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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: Good Wednesday morning to you as we move along this
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  Speaker 2: week going quickly. A bit of weird news cycle. Like
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  Speaker 2: kind of all over the place, weird stuff. And then
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  Speaker 2: hearing Amy King this morning talking about that plane incident.
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  Speaker 2: that had to go down in Saudi Arabia, kind of
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  Speaker 2: as it was going down. And I heard some of
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  Speaker 2: your conversation this morning. Did you want to kind of
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  Speaker 2: put a bow on that as to what we know now?
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  Speaker 3: What we know now is that the pilots got into
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  Speaker 3: a fight in the cockpit and one of them stabbed
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  Speaker 3: the other. And Israel is saying that they think this
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  Speaker 3: was an attempt at a terrorist attack. They're not sure
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  Speaker 3: if He wanted to crash the plane if he wanted
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  Speaker 3: to crash the plane into something, you know, 9-11 style.
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  Speaker 3: But it was an amazing story. We'll be using our
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  Speaker 3: conversation with Jordana in news all morning, so you'll get
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  Speaker 3: some more updates. But just amazing that the passenger saw
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  Speaker 3: something was going on and went up to the cockpit,
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  Speaker 3: broke up the fight, subdued the guy who attacked the
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  Speaker 3: other pilot. And one of the passengers said his sole
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  Speaker 3: mission in life for the next hour until they landed
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  Speaker 3: was to make sure that he did not move. So
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  Speaker 3: nobody was killed. The pilot who was stabbed went back.
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  Speaker 4: And landed the plane.
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  Speaker 3: Wow. And during all of this, during the whole fight
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  Speaker 3: and whatever was going on on board, the plane plunged
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  Speaker 3: 17,000 feet in less than a minute. Basically started nosediving
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  Speaker 3: and unhooked. Obviously, everybody on board was scared to death.
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  Speaker 3: I saw an interview with a woman whose daughter was
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  Speaker 3: on the plane and she called her and said, we
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  Speaker 3: thought that we were all going to die. But everybody's OK.
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  Speaker 3: And they landed in Saudi Arabia. And that in and
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  Speaker 3: of itself is kind of historic because Israelis are not
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  Speaker 3: allowed in Saudi Arabia. That's the first time that Israeli
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  Speaker 3: civilians have landed a plane in Saudi Arabia. So they're
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  Speaker 3: there and now they're working to get them home. But
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  Speaker 3: everybody's OK. And the plane landed safely. A crazy story.
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  Speaker 2: So the pilots were Israeli or?
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  Speaker 4: We don't know.
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  Speaker 3: The flight was, it's a fly Dubai flight, which is
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  Speaker 3: like the lower cost carrier of Emirates, as I, as
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  Speaker 3: my understanding.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: But it was on its way from the UAE to
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  Speaker 3: Tel Aviv. And there were about, there were a couple
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  Speaker 3: hours into the flight when this happened.
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  Speaker 5: But they have both the pilots now in custody or whatever.
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  Speaker 4: Well, they have one of them in custody. The other
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  Speaker 4: one's probably at the hospital. He was stabbed.
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  Speaker 3: Where?
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  Speaker 5: Do we know where he was stabbed?
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  Speaker 4: The pilot? In the air.
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  Speaker 5: In the arm?
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  Speaker 4: We do not.
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  Speaker 3: We don't know.
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  Speaker 4: Have you been stabbed before?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I have.
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  Speaker 4: Have you really?
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  Speaker 2: We don't know.
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  Speaker 3: We know that he was able to go back into
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  Speaker 3: the cockpit and land the plane.
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  Speaker 5: He wasn't stabbed in the heart.
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  Speaker 4: So it's not as bad?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: He's fine.
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  Speaker 5: Is he alive?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, he's alive. He landed a plane.
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  Speaker 5: Ask him what happened.
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  Speaker 4: Have you been drinking? I wish.
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  Speaker 5: God, I wish.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. Why are you?
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  Speaker 4: So what are you saying?
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  Speaker 2: It's no big deal. Shake it. Walk it off and
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  Speaker 2: then land the plane and ask the questions. Oh, I'm
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  Speaker 2: sure they're being asked.
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  Speaker 5: We don't even know where they're from.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it happened about three hours ago, Ann.
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  Speaker 2: We just don't know.
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  Speaker 4: We're getting the information.
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  Speaker 2: I'm with you, Ann.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Thanks, new Clay.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if that's a vote of confidence.
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  Speaker 5: I'll take it.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Where'd he get stabbed?
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  Speaker 5: In the thigh?
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  Speaker 2: Who cares? Seriously, have you ever been stabbed? It's unpleasant.
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  Speaker 3: You know what?
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  Speaker 5: There's so much adrenaline going through your body, you wouldn't
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  Speaker 5: even feel it at that point.
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  Speaker 2: Come here for a second.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to.
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  Speaker 2: I got a pair of scissors that says different. There's
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  Speaker 2: always a doctor on the plane. I know.
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  Speaker 4: Wow, you guys.
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  Speaker 2: Anne is normally after a win.
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  Speaker 3: I think, yeah, she must be on an adrenaline high
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  Speaker 3: from the Padres win last night.
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  Speaker 5: I'm just over everything. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Famous last words. Are you okay?
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 2: She's not.
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  Speaker 4: She's on the edge today.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: We all get attached to Handel.
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  Speaker 4: It's rough when he's- Maybe that's it. She's missing Bill
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  Speaker 4: right now.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks, Amy. Hello. Neil Saavedra and the Morning Crew here.
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  Speaker 2: New Clay, nice to see you, sir. Nice to see you.
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  Speaker 2: You always look like you're up to something. I'm trying
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  Speaker 2: to get my- And I am. Wrap my arms around
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  Speaker 2: who you are, but nice to see you. Weird kid. Will,
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  Speaker 2: good morning, sir. Good morning, Neil Saavedra. Kono, no porn
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  Speaker 2: during the show, please.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 2: Put the phone down.
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  Speaker 4: I'm watching how a knee replacement surgery works.
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  Speaker 3: Ew.
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  Speaker 2: It's no big deal. It popped up on my feed. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning. Good morning, Neil. I like that you're learning.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate that. I like to learn. And Anne, no
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  Speaker 2: sharp objects. Good morning.
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  Speaker 3: Morning.
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  Speaker 2: It's an interesting morning. Is it? I love this type
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  Speaker 2: of morning. I know. Oh, she's looking through the top
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  Speaker 2: of her eyes. That creeps me out. It's like a
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  Speaker 2: Jack Nicholson look. Okay, we'll get started. All morning? Or
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  Speaker 2: is it just when I got here? No, it's just
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  Speaker 2: when you got here. Okay, we're slowly reducing. It's deduction.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to say it's me. All right, let's get started.
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  Speaker 2: Handle on the news. Lead story. Moving out. Two decades.
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  Speaker 2: 20 years we've been in Iraq with U.S. forces, and
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  Speaker 2: they are moving out. And what the future brings, we
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  Speaker 2: don't know. That's what makes life exciting, actually. You don't
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  Speaker 2: know what the future brings. Does it bring new clay?
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  Speaker 2: Maybe it does. Most of the time. Maybe it does.
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  Speaker 2: So they formally, this is kind of the formal action
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  Speaker 2: of withdrawing from Iraq, ending that two decade military presence.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of bloodshed leaves behind a incredibly battered nation.
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  Speaker 2: struggling to figure things out from itself, other shackles, its
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  Speaker 2: own shackles, and all of those things after toppling Saddam
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  Speaker 2: Hussein in 2003. Brutal dictator, bad guy, and ended up
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  Speaker 2: with a knife in his rectum, if I remember correctly.
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  Speaker 2: It's become a saying of mine that... If you lead
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  Speaker 2: treacherously like that, if you lead and are tyrannical, you
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  Speaker 2: will end up with a knife in your arse. Does
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  Speaker 2: that mean you can still land a plane? I don't know. Anne,
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  Speaker 2: knife in the ass. Is that bad?
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  Speaker 5: All I'm saying is we don't know where he was stabbed.
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  Speaker 2: We do not, correct.
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  Speaker 5: We don't know anything.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: And if he was stabbed in the leg, yes, he
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  Speaker 5: could land the plane.
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  Speaker 2: Well, he did land the plane, regardless of where he
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  Speaker 2: was stabbed.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: So, yay.
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  Speaker 5: Yay.
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  Speaker 2: 500 people on the plane. How many people were on
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  Speaker 2: that plane? It was a big plane.
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  Speaker 5: 150. 150.
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  Speaker 2: 150. Oh, my gosh, Ann.
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 2: No, I'm sorry. No, no, no. I've heard bigger planes.
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  Speaker 3: Ann.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 2: What did I do to you this morning?
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely not.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 5: Obviously, it's wonderful that he landed the plane. Everybody's fine.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's fine. Yeah. He's fine.
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  Speaker 5: We don't know. We don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Stabbing is bad. Let's make that clear. Stabbing someone else
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  Speaker 2: is bad, right? Awful.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Receiving a wound by a knife is bad, right? All
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  Speaker 2: melee weapons are hurtful. Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Will you frisk her? Go ahead.
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  Speaker 3: Looks like Senator tried to trip up Jack Smith but failed.
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  Speaker 3: Senator Eric Schmidt accused former special counsel Jack Smith during
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  Speaker 3: a hearing on Capitol Hill of committing perjury when he
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  Speaker 3: denied going to an Atlanta Hawks basketball game in 2024.
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  Speaker 3: seemed a little confused. And that is because Schmidt had
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  Speaker 3: the wrong team.
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  Speaker 4: So he was trying to basically.
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  Speaker 2: Why do we do this?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Because that's what happens in these hearings. They just are
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  Speaker 3: grandstanding and they're trying to get the gotcha moment.
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  Speaker 2: Stop it.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Do your work for us. We the people get in
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  Speaker 2: and get out and stop playing stupid games and stop
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  Speaker 2: blaming each other for stuff and just get work done.
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  Speaker 2: Because now it just looks like a. Oh, Michelle Cube
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  Speaker 2: is sending us video of stabbed pilot on Israeli. It
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  Speaker 2: looks like it was pretty bad injury.
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  Speaker 4: Probably didn't hurt at all, huh, Anne?
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  Speaker 2: Anne wants to see bone.
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  Speaker 5: You guys are taking this way out of context.
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  Speaker 2: No, I want to know where you stabbed you. I'm curious.
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  Speaker 2: That's it. But also, a lot of blood doesn't mean
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  Speaker 2: it's a very serious injury. If you watch wrestling, you're fine.
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  Speaker 2: Are you stupid? Losing blood is bad. No, have you
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  Speaker 2: ever seen wrestling?
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  Speaker 4: You can have little cuts, and it produces a lot
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  Speaker 4: of blood.
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  Speaker 2: So it depends. A lot of blood coming out of
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  Speaker 2: your body is bad. What the hell is happening this morning?
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  Speaker 2: I'm just saying. Just because it looks messy doesn't mean
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  Speaker 2: it's that bad.
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  Speaker 3: I understand.
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  Speaker 2: I understand. Small wounds can, lots of blood, but any
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  Speaker 2: blood out of the body is not a good thing.
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  Speaker 2: I just went to the doctor. They took seven vials. Exactly.
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  Speaker 3: See, I don't understand nuclei. I think you'd probably lose
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  Speaker 3: more if you were stabbed.
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  Speaker 2: Oh. How much? How much in the body, anybody?
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  Speaker 1: 10.
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  Speaker 2: About 10 what? I don't know. About a gallon, I think.
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  Speaker 2: Think of a gallon of milk falling from your refrigerator
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  Speaker 2: all over the floor. That's about what's in your bag.
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  Speaker 2: That's messy. Yeah, that's messy. Don't ask me how I know.
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  Speaker 4: And apparently the pilot was stabbed repeatedly.
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  Speaker 2: He was stabbed repeatedly.
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  Speaker 5: Well, that's new news, isn't it?
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  Speaker 4: It is new.
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  Speaker 5: So thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Back to the news we go. GOP Senator blocks effort
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  Speaker 2: to bar Trump from demolishing the Kennedy Center. Thank you, Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: Let's not tear things down. What do they say? Don't
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  Speaker 2: change horses midstream. He's going through his old things. Stop things.
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  Speaker 2: Don't go nuts. The blue didn't work in the reflection pool.
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  Speaker 2: Let's kind of back off when it comes to any
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  Speaker 2: sort of construction or reviving for now. Let's focus on war.
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  Speaker 2: Let's focus on other things. Shall we go?
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  Speaker 4: We got punked.
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  Speaker 3: Like, kind of everybody got punked. Santa Ana police received
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  Speaker 3: a 911 call about a snake. A man called and
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  Speaker 3: said he found a snake after his dogs alerted him
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  Speaker 3: to something on the shed.
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  Speaker 4: He took a picture of it.
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  Speaker 3: He called 911. And then Santa Ana police issued a
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  Speaker 3: serious public advisory warning residents that the venomous viper was
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  Speaker 3: on the loose and included a picture.
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  Speaker 4: And said, be careful.
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  Speaker 3: This snake is not allowed to be here without a permit.
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  Speaker 3: They didn't have any permits on record. It's indigenous to Africa.
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  Speaker 3: And then a little while later, they dug around some
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  Speaker 3: more after freaking out much of Santa Ana and found
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  Speaker 3: out that the guy who called police said, that was
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  Speaker 3: an AI generated picture.
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  Speaker 4: It's false.
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  Speaker 2: So Anna and I were talking about this earlier about
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  Speaker 2: AI and how you're not going to know. We've become lazy.
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  Speaker 2: it's very easy for us to just go, well, I
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  Speaker 2: see it, I believe it. When you break down this photo,
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  Speaker 2: you have all these, what is the snake guy? Or pathologist?
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  Speaker 2: Or is that the You know, all these people coming
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  Speaker 2: out saying, no, a snake that size could not be
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  Speaker 2: on a branch that size. The color is off. If
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  Speaker 2: you get somebody who looks at it with the proper eye,
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  Speaker 2: they're going, no, just because you see it doesn't mean
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  Speaker 2: it's true. The way it was hanging, the way it
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  Speaker 2: was sitting. And we're not going to... Is that what
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  Speaker 2: it is? We're not going to know exactly... everything when
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  Speaker 2: we see it anymore. And so going off of one picture,
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  Speaker 2: that was kind of going back and forth when we
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  Speaker 2: got off the air yesterday as to what, if it
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  Speaker 2: was real or not, or if it was AI. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, even if it wasn't AI, it's a real picture.
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  Speaker 2: It's so close on it. We don't know if it
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  Speaker 2: was in California or not. Now you have to look
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  Speaker 2: up the tree to see if the tree is something
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  Speaker 2: that's indigenous to California or that we have here. It's
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  Speaker 2: just going to take a keener eye. It's just like swatting,
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  Speaker 2: but with visuals. Hello? Is that? What? Who are you
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  Speaker 2: talking to? Oh, it's me. I talked so much during that,
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  Speaker 2: I thought it was my story.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Uh-oh. Here we go. Biological mother of a four month
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  Speaker 2: old girl found dead in L.A. This was that story
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  Speaker 2: that we unfortunately had to end on yesterday. This was
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  Speaker 2: the grandmother that came out saying, I think that that's
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  Speaker 2: my daughter's baby, my grandbaby. So she was detained and detained.
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  Speaker 2: And this was happening near the end of the show yesterday. Right, Amy? Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So she's been arrested on suspicion of murder. Annan stated
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  Speaker 2: that yesterday on the thought that the baby, they made
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  Speaker 2: it kind of sound like the baby died in the dumpster.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: And then they were studying it and investigating it as
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  Speaker 2: a homicide. So in this particular case, it sounds like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it was suspicious as if the girl was
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  Speaker 2: harmed beforehand and And we were all talking about in
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  Speaker 2: this day and age, you can take it to a
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  Speaker 2: safe place. If you can't afford the child or you
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  Speaker 2: are not in the mental capacity, you can take it
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  Speaker 2: to the fire department and take care of the baby. Well,
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  Speaker 2: if you harmed it, you wouldn't want to take it there.
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  Speaker 2: And that makes more sense. One last one, Amy.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we've already talked about this, but I don't want
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  Speaker 3: to get Ann mad again, but a commercial plane traveling
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  Speaker 3: from Dubai to Israel has landed safely in Saudi Arabia.
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  Speaker 4: It was about two hours into the flight.
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  Speaker 3: And then there was a fight that broke out in
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  Speaker 3: the cockpit between the two pilots. One of the pilots
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  Speaker 3: was stabbed, apparently repeatedly stabbed. Passengers and the crew then
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  Speaker 3: got into the cockpit, subdued the guy who stabbed the
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  Speaker 3: other pilot. The pilot who was stabbed was able to
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  Speaker 3: get back into the cockpit and land the plane about
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  Speaker 3: an hour later. And during that time, the plane took
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  Speaker 3: a 17,000-foot plunge from 33,000 to 14,000 feet.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, scary indeed to have something go from that height
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  Speaker 2: that quickly and then find out the one thing you
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  Speaker 2: don't want going on. Well, there's multiple things you don't
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  Speaker 2: want going on in a cockpit. Sleeping, drugs. Fighting's going
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  Speaker 2: to be up in the top five. Stabbings, that's up
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  Speaker 2: in the top five. So we'll get more about that
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  Speaker 2: story as it continues to unfold. So abortions in college
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  Speaker 2: are going to be a thing now by way of Newsom.
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  Speaker 2: He looks like the type of guy who would be
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  Speaker 2: really encouraging about abortions. Listen, my wife is not going
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  Speaker 2: to react well to this. Community colleges here in California
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  Speaker 2: will be required to offer medicational or medication abortions, the
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  Speaker 2: abortion pill, essentially. New law signed by GovGav, expanding a
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  Speaker 2: service already required across the California State University and University
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  Speaker 2: of California systems. But he wants to make sure that
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  Speaker 2: it is there for frat boys and the like, is
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  Speaker 2: my guess.
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  Speaker 3: So the White Sox got a letter from an unlikely source,
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  Speaker 3: Pope Leo the 14th. The letter on September 9th was
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  Speaker 3: addressed to White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf. The team said
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  Speaker 3: it arrived at Chicago's rate field on Tuesday ahead of
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  Speaker 3: game one of the AL wildcard series against the Astros.
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  Speaker 3: And apparently it worked because the White Sox won game
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  Speaker 3: one of the best of three series six to three.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you don't want that kind of luck. You're not
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  Speaker 2: going to get something from the Pope every time you play.
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  Speaker 4: Who knows? Maybe you will. Leo is a White Sox fan.
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  Speaker 2: Wasn't like that the first thing that we learned about
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  Speaker 2: him when he became the Pope?
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  Speaker 4: What, that he was a White Sox fan?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was like the big deal. He was from
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  Speaker 2: Chicago and he's a White Sox fan. Do you think he,
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: I mean, is that fair? What if they start winning?
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: He's the first pope I've seen in a baseball cap. Well,
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: they all wear that baseball cap without the brim. Oh, yeah, yeah.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: It's just a brim. Extra tall so you can catch
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: foul balls. I see, yeah. He's got the little post
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: hole digger that they wear for ceremonial. Is that you
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: or me?
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: It's you.
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: Sorry.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: It looked like the same story. All right. Where to
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: watch the gubernatorial debate? Of course, everybody's going to be
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: excited because Becerra comes out of his hole. And then
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: you're going to hear a guy speak funny. Hey, he's
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: not American. So Steve Hilton is going to be sparring
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: with Becerra one-on-one. And this is... I don't know, the
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: only one that is scheduled at this point before the
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: November 3rd general election there. So they're going to be
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: debating in primetime tonight. And I'm hoping people watch it.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: I'm going to be out of the pocket, but I'll
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: go do the wind up afterwards where I'll just consume everything. Amy,
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: I know you like these things.
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: I'm a junkie. I'll be watching it for sure.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: What do you expect?
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: I don't really know. I mean, it's sort of a.
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: The ratio of Democrats to Republicans in California is at
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: least two to one, right?
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: But could people say California is not being run right?
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: We need to make some changes. Could that give Hilton
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: a possibility? Will he be able to make that case?
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: Will either of them say anything that sways anybody? I
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: love watching all that stuff.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: I love.
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: How they react to questions, what kind of answers they give,
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: all of that stuff.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: Who's ahead? Becerra? Okay, so he's going to be.
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: Well, like by a two-to-one margin.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: That's why he's staying out of things. So tonight, if
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: you want to watch it, 6 p.m., being hosted by CNN,
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: and it will stream live for CNN's streaming and pay
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: TV subscribers via CNN.com.
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: GovGav's fighting back. The governor signed a bunch of laws yesterday.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: You know, he has until today to either sign or
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: veto legislation that was passed during this past session. A
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: lot of these ones are aimed at the state's oversight
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: of federal immigration enforcement. So among the new laws that
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: he signed are a ban on using those electroshock gloves
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: that we just started hearing about.
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: It's basically a glove taser.
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: A 25 percent tax on private detention facilities. Limiting immigration
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: authorities use of flashbang grenades during raids. Prohibiting immigration and
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: customs enforcement officers who have committed serious misconduct from then
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: at any point after that becoming state workers or police officers.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: and expanding health, safety, and oversight requirements for civil detention
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: facilities that are operating in the state.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: You know, every politician, I don't care if you are
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: on the right or on the left, every politician that
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: has been through California and has been a part of
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: running California has screwed the homeless and the immigrants, both
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: of them. And the fact that you have gotten to
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: the point where they are using flash bang grenades is
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: a byproduct of the fact that people have ignored the
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: issue for so long. And it's asinine. And then you
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: end up getting people go, well, so-and-so was in there
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: in office.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: And then you've been in office. And then this person,
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: nobody's helped these people at all. And then it gets
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: to the point where arguably. President Trump steps in in
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: an ugly way and does something that most Americans wanted,
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: and that is to have a stronger tie with who's
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: coming into this country and the borders and then does
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: it in such a ham-handed way than treating people inhumanely
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: that now we've got the left like they're, you know,
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: the best people in the world and caring for all
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: these people and taking care of them by not using
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: flashbang grenades. Hegseth set to announce more cuts to the military.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: What did I hear earlier on your show, Amy? Less generals,
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: more GIs. Is that what he's looking at? Yeah. Too
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: many fat cats at the top?
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, about a 20% decrease in the number of admirals
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: and generals is what he's looking at.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: What does an admiral and general do?
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: I don't know, but you got me thinking of White Christmas.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: Oh, General. Was he an admiral?
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: What do you do with a general?
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: That gets me teared up.
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: All those boys. They're General. The old man, they call him.
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: General Waverly, right?
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: Well, yep. General Waverly. You are correct.
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: I've only watched that movie about 50,000 times.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: Oh, no.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: I've seen it probably one more time than that. So Hegseth,
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: as you said, is going to direct all military services
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: to double the 10% reduction that he ordered, bringing it
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: to 80, so roughly, or to 20, roughly 800 flag
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: and general officer positions, making it 20% total decrease to
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: be completed by January 1st of 2027. So this is,
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: you know, quite a quick turn.
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: Trump's all about the AI.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: Is it AI anymore?
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: Oh, Trump's all about the SI.
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: The world's richest, most powerful tech executives met with Trump
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: yesterday outside the West Wing. Trump said that he and
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: they had signed a voluntary accord intended to ensure the
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: industry develops AI safely. Now, this voluntary accord is not
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: legally binding, but Trump described it as morally binding. He said,
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: in order to build a positive future for the American
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: people and the world, we believe every company is responsible
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: for developing its own technology safely and in a way
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: that builds trust with customers and the public. And then
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: he signed an executive order declaring that they can't call
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: it AI anymore.
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: It's SI, which stands for superintelligence.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: You know, I'm not– he's not a good marketing guy.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: He comes up with some silly things. But I don't
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: know that I'm– I don't know that I think it's
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: horrible to call it superintelligence.
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: He just has a thing about renaming everything.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: At least he didn't call it Trump intelligence, right?
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I get it. But I don't know. I think
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: artificial intelligence is scaring people.
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: Is more menacing.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah. It's like, I don't know, anything artificial. We grew up, nobody,
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: you want, you know, natural peanut butter, right?
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: Artificial sweeteners.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: Super intelligence though. That.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: I know.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: That is, that is straight out of the comic books.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: That's like Megamind.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah. With a big head, this huge head. Super intelligence.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: But it is, it, I think it's freaking a lot
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: of people out. And, and I think we get scared
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: when we don't know things. So artificial, I think it
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: throws you off a little bit. I think calling it
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: super intelligence kind of sets the stage for people to
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: start believing it more than believing humans. You're right. But
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: words matter.
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: And so it's like super intelligence said this. Well, oh,
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: then it must be true.
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: But it's wrong a lot. Maybe I rescind that until
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: we have further information. All right. Can we? Yeah, we
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: got time. All right. Three racehorses die again in eight
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: days from injuries at Santa Anita. And this is something
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: that hasn't gone away. You know, these these stories were
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: hot and heavy for a while. Then they drifted off.
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: And for whatever reason, you know, you're running horses. There's
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: going to be injuries and there's going to be problems.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: A third racehorse death in an eight day span there
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: at Santa Anita. Brought the total number of fatalities in
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: racing and training at California. Three thoroughbreds, one quarter horse
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: tracks to 26 this year. We're pretty deep in the year,
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: but that's a lot of horses. Marking an increase over
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: most recent years, according to data posted by the California
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: Horse Racing Board.
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: Makes me sad because it's such a beautiful sport and
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: it makes me mad that so many horses are Basically
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: die on the track or they fall and they injure
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: themselves or they get injured and then they put them down.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: And you know horses. What's an old horse? Because they're
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: saying like a three-year-old colt.
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: That's a baby.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: That's a baby baby? I have a horse.
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: I have a thoroughbred and he's 26 years old.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: What's a normal old age for? Yeah. These are babies. Yeah,
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: two-year-old colt. Not okay. Three-year-old colt.
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: It's not like they lived to nine. At my barn,
• 29:13
  Speaker 5: there are several horses in their 20s and some in
• 29:15
  Speaker 5: their early 30s.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: Wow, really? Absolutely. And are they pretty decrepit at that
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: point or they look just like a regular horse?
• 29:24
  Speaker 5: I can show you a picture of my horse right now.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: He just looks like a regular horse.
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: Well, you can still. I used to ride a 30-year-old horse.
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: No comment. One last story.
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: You got it.
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: Mom, Donnie's got to start over. uh new york city
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: mayor zoron mom donnie it.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: Gets me every two that last name i don't know.
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: Why he promised he would govern as a democratic socialist
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: and said he was going to tax the rich and
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: one of the things that he wanted to do still
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: wants to do is tax new yorkers who have second
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: homes um He was dealt a major setback when a
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: judge in Staten Island ruled in favor of plaintiffs who
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: were challenging the rollout of this new tax, the– how
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: do you say it?
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: Pied-a-terre tax?
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: Pied-a-terre.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Pied-a-terre.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: It's a small apartment.
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: Okay, yeah.
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: So it places a surcharge on non-primary residents in New
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: York City if they're over $ 5 million in value and
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: co-ops that are worth a million dollars or more. So
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: they get that tax on that. But– They weren't challenging
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: the tax itself. They were challenging the way it was
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: rolled out because they released a list that included people
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: who were not subject to the tax. So the judge
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: said the rollout has to be, they have to go
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: back and start over, do it again, basically. They have
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: to clean up the list and then put a list
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: out of only people who are subject to the tax.
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know people who just sold theirs because of
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: this tax. The reality is you have a lot of
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: people doing work In New York, but it's expensive to
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: live in New York. So it's easier to have a
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: pied-a-terre or a small apartment there.
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: Pied-a-terre.
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that they can go and stay at when they
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: need to do stuff there. And that's who they're nailing.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: You got to nail the people who have succeeded in life.
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: Punish them for their success.
• 31:19
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