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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from kf I
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  Speaker 1: AM six forty.
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  Speaker 1: And now handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen. Here's
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  Speaker 1: Bill Handle FI am six forty.
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  Speaker 2: Do'll handle here? Good morning, and.
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  Speaker 4: It is a Thursday morning, June fourth. Oh, we're not
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  Speaker 4: gonna Friday, so June sixth, D Day is going to
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  Speaker 4: happen on Saturday. Okay, which we uh off the word
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  Speaker 4: of cellar break, which we recognize D Day, which was
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  Speaker 4: the Normandy landing.
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  Speaker 5: Have you ever gone to Normandy?
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  Speaker 6: I've heard that it's just an incredibly.
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  Speaker 4: Powerful it is astounding. First of all, you have the
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  Speaker 4: American Cemetery up there above above the cliffs where the
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  Speaker 4: landing took place, and it is it's American park land,
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  Speaker 4: by the way, it belongs to the Cemetery. Park belongs
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  Speaker 4: to the people of the United States. It's not French territory.
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  Speaker 4: So the National Park Service actually runs it and maintains it.
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  Speaker 2: That's a great gig.
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  Speaker 4: By the way, if you're assigned to the Normandy Cemetery,
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  Speaker 4: they keep it absolutely meticulous. I mean it is it's
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  Speaker 4: astounding and it is so moving that you look at
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  Speaker 4: how many how many Americans died in the war, especially
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  Speaker 4: that initial day.
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  Speaker 2: I think, well a couple of.
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  Speaker 4: Thousand died those first few minutes when they landed. A
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  Speaker 4: couple things about the Normandy beaches, how far apard this
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  Speaker 4: was surprising, and that is yet five beaches that the
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  Speaker 4: Allies landed on, sword Gold, Juno, Utah. I'm trying to
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  Speaker 4: remember the other one. They some of them, some of
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  Speaker 4: the forces, Canadian forces for example, landed on the beach.
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  Speaker 4: They just walked, literally just walked ashore. The Americans got
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  Speaker 4: the worst of it by a long shot, landing on
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  Speaker 4: the beach. How far do you think those beaches are apart?
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  Speaker 4: If you had to guess, or were they right next
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  Speaker 4: to each other? What did you if you had to guess,
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  Speaker 4: no idea seventy five miles? Oh wow, the Normandy beaches
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  Speaker 4: go across seventy five miles of territory. They were very
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  Speaker 4: far from each other along the Normandy coast, there's a
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  Speaker 4: whole world to the landing of D Day landing.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that's there's books after books.
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  Speaker 4: I probably only read twenty of them in terms of
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  Speaker 4: what exactly happened that day and the follow up and
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  Speaker 4: how it was created, and what the United States, what
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  Speaker 4: the Allies did to hopefully fool the Germans and thinking
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  Speaker 4: it wasn't going to be Normandy at which they did.
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  Speaker 4: By the way, the Germans did think it was going
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  Speaker 4: to be the Calais de Pai or pie by the Calais,
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  Speaker 4: which is the shortest distance between France and England, and
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  Speaker 4: they thought it was going to happen. And then there
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  Speaker 4: are some some astounding coincidences. Hitler was woken up late
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  Speaker 4: the when the Normandy landing took place. The people there
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  Speaker 4: were very reluctant to wake up Hitler and brilliant so
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  Speaker 4: so it happened way later. Irwin Rommel, who is the
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  Speaker 4: general who was in charge of never mind, I could
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  Speaker 4: go on for an hour and a half and I
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  Speaker 4: won't do that, all right anyway, Good more, Good morning, Amy.
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  Speaker 5: Good morning Bill.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's much easier if you asked me have I
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  Speaker 4: ever been to Ghana? And the answer is no.
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  Speaker 5: The conversations over what it would have been.
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  Speaker 2: Quicker much quicker. All right, so Amy, good morning, good morning,
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  Speaker 2: and Cono, good morning, hey.
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  Speaker 4: Will, Will Cole Schreiber Yo yo, okay, Neil, last day
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  Speaker 4: today before leaving tomorrow, have you mentioned what what what
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  Speaker 4: procedure you're going to have?
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  Speaker 2: Where do we keep at sleep the bariatric sleeve okay?
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  Speaker 6: Are a permanent thing or do they put it up
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  Speaker 6: for a while and then take it off.
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  Speaker 3: No, it's not a band. It's actually permanent. And uh yeah,
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  Speaker 3: So it's all liquids today and then I go very
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  Speaker 3: very early in the morning.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, which is when you want to do it because
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  Speaker 4: you're fasting. I remember I had, oh when I had
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  Speaker 4: my back surgery, it was two o'clock in the afternoon,
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  Speaker 4: No water, no food, enjoy yourself.
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  Speaker 2: It was like young Kipoor. It was horrible. All right, Michelle,
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  Speaker 2: good morning, good morning. All right.
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  Speaker 4: Do we have a lot on the plate, Yes, we do,
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  Speaker 4: going on as we can figure out. We try to
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  Speaker 4: stay away from Trump news because there's so much, but.
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  Speaker 2: It's impossible you can't. So we've got some of that.
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  Speaker 4: The war continues on, just fun and you know, fun
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  Speaker 4: defenses by the Trump administration. So and then a few
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  Speaker 4: fun topics too, because they're not going to get very serious.
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  Speaker 2: So let's do it, guys. It is time for.
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  Speaker 4: Handle on the news, Amy Neil and me late story
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  Speaker 4: and I'm going to do.
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  Speaker 2: You this one. At seven o'clock, the House for the
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  Speaker 2: first time approved that War Powers Resolution and a war
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  Speaker 2: Powers resolution. Currently the law is that it is.
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  Speaker 4: This was based after Nixon got involved in the war
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  Speaker 4: in Vietnam and actually changed it after a few years.
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  Speaker 4: In any case, war Power's Resolution says that the president
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  Speaker 4: sends military troops in goes to war. Quote, he or
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  Speaker 4: she only has sixty days and must go to Congress
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  Speaker 4: to extend that. And of course President Trump is saying,
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  Speaker 4: oh no, no, no, not And it's interesting his and
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  Speaker 4: there actually is a rationale. He said, since there is
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  Speaker 4: a cease fire, there is no war. Therefore we don't
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  Speaker 4: need a war resolution. You don't have to pass it
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  Speaker 4: because it's unnecessary. Of course, Mike Johnson, you know, every morning,
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  Speaker 4: stands up and goes bark bark, bark, bark. As the
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  Speaker 4: President when he meets him says heal, And there's Mike
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  Speaker 4: Johnson on his haunches doing whatever the President wants.
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  Speaker 5: Amy sleeping with the enemy.
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  Speaker 6: A guy from Newport Beach has been arrested for allegedly
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  Speaker 6: selling US computer technology to the Iranian government, including to
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  Speaker 6: the agency responsible for Iran's nuclear program. His name is
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  Speaker 6: Jim she'd Gom. He's the CEO of an Iran based
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  Speaker 6: technology company. He lives in a thirty five million dollar
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  Speaker 6: mansion in Orange County and is a dual US Iranian citizen.
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  Speaker 6: Bill A Sale, the attorney US attorney Bill A Sale,
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  Speaker 6: said he did a lot to cover his tracks. He
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  Speaker 6: would not ship things directly to Iran. He would ship
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  Speaker 6: them to other countries first and then from there they
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  Speaker 6: would make their way to Iran. And we're talking about
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  Speaker 6: like two hundred and fifty metric tons of gear.
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  Speaker 7: Did you so? He lives in this huge mansion.
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  Speaker 8: But this started out as a tax investigation because he
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  Speaker 8: was only claiming like that he made twenty one thousand
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  Speaker 8: dollars a year in taxes and he was claiming the
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  Speaker 8: low income tax credit.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my serious for him? Here's my question.
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  Speaker 4: It's an Iran based technology company, and I don't quite
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  Speaker 4: understand that he sold Iran sophisticated UH technology. But the
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  Speaker 4: company's in Iran or it just started in Iran. I
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  Speaker 4: don't understand, and the story doesn't tell us.
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  Speaker 5: Well, he was selling it to Iran.
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  Speaker 2: It might be, but it's based in Iran.
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  Speaker 5: But he's selling the stuff to.
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  Speaker 2: Iran government of Iran. So I have a question.
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  Speaker 4: How does Iran let a company that's on it in
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  Speaker 4: its soil then follow the sanction saying you can have
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  Speaker 4: a company here, but you can't sell We're not going
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  Speaker 4: to buy it and you can't sell it, or more importantly,
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  Speaker 4: you can't sell it. I don't understand how that works
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  Speaker 4: other than it started in Iran. Maybe there's offices in
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  Speaker 4: Iran and nothing happens in Iran other than a po box.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, didn't it? What's that that helped understanding it?
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  Speaker 2: Didn't it? Because I have no idea? Yeah, full ceasefires.
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  Speaker 3: Ceasefire, as we know in Lebanon is one of the
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  Speaker 3: key demands uh He running and officials have made as
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  Speaker 3: part of their negotiations with the Trump administration as far
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  Speaker 3: as ending the war. Right, well, it looks like Israel
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  Speaker 3: Lebanon have agreed to implement a full ceasefire contingent on
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  Speaker 3: hesblah stopping the attacks and withdrawing its operatives from the
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  Speaker 3: area there. So this is a joint statement of the US,
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  Speaker 3: Israel and Lebanon. We'll see if this helps.
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  Speaker 6: You know what, before you commentate on this, Hesbela came
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  Speaker 6: out this morning and said, no, we don't agree.
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  Speaker 2: Here's the exactly to that point.
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  Speaker 4: You know what's missing in this missive in this announcement,
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  Speaker 4: hisblah and they're the ones that are at war. The
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  Speaker 4: government of Lebanon is not. His blaw is an army
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  Speaker 4: onto itself and ignores the official government of Lebanon, especially
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  Speaker 4: in the area near the Lutani River, which is north
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  Speaker 4: of the border a little bit, and that is an
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  Speaker 4: area that Hasbola completely controls.
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  Speaker 2: So this is this is pablum is what it is.
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  Speaker 2: This means nothing.
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  Speaker 3: But you also have you know this Hesbelah, which is
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  Speaker 3: accountable to whom.
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  Speaker 4: Nobody, the proxy of Iran. Theoretically Iran tells it what
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  Speaker 4: to do. Also his Belah. I don't know why they
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  Speaker 4: did it other than they were cow telling to their superiors,
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  Speaker 4: being Iran. And that is when the war in Iran started.
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  Speaker 4: When US attacked Iran and was not attacking Lebanon. Had
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  Speaker 4: nothing to do with Lebanon, Hezbola decided to start firing
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  Speaker 4: missiles into Israel in solidarity of Iran. That sure worked
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  Speaker 4: out for them, didn't it. Look at the damage that's
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  Speaker 4: happened in South Lebanon and Beirut, the capital of Lebanon.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, moving ahead.
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  Speaker 6: Things that go boom in the night, Well, there were helicopters,
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  Speaker 6: explosions and simulated gunfire. It was part of a US
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  Speaker 6: military training exercise that happened last night in both Pasadena
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  Speaker 6: and in Irvine. Both exercises apparently part of regular training
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  Speaker 6: the military does on an ongoing basis. That's according to
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  Speaker 6: city spokesperson for Pasadena, Lisa dr Darien. But council member
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  Speaker 6: Rick Cole is ticked off. He said, I was outraged
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  Speaker 6: by this. The city was informed just today, meaning yesterday,
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  Speaker 6: and was told not to release information about the exercises
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  Speaker 6: until five thirty pm.
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  Speaker 4: Does anybody know that Pasadena and Irvine even had military exercises?
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  Speaker 4: Certainly Camp Pendleton does along the water the marine base,
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  Speaker 4: but exercises in passages in Irvine.
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  Speaker 8: I've lived in near Pasadena for twenty five years now
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  Speaker 8: and I've never heard of this happening.
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  Speaker 5: Ever.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't get this. I don't I found in
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  Speaker 2: the city Irvine.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean I saw it yesterday.
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  Speaker 8: I saw it flash and I put it on all
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  Speaker 8: of our socials here at KFI too, just because I
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  Speaker 8: thought people should know.
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  Speaker 6: That you're going to hear explosions in gunfire.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And this is like downtown Pasadena and Irvine Alton Parkway
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  Speaker 4: in Irvine Boulevard.
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  Speaker 2: I just it's weird. I don't get it.
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  Speaker 3: All right, La Mayo primary. You've got Bass leading, but
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  Speaker 3: Pratt still stays in his position for this historic runoff
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  Speaker 3: that will happen in November. So even you know, his
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  Speaker 3: votes keep coming in. It doesn't look like city council women.
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  Speaker 3: Thank god, Nitthia Rahman is going to clear that space.
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  Speaker 2: Let me ask you a question.
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  Speaker 4: So you've got Karen Bass, who is liberal but you know,
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  Speaker 4: closer to the middle. You've got Ramen who has a
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  Speaker 4: portrait of Karl Marx in her office, and you've got
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  Speaker 4: Spencer Pratt, who would love to dance with the president
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  Speaker 4: if you possibly could. It's where are you going to
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  Speaker 4: go with that? Especially in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 2: This is the.
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  Speaker 3: First time in twenty one years a sitting in La
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  Speaker 3: Mayor has been forced into a general election runof.
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  Speaker 4: Look at the politics, but it doesn't matter the outcome.
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  Speaker 4: We know what's going to happen.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but you can you say every time you know
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  Speaker 3: a Trump or a Republican goes down, you go see
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  Speaker 3: this is people voting against the administration. But you've got
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  Speaker 3: a conservative leading the pack in the gubernatorial race, and
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  Speaker 3: you've got a Republican essentially coming in second and a
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  Speaker 3: mayor that couldn't couldn't even hold on to hit the incumbency.
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  Speaker 2: But look at but hang on a minute.
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  Speaker 4: That is because Garant Karen Bass was by herself and
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  Speaker 4: Pratt Karen Bass and Robin split the vote. Because the
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  Speaker 4: people that voted for Ramen are moving over to Karen
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  Speaker 4: Karen Bass.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be a wipeout.
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  Speaker 3: There were other Republicans on that not did anybody paid
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  Speaker 3: attention to it? Was the last time you saw a
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  Speaker 3: Republican get this high during a primary?
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  Speaker 5: You know, it.
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  Speaker 4: Depended on you know, I don't remember it's getting that high.
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  Speaker 2: And you're right, I've never.
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  Speaker 3: Seen something happening, you got it.
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  Speaker 4: Well, yeah, no, there is something happening, and that's this
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  Speaker 4: general malaise and the general tiredness of the electorate. But
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  Speaker 4: you know, look what's going to happen with Hilton on
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  Speaker 4: the gubernatorial race. But Sarah's going to get it because
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  Speaker 4: the Democrats split the vote and now there's only one Democrat.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, Styer got like almost twenty percent and Sarah's got
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  Speaker 6: like twenty six percent.
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  Speaker 4: Where and where are the sire people going to go Hilton?
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  Speaker 2: Of course not, They're going to go to the Democrat.
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  Speaker 4: So if you look at the numbers, it's not even
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  Speaker 4: going to be close. We it's it's we're a democratic
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  Speaker 4: state and a democratic city. You know what you have
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  Speaker 4: people Huntington Beach. Huntington Beach is the outlier.
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  Speaker 6: What what what if people were really just fed up
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  Speaker 6: and said, I don't care if there's an R or
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  Speaker 6: a D next to it, something's got to give.
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  Speaker 4: Here, then it would be it would be mickey mouse
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  Speaker 4: as the writing. That's what it would be. We would
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  Speaker 4: have a mayor that has big hands exactly.
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  Speaker 3: But if you took off the R or the D,
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  Speaker 3: as Amy suggested, and you just went on the stuff
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  Speaker 3: that was written, come on.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well they are and the D we don't have that.
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  Speaker 4: Katina's racist, nonpartisan. Everybody knows. But every yeah, exactly, everybody knows.
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  Speaker 4: So it's it's politics as usual. I'll tell you that
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  Speaker 4: right now. A little less than to Neil's point, but
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  Speaker 4: it's going to be politics as usual.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 6: Moving on, SpaceX's Elon Musk is about to go where
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  Speaker 6: no man has gone before. They're doing their initial public
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  Speaker 6: offering and they're going to sell for one hundred and
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  Speaker 6: thirty five bucks a share, which would give it a
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  Speaker 6: valuation of one point seventy seven trillion dollars and make
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  Speaker 6: it the largest ipo ever. Of course, the big winner
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  Speaker 6: would be Elon Musk. He's already the richest man in
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  Speaker 6: the world, and at one hundred and thirty five dollars
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  Speaker 6: a share, the roughly fifty percent stake in SpaceX that
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  Speaker 6: he controls would be worth just over seven hundred and
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  Speaker 6: fifty two billion dollars.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. What I don't understand is why the company needs money.
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  Speaker 2: They have more money than know what to do with.
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  Speaker 2: And the other question.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a good point, okay, and they need money
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  Speaker 4: from Mars, all right, I'll buy that. That resonates. And
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  Speaker 4: then the other thing about IPOs. Price of an IPO
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  Speaker 4: is set by the company. It sets its own price,
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  Speaker 4: And this is what happens day one. Either it comes
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  Speaker 4: in at that price, and I'm sure they do this
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  Speaker 4: in consultations with.
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  Speaker 2: The experts who put this together.
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  Speaker 4: But either it comes in below or it comes in above,
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  Speaker 4: and people insiders get it at the takeout price or
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  Speaker 4: a little bit below because they get inside.
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  Speaker 2: But we'll see what happens. Is it going to go
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  Speaker 2: above or below?
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  Speaker 3: You know what, Bill, I just thought of this. People
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  Speaker 3: refer to the Earth as the big blue ball or whatever,
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  Speaker 3: and Mars is red. What if they're going to start
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  Speaker 3: an all republican planet and just leave the Earth to
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  Speaker 3: the blue folks?
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  Speaker 5: What do you think Spencer Pratt's going to lead the way?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we're back to Mickey Mouse again. I'm telling you
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  Speaker 4: this whole thing is very strange.
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  Speaker 2: But we'll see.
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  Speaker 4: I'm interested in seeing what the strike price is going
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  Speaker 4: to be, what that price is actually going to go for.
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  Speaker 3: We learned more information about this fellow, you remember the
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  Speaker 3: hostage taker there in Baker's Field we talked about yesterday,
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  Speaker 3: as Bill said, was apparently a sex offender who said
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  Speaker 3: he was framed. Anthony Scott Scott Searless Harris. That's a
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  Speaker 3: long name. Forty one years old, who was unalived and
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  Speaker 3: sent up to the Choir Invisible by the FBI. Authorities
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  Speaker 3: later determined that the explosives that he had were not
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  Speaker 3: real at all. If you remember, he walked into a
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  Speaker 3: Chase Bank building downtown Bakersfield Tuesday afternoon, claiming to have
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  Speaker 3: these explosives attached to his person, tied up hostages on
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  Speaker 3: the second floor, locked himself and everyone else inside. But
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  Speaker 3: he uploaded a video apparently to YouTube in October titled
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  Speaker 3: labeled a Monster and Searless. Harris accused law enforcement of
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  Speaker 3: planting evidence in his case. He also said the media
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  Speaker 3: was complicit in his conviction by publicizing the false allegations
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  Speaker 3: against him.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of Now, this was a movie, if you think
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  Speaker 2: about it.
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  Speaker 4: Here you are with a suspect kidnapping and holding hostage
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  Speaker 4: a bunch of people. You have the hostage negotiators come in,
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  Speaker 4: and the swat team then attacks and kills him.
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  Speaker 2: That's exactly what we see in the movies.
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  Speaker 3: So you think he's got a mental issue or you
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  Speaker 3: think not anymore? No, but do you think he was innocent?
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  Speaker 3: And I don't know, I have no idea. I'm not
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  Speaker 3: aware of what the case was about. My guess is
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  Speaker 3: I probably am not believing him.
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  Speaker 4: If I had to go one way or the other,
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  Speaker 4: I'd probably go in favor of the authorities.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, I don't know. You don't know.
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  Speaker 6: Wealthy in real life or just on paper. You may
• 20:21
  Speaker 6: earn a good salary which allows you to dine out,
• 20:23
  Speaker 6: take vacations, but you still might feel deep financial unease.
• 20:28
  Speaker 6: Millions of Americans with decent paychecks are feeling insecure financially,
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  Speaker 6: according to a newly released report from Gallup and Edward Jones.
• 20:37
  Speaker 6: It says this paradox divides Americans into three groups, showing
• 20:43
  Speaker 6: how people different see money differently. There are the financially
• 20:47
  Speaker 6: fulfilled group that's about sixteen percent of Americans. There's the
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: financially conflicted group, which makes up the majority of fifty
• 20:54
  Speaker 6: one percent. And then there's thirty two percent who say
• 20:57
  Speaker 6: they are financially stressed. They are stuck in a constant
• 21:01
  Speaker 6: state of anxiety over money.
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  Speaker 4: Well, keep in mind that if their wealth is their
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: home and the cost of living is so astronomically high, yeah,
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: you wonder, you know, how am I going to live?
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: Now?
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: My definition of rich because some people are rich and
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: we talked about this before. Rich to me is leaving
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: your employee, your employment tomorrow afternoon, walking away and maintaining
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: your lifestyle and maybe thirty thousand dollars a year, maybe
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: three hundred thousand dollars a year.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: Whatever it is, you are rich.
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: And so we talk about living on Social Security at
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: eighteen hundred dollars a month, for example, you can't survive
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: on that unless you move to Mexico and you move
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: to one of those American colonies where you get a
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: double wide and you can live on twelve hundred bucks
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: fifteen hundred bucks a month and you're living super comfortably.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: So those people are rich.
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: And so although you know the cost of living, and
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: this is the first time this has happened, you know
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: I can afford to eat, to go out to dinner.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, I make a healthy living. I
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: am not going out to dinner anymore or very rarely
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: where I wouldn't even blink. And now I go, you
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: know what, lindsay, let's not go out to dinner only
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: because it's so damn expensive.
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: But she doesn't eat, that's correct, So it's very cheap
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: for me to She's on the same sesame seed as
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: she was at the beginning, That is.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: Carried well, how about you with Tracy.
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: She doesn't eat no's, So we don't go out at
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: dinner unless you know, you know, we go as a
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: family and it's just for fun. But that's olive Garden,
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: you know. So it's not like we're breaking de bate.
• 22:45
  Speaker 6: You're all you can eat to sell it and.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: Surgery. Olive Garden is pretty high end as far as
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: I'm concerned.
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: I love olive Garden. Stop.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: Okay, please, you go to Taco Bell.
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I don't give you any grief.
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: I remember Taco Bell where you could buy ten tacos
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: for a dollar. I actually remember those days. Of course,
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: that was back in the forties, maybe even the thirties. Okay,
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: let's continue on because I want to get to a
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: lot of stories here.
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: Okay, so this dealing with more financial stuff. You got
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: more Californians are filing for bankruptcy. Yet this signal of
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: bill paying problems looks like middle of the pack when
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: you kind of put it up against the national scale.
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: So you've got the states with the biggest jumps in
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: bankruptcy with North Dakota forty one percent, Alaska, they use
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: money I thought they paid in Pelts up twenty nine percent,
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: Florida twenty two percent, Texas up twenty percent, in Oregon
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: up nineteen percent. Only one state had fewer bankruptcies, Maine
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: down eight percent.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: What is the number one cause bankruptcies in this country?
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: Medical?
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: That's right, medical debt.
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: I can if it turned out if we had a
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: national if we had a national health system the way
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: every other industrial country in the world has, the bankruptcy
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: would be a fraction of what they are.
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but even even Obamacare was sure, but it just
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: makes it more affordable, even if even our attempt wasn't
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: that great.
• 24:27
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: Now, if you're a dirt poor you're going to get
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: medical I mean you are now granted, you're going to
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: get used parts.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: For example, if.
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: I have used parts, sir, you do have used parts,
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: gently used parts. Lovingly.
• 24:44
  Speaker 8: Yes, my husband I have really great insurance through his
• 24:48
  Speaker 8: work through Costcoat.
• 24:49
  Speaker 7: Great Health Pan. We still play.
• 24:52
  Speaker 8: We still paid over the course of two years, almost
• 24:56
  Speaker 8: thirty thousand dollars out of pocket.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: Relative to what the actual cost was or the billabowl cost.
• 25:04
  Speaker 7: When I had one thousand dollars.
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah, when I had my open heart surgery and I
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: had the infection in my valve. I paid, I don't know,
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: twenty two hundred dollars. But you have to pay at
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: the time, you pay up front or as they throw
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: you out. It was I looked at the bill. I
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: asked them to send me the bill, because they actually
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: bill each other. They promote they with the DAYA is
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: they develop a bill for themselves internal It was one
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: hundred and thirty thousand dollars, and I said twenty and
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: I spaied and I paid two thousand dollars.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: It's it's insanely expensive.
• 25:37
  Speaker 6: Okay, Well, we had COVID, then we had ebola, then
• 25:40
  Speaker 6: we had ZEKEA. Well, now we've got a flesh eating screwworm.
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: Bring it.
• 25:46
  Speaker 6: It's a parasite. They've kept it out of the US
• 25:48
  Speaker 6: for decades, but now it has been detected in Texas livestock,
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: threatening the nation's cattle industry and food supply. Now, the
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: parasite doesn't apparently pose a food safety threat, but a
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: wild wider outbreak could cost the livestock industry billions. Unlike
• 26:07
  Speaker 6: contagious livestock diseases screw worm, screw worm does not spread
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: directly from animal to animal, the little flesh eating guy. Uh,
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: this is how they spread. The female lays eggs in
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: open wounds or body openings, and then the eggs hatch
• 26:26
  Speaker 6: and the larvae burrows into the living flesh and feeds
• 26:30
  Speaker 6: on tissue.
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: M that great, M I know, so gross.
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: Wait it lays eggs, Amy, I would you put a
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: camera on it and then talk about it every morning?
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: I could.
• 26:41
  Speaker 6: It'd be as fun as my Finch fam.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: God blessing Grossman Ericsson negligent in boy's death. That we
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: this story was so horrible, continues to be horrible, and
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: now one hundred and seventy six million dollars in damage
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: damages penalized against Grossman. Her husband too. By the way,
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: so doctor Peter Grossman, Rebecca Grossman's former husband, I guess,
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: former and founder of the Grossman Burn Foundation. It's his
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: car and he allowed her to drive it.
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, he's liable. That's how he got nailed. By
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: the way, it was his dad. His dad founded the
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: Burn Center.
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: So but here's the deal. Oh, he gets nailed and uh,
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: she's out with a boyfriend whatever. So she's out.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: He owned a car, He owned the car.
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: No, but that's a double smack to the face, is
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: what I'm saying.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: It's how that works.
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: Where you own a car, you are liable. For example,
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: someone gets in any accident you drive, an Amazon truck
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: hits you, and if the Amazon truck is owned by Amazon,
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: and of course they're liable, I.
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: Hope they get dinged. And this goes to both.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: They got dinged. This is one hundred and seventy eight million,
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: I know, but before punitive damages, and that's another hearing.
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: You think that the judge is going to uphold that number.
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: No, no, because they don't. And it's basically it doesn't
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: even matter what number is going to bring it to.
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: Grossman is going to go bankrupt on this. His assets
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: are gone and her assets, well, she's in prison for
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: fifteen years, so she's got nothing.
• 28:27
  Speaker 6: I have a question for you about this. Yes, so
• 28:30
  Speaker 6: it's one hundred and seventy six million dollars. Of course,
• 28:32
  Speaker 6: this family lost their children. It's horrible. Everything about it
• 28:35
  Speaker 6: is horrible. But there are other cases of people who
• 28:38
  Speaker 6: get murdered in front of like shot in the head
• 28:41
  Speaker 6: in front of somebody, and they don't get these kinds
• 28:43
  Speaker 6: of judgments.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: Because they don't go to court.
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: They don't go for they don't go to civil trial
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: because there's no money there. No lawyer is going to
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: take it and get a judgment like this and do
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: a whole trial and get no money. If there's no
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: money to be had, you know, no one's going to
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: buy I guess questions like that all the time. Oh
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: I got hit, I got assaulted. Well, okay you did
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: and you were injured. Now you have to go after
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: someone who did the assault, and they have no money,
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: and these two both having to have some. Oh yeah, well, grossman,
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: I'm assuming has good has a pile of money.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: I'm assuming that.
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: So if this happens, how are fans going to buy
• 29:23
  Speaker 6: their beer? Sofi stadium workers are going to vote starting
• 29:30
  Speaker 6: today on whether they're going to go on strike. And
• 29:32
  Speaker 6: the World Cup is next week.
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: Oh how is that for some leverage?
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: Yeah unit here or in this case, in this case,
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: beverage leverage.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: That's cute, thank you, very rich, Yeah, thank you.
• 29:46
  Speaker 6: So they're working without a contract. They're demanding a guarantee
• 29:49
  Speaker 6: that Ice agents not be president president at the tournament.
• 29:53
  Speaker 6: They want detailed work hours, they want restricted use of subcontractors,
• 29:58
  Speaker 6: and they also are asking to prohibit FIFA from using
• 30:02
  Speaker 6: AI or automation at the arena, so they have job security.
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: I wonder is there Are they going to allow a
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: strike which may shut down may shut down the World game,
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: the Cup.
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: I don't know. All right, we are done.
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: Something happened yesterday and that has to do with the
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: War Powers Resolution.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: And the President.
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: Does it mean anything, well, in actuality practically no, but
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: it says something about what's going on politically. I'll share
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: that with you when we come back. KFI AM six
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