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Handel on the News · 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 and now Handle on the news. Ladies
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  Speaker 1: and gentlemen, here's Bill Handle.
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  Speaker 2: Oh there we go another day as Handle on the
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  Speaker 2: News is already? Boy?
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  Speaker 3: Is it seemed like Tuesday already? God?
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  Speaker 2: This week is flying, isn't it? Wow? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: All I got nothing? All right, let's wrap this one up. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: we have some recordings, don't we cono? No, what do
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  Speaker 3: you do if I get hit by a truck and
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  Speaker 3: Amy can't come in and Neil is gone like he is?
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  Speaker 3: Is still under the weather?
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  Speaker 2: Show?
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  Speaker 4: Yes?
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  Speaker 3: It is so Neil. Hey, I have a question. When
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  Speaker 3: we mentioned people run under the weather, Neil is under
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  Speaker 3: the weather. Aren't we all under the weather? I've always
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  Speaker 3: wondered about that. Not in California. It's not much we
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  Speaker 3: have weather. We have weather in California, but we're all
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  Speaker 3: under the weather.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 3: It's those phrases I really don't understand very often.
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  Speaker 2: Where do they come from?
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  Speaker 3: Or we should do that the etymology or entomology of
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  Speaker 3: words and phrases.
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  Speaker 2: Where they came from? You know your mother?
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  Speaker 3: Well that was from the exercise, So we can't do
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  Speaker 3: that one can't we No anyway, Good morning to one
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  Speaker 3: and all. There you are, Kno, good morning, Good morning,
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  Speaker 3: a new host of the show. And there's Amy.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning, Belle.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning.
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  Speaker 3: Amy has her sweater sort of you know, draped over
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  Speaker 3: the over her shoulders.
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  Speaker 2: And tied up and is very very continental. Do you
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  Speaker 2: know that?
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  Speaker 4: Ooh? Continental? Or international? Maybe international?
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  Speaker 2: More continental?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, you know, I've often said my dad he was
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  Speaker 3: in Italy right after World War Two and he I
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  Speaker 3: don't think I've ever shared this story.
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  Speaker 2: I may have.
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  Speaker 3: He actually fell in love with and a woman fell
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  Speaker 3: in love with him. This just that I see pictures
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  Speaker 3: of her. I mean, she looked better than Sophia Laren.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, this is just literally the most beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: Woman I've ever seen.
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  Speaker 3: Have you ever seen pictures about my of My mother's pretty,
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  Speaker 3: dumpy and dowdy. She's not the best looking woman in
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  Speaker 3: the world anyway. So my dad was madly in love
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  Speaker 3: with this woman, this Italian woman, very wealthy woman, and
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  Speaker 3: her her dad actually built half the roads in Italy
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  Speaker 3: under Mussolini. So she wanted to marry him desperately, and
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  Speaker 3: he he wouldn't because she was Catholic, and of course
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  Speaker 3: he had just last lost his family, so he was
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  Speaker 3: about to do that.
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  Speaker 2: And as I see.
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  Speaker 3: Pictures of her and I look in the mirror and
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  Speaker 3: I look at my mother, I'm going, wow. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I'm basically a sort of a fat Jewish guy with
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  Speaker 3: no hair. I could have been a thin, good looking
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  Speaker 3: Italian guy, all of skin with a big hairdo, walking
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  Speaker 3: down the street, a cigarette dangling from my lips, sports
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  Speaker 3: coat slung over my shoulder, passing gorgeous women going baby, baby,
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  Speaker 3: baby baby, and it didn't work out at all. So anyway,
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  Speaker 3: I saw I share that with you. So hey, it's
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  Speaker 3: the start of the morning.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Anne. Wow, I'm still getting that visual out
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  Speaker 2: of my head. Yeah, a strong visual.
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  Speaker 3: And uh yeah, it's uh I asked, I actually have
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  Speaker 3: contemplated that. And Neil is, as I said, under the weather,
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  Speaker 3: and Will is on vacation.
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  Speaker 2: So we are.
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  Speaker 3: We have a skeleton crew this morning, but we have
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  Speaker 3: for the news, we have Amy and me, and for
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  Speaker 3: the rest of the show we have me and me
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  Speaker 3: and a lot too, uh a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go on to today.
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  Speaker 3: We've got it's just some fun topics, some World Cups stuff, some.
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  Speaker 2: California news.
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  Speaker 3: Rich Tomorrow is with us this morning, because it's days.
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  Speaker 3: That's right, it is Prime Day starts today. We're going
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  Speaker 3: to talk about Prime days. Isn't it Prime month or
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  Speaker 3: Prime Year? Now?
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  Speaker 4: Well it used to be Prime Day, right, and now
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  Speaker 4: it's Prime four days.
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  Speaker 2: But it's still Prime Day. Do they do these anymore?
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  Speaker 4: They do?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, Prime Days? And then you wonder how much
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  Speaker 3: cheaper it is. Amazon isn't all that cheap. It really
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  Speaker 3: isn't anymore. And the only thing you get with Amazon
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  Speaker 3: if you buy Amazon Prime, which is in it not inexpensive,
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  Speaker 3: is just the ease of going to the.
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  Speaker 2: UPS store and dropping it off.
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  Speaker 3: I live at the UPS store because Lindsey buys five
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  Speaker 3: of everything.
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  Speaker 2: And returns most everything.
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  Speaker 4: Well, don't you just drop it at your Whole Foods?
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  Speaker 2: No, because we don't have a Whole Food's near.
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  Speaker 4: They have a whole dedicated area my Whole Foods. Now,
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  Speaker 4: you walk in and you just drop it off. They
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  Speaker 4: scan it. You don't have to repackage it, you don't
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  Speaker 4: have to do anything. It's great.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think UPS does the same thing. You can
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  Speaker 3: go to the kiosk, but I just go to the
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  Speaker 3: one because I don't know how to use the scanning machine.
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  Speaker 3: I was at the store yesterday and I said, I
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  Speaker 3: don't know how to use the scanning machine. And I
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  Speaker 3: had one of the clerks help me, and he picked
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  Speaker 3: up the package and he moved a little barcode so
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  Speaker 3: it faced the scanning device and he scanned it. He said,
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  Speaker 3: this is how you do it. Wow, you know special
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  Speaker 3: needs and all. All right, guys, we have plenty to
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  Speaker 3: talk about, and let's do it. We're starting with a
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  Speaker 3: handle on the news on this Tuesday morning, June twenty three,
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  Speaker 3: with Amy and me lead start a game. Well, Pentagon
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  Speaker 3: told senators yesterday it needs sixty billion dollars to cover
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  Speaker 3: the cost of the Iranian war. And this is on
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  Speaker 3: top of the money that is being sought by the
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  Speaker 3: President because, as we've talked about before, the Pentagon had
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  Speaker 3: asked for a trillion dollar budget this year, and the
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  Speaker 3: President upped that by fifty percent and he's giving the
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  Speaker 3: Pentagon one point five trillion dollars. The Pentagon is a
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  Speaker 3: wash in money. At the same time, it needs another
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  Speaker 3: eighty bills billion dollars to cover the war. But there's
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  Speaker 3: a lot to buy, as in a lot of the
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  Speaker 3: munitions have disappeared during the Iranian war and a lot
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  Speaker 3: was given to Ukraine. So just supplementing for adding to
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  Speaker 3: our stockpile, which has to be brought up again is
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  Speaker 3: a very big deal. This war is and then this
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  Speaker 3: deal that's being cut, we'll talk a lot about that.
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  Speaker 3: You're going to see so much grief for the administration
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  Speaker 3: coming out of this deal with Iran.
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  Speaker 4: Well, speaking of Iran.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is one of those.
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  Speaker 4: The oil will soon be flowing out and the money
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  Speaker 4: will soon be flowing into Iran. The US has cleared
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  Speaker 4: the way for Iran to sell oil in dollars for
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  Speaker 4: the first time in decades. This came as Vice President JD.
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  Speaker 4: Vance said that Iran has agreed to nuclear inspectors returning
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  Speaker 4: to Iran as early as this week. So the Treasury
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  Speaker 4: Department has waived long stand sanctions against the sale of
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  Speaker 4: oil from Iran for two months while talks to reopen
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  Speaker 4: the strait and address the issues of nuclear program in
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  Speaker 4: Iran and further sanctions proceed. But Iran has not acknowledged
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  Speaker 4: the move to allow inspectors broader access to its sites.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's the question is question of timing. Is
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  Speaker 3: Iran able to or is selling oil now on the
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  Speaker 3: international market prior to what the United States is saying
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  Speaker 3: is a commitment, and they say, no, thank you. Where's
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  Speaker 3: the timing here, because if Iran has agreed in well
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  Speaker 3: not even agreed, because at this point they haven't agreed.
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  Speaker 3: Is the strait going to be open?
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  Speaker 4: There is traffic moving there?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, this probably is how much.
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  Speaker 4: Over one hundred vehicles or vessels.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, then we're back to pretty close what we did.
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  Speaker 3: So the strait is open, back to where we were
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  Speaker 3: when it became an international waterway. Iran has agreed to
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  Speaker 3: sixty days, no costs, no feast, any boat coming across
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  Speaker 3: the strait, and that's set us up in the air.
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  Speaker 3: But my question is is that the ability for Iran
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  Speaker 3: to sell oil and that was one of the biggest
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  Speaker 3: pieces of ammunition the United States had against Iran was
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  Speaker 3: the sanctions that it imposed on Iran. Well, they're lifting
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  Speaker 3: the sanctions and Iran is going to get billions of dollars.
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  Speaker 3: What have we gotten so far in return? That is
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  Speaker 3: the question.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't know the timing.
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  Speaker 3: Does that mean that the oil is being sold now today?
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  Speaker 3: Does that mean we wait until they cut a deal
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  Speaker 3: where inspectors are going to be allowed, and that's put
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  Speaker 3: in writing because obviously they're not going to have inspectors
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  Speaker 3: show up tomorrow afternoon.
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  Speaker 2: It takes a little while to set all that up.
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  Speaker 4: Although they're saying it could happen as early as this.
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  Speaker 2: Week to start it.
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  Speaker 3: I can't imagine inspectors flying in, but that would then
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  Speaker 3: that reduces the talks against or reduces the conversation against
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  Speaker 3: the administration, because then they.
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  Speaker 2: Say, look, we have something in our hands, and so
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  Speaker 2: we'll see. We'll see what happens on this one.
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  Speaker 3: So far, Ron is not the ICAY is taking a
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  Speaker 3: very different position than Iran has, and we'll see what happens.
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  Speaker 4: ABC is calling in the cavalry. ABC is asking its
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  Speaker 4: viewers to help defend its stations and the view as
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  Speaker 4: Disney's fight with the Trump administration moves into a new phase.
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  Speaker 4: Station started airing messages and I saw this on social
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  Speaker 4: media too, alerting viewers to the government's virtually unprecedented challenges
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  Speaker 4: to their station licenses. The ads urge viewers to contact
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  Speaker 4: the FCC. Channel seven says it has proudly served you
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  Speaker 4: for more than seventy five years, but now the FCC
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  Speaker 4: is questioning our commitment to the community show your support
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  Speaker 4: and apparently you have until July twenty ninth to file
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  Speaker 4: comment with the FCC to keep your trusted local station
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  Speaker 4: on the.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, when the FCC makes a change like this, public comments,
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  Speaker 3: by law have to be made and accepted. Also, a
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  Speaker 3: couple of things about taking away the license, it is
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  Speaker 3: almost it never happens, and every eight years the stations
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  Speaker 3: reapply and it's automatic, not this time around ABC. Jimmy
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  Speaker 3: Kimmel is, let's say the administration is not happy with ABC.
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  Speaker 3: We're only talking eight stations too. When you talk about
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  Speaker 3: the ABC network, it's not all the stations. It's the
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  Speaker 3: O and O stations owned and operated stations by ABC,
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  Speaker 3: but they're the big ones KBCWABC And can you imagine
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  Speaker 3: the fallout if that license is yanked? And the basis
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  Speaker 3: of it is their in violation of the equal time rule,
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  Speaker 3: which I didn't think was even in effect Amy. I
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  Speaker 3: thought they had undone that where you one political statement
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  Speaker 3: or someone on one side, and you have to put
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  Speaker 3: someone on the other.
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  Speaker 4: Side for political campaigns.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, for anything.
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  Speaker 4: That's still technically an effect. They've made some tweaks to it,
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  Speaker 4: but it's in effect.
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  Speaker 3: See and I think that's what the basis of this is.
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  Speaker 3: This is of course ABC is its position is free speech,
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  Speaker 3: and I really it's.
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  Speaker 2: Nuts, it really is. We'll see.
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  Speaker 3: Can you, as I said, can you imagine the fallout
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  Speaker 3: if the license is yanked?
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  Speaker 2: Oh my goodness.
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  Speaker 4: They can't do that. They can, I know they can,
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  Speaker 4: but they're not going to right.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I don't know. I don't know at this point.
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  Speaker 4: Will state workers bail if they actually have to go
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  Speaker 4: to work. That's a big question, and the union says
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  Speaker 4: they might. California state workers are challenging a new mandate
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  Speaker 4: that requires them to return to the office four days
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  Speaker 4: a week that starts July first, so next week. A
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  Speaker 4: lot of them have been working hybrid schedules. State workers
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  Speaker 4: argue that they have been working efficiently since the COVID
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  Speaker 4: nineteen pandemic. The president of SEIU Local one thousand, which
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  Speaker 4: represents state workers in Sacramento, says this mandate is over arching.
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  Speaker 4: It doesn't give the departments the space to bring back
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  Speaker 4: workers as needed, and apparently they don't have the office
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  Speaker 4: space anymore. That's interesting to bring everybody back.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so where do they go? And we've never seen
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  Speaker 3: this before. Well, We've never had a pandemic before like
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  Speaker 3: this either. So back to work. Do we have a
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  Speaker 3: mandate here at I know sales and management. Does they
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  Speaker 3: have to be in the office? I think four days
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  Speaker 3: a week. I think so, and they used to be
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  Speaker 3: have to be five days a week. But no one
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  Speaker 3: shows up on Friday. Everybody makes appointments on Friday.
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  Speaker 4: It is rather ghosty around here on Fridays.
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  Speaker 2: It's pretty ghosty there anyway.
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  Speaker 4: That's true.
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  Speaker 3: During the week, there's nobody there. We're here, Yeah you are,
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  Speaker 3: that's really nobody.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Moving on another loss in court for the president. The
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  Speaker 4: administration has violated federal privacy protections, according to a judge's ruling.
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  Speaker 4: Speaking about overhauling a citizen data program so it could
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  Speaker 4: be used to more aggressively purge voter rules, they wanted
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  Speaker 4: access to social security information, wanted to have like a
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  Speaker 4: nationwide database. The ruling from US District Judge Sparkle Sukanan.
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  Speaker 2: First name Sparkle yep Wow.
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  Speaker 4: Is a major setback for President Trump's effort to find
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  Speaker 4: foreigners on state voter list. The order halts the use
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  Speaker 4: of the expanded data system immediately.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, this is the administration is getting some huge losses
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  Speaker 3: as Trump is really pushing the envelope as far as
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  Speaker 3: presidential power is concerned. It's going to be the Supreme
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  Speaker 3: Court that's going to come down with several cases that
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  Speaker 3: determine how powerful a presidency is, how far can the
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  Speaker 3: president and see go and we'll see. I mean, this
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  Speaker 3: is the best time for any president who wants to
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  Speaker 3: expand presidential powers, which certainly this administration is dead set
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  Speaker 3: to do. So we're going to it's going to be
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  Speaker 3: interesting to find out what happens on that one.
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  Speaker 2: And now some bad news.
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  Speaker 4: Amy, Yeah, Nancy Guthrie. We haven't heard about her much recently.
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  Speaker 4: Of course, she disappeared on February first. Savannah Guthrie's mom,
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  Speaker 4: the host of Today. But now there's information coming out
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  Speaker 4: that a second ransom note that was received. We knew
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  Speaker 4: there were several ransom notes received by a TV station
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  Speaker 4: in Tucson, Arizona, said that she died after she was
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  Speaker 4: abducted and that she was buried in nature. Nancy Guthrie,
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  Speaker 4: of course, disappeared February first. The Guthrie family got two notes.
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  Speaker 4: The first one demanded a ransom of cryptocurrency. The second
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  Speaker 4: said she died shortly after she was taken.
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  Speaker 3: And we didn't know about that second note. Although the
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  Speaker 3: family had that note, they did and didn't share it.
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  Speaker 4: With us, but they shared. So Savannah put out a
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  Speaker 4: social post saying, Okay, we got the message. We know,
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  Speaker 4: we understand. We really want our mother back. It means
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  Speaker 4: a lot we'll pay. But now that we know that,
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  Speaker 4: that in that context is saying okay, we got it.
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  Speaker 4: We know she's dead.
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  Speaker 3: But it could be interpreted that way. That was more
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  Speaker 3: than a social post. I think it was a video,
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  Speaker 3: wasn't it. Yeah, she posted a video, and you're right
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  Speaker 3: in retrospect she did not say, you bring our mother
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  Speaker 3: home alive.
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  Speaker 2: We want to see her. You're absolutely right.
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  Speaker 3: It was we want her back, and you can argue
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  Speaker 3: in retrospect in context, they could have easily that could
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  Speaker 3: have referred to we want her remains back, yeah, which
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  Speaker 3: they're probably never going to get at this point.
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  Speaker 4: No, and we haven't heard of any leads in the cases,
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  Speaker 4: any further information about who might have done it, or
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  Speaker 4: why they did it or anything.
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  Speaker 3: Mom lives in that desert area, you know, her mother
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  Speaker 3: lives in lots of open space, to say the least.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Okay, you think it's hot here. One hundred four
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  Speaker 4: to one hundred and seven degrees is expected for the
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  Speaker 4: next several days. In France. The heat wave has already
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  Speaker 4: smashed temperature records in several cities, including Bordeaux, and has
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  Speaker 4: strained power grids and public services. In The National Weather
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  Speaker 4: Service placed fifty four areas of France, a country without
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  Speaker 4: widespread air conditioning, under a red heat wave alert. While
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  Speaker 4: schools are closed early, they've adjusted timetables to protect students.
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  Speaker 4: At least forty people have drowned in recent days in
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  Speaker 4: France swimming in unsupervised areas to escape the heat. Tray
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  Speaker 4: hot tray hot.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's not you were in France, were air
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  Speaker 3: conditioning where you went?
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  Speaker 4: There was some places had air conditioning. Some of the
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  Speaker 4: shops did. One of the museums, you know, their temperature
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  Speaker 4: can because of all the art in there. But a
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  Speaker 4: lot of the restaurants are not. And we missed the
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  Speaker 4: major heat wave. It was like ninety the last day
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  Speaker 4: that we were there, and there was a restaurant that
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  Speaker 4: we didn't go to because we're like, we can't sit
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  Speaker 4: there and have launtra coat and eat hot steak in
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  Speaker 4: a hot restaurant.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you can. You have to.
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  Speaker 3: Well, actually, you tell him to hold the salt. No salt,
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  Speaker 3: because I'm going to sweat right into the food.
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  Speaker 4: You need extra salt because you've got to replenish it.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, that's true.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, Tucker just can't take it anymore. The former Fox
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  Speaker 4: host and conservative commentator Tucker Carlson said on a podcast
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  Speaker 4: there is no chance I would support the Republican Party
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  Speaker 4: ahead of the November mid terms. He says, I'm not
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  Speaker 4: going to support the Democratic Party either. He says he
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  Speaker 4: doesn't know what he's going to do. Carlson supported President
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  Speaker 4: Trump in twenty twenty four, but then after the war
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  Speaker 4: in Iran began, he apologized for supporting the then presidential candidate.
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  Speaker 4: Says that he misled people, and he said it wasn't intentional.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so you and he was a trumpest of the
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: first water Yes, he was.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: I mean he was. And so you're gonna see I
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: think I'm gonna seem.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: More and more of that, particularly if this deal with
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: Iron pans out to be a very bad deal for
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: the United States. Don't know yet. It's not looking good
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: right now. Even some Republicans are just stunned. At what
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: the administration has put the United States into with this.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: We'll see what happens on that, because we don't know
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: at this point where it's going to go.
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: Got a setback for MAGA. A federal judge has blocked
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: bans on the use of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: SNAP for soda. Those bands were put in place by
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: the Trump administration, but the district judge Amy Berman Jackson
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: wrote that Congress defined what food is supposed to be.
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: It did not authorize the agency to cut types of
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: food out of SNAP entirely.
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: You know what it's they used to And I don't
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: understand this because with food stamps SNAP, the SNAP program,
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: it used to be you couldn't buy processed foods like
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: at a deli inside of a supermarket. They just wouldn't
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: let you do that. And any kind of processed food
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: you can't buy. It will only have to be like
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: meat and lettuce and produce and pastas and things like that.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: Soda was always off the table. And here's the Trump
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: administration saying no soda on SNAP. Who can disagree with that?
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: I mean, sodas are horrible for kids and so but
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: it's this is a technical issue where the court said,
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: it's a question of what Congress has authorized and has
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: not authorized, so nothing under the merits.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: Yes soda is bad or.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: Good, But this one, I'm in favor of the Trump
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: administration on this one where they wanted to go.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: I mean, I hate, I hate to say it, but
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: I believe in our FK Junior. Oh.
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: Now, I don't believe in the part where people have
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: or he has friends that are the progeny of Martians
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: having had sex with Elvis Presley.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: And there's the.
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: Baby that one I don't particularly believe in, But this
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: one I do.
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: Good news and bad news when it comes to babies.
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: Infant mortality in the US has dropped to a new
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: all time low for twenty twenty five. That's according to
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: preliminary government data. There were slightly fewer than five point
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: four infant deaths per one thousand live births in twenty
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: twenty five. It's a small decline, and then the overall
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: numbers have been going down. US infant deaths fell to
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: about nineteen thousand, three hundred and fifty last year. Gosh,
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: that sounds like a lot. I know it's not. The
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: final tally is still expected to be down from the
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: twenty thousand and fifty in twenty twenty four, in twenty thousand,
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: one hundred and sixty in twenty twenty three.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: Couple reasons for that.
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: First of all, the stat itself sounds great, except the
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: US is still in many cases twice as high as
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: other industrialized nation in terms of infant mortality. This is
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: one of the arguments I get with people the United
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: States is the best country in the world. I say, yeah,
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: let's start talking about in what one of them is
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: infant mortality where we are not the best country in
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: the world, but it is going down.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: And then the reasons are this is a general reason.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: Go to, for example, in the South, where there are
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: no medical clinics and prenatal care doesn't exist, the numbers
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: there are high. Come to Los Angeles or the Bay Area,
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: or to New York that has superb medical care and
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: governmental programs that help people, the numbers are very low.
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: So it's a mixed bag. But it's good news because
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: the numbers are dropping, and that is good news.
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: Good news for some people who just can't throw anything away.
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: As you may have heard, Bed Bath and Beyond is reopening.
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: Of course, they went bankrupt a couple years ago. Go.
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: But they're reopening in partnership with the Container Store in
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: twenty two cities, including two in southern California, and to
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: the delight of die hard fans and coupon collectors and hoarders.
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: For a limited time, the news stores will accept the chains,
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: blue and white coupons no matter how old they are.
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: Remember they used to come in the mail all the time.
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: You can use the expired coupons until July thirteenth, and
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: the company is also doing a contest to find the
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: oldest coupon out there. The prize is a one hundred
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: thousand dollars home renovation, So go big through junk drawer.
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, who keeps expired coupons? I mean there are people
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: they're just either do you and do they just come around?
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: I think I do. Remember once the company went bankrupt
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: and closed all their stores. I think I had a
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: pile of bed, bath, and Beyond coupons and I think
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: I finally threw them away.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the point.
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: I mean, there are people that do You're going to
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: have a bunch of homeless people, a bunch of hoarders
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: with brand new appliances at the house.
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: You just want, okay, talk about a crappy camping trip.
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: A guy had to be rescued from a toilet because
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: he fell in it so he was trying to get
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: his sunglasses. It happened in Fresno County on Saturday. His
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: sunglasses fell into what's called a vault toilet, which is
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: basically a waterless, flushless toilet kind of a more modern
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: outhouse at Camp Edison. Happened in the foothills of the
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: Sierra Nevada. He went to get the sunglasses and fell in.
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: He was trapped there for about fifteen minutes. First responders arrived.
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: They were able to get him out, and he apparently
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: was okay and was able to walk away from the
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: incident after he was hosed down by camp.
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: No kidding reminds me of the story of somebody walking
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: into an outhouse and seeing a guy in there throwing
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: five dollars bills down the opening. You know, what are
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: you douse? You don't expect me to go down there
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: for a quarter? Do you okay?
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: On that?
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: Aunt?
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: Your response at all?
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: Nothing?
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: Okay? Moving on?
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: Thinking about a road trip, you might want to leave
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: the state. Wallet Hub has put out a survey of
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: the best and worst states for summer road trips this year.
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: They compared road trip costs including gas, car repairs, average
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: hotel prices, and others, as well as safety and activities
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: to come up with their findings, and California ranks among
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: the worst states for a road trip. California has the
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: most expensive gas according to wallet Hub. It also ranks
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: forty eighth on their lists regarding low camping prices. A
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: number one ranking would mean cheaper and also average repair
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: car costs. For car repairs, it also finished forty six
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: in car thefts per capita and twenty eighth in fatalities
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: per one hundred million vehicles traveled.
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: I wonder how many people actually do come to California
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: and are stunned when they come here. And I'm willing
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: to bet there are some World Cup of fecionados that
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: are here that are just going they cannot believe the
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: prices of things, and it's just so difficult to come here.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: There's a story we're going to do about that too.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: How about FIFA is not nearly as.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: Successful as they thought it was going to be in
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: the World Cup, But we'll be doing that later. In
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: the meantime, you're traveling, don't go to California. Don't come
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: to California. It's very expensive.
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: The sell buy is going bye bye. California is changing
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: how grocery artament items are marked. There's a new consumer
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: protection law. It kicks in July first, So under the legislation,
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: they will no longer have sell by dates on packaged products. Instead,
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: the manufacturers will be required to use best if, used by,
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: or used by if there's public food safeties involved. But
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: the hope is that it's going to stop people from
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: throwing out billions of pounds of food that's actually okay,
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: it just didn't meet the cell by date. Right.
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: Neil's talked about this so many times that you know,
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: the sell buy and all of a sudden or used by,
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: best used, that's another one that's used and you just
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: you just toss it and there's no reason to none
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: at all. All right, we are done, guys, coming up. Yesterday,
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: I had this thing too. I went to the store
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: and what I end up doing is using paper. Well
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: I don't do paper or plastic anymore, but I take
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: those bags. You want a bag and it go. Of course,
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: I have stacks of these multi use bags and of
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: those heavy duty cardboard bags. Stacks of them sitting in
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: my pantry.
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: You should check and see if there's any bed, bath
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: and beyond coupons in them.
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: No, these are new because I throw them away every month.
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: I throw away about fifty of them and then start
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: all over again.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: But I put them in the recycle bin.
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: And except they're not recycled, I don't think no, So
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: I'll cover that when we come back. And then there's
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: an interesting lawsuit that's filed by other states saying California,
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: you can't do that, which is really interesting.
• 28:24
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• 28:28
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• 28:29
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