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Moving back home used to be a sign of failure · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: You're listen Saints Camp I am six forty. The Bill
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  Speaker 1: Stock has changed.
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  Speaker 2: Now, how could he do it at the same time.
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  Speaker 1: Well, they brought the bells to the Oval office and
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  Speaker 1: he rang the bells from the Oval Office. The mountain
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  Speaker 1: comes to Mohammed, which you know, I mean, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: upset about it, but you know, it's just part of
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  Speaker 1: the story, you know, part of what we're going through
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  Speaker 1: and moving on the World Cup. The United States is
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  Speaker 1: going on to the top sixteen, which is those are
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  Speaker 1: knockout rounds. You lose, you're done. It's like the Super Bowl. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: A story I want to share with you about liquor.
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  Speaker 1: Remember Big Tobacco had its moment and it was a
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  Speaker 1: negative one, that huge settlement. It looks like liquor stocks
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  Speaker 1: are going through the same thing. So alcohol company has
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  Speaker 1: been encouraging people to drink responsibly for years. Unfortunately that
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  Speaker 1: message is actually resonated. Oops. Sharers in the company that
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  Speaker 1: makes Jamison whiskey are now trading a tobacco like valuations.
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  Speaker 1: Things ain't rosy in the spirit business, that's for sure.
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  Speaker 1: The US is one of the most important spirit markets
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  Speaker 1: in the world. But lately Americans have been drinking far less.
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  Speaker 1: The volume of spirits sold have been declining for four
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  Speaker 1: straight years. The only person I know drinks regularly is
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  Speaker 1: Neil Neil Imbibes. He likes his adult beverages.
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  Speaker 2: Have you been drinking?
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  Speaker 3: How can you say that You're talking about a trip
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  Speaker 3: when we were in France on a charge.
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  Speaker 2: I know, but you do talk.
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  Speaker 1: You talk about how you enjoy.
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  Speaker 3: Don't I guess?
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 3: I'm a nine year old. I can't yeh flopping around
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  Speaker 3: that hut.
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  Speaker 1: And the problem is you're gonna get in a lot
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  Speaker 1: of trouble for giving Max hard alcohol.
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  Speaker 2: You can't do that.
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  Speaker 3: No, he doesn't see alcohol around the house or anything
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  Speaker 3: like that.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, fair enough? And uh, where's Will? Because I was
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  Speaker 1: gonna ask him if he drinks a lot of alcohol,
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  Speaker 1: and I would guess he does, because alcohol is a
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  Speaker 1: lot of calories. Now Americans have been drinking far less,
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  Speaker 1: and the volumes has declined for four straight years. As
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  Speaker 1: I've said, so why let's go through some of the reasons. Affordability, Well,
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  Speaker 1: people aren't drinking as much because when they go out
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  Speaker 1: socializing and they go to bars and restaurants where the
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  Speaker 1: price is prohibitive for food, well the spirits. The alcohol
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  Speaker 1: has risen twenty nine percent over the past five years,
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  Speaker 1: higher than the rate of inflation. In many US cities,
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  Speaker 1: including southern California, twenty dollars cocktails are becoming the norm.
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  Speaker 1: Why because that is a huge profit center for restaurants
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  Speaker 1: and well bars, of course, and I see that. So
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  Speaker 1: when I go to moderately priced restaurants with Lindsey, to me,
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  Speaker 1: a night out is the cheesecake factory. I do not
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  Speaker 1: believe in spending a lot of money for food. The
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  Speaker 1: only time I think it's worth it is when I
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  Speaker 1: get nauseous and I throw up. At least you get
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  Speaker 1: a meal going down as well as a meal going up.
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  Speaker 2: Corse, Yeah, thank you very much.
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  Speaker 1: In the meantime, she orders prosecco. I don't drink, as
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  Speaker 1: you know, and she orders prosecco, and it's fifteen dollars
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  Speaker 1: minimum for a glass of prosecco. And if she has
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  Speaker 1: a couple of them, what she does, there's thirty bucks
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  Speaker 1: added to the bill. I mean, come on, guys, the
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  Speaker 1: way the reason I don't drink. Everybody thinks I'm a teetotaler.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not.
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  Speaker 1: Oh I'm an alcoholic. Well, I was not an alcoholic.
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  Speaker 1: I was a cocaine addict. So you're not supposed to
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  Speaker 1: drink either. But do you know when you drank, when
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  Speaker 1: you're a kid, a little guy, and you're given that
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  Speaker 1: first sip of alcohol hard booze, it tastes like turpentine. Boy,
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  Speaker 1: is it an acquired taste? And I never got over that.
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  Speaker 1: And a quick story I shared with you before I
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  Speaker 1: continue on with the story is when I took my
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  Speaker 1: family to Jamison. The kids were fourteen years old, and
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  Speaker 1: we went to the Jamison, the distillery, and they give
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  Speaker 1: hard alcohol, a shot of Jamison to the adults and
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  Speaker 1: sodas to the kids, and I ordered three sodas and
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  Speaker 1: one shot that I was going to share my ex
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  Speaker 1: and me and the two girls, and I took a sip. Oh, God,
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  Speaker 1: it's basically turpentine.
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  Speaker 2: It's horrible.
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  Speaker 1: And then my ex took a sip and said, ooh,
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  Speaker 1: this is horrible. And then Pamela took a sip and
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  Speaker 1: again little tiny sip and said, oh, this is god awful.
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  Speaker 1: Barbara in the meantime, took her shot, chugged it down
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  Speaker 1: in one go and said, boy, this is smooth. Wow
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  Speaker 1: that was her first shot. Yeah, there were issues there.
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  Speaker 1: To say the least, We're gonna come back and continue
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  Speaker 1: on with the story because it is a good story
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  Speaker 1: about how alcohol ain't part of your life when the
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  Speaker 1: alcohol companies are really are really hurting.
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  Speaker 2: And I'll finish that up.
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  Speaker 4: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
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  Speaker 4: six forty.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, quick word about Friday at eight point thirty, it's
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  Speaker 1: four inches all right, boxer briefs. Okay, those we don't
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  Speaker 1: use anymore. We did originally, but we're done. Okay, Back
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  Speaker 1: we go to what's happening with liquor spirits, particularly how
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  Speaker 1: we're just not drinking. We Americans I don't drink. One
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  Speaker 1: of the reasons is affordability. It's just too expensive. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it is crazy. And even consumers who drink at home,
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  Speaker 1: they're cutting back. And even though at home drinking looks
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  Speaker 1: like a bargain compared with everything else in the US,
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  Speaker 1: prices for spirits bought at the grocery store are up
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  Speaker 1: only nine percent in five years, beats inflation, beats it.
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  Speaker 1: But still we're just not drinking. And why Well, let's
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  Speaker 1: look at behavior very different for what it was in
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  Speaker 1: the aftermath of the global financial crisis. The volume of
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  Speaker 1: alcohol spirits continue to grow in two thousand and nine
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  Speaker 1: twenty ten, although slower, And what people did is they
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  Speaker 1: traded down the cheaper brands and socialized at home to
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  Speaker 1: save money. So remember to Buck Chuck that was around,
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  Speaker 1: and then you had gin for example. And usually you
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  Speaker 1: can see product of England right or pop product of India,
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  Speaker 1: where it where you know where.
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  Speaker 2: It comes from.
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  Speaker 1: Well, with the word of gen product of bathtubs became
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  Speaker 1: the norm, just a lot cheaper booze. The other thing
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  Speaker 1: is a focus on wellness. Yeah, Younger people are drinking
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  Speaker 1: more moderately than older generations. Gen Z likely to have
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  Speaker 1: only one or two drinks and then go home early when
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  Speaker 1: they socialize, or they socialize in ways that don't involve
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  Speaker 1: alcohol at all. Health conscious moderation also going to older
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  Speaker 1: generations who drink a lot more. The share of Americans
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  Speaker 1: who say they drink I hit low a fifty four
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  Speaker 1: percent last gallup pole add GLP ones to the mix.
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  Speaker 1: People on weight loss drugs not only lose their appetite
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  Speaker 1: for food, but for alcohol also. And also you can
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  Speaker 1: smoke a joint which you couldn't before, or drink a
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  Speaker 1: THC infuse beverage in those days that allow it, and
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  Speaker 1: you don't need much. Right, one drink will knock you out.
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  Speaker 1: And I'll tell you where the growth is, and I
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  Speaker 1: mean spectacularly, And Neil, I don't know if you've read
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  Speaker 1: the story, but there is one category that is explosive
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  Speaker 1: and doing super well, and that.
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  Speaker 3: Is the zero ABV drinks.
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  Speaker 1: No no cocktails in a can, yes bar quality that's
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  Speaker 1: growing twenty to third percent a year. And here's why.
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  Speaker 1: Keep in mind that this is bar quality drinks. A
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  Speaker 1: twelve pack of cut water margarita's cost twenty five dollars
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  Speaker 1: at Walmart. That's two dollars a drink that becomes cheap.
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  Speaker 1: And this is why Will, for example, comes to morning
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  Speaker 1: drive drunk many days.
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  Speaker 2: And the reason that the.
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  Speaker 1: Companies love those so much because they make more money
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  Speaker 1: than beer, and they already have the canning facilities ready
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  Speaker 1: to go, so we're in a different world. The big
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  Speaker 1: one is affordability. That's the one that hits. And as
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  Speaker 1: I explained earlier, when I go to a restaurant and
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  Speaker 1: anybody drinks. So when I take Pamela, for example, out
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  Speaker 1: to dinner, she's a wine drinker, and she'll have a
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  Speaker 1: hard spirit before she'll have a margarita. She'll have some
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  Speaker 1: kind of a fruity drink. She loves those. Barbara will
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  Speaker 1: have some kind of a fruity drink with the umbrellas
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  Speaker 1: in it and the flowers in it, and they taste like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, some kind of a fruit punch or
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  Speaker 1: mango or raspberry or whatever the hell it is. And Dad,
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  Speaker 1: you want to taste Okay, I'll take a taste, and
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  Speaker 1: I'll take a sip and I go, that's good. The
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  Speaker 1: alcohol completely ruins it, though, let's do it without that.
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  Speaker 3: An excellent brand, by the way, is Mission Craft Cocktails.
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  Speaker 3: Their pre bottled stuff is fantastic if anybody wants it's
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  Speaker 3: beautiful bottles, beautiful presentation, but really well done.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I'm not a big fan as I know.
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  Speaker 1: Now. Would I order a mocktail, well, of course I would,
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  Speaker 1: but they're way too expensive. And if you order a
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  Speaker 1: diet coke, which is a shocker, refills on that. Well
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  Speaker 1: That's the other thing I want to point out is
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  Speaker 1: I'll go to a place and say I want to
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  Speaker 1: dye of coke, and I'll get the we have diet pepsi?
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  Speaker 1: Is that okay? Have you ever heard we someone asks
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  Speaker 1: for a pepsi and the way person says we have
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  Speaker 1: diet coke? Is that? Okay? I've never heard that.
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  Speaker 3: We have to do a blind taste test with you
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  Speaker 3: and like RC cola and yeahncy and coke and see
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  Speaker 3: which one you actually like best.
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  Speaker 1: That's okay, I'm willing to do that, but only blind
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  Speaker 1: people blind taste test. I want to be serious about
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  Speaker 1: the blind taste test.
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  Speaker 3: No, we're gonna blind. You don't taste the blind. That's gross.
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  Speaker 1: No, but you are blind. Okay, we're done. Oh here
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  Speaker 1: comes a topic. I haven't done one in a while,
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  Speaker 1: A typical Handle topic, a Hitler topic.
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  Speaker 2: We've got Hitler news coming up.
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  Speaker 4: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from kf I
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  Speaker 4: AM six forty.
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  Speaker 1: Some of the stories we are looking at, uh is
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  Speaker 1: well in the world of soccer, which we are looking
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  Speaker 1: at big time because the United States is in the
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  Speaker 1: sweet sixteen now. It's the last time that happened was
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  Speaker 1: twenty something years ago. It only happened once, and there
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  Speaker 1: was a huge controversy about one of the American players,
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  Speaker 1: the leading American players, getting a red card, which means
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  Speaker 1: that he was disqualified for this next game. And the president,
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  Speaker 1: President Trump called, they had a FIFA and said, hey,
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  Speaker 1: how about turning that one around? And they did, and
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  Speaker 1: so he is going to play. All right, a Hitler story.
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  Speaker 1: You know, me and Hitler the whole World War two
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  Speaker 1: history because my dad was part of World War Two
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  Speaker 1: and a Holocaust survivor, so I'm obviously interested in what
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  Speaker 1: happened during World War Two. And let me explain what
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  Speaker 1: is happening right now, because once again it's and I
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  Speaker 1: did a story earlier about the Smithsonian being attacked by
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  Speaker 1: the President and that it isn't doesn't have exhibits that
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  Speaker 1: put America at a higher level and basically the founding
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  Speaker 1: fathers and put America on a pedestal.
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  Speaker 2: And sort of yeah, I'm not saying the gate, but.
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  Speaker 1: What it is doing is spending too much time on
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  Speaker 1: the negative parts of America, slavery, etc. And it's the
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  Speaker 1: question of how you look at history. And this is
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  Speaker 1: particularly going on in Germany, if you will, and the
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  Speaker 1: Holocaust and the Reich, Hitler's government, the Third Reich, And
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  Speaker 1: again it depends on how history is being looked at.
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  Speaker 2: So let me give you the backstory here.
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  Speaker 1: In nineteen thirty nine, Hitler celebrated the construction of this
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  Speaker 1: new massive government headquarters that was built in Berlin, calling
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  Speaker 1: it the first structure of the new Great Germany. And
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  Speaker 1: he told the eight thousand workers who built it and
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  Speaker 1: who attended the dedication, as he said, everyone can take
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  Speaker 1: with him the consciousness that he has helped to build
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  Speaker 1: a monument that will outlast many centuries. Thirteen one hundred
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  Speaker 1: foot long, three story structure the new reich Chancellery. Six
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  Speaker 1: years later, Berlin is occupied by Allied forces. The buildings
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  Speaker 1: in ruins. Hitler is dead, killed himself in a bunker
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  Speaker 1: near by, and so not much remains but save a
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  Speaker 1: part of the bunker that had been used by other
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  Speaker 1: members of the Nazi regime. And this may soon be demolished.
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  Speaker 1: Why well, a Hamburg developer is receiving official approval to
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  Speaker 1: destroy it and put up apartments in an office in
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  Speaker 1: the area. Now Here comes the controversy, if you will,
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  Speaker 1: history versus of modern day needs. Preservation experts say the
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  Speaker 1: move to develop this reflects attention in German society, and
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  Speaker 1: this is a big deal in terms of looking at
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  Speaker 1: history and revisionist history and German society where a culture
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  Speaker 1: of remembrance has long been emphasized between the need to
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  Speaker 1: preserve historically significant monuments and the need to develop and modernize.
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  Speaker 1: So let me tell you what's going on. What happened
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  Speaker 1: after the war. After World War two and the Nazis
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  Speaker 1: had been defeated the Allies one, what Germany did do
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  Speaker 1: was come to the table immediately. Except the fact that
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  Speaker 1: what Germany did and even paid reparations.
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  Speaker 2: If you go to Israel. Right after the war.
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  Speaker 1: All the taxis were Mercedes Benz provided by Germany, and
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  Speaker 1: people who.
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  Speaker 2: Were part of.
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  Speaker 1: That were still alive that had been persecuted, Jews had
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  Speaker 1: been persecuted, got reparations. The government of Germany paid reparations
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  Speaker 1: for the rest of people's lives. My great uncle was
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  Speaker 1: paid respirations until the day he died. My dad wasn't
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  Speaker 1: because there was a weird rule that Germany only paid
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  Speaker 1: reparations for Jews that were persecuted and killed family members
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  Speaker 1: killed during occupation of Germany. My dad was in Yugoslavia
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  Speaker 1: and Germany considered a puppet government that was not part
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  Speaker 1: of Germany. That's sort of a backstory there. And so
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  Speaker 1: Germany came to the table and has admitted what it
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  Speaker 1: did during the war, even to the point where if
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  Speaker 1: you use the word Nazi, that is a crime in Germany.
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  Speaker 1: If you have any Nazi propaganda or any literature. You
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  Speaker 1: know where all the literature, the pro Nazi literature is
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  Speaker 1: printed and is sneaked into the country, comes from Nebraska,
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  Speaker 1: because you're sure as hell can't print that stuff in Germany.
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  Speaker 1: And you have those people ulter nationalists they call themselves
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  Speaker 1: in Germany, and that is something that is getting a
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  Speaker 1: lot of attention and the movement is growing. So you
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  Speaker 1: have Germany that has accepted what happened during World War II,
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  Speaker 1: what the Nazis did, and then you have a group
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  Speaker 1: of first of all, Holocaust deniers and or folks that
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  Speaker 1: are saying the Holocaust is being made too big a
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  Speaker 1: deal of that's ancient history. It's past what we're about.
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  Speaker 1: And the fact is there's very few people that are
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  Speaker 1: still alive that were actual victims of what happened during
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  Speaker 1: World War two. That episode is gone. So let's look
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  Speaker 1: at history and let's downplay this, you know, let's downplay
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  Speaker 1: the Holocaust. Let's downplay with Hitler did when he annexed
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  Speaker 1: and took over all of Europe. Let's you know, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: not that it didn't happen, but you know, it's not
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  Speaker 1: as big a deal as you're making of it. And
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  Speaker 1: I want to come back and get specific about this
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  Speaker 1: project and what history. It's another episode in what is
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  Speaker 1: history and how movements across the world and there's a
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  Speaker 1: reason why there is such an anti history movement, and
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  Speaker 1: specifically Holocaust deniers and Germany and this bunker that was
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  Speaker 1: built all tied up together, and I'll finish it up
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  Speaker 1: with that.
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  Speaker 4: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
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  Speaker 4: six forty.
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  Speaker 2: And we are looking at a few stories.
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  Speaker 1: Soccer continues to be a big deal, and the President
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  Speaker 1: actually is given credit for bringing soccer to the United
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  Speaker 1: States World Cup, including Canada and Mexico the first time
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  Speaker 1: all three of three countries are hosting. And so the
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  Speaker 1: United States made the Sweet sixteen. So it's only happened
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  Speaker 1: once before, and it's a pretty good team to say
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  Speaker 1: the least. Okay, I want to finish up with the
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  Speaker 1: story that I was just doing before the break, and
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  Speaker 1: it has to do with a bunker that was built
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  Speaker 1: in nineteen thirty nine by Adolf Hitler. It's a Hitler
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  Speaker 1: story and it was a big deal. It was the
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  Speaker 1: first He called it the first structure of the new
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  Speaker 1: Great Germany and it was well, it was a massive building.
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  Speaker 2: Let me say about that. I mean, did I you know,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know why that's doing that?
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  Speaker 1: All right, buddy, Yeah, I'm fine. It's just my phone's
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  Speaker 1: doing something weird, even though it's on make noise. In
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  Speaker 1: any case, there is a developer that has been given
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  Speaker 1: permission to tear up that bunker and build an apartment
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  Speaker 1: building there. And there is a fight going on between
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  Speaker 1: preservationists who are saying, this is history. We cannot destroy
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  Speaker 1: this bunker. And then you have the developer of course,
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  Speaker 1: and city council and people that are looking at what
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  Speaker 1: happened during the Third Reich World War two saying, you
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  Speaker 1: know what, is time to downplay this. We cannot keep
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  Speaker 1: on looking at what happened during World War two and
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  Speaker 1: keep apologizing for it. I mean, it is part of
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  Speaker 1: our history that is horrific. And it's the analogy is
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  Speaker 1: those of us who are now alive keep on apologizing
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  Speaker 1: for slavery as not just recognizing that slavery occurred over
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty years ago, but apologizing for it.
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  Speaker 1: And there's a big movement says, hey, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: let's stop apologizing.
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  Speaker 2: Remember but it's not my fault, it's not your fault.
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  Speaker 1: And the same thing is going on in Germany. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: that war ended a long time ago. The last victims
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  Speaker 1: of Germany are all basically dead. It's now time to
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  Speaker 1: put that to a lower level of importance. And also
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  Speaker 1: it has to do with Holocaust deniers that's part of
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  Speaker 1: this movement too, because here we don't deny slavery. There
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  Speaker 1: in many cases they deny the Holocaust. So crazy people
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  Speaker 1: are involved in two. But there is there is the
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  Speaker 1: conflict that is going on, and it is going on
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  Speaker 1: here because the president wants to downplace slavery. This has
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  Speaker 1: to do with the Smithsonian, a topic I did earlier.
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  Speaker 1: Wants to downplace slavery. I mean recognize that it happened,
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  Speaker 1: just not bring it to the level of importance that
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  Speaker 1: it is now. The Smithsonian brings it to that level.
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  Speaker 1: His accusation that that is revision is history. And so
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  Speaker 1: this goes on all over the world. And by the way,
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  Speaker 1: just a quick one about where Hitler killed himself. It
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  Speaker 1: is now a parking lot. That's it. It's a straight
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  Speaker 1: out parking lot. There's not a plaque, there's nothing there
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  Speaker 1: for fear that it becomes a monument and the crazy
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  Speaker 1: people go out and they make it a big, big deal.
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  Speaker 1: So the Chancellory is gone. There are still a couple
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  Speaker 1: of buildings that are still there from World War Two,
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  Speaker 1: for example, the Air Force. That building is still there
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  Speaker 1: that was part of the Nazi Air Force, and I
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  Speaker 1: think it's an office building now that I think it's
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  Speaker 1: some governmental agency. Okay, we're done, guys, Gary and Shannon. Next, boy,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: this has been Today's been a pretty good show. I've
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: enjoyed today, I agree, Yeah, not bad, not bad. I'll
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: usually I enjoy talking history. History is certainly my wheelhouse. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: coming up, Gary and Shannon. We're back again tomorrow, the
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: whole crew as usual. This is uh, don't know. Is
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: Cono back tomorrow?
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  Speaker 2: We don't know.
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  Speaker 1: At this point.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: I don't know where Anne is. She's been talking to Cono.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Amy.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: Do you know if Cona's coming back tomorrow?
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: I do not. It's a mystery all it's a mystery within,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: enigma within. Okay, we're coming back tomorrow. This is KFI
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  Speaker 1: A M sixty. You've been listening to The Bill Handle Show.
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