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Handel On The News · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM 640, the Bill Handel Show
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  Speaker 1: on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
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  Speaker 2: And now, Handel on the News. Ladies and gentlemen, here's
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  Speaker 2: not Bill Handel.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, so bespoke.
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  Speaker 2: KFI AM 640. Oh, I miss saying more stimulating talk.
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  Speaker 2: back in the day brings.
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  Speaker 4: Me back you can still say it if you want
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  Speaker 4: i know but there was just something about it man
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  Speaker 4: you come out you say kfi aim 640 more stimulating
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  Speaker 4: talk radio and it just such an honor to be on.
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  Speaker 2: This microphone the history of the station the people that
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  Speaker 2: are not that haven't only come before but are here
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  Speaker 2: now um pretty amazing pinch me if you will neil
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  Speaker 2: savadra in the morning crew today. Hey, Clay, how you doing, pal?
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  Speaker 5: I'm doing good. Something I'm wearing smells crazy. I think
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  Speaker 5: it's my pants. I think I left them in the
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  Speaker 5: washing machine too long.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, and then you didn't dry them so they're a
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  Speaker 2: little mildewy?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, I hate that moldy smell.
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 5: I'm waking up at four. There's no time to smell
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  Speaker 5: what I'm wearing before I head out the door. And
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  Speaker 5: so it gets you on the back end.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I got in my car. I went, oh, no.
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  Speaker 6: And it was too late to turn around.
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  Speaker 3: Way too late.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Clay. That happens to the best of us, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Especially during the hot months.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, it's tough when you're in a hermetically sealed
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  Speaker 2: environment and the door shuts and you go, is that me?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, well, who else could it be? Yeah, there's the
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  Speaker 2: old saying that if you're in an elevator with one
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  Speaker 2: other person and someone passes gas, both of you know
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  Speaker 2: who did it. Yeah, so if it's just you in
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  Speaker 2: there and the door is shut, sorry, pal, but it happens.
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  Speaker 2: No one's judging you.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I get out of here before anybody else
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  Speaker 3: comes into the office.
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  Speaker 5: So it's going to be a speedy exit.
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  Speaker 2: I give it three days before. So early next week,
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  Speaker 2: someone's going to go, hey, we're Stinky Clay. Stinky. I'm sorry, man.
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  Speaker 2: The nicknames fly around.
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  Speaker 3: Keep putting those on me.
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  Speaker 7: I just want to let you know, I didn't smell
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  Speaker 7: anything when I was in there with you.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I appreciate that, Anne.
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  Speaker 7: So I had to go in there and take some
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  Speaker 7: phone calls.
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  Speaker 2: And she's a mom.
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  Speaker 7: And I sat down like, what, 12 inches away from you.
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  Speaker 3: We were back to back.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's the word. That's one of my, my like
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  Speaker 2: least favorite stinks. Yeah. When you, when you go, Oh,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't turn on the dryer and it's a nice
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  Speaker 2: warm day. And it's not even a controlled stink. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You smell, you smell your own armpits. You're like, well,
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  Speaker 3: I know how to remedy that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But you know what's even worse? Pants, fine, brother. You're
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  Speaker 2: going to walk in, you walk out. You know what's
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  Speaker 2: worse is when it's on your towels. And you put
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  Speaker 2: the towels in and you go to wash your hands
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  Speaker 2: and you're like, why do my hands smell mildewy?
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  Speaker 3: It's the worst.
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  Speaker 2: Look at us being relatable.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Just normal people.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, call in if you smell bad.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Kono tried to make me bougie yesterday. Yeah, he
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  Speaker 2: tried to make me out to sound. And then you
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  Speaker 2: can't really back out of it and you can't find
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  Speaker 2: your footing.
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  Speaker 3: I don't have enough money to smell good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you smell good. And you come in with that punim.
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  Speaker 2: You come in here with that beautiful face and a smile. Neil. What? Stop.
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  Speaker 2: You humor me, kid. You humor me. Will, how are you, sir?
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  Speaker 2: Not stinky. Not stinky. Good to know. I'm fully showered
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  Speaker 2: and deodorized and yeah, I'm good to go. Hey, are
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  Speaker 2: you good? I'm broadcasting from TTWN on Monday. Yes. You
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  Speaker 2: going to join me? Are you coming in here for
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  Speaker 2: Amy King? Only one of us can be there at
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  Speaker 2: one time. Oh, is that? There's like one line, one
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  Speaker 2: line only. Oh, gotcha. Yeah. By the way, I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to be out at Aquarium of the Pacific, which is
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  Speaker 2: why I'm broadcasting out in Long Beach on Monday. Handel
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  Speaker 2: will still be out. I'll still be doing the show,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm going to hang out with my people, 50
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  Speaker 2: and older. They're doing an event out there from like
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  Speaker 2: nine to two or something like that. And we're going
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  Speaker 2: to be doing some giveaways, um, But it's going to
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  Speaker 2: be good fun. I jumped at that. It's one of
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  Speaker 2: those gems that we have here in the Southland, and
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  Speaker 2: it's gorgeous. And so if you're in the area, you
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  Speaker 2: check it out at their website. I'm going to be
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  Speaker 2: at Aquarium of the Pacific from about 930 to 2.
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  Speaker 2: Just saying hello, being in a booth, just sitting there.
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  Speaker 7: Is there a new fish there or something?
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  Speaker 2: No, there's some event for seasoned citizens. So those of
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  Speaker 2: us over 50. So I'm going to be hanging out.
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  Speaker 2: Why are you looking at me like that? Oh, young
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  Speaker 2: Anne is sitting there mocking me. Oh, what's that like?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, that's what I'm doing.
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  Speaker 2: She's going, hello, are you going to go?
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  Speaker 3: Maybe try a stingray for the fork report.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I would tell you that if someone asked
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  Speaker 2: me to age Anne or Amy with a gun to
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  Speaker 2: my head, I'd be dead. I don't think I could
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  Speaker 2: deal either of your ages. I'd be dead.
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  Speaker 6: It's the annual Senior's Day at the Aquarium of the Pacific.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, the old lady knows.
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  Speaker 6: Special presentations, informational booths.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Access to view marine life exhibits like sea otters, sharks, penguins,
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  Speaker 6: and jellyfish. I love the jellies.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a cool opportunity. They asked me if I
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  Speaker 2: wanted to go. I'm like, I'm in.
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  Speaker 6: That sounds fun.
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  Speaker 2: I will tell you that... Our seasoned citizens, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I bust handfuls chops because we're like brothers, but we
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  Speaker 2: underutilize our seasoned citizens personally. I think the knowledge, the history,
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  Speaker 2: the information, the understanding, those are my people. So I'm
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  Speaker 2: looking forward.
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  Speaker 6: I like that, seasoned citizens.
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  Speaker 2: That's a Rush Limbaugh saying.
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  Speaker 4: Really?
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  Speaker 6: I'd never heard it before.
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  Speaker 2: Our seasoned citizens, ta-da-da, ta-da-da, ta-da-da. And, yeah, so I'm
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  Speaker 2: looking very much forward to that. What was it called again, Amy?
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  Speaker 6: Annual Seniors Day.
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  Speaker 2: Seniors Day, yes.
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  Speaker 6: We'll call it Seasoned Day.
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  Speaker 2: Seasoned Citizens. Well, you know, I just didn't... I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I used to have my dad on when I was
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  Speaker 2: on Sundays, and I did Sunday nights at KFI. And
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  Speaker 2: I'd have my dad on, ask the old guy. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: I loved having my dad on. And someone asked him
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  Speaker 2: about the Civil War or something. He's like, what the
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  Speaker 2: hell's the matter with you? God rest his soul. Miss
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  Speaker 2: my pops. All righty. We've got Anne. How you doing, Anne?
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  Speaker 7: I'm doing great. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You came in with a big smile today.
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  Speaker 3: I did.
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  Speaker 2: It's Friday and you feeling it?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah. And she was hanging out at the Bruno Mars concert.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: She had a late night, not last night, but the
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  Speaker 2: night before.
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  Speaker 7: It was so good.
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  Speaker 6: And there's more concerts coming up, right? Yep.
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  Speaker 7: Tonight, tomorrow, next Tuesday and Wednesday.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, how do you go wrong with like five
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  Speaker 6: days of Bruno Mars?
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  Speaker 7: You can't.
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  Speaker 2: You can't.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That's a talented package right there. That guy is.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: A little dance party. That's for sure.
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  Speaker 2: And Anne was telling me that she came home and
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  Speaker 2: her daughter had started putting up some Halloween decorations. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, I fully support that. I am so thrilled
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  Speaker 2: for you. I have like one thing out so far.
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  Speaker 2: But our house is kind of Halloween-y around on the inside. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we like some weird crap.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, she was hanging chains up.
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  Speaker 2: That's awesome. I just love that. Amy King, good morning
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  Speaker 2: to you. You getting ready for the holiday? Oh, look
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  Speaker 2: at you with the Disneyland and the bats on your shirt.
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  Speaker 5: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: Look it, you are ready.
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  Speaker 6: It's because we gave away tickets to Disneyland today on
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  Speaker 6: Wake Up Call.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: Rumor has it you'll be giving some away as well.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. Because Amy and I like to spread the joy.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: It's like we're proselytizing Disney at all times.
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  Speaker 6: Halloween time at Disneyland is so great.
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  Speaker 2: I was with a buddy of mine this week who
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  Speaker 2: had never been. He grew up in London, never been
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  Speaker 2: to Disneyland. He's lived out here for a long time.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm taking you to Disneyland. We're going. I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to force feed you the house of the mouse.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Neil Spader in the morning crew handle on
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  Speaker 2: the news lead story. There are heroes, there are good people,
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  Speaker 2: and God bless them. Smit, do you have a read
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  Speaker 2: for his last name, Amy?
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  Speaker 6: I do. It's Smit Machar.
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  Speaker 2: Smit Machar. Yes.
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  Speaker 6: He's an Indian pilot.
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  Speaker 2: And he is the captain who fought off the savage attack.
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  Speaker 2: uh kept fighting because he could not let everyone else
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  Speaker 2: die that is the prime directive right uh he said
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  Speaker 2: in his first public remarks uh since the suspected hijacking
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  Speaker 2: attempt of course they're getting all this information is going
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  Speaker 2: to continue to come out throwing the word terrorism on
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  Speaker 2: something is a big deal obviously and so they want
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  Speaker 2: to dot their eyes and cross their t's uh and
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  Speaker 2: he said in that moment i was fighting for my life.
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  Speaker 6: He was because he As he's sitting there, he's down
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  Speaker 6: on the floor and he said, I'm still being attacked
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  Speaker 6: because he was stabbed several times. Wow. And he still
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  Speaker 6: was able to get up and open the cockpit door,
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  Speaker 6: which let other people in.
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  Speaker 2: We were talking about the adrenaline, like what goes through
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  Speaker 2: your body and and if you're just being stabbed, my
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  Speaker 2: understanding is, uh, like, uh, sharp pain, sharp, but also
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  Speaker 2: a hot pain, uh, like heat. Don't ask me how
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  Speaker 2: I know, but that would, could you imagine, and the
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  Speaker 2: amount of adrenaline going through you at that particular time,
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  Speaker 2: but the people that overcome those things in the moment
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  Speaker 2: and the people that came to aid were absolutely fabulous.
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  Speaker 2: I'm in a good mood, feeling creative, enjoying being with
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  Speaker 2: good people this morning. I love seeing all their faces
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  Speaker 2: in person. And hanging out. And, you know, former producer Michelle,
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  Speaker 2: current executive producer of KFI, Michelle, is such a mom.
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  Speaker 2: She always takes care of us. Don't you always feel
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  Speaker 2: like when she's around, like... I feel safe. Yeah, right?
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  Speaker 2: Like if I skin my knee, that I can go
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  Speaker 2: to her and say, I got a boo-boo and she's
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  Speaker 2: going to take care of it.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, she's absolutely the person you would go to for
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  Speaker 6: a skinned knee.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And so she brought, she brought some food for us
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  Speaker 2: this morning and she pre-thinks, which is a great for
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  Speaker 2: a producer, but you don't have to ask. It's done.
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  Speaker 2: I got you.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you, Michelle.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Thank you, Michelle. God bless you. And she's going
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  Speaker 2: to make us rich one day.
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  Speaker 6: That's right, because she heads up our lottery pool.
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  Speaker 2: I'm out of that lottery pool.
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  Speaker 6: I don't think we've ever won more than, what, $ 20?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no. I think there's been bigger wins, like $ 100
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  Speaker 2: or something, but it all rolls over into it, right?
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  Speaker 2: Or just under $ 100.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, until we hit the big one.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's the whole point. Yeah, and then everybody's going
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  Speaker 2: to leave. I'd still work.
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  Speaker 6: Sure you would.
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  Speaker 2: I like working.
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  Speaker 6: Well, aren't there like 70 people in the pool now?
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  Speaker 6: We'd have to keep working.
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  Speaker 2: I like work. I'm not going to retire. I will
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  Speaker 2: retire from radio one day, maybe sooner than I think.
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  Speaker 2: But I like working. I like learning. Don't you? You
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  Speaker 2: like learning, Amy K.
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  Speaker 1: King. Sure.
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  Speaker 2: She's like visions of– no.
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  Speaker 6: Honestly, this is my dream job. I'm a total news junkie.
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  Speaker 6: Me too.
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  Speaker 2: It's an honor to be here every day I walk
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  Speaker 2: in this place. I would go maybe work at Disneyland though.
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  Speaker 6: I think that would be hard. Yeah, but I have
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  Speaker 6: to be friendly to all those people all the time.
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  Speaker 2: I like people in those contexts. I like people. I
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  Speaker 2: don't like mean people, but I actually I like problem
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  Speaker 2: solving for people that are upset. I used that's what
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  Speaker 2: I miss out of retail. I loved solving problems for
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  Speaker 2: people came up like they would when I did retail
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  Speaker 2: and stuff like that. People would go get Neil because
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  Speaker 2: I want you to leave happy. All right, back to
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  Speaker 2: handle on the news we go. Amy King. Did that
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  Speaker 2: last story? See how I saved that there?
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  Speaker 7: No, I think it's my turn.
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  Speaker 2: Is it again?
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  Speaker 7: Well, yeah.
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  Speaker 6: You just heard me talk about it in my news.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, gotcha. Go ahead.
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  Speaker 6: The fifth person has been found. The body of a
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  Speaker 6: third victim killed in a helicopter crash off Santa Catalina
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  Speaker 6: Island has been recovered. You remember the... Medevac helicopter went
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  Speaker 6: down on Wednesday night. It had just taken off from
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  Speaker 6: Catalina Island and it crashed into the water. A pilot
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  Speaker 6: and a nurse were killed. Two people were recovered, but
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  Speaker 6: there was a fifth person that they hadn't found. They
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  Speaker 6: were able to find her yesterday in the wreckage.
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  Speaker 2: Is she the one that was being taken to the hospital?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, she was the one who was being medevaced off
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  Speaker 6: of the island. She lived on Avalon or in Avalon.
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  Speaker 6: And was being taken to the hospital because she had
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  Speaker 6: an allergic reaction to some shrimp, apparently.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 6: Her son was also on board. He survived.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. It's horrible. That is horrible. God wants you home
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  Speaker 2: at that point. I mean, that really is rough. Third
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  Speaker 2: aircraft carrier, thousands of troops head to Mideast as Trump
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  Speaker 2: weighs new Iran strikes. So you've got the U.S. military
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  Speaker 2: dispatching about 9,000 troops. And they're aboard a group of
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  Speaker 2: ships going to the Middle East yesterday. Bolstering the American
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  Speaker 2: military presence is obviously President Donald Trump's way of warning
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  Speaker 2: a new strike might be imminent. So saber rattling, we
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  Speaker 2: don't know at this point. But, you know, he pushes forward.
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  Speaker 2: There is a method to his madness, I have to imagine.
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  Speaker 2: You know, that he does loosen the cap, you know?
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  Speaker 2: You sit there playing with it and muscling it, and
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  Speaker 2: then everyone– all of a sudden doesn't think about it anymore.
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  Speaker 2: And then it slowly loosens. So that is my hope
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  Speaker 2: is that we don't go to more bombs.
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  Speaker 6: This one was botched big time. Krista Pike is still alive.
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  Speaker 6: She survived her execution by lethal injection. This is in Tennessee.
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  Speaker 6: She was scheduled to be the first woman in 200
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  Speaker 6: years to be executed, but she's now in critical condition
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  Speaker 6: and receiving life-saving medical care. She survived two doses of
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  Speaker 6: a drug meant to kill her on Wednesday night before
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  Speaker 6: they suspended the execution and instead took her to the hospital.
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  Speaker 6: I know.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Dr. Jim Keeney is going to join us at 730,
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  Speaker 2: talk about that a little later, about the cocktail, the
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  Speaker 2: drug cocktail and the like. So we'll get some more
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  Speaker 2: information from a doctor coming up a little later. New
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  Speaker 2: York Attorney General brought in by governor after recent questions
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  Speaker 2: raised over university 2020, university's 2024 investigation. So Leticia James
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  Speaker 2: is now appointed special prosecutor in this alleged gang rape
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  Speaker 2: that took place at Cornell University. The young woman at
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  Speaker 2: the center of this case deserves to know that every
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  Speaker 2: fact will be examined and justice pursued, so says Kathy Hochul,
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  Speaker 2: the New York governor.
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  Speaker 6: Still potentially on the hook, the judge in the Lindsay
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  Speaker 6: Clancy murder case has refused to declare her not guilty,
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  Speaker 6: which was what the defense asked the judge to do, saying,
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  Speaker 6: There wasn't enough evidence to prove that she actually was
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  Speaker 6: responsible for killing her three children. During Clancy's first trial,
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  Speaker 6: which ended September 4th, it was deadlocked. And so there
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  Speaker 6: was a mistrial declared. And, of course, Lindsay Clancy is
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  Speaker 6: the person. She hasn't said she did not kill her
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  Speaker 6: three children, but did say that she was suffering from
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  Speaker 6: postpartum psychosis.
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  Speaker 2: You can't have it both ways. You had an attorney
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  Speaker 2: arguing about that psychosis. And then you're going to come
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  Speaker 2: back and say, she didn't, she never said she did it.
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  Speaker 2: When we've all had, I mean, much of, many of
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  Speaker 2: us have had compassion going. We don't know what goes
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: through your, your head or your hormones or anything that's
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: going on there. And you want to be compassionate, but
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: didn't this play by the attorney have the opposite reaction?
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: It made me go, F you. You know, it, it, she,
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: she did this to her children. And we collectively can
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: look at this and say there might be mitigating circumstances.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: And as humans, we should look at that. She's not
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: a threat to us. I don't believe she's a threat
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: to the community. But she doesn't deserve to walk free either.
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: And so that play just leaves a bad taste in
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: my mouth where it's like, why do that?
• 18:30
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it felt like a Hail Mary.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and it just seemed so dirty. If you want
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: us to have the compassion to look at her and say, hey,
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: she's going through something we can't understand. I get that.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: That's the only way you're going to get any compassion
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: for me when you take the life of children. And
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: that's one thing. And then you go, oh, yeah, but
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: she never said. And then you go to the technicality.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: You go, now you made it just dirty and ugly
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: and stupid and, I don't know, dishonest. And there's no
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: intellectual integrity there. Hey, Will, how's that traffic out there
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: on this lovely Friday morning?
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: You know, it has been, it has been fairly light today,
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: but I just saw a live shot.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: It's really, really foggy at the beaches. Like, like pea soup.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: Oh, wow.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: Keep that in mind, people. All right. Back to handle
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: on the news, Neil Saavedra and the morning crew here,
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: Amy and I get back into it. Uh, I heard
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: you talking about this, Amy, this morning, listening to Wake
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: Up Call, about that fatal shooting that occurred yesterday in
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: Mar Vista on the bus. Witnesses say a man with
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: a head wound was taken off a Culver City bus
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: following a shooting. Multiple bullets were filed, fired in the incident.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: And a man in his forties was killed. And the
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: gunman is still out and about. Was, was it, I'm
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: going through this right now. Was it, was it the
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: driver that was killed or just somebody? That's what I thought. Um,
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: That's horrible. Yeah.
• 20:11
  Speaker 6: And the guy, apparently there was bad directions were given
• 20:15
  Speaker 6: or something to that effect. And the driver was shot.
• 20:20
  Speaker 6: And then the guy got off the bus, got onto
• 20:23
  Speaker 6: a bike and took off.
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: But yeah. And the bike was on the front. You
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: know how they attach the bikes? If you're taking the bus,
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: you put it on the front grill and then you
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: get in there. But I don't understand. Why would you
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: be giving directions to a bus driver? They go to
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: bus stops.
• 20:41
  Speaker 6: Well, it says that it was over a wrong direction.
• 20:45
  Speaker 6: And specifically what that means, we don't know. So did
• 20:52
  Speaker 6: he get on the wrong bus and he got mad?
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: I don't know. But you got to wonder if it's
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: a transient. Yeah, I said it. I said the T word.
• 21:01
  Speaker 6: A lot of people feeling pretty zippy in Malibu. So,
• 21:07
  Speaker 6: you know, they have these new speed cameras that they're
• 21:09
  Speaker 6: rolling out. They've got them in. Coming to Malibu, they've
• 21:12
  Speaker 6: got some more coming in Long Beach. And they will
• 21:14
  Speaker 6: automatically ticket you if you're going 11 miles per hour
• 21:18
  Speaker 6: or more. And at first, there's going to be this warning.
• 21:20
  Speaker 6: And then they'll start issuing the citations after that. So
• 21:23
  Speaker 6: right now, they're testing them. And Malibu was testing those cameras.
• 21:27
  Speaker 6: And in less than 10 days, it recorded 100,000 speeding
• 21:32
  Speaker 6: violations in just 10 days.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: Holy smokes.
• 21:36
  Speaker 6: Most of them were in eastern Malibu. Carbon Canyon, Tuna Canyon.
• 21:46
  Speaker 6: So now they've pushed back their start date for this.
• 21:49
  Speaker 6: They're like, we need to check into this a little
• 21:51
  Speaker 6: bit more. I don't know why. They could make a
• 21:54
  Speaker 6: whole lot of money.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: All right. Defense-focused senators are giving a very cool shoulder
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: reception to War Secretary Pete Hagseth's proposal to cut by 20%
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: the number of the nation's admirals and generals. So you've
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: got some lawmakers upset by this. They said they had
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: not seen the rationale for Hegseth's argument, while others clearly
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: wanted to talk about other things. So Ted Budd, Senator, said, no,
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: I certainly want to see his rationale in detail, and
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: I don't have that yet. When he was asked about
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: whether it was a good move or not, Senator Deb
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: Fischer said, We're focused on what we're doing today, she
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: told reporters, and about the cuts there. So all we
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: know is the simple saying, less generals, more GIs, is
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: all I've heard him say. And if that just means, hey,
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: we need less of the brass and we need more
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: boots on the ground, then what else are you going
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: to say? How are you going to re-say it? Say,
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: we just want more troops. I don't know how... Recruiting
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: is going. I know that it had been down for
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: a long time and maybe that's his rationale.
• 23:17
  Speaker 6: It was down and then it surged.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I remember that there was a strange bump that
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: came and usually those bumps come when we're in some
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: turmoil and people feel super patriotic. You know, like after 9-11,
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: you remember that big, massive surge and But did they
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: ever say why any of that was going down or
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: why we started seeing another boost in young folks enlisting?
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: Because that's the only thing I can think of. And
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: you just come out and you say that. Here's the
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: numbers and we want to boost these numbers.
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: It began in fiscal year 2024. Twelve and a half
• 23:58
  Speaker 6: percent over 2023 numbers.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would imagine that that's. Difficult to get young
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: people to want to, other than, you know, college and
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: stuff like that. You know, and we're getting people responding
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: still from your saying, where was the knife wound? People,
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: let me put this to rest. Anne is about as
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: kind and empathetic as you could possibly imagine. I amplified it,
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: teasing her. was messing with her. We do. We work together.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: All of us work together. She's an incredibly kind and
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: loving person. She was in producer mode trying to get
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: information on a breaking story. Cut her some slack.
• 24:50
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 24:51
  Speaker 7: Move on.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: It's just as funny what gets stuck in people's craw. Yeah. Listen,
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: we hope that you listen enough to get to know us. However,
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: you often don't know who we are. Just Relax. Yeah,
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: relax a little bit.
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: We're all pretty cool people. Yeah.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: You're not helping, Clay. All of us, right? Yeah. Every
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: single one of us. All right. Back to handle on
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: the news we go. Story number 10.
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: A DDT dump. This is pretty bad. Two members of
• 25:29
  Speaker 6: Congress are ramping up efforts now to investigate the consequences
• 25:33
  Speaker 6: of Of DDT pollution off the coast of Southern California.
• 25:37
  Speaker 6: Remember when this story first came out a couple of
• 25:39
  Speaker 6: years ago that they found this massive field of barrels
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: of toxic waste down on the ocean floor. It had
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: been dumped in the ocean after World War II. Well,
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: a first of its kind bill has been introduced in
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: both the Senate and the House. DDT, that's a pesticide, right?
• 25:57
  Speaker 6: That's the one that nearly wiped out the bald eagles.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and they were like, I remember that. When I
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: was a kid, right? How long ago was that?
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: Well, all this dumping happened after World War II. But
• 26:09
  Speaker 6: it's called the Ocean Protection DDT Reduction Act. Lays out
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: a long-awaited proposal on how to deal with the poisoned
• 26:17
  Speaker 6: marine environment because you can't just pull it up. And
• 26:20
  Speaker 6: it's been sitting there on the ocean floor for, you know,
• 26:24
  Speaker 6: almost 100 years. The nation's largest manufacturer of DDT. disposed
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: of its waste at sea for years. Wow.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: That just, I mean, that really is sweeping it under
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: the rug. How can you not think, how is that
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: any different than leaving it out to rot and poison
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: and everything?
• 26:50
  Speaker 6: Maybe the thought is if it's cold enough and it
• 26:52
  Speaker 6: doesn't get stirred up, it'll just sit there. But I
• 26:57
  Speaker 6: don't know.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: There's no– you'd think there's some destructive way to kill
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: the properties that we have concern with. You know what
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: I'm saying? Like you first think about fire or incinerating something.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: That could be the absolute wrong thing to do. I
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: have no idea. But you'd think there was something, pressure, heat, combination,
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: something to be able to destroy. Catapult into space. Yeah.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: Now you're talking, Clay. Oh, you mean the– I thought you.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: Hmm.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: She was pure love, says the partner of Renee Good.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: That's the Minneapolis woman that we remember was fatally shot
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: by an immigration officer back in January. So she spoke
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: publicly about her partner's death the first time on Thursday.
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: Family announced that they have filed two federal civil lawsuits.
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: Goes on to say she was pure love. She was funny.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: And she was smart and she was gorgeous, Becca Good
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: said at a press conference. Becoming very emotional, obviously, as
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: she discussed, attending back to school night and preparing to
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: celebrate Halloween with her children alone. Every single one of
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: these moments for all of her babies and for everyone
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: up here as a monumental moment, she should be here
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: for all of them. And we were all robbed. Regardless
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: if you see her as somebody who put herself in
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: danger or not, that's a horrible, horrible situation. And you
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: can't help but feel for the rest of her family.
• 28:44
  Speaker 6: Well, now Kroger's done it. They've gone just too far.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: Uh-oh.
• 28:49
  Speaker 6: They're instituting a new dress policy.
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: Wait, what?
• 28:53
  Speaker 6: Nearly 400,000 in-store workers. And Kroger here is Ralph's. The
• 28:58
  Speaker 6: workers are now going to be required to wear company-issued
• 29:00
  Speaker 6: shirts featuring Kroger's shopping cart logo, which I've noticed has
• 29:05
  Speaker 6: popped up on the app now.
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: Oh, well, good.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: I thought it was for us. I'm like, oh, man.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: No.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: We got a dress code to go grocery shopping. I'm like,
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: that's the difference between going to Walmart and Target. You
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: ever hear people go, I didn't have it at Walmart.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: Now I got to shower and go to Target.
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: No.
• 29:23
  Speaker 6: So apparently, I don't know why this is a big deal.
• 29:26
  Speaker 6: I mean, I'm just thinking you got less laundry to
• 29:28
  Speaker 6: do or less going through your wardrobe to figure out
• 29:32
  Speaker 6: what you're going to wear to work. Kroger workers previously
• 29:35
  Speaker 6: were able to wear their own clothing under a company
• 29:38
  Speaker 6: apron along with a name badge to identify.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: Them as workers.
• 29:41
  Speaker 6: Well, now they're going to have to wear a t-shirt
• 29:43
  Speaker 6: or a zip up or a polo shirt that has
• 29:46
  Speaker 6: the Kroger logo on it.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: Are they getting it for free or do they have
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: to pay for it?
• 29:49
  Speaker 6: Company issued. I don't know.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: Okay. So why do you care?
• 29:52
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: You know, if you don't have to pay for it,
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: then who cares? El Nino, once again, Is Spanish for
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: the niño. They just got, you've never heard that before ever?
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: No.
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: It's an old Chris Farley joke. I'm el niño.
• 30:13
  Speaker 6: What does niño mean?
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: Little boy. Niño. Little boy. Mi niño. Mi hijito. Mi hijo.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: All of it. All right. Just gave us the first
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: no hurricane September in decades. Our weather doesn't know what
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: it's doing. How long can this Atlantic shutout last? Well,
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: that's what we're waiting to see. The Atlantic Ocean has
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: failed to produce a hurricane in the month of September
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: for the first time in more than 30 years. You know,
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: and then Handel will come on and go, look at
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: the weather is going everywhere. We've got all these hurricanes everywhere.
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: It's just weather is. Boy, it's unpredictable. I don't want
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: to see anybody harmed, but I sure would like some
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: of that El Nino rain. El Nino. So only three
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: other Septembers have gone hurricane free in the Atlantic in
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: records dating back to 1950. Last time it happened was 1994,
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: and before that, 1972 and 1962. So I guess that's
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: good news for the Atlantic.
• 31:25
  Speaker 6: Well, but we're getting hounded here in the Pacific. We
• 31:28
  Speaker 6: got another one that's just spun up. The head of CNN,
• 31:35
  Speaker 6: is he going to have a job? That's the big question.
• 31:38
  Speaker 6: The chairman and chief executive of CNN is Mark Thompson.
• 31:42
  Speaker 6: Not our Mark Thompson, a different one.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, it's not me, Amy.
• 31:46
  Speaker 6: He could remain at his role at the News Network
• 31:50
  Speaker 6: following the merger of Paramount Skydance and Warner Brothers Discovery.
• 31:55
  Speaker 6: Thompson is said to be in early stages of discussions
• 31:58
  Speaker 6: with Paramount Skydance chief David Ellison about staying in the
• 32:03
  Speaker 6: role that he's held since April of 2023.
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: All right. And so goes Handel on the news. Almost
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: every single story. Good for us.
• 32:14
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• 32:17
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• 32:20
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