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Iran Deal Draws Backlash | Noncitizens Right to Vote on Nov. 3 Ballot · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 2: looking forward to seeing you folks there. Okay, the deal
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  Speaker 2: has been cut. It has been signed between the US
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  Speaker 2: and Iran. Trump signed it as the President of Iran
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  Speaker 2: separately because they didn't me fourteen point memorandum and not
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  Speaker 2: a lot has come out of it other than it
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  Speaker 2: looks like Iran has just basically won on this one
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  Speaker 2: because they get a lot of stuff on this.
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  Speaker 1: The Strait of Horn moves opened up.
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  Speaker 2: That's for us in the world, and it's going to
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  Speaker 2: be free transit, okay, just like it was before the war.
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  Speaker 2: Part of it in the next sixty days is Iran
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  Speaker 2: is going to discuss with Oman on the other side
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  Speaker 2: of the Strait administratively, how they're going to administer this
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  Speaker 2: administer the Strait. Wait a minute, you didn't before before
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  Speaker 2: the war. That's going to change. Also, all sanctions against
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  Speaker 2: Iran are going to be lifted or the vast majority.
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  Speaker 1: Wait a minute, that's changed before the war.
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  Speaker 2: Also, the money that Iran has that's frozen in the
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  Speaker 2: United States will be released immediately. That's changedanged because prior
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  Speaker 2: to that, Iran had the money frozen. Also, three hundred
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  Speaker 2: billion dollars is going to be spent to bring Iran
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  Speaker 2: back to where it was before the war, to rehab
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  Speaker 2: their infrastructure. I mean, they're getting a lot of stuff. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: they can continue on with the drones. They can continue
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  Speaker 2: on with supporting state state supported terrorists around the world.
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  Speaker 2: They can still do that because the peace agreement doesn't
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  Speaker 2: talk about that regime change. The same regime is in power.
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  Speaker 2: Even though the president says that it has been regime changed,
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  Speaker 2: it has not.
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  Speaker 1: So Iran gets a lot.
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  Speaker 2: What the US gets, primarily is that the straits open up.
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  Speaker 1: But they were already open. That's the problem.
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  Speaker 2: And Iran says it will never build a nuclear weapon.
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  Speaker 2: Now it can still process uranium. That's not part of
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  Speaker 2: the deal, but building a nuclear weapon, which they have
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  Speaker 2: promised over and over and over again every time a
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  Speaker 2: deal is cut. Oh, we promised not to have nuclear weapons.
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  Speaker 2: So the bottom line is the US has not gotten
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  Speaker 2: a whole lot out of this. Now, what is happening
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  Speaker 2: that the President has promised is oil would drop significantly.
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  Speaker 2: The price of oil it has. Gasoline has dropped significantly.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, I mean right now. Even though it
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  Speaker 2: has dropped, it is still a way above what it
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  Speaker 2: was prior to the war. So we'll see how it
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  Speaker 2: pans out. It's negotiations go over the next sixty days.
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  Speaker 2: One of the things about Iran, they are sorry I'm
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  Speaker 2: coughing here, they are some of the toughest negotiators out there,
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  Speaker 2: and the President has even admitted that smart tough negotiators.
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  Speaker 2: President says something really interesting yesterday, and that is Iran
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  Speaker 2: will be allowed to have ballistic missiles. Why well, because
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  Speaker 2: they should have defensive missiles like the rest of the
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  Speaker 2: Middle East has. Huh Okay, And that's new because the
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  Speaker 2: original plan was to destroy their entire ability to launch missiles.
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  Speaker 2: Still be able to launch missiles, launch drones, it's only
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  Speaker 2: the nuclear program. Their weapons program that is going to
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  Speaker 2: be curtailed per their promise, and so you know, what
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  Speaker 2: have we gotten relative to what they have gotten?
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  Speaker 1: It looks like they have won this.
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  Speaker 2: Of course the president and I said this before, what's
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  Speaker 2: going to happen when this thing is over. The President
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  Speaker 2: is going to declare victory. Iran is going to declare victory.
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  Speaker 2: And that's it, exactly what's going on.
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  Speaker 1: And so even see.
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  Speaker 2: Republicans that are livid with this bill saying this is
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  Speaker 2: one of the worst deals that we have cut. Remember
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  Speaker 2: that Obama in twenty fifteen had an agreement with Iran,
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  Speaker 2: but the deal was that there would be no nuclear weapons,
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  Speaker 2: and Iran and the United States and the rest of
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  Speaker 2: the world had very very serious and far reaching oversight.
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  Speaker 2: That's all gone. We don't know, hasn't been talked about.
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  Speaker 2: This memorandum has nothing to do with oversight. The only
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  Speaker 2: thing we do know the strait is going to be
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  Speaker 2: open immediately. That we know Iran will be allowed to
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  Speaker 2: sell oil. That we know, the assets that Iran has
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  Speaker 2: that we know is going to happen virtually immediately. The
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  Speaker 2: rest of it is really up in the air. So
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  Speaker 2: we'll see what happens. President has said, if they don't adhere,
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  Speaker 2: then I'm going to bomb the hell out of them.
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  Speaker 1: Adhere to what.
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  Speaker 2: Their promise to not build a nuclear weapon, Okay, and
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  Speaker 2: here's what they get in response. And it's what is
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  Speaker 2: happening immediately. That's the issue. And it could be the
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  Speaker 2: President is right, they're going a cave over the next
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  Speaker 2: sixty days. We'll find out. Okay, enough of that. A
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  Speaker 2: couple of big stories that we are covering. The Obama
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  Speaker 2: Presidential Center opens today in Chicago eight hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 2: million dollars. But it's an entire campus, it's not just
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  Speaker 2: a building, and so it should be interesting the eight
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  Speaker 2: hundred and fifty million dollars. You know, these presidential centers
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  Speaker 2: are not paid for by the government. It's private donations
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  Speaker 2: that pay for these. And that was that's the controversy
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  Speaker 2: with the current president as to his press actually the
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  Speaker 2: White House House, the ballroom, which I guess could have
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  Speaker 2: been paid for by the taxpayer. I think he has
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  Speaker 2: the authority to do that, but there is a controversy.
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  Speaker 2: I want to find out eight hundred and fifty dollars
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  Speaker 2: Was that all private donation? All?
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  Speaker 1: Right? Something going on?
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  Speaker 2: I want to share with you, and that is the
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  Speaker 2: voting in the city of Los Angeles allowing non citizens
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  Speaker 2: to vote. Now, I'm really mixed on this one when
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  Speaker 2: it comes to undocumented. I don't think undocumented should have
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  Speaker 2: all the rights. But also, people come to the United
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  Speaker 2: States just basically to support their families, because otherwise they
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  Speaker 2: come from El Salvador, from Guatemala, from Mexico and they
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  Speaker 2: can't eat. There are very few successful business people that
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  Speaker 2: sneak over the border to pick strawberries. And so there's
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  Speaker 2: a contractor friend of mine and I asked him, in general,
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  Speaker 2: how many illegal undocumented people work for you work for
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  Speaker 2: in construction?
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  Speaker 1: In general?
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  Speaker 2: He said fifty percent, and before the raids it was
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  Speaker 2: seventy five percent. I mean, they are a big, big
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  Speaker 2: part of southern California. So what the city council is
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  Speaker 2: considering is putting on the November ballot allowing us to vote.
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  Speaker 2: Should non citizens be able to vote in local elections? Now,
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  Speaker 2: in federal elections, the answer is a big no because
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  Speaker 2: the constitution doesn't allow it.
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  Speaker 1: And it's I got to tell you this.
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  Speaker 2: As much as I'm in favor of helping out the
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  Speaker 2: undocumented because of their crime, is simply coming over, and
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  Speaker 2: they're there, and they're coming, not to steal, not to rob.
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  Speaker 2: It's not the rapists that are coming over, although some are.
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  Speaker 2: It's to feed their families so that they can eat.
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  Speaker 2: But voting, voting that one I have a problem with,
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  Speaker 2: and I think a lot of people agree with me.
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  Speaker 2: I think voting is I think voting is the red
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  Speaker 2: line on this one for many of us. And I'm
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  Speaker 2: not particularly adamant screaming about undocumented and certainly the raids
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  Speaker 2: and picking them up and breaking up families, etc.
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  Speaker 1: I have a real problem with that.
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  Speaker 2: So let's say that it goes to the ballot. So far,
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  Speaker 2: the vote to go to another vote is ten to
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  Speaker 2: fifteen in the city Council in favor of There is
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  Speaker 2: one more vote that has to be made in the
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  Speaker 2: city Council, which is going to pass to go to
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  Speaker 2: the ballot in November. I think that amongst the city
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  Speaker 2: of Los Angeles, the vote to allow non citizens.
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  Speaker 1: Does that include illegal aliens?
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  Speaker 2: Or maybe it includes or we don't have the actual
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  Speaker 2: language yet, maybe it includes people that are here legally
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  Speaker 2: asylum seekers, people that are here on visas to vote
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  Speaker 2: certain visas. Maybe they're the only ones allowed, But I
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  Speaker 2: think it's across the board. I don't think you're going
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  Speaker 2: to be able to prove citizenship at all, which when
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  Speaker 2: you register to vote you have to prove citizenship. Voting
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  Speaker 2: itself you don't have to, but when you register you
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  Speaker 2: have to prove and when the vote happens, If the
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  Speaker 2: vote happens, I think that the vast majority of the electorate,
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  Speaker 2: the vast majority of voters in southern California are in
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  Speaker 2: Los Angeles going to say absolutely not unless the city
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  Speaker 2: Council passes an ordinance that says undocumented people have the
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  Speaker 2: right to vote. To determine whether undocumented people can vote
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  Speaker 2: that one, I think they're gonna win.
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  Speaker 3: What happens when we get an influx of Europeans.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe the argument is people on tourist feesas cannot vote.
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  Speaker 1: We haven't gotten we don't know what if Europeans just
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  Speaker 1: say yeah, I'm going to come and you're right, you're right,
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  Speaker 1: and so who knows what's going to happen.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, it makes no sense, as you say,
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  Speaker 2: just practically speaking, what if, what if?
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  Speaker 1: What if?
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  Speaker 2: But the basic premise, the underlying premise UH as a philosophy,
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  Speaker 2: as a belief that non citizens should be able to
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  Speaker 2: vote in local elections, I think is an ethma to
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  Speaker 2: most of us. I have a problem with this, so
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  Speaker 2: I don't think it's going to pass. I just think,
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  Speaker 2: do they No, I don't, not that I know of.
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  Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, there are a lot of
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  Speaker 2: other countries that simply don't give citizenship to people that
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  Speaker 2: come into the country on any under any circumstance. We
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  Speaker 2: have a path to the citizenship for people, for example,
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  Speaker 2: that have been granted asylum. We do have a path
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  Speaker 2: to citizenship. Other countries just say no, thank you, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: you come over. You have a work permit. Saudi Arabia,
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  Speaker 2: for example, people have a contract to come in. It
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  Speaker 2: used to be that no tourists were allowed in Saudi
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  Speaker 2: Arabia until a couple of years ago or a few
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  Speaker 2: years ago. So what would happen is, for example, a Ramco,
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  Speaker 2: which is the Saudi American oil company that was in partnership.
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  Speaker 2: You would have engineers coming over from America or from
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  Speaker 2: other countries. The second their contract was up, they're on
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  Speaker 2: an airplane getting out of Saudi Arabia. No thank you,
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  Speaker 2: you're out of here. So we'll see what happens with
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  Speaker 2: the vote. Okay, Pew just researched the study. The pe
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  Speaker 2: Or Research Center came out with a study that at
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  Speaker 2: first glance, part of it is going. Really it has
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  Speaker 2: to do with most US families where both parents are
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  Speaker 2: working full time. Now, these are separate sex families men
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  Speaker 2: and women or women and men, and not same sex
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  Speaker 2: because the same sex everybody works and having kids. And
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  Speaker 2: the bottom line is the question is is it better
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  Speaker 2: for kids to have both parents work? Now, I grew
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  Speaker 2: up in a family that both my mom and dad works,
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  Speaker 2: so I don't know the difference. And as far is
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  Speaker 2: is it better, Well, you know, I'm screwed up. Anyways,
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  Speaker 2: to this day, when I go to my shrink, which
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  Speaker 2: I do as you know, I've been shrinking it for
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  Speaker 2: you know, the last thirty years.
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  Speaker 1: The shrink and I talk about it.
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  Speaker 2: Right after, she doesn't let me sit on the chair
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  Speaker 2: and I have to sit on the floor, and she
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  Speaker 2: calls me a worm. And in her case, in my case,
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  Speaker 2: it really didn't make any difference. I'm screwed up no
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  Speaker 2: matter what. But two things the Research Center is the
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  Speaker 2: number of two parent workers we're both employed, have increased
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  Speaker 2: dramatically as you would expect if we go back to
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  Speaker 2: when I was a kid, both my parents working full
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  Speaker 2: time was an aberration. It was usually mom at home
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  Speaker 2: being a housewife and then dad working.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it wasn't in our case.
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  Speaker 2: So based on what happened to us, and this is
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  Speaker 2: we're right in the middle of this demo, is that,
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  Speaker 2: according to the research study, the parents who did work,
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  Speaker 2: both parents worked said that they were financially better off. Huh, really,
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  Speaker 2: two paychecks coming in, you geniuses, that's better than one
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  Speaker 2: paycheck coming in. Now, the question can get a little
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  Speaker 2: deeper than that because the concept of childcare wasn't part
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  Speaker 2: of the mix, which it is now. Childcare is so
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  Speaker 2: expended SIV that you have one parent or the other.
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  Speaker 2: Usually moms stay home just because you can't afford childcare.
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  Speaker 2: In many cases it costs more money to have childcare
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  Speaker 2: than someone going to work. And now the issue is
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  Speaker 2: how do kids do? Parents do great kids? That's up
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  Speaker 2: in the air. Now, parents who both work and have
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  Speaker 2: kids thinks that kids do better.
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  Speaker 1: Kids are fine. I was a latch key kid.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 2: My parents didn't come home until I was at I
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  Speaker 2: was five o'clock. It was five o'clock. And what did
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  Speaker 2: I do after school? And I let out Most kids,
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  Speaker 2: you know, go to after school program. Yeah, thank you. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: snorted cocaine, that's right, Kno, when I was in grade school,
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  Speaker 2: I started snorting cocaine. Good for you. No, we waited
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  Speaker 2: until high school for that, okay. And my parents worked
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  Speaker 2: until they retired. And so it's now. When I was
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  Speaker 2: married to Marjorie didn't work, she didn't work. And now
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  Speaker 2: I'm married to Lindsay.
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  Speaker 1: She works.
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  Speaker 2: She works because it's self esteem. A lot of it
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  Speaker 2: has to do with that. It's not necessarily money, but
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  Speaker 2: it is just part and parcel with who you are.
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  Speaker 2: So the other thing is parents feel better. People feel
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  Speaker 2: better about working and they're not so reliant on the
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  Speaker 2: other spouse. And so parents are fine with it and
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  Speaker 2: the kids do great. The problem is the studies show
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  Speaker 2: that a lot of kids don't do great, and you
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  Speaker 2: have to take that into account. And so in my kids,
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  Speaker 2: in my case, you know, as I look at it,
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  Speaker 2: I would have done terrible no matter what whether my
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  Speaker 2: parents worked, whether I started working at six or seven o'clock,
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  Speaker 2: you know, six or seven years of age, it didn't matter,
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  Speaker 2: both parents working.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're nay.
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  Speaker 3: My mom went to work when I was probably eight.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so she wasn't home until you were eight?
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  Speaker 2: Fair enough, Kno parents working, just pops, just pops.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So part of that formula will both parents working yes
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  Speaker 2: or no?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, okay? And both parents working yes, but mom was
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  Speaker 1: more part time okay, Heather, both parents working. My mom
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  Speaker 1: was a single mom, and yes she worked full time.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, single moms tend to work because there's this
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  Speaker 2: little trick about feeding the kids. Yeah, you know, that's
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  Speaker 2: a little that's a little tough. Now, we don't have
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  Speaker 2: time to go through it. Do you think you're better off?
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  Speaker 2: Because that is a lot deeper in terms of study.
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  Speaker 2: But here is the takeaway is where both parents work,
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  Speaker 2: the finances are better, except when you're talking about with
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  Speaker 2: childcare and that throws into the mix, but the finances
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  Speaker 2: better really two paychecks. However, the divergence is that the
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  Speaker 2: parents think the kids are doing great or better and
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  Speaker 2: the studies show that maybe not. How is that for equivocal?
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  Speaker 2: Maybe yes or no? Kids are better maybe kind of
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  Speaker 2: sort of and they might not be or they might be.
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  Speaker 1: Damn, am I good at reading studies? Aren't I? Stupid.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, okay, I am one of those people that still
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  Speaker 2: say I'll send you a check. And it has not
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  Speaker 2: been very long where I am exclusively sending emails checks
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  Speaker 2: or zell or ah or some method of electronic transfer.
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  Speaker 2: And when I first married Lindsay and I was doing checks,
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  Speaker 2: she started laughing hysterically.
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  Speaker 1: Why well, because I was writing.
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  Speaker 3: Checks and she lives in the century.
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  Speaker 2: She does, so why do you not want to write checks?
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  Speaker 2: Because these scams have exploded. According to a joint warning
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  Speaker 2: by the FBI and the US Postal Service, check fraud
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  Speaker 2: is like exploding. For example, from in twenty twenty one,
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  Speaker 2: there were three hundred and fifty thousand that were reported
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  Speaker 2: by the FBI. Go forward one more year to twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty two, six hundred and eighty thousand more than doubled.
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  Speaker 2: It is so bad that it is strongly recommended that
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  Speaker 2: you absolutely stop writing checks. And according to the president
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  Speaker 2: of the Postal Officer Association Postal Police Officer Association, and
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  Speaker 2: his name is Frank Albergo, he said, it's not about
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  Speaker 2: lost birthday cards anymore. We've entered an era of organized
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  Speaker 2: post crime.
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  Speaker 1: And here's what happens. So you write a check and
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  Speaker 1: you send.
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  Speaker 2: It out and criminals can use acetone or bleach that
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  Speaker 2: you buy in the store, washing away the pays name
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  Speaker 2: and dollar amounts, so they can rewrite the check. If
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: they get hold of it physically, and they're bad guys,
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: you are screwed.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: It is a real problem.
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  Speaker 2: Now. If it's an IRS check that's coming back to you,
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: or you're sending the IRS, there is some help. But
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: if it's just your money going to someone else, you
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: are screwed. And so this isn't limited to personal checks either.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: These fraudsters are going after business payments and tax refunds
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: and checks related to government assistants such as Social Security,
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: unemployment benefits. When checks are being mailed and a lot
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: of people still take checks by mail, IRS refunds, don't
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: do it.
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  Speaker 1: They're telling us, do not do it.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: And so there's a story that I don't want to
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: get into about a California couple. But it takes too long.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: And here is what the banks say. Use electronic transaction.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: If you have to use a check, review your monthly statements.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: You can actually see the check.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: Here's something else you can do, is you can in
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: addition to see the statements, is have the.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: Check itself photographed and sent to you.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: In other words, usually in my case, when I do
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: a check once every zillion years, we ask that that
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: check be photographed and we look at it and we check.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: And now they do that monthly.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: We look at our statement weekly to find out what
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: checks are going through through. So let's give you a
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: couple of hints. Okay, First of all, protect your mail
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: checks are going through. Get your mail as soon as possible,
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: don't let it sit overnight, and box avoid leaving outgoing
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: mail in unintended home mailbox, especially with the red flag up. Boy,
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: does that tell everybody? Use the postal service? Hold mail
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: service if you're out of town. Buy security envelopes so
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: thieves can't see there's a check there. Because you have
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: these window envelopes where you can easily see there's a
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: check in the envelope, buy the security ones where you
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: can't see that. All go inside the post office to
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: drop off outgoing mail. If you use that outdoor blue box,
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: those can be opened. So don't deposit a check after
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: the final pickup. And now protect your check itself right
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: with permanent indelible black ink gel or gel inc. Why
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: standardball point pin washes off easily, and so the gel
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: inc is trapped in the paper itself in the fibers.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: Don't leave blank apps on the paye your dollar amounts
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: where thief can sneak in extra words or numbers. Don't
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: just check your balance online. Look at the actual digital
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: image of your clear checks, as I told you to
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: make sure the name wasn't altered. Check your online banking frequently,
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: activity frequently, which is exactly what I do.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: And if you.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: Wrote a check and it's taking longer than usual to clear,
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: or if you spot missing funds, contact the bank emediately
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: order checks even if there are a little bit more
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: money that have security features, microprinting, water marks, chemically reactive
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: paper that bleeds when touched by bleach or acetone. Use
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: the same chemicals that they use in swimming pools that
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: when you pee in the swimming pool it turns green
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: or brown.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: That's a myth. Oh do I have that wrong?
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: No, that the water was turning yellow or brown around
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: you because you were defecating or urinating in the pool.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: That's not well. Yeah, that's the whole point.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: If you pee in the pool, there is a chemical
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: in there that you can easily see. And the same
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: chemical is used to wash checks.
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: If people knew how incredibly it easy it is to
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: forge or manipulate documents, they'd be freaked the hell out.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you just don't do it. Years ago, Clark Howard,
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: who used to have on the show and as a
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: friend of mine, a consumer reporter, and this was years ago,
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: what I talked about writing checks, He goes, you're crazy.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: If you think checks are secure, you're out of your mind.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: Just exactly what Neil has said. Neil who has been
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: caught several times peeing in the pool and the problem
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: is when the pee, when the water turned a different color.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: He just doesn't care. And here's a line.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: Okay, Neil, I don't swim in your toilet, don't pee
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: in my pool.
• 26:04
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• 26:08
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