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Israel Rejects Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan | Cal Tech’s ‘Fraud Squad’ · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 2: Five AM six forty Bill Handle Here on a Monday morning,
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  Speaker 2: August tenth, some of the stories we are looking at.
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  Speaker 2: The run has laid out a list of demands. It
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  Speaker 2: says the US must fulfill before the strait opens up,
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  Speaker 2: and the United States President Trump has taken a different
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  Speaker 2: tack completely. It is no longer military, it's now economic.
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  Speaker 2: absolutely plenty.
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  Speaker 3: I hope you get hit by a bus.
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  Speaker 2: And then hopely then I hire myself to represent me. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Moving on to the next topic, and that is this morning,
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  Speaker 2: when I was talking about inflation, Amy posited the fact,
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  Speaker 2: which is true that egg prices have dropped, and inflation
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  Speaker 2: has not only not hit egg prices, but they are low, low, low,
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, that is great news for me.
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  Speaker 2: For example, why because I only eat eggs. I don't
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  Speaker 2: eat meat, I don't eat vegetables, I don't eat any
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  Speaker 2: kind of protein. I certainly don't use dairy or eat
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  Speaker 2: any kind of dairy product. I only have eggs, So
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  Speaker 2: that is good news for me and those of you
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  Speaker 2: that only have eggs. Well, the reality is there's a
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  Speaker 2: lot more to groceries and they have gone up, and
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  Speaker 2: also utility has gone up, and unfortunately a lot of Americans.
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  Speaker 2: This is a new study by Omnisend and e Marketing
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  Speaker 2: e commerce marketing platform and says real simple, more people
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  Speaker 2: are borrowing money to pay for groceries. Borrowing money to
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  Speaker 2: pay for groceries. Higher prices have changed how consumers feel
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  Speaker 2: about brands they once liked. A majority of these respondents
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  Speaker 2: said they believe brands are using inflation as an excuse
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  Speaker 2: to raise prices more than necessary. That is a different conversation.
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  Speaker 2: Half blamed politicians for rising food costs. One thousand consumers
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  Speaker 2: in this survey, thirty percent said they used a credit
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  Speaker 2: card to pay for essentials that is tough groceries, gas, utilities,
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  Speaker 2: medical bills in the past three months, knowing they're not
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  Speaker 2: going to be paying off their bill, Twenty percent of
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  Speaker 2: they borrowed from friends or family, eighteen percent used by
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  Speaker 2: now pay later products, seventeen percent say they had to
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  Speaker 2: use savings meant for something else. The reality is isflation
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  Speaker 2: has done some very serious damage to the way we live.
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  Speaker 2: We just don't live the same now. Biden's last year
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  Speaker 2: or second year, third year, in inflation was at nine percent,
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  Speaker 2: and it made buying very costly, and that's one of
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  Speaker 2: the big reasons that he lost the election to President Trump. Well,
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  Speaker 2: inflation is here, and it's baked in, and the economists
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  Speaker 2: the White House can say all day long, inflation is down.
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  Speaker 2: Inflation is down, don't worry about it. Things are cheaper
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  Speaker 2: for you. Well, okay, then why are you using credit
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  Speaker 2: cards to pay for groceries? When you add in fuel,
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  Speaker 2: medical bills that are going like crazy, families are forced
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  Speaker 2: to choose between carrying balances or going without those essentials.
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  Speaker 2: Nearly one in five adults paid for groceries with savings.
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  Speaker 2: One in twenty bought groceries with cash from a payday
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  Speaker 2: advance loan. That's five percent. And when it came to
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  Speaker 2: credit cards, nearly thirty five percent of adults ages eighteen
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  Speaker 2: to sixty four paid by credit card and paid that
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  Speaker 2: bill in full. That's thirty five percent. That's when you
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  Speaker 2: really are smart about using credit cards if you can
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  Speaker 2: pay them in full. But twenty percent paid less than
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  Speaker 2: the full balance but always paid the minimum. Another nine
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  Speaker 2: percent didn't always make the minimum payments more than one
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  Speaker 2: in four, twenty five percent working age adults use credit
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  Speaker 2: cards to purchase food for their families and experienced repayment challenges.
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  Speaker 2: Can't pay it back. Wow, I had to tell you.
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  Speaker 2: That's tough stuff. It really is. Now. Some of the
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  Speaker 2: heaviest rates of credit card usage the survey showed were
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  Speaker 2: people with the highest income bracket, and that is and
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  Speaker 2: I think that that stat is ridiculous because I pay
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  Speaker 2: virtually for everything with credit cards, but I pay it
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  Speaker 2: off the end of the month, and the benefits of
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  Speaker 2: using a credit card to pay for everything if you
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  Speaker 2: can pay it off far better. I get miles, which
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  Speaker 2: is why you know my travel expenses. I run my
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  Speaker 2: business through credit cards, so I get a ton of
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  Speaker 2: miles and I pay my bill, and I'm lucky to
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  Speaker 2: do so because I have a good job and I
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  Speaker 2: live under my means, and there aren't many people that
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  Speaker 2: have that kind of relationship with the economy, and they
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  Speaker 2: have that kind of lifestyle. And the shame of it
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  Speaker 2: is is it is getting more expensive to live by
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  Speaker 2: the day now. Wages have gone up, no question about it.
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  Speaker 2: So when you go to the grocery store next as
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  Speaker 2: you're putting meat on the counter, just tell yourself, wages
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  Speaker 2: have gone up. My wages have gone up. Therefore, this
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  Speaker 2: meat which is now three dollars a pound more than
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  Speaker 2: it was last year, or two dollars a pound more,
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  Speaker 2: it really doesn't mean much because my wages have more
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  Speaker 2: than made up for that. Go ahead and do that
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  Speaker 2: for me. And we're living at a time when people
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  Speaker 2: using credit cards and borrowing money to eat is beyond
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  Speaker 2: me in a country like the United States.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but you also have people that are living way
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  Speaker 3: above their meat.
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  Speaker 2: It's true.
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  Speaker 4: I'm likely cost seven hundred dollars a month to pay
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  Speaker 4: for and multiple cell phones and cable. That's true, things
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  Speaker 4: that I didn't grow up with because you still couldn't
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  Speaker 4: afford them.
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  Speaker 3: Understood.
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  Speaker 2: Let me ask you, Okay, but let me ask you
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  Speaker 2: as a percentage. Okay, I'm giving you the figures on
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  Speaker 2: the back end, I'm giving you the worst case scenario,
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  Speaker 2: which I always do because I live based on the
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  Speaker 2: worst case scenario. And you're right. But at the same time,
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  Speaker 2: what you're saying is that a ton of people you
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  Speaker 2: will give me a percentage. That's the problem.
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  Speaker 4: We don't know a percentage to tell you that the
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  Speaker 4: people that I talked to on the fork report that
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  Speaker 4: had to shutter their restaurants.
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  Speaker 3: It's not about food costs.
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  Speaker 4: It's about taxes, insurance and the way the state is being.
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  Speaker 2: Okay either way, I understand either way, but it still
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  Speaker 2: causes the same problem.
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  Speaker 3: That hands out things.
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  Speaker 4: Any state that takes care and have the more social
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  Speaker 4: programs they have, the more people rely on that and
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  Speaker 4: don't rely on their own ability.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, And that's easy.
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  Speaker 3: To say, Neil, I'm not going to throw you a percentage.
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  Speaker 1: And I will have to.
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  Speaker 2: You have to because if it is well.
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  Speaker 4: I will tell you this that more restaurants in LA
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  Speaker 4: have shuddered. I understand five years Okay, Now, now here's
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  Speaker 4: the show, is it?
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  Speaker 2: Because it has simply gotten more expensive and you're not
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  Speaker 2: and you're telling me that the cost of food for
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  Speaker 2: restaurants has not increased in tramatic party, but they.
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  Speaker 3: Know how to.
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  Speaker 4: They know how to reap, to adapt to that. What
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  Speaker 4: you can't adapt to is rents going up. Is what
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  Speaker 4: you can't adapt to is all of the fees they
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  Speaker 4: have to pay to the government. We understand all of that,
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  Speaker 4: ad is having to pay twenty dollars.
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  Speaker 2: I understand. I'm not giving the reasons, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: other than we we are in a position where inflation
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  Speaker 2: is killing us. And by the way, restaurants having to
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  Speaker 2: charge more because of the fees doesn't mean inflation hasn't.
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  Speaker 3: More people are entitled and think that they to have.
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  Speaker 2: No. No, you're absolutely right. So it's because you're going
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  Speaker 2: out to dinner too much, and that's your problem.
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  Speaker 3: I live in the real world. You live in a
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  Speaker 3: gated community.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, so I can't report. I stand corrected by Neil.
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  Speaker 2: You've got money, you can go to the restaurant. You
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  Speaker 2: have no problems. And when you go to the grocery store.
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  Speaker 2: When you go to the grocery store, you have no
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  Speaker 2: problems because everything is cheaper than it was now. One
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  Speaker 2: of the other stories is that Israel has rejected President's
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  Speaker 2: Trump's Gaza peace plan. The president announced a fifteen point plan,
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  Speaker 2: and that was a couple of weeks ago, and Israel said, no,
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  Speaker 2: thank you. Why because the president's plan calls for Gaza
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  Speaker 2: and full disarmament of Hamas and Israel forces to withdraw,
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  Speaker 2: and basically at the same time, that's what the President's
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  Speaker 2: plan is. Nope, not Israel. Netsa Yahu in his first
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  Speaker 2: remarks directly responding to that, I want to be propriet
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  Speaker 2: precise here, Israel rejects the fifteen point document. Israel would
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  Speaker 2: not withdraw at all until Hamas is genuinely disarmed and
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  Speaker 2: continues to thwart threats against our forces and citizens. That's
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  Speaker 2: Israel's position. Nothing is going to happen until Hamas disarms.
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  Speaker 2: Hamas is saying nothing is going to happen until Israel withdraws,
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  Speaker 2: And there it is. They're stuck between a hard place
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  Speaker 2: and a rock and a hard place, and that is
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  Speaker 2: the first point, by the way, that is not being met.
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  Speaker 2: So Netanyahu said, we are now discussing this with Americans.
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  Speaker 2: They have ideas, some of which are acceptable, some are not,
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  Speaker 2: and we know how to stand up to these things.
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  Speaker 2: Man has just come down hard against the President on
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  Speaker 2: this issue. As long as I'm Prime Prime Minister, no
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  Speaker 2: Palestinian state will be established, not in Gaza, not in
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  Speaker 2: the West Bank. And Natanyahu has some real issues on
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  Speaker 2: this because an election is coming up in October, and
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  Speaker 2: the United and Israel is pretty unified against the against Hamas,
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  Speaker 2: not the Palestinian state, mind you, against Hamas. Why because
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  Speaker 2: of October seventh And Hamas has never given up its charter,
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  Speaker 2: its view that Israel must be destroyed, It is still there.
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  Speaker 2: And Israel says, as long as Hamas thinks that they
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  Speaker 2: disarm or we just continue and October seventh will never
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  Speaker 2: happen again. At the end of the July, Trump announced
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  Speaker 2: what he described as a historic agreement to secure the
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  Speaker 2: disarmament of Hamas and all other arm groups in Gaza. Nope,
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  Speaker 2: not true. And this was months after the President first
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  Speaker 2: announced a US broker ceasefire between CAMAS and Israel. Very
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  Speaker 2: tenuous for the most part. Not true. And here's why
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  Speaker 2: Hamas is only going to go through with the deal
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  Speaker 2: if Israel strike halts of strikes in Gaza and pulls
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  Speaker 2: troop back to the yellow line. The yellow line is
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  Speaker 2: well in Gaza that Israel has established. I mean, Israel
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  Speaker 2: controls thirty maybe fifty percent of Gaza at this point
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  Speaker 2: and Hamas controls the rest of it, and at this
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  Speaker 2: point nothing is moving except that Gaza is still being
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  Speaker 2: attacked by Israel. Israel's position is since CAAMAS embeds itself
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  Speaker 2: into civilian locations because they can't go to they can't
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  Speaker 2: go to open war with Israel, they'd be slaughtered, so
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  Speaker 2: they embed themselves. Israel, on the other hand, is not
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  Speaker 2: paying particular attention. Israel has stopped humanitarian aid from coming in.
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  Speaker 2: Israel has made life as miserable for Palestinians as humanly possible.
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  Speaker 2: Well no, Israel does send out flyers and does have
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  Speaker 2: cell phone the cell phone announcements We're about to bomb
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  Speaker 2: this building, that building, this neighborhood, Get the hell out,
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  Speaker 2: and Israel is moving Palestinians all over the place. We're
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  Speaker 2: going to take out this area, and then where you've moved,
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  Speaker 2: you're going to take out that area. Move again. And
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  Speaker 2: there are some Palestinians that have moved probably a dozen
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  Speaker 2: times to get away from from what Israeli forces. And
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  Speaker 2: Gaza right now is relying almost one hundred percent of
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  Speaker 2: humanitarian aid. There is no economy, the fuel is almost
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  Speaker 2: non existent, and the problem is that Palestinians can't rise
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  Speaker 2: up against Kamas. Can you imagine what would happen if
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  Speaker 2: the West Bank and Gaza were to come to peace
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  Speaker 2: with Israel. If they had a Martin Luther King, if
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  Speaker 2: they had a Gandhi, if they had a Nelson Mandela,
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  Speaker 2: and they had true peace, Israel would help them build
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  Speaker 2: an economy because Israelis are really good about building economies.
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  Speaker 2: Look at Tel Aviv, that's a world class city. Then
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  Speaker 2: Jews pretty smart people. You got to give it to them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Them. Palestinians are also very smart.
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  Speaker 3: By the way.
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  Speaker 2: They traditionally, before craziness started, were in the Arab world
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  Speaker 2: they were the professionals, and all over in the Mideast,
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  Speaker 2: Palestinians would come in and be the technocrats and would
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  Speaker 2: be the managers and the professionals. Boy, those days are gone. Now.
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  Speaker 2: Let me tell you what's going on at cal Tech,
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  Speaker 2: the California Institute of Technology, one of the premier tech
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  Speaker 2: schools in the US, cal Tech MIT. I mean, this
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  Speaker 2: is the top of the heap. They have created a
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  Speaker 2: team to vet every single student's application. Why well, they're
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  Speaker 2: receiving anonymous accusations of dishonest submissions. In other words, there's
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  Speaker 2: a good chance if your kid is applying to cal Tech,
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  Speaker 2: your kid is a liar, a cheat, Okay, and that's
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  Speaker 2: not anecdotal, that's probably a medical fact. Your kid is
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  Speaker 2: a liar, a cheat. And this team checks transcripts, certificates, signatures,
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  Speaker 2: uses a video interview program to verify applicants research claims.
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  Speaker 2: So it's not just using AI by the way, to
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  Speaker 2: help out. It is straight outlying. It's that simple. And
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  Speaker 2: so it's the fraud Squad. And why Well, because Caltech
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  Speaker 2: admits less than four percent of the applicants of incoming classes.
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  Speaker 2: And cal Tech created this team two years ago because
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  Speaker 2: so many accusations were coming in. And so this four
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  Speaker 2: person team inspects every admitted student's app taking nothing for granted,
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  Speaker 2: scouring the internet to confirm obscurities, contact competition officials, high
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  Speaker 2: school counselors, and they're well, these applications have become more
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  Speaker 2: competitive and certainly more complex. Some have well, some request
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  Speaker 2: long lists of accolades. This is what Caltech does. They
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  Speaker 2: want to see research competitions, awards, independent projects. The bottom line,
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  Speaker 2: to get into Caltech or MIT, and this is Caltech story.
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  Speaker 2: With this fraud squad, you basically have to have already
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  Speaker 2: won the Nobel Peace Prize or the Nobel Prize in physics.
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  Speaker 2: To get in, I mean, you've got to be that
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  Speaker 2: good and you have to be a world class violin
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  Speaker 2: player a violin. Yes, you have to be a violin
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  Speaker 2: student and chair number one and so a lot of
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  Speaker 2: schools review applications for accuracy, but this one digs so
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  Speaker 2: much deeper. Cal Tech system, first of all, doesn't charge
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  Speaker 2: incoming students and enrollment deposit. Usually schools charge like one
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  Speaker 2: hundred dollars fee and people just pay up. Cal Tech doesn't,
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  Speaker 2: so it's getting plenty of applicants, and so the fraud
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  Speaker 2: squad has to go to work. The applicants in many
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  Speaker 2: cases misrepresent themselves that it's that bottom line. Cal Tech
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  Speaker 2: needed to investigate these and Director of Admissions at University
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  Speaker 2: of Illinois, Sarah McKenzie said, they have seen so many
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  Speaker 2: any essays generated by chat GPT and they are dealing
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  Speaker 2: with them. They have to figure out ways. So they
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  Speaker 2: use AI to figure out AI being used, and pretty soon,
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  Speaker 2: since people are very smart about using AI to overcome
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  Speaker 2: the AI that checks their AI applications, they are now
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  Speaker 2: developing AI to check on the AI that checks on
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  Speaker 2: the application because AI is always ahead of the game,
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  Speaker 2: and so they evaluate video interviews. Mike Flag a candidate
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  Speaker 2: who submitted research that required advanced math back, we go
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  Speaker 2: to the Nobel Prize. If the student's transcript indicates they
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  Speaker 2: didn't take a higher level course, yet they admit advanced
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  Speaker 2: math courses, it really is an investigation. Then it's outreach.
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  Speaker 2: Now in a few cases it turns out that a
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  Speaker 2: student has taught himself for themselves advanced math. How do
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  Speaker 2: you figure that one out? Talk to their mentor or
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  Speaker 2: a counselor at school and admission officers have described their
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  Speaker 2: numbers times where a seemingly far fetched application proved absolutely true.
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  Speaker 2: But when they do see that, they are completely odd.
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  Speaker 2: Bottom of the line. You cheat, you cheat, you cheat.
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  Speaker 2: There is someone who worked here at KFI who is
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: has moved to Spain and has asked for a recommendation letter,
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  Speaker 2: which I wrote. And here's what most people do with
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  Speaker 2: their recommendation letters. You write something up, I'll sign it.
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  Speaker 2: And I looked at it and I said, wow, this
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  Speaker 2: is terrific. I got to tell you this is really good.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know you could, you know, write this so good?
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  Speaker 2: He go this at GPT. There's no question I couldn't
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  Speaker 2: write anything. This could Welcome to the world of AI,
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  Speaker 2: checking on AI programs, that check on AI programs. And
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  Speaker 2: I think we're going to go back and forth probably
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  Speaker 2: half a dozen times on that. What's the bottom line.
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  Speaker 2: Your kid is cheating, your kid is a liar, and
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  Speaker 2: your kid is trying to get in a much better school.
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  Speaker 2: At least my kids were very honest about it. When
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  Speaker 2: they applied for junior college. The junior college said you
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  Speaker 2: got to finish high school. Guys, you know there's no
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  Speaker 2: way around this, all right. A story of the la
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  Speaker 2: time just came out with and it has to do
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  Speaker 2: with dealing with not so much the homeless, but the
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  Speaker 2: affordability of homes. And here is what the story is.
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  Speaker 2: And it's come out from the city that there are
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  Speaker 2: twenty thousand lots that are empty, and the city is saying,
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  Speaker 2: let's use those lots, excuse me the big cough, let's
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  Speaker 2: use those lots to build to help with the issue
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  Speaker 2: of affordability. More people can get homes, and these vacant
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  Speaker 2: lots can be transformed small lots into quote thoughtfully designed
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  Speaker 2: gentle density housing duplexes for plexes town homes and can
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  Speaker 2: be sold at more reasonable prices than the single family home,
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  Speaker 2: which is very, very difficult to buy these days. Frankly,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how someone in their twenties could ever
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  Speaker 2: afford a house. My kids scream at me, saying, Dad,
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  Speaker 2: it's your fault that I'll never be able to afford
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  Speaker 2: a house. Well, it's not my fault. When I bought,
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  Speaker 2: first started buying, I was able to afford houses, and
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  Speaker 2: then I would sell and move up and sell and move.
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  Speaker 2: But can't do that anymore. Just can't do that. And
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  Speaker 2: so the city is saying, let's use those and we're
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  Speaker 2: going to offer money and tax breaks, and we want
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  Speaker 2: to make it happen. Now. I don't know what percentage
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  Speaker 2: of twenty thousand lots can in fact be turned into housing.
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  Speaker 2: But as I said, this whole issue of homelessness and
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  Speaker 2: affordability is incremental at best in terms of dealing with it.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: There's not going to be one magic bullet. There's not
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: going to be one all encompassing way of dealing with it.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: It has to be incremental. It has to be very well.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: It is very very expensive, and it's just a question
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: of where assets and where the city is going to
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: move its money. There's never enough money for anything the
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: city does. Why is that because whenever income rises, and
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: a lot of this is based on California, it's all
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: based on income tax The city is based on read
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: you for taxes and businesses moving in and businesses increasing. Well,
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: that's great when there's money coming in and all these
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: entitlement programs, they're still there. When the economy goes south,
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: and the economy goes up and down constantly. Every time
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: there's a contract that's up with city employees, raises have
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: to be given, maintenance which is deferred over and over again. Well,
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: at some point it has to come the can. It
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: can no longer being kicked down the road. And so
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: there it is. According to Emmanuel, I have no idea
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: what his last name is. I couldn't pronounce it if
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: you'd stuck again into my head. Affordable home ownership is
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: a big hole in the market. And if we do
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: this right, and this is he's part of this organization
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: called city Lab. It's a nonprofit that deals with this.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: If we knew this right, hopefully this is going to
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: be the first step in making affordable homes affordable. Well, okay,
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: let's put it. They have these little homes, remember these
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: what are those tiny villages that are being built where
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: you have a person in It's basically a plywood box
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: with a roof on it, and you get to live
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: in that, which is better than living on the street.
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: There's many countries where that is the only choice they have.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but we're in the United States, aren't we, and
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: we theoretically are.
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: You think we're an exception.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: Think that makes us exceptional.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: Makes us exceptionally unable to be fair to everybody.
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: I think we get judged different because we are exceptional.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: Yes, we are. We are. You go to South Sudan
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: or Yemen tonight for their dinner, the only thing on
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: the menu is sand and it's just a different country.
• 24:59
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