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Gen Z Women Buying Homes | Ask Handel Anything · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
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  Speaker 2: Here it is a Friday morning, May twenty two, bottom
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  Speaker 2: of the hour. Ask handle anything. And here's a stat
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  Speaker 2: at recess. The President tried to push forward his weaponization
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  Speaker 2: what was the most important bill he had, and that
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  Speaker 2: is the immigration bill. Okay, have a story for you.
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  Speaker 2: And here is a fact. Gen Z women are outpacing
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  Speaker 2: men when it comes to buying a helm. They accounted
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  Speaker 2: for thirty five percent of all home owners in their generation.
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  Speaker 2: Single gen Z men represented eighteen percent. That's double and
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  Speaker 2: the survey included home buyers from several generations, from gen
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  Speaker 2: Z ages eighteen to twenty six to the Silent generations
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  Speaker 2: that's ages eighty to one hundred, and no other generation
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  Speaker 2: had a bigger of single women homeowners than gen Z.
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  Speaker 2: Late a sign that single women overall are becoming homeowners
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  Speaker 2: at a greater rate than single men. And this is
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  Speaker 2: going back to nineteen eighty one, at the height of
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  Speaker 2: the mid twenties the housing boom, single women buying a
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  Speaker 2: home peaked to twenty two percent. And there was a
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  Speaker 2: whole bunch of reasons. Women are outpacing men in college
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  Speaker 2: attendance and that leads to higher income. They have a
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  Speaker 2: stronger desire for home ownership to secure their independence, something
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  Speaker 2: they could not do easily alone. And this is one
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  Speaker 2: as I looked at this, come on, really, it wasn't
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  Speaker 2: until the nineteen seventies where women were legally protected to
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  Speaker 2: have a mortgage on their own. You could say no women,
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  Speaker 2: and that became illegal in the seventies. Go figure, And
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  Speaker 2: here's the problem with the ones who can't afford homes.
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  Speaker 2: Even though there's a good there's a good percentage, many,
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  Speaker 2: many people, women obviously included first time buyers, don't have
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  Speaker 2: equity from previous homes with down payment. And there's a
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  Speaker 2: story about breath Lafleur, and she spent years hacking or
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  Speaker 2: saving this is ap news, saving towards a down payment,
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  Speaker 2: saving half her pay, working two jobs, and in twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty three she finally bought her own home. Her search
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  Speaker 2: began in twenty twenty one, but low mortgage rates made
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  Speaker 2: the market ultra competitive and no one was selling, and
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  Speaker 2: that turbocharge prices well, she finally found a home in Baldwinsville,
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  Speaker 2: New York, about fifteen miles from Syracuse. That's what four
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  Speaker 2: years later. The house was built in nineteen hundred. It
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  Speaker 2: has three bedrooms, one point five baths, and a big yard.
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  Speaker 2: And she really had to stretch because the price of
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  Speaker 2: the home was a prohibitive one hundred and seventy five
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  Speaker 2: thousand dollars one hundred and seventy five thousand dollars for
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  Speaker 2: a three bedroom one and a half bath, and a
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  Speaker 2: big yard. One hundred and seventy five thousand dollars barely
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  Speaker 2: buys you a full tank of gas, and a lot
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  Speaker 2: of challenges face all gen Z homeowners in terms of
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  Speaker 2: affording a home. First of all, they're typically just getting
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  Speaker 2: started in their careers and their best income earning years
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  Speaker 2: or years ahead. Actually the best years are people in
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  Speaker 2: their fifties. That's when you hit the high end. Unlikely
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  Speaker 2: to be married, have student loans to pay off. Median
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  Speaker 2: income annual income of seventy six thousand dollars, what is
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  Speaker 2: that buy you? And this was the lowest compared to
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  Speaker 2: home buyers from all other generations. So relative to the
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  Speaker 2: cost the people, the gen z ers women had the
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  Speaker 2: lowest annual income to buy a home, because buying a
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  Speaker 2: home is really expensive. Now, when I bought my home
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  Speaker 2: here in Orange County or there in Orange County, I
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  Speaker 2: know it's not a huge home, you know. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's a nice size home. It's for bedrooms, it's you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's a nice home. I could not believe the price.
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  Speaker 2: I could not believe the price. It was thirty percent
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  Speaker 2: more than I anticipated. And I had to buy it
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  Speaker 2: because I was looking for a home. I wasn't going
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  Speaker 2: to rent. I've owned a home for many, many years
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  Speaker 2: and so and I was able to upgrade because my
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  Speaker 2: first home was in my twenties. Then I sold it
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  Speaker 2: made a profit on it, which most of us do
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  Speaker 2: when we move up sold that one, sold the other one,
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  Speaker 2: and had enough money for a very healthy down payment.
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  Speaker 2: Don't do that today, getting into a home is almost impossible.
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  Speaker 2: One of the things which is really good I offered
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  Speaker 2: my daughters, and a lot of people do this. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know why, but they do, and that is I'll
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  Speaker 2: tell you what. As a gift to you, as a
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  Speaker 2: starter point for life, I will put the down payment
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  Speaker 2: down on your house. That'll be my pleasure. Now here's
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  Speaker 2: the good news. I offered to do it, and it's
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  Speaker 2: never going to happen because they'll never qualify for a
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  Speaker 2: mortgage because expensive houses are so expensive. So it's a
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  Speaker 2: win win I don't have to put up the money,
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  Speaker 2: and I get the kudos for being a good guy.
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  Speaker 2: That's the world today, all right. City of La the
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  Speaker 2: council approved a fifteen billion dollar budget. WHOA, I had
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  Speaker 2: no idea it was that high. I haven't paid attention
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  Speaker 2: in a few years, but man, is that big time,
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  Speaker 2: including hiring five hundred and ten police officers. City Council
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  Speaker 2: signed off off this fIF signed off on this fifteen
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  Speaker 2: billion dollar budget for the fiscal year twenty twenty six
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  Speaker 2: twenty seven, and it preserved Karen Bass's the mayor's police
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  Speaker 2: hiring plan and soft way more money for potential emergencies
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  Speaker 2: and I'll tell you how they're going to do it.
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  Speaker 2: The council voted twelve to one to approve the plan
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  Speaker 2: and called for the hiring of five hundred and ten
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  Speaker 2: LA police officers to offset resignations and retirements because cops
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  Speaker 2: want out. And by June of twenty twenty seven next year,
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  Speaker 2: the department is expected to have eighty five hundred and
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  Speaker 2: fifty five officers, down from ten twenty twenty, which is
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  Speaker 2: what we need. That's the sweet spot is about ten
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  Speaker 2: thousand officers and we're going to be fifteen hundred officers
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  Speaker 2: short at the end of twenty twenty seven. One council member,
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  Speaker 2: Tracy Park was alone in opposing the vote, saying the
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  Speaker 2: budget short changes the fire department and that's important and
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  Speaker 2: cuts the number of homeless encampment cleanups in her district. Now,
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  Speaker 2: the fire department, which has been under fire, especially since
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  Speaker 2: the Palisades fire, that's been a little bit contentious because
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  Speaker 2: one of the reasons that the fire chief was canned
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  Speaker 2: was because she accused Karen Bass of cutting the fire fighting,
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  Speaker 2: not only the purchase of equipment and the maintenance, holding
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  Speaker 2: off on maintenance, and not enough men, not enough firefighters.
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  Speaker 2: Now that there are women up there, but women firefighters
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  Speaker 2: have tremendous upper body strength. You know that, don't you
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  Speaker 2: they because they're picking up ladders and running and and
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  Speaker 2: they're I think they're held to the same standards too.
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  Speaker 2: So it ain't easy for a woman to be a firefighter,
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  Speaker 2: but a bunch of them do it. In any case,
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  Speaker 2: on the November ballot, number November three election election, there
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  Speaker 2: is going to be on the ballot a sales tax
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  Speaker 2: increase to pay for fire department operations. And that's how
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  Speaker 2: the fire department is going to be funded, the way
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  Speaker 2: it should be funded. Is we are going to vote
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  Speaker 2: and we probably will vote it in because who says
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  Speaker 2: no to firefighters or cops an increase half a percent
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  Speaker 2: half a percent increase in our sales taxes. So Los
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  Speaker 2: Angeles Orange County. But this is a vote in Los
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  Speaker 2: Angeles is going to go from the most expensive tax
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  Speaker 2: rate in the United States to the really blasto five
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  Speaker 2: thousand expens of sales tax. You know, both Angelinos and
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  Speaker 2: the Democrats. When we die, you're going to have on
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  Speaker 2: your tombstone. I never met a tax I didn't like.
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  Speaker 2: That's a Will Rogers quote. By the way, I never
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  Speaker 2: met a man I didn't like. So you have Eunyssus
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  Speaker 2: Hernandez defended the spending plan, saying we're investing in solarizing
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  Speaker 2: street lights so entire neighborhoods are not left in the dark. Now,
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  Speaker 2: how many of us live in neighborhoods where there are
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  Speaker 2: no street lights? Frankly, I don't know of anybody who
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  Speaker 2: lives in the neighborhood with no street lights. And these
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  Speaker 2: budget votes offered a big contrast to last year's vote,
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  Speaker 2: when council members scrambled to eliminate a one billion dollars
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  Speaker 2: shortfall and still trying to minimize cuts to the city workforce.
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  Speaker 2: And somehow it worked. This time around, council members are
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  Speaker 2: putting more money into the cities reserves. City council person
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  Speaker 2: Katie Orroslavsky heads the Budget Committee, very powerful, said lenders
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  Speaker 2: and bond rating agencies are going to be watching really
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  Speaker 2: closely because the city, to make all this happen, is
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  Speaker 2: going to issue one point eight billion dollars in bonds.
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  Speaker 2: And that's another clever way that cities and states and
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  Speaker 2: counties and even the federal government is able to produce
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  Speaker 2: money as they sell bonds. The problem with selling bonds
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  Speaker 2: is you got to pay them back, and that's a
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  Speaker 2: little problematic. So let's say you have you want to
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  Speaker 2: buy a car that's above your means, you don't afford it,
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  Speaker 2: and you borrow a pile of money, and the problem
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  Speaker 2: is you got to pay it back, and we don't
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  Speaker 2: look at that. We just look at, oh boy, another
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  Speaker 2: billion point eight billion dollars are coming in and what
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  Speaker 2: already make that happen. By the way, there's one piece
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  Speaker 2: of good news that happened this week and that business
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  Speaker 2: leaders promised to withdraw their ballot proposal to repeal the
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  Speaker 2: gross Receipts tax. Man That one would have cost because
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  Speaker 2: what ends up happening with that tax that's the number
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  Speaker 2: two revenue, the revenue receiver, revenue receipt from the city,
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  Speaker 2: and it would have deprived the city of eight hundred
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  Speaker 2: and sixty million dollars per year over the five years
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  Speaker 2: per year. So here's a it's a whole the line
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  Speaker 2: budget right now. Mostly avoids new investments, mostly avoids new cuts.
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  Speaker 2: Staffing remain about the same at police and fire departments,
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  Speaker 2: ramping up installation of curb cuts, wheelchair ramps on sidewalks
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  Speaker 2: at intersections. I thought they were all done. Is there
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  Speaker 2: a I don't even know of an intersection that doesn't
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  Speaker 2: have those ramps at the corner. And the budget offers
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  Speaker 2: a slow ramp up of police hiring, allowing twenty five
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  Speaker 2: recruits per Police Academy class during the first part of
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  Speaker 2: the fiscal year up to fifty recruits per class during
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  Speaker 2: the second half of the fiscal year. And here is
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  Speaker 2: what I think is great news. No matter how short
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  Speaker 2: the number of cops that are in the force, up
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  Speaker 2: to this point, the police department has not lowered its requirements.
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  Speaker 2: They're still holding the same requirements that they've had for
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  Speaker 2: many years. And that's good news. You don't make it,
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  Speaker 2: and most people that go, I think it's fifty percent
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  Speaker 2: graduation rate or less at the police academy all right.
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  Speaker 2: Time for Ask Candle Anything. We do that every Friday
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  Speaker 2: at eight thirty. You record questions, Neil chooses them, and
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  Speaker 2: it's all about me responding spontaneously. Obviously I don't rehearse those.
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  Speaker 2: And just a quick aside, my wife Lindsey was upset
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  Speaker 2: with me for the first time on Ask Handle Anything
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  Speaker 2: when I was asked that before my last marriage and
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  Speaker 2: marrying her, that I participated partake of hookers. And I
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  Speaker 2: don't remember what I answered, but she got very upset, saying, Bill,
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  Speaker 2: how could you not have said yes, I did, I
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  Speaker 2: married one. And she said you threw away a softball. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: ask handle Anything, kono. Let's start with the first question.
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  Speaker 3: I got a question for handle.
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  Speaker 4: I'm listening through the app, the KFI app on iHeartRadio.
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  Speaker 4: Is there a way that I can pay for commercial
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  Speaker 4: free KFI?
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  Speaker 3: I don't have to listen to your awful commercials.
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  Speaker 2: No, I don't think there is. You know, I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: CONO is there a way to listen without commercials? That
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  Speaker 2: is a big no. Okay, so the answer is no,
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  Speaker 2: but thanks for asking. Okay, next question.
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  Speaker 5: Hi, Bill, while you were at Disneyland with Amy deep
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  Speaker 5: down in your heart, did you secretly wish that you
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  Speaker 5: were with Neil.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Neil and I have had a very interesting relationship
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  Speaker 2: that at some point we will dive into it much
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  Speaker 2: like we dive into it. And the answer is yes.
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  Speaker 2: I've known Neil for a very long time and he's
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  Speaker 2: probably the best spooner that I've ever experienced in my
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  Speaker 2: entire life. When just to give you an idea, Neil
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  Speaker 2: and I have traveled many many times together and we
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  Speaker 2: always ask for a single bed. That is enough of that,
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  Speaker 2: and we're gonna move on to the next question.
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  Speaker 1: Mister handle, why is it that you feel you need
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  Speaker 1: to have a show that embarrasses you. Do you feel
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  Speaker 1: that you've got some sort of guilt, that you've done
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  Speaker 1: something in the past.
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  Speaker 2: You're asking a Jew if he has some kind of guilt. Seriously,
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  Speaker 2: I was born with guilt, not with sin, because that's
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  Speaker 2: not of who I am. Right, that's for you guys
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  Speaker 2: who are Christians or Catholics specifically, you are born in sin.
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  Speaker 2: I am born in guilt. So the answer is yes
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  Speaker 2: to any question that involves guilt. And by the way,
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  Speaker 2: another thing, you can look this up. Very heavily involved
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  Speaker 2: in guilt, not just guilt and you can look up guilt.
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  Speaker 2: Get next question.
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  Speaker 5: Tell me what most do you appreciate about being a
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  Speaker 5: lawyer or having any knowledge and skills of the law.
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  Speaker 5: What benefits you most, what brings most comfort to you?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, it's a good question. First of all, what benefits
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  Speaker 2: did I get being a lawyer? Not many, because I
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  Speaker 2: wasn't a particularly good lawyer. That's the problem. And now
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  Speaker 2: I can try to be funny here, or I can
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  Speaker 2: be serious for a moment. And the part that gives me,
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  Speaker 2: actually the greatest joy that I hope I would be
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  Speaker 2: remembered for is my work in surrogate parenting, where I
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  Speaker 2: have been part of creating twenty five hundred kids over
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  Speaker 2: thirty something years. And that is what I would like
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  Speaker 2: on my tombstone, except I'm probably not gonna have a tombstone.
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  Speaker 2: But anyway, there's the answer. And you know, and I
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  Speaker 2: enjoyed every minute that I practiced law, and most of
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  Speaker 2: the people I went to law school with got burnt
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  Speaker 2: out pretty quickly, and I moved into radio, and I've
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  Speaker 2: been very, very lucky having careers that I really enjoy doing. Also,
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  Speaker 2: my part time job that I've talked to you before
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  Speaker 2: about my job my afternoon job that I have because
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  Speaker 2: I'm done here at nine o'clock. And then, of course
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  Speaker 2: my afternoon job is going to the couch, overeating and
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  Speaker 2: watching TV. We have another question, Cono.
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  Speaker 3: This is a question for us, Bill anything Hector hearing, goodyear, Arizona.
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  Speaker 2: Bill.
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  Speaker 3: Do you happen to have a bucket list places things
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  Speaker 3: to do that you haven't done yet? Because you've done
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  Speaker 3: pretty much, I can imagine everything that you've been wanting
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  Speaker 3: to do in life.
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  Speaker 6: So talk to us Bill.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would like to like to have sex with
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  Speaker 2: a woman who's ambulatory. Uh. That's uh, that's one bucket
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  Speaker 2: list item.
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  Speaker 6: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: The other bicket but bucket list item is Okay, I
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  Speaker 2: want to be a little bit honest here. I've always
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  Speaker 2: wanted to have sex with a woman who is not ambulatory, who,
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  Speaker 2: as I know I'm gonna I'm adding to that, who
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  Speaker 2: is not only ambulatory. No, there's more who is who
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  Speaker 2: was also a hunchback and is missing an arm. That's
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  Speaker 2: always been a bucket list thing for me. I I
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  Speaker 2: don't know other than that, and no I haven't. There's
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  Speaker 2: a lot of stuff that's on a bucket list that
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  Speaker 2: I'm never done. I would like to climb Mount Everest.
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  Speaker 2: Not a chance. I can't imagine people that are crazy
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  Speaker 2: enough to climb Mount Everest. I would like to spend
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  Speaker 2: time scuba diving. No, that's not gonna happen. So I
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  Speaker 2: you know, I actually I don't think much about bucket lists.
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  Speaker 2: I really don't, because You're right, most of the bucket
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  Speaker 2: list stuff that I've wanted, you know, it depends on
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  Speaker 2: how many bucketless items you have, So I kept my
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  Speaker 2: bucket list to a minimum.
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  Speaker 3: All right, cono, hey morning Handle. So during your illustrious career,
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  Speaker 3: yeah right, did you ever leave the mic on when
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  Speaker 3: you said something really bad about a co worker or
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  Speaker 3: you made a comment or said a word that got
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  Speaker 3: out and you got in real.
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  Speaker 6: Trouble for it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure there's been one, but I'd like to hear
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  Speaker 3: about it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh yeah, and you can look it up
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  Speaker 2: on YouTube. Just look up Bill Handle, Jamie White and iHeart.
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  Speaker 2: Actually at that time I think it was was a
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  Speaker 2: clear channel. Yeah. I got into it with Jamie, who
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  Speaker 2: was a DJ on whatever station. She was at here
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  Speaker 2: in the building and my kids were up there and
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  Speaker 2: she threw them off the floor. And the way the
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  Speaker 2: way it was perceived the way my kids described it.
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  Speaker 2: I went up but there and went into her studio
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  Speaker 2: and started screaming at her, not quite noticing the red
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  Speaker 2: light on air light was on. And so yeah, yes,
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  Speaker 2: some choice words at the top of my lungs were used,
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  Speaker 2: and I got suspended for that, suspended with no pay
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  Speaker 2: for a week. That was the only time, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: I got suspended. I mean, a lot of organizations tried
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  Speaker 2: to throw me off the air. There's no question about that, obviously,
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  Speaker 2: But then all all the hosts here on K five
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  Speaker 2: had the same problem. So the answer is yes, and
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  Speaker 2: it's YouTube Jamie J M I E. And Bill Handle,
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  Speaker 2: Jamie White, Bill handle and I don't know what other
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  Speaker 2: search words you can use, but I think well certainly
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  Speaker 2: available on YouTube. Okay, next question, Bill.
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  Speaker 6: I think talkbacks are bad for talk radio. They remove
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  Speaker 6: the live interaction between host and caller. The host knows
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  Speaker 6: ahead of time what's going to be said and has
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  Speaker 6: those response ready to go. It makes them lazy. Now,
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  Speaker 6: these ask kindle anything calls are essentially talkbacks, but at
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  Speaker 6: least you're hearing them for the first time live on air,
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  Speaker 6: So props to you for that. What's your take on
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  Speaker 6: this growing trend.
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  Speaker 2: Growing trend of what I didn't quite get that, Kno,
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: did you understand and I didn't even understand what talkback
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: is is that callers call in and well that's technically
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: what they leave you. They use the button.
• 22:49
  Speaker 7: Leaving a message on your answering machine.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, oh, it's leaving a message in the answer machine. Yeah. No,
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  Speaker 2: I never do do that. Now, I'll tell you why
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: I don't take calls either. They I don't take calls
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: for a good reason. Saturday. Of course, I take calls
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: because it's a call in show where I give marginal
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: bad legal advice. But you'll notice that I don't have
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: call ins from listeners during the week. And it's a
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  Speaker 2: very very simple reason. Most listeners are morons, that's why.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: And I have a philosophy, and I think this is legitimate.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: Once someone calls in, they control the show and the
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: host has to respond. And I'm not interested in producing
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: a show where I react to what's going on. And
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: you know who started that was Rush Limbaugh. He created
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: that model. And you can think that Rush whatever you
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: want to think of Rush Limbaugh politically, but I will
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: tell you he took it from the normal the moderator
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: or the host as well as moderator. Well, doctor Smith
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: over here, that is one thing. And counterpoint is doctor
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: Jones over here, and well, now, yeah that blew up
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: with Rush Limbaugh and good for him. So yes, I
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: hope that was the answer. And if it wasn't too bad, Okay,
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: another phone call?
• 24:09
  Speaker 8: Who or what determines when a news story is no
• 24:13
  Speaker 8: longer newsworthy? And basically I'm referring to the I guess
• 24:18
  Speaker 8: that gun three or that woman that has disappeared. We
• 24:21
  Speaker 8: don't hear anything about her anymore?
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Amy, Oh she's gone. I was gonna have Amy
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: answer that question.
• 24:28
  Speaker 6: Uh.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: And it's part of a news cycle. How long a
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: new cycle is there? And we're talking about Nancy Guthrie,
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: the mother of Savannah gut three of NBC and it
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: just plays itself out. You just can't keep talking about it.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: And who makes that determination? Well, I guess the newsperson does.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: But it runs out. Stories run out unless you're talking
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: huge stories that keep on going and going and going,
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: Watergate for example, assassinations for example, U and what President
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: Trump does, which is newsworthy every single day. Specifics run
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: their course, so it's more the cycle than it is
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: the newsperson. It's reacting to the cycle, and the cycle
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: is what the public wants to hear. If you can
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: figure that one out, all right? One last one, hey
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: in morning crew question for Handle, what sports did you
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: do growing up? And were you actually good at any
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: of them? Later masturbation and that's well, it certainly is.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: It certainly is now In my case it was I
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: was an amateur person who did it? Are there professionals?
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: There are professionals, there really are? And who is a
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: professional sperm downers who I worked with for some thirty years,
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: not actually worked with them, you know, I wasn't actually
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: part of the process. But there's professionals and then the
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: rest of us who don't do it professionally, although I
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: spent most of my youth practicing to be a professional. Okay,
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: I think we're done, and you're giving I'm past done,
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: as though just said codo. Okay, Oh well, you know
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: I want to be truthful, you know, I you know,
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: I don't want to lie. So in any case, we
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: are done for the week. Tomorrow morning it's oh yeah,
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: three day weekend, right, AND's going crazy tomorrow morning. Uh,
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: it's a handle on the Law, in which it's a
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: fresh show even though I'm not going to be there.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: This is why I record on Saturdays, so you always
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: get a fresh call, a fresh show. And then Monday,
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: we're not here at all. Monday is the best is
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: the bestest of the bestest of the best, where Kno
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: is still here, Will is still here. Amy, Are you
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: still working on Monday? No?
• 26:58
  Speaker 7: No, not really, we're doing it too, were doing What.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: Are we doing?
• 27:05
  Speaker 7: We're doing a little best of okay, sort of like
• 27:08
  Speaker 7: being here in spirit. But if you have to get
• 27:10
  Speaker 7: up at five o'clock on Monday morning, you're gonna want
• 27:12
  Speaker 7: to tune in because it's good stuff.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: Okay. So we're gonna have some breaking stories anyway on
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: the Best Of, for example, and well they found the
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: Lindberg Baby.
• 27:22
  Speaker 7: Still have the twenty four hour news room? Oh yeah,
• 27:26
  Speaker 7: Now Brigitta Degastino's going to be doing news for us
• 27:30
  Speaker 7: on Monday.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: Fair enough. And then Gary and Shannon are next. They
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: are in Lancaster. What brewery are they at starting in
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: just a few moments, Bravery Brewing. Okay, Bravery Brewing in Lancaster, yep.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: So that's a lot of fun over there, and It's
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: always a lot of fun seeing Shannon. They start at
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: nine o'clock, Shannon falling down plastered. By nine to ten,
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: it's hey, I've gone out to dinner with Shannon. Okay,
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: all right, everybody, buddy Tomorrow, Handle on the Law Monday.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: Most of us are not here Tuesday. We are all
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: back to our regular programming. Have a happy although I
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: can't say happy, have a more memorable Memorial Day. This
• 28:17
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• 28:21
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