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Halloween Decorations too Scary? | History of Daylight Savings · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: You're listenings KFI AM six forty the Bill Handles show
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  Speaker 2: KFI handle here on a Halloween Friday.
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  Speaker 1: October thirty one. Some of the least stories we're looking at.
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  Speaker 1: President Trump and his wife Milania are going to be
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  Speaker 1: handing out candy to trick or treaters tonight at the
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  Speaker 1: White House, and as you would imagine, the kids are
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  Speaker 1: probably going to be screened.
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  Speaker 2: They have to be.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you've ever seen a five year
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  Speaker 1: old getting cavity searched. It is not a pleasant concept.
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  Speaker 1: They just don't understand it at all. Okay, moving on,
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  Speaker 1: don't give you that look, will stop it.
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  Speaker 2: It's searching at screening kids.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they have to because you never know when
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  Speaker 1: a five year old is going to pick up an
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  Speaker 1: oozy and shoot up the first lady and the president. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: now here is a question. Oh real quickly before we
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  Speaker 1: dive into it. Neil and I are broadcasting a week
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  Speaker 1: Of course I'll be there and it is one of
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  Speaker 1: the highlights of our year for sure. Okay, I have
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  Speaker 1: a question to ask you or actually this was out
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  Speaker 1: of the New York Times, and the question is, have
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  Speaker 1: Halloween decorations become simply too scary where it's not just
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  Speaker 1: haunted houses where they go in which I will never
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  Speaker 1: go in because I'm scared, you know, crapless when I
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  Speaker 1: go into one of those houses. I'm talking about the
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  Speaker 1: decorations on the street. Home Depot, for example, has those
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  Speaker 1: massive Costco has them those massive fifteen foot skeletons with
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  Speaker 1: lights and the sound, and you know, is it too
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  Speaker 1: scary for kids? At this point we don't know because
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  Speaker 1: there hasn't been a study. How do you do a
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  Speaker 1: study on that one? Just it's a general question, and
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  Speaker 1: so I don't do Halloween decorations and goes balls to
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  Speaker 1: the wall with Halloween decorations. As a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 1: what she does is put balls at the wall because
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  Speaker 1: people are decapitated and parts are taken off. And do
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  Speaker 1: you get scarier and scarier as far as your decorations
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  Speaker 1: during the year.
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  Speaker 2: It does.
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  Speaker 3: They're evolving, I must say. You collect and you collect,
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  Speaker 3: and it just continues to evolve and you get better,
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  Speaker 3: more high end stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Well, but the high does the high end stuff translate
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  Speaker 1: into scarier stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Some of it? I don't know that. I think they're
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  Speaker 2: just making things more graphic.
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  Speaker 3: Now, Like you said, you can go to Home Depot,
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  Speaker 3: you can go to Walmart, you can go Target, and
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  Speaker 3: they have more graphic decorations.
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  Speaker 1: Those skeletons that I see, those moving skeletons and moving
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  Speaker 1: devils at fifteen feet high and they're animatronic. I mean
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  Speaker 1: they got to scare a little kids. I get frightened
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  Speaker 1: of those. Neil, you're into those. By the way, thank
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  Speaker 1: you for the total equivocal answer, and that helped not
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  Speaker 1: one bit Neil talking to you. You are into the
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  Speaker 1: animatronic stuff. I built some myself. I love it, but
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  Speaker 1: I like spooky, not gory.
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  Speaker 4: I mean if I don't mind going to gory stuff
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  Speaker 4: myself or anything like that, but I would never put
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  Speaker 4: it in my front yard because I don't think that
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  Speaker 4: that's fair to neighbors to have that. But out in
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  Speaker 4: Burbank we went, there's tons of houses decorated not far
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  Speaker 4: from the station, and we were out there. They have
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  Speaker 4: the big Clown House of course, the Skeleton House of Burbank, and.
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  Speaker 2: They were all.
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  Speaker 4: And vibrant and cool, but they're they they were spooky
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  Speaker 4: and some jump scare stuff, but the real gory stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And it's becoming more gory, isn't I mean, the you know,
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  Speaker 1: the haunted how even the haunted houses becoming a gorri er.
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  Speaker 2: You know?
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  Speaker 1: For example, you know they tell the kids that I
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  Speaker 1: give them a story about John Wayne Gacy and then
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  Speaker 1: they go into one of those rooms and there's a
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  Speaker 1: fat guy with a clown outfit.
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  Speaker 4: I will tell you know what they're doing it some
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  Speaker 4: of these these bigger haunts this year is they're bringing
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  Speaker 4: odor into it. They're bringing sense smell into some of
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  Speaker 4: these and that's a big thing. Now, uh And that's
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  Speaker 4: that's just I'm out. I will tap out if they're
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  Speaker 4: I've heard some of them are very upsetting. Certain mazes
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  Speaker 4: just are a sensory overloaded.
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  Speaker 2: Well what does that mean?
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  Speaker 1: What kind of what kind of smell can you produce? Well,
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  Speaker 1: how does smell equal gory? Well equal at a queen? Well,
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  Speaker 1: think about it.
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  Speaker 4: If you limit your senses, so something you see is
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  Speaker 4: one thing, but if you're getting this smell of what
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  Speaker 4: it is, because there's there's also a level of fright
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  Speaker 4: that is in when you're scared. When you're scared, you
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  Speaker 4: know the smell. Let's just say there there's a one
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  Speaker 4: haunted maze that I saw where it's in an insane
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  Speaker 4: asylum and somebody sitting there eating out of a bedpan
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  Speaker 4: and it smells like someone's that eating out of a
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  Speaker 4: bedpantells like plotting flesh or it's wow, yeah, things that
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  Speaker 4: aren't my jam. I know you're thinking, where is it?
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  Speaker 4: And how much can I get a free walk through?
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  Speaker 1: I know, yeah, I I will tell you I I
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  Speaker 1: do not do scary movies. I do not do haunted houses.
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  Speaker 1: They scare me to death. I mean it's one of
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  Speaker 1: those where guys jumped from the wall and the you know,
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  Speaker 1: the chainsaw massacre, Jason comes out or Chucky comes out.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm not good at that.
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  Speaker 4: People pay for great it's just on the front yard
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  Speaker 4: when everybody can see it. Sometimes I think that stuff's
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  Speaker 4: a little too much.
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  Speaker 5: I'm coming with Bill. I can't do scary houses and
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  Speaker 5: scary mazes things like that.
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  Speaker 2: Really, it's just actors. That's your art.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but you know you don't know that, Oh that
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  Speaker 1: goes through your mind, right, something somebody's jumping out with
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  Speaker 1: a chainsaw going for your neck. I mean you know
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  Speaker 1: that it's not dangerous. But do you think it's only
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  Speaker 1: an actor?
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  Speaker 4: No, I'm weird though, I'm like, oh my god, that
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  Speaker 4: prop looked great. Oh that lighting was insane. I'm a
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  Speaker 4: little weird that way.
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  Speaker 2: I just don't like to be scared.
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  Speaker 5: I know the actors, and I know it's a performance,
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  Speaker 5: especially like at Halloween Hornins and not very far, not
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  Speaker 5: scary farm and all that, but I just don't like
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  Speaker 5: to be scared.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, coming up, and this is the end of the
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  Speaker 1: show on Friday, which I always absolutely love Foody Friday with.
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  Speaker 2: Neil and we'll be talking about all things well a course,
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  Speaker 2: the cost of costco story, which we always do.
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  Speaker 1: And then at eight thirty it's Ask Handle Anything, where
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  Speaker 1: questions are recorded by you and I answer them and
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  Speaker 1: they're usually to the whole purpose is to humiliate me.
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  Speaker 1: Now saving time daylight saving not savings. Daylight saving time ends.
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  Speaker 1: It ends at two am Tomorrow night is actually into Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: so Sunday morning to am.
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  Speaker 2: And I want to debunk some of the bunks.
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  Speaker 1: And this is out of countryliving dot com. And I
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  Speaker 1: assume that they know what they're talking about. And so
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  Speaker 1: what happens is we set our clocks back one hour
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  Speaker 1: before going to bed on Saturday. And here's why. Because
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  Speaker 1: two o'clock in the morning, everybody's asleep. I mean, they
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  Speaker 1: have to pick some time to do it. So two
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  Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning it changes, and all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: we're at standard time, all right, So we're going to
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  Speaker 1: have extra light. Well during the fall and winter, we're
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  Speaker 1: going to have extra light for navigating to school and
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  Speaker 1: work in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: We have more daylight in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: So therefore, of course, what it's about is for farmers
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  Speaker 1: who get up early and milk their cows and harvest,
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  Speaker 1: they are going to have an extra hour according to time. Nope,
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  Speaker 1: it actually wasn't started to help farmers at all. As
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  Speaker 1: a matter of fact, the farm lobby at that time
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  Speaker 1: campaigned against daylight Saving Time because it gave them, if
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  Speaker 1: you look at it, one less hour in the morning
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  Speaker 1: to milk their cows and send their crops to market,
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  Speaker 1: because that's when they did it. And here's another myth.
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  Speaker 1: Benjamin Franklin invented daylight saving time. Right, Actually, here's the story.
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  Speaker 1: And I love doing this stuff history where I don't
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  Speaker 1: know it, but we debunk all kinds of ideas. So
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  Speaker 1: seventeen eighty four, Benjamin Franklin, who was Franklin, who was
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  Speaker 1: living in the French capital, screwing everything that he could,
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  Speaker 1: published a satirical essay in Joralde, Paris, and it was
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  Speaker 1: about this Parisians rising with the sun to save money
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  Speaker 1: on candles and lamp oil in the evenings. It was satire,
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  Speaker 1: and yet it's taken as gospel.
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  Speaker 2: The here's one that no one will ever know.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm going to ask you, guys, I don't even
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  Speaker 1: want to ask, because you'll never know who actually invented
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  Speaker 1: daylight saving time? Any idea? Guys, Now, you'll never guess
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  Speaker 1: this done. Why didn't bother a New Zealand entomologist, George Hudson,
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  Speaker 1: who proposed it in eighteen ninety five. In nineteen oh seven,
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  Speaker 1: a guy named William will It wrote a book called
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  Speaker 1: The Waste of Daylight, arguing for daylight saving time. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: now here's what daylight saving time does is conserve energy, right,
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  Speaker 1: And between nineteen seventy four and seventy five, that was
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  Speaker 1: January seventy four to April seventy five, we went on
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  Speaker 1: daylight saving time all year round because of the energy crisis.
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  Speaker 1: In two thousand and five, Congress passes a law extends
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  Speaker 1: daylight saving time by a month keep energy costs down.
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  Speaker 1: The problem is, the National Bureau of Economic Research finds
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  Speaker 1: that it for daylight saving times raised energy bills for
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  Speaker 1: households in Indiana by one percent and extra nine billion
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  Speaker 1: dollars a year. And frankly, that didn't help because the
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  Speaker 1: time shift leads to increased cooling costs, so it actually
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  Speaker 1: became more expensive. And when it becomes law, well Woodrow Wilson,
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  Speaker 1: the president, first made it into law nineteen eighteen, and
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  Speaker 1: that was repealed seven months later, and then Franklin Roosevelt
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  Speaker 1: relaunches it in nineteen forty two, but it doesn't become
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  Speaker 1: official until nineteen sixty six, when President Lyndon Johnson signs
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  Speaker 1: a law. If you ever are on Jeopardy. This is
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  Speaker 1: really good stuff to know, and we're going to be
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  Speaker 1: doing a test afterwards. Now, who has daylight saving times?
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  Speaker 1: Some states don't even honor daylight savings times.
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  Speaker 2: Daylight saving time.
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  Speaker 1: Here it is Hawaii, Nope, no daylight saving times, Arizona,
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  Speaker 1: with the exception of the Navajo Nation. Navajo Nation says yes,
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  Speaker 1: the rest of states says no. And then there are
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  Speaker 1: some that are just fun. These are very very important
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  Speaker 1: parts of America, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands,
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  Speaker 1: Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands. They don't have it, okay,
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  Speaker 1: and certain states can bounce around because it is not
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  Speaker 1: federal law.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Did that help guys, now that we're into daylight saving time?
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  Speaker 1: Did it help you understand what this is about, because
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  Speaker 1: it's sure as hell didn't help me understand what it's about.
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  Speaker 2: I still don't get spring forward.
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  Speaker 1: Then you go backwards, and when you do it fall backwards.
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  Speaker 2: That's it.
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  Speaker 5: I guess I don't understand how it would be without it,
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  Speaker 5: Like how different it would be.
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  Speaker 1: It would be daylight saving time, it would be standard
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  Speaker 1: time all year long. Yeah, And Jim Keeney was on
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  Speaker 1: the show on Wednesday, talked about how it actually is
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  Speaker 1: detrimental to our health. All Right, a story I want
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  Speaker 1: to share with you. This is about my kids when
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  Speaker 1: they were about seven years old and they went to
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  Speaker 1: a birthday party. And I took them to birthday party.
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  Speaker 1: There were a neighbor down the street and they invited
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  Speaker 1: the kids and other kids on the block and we
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  Speaker 1: went to a bowling alley. It was going to be
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  Speaker 1: a contest.
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  Speaker 2: It was going to be.
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  Speaker 1: A little team by team contest in which they were
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  Speaker 1: assigned teams and we're gonna see who's gonna win. Right.
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  Speaker 1: It was a legitimate little play, a little uh you know,
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  Speaker 1: it was a contest, bottom line, where they were gonna
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  Speaker 1: do this. It was going to be a winner. There
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  Speaker 1: were going to be some losers. I think there were
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  Speaker 1: four teams and so uh, my kids just their team
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  Speaker 1: came in second. So I fully expected them to get
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  Speaker 1: the Blue Wealth, not the blue but the red ribbon first,
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  Speaker 1: second or third.
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  Speaker 2: Do you know what ended up happening.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody got a little award that there was a little
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  Speaker 1: ward with a guy bowling, you know, cheap cheap plastic
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  Speaker 1: and it said.
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  Speaker 2: World's Greatest bowler but wait a minute, there was team
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  Speaker 2: against team.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, no, we can't do that because everybody has
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  Speaker 1: to feel good.
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  Speaker 2: And now we have kids.
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  Speaker 1: My kids think that because they get c's, they're as
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  Speaker 1: good as the kids that get a's. And I keep
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  Speaker 1: on telling you you're not as good. Do you understand
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  Speaker 1: you're not as good?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: It's terrible, as horrible, Dad, love, we are as good. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: let's move to Harvard. Harvard. Everybody's getting an A. Right.
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  Speaker 2: Half of all the grades awarded at Harvard are now a's.
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  Speaker 1: Wait a minute, okay, sixty percent our a's undergrads forty
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  Speaker 1: percent a decade ago, less than twenty five percent twenty
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  Speaker 1: years ago.
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  Speaker 2: So Harvard, and this, by the way.
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  Speaker 1: Is now throughout the entire school system is everybody is
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  Speaker 1: the same LAUSD. Everybody passes. Nobody gets thrown out for failing.
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  Speaker 1: When I was at LA Unified School District, and I
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  Speaker 1: grew up in the school district, which is why I
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  Speaker 1: make fun of it. Is why I make fun of
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  Speaker 1: iHeart because I work here.
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  Speaker 2: They failed students.
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  Speaker 1: You got an F. If you came in with an
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  Speaker 1: F average, you were done. You were thrown out of school.
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  Speaker 1: In high school today, it is impossible to get thrown
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  Speaker 1: out of high school. You passed no matter what, because
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  Speaker 1: you are as good as everybody else. We're all the same.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody likes us, everybody likes you. And the Trump administration,
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  Speaker 1: and I agree with the Trump administration on this one,
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  Speaker 1: is pressing the university getting rid of the DEI aspects
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  Speaker 1: of it.
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  Speaker 2: That's fairly controversial one way or the other.
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  Speaker 1: But has pressed for university grade integrity. There isn't grade
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  Speaker 1: integrity any more. Why do professors give a's to people, Well,
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  Speaker 1: they want to be liked, you know why, because everybody
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  Speaker 1: now schools hand out the surveys they do at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the class. They hand out surveys. They didn't
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  Speaker 1: when I was in school, when I was at LAUSD.
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  Speaker 1: When I was in school, i would walk four miles
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  Speaker 1: uphill and then i'd come back four miles uphill and
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  Speaker 1: it would be snowing the entire time, even though I
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  Speaker 1: was in the San Fernando Valley. Oh, it was rough
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  Speaker 1: for me. But the point is is that grades were
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  Speaker 1: real grades. Today grades are not real grades. The other
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  Speaker 1: thing that's going on, and why do the professors they
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  Speaker 1: want to do well on the surveys because that's important
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  Speaker 1: to them. Okay, so there's one. There's also something called
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  Speaker 1: imposter syndrome, and that is students who claim they are
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  Speaker 1: struggling with impossible sir syndrome.
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  Speaker 2: And my kids did really well with that one.
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  Speaker 1: Why because they said they grew up in a poor
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  Speaker 1: family in the inner city and they didn't have the advantages,
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  Speaker 1: and they were the first kids that ever went to college,
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  Speaker 1: although my wife came out of UCLA, and of course
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  Speaker 1: I came out with a law degree.
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  Speaker 2: And no one checks, you know, they don't check. All
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  Speaker 2: you have to do is say that you are. You
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  Speaker 2: grew up.
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  Speaker 1: You're the first person to go to college in your family,
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  Speaker 1: and you grew up poor, and you raise your siblings
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  Speaker 1: and your parents are dead and you had to go
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  Speaker 1: work in the mines and you lost your leg in
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  Speaker 1: a mine accident and your kid. That's what happened to
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  Speaker 1: my parents. Therefore, you used to let me in school. Automatic, Yep,
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  Speaker 1: you're in school because nobody checks. Great inflation accelerated the
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  Speaker 1: late nineteen twenties. Generally, the pandemic is where it really
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  Speaker 1: started during remote learning, and the problem is it's never
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  Speaker 1: gone down. And much the same of the argument what's
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  Speaker 1: happening with the government shutdown. The Republicans are saying, and
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  Speaker 1: they're right, is that the shutdown is over the increase.
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  Speaker 1: One of the things is the increase in health care
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  Speaker 1: costs because those healthcare costs, your insurance was subsidized by
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  Speaker 1: the government during pandemic. During the pandemic, they increase the
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  Speaker 1: insurance subsidies, and with the Democrats are saying, we have
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  Speaker 1: to keep the insurance subsidies at the same level. That's
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  Speaker 1: the issue. And I'm just off on a tangent on
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  Speaker 1: that one. So you go to Havid, you go to university,
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  Speaker 1: there's a good chance you're going to get an AD.
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  Speaker 1: Your kid goes to high school. Doesn't matter if your
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  Speaker 1: kid even shows up in high school, there's going to
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  Speaker 1: be a pass.
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  Speaker 2: Is in life wonderful.
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  Speaker 1: So I want to point something out you listeners, you
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  Speaker 1: out there in radio land. I love that you are
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  Speaker 1: all winners. You all are doing great. You all are
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  Speaker 1: phenomenal human beings. It's like people who are against the
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  Speaker 1: death penalty the sanctity of life. We are all life
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  Speaker 1: and we deserve to be treated with respect. No, some
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  Speaker 1: of you decide are so miserable and so horrible. You
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  Speaker 1: deserve to die also if you're not adding to the
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  Speaker 1: gene pool. And I consider there's two kinds of people
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  Speaker 1: in my world, those that are well three, those that
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  Speaker 1: are just taking up space they don't do much for society,
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  Speaker 1: those that leave the world in a better place, and
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  Speaker 1: those that are actually harm society. We're not all the same.
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  Speaker 1: There are losers. Unfortunately, only too many of them listen
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  Speaker 1: to this show, and we have an enormous number of them.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, let me.
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  Speaker 1: I've got to retract those of you who I used
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  Speaker 1: to call losers who listen to the show.
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  Speaker 2: You are all winners, every one of you. All right.
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  Speaker 2: I want to get serious for a moment.
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  Speaker 1: And the governor has called this issue a crisis, and
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  Speaker 1: what it is about men in California are in crisis,
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  Speaker 1: and this is researchers. California has half a million young
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  Speaker 1: people from sixteen to twenty four that are in the
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  Speaker 1: same predicament. They're not working, they're not in school, and
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  Speaker 1: men particularly at work, and a lot of it has
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  Speaker 1: nothing to do with their fault because at this point
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  Speaker 1: there's mental illness going on and a lot of it.
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  Speaker 1: Work is almost impossible to get in many cases. I
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  Speaker 1: did a topic on who's considered a winner and a
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  Speaker 1: winner and a loser last segment. And my daughter is
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  Speaker 1: the poster child for this of working and going to school.
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  Speaker 1: As I've told you many times, she has her bachelor's
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  Speaker 1: degree in computer engineering entering a master's degree her skill set.
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  Speaker 1: She can't get a job because of AI. Just can't
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  Speaker 1: get a job. And she's in school. She's going to
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  Speaker 1: but that's going to end, and so she feels terrible
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  Speaker 1: and she feels like a loser. And that's what a
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  Speaker 1: lot of these men feel like. And the other day,
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  Speaker 1: you know, poor Pamela said, Dad, you know what I'm
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  Speaker 1: really I feel like a loser. And I responded, because
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  Speaker 1: that's what you are. Do you understand. Thank god she
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  Speaker 1: doesn't take me seriously. But for men in California and
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  Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands, that's the problem.
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  Speaker 2: It's a real issue.
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  Speaker 1: We have four point six million Californian men between ages
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  Speaker 1: sixteen and twenty four ten percent consider disconnected. Far these
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  Speaker 1: are men Black and Native American men have higher rates
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  Speaker 1: than that.
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  Speaker 2: So why well, so many drop out of school. Work
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  Speaker 2: is varied.
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  Speaker 1: You've got AI coming in and automation manufacturing jobs or
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  Speaker 1: virtually justpairing, and they're mainly male oriented. These men have disabilities,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of them struggling with addiction, struggling with mental
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  Speaker 1: health challenges. Many are in prison. California's prison ninety six
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  Speaker 1: percent are male. Most of the population that is homeless
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  Speaker 1: male And unfortunately, there really isn't much that can be
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  Speaker 1: done at this point. This is big picture stuff, long term,
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  Speaker 1: big picture, very expensive to deal with this, and we're
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  Speaker 1: going to see more and more of that as we
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: move forward and technology explodes, and we're doing so much better.
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  Speaker 1: The disparity between the haves and the have nots just
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  Speaker 1: in terms of money, not just in terms of money,
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  Speaker 1: but in terms of mental health, in terms of feeling
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  Speaker 1: good about being in society, feeling comfortable having friends. That
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: is a real problem for many many of these men.
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  Speaker 1: So recognizing it is one thing, and this is absolutely true.
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  Speaker 2: What's going on.
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  Speaker 1: Recognizing it is one thing. It's like the homeless. We
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: recognize it, we know it's a problem. How do you
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  Speaker 1: fix it? Well, big picture, long term, hideously expensive. I
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: just want to make you feel better. Okay, Now, Foody Friday,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: who is that Neil? Who is that over there? That
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: young lady.
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  Speaker 2: That young lady is my son.
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  Speaker 1: Oh okay, well, long hair, and there you go.
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  Speaker 2: Don't let Max. Don't let Max, do not let Max.
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  Speaker 2: So I said that, actually he's working a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of makeup.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, all right, make up, long hair, Okay,
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: long hair, makeup.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Uh no, it's an anime. Yeah. Was he wearing
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: a dress? No? Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Max is going to be seeing a psychologist for the
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: next several years.
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  Speaker 2: I just want to point that out.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, the guy who is single handedly keep the psychology industry.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: My psychologist has a psychologist because of me.
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  Speaker 2: I support two of them. Kf I A M six forty.
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