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Vatican Excommunicates Breakaway Group | Parental Accountability · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KF I
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  Speaker 1: am six forty Clowly. I'm mister Lowely. I have no
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  Speaker 1: Budy for just lovely, well done Cono, good song Bill.
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  Speaker 1: And this is I want to share with you. A
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  Speaker 1: story came out of the Atlantic and it's entitled A
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  Speaker 1: Sad Kind of Convenience. And we've talked about the fact
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  Speaker 1: that we are becoming estranged. We don't connect with people
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  Speaker 1: anymore because we're not really working together anymore, remote working,
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  Speaker 1: and we just don't hang and people used to. And
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  Speaker 1: so what's happening is this is a story out of
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  Speaker 1: physical media and the death of physical media. And I'll
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  Speaker 1: tell you why. What's going on indicates even a greater loss. Now.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you thought about this, but it
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  Speaker 1: really got me thinking. Entertainment companies are moving and we
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  Speaker 1: know that, but what does it mean people. They're moving
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  Speaker 1: people into seamless digital spaces, convenience replaces, ownership, games without discs,
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  Speaker 1: music on Spotify instead of vinyl. I mean, they have
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  Speaker 1: vinyl records, but that's just sort of a hobby. It's
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  Speaker 1: aficionado is that for some reason think that vinyl records
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  Speaker 1: sound better. I've never understood that. Look at the games,
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  Speaker 1: the video games, where do you do them? You do
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  Speaker 1: them at home? You know, they used to have arcades.
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  Speaker 1: That's where you did video games. Thanks still doing not
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  Speaker 1: the way they used to. No, not in the eighties.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we go to an arcade okay, but that is
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  Speaker 2: an arcade facility.
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  Speaker 1: It's just arcade games. But how about the ones in restaurants.
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  Speaker 1: When I first started practicing law, I had there was
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  Speaker 1: my office and in the same little complex I was
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  Speaker 1: in a strip mall. There were it was a restaurant
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  Speaker 1: two doors down that had an arcade game in it.
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  Speaker 1: It was one of the early assault things where asteroids.
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  Speaker 1: You remember that game, it was Asteroids. Yeah, and I
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  Speaker 1: would go there. We'd go there a couple of times
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  Speaker 1: a day. Well, they don't do that anymore. And there
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  Speaker 1: used to be every place. And you want to play
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  Speaker 1: an arcade game, you go to an arcade game facility
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  Speaker 1: and that's it. I mean they used to be all
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  Speaker 1: over the place. Not so much. They the whole point.
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  Speaker 1: Remember that you put quarters in, and they were designed
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  Speaker 1: to have you put quarters in. Well, now the games
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  Speaker 1: are at home, and they're obviously not getting a game
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  Speaker 1: or a quarter per game, because it would used to
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  Speaker 1: be very short. Now you have games that go on
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  Speaker 1: for hours because you've already bought the game. So supply
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  Speaker 1: and demand is probably the explanation why the music industry
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  Speaker 1: stops selling CDs, Why you don't have DVD bargain bins?
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  Speaker 1: Remember those a dollar a DVD. When's the last time
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  Speaker 1: you saw one of those? Game Stop? What happened to
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  Speaker 1: game Stop? I'm going to see in one of those
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  Speaker 1: in a long time. No, they're still around. How many?
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  Speaker 1: How many have closed? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I got to tell you, I've got at least three
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  Speaker 2: or four within a six mile range of us.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you live in an area where it doesn't have
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  Speaker 1: the stores, and I know this. I'm gonna give folks
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  Speaker 1: a little inside baseball. Neil lives in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: the ghetto and game stop. It's just easy to steal
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  Speaker 1: and loot that place.
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  Speaker 2: So, oh, you said game I thought you said gang
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  Speaker 2: stop Stop?
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  Speaker 1: Well said, how about? Well, here's a stat for you.
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  Speaker 1: When the PlayStation four was launched, this is twenty thirteen, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: thirteen percent of the entire Sony video games line were
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  Speaker 1: being purchased digitally. Only thirteen percent now it's eighty percent.
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  Speaker 1: If that doesn't go to show you what has happened.
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  Speaker 1: When it comes to vinyl records, they disappeared. Remember it
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  Speaker 1: started with you had CDs and you had the well
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  Speaker 1: the DVDs or video, but you also had all kinds
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  Speaker 1: of digitally at Blu Ray, you remember that, and there
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  Speaker 1: was there were dats and those have just disappeared. And
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  Speaker 1: so now if you're talking about vinyl records, it's a
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  Speaker 1: specialty hobby, is all it is. It's ooh, let's go
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  Speaker 1: to a store. Are there any record stores? Is Amiba
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  Speaker 1: Records still around?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they moved not long ago to a new location,
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  Speaker 2: but Amieba's still around absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: And this is where you get just a real classics,
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  Speaker 1: old classics. Do you know that new ones too? Taylor
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  Speaker 1: Swift put her last album out on vinyl, in addition
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  Speaker 1: of course to digital and Spotify, et cetera. I had
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  Speaker 1: and boy, I don't know whatever happened to me. I lost
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  Speaker 1: it And I had the promo record, the vinyl record
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  Speaker 1: that was done as a promo of Charles Manson's songs
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  Speaker 1: where he played the guitar and he sang. It was
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  Speaker 1: a demo of something he was a demo was the
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  Speaker 1: first one he did. Yeah, he tried to sell a
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  Speaker 1: matter of fact, he tried to sell it to one
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  Speaker 1: of the beach boys at the place that he rented it.
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  Speaker 1: The beach boy rented it and then he went back
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  Speaker 1: to that place because he was really pissed off at them,
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  Speaker 1: and it turned out to be Sharon Tate had rented
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  Speaker 1: the place and he killed, you know, killed all those
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  Speaker 1: people that were in the house. And it was he
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  Speaker 1: was trying to get into the music business. Matter of fact,
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  Speaker 1: I think you can look it up on YouTube, the
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  Speaker 1: Charles Manson song and my favorite one is Oh Garbage
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  Speaker 1: Pale or Oh Garbage Can, Oh Garbage Can, Oh garbage Can?
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  Speaker 1: You can feed the whole world garbage Can. It's a
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  Speaker 1: brilliant song that he did, Yeah, and what a singer
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  Speaker 1: he was. But the point I'm making is that everything
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  Speaker 1: is digital today. When's the last time you went to
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  Speaker 1: a movie theater. I used to go two three times
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  Speaker 1: a week. I have not been in a movie for
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  Speaker 1: probably a year, and before that two years or three years,
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  Speaker 1: and you'd go to a movie. The floor would be
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  Speaker 1: sticky and you would pray that it was coke that
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  Speaker 1: was on the floor. That's a different kind of theater bill.
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  Speaker 1: They don't have those anymore either. There used to be
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  Speaker 1: those theaters where these guys would ask for a box
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  Speaker 1: of popcorn with a hole at the bottom. We're done,
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  Speaker 1: See they're laughing. Okay, story about the Vatican and the Catholicism,
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  Speaker 1: and I love this story. First of all, I have
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  Speaker 1: a connection to Catholicism in a big way. And this
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  Speaker 1: is me not joking. My dad, who was a Holocaust survivor,
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  Speaker 1: had left Yugoslavia, which was controlled by the Nazis, and
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  Speaker 1: he went into Italy escaping, and the Vatican at that
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  Speaker 1: time took several thousand Jews and hid them because they
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  Speaker 1: were leaving and were able to get out. And my
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  Speaker 1: dad was one of them. And because of his he
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  Speaker 1: was a real scholar. My dad, he spoke nine languages,
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  Speaker 1: and so he ended up being a Jesuit priest. That
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  Speaker 1: was what he basically masqueraded at. And he taught Latin,
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  Speaker 1: he taught Ancient Greek because he spoke all of those,
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  Speaker 1: and he ended up teaching Catechism, a Jew teaching Catechism.
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  Speaker 1: Just a great story. So I have an affinity to
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  Speaker 1: what happened in the Vatican during World War Two. Now
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  Speaker 1: there's a story about excommunication right where the priests or
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  Speaker 1: in this case, the pope excommunicates people and that is
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  Speaker 1: the ultimate, especially for religious Catholic, the ultimate way to
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  Speaker 1: die while you're still alive. So there is a breakaway
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  Speaker 1: group of the Roman Catholic Church, and what they are
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  Speaker 1: doing is they're trying to go back to what the
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  Speaker 1: church was, the Mass in Latin, the very strict interpretation
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  Speaker 1: of the Bible. And you've had popes that had become
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  Speaker 1: more liberal. Actually started nineteen sixty two Vatican two, where
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  Speaker 1: a Pope John the twenty third really opened up the
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  Speaker 1: church and he died after only four years, and he
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  Speaker 1: was so frighten. Or the Vatican, the curia, the people
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  Speaker 1: that actually are elected, the cardinals that elect a new pope,
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  Speaker 1: because at some time you've got a pope that's running
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  Speaker 1: for pope, a cardinal and all of a sudden, I
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  Speaker 1: guess Jesus comes down and says, this is the guy
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  Speaker 1: I want. I've never understood that and becomes the Vicar
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  Speaker 1: of Christ. But in any case, there's this group that
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  Speaker 1: has broken away, the Society of Saint Pius the tenth,
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  Speaker 1: seven hundred and fifty priests, thousands of worshippers, and Pope
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  Speaker 1: Leo said, oh no, you keep on going like this,
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  Speaker 1: you're excommunicated. You are thrown out of the Catholic Church.
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  Speaker 1: That is a very big deal to be excommunicated. And
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  Speaker 1: this is probably one of the most liberal popes we
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  Speaker 1: have had in many, many years. By the way, after
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  Speaker 1: John the twenty third, the Vatican was so frightened of
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  Speaker 1: what where the church was going because of his liberalism.
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  Speaker 1: They made sure there were super conservative popes that were
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  Speaker 1: put in. Even Pope Pope John. Oh my god, that
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  Speaker 1: I actually forget the pope's name was now a saint.
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  Speaker 1: That goes my mind. So many popes there, yeah, well, yes,
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  Speaker 1: you know that's yeah. I mean, you can't even try
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  Speaker 1: to try to take a test on how many popes
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  Speaker 1: there are out there, you know.
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  Speaker 2: It's a little fun fact for you. By the way,
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  Speaker 2: Mel Gibson, Oh yeah, famed actor. He goes to a
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  Speaker 2: Latin church. Yeah, he does, the Church of the Holy Family.
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  Speaker 2: It's gated, it's private, it's located in a Gura Hills,
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  Speaker 2: and the entire mass is entirely in Latin.
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  Speaker 1: The Old School. Well, according to Pope Leo and others.
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  Speaker 1: The Vatican has said the society is barred now from
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  Speaker 1: officiating marriages, can't hear confessions when taking the eucharists the
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  Speaker 1: cracker during Eucharis, the priest can no longer put cheese
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  Speaker 1: whiz on the cracker. It is no longer allowed. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the Church was becoming more liberal and they're going back.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, the number of followers are between three
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  Speaker 1: hundred and six hundred thousand people. That is a big deal.
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  Speaker 1: And in terms of bringing Catholics back into the fold,
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  Speaker 1: it's real simple. You say you're Catholic, you toe the line.
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  Speaker 1: You don't toe the line, you're excommunicated. And Pope Leo
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  Speaker 1: did this. Pope Leo is actually talked about women clergy
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  Speaker 1: marrying non Catholic because it used to be that you,
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  Speaker 1: a Catholic, could only get married to another Catholic. Otherwise
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  Speaker 1: there was no marriage. You know, I got married in
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  Speaker 1: the most one of the most Catholic countries in the world, Italy,
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  Speaker 1: right where the Vatican is. Here's a little factoid that
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  Speaker 1: you probably didn't know, and I didn't know that in Italy,
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  Speaker 1: a religious ceremony where a priest actually officiate officiates. Is
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  Speaker 1: not a legal marriage. The only marriage that is recognized
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  Speaker 1: by the state in Italy is a marriage done by
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  Speaker 1: basically a clerk at city hall. All the other marriages
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  Speaker 1: that you see where priests, those are all they're simply ceremonial.
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  Speaker 1: There is no validity whatsoever. We're here. Of course, the official,
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  Speaker 1: who is a clergy person signs off and that is
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  Speaker 1: a legal marriage. But you didn't know that. So I
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  Speaker 1: got married City Hall, Laguna Beach and that's my official marriage.
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  Speaker 1: So much for that excommunication. You're done right, No crackers
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  Speaker 1: for you. Okay, before we dive into the topic about
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  Speaker 1: how miserable and horrible your kids are, Neil, the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I want to tell share with you a story
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  Speaker 1: about a Bay Area restaurant owner named you U Xu. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: that's what they call me on a regular basis, u
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  Speaker 1: U ju u u juw. Yeah. And so there he
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  Speaker 1: is owning his restaurant. I'm assuming it's a Chinese restaurant,
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  Speaker 1: shay Zhu. I think so. Anyways, it's a Michelin star restaurant,
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  Speaker 1: so you know, it's very good. So he is witnessing
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  Speaker 1: a customer changing his child's diaper on top of one
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  Speaker 1: of the booths in the restaurant. Holy god. Yeah. And
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  Speaker 1: I mean the good news is there weren't people there
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  Speaker 1: that were eating, but I mean right in front of
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  Speaker 1: the entire restaurant. And he said, okay, that's it. We're
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  Speaker 1: putting a stop to this right now. Now. He had
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  Speaker 1: already been thinking about how to deal with customer behavior
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  Speaker 1: at the restaurant, You shay Zu, and he said, you know,
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  Speaker 1: kids fooling around trashing the place, and he said, I
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  Speaker 1: have to put a stop to it. Now. Keep in mind,
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  Speaker 1: most restaurants will allow almost anything to keep a customer base,
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  Speaker 1: and they're not gonna it's very rare they throw someone out. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: But uh, for example, he has a digital menu and
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  Speaker 1: a lot of restaurants do, and you access to a
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  Speaker 1: QR code and at the top of the digital menu,
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  Speaker 1: which is there on the table in huge letters, please
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  Speaker 1: control your children. Now, it's a family friendly restaurant, but
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  Speaker 1: he said, we are not a playground. Please ensure children boldface,
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  Speaker 1: all caps, remain seated at all times and respectful of
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  Speaker 1: fellow guests and the dining environment. Running around, shouting, making
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  Speaker 1: noise with you, potensils, et cetera will not be tolerated.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm sure all of us have gone to restaurant
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  Speaker 1: where these kids running around. One of the things that
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  Speaker 1: I can't stand is being on an airplane and a
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  Speaker 1: kid is screaming next to me, and no matter how
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  Speaker 1: much I tell the parents take the kid outside, it
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  Speaker 1: never works. And he says guests who don't respond, don't
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  Speaker 1: respect the policy, will be asked to leave, and the
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  Speaker 1: restaurant's going to hold parents financially liable for all the
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  Speaker 1: damage caused by their kids, which by the way, is
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  Speaker 1: the law. But the restaurant owner are going to do that.
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  Speaker 1: Probably not well, he's changed at all, and people are
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  Speaker 1: really looking at it. And the policy has been around
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  Speaker 1: for about a year. It went viral last week and
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  Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, you have restaurants that are
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  Speaker 1: jumping on board. And he said regarding kids, we're a
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  Speaker 1: casual restaurant, but we're not chuck e cheese. And there
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  Speaker 1: are stories about kids doing all kinds of damage. In
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  Speaker 1: one story, a kid literally broke one of those card
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  Speaker 1: processing machines and got billed. Parents got bill for three
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  Speaker 1: hundred and twenty seven dollars and they had to pay.
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  Speaker 1: Now he has another restaurant, a Michelin recognized restaurant. The
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  Speaker 1: guy's a hell of a chef named Wonderful. It's Hu
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  Speaker 1: non style Chinese food and it does the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: And said, this is an interesting guy who runs a restaurant.
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  Speaker 1: Several years ago, he was railing against junk fees on bills.
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  Speaker 1: This is a restaurant owner who was screaming, no junk bills,
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  Speaker 1: junk fees, no hidden search charges. And he files lawsuits,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, against these restaurants. And there was a
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  Speaker 1: restaurant that he sued that he said an arcade rigged
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  Speaker 1: with his claw machines. You've seen those with that claw machine,
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  Speaker 1: which you I've never seen anybody actually get a toy
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  Speaker 1: out of there. And he said they are rigged and
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  Speaker 1: said that basically became a casino for children, but it's
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  Speaker 1: the children's behavior goes squarely on to the parents and
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  Speaker 1: he will sue. And the general reaction on the internet
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  Speaker 1: has been overwhelmingly positive. I can see that we said
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  Speaker 1: the quiet part out loud and he instituted this policy,
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  Speaker 1: especially since he made the notice at the top of
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  Speaker 1: the menu, the digital menu that's on that's on the table,
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  Speaker 1: very prominent, very bold, and he said the number of
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  Speaker 1: incidents have in fact fallen to virtually zero. That makes
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  Speaker 1: sense to me. And parents are accountable, they are anyway legally,
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  Speaker 1: but he's holding them to it. Okay, let me tell
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  Speaker 1: you what's going on with the card rooms in southern California.
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  Speaker 1: We had Kyle Kirkland, president of California Gaming Association and
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  Speaker 1: on and he also owns one of the club's Club
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  Speaker 1: One in casino, the Club One Casino in Fullerton. And
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  Speaker 1: here's what ended up happening. Card clubs are they're allowed
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  Speaker 1: to offer games like blackjack, and blackjack is particularly important,
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  Speaker 1: and they've been able to do that for years and years,
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  Speaker 1: even though there are rules that don't let you do that,
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  Speaker 1: but they they were able to do it as a
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  Speaker 1: run around, and I don't want to give the reasons
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  Speaker 1: why and how they were able to do it. It's
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  Speaker 1: a little complicated. And he says Club one his play,
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  Speaker 1: sixty percent of the revenue comes from blackjack, because I
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  Speaker 1: can't survive on forty percent. And card rooms in La
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  Speaker 1: County generate more than two billion dollars in economic activity,
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  Speaker 1: nine thousand jobs. And the cities that would be much
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  Speaker 1: more affected by removing that ability to offer blackjack, Bell Gardens,
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  Speaker 1: Hawaiian Gardens, the casinos represent seventy percent of the general
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  Speaker 1: fund of the entire city. So here's what ended up happening.
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  Speaker 1: The Native Americans Native American community, what they did is
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  Speaker 1: convince the legislature to pass a law or pending a
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  Speaker 1: law that would basically not allow blackjack, would not allow
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  Speaker 1: table games at the casinos, which effectively would shut them down.
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  Speaker 1: And why Well, because the Indian tribes offer those same
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  Speaker 1: card games, and there are plenty of people who do
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  Speaker 1: not want to go to an Indian or a reservation
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  Speaker 1: because there's the card club right up the street and
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  Speaker 1: commerce and Bell Gardens and there it is. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you have to drive a long way to go to
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  Speaker 1: those casinos. Now those casinos are spectacular. I mean they
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  Speaker 1: have shows, they have restaurants, they have I mean it's
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  Speaker 1: on a whole different level. Hard clubs are basically card clubs.
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  Speaker 1: But at the same time they were playing in the
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  Speaker 1: Indian casino said no, no, because we want all the business.
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  Speaker 1: So they convinced the legislature to at least to introduce
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  Speaker 1: this bill and they were going to have it done.
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  Speaker 1: So when ended up happening and the state came in
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  Speaker 1: there by the way, the state came in to do
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  Speaker 1: exactly that and in fact made a decision, a legislative decision,
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  Speaker 1: not a the legislation executive decision. That's the California Office
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  Speaker 1: Administrated Law green lit the new rules in February, and
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  Speaker 1: the California Gaming Association filed a lawsuit instantly to invalidate them,
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  Speaker 1: and they got a preliminary junction in junction in May
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  Speaker 1: blocking the state from imposing these new rules taking away
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  Speaker 1: the ability of card rooms to offer table games poker, blackjack,
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  Speaker 1: particularly blackjack. That is really what is at stake here,
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  Speaker 1: and so preliminary injunction came into being. Now you have
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  Speaker 1: the California Gaming Association, which represents the card rooms and
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  Speaker 1: there are seventy of them across California, about twenty thousand employees.
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  Speaker 1: And it's estimated, according to the Gaming Commission or the
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  Speaker 1: gaming folks, that tax revenue generated by these card rooms
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  Speaker 1: about five hundred million dollars a year. This is a
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  Speaker 1: twenty nineteen analysis that was commissioned by the group. And
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  Speaker 1: so Proposition one A, by the way, passed by California
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  Speaker 1: voters in two thousand, gave the tribes the right to
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  Speaker 1: conduct Nevada style gaming like casino banked card games, and
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  Speaker 1: I was a big fan of that. I do believe
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  Speaker 1: that Indians, in the Native Americans should be able to
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  Speaker 1: offer card games. They used to do just bingo. When
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  Speaker 1: this all started, it would be bingo. And there was
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  Speaker 1: one of the reservations I remember which one that has
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  Speaker 1: a massive casino and as a massive hotel. It was
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  Speaker 1: bingo under a tent. And then the law was passed
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  Speaker 1: in two thousand and it exploded. And I was totally
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  Speaker 1: in favor of that. Why because the US government, over
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  Speaker 1: the course of dealing with Indian tribes since the eighteen hundreds,
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  Speaker 1: broke every single treaty that existed everyone, So okay, it
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  Speaker 1: was time for the natives Native Americans to get on
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  Speaker 1: board and get some benefit from the state. Now this
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  Speaker 1: has gone beyond them getting benefit from the state. They
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  Speaker 1: wanted to stop this, and the judge just held that
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  Speaker 1: California was the name of it. The California Bureau of
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  Speaker 1: Gambling Control exceeded their authority by introducing that change, and
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  Speaker 1: so you know that's going to be appealed, and we'll
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  Speaker 1: probably deal with this again. Okay, we're done, guys, that's
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  Speaker 1: it finished. Tomorrow we come back again. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: finish my little marshmallow tree so good. And Amy comes
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  Speaker 1: aboard with Will at five o'clock wake up call, Neil
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  Speaker 1: and I jump aboard, and of course Ann and Kono
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  Speaker 1: are always here. I come in the morning and there's
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  Speaker 1: Ann just getting up from sleeping on the couch because
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  Speaker 1: she's been here all night Gary and she's I got
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  Speaker 1: a dedicated group of people here. Gary and Shannon up next.
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