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Downturn in Las Vegas | Traffic Cameras Coming to Los Angeles · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
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  Speaker 1: six forty.
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  Speaker 2: Right AM six forty Bill Handle here on a Monday morning,
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  Speaker 2: March thirtieth.
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  Speaker 1: Some big stories that we are looking at. The war
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  Speaker 1: in Iran.
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  Speaker 2: The President is contemplating putting boots on the ground, sending
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  Speaker 2: in bringing in troops to the Mid East, and man,
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  Speaker 2: if he makes that choice, and he is going to
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  Speaker 2: be the one that makes that choice, I mean it's
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  Speaker 2: really clear that he and certainly the Republican Congress says
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  Speaker 2: it's Trump's call without any input from Congress. If he
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  Speaker 2: makes that call, man, it's.
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  Speaker 1: Going to blow up.
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  Speaker 2: And I think even his most ardent, sycophantic supporters advisors
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  Speaker 2: will say, you know what, maybe we ought to think
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  Speaker 2: this one through. So we'll see what happens on that one. Now,
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  Speaker 2: let me tell you what's going on in Las Vegas.
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  Speaker 2: Las Vegas is a fascinating place, and virtually all of
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  Speaker 2: us have into Las Vegas at one time or another.
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  Speaker 2: And what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, right, But
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  Speaker 2: what happens in Vegas also is a harbinger of things
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  Speaker 2: to come. That economists look at Las Vegas and say, okay,
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  Speaker 2: what's happening there may very well follow by the rest
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  Speaker 2: of the country. It has an outsized influence. So high
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  Speaker 2: rollers no issue. They're still rolling in the Las Vegas.
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  Speaker 2: Actually they're flying in the Las Vegas on private jets.
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  Speaker 2: But people who go to Vegas on a budget don't
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  Speaker 2: feel like winters at all. So decline in overall visitors,
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  Speaker 2: and there is a fairly big decline, is sending ripples
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  Speaker 2: of worry, not only through the city but well through
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  Speaker 2: the country. Casinos have closed, card rooms, restaurants have cut hours,
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  Speaker 2: Resorts are scrambling to lure customers. They're no longer hotels,
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  Speaker 2: they are resorts.
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  Speaker 1: Have you noticed that.
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  Speaker 2: Disneyland is no longer Disneyland, it is the Disney resort,
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  Speaker 2: which it is, I mean it's a couple of parks
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  Speaker 2: and hotels, etc. And then in other parts of the
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  Speaker 2: country it's half a dozen parks and hotels.
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  Speaker 1: So Las vegas.
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  Speaker 2: Financial wellbeing has long relied on the millions of tourists
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  Speaker 2: spending their discretionary income, not so much on the high rollers.
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  Speaker 2: But what's going on. The richer getting richer, and the
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  Speaker 2: rich are having more money, and they go to Las Vegas,
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  Speaker 2: and man, they are whales. When they lose, they lose
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  Speaker 2: by the millions of dollars. These hotels love them, and
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  Speaker 2: since the house always makes money, the house does very well.
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  Speaker 2: But there's an economy going on where the affluent are thriving,
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  Speaker 2: as I said, but the rest of us are struggling,
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  Speaker 2: and that formula that's not so good for Las Vegas
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  Speaker 2: or even the country. And what's happening well, the tariffs,
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  Speaker 2: immigration raids are rattling the workers. The number of international
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  Speaker 2: travelers has gone south, particularly because of the political situation.
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  Speaker 2: For example, Canadians have stopped going.
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  Speaker 1: You wonder why. And this is now an.
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  Speaker 2: Industry that has relentlessly raised rates.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, people just don't like.
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  Speaker 2: Coming into pricey parking in thirty four dollars decories. It
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  Speaker 2: wasn't very long ago where it was free parking at
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  Speaker 2: every hotel. You'd go in and out and the only
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  Speaker 2: thing you would do is pay a tip and free cocktails.
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  Speaker 2: I mean free cocktails when you were gambling, not free
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  Speaker 2: cocktails otherwise. But a steak could cost you seven dollars
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  Speaker 2: ninety nine cents for a steak dinner just to get
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  Speaker 2: you in the hotel. Remember one dollar cocktails of shrimp cocktails.
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  Speaker 2: I remember those. I mean, anything to get you today,
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  Speaker 2: they're looking at the high priced restaurants, and they're looking
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  Speaker 2: at the high priced drinks simply as a revenue call.
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  Speaker 2: It's not a question of literally hustling to go in.
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  Speaker 2: They now do it with marketing, they do it with
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  Speaker 2: rewards cards, and they still cost you a fortune. As
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  Speaker 2: a matter of fact, if you look at Las Vegas,
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  Speaker 2: and Neil correct me on this, if you look at
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  Speaker 2: a small city the size of Las Vegas and has
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  Speaker 2: a million people, and the strip specifically has more world
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  Speaker 2: class restaurants by world class chefs than any other place
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  Speaker 2: on the.
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  Speaker 1: Planet, I would not be surprised. I mean, every major
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  Speaker 1: chef wants to have a place.
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  Speaker 2: There, and some do and it's and I love going
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  Speaker 2: to those places. But you know, do I want to
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  Speaker 2: spend one hundred dollars ahead? You know, how often do
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  Speaker 2: you want to do that? So would be VISI are
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  Speaker 2: just fed up. I mean they're just fed up with it,
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  Speaker 2: all right, So what's going on?
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  Speaker 1: According to.
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  Speaker 2: An expert who is looking this, looking at this and
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  Speaker 2: writes about it, for Americans carefully considering how they spend
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  Speaker 2: their money, now, some feel a lot feel Las Vegas
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  Speaker 2: just isn't worth it anymore. Now for the casino owners,
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  Speaker 2: the numbers still add up. Why is that, Well because
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  Speaker 2: a number of people, as I said, the wealthy people
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  Speaker 2: are getting richer, the super wealthier getting richer, the insanely
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  Speaker 2: wealthier getting richer, and they.
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  Speaker 1: Spend a ton of money.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, Las Vegas is Volume two, and look
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  Speaker 2: at what's going on for Las Vegas. You've got the
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  Speaker 2: political situation Canadians and other folks from around the world
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  Speaker 2: that are stopping to come here to this country for tourism.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you talked about tourism going down the cost
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  Speaker 2: of gas. How is the cost of gas affect Las
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  Speaker 2: Vegas that much? Well, because the majority of people that
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  Speaker 2: go to Las Vegas come from southern California and they
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  Speaker 2: drive and all of a sudden, gas at six dollars
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  Speaker 2: six point fifty a gallon. Oh and it's a what
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  Speaker 2: two hundred mile trip, one hundred and fifty mile trip,
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  Speaker 2: all of a sudden that starts adding up.
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  Speaker 1: And so it's it's a tough place now.
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  Speaker 2: And the the economists are looking at this and saying,
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  Speaker 2: we've got some problems here. Tourism is way down, and
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  Speaker 2: it remains a volume business. And as soon as the
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  Speaker 2: very wealthy people stop coming, and there are very few
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  Speaker 2: of those, but they spend such massive money, casinos are
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  Speaker 2: still doing. Okay, but if that turns around, Man, look
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  Speaker 2: at this, and this is the state of where the
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  Speaker 2: economy is going in Las Vegas. It's going south. But
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  Speaker 2: for those people, wages are not keeping up. Gasoline well,
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  Speaker 2: in Nevada, you know, gasoline is cheap, so it cost
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  Speaker 2: your fortune to get there, but you do. It's not
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  Speaker 2: so bad coming back as you fill up, but it's
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  Speaker 2: it's a tough place, Las Vegas. When's the last time
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  Speaker 2: you went to Las Vegas? Neil a year and a
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  Speaker 2: half ago to maybe amy last time in Vegas?
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  Speaker 3: Gosh, we used to go every year. It was like
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  Speaker 3: our favorite place to go. But it's been probably four years.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I said, And that says something. And last time
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  Speaker 2: you went to Las.
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  Speaker 1: Vegas probably about a year ago. Okay, So you're a
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  Speaker 1: regular goinger and will within the last year. But I was.
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  Speaker 1: I was there on a job, so that was different.
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  Speaker 1: I was.
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  Speaker 2: And did you spend did you spend most of the
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  Speaker 2: time at the all you can eat buffet?
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  Speaker 1: They don't do they even have those anymore? I don't
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  Speaker 1: even know. I don't know. Okay. And finally, kno, last
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  Speaker 1: time you went, I'm going to May Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So and and my my friend Saville lives in Las
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  Speaker 2: Vegas and I lived there for a year and it
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  Speaker 2: was now Duris lived there during the summer, and it's
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  Speaker 2: a tough place to be in the summer. You walk
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  Speaker 2: outside the front door and it's like someone has a
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  Speaker 2: hair dryer blowing full full blast at the hottest uh,
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  Speaker 2: the hottest.
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  Speaker 1: Position right in your face. Tough place. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Now, you know, when you you're on the street or
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  Speaker 2: you're on the freeway, does anybody pay attention to the
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  Speaker 2: speed limit at all?
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  Speaker 1: At all? I mean not even close. Now, I go
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  Speaker 1: on the freeway and I'll do my normal speed.
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  Speaker 2: Limit is seventy five and I'm one of the slow
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  Speaker 2: ones that are on the freeway.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it is crazy.
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  Speaker 2: Well, let me tell you what's going on. Well, first
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  Speaker 2: of all, speeding is a real killer.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it does.
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  Speaker 2: Reducing speed has saved fatal crashes by seventy one percent.
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  Speaker 1: In Los Angeles. And why is that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, these speed cameras will save seventy one percent according
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  Speaker 2: to LA Department of Transportation. And that's why speeding is
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  Speaker 2: about a third of the fatalities out there. Drunk driving
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  Speaker 2: and speeding basically or virtually all the fatalities in car accidents.
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  Speaker 2: So drunk driving, we're doing as much as we can.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's pretty sophisticated in terms of drunk driving.
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  Speaker 2: The police are there, and you know they catch you.
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  Speaker 1: Enough.
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  Speaker 2: Police officers are out there, so you got a good
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  Speaker 2: chance of being snagged. Now, speeding, you know, the cops
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  Speaker 2: don't even pay attention unless you're going one hundred miles
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  Speaker 2: an hour down the freeway or eighty miles an hour
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  Speaker 2: on the streets. So LA is installing one hundred and
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  Speaker 2: twenty five speed cameras and you'll be fined. And this
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  Speaker 2: is easy. You go on that stretch, you don't wait
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  Speaker 2: for a cop. The city doesn't have to wait for
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  Speaker 2: a police officer. There goes the camera. And that's what
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  Speaker 2: happens with red light cameras. You can't say no to those.
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  Speaker 2: So by the end of the summer, one hundred and
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  Speaker 2: twenty five will be installed, which isn't a lot, but
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  Speaker 2: specifically on roads in school zones, street racing roads. Speeding
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  Speaker 2: has resulted in a high rate of traffic accident, certainly
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  Speaker 2: in the speed racing areas. And so we're the latest city,
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  Speaker 2: or you are the latest city if you live in
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  Speaker 2: Los Angeles, and this is going to happen between April
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  Speaker 2: and July. And drivers who are photographed going eleven miles
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  Speaker 2: an hour or more than the posted speed limit will
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  Speaker 2: have a sixty day grace period before they're fined. Who
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  Speaker 2: goes thirty five and a thirty five mile a mile
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  Speaker 2: an hour road unless it's jammed.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, come on, Amy, I mostly do on city streets.
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  Speaker 3: I really stick to the to the speed limit on
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  Speaker 3: real not so much.
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  Speaker 1: On the freeway.
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  Speaker 2: Really, okay, you actually you're one of the very few
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  Speaker 2: people I know that follow the speed limit.
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  Speaker 1: I'll bet you.
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  Speaker 2: You don't even pee in the shower, see there you go,
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  Speaker 2: or pee in a swimming pool. I mean, there are
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  Speaker 2: people that don't do that.
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  Speaker 1: Remind me to never have you come over. There's a
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  Speaker 1: fun line, you don't pay in my swimming pool. I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I don't swim in your toilet. It's a great line,
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  Speaker 1: by the way.
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  Speaker 2: So after the sixty eight race period, people get fined
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  Speaker 2: and it's a five year pilot program, and it was
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  Speaker 2: authorized by a bill that was signed in twenty twenty three.
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  Speaker 2: And traffic fatalities in LA drop from twenty twenty four
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  Speaker 2: to twenty twenty.
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  Speaker 1: Five, but still are very high.
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  Speaker 2: Why speed accounts for about a third of the traffic accidents,
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  Speaker 2: And roadway speed cameras I gave you that stat have
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  Speaker 2: been proved in other cities to reduce speeding anywhere from
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  Speaker 2: thirty one to eighty two percent. Fatal crashes reduce by
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  Speaker 2: fifty three percent up to seventy one percent. So we're
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  Speaker 2: putting in one hundred and twenty five speed cameras. San
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  Speaker 2: Francisco has twenty six thousand, and next year they'll have
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  Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty two thousand.
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  Speaker 1: Then you have other cities they are really going balls
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  Speaker 1: to the wall.
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  Speaker 2: Oakland is installing eighteen, Long Beach is installing eighteen, Glendale
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  Speaker 2: is going to add nine. San Jose will add thirty three.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's going to help, isn't it. So the trick
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  Speaker 2: is you don't want to speed anywhere near San Francisco.
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  Speaker 2: So how much is the fine depends how fast you're going.
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  Speaker 2: If you're driving eleven to fifteen miles per hour over.
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  Speaker 1: The speed limit is fifty bucks.
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  Speaker 2: If you're driving sixteen to twenty five miles per hour
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  Speaker 2: over the speed limit, it's one hundred dollars.
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  Speaker 1: And if you're.
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  Speaker 2: Driving twenty six miles per hour over the speed limit,
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  Speaker 2: it's two hundred dollars. And I'm trying to think if
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  Speaker 2: it's for thirty five an hour mile an hour, eleven
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  Speaker 2: miles an hour. Yeah, I drive forty six miles an
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  Speaker 2: hour constantly. If there's room, I'll drive that fast. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: what's twenty six plus thirty five?
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  Speaker 1: What is that number?
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  Speaker 2: It's fifty something. I'm very bad at math in any case.
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  Speaker 2: That one, I don't drive that quickly. And then there's
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  Speaker 2: if you drive one hundred miles an hour over the
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  Speaker 2: speed limit, it's five hundred dollars. That's a tough one
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  Speaker 2: one hundred miles an hour over the speed limit. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That Not too many people are gonna get tagged on
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  Speaker 2: this one unless you have a Formula one racing car.
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  Speaker 1: All right, now here is this drives me crazy.
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  Speaker 2: There's a story, well, it's a good story about what's
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  Speaker 2: happening on Wednesday, Artemis two, which is going around the
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  Speaker 2: moon and Rod Pyle is going to be there.
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  Speaker 1: He'll be with us tomorrow, our space guy.
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  Speaker 2: And this is the first crude mission to go around
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  Speaker 2: the Moon since nineteen seventy two.
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  Speaker 1: That's a big deal. It's going to be.
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  Speaker 2: Piloted by a Southern California native native, Victor Glover. And
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  Speaker 2: he's the first black man to go around or to
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  Speaker 2: the Moon.
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  Speaker 1: Big deal that he is black.
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  Speaker 2: Have we not reached the point where it doesn't really matter.
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  Speaker 2: It's like the first woman to be run for president.
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  Speaker 2: You know the reason that Hillary Clinton she was terrible,
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  Speaker 2: not because she was a woman. I hate that now.
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  Speaker 2: The first I mean that makes sense. There are certain
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  Speaker 2: things that you celebrate. The first for the first dwarf
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  Speaker 2: who wins a gold medal in the Olympic high jump.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, that is something that I would do a story on.
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  Speaker 1: Kono is standing right there, bro Okay.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, it's no accomplishment to be black. The
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  Speaker 2: accomplishment here is his accomplishment what it takes to be
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  Speaker 2: an astronaut. That is a real accomplishment, not the fact
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  Speaker 2: that you happen to be Hispanic or black or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's I hope we've reached the point where
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 1: But we haven't.
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  Speaker 2: It's the first, the first woman to do this, the
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  Speaker 2: first woman to do that, the first hispanic to do this.
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  Speaker 2: Stop it already, it is you know. It's like, I
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  Speaker 2: don't understand celebrating birthdays. For example, Boy, there's an accomplishment.
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  Speaker 2: You were born, Thank you, Good for you.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 2: You know if you're you know, graduating with a PhD
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  Speaker 2: top of your class, Okay, that's an accomplishment no matter
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  Speaker 2: what color you are. I mean, there are things to celebrate.
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  Speaker 2: I don't mind celebrating, for example, anniversaries, wedding anniversaries, because
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  Speaker 2: we should always recognize that was the most that was
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  Speaker 2: the biggest mistake you've ever made in your life. I
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  Speaker 2: get that. I celebrate that every year. Oh God, what
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  Speaker 2: a day. Birthdays not so much so. Who is this guy,
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  Speaker 2: Victor Glover? Well, he went to Ontario High and was
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  Speaker 2: a Navy test pilot. Man, let me tell you what
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  Speaker 2: it takes to be a Navid test pilot. That's no
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  Speaker 2: small deal. And he's going to be on the mission
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  Speaker 2: a lunar flyby. It's not going to land on the moon,
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  Speaker 2: it's going to go around the moon. By the way,
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  Speaker 2: The last time that an American went anywhere near the
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  Speaker 2: Moon was nineteen seventy two and the Moon program, the
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  Speaker 2: Apollo program, was disbanded, and we haven't been on the
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  Speaker 2: Moon since then. And there's been no other country that
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  Speaker 2: has put anybody on the Moon except Japanese or me.
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  Speaker 1: The Chinese are probably going to get there for sure. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So Glover this achievement being the first, and he says,
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  Speaker 2: it's complicated feelings because media interviews are crazy with life
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  Speaker 2: of an astronaut. I mean, that's part and parcel of
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  Speaker 2: what you're about. And they always talk about being the first,
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  Speaker 2: the first black person, the first black man to in
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  Speaker 2: this case go to the moon. He was also the
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  Speaker 2: first black astronaut to be on the ISS, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the International Space Station. Great story about Barack Obama, who
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  Speaker 2: was our first black president. And even that I wasn't
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  Speaker 2: impressed with. Was I impressed with Barack Obama? Hell? Yes,
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  Speaker 2: I mean this was one of the brightest people I've
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  Speaker 2: ever seen in paulas an unbelievable communicator, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: clearly this guy had the credentials to be president. The
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  Speaker 2: fact that he was black that matters. And they made
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  Speaker 2: a big deal about it. And when he was asked
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  Speaker 2: the way about a month, two months into his presidency,
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  Speaker 2: I remember the reporter asking, did you feel did you
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  Speaker 2: understand that you were the first black man to be
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  Speaker 2: president of the United States? Did you feel the import
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  Speaker 2: of that? Did you feel the history of that? And
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  Speaker 2: he said yes for about ten minutes, and then I
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  Speaker 2: had to go to work and it didn't matter anymore.
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  Speaker 2: So here you go with Glover and his accomplishments. He
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  Speaker 2: was born in Pomona, so he is a southern California boy.
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  Speaker 2: He was in a drew adrenaline junkie, dreamed of being
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  Speaker 2: everything from a stuntman to a race car driver. His parents,
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  Speaker 2: a cop and a bookkeeper, encouraged him. He still looked
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  Speaker 2: up to his grandfather who was in the Air Force
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  Speaker 2: during the Korean War and was told he couldn't fly
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  Speaker 2: because he was black. See that's historically important that because
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  Speaker 2: someone is black could not do what white people do.
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  Speaker 2: That is a story and changing it all is a story.
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  Speaker 2: So he went to Ontario High. He went to cal
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  Speaker 2: Poly San Luis Obispo. He was a football player, became
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  Speaker 2: known as a nationally known wrestler. He got a bachelor's
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  Speaker 2: degree in engineering. He enlisted in the Navy in nineteen
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  Speaker 2: ninety eight. Fifteen years in the military, thirty five hundred
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  Speaker 2: flying hours in more than forty aircraft, a few master's
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  Speaker 2: degrees along the way, twenty four combat missions.
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  Speaker 1: That's an accomplishment. Those are accomplishments.
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  Speaker 2: You know, if you look at the early astronauts, you
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: know all of them had like PhDs in celestial navigation.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: I mean, these guys were all brilliant, and Glover is
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: right in there.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's got the creds. What is uly.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: Wasn't buzz Aldrin the only one with a PhD in
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: the polo, No, I.
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  Speaker 1: Think I think a couple of them.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: I think Neil Armstrong had a PhD too, But if
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: nothing else, they had master's degrees. At least they had
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: graduate degrees and engineering degrees. I mean, they were very,
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: very accomplished people, as is Glover. That's his accomplishment making
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: it as an astronaut, which is astronomical odds, so to speak,
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: astronomical odds that you're not going to make it. Any
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: dwarf stories coming up, amy because I'm really interested in
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: high jumps.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: And the Olympics. No, she's shaking her head. All right, Well,
• 21:09
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