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Fear Over Another ‘Forever War’ | Oil Prices Spike · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 3: Forty Bill Handle, Good morning everybody. It is a Monday morning,
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  Speaker 3: March ninth. Obviously a lot going on. The ward continues.
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  Speaker 3: Stock market is down right now six hundred and fifty points.
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  Speaker 3: The now oil is up like crazy. I'll be talking
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  Speaker 3: about that coming up seven to twenty. Also, quick reminder
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  Speaker 2: Sorry.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously, what's going on with the war is affecting everybody,
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  Speaker 3: but in Southern California, the war is affecting us the most.
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  Speaker 2: I would argue.
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  Speaker 3: First of all, we have one hundred and fifty seven
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  Speaker 3: thousand active duty military personnel in military communities across the state,
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  Speaker 3: more so in Southern California. Camp Pendleton, the largest marine
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  Speaker 3: base is in Southern California. The Pacific Fleet for the
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  Speaker 3: most part in many ways, is in San Pedro. I
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  Speaker 3: think it's the Abraham Lincoln is based out of San Pedro,
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  Speaker 3: the aircraft carrier. And the biggest Iranian community in the
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  Speaker 3: United States is Los Angeles. Matter of fact, the biggest
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  Speaker 3: Iranian community outside of Iran anywhere in the world is
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  Speaker 3: Los Angeles. And the fear that I have, and we
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  Speaker 3: saw this before during the original attacks Iran had in
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  Speaker 3: nineteen seventy nine when they took over the Mula is
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  Speaker 3: the current government. The regime took over Iran with the
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  Speaker 3: Iatola Humani. Then the Iranians in this country got a
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  Speaker 3: lot of grief in the various wars that happened. To remember,
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  Speaker 3: the Iranians that we have here left, they escaped from
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  Speaker 3: that regime, many of them in nineteen seventy nine, and
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  Speaker 3: to then attack them and they were harassed. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: they couldn't even say they're Iranian. They had to say
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  Speaker 3: they were Persian. Hopefully that Americans would know the difference.
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  Speaker 3: And the good news is that for the most part,
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  Speaker 3: we are such idiots that we don't know the difference.
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  Speaker 2: Oh you're Persian. Oh at least you're not Iranian, Thank goodness.
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  Speaker 3: Because of the anti Iranian feeling, and I hope, boy,
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  Speaker 3: I sure hope that doesn't happen. Because of all the
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  Speaker 3: people that are as against the regime, there are enemies
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  Speaker 3: of the regime who think the worst of the regime
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  Speaker 3: and who would escape with their lives are Iranians. So
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  Speaker 3: I hope we don't hear a lot of anti Iranian sentiment.
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  Speaker 3: We have not yet, but then this thing is only
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  Speaker 3: a week and a half old, and so it's going
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  Speaker 3: to be very rough for us here in southern California.
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  Speaker 2: Also, the attacks on the.
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  Speaker 3: Oil facilities and the shutting down of the straight or
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  Speaker 3: horror moves affects us more so than any other state.
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  Speaker 2: And why is that?
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  Speaker 3: Because already gasoline is the most expensive state in the
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  Speaker 3: Union by far. Have you seen and when Amy reports
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  Speaker 3: that the national average for gasoline has gone up from
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  Speaker 3: what three dollars and forty five cents to three dollars
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  Speaker 3: and seventy five cents a gallon, but we start laughing.
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  Speaker 3: We pray for it to only be three dollars and
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  Speaker 3: seventy five cents a gallon. Amy, do we have any
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  Speaker 3: figures of what it currently is in California?
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  Speaker 2: I know, I'm just throwing this out at you.
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  Speaker 4: Yes we do. In La it's five point twenty five
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  Speaker 4: a gallon in La County. In California overall, it's five
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  Speaker 4: twenty a gallon. And so the national average is three
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  Speaker 4: forty eight.
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  Speaker 2: What does that mean?
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  Speaker 3: That means that look look at the amount of money
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  Speaker 3: that we pay, and it's all taxes of course, and
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  Speaker 3: also the different blends that we have in the fact
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  Speaker 3: that we don't have any refineries because they don't build
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  Speaker 3: them for a whole bunch of reasons, reasons. But the
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  Speaker 3: bottom line is, as this same continues, Southern California, California
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  Speaker 3: and southern California is going to be hit the worse,
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  Speaker 3: and so be prepared.
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  Speaker 2: We're in for quite a ride, to say the least.
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  Speaker 2: All right, coming up.
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  Speaker 3: Oil prices there are what over one hundred dollars a barrel.
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  Speaker 3: I mean that changes a minute to minute because it's
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  Speaker 3: a commodity. It's a world commodity, much like pork bellies.
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  Speaker 3: Matter of fact, let's do this whenever we report amy
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  Speaker 3: when you report on oil prices, the price of oil,
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  Speaker 3: which is the same all over the world because it's
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  Speaker 3: olden dollars. Please connect that with pork bellies, also a commodity.
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  Speaker 2: It's the second week.
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  Speaker 3: Of the war, which of course is disrupting everything all
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  Speaker 3: over the world. There is a new Supreme leader, no surprise,
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  Speaker 3: that was named in Iran, and he is following the
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  Speaker 3: footsteps of his father, the old Supreme leader, who is
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  Speaker 3: is completely dead, and so there is a new one
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  Speaker 3: basically out of the same cloth, cut from the same cloth,
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  Speaker 3: mochtaba homina. And at first it we many people thought
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  Speaker 3: that would be less of a hard liner, more of
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  Speaker 3: a quote moderate, although moderate in that part of the world.
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  Speaker 3: In Iran is very different than a moderate than what
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  Speaker 3: we define as moderate. But nope, nope, they're going balls
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  Speaker 3: to the wall is what they're doing now. Of course,
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  Speaker 3: because the straight up four moves has been closed down.
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  Speaker 3: Iran has done that.
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  Speaker 2: Straight farm Moves, which.
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  Speaker 3: Is on one side is Iranian. On the other side
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  Speaker 3: I think is Oman. It's twenty miles wide, twenty four
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  Speaker 3: miles wide, which goes from into the Arabian Sea from
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  Speaker 3: the Gulf, and this is where twenty percent of the
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  Speaker 3: world's oil goes through.
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  Speaker 2: Because you have all.
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  Speaker 3: Of the Mid East state that produce oil are around
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  Speaker 3: that part, and then the shipping happens through the Gulf
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  Speaker 3: relatively over through the Strait relatively easy to just shut
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  Speaker 3: it down, and that's exactly what has happened. The Iranians
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  Speaker 3: have shut it down while this is going on. So
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  Speaker 3: that plus the oil shortage, which it will be happening,
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  Speaker 3: well it's already. You've got tankers all over the world
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  Speaker 3: that are just stopped right now, just they're going no place.
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  Speaker 3: And so oil prices went above one hundred and ten
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  Speaker 3: dollars a barrel has they're now at about one hundred
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  Speaker 3: dollars a barrel.
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  Speaker 2: And when you talk about oil it's a world commodity.
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  Speaker 3: It is sold and bought in dollars, and so the
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  Speaker 3: price at one hundred dollars a barrel is it's the
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  Speaker 3: first time in almost four years that it is.
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  Speaker 2: More than that.
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  Speaker 3: Oil is now being to New York Times about fifty
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  Speaker 3: percent more expensive than the before the attack on February
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  Speaker 3: twenty eighth, So it's gained about fifty percent. Amy reported
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  Speaker 3: it was about thirty percent more. But in any case,
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  Speaker 3: it is a whole lot. Asia stocks fell six percent.
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  Speaker 3: In South Korea, a six percent drop in the stock
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  Speaker 3: market is astronomical. I mean, think of this. We're at
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  Speaker 3: forty thousand. What would a six percent drop be twenty
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  Speaker 3: four hundred points in one day. I mean, that's pretty catastrophic.
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  Speaker 3: Japan five percent. And so President Trump said in a
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  Speaker 3: post on truth Social now he has gone from We're
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  Speaker 3: going to lower prices, that's a guarantee to all of
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  Speaker 3: a sudden, whoops, prices have gone up. And he said
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  Speaker 3: the higher oil prices are short term and they were
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  Speaker 3: a small price to pay for USA world safety and peace.
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  Speaker 3: Oh there's an argument there because at some point, at
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  Speaker 3: some point, Iran had to be shut down. I know
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  Speaker 3: those people that say it's not well, Trump said we
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  Speaker 3: don't want to get into foreign wars, and there are plenty
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  Speaker 3: of people that say there was no eminent danger to us. Well,
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  Speaker 3: the bottom line is when do you wait? This is
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  Speaker 3: where did a little bit of controversy. When do you
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  Speaker 3: wait for Iran? Do you wait until they have their
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  Speaker 3: nuclear weapon because you know they've been working on it.
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  Speaker 3: Do you wait until they manufacture several thousand more ballistic
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  Speaker 3: missiles or missiles short term, medium range, short range, medium range,
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  Speaker 3: long range ballistic missiles which you can't advirtually impossible to
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  Speaker 3: defend against as they're moving ahead. I mean, and you
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  Speaker 3: have a government, the religious regime that has held bent
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  Speaker 3: on destroying us, Death to America, Death to America, virtually
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  Speaker 3: every rally. So at what point do you say, he's
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  Speaker 3: got to happen? And up to this point, there's been
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  Speaker 3: no president that's willing to do it, and so we
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  Speaker 3: run who they're a bunch of liars. Anyway, we promised
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  Speaker 3: to do this, we promised to do that, to do that,
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  Speaker 3: and it doesn't happen.
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  Speaker 2: So I believe that.
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  Speaker 3: It had to happen, and I believe that it was
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  Speaker 3: the president who's the only president had the balls to
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  Speaker 3: make it happen.
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  Speaker 2: Now there's an issue, did he have the right to
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  Speaker 2: do it.
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  Speaker 3: Without consulting with Congress, because Congress is the only entity
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  Speaker 3: according to the Constitution, only Congress can declare a war.
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  Speaker 3: And then there's been playing around, well, there is no
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  Speaker 3: war because there's no war has been declared, and therefore
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  Speaker 3: the president is ordering all these troops and the attacks
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  Speaker 3: in a not war war. Even though we may call
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  Speaker 3: it a war, it's not a war because the Constitution
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  Speaker 3: says it's only a war when Congress declares it's a war.
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  Speaker 3: As looted and stupid, is that sound? That's exactly the
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  Speaker 3: way it goes. And it's not just Congress. The Republicans
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  Speaker 3: all lining up and saying, oh, yeah, the president has
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  Speaker 3: the right to do this.
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  Speaker 2: This has been going on forever.
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  Speaker 3: Bill Clinton and Lyndon Johnson and George Bush, George W.
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  Speaker 2: And George H. W.
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  Speaker 3: Bush just made these decisions to attack without Congress. Now
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  Speaker 3: after the fact, Congress went ahead and allowed. And this
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  Speaker 3: last argument with Congress is not whether or not the
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  Speaker 3: president should or should not, is should there be a
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  Speaker 3: War Powers Act passed into law, which means the president
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  Speaker 3: within thirty days has to go to Congress and ask
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  Speaker 3: for a resolution.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, that was shut.
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  Speaker 3: Down because the Republicans control the Senate as well as
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  Speaker 3: the House, and Mike Johnson, who jumps up and down
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  Speaker 3: and does anything that the President said, we don't need it.
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  Speaker 2: We just don't need it. It is just not necessary. Right.
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  Speaker 2: The bottom line is what's.
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  Speaker 3: Going to happen. Well, oil is gonna go up. The
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  Speaker 3: price here in California is crazy. As I said earlier
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  Speaker 3: Amy and was jumping in national average is what three
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  Speaker 3: forty seven a gallon now for gasoline? Can you imagine
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  Speaker 3: if it was only three forty seven for us. It's
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  Speaker 3: five point twenty for us, and it's going up. Kno,
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  Speaker 3: you're gonna go nuts with the driving that you do.
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  Speaker 3: You're gonna go absolutely nuts. We should actually we should
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  Speaker 3: just start a go fundme campaign just to pay for
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  Speaker 3: gas for you, just to help you out with gasoline.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it is pretty crazy out there, So be
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  Speaker 3: prepared for some rough times. And one thing you're not
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  Speaker 3: gonna hear this administration is talking about how prices have
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  Speaker 3: come down. I don't think you're gonna hear that much
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  Speaker 3: of that. You're gonna hear that prices have gone up,
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  Speaker 3: but it's only a blip. It's only for a short
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  Speaker 3: period of time. Well, right now, if the election were held,
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  Speaker 3: if the midterms were now, how much do you think
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  Speaker 3: the Republicans would be slaughtered by? Electively speaking? I think
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  Speaker 3: the Democrats would clean their clocks right now. And we'll
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  Speaker 3: see what happens, because we're gonna be talking a lot
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  Speaker 3: about midterms coming up. Okay, I want to share with you. Well, first,
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  Speaker 3: all the Olympics is over, as you know, the Paralympics
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  Speaker 3: is going on right now, and I was watching opening
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  Speaker 3: ceremonies in some of the events with Lindsey, my wife,
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  Speaker 3: and it's for her. It's particularly poignant and important because
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  Speaker 3: she is effectively a Paralympic. She is handicapped in a
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  Speaker 3: couple of ways, not only Mary to me big handicap,
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  Speaker 3: but also she has something called CRPS, which is a
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  Speaker 3: pain syndrome, and no she lives in pain twenty four
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  Speaker 3: to seven and it's a pretty horrible condition to have,
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  Speaker 3: and so part of the time she's in a wheelchair
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  Speaker 3: when the pain is extensive. Most of the time she's not,
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  Speaker 3: and long distances are tough for her. So you'll never
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  Speaker 3: see in her wheelchair, but she does and so for her,
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  Speaker 3: Paralympics are particularly important. Oh, by the way, she plugs.
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  Speaker 3: She has a podcast that talks about pain and trauma
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  Speaker 3: and season four is opening up or it's being released,
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  Speaker 3: and it's The Pain Game Podcasts. For those people that
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  Speaker 3: are in pain or existed have trauma in their lives
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  Speaker 3: that go to the Pain Game Podcasts. And by the way,
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  Speaker 3: if you have a podcast you would like to pitch,
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  Speaker 3: it's not going to happen here because you're not married
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  Speaker 3: to me. Okay, So let me tell you how depressing
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  Speaker 3: it was last night as I was watching with her,
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  Speaker 3: and she was almost crying in a couple of different ways.
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  Speaker 3: We watch the opening ceremonies really impressive, and it was
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  Speaker 3: in Verona. The arena in Verona a couple thousand years
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  Speaker 3: old and it's in perfect shape, and it was so
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  Speaker 3: the opening ceremonies were there and it was about as
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  Speaker 3: good as the opening ceremonies of the regular Olympics. And
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  Speaker 3: the depressing part was the fact that the stadium, the
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  Speaker 3: arena was half empty. Can you imagine opening ceremonies of
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  Speaker 3: an Olympic event half empty? And even though the television,
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  Speaker 3: the cameras try to stay away from that and just
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  Speaker 3: broadcast the parts that the areas that were full. It
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  Speaker 3: couldn't be helped because every area of the arena was
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  Speaker 3: half empty. And you're thinking, really, or we were thinking, really,
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  Speaker 3: is that how unimportant the para Olympics are. And one
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  Speaker 3: of the things about the Paralympics, and maybe people still
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  Speaker 3: feel that the Paralympics, you're sorry for these folks and
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  Speaker 3: you know they're you know, they're handicapped, and they don't
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  Speaker 3: have arms, they don't have legs, and they're skiing on
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  Speaker 3: one leg, they're skiing on no legs, they're skiing upside down, sideways,
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  Speaker 3: and how difficult it is. Now imagine how difficult it
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  Speaker 3: is to ski at a world class level with both
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  Speaker 3: legs and both arms with the poles. Can you imagine
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  Speaker 3: skiing at world class level in a world class level
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  Speaker 3: sport with one arm, with.
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  Speaker 2: One leg.
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  Speaker 3: Being a paraplegic. And that's what's so extraordinary about these athletes.
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  Speaker 3: And there were a couple that were a couple events
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  Speaker 3: that I just couldn't believe no arms, no legs, no head,
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  Speaker 3: and that it was an extraordinary event. And there was
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  Speaker 3: no place to actually even hang the medal because there
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  Speaker 3: was no neck either. Okay, come on, guys, quit shaking
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  Speaker 3: your head, all right. As much as I'm making fun
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  Speaker 3: of the Paralympics, I mean I make fun of everything
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  Speaker 3: and everybody. So for those of you that were offended,
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  Speaker 3: are offended by the fun I'm making of the Paralympics.
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  Speaker 3: I don't have an email, so don't even bother. However,
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  Speaker 3: Anne does and you could email her and scream about me.
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  Speaker 3: But I want to go back to watching the Paralympics
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  Speaker 3: last night and how depressing it was. Not depressing about
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  Speaker 3: the athletes. These athletes I'm going to get into in
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  Speaker 3: a moment are absolutely world class. I mean it is
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  Speaker 3: that simple.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 3: The handicap almost doesn't matter how good they are. The
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  Speaker 3: depressing part was watching the opening ceremonies, which were tremendous,
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  Speaker 3: and the arena in Verona was half empty. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: how you have a half empty arena on opening ceremonies
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  Speaker 3: for an Olympic event. Now, the Paralympics are a different
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  Speaker 3: organization than the Olympics. They're not connected, and the Special
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  Speaker 3: Olympics are even also a different group. The Special Olympics
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  Speaker 3: are those cognitively cognitively cognitively disabled, and there are folks
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  Speaker 3: who don't have the same cognitive powers. I'm trying to
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  Speaker 3: figure out a proper way of saying that the Paralympics
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  Speaker 3: are people who are handicapped and they're not well.
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  Speaker 2: They are, but again they're not.
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  Speaker 3: For example, the Paralympics, how many events there are seventy
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  Speaker 3: nine events metal events in six sports, pair of alpine skiing,
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  Speaker 3: pair of biathlon, pair of cross country skiing, pair of
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  Speaker 3: ice hockey, pair of snowboard, wheelchair curling. And again I
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  Speaker 3: want to point out that these are extraordinary athletes. You
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  Speaker 3: know a lot of people think, oh, they're handicapped. Oh
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  Speaker 3: they're in a wheelchair. Hey, guys, this is as hard
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  Speaker 3: and the training is as much and the events I
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  Speaker 3: think are even more difficult. For example, how about this
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  Speaker 3: site impaired skiing downhill racing for people who can't see.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you look at that and you go, wow,
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  Speaker 3: how do they do that? Well, there is a guide
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  Speaker 3: in front of each skier who on a speaker is
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  Speaker 3: talking to the skier and going to turn left, turn left.
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  Speaker 2: A mogul.
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  Speaker 3: Here, you're near the you're too close to the flag.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, can you imagine skiing like that? And can
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  Speaker 3: you imagine skiing like that on a world class level?
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  Speaker 3: And I'll tell you something else that is a shame,
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  Speaker 3: that is horrific is that there's no play play to
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  Speaker 3: play announcement. There is no announcer talking about what you're seeing.
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  Speaker 3: All you do is see the event. And usually it's
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  Speaker 3: whenever you see an Olympic sport, what you're saying, you're
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  Speaker 3: seeing an announcer and then you're seeing an expert who
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  Speaker 3: has probably who usually has won a medal, a gold
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  Speaker 3: medal in that event in previous Para Olympics or previous Olympics.
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  Speaker 3: They don't do that with a Paralympics. How can they
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: not do that? I just don't get it. I just
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: don't get it. Appreciating what these people do and how
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: good they are. And let's talk about their handicap, right,
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: they are handicapped, but not in the sense of their
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: physical ability. The handicap is figuring out the level of
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: their handicap and including that.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: There's a formula that they put in.
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: It's like golfing, where you have a handicap so everybody's
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: on an even keel. That's what happens in the Paralympics.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: Included into figuring out times and events is this handicap
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: factor which makes it an even playing field. I mean,
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: it's complicated stuff, but to watch it, to watch these
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: athletes go at it, and they're the first ones that
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: will tell you, hey, you know, we haven't practiced a
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: lifetime like Olympic athletes to not appreciate what they do.
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: So I think it's even more exciting to see what
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: they do. Yesterday I watched the skiing event, the downhill,
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: the blind skiing, the downhill racing, and a couple of
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: people like, no, and they're on one leg in their
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: skiing down or they have one pole because they don't
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: have a hand, or they're blind. That we saw our
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: vision impaired. And the curling in the wheelchair that's I
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: think that's about the same. And you know whether I
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: mean curling is curling, but you have basketball not in
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: the Winter Olympics from the court in wheelchairs.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: Man, that one isn't easy. Now, the one.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: Sport I think they should have is a wheelchair water
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: polo where everybody sinks because those wheelchairs don't float. I
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: should be involved in managing these things because.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: I was wondering when this was gonna turn south?
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: How can I do an event without a turning south?
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: Give me a break. This is the Handle Show. Okay,
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: we're done. We're done, and you're missing out a lot
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: if you don't watch these games. And it's a shanda
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: that half of the arena was empty. And it's not
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: like Verona. It's not like you're gonna associate which is
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: up in the forefron Lands and you're going to the
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: North Pole and there's nothing there to see. This is Verona,
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: for God's sake. I got married in Verona. At some point,
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: gonna move to Verona and get a place. Lindsay is
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: going next year just to look around. I don't know
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: when I'm gonna end up not being here anymore. It's
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: too much fun making fun of people making fun of you.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: All right, we're done.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: Coming up.
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: High schools are losing the struggle. What in terms of education? No? No,
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: in terms of pot smoking and class. And I'll share
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: that with you when we come back. KF I am
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: six point forty.
• 24:14
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