified, transmographied,
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  Speaker 1: trans mcgra fied. What easy for me to say. But
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  Speaker 1: the good news is you're not listening, so that's a
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  Speaker 1: good thing. Now, Okay, thank you. It has gone from
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  Speaker 1: just a meme into a full moment. And usually you had,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the skeletons and stuff outside limited to the
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  Speaker 1: month of October, maybe a week or two in November.
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  Speaker 1: Now these eletson stay up year round and their owners
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  Speaker 1: deck them out with whatever theme fits the latest holiday,
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  Speaker 1: for example, Christmas, Easter, the fourth of July, Pearl Harbor
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  Speaker 1: Day when it's a smiling skeleton, the oh how about this?
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  Speaker 1: What is it? August sixth? The bombing of Hiroshima, where
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  Speaker 1: that same smiling Japanese pilot now gets blown up and
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  Speaker 1: he glows green in the dark in pieces. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: not going to do the Holocaust one because that one
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  Speaker 1: is just not particularly funny. Okay, why is it? Let
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  Speaker 1: me give you the main reason. Why are they up
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  Speaker 1: year round? I'll but you didn't think about this, Neil.
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  Speaker 1: Why do you think that these skeletons are up, or
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  Speaker 1: the various creatures are up year round.
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  Speaker 2: Well in my house, it because we just like them.
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  Speaker 2: But okay, or may not want to take them down. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: what is the main reason? And there is the main reason.
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  Speaker 1: This was a story done in the La Times, and
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  Speaker 1: they obviously talk to a whole lot of people.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, they're too big to put away?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I mean, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Where do you put them? Now? Even there's home depot
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  Speaker 1: even gives you a box a container for them. Where
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  Speaker 1: do you put that? Because that's enormous. We have two
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  Speaker 1: Christmas trees at our house. One actually is a hanica bush,
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  Speaker 1: the other was a Christmas tree. And they're put away
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  Speaker 1: and they're they're artificial. Okay, there are earsots trees and
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  Speaker 1: they fold up and they go into these duffel bag things,
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  Speaker 1: and they're enormous. I mean they take up a huge
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  Speaker 1: amount of room. And so space is expensive. Why Well,
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  Speaker 1: because the ADUs are being built. So what used to
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  Speaker 1: be in the backyard a garage you would use storage.
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  Speaker 1: You can't anymore.
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  Speaker 2: It's just my shop. So I pay, I pay a
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  Speaker 2: gross amount of money for storage because I have large props.
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  Speaker 2: I have full size props of things and they need
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  Speaker 2: to go somewhere. Plus all of our Halloween and Christmas
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  Speaker 2: decorations and stuff like that. It's a pain. It's been
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  Speaker 2: probably probably close two thousand dollars a month knocking on
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  Speaker 2: the door of one thousand dollars a month in storage.
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  Speaker 1: Well, most people don't have that, and they're not going
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  Speaker 1: to so they put these skeletons up and man, now
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  Speaker 1: what you know they come. I don't even know how
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  Speaker 1: big they are when they come to your house. I
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  Speaker 1: am assuming you throw them on the back of a
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  Speaker 1: pickup truck and then you put them up.
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  Speaker 2: They do on boxings on YouTube. People on box As
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  Speaker 2: a matter of fact, July sixteenth, I think, is when
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  Speaker 2: Home Home Depot launched theirs officially, and they will tell
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  Speaker 2: you the size of the box is part of the demonstration.
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  Speaker 2: For the very reason you're talking about.
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  Speaker 1: There is a Facebook Facebook group more than sixty four
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  Speaker 1: thousand members, the twelve foot Skeleton Halloween Club, and people
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  Speaker 1: share their own designs and their stories. A skeleton melting
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  Speaker 1: after a house fire, a stolen skull tracked down by
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  Speaker 1: the cops. I mean, it has gone around. There's an
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  Speaker 1: entire industry has propped up around these skeletons, three D
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  Speaker 1: printed masks, custom repair shops. I think it's great. This
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  Speaker 1: is what Americans do, and particularly here in southern California
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  Speaker 1: because year round, of course, the weather is just basically
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  Speaker 1: wonderful and it's perfect for those big blow up. It's
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  Speaker 1: not just skeletons either, although most of them are skeletons.
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  Speaker 1: They have other Halloween creatures. I think they have a witch,
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  Speaker 1: they got tons of them. They have a new Mummy
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  Speaker 1: coming out big o'. It's just like the Skelly, but it's.
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  Speaker 2: It's Mummy. And then they have kits that you can
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  Speaker 2: buy to and accessories you could and people put Santa
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  Speaker 2: hats on them during Christmas time. They put bunny ears
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  Speaker 2: on them during Easter and they did.
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  Speaker 1: That's fine. I know, I know. They're coming out with
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  Speaker 1: a twelve foot priest and you have a little six
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  Speaker 1: foot no, ok okay, all right, no, okay, we're done.
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  Speaker 1: We're done. See this is why Neil is on the show.
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  Speaker 2: A twelve foot Harry.
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  Speaker 1: With a beard. Yeah, who's both Harry and Hanikah Harry.
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  Speaker 1: Something that's going on which is sort of contrary to
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  Speaker 1: the traditional belief, and that has to do with baby boomers,
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  Speaker 1: of which I am one, and after the kids are gone,
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  Speaker 1: assuming you have kids and you are now approaching retirement,
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  Speaker 1: which I am not even close to. We're supposed to downsize.
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  Speaker 1: We're not. We're buying bigger homes now. That one is
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  Speaker 1: kind of weird. One of the things. Normally, when people
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  Speaker 1: have young kids, they're supposed to buy bigger houses or
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  Speaker 1: get bigger houses. They can't afford them. I'll tell you, you
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  Speaker 1: can afford up or down. In this case, up are boomers.
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  Speaker 1: Boomers have more money. We're the last generation actually have money.
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  Speaker 1: My daughter Pamela screams at me constantly because I've taken
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  Speaker 1: all the money. And that's the generation I have Lindsey
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  Speaker 1: screaming at me because she says, I've taken all of
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  Speaker 1: the money we have. And that's exactly what boomers have done.
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  Speaker 1: We bought houses when they were reasonable. We've upgraded, and
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  Speaker 1: here we are now and the kids are gone, right,
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  Speaker 1: and you don't need a bigger house, And guess what,
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  Speaker 1: you're buying a bigger house. First of all, boomers can
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  Speaker 1: afford it. Second of all, they sort of have to
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  Speaker 1: because there's a new phenomenon that didn't happen before. And
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  Speaker 1: that is well two things. First of all, for example,
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  Speaker 1: ADUs are being built out of garages in the backyards,
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  Speaker 1: and therefore storage space is way down. Also, storage space
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  Speaker 1: in the house is just went way down, and we
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  Speaker 1: have more stuff to put away, and when you put
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  Speaker 1: all of that together, there's no room for what you
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  Speaker 1: live in. Matter of fact, now I downsize because I
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  Speaker 1: had the Persian Palace, was a big house, and there
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  Speaker 1: were things in the house that we're going to give away.
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  Speaker 1: We have a dining room table, for example, that's just
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  Speaker 1: not going to fit anybody else's room. I built a
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  Speaker 1: large dining room and a lot of people have those
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  Speaker 1: ellipticals and all of that. And guess what those are
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  Speaker 1: hard to get rid of. You can't sell them, no
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  Speaker 1: one buys them. And so what do you do. Well,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: you move into a bigger house and you try to
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: get as much storage space as you can, and you
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: can't be because you need the storage space. We're just
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  Speaker 1: talking about those skeletons, those twelve foot skeletons that you
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  Speaker 1: get a home depot or Costco. Where do you put
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: those Well, I'll tell you what you do. You leave
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: them up all year and that's what people did, and
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: that's what people do. So boomers, we already have the
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: country's largest homes. We own a lot of them. Here's
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  Speaker 1: one as empty nests or empty nest baby Boomers own
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  Speaker 1: twenty eight percent of all the US homes with three
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: bedrooms or more. You know how many millennials with kids
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: who really need the space three bedrooms are more sixteen
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: percent way way down. So the houses and the houses
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: are for the most part smaller, older houses because you know,
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: newly married or younger people just can't come close to
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: affording a new house, and older houses are well, there's
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: such a shortage of housing that there's almost thing available.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: And it was when I looked around the first for
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  Speaker 1: a house, even though I well actually upsized because I
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: was living for a year and another place, and then
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: I bought this place, and I upsized. And one of
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: the big reasons is the storage space alone. Also, people
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: have their kids come over and they live with their kids,
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: and they want their grandkids. I don't have any. I
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: don't want them. But you know how about this young
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: adults living with their parents. We've talked about that. It
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: was a huge number of families that are now intergenerational,
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: so that was kind of interesting. Baby boomers, they're the
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: ones they're upsizing, not downsizing. We're done. Gary and Shannon
• 23:44
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• 23:48
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• 23:53
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• 23:57
  Speaker 1: and we all make the show run so well, which
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: is why, as An pointed out, no one actually listens
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: to the show, which, hey, you know what, go screw
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: yourselves my choice, And if I weren't on the radio,
• 24:16
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