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Handel on the News · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from kf I
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  Speaker 1: A M six forty.
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  Speaker 2: Don't don't judge me that much, or go ahead and
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  Speaker 2: judge me because you do anyway, bastards.
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  Speaker 1: And now handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen. Here's
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  Speaker 1: Bill Handle. Hey, good morning everybody, Bill Handle.
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  Speaker 2: Here it is a Thursday morning.
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  Speaker 1: Here we go. The week is almost over, and good
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  Speaker 1: morning to all of you out there.
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  Speaker 2: Amy, you're wearing a Christmas sweater a reindeer.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I can't know. I can't. Oh, they're Oh.
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  Speaker 2: It's one of those whatever the hell you call those
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  Speaker 2: Christmas Yeah, it's really it's really good.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is excellent. Wait, you should post that. Have
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  Speaker 1: you already posted?
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  Speaker 3: We post because you know, we.
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  Speaker 4: Have our Christmas party and they have an ugly sweater
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  Speaker 4: contest and look it even has a couple of years.
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  Speaker 2: Oh wow, you know, tell me a little bit about
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  Speaker 2: this Christmas party?
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  Speaker 1: Is it a kfi iHeart thing? Because I never get.
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  Speaker 3: Invited because you don't read your email.
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  Speaker 1: I actually I don't think. I don't have an email address.
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  Speaker 3: Could explain it.
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  Speaker 1: I do not have an email.
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  Speaker 3: That's where the invitations were sent out. Uh.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, okay, I'm sure you're invited, Bill handle.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know when.
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  Speaker 3: When is it today?
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  Speaker 4: I get eleven, which is why I'm wearing the ugly
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  Speaker 4: sweater as in eleven o'clock in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I didn't know that. And so what kind of
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  Speaker 1: food are they going to have that they traded for?
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  Speaker 2: Because they'll actually spend any money, so it's all trade for.
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  Speaker 1: Well this way, what kind of commercials?
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  Speaker 2: What commercial products are we now hustling?
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  Speaker 3: Well, let's see, it's Prania. I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: It's his fun activities, delicious food, open bar and raffle prices.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, open bar, Shasta Cola. Okay, you won't.
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  Speaker 1: See any name brand open bar. Well, they can't.
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  Speaker 2: They can't have anybody drink because that's out of the question.
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  Speaker 5: No, they've had people drink at it those things before,
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  Speaker 5: haven't they.
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  Speaker 1: No, No, they don't do alcohol.
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  Speaker 3: You've got to sign a waiver.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even think signing waivers though.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think here's a problem with soft drink station.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I think it's open soft drinks because here's
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  Speaker 2: the problem with alcohol, and this is a legal issue,
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  Speaker 2: is that the station is responsible for under the Drama Act.
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  Speaker 2: If someone gets drunk and goes out and kills someone.
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  Speaker 2: It gets legally a little bit sticky. So no, when
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  Speaker 2: I have a party, there's no alcohol. But that's more
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  Speaker 2: a question of spending money on alcohol than anything else.
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  Speaker 1: And we cut a deal. Oh, my little one, is.
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  Speaker 6: Your budget is pretty much drank up by your wife.
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  Speaker 2: No, my budget is calling up everybody I've ever known
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  Speaker 2: and seeing if I can get it for free. And
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  Speaker 2: someone's on someone have to mute by the way over there.
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  Speaker 2: That's great, all right, So there's Amy, there's Neil con O,
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  Speaker 2: good morning, Good morning Bill, and Will the coleschreiber Man.
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  Speaker 1: How are you? Good morning, Bill, don't feel bad. I
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  Speaker 1: was not invited either.
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  Speaker 2: Good that makes me and you have an email address
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  Speaker 2: which is even better.
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  Speaker 1: And good morning Anne.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning.
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  Speaker 1: Okay you say that was that was my next question?
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  Speaker 1: All right?
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  Speaker 6: And is not an open bar?
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  Speaker 1: That's correct? Neil, are you going it? No? You and I?
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  Speaker 2: Okay?
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  Speaker 6: At noon?
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  Speaker 1: Okay? Cono? Are you going no chance? See this is a.
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  Speaker 3: H Yes, I'll be representing the morning.
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  Speaker 1: You'll be representing everybody with your ugly sweater.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, yesterday we were talking about Africa. I'm
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  Speaker 2: trying to put together African African trips like a bucket
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  Speaker 2: list trip, you know, once in a lifetime, and I
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  Speaker 2: have gone, but Linz is not.
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  Speaker 1: So we're thinking of going to Africa.
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  Speaker 2: And we talked about a balloon ride over the Massai
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  Speaker 2: Mara or the Serengetti which you took, which is a
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  Speaker 2: magic ride, and I said, I don't want to be
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  Speaker 2: with twenty people in balloon. So I got quoted yesterday
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  Speaker 2: a private balloon ride for two people. And when the
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  Speaker 2: quote came in, I called them back and said, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: you don't understand. I just want to ride in the balloon.
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  Speaker 2: I'd rather I'm not buying the balloon. And okay, and
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  Speaker 2: the people that weren't there get like two dollars a month,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the folks that work at these camps.
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  Speaker 5: So anyway, well, basically, wouldn't you be paying like they're
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  Speaker 5: supposed to be twenty people on it, wouldn't you be?
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  Speaker 1: No, No, they have have smaller balloons.
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  Speaker 2: It depends on the size of the basket and the
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  Speaker 2: size of the balloon itself.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, how much was the envelope? Come on, you know what?
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  Speaker 3: I dollars ten though?
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, no, it.
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  Speaker 2: Was no, no, no, no, no, it's I think it
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  Speaker 2: was between two and three thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 1: But that is still a fortune.
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  Speaker 3: That's why you go with ten or twenty people.
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  Speaker 2: Because yeah, because then Acosta then a costa four five
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  Speaker 2: hundred dollars each.
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  Speaker 3: It's worth it.
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  Speaker 1: No, I'm going, There's no question I'm going.
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  Speaker 2: I just don't want to be with a bunch of
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  Speaker 2: unwashed people that are getting airsick and puking all over me.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody got sick and puked. Well. When I went on
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  Speaker 3: my brow.
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  Speaker 2: And the last one that I did go on with
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  Speaker 2: twenty people on it, there was a Korean pilot who
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  Speaker 2: thought he was a comedian and he was doing nothing
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  Speaker 2: but bad jokes in a Korean accent. He was a
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  Speaker 2: Korean who immigrated to Africa. Very strange anyway. So I'm
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  Speaker 2: trying to figure out. I'm trying to put together and
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. It's getting it's getting a little pricey,
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  Speaker 2: but it is a it is a once in a lifetime,
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  Speaker 2: it's a bucket list thing.
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  Speaker 1: So I'll report more later on.
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  Speaker 5: I think funny the way you spend money or where
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  Speaker 5: you don't spend money, it's weird to me.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: How is that? How is that not?
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  Speaker 6: I mean you will never remember that cost versus the memory?
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  Speaker 1: Oh yes I will. Oh I can tell you exactly
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  Speaker 1: how much.
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  Speaker 2: I can tell you what a meal costs me when
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  Speaker 2: I went out twenty two years ago to a restaurant
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  Speaker 2: in Italy or in France.
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  Speaker 5: I once paid fifteen hundred dollars to have real snow,
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  Speaker 5: well man made snow put in my front yard for
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  Speaker 5: Christmas Eve for my nephews and nieces.
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  Speaker 1: Very cool. Wow, that is cool.
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  Speaker 6: I want this Christmas of the year now.
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  Speaker 2: I once spend fifteen high dollars on snow, but not
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  Speaker 2: quite the same snow as you're described me during law school.
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  Speaker 1: Matter of fact, we went out in the front yard.
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  Speaker 2: I put that in a mirror, took my razor blade
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  Speaker 2: and cut it up. All right, enough, guys, will I
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  Speaker 2: did say good I did say good morning to you,
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  Speaker 2: didn't I good morning?
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  Speaker 1: I have to tell you you're.
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  Speaker 2: The memory is you are etched in my memory?
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  Speaker 1: You really are? Okay, guys, let's do it.
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  Speaker 2: It's time for handle on the news on this Thursday morning,
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  Speaker 2: Amy Neil and me and lead story.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I no surprise. Yesterday the Fed.
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  Speaker 2: Did cut interest rates, although again it's usually it's a
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  Speaker 2: not unanimous.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't.
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  Speaker 2: There definitely is dissension in the FED and the chair
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  Speaker 2: said that he is looking at rate cuts because, uh,
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  Speaker 2: the economy needs some help.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm going to do a story later on.
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  Speaker 2: That really talks about what the job rate is and
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  Speaker 2: it's it's sobering, it really is, and it has to.
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  Speaker 1: Do with or I think maybe later on in the news,
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  Speaker 1: it has to do with.
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  Speaker 2: Under stating the unemployed, the unemployment numbers, and there are
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  Speaker 2: a lot of politics there.
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  Speaker 3: All right, get out, that's the order from a judge.
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  Speaker 4: They said any remaining National Guard troops in Los Angeles
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  Speaker 4: need to leave, and also the control of the National
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  Speaker 4: Guard needs to go back to the state. This was
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  Speaker 4: from District Court Judge Charles Bryer in San Francisco, granting
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  Speaker 4: a preliminary injunction against the use of the National Guard
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  Speaker 4: troops by the Trump administration to secure federal buildings and
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  Speaker 4: protect federal officers following the immigration raid protests.
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  Speaker 2: Back in mind, I will tell you what's going to
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  Speaker 2: happen on this one. Of course, the Feds are instantly
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  Speaker 2: appealing it. It's going to go up to Supreme Court
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  Speaker 2: this many other issues, and if you look at this
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  Speaker 2: court has done, this Court has viewed the presidency, not
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  Speaker 2: necessarily the Trump's presidency, the presidency of having virtually unbridled power.
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  Speaker 2: If the president calls an emergency, it is an emergency.
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  Speaker 2: During one of the previous ones where the president was
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  Speaker 2: arguing he is immune from prosecution, and the Supreme Court
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  Speaker 2: said he is completely immune from prosecution. And Kagan asks
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  Speaker 2: the Solicitor General, who is arguing complete immunity, does that
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  Speaker 2: mean that the president can order the assassination of a
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  Speaker 2: rival based on his declaration that it's national security? And
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  Speaker 2: he said, yes, the president has absolute immunity power as
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  Speaker 2: long as he's arguing that it's some kind of national
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  Speaker 2: emergency and he decides what it is. You know, this
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  Speaker 2: is reminiscent during Watergate John Mitchell, who was the Attorney
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  Speaker 2: General of the United States who was grabbing money in
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  Speaker 2: cash for creepe the committee to re elect the president,
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  Speaker 2: and he said straight out when he was asked.
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  Speaker 1: You are the attorney general of this country.
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  Speaker 2: Do you believe that the laws are subservient to the
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  Speaker 2: president getting elected?
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  Speaker 1: He said absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: Richard Nixon getting re elected is more important than any
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  Speaker 2: law in this country. He did four years, by the
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  Speaker 2: way for that one. All right, he's going to have
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  Speaker 2: the ability to call to bring out the troops simply
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  Speaker 2: because he says, I think this is an emergency. There's
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  Speaker 2: a demonstration. I think it's an emergency because it's his call.
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  Speaker 2: Is the way it's being interpreted.
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  Speaker 5: This is where we could really use some compromise. You've
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  Speaker 5: got the Senate poised to reject legislation to extend the
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  Speaker 5: Affordable Care Act, the tax credits there for millions.
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  Speaker 6: Of Americans, and they've been going back and forth.
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  Speaker 5: Even you know, you have Senator Tom Tills till Us
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  Speaker 5: rather of North Carolina. He was trying to push Republicans
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  Speaker 5: fellow Republicans to extend the tax credits for a short time.
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  Speaker 5: He says, it's too complicated, too difficult to get done
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  Speaker 5: in the limited time we have left. And the hope
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  Speaker 5: was to kind of push it so they could get
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  Speaker 5: some sort of compromise.
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  Speaker 1: But alas it's dead.
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  Speaker 2: Nope, nope, nope, And yes, if the Republicans don't come
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  Speaker 2: to the table, this is a deal breaker because people
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  Speaker 2: are going to start getting their bills for insurance after
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  Speaker 2: January first, it's going to smash them right in the head,
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  Speaker 2: and the Republicans will get the blame for it.
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  Speaker 1: There's no questions about it.
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  Speaker 5: To Amy this morning on wake up call, I think
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  Speaker 5: she nailed. She said it's political suicide. For that, I
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  Speaker 5: think it is, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, I think it doesn't make any sense to me.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, it's settled.
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  Speaker 4: Two colleges, UC Berkeley and Pomona College have reached settlement
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  Speaker 4: agreements with Jewish groups or individuals who filed complaints about
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  Speaker 4: alleged anti Semitism that stemmed from the pro Palestinian protests
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  Speaker 4: in twenty twenty three and twenty four. One of them
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  Speaker 4: is Yayil Native. Don't even know if I'm saying that correctly.
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  Speaker 1: She yay you.
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  Speaker 4: She was a visiting professor. She sued the state court,
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  Speaker 4: alleging that she got rejected because of her Israeli nationality.
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  Speaker 4: She wasn't invited to come back and teach again, even
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  Speaker 4: though she said her class was very successful. Formal campus
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  Speaker 4: investigation found that she did, in fact face discrimination. So
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  Speaker 4: they settled, and then they also settled with some Pomona College.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know even why they settled, because I think
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  Speaker 1: they had a perfect.
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  Speaker 3: Defense because they didn't want to deal with No.
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  Speaker 1: The perfect defense.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody hates the Jews, so why should we be any different?
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  Speaker 1: Well, a little self conscious here.
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  Speaker 5: It's probably more accurate to say everybody hates this Jew.
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  Speaker 1: Oh look at you, okay, all of them. No, they're good,
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  Speaker 1: most of them.
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  Speaker 2: They're good people, except one guy who you know, was
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  Speaker 2: a cabinet maker. You know, didn't make cabinets, you see,
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  Speaker 2: it was cabinet maker, the pife. He probably built houses
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  Speaker 2: with his foster father, Joseph, the same way his father,
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  Speaker 2: his foster father.
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  Speaker 1: Did well, not as I mean Joseph, his non father father.
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  Speaker 1: But I'll tell you one thing.
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  Speaker 2: The cabinets that he did build were immaculately built. I
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  Speaker 2: mean they were absolutely perfect.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, moving on, Yes, indeed, so President Donald Trump said
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  Speaker 5: just yesterday that US officials seized a very large, huge
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  Speaker 5: oil tanker. This was off the coast of Venezuela. This
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  Speaker 5: keeps escalating, and oh yeah, give me insight Bill as
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  Speaker 5: to where this is.
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  Speaker 6: No, this is it's just this sheer punishment for the.
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  Speaker 1: President is right.
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  Speaker 2: Maduro is as sleazy as the President says he is.
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  Speaker 2: The guy is corrupt beyond corrupt, is in bed with
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  Speaker 2: all of the drug.
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  Speaker 1: Card the cartel people. The problem is what do you
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  Speaker 1: do with it?
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  Speaker 2: And he's going after Venezuela where Colombia is the problem.
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  Speaker 1: Where it really is China. The issue is fentanyl.
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  Speaker 2: There's no huge death rate from cocaine that is Colombia
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  Speaker 2: and Venezuela. It's Venezuela also is cocaine. So yeah, he's
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  Speaker 2: as splitting and they just grabbed it. You saw the
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  Speaker 2: video of the attack. I mean, you know, the helicopters,
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  Speaker 2: the Navy helicopters and the Navy personnel, the seals repelling down.
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  Speaker 1: It was it was really interesting.
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  Speaker 2: And then when he and when he was asked, he said,
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  Speaker 2: it's uh, it was a big tanker.
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  Speaker 1: No, it is the biggest tanker.
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  Speaker 3: Is said, it's the biggest tanker ever.
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  Speaker 2: That's right, the biggest tanker ever in the whole wide world.
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  Speaker 1: Bill.
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  Speaker 5: Where do we manufacture meaning in America, do we manufacture
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  Speaker 5: crack cocaine?
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  Speaker 1: Here?
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  Speaker 6: Do we get the cocaine out?
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  Speaker 4: Well?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, I think crack is there's labs that
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  Speaker 1: do it.
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  Speaker 2: But cocaine usually is in powder form when it comes
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  Speaker 2: over and then it's cut and recut and recut cocaine.
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  Speaker 6: Bigger problem than even cocaine, is right, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, if you smoke crack cocaine. I don't know. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, but it is.
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  Speaker 2: There's all these politics and racial overtones to crack cocaine,
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  Speaker 2: and it is now. I don't think it's done overseas.
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  Speaker 2: I think crack cocaine is manufacturing in the United States.
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  Speaker 2: The powder comes, powder comes over the border. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know if that helped or not, but it sure sounded,
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  Speaker 2: didn't it.
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  Speaker 3: It sounded great a win for the mountain lions. Well maybe.
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  Speaker 4: The California Department of Fish and Wildlife has recommended granting
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  Speaker 4: threatened species status to about fourteen hundred mountain lions who
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  Speaker 4: are roaming around the Central Coast and in southern California.
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  Speaker 4: They say that they want that designation because of the
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  Speaker 4: threats posed by freeways, rat poison.
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  Speaker 3: And of course wildfires.
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  Speaker 4: It's not a final say, but it does a signal
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  Speaker 4: possibility that several clans of the iconic cougars could be
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  Speaker 4: listed under California's Endangered Species Act.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I'm jumping into that at seven twenty because there are
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  Speaker 2: a lot of moving pieces on that one.
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  Speaker 3: Not everybody's happy about it.
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  Speaker 1: No, not everybody's happy.
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  Speaker 2: And then that wildlife across over the one O one
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  Speaker 2: Freeway near a gir Man.
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  Speaker 3: Open pretty soon.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it is the largest in the world and
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  Speaker 1: that's kind of neat.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's kind of pretty too, Yeah it is.
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  Speaker 2: It did a nice job with a wooden infrastructure on it.
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  Speaker 6: It was lovely. Yep, all right, this story's about as
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  Speaker 6: horrible as gets.
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  Speaker 5: You got eight members of the him High School running
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  Speaker 5: team and they are between the ages of six seeing
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  Speaker 5: seventeen years old. Eight of them were hurt. Three people
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  Speaker 5: required immediate transports, including a twenty seven year old driver
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  Speaker 5: that hit them. And it looks like it's a possible DUI.
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  Speaker 2: Hopped the plowing into plowing into a group that were
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  Speaker 2: just well running going across you know the high schools
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  Speaker 2: they have the running They were at an intersection, They
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  Speaker 2: were at an intersection and he plowed right into them.
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  Speaker 5: Wasn't there another case that was considered duy But then
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  Speaker 5: it was kind of controversial a couple of years back
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  Speaker 5: amy where someone maybe in in Los Angeles, did that
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  Speaker 5: hit a group of runners from maybe the police department.
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  Speaker 3: It was the police department they were training. Yeah, that
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  Speaker 3: was just last year.
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  Speaker 6: I think, wow, whoop.
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  Speaker 1: There goes my phone. Amy neil Me thought we lost you. No, no, no, it.
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  Speaker 4: Must be nice to have this money much money to donate.
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  Speaker 4: Jeff Bezos's ex wife, philanthropist Mackenzie Scott, has donated sixty
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  Speaker 4: three million dollars to c.
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  Speaker 3: SU Northrich All State northridch Yep.
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  Speaker 4: She donated forty million dollars to the university in twenty
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  Speaker 4: twenty one.
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  Speaker 3: So do the math.
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  Speaker 4: That's one hundred and four million dollars, the largest donation
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: in its sixty seven year history.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: She's worth a ton of money.
• 18:23
  Speaker 6: Thinky three million, a billion when she treks billion.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: When she divorced Bezos, she basically got half of the
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: stock that he had, or they got half of what
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: they both had, So it is it's obviously grown from there.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: I think she she took a chunk and took it out,
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: and she gave him all the voting rights too.
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: She doesn't vote, Yeah sixteen, she's she committed to give
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: away most of her wealth.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, unlike Bezos didn't, Ellison's didn't. You've got Warren Buffet
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: who has You have Gates who has Bill and.
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: Melinda Gates Mark, she's beautiful, She's caring and giving and rich. Yeah,
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: and I don't understand that. I never understood that divorces.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: A big deal season in the hopes that turns into
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: a school of good reputation.
• 19:16
  Speaker 6: They're trying to get the stink of the sixties out
• 19:19
  Speaker 6: of there. Are you in there in the sixties?
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: I was, Yeah, I was there in the sixties. Yeah,
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: lay trying to clean it up.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was there, sixties, early seventies, I was there.
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: This sad story. Jeff Garcia, he's a voice actor. Fifty
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: years old, died. He had complications of pneumonia and he
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: was taken off life support by his family. But he
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: was known for shows like Jimmy Neutron, which is great.
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: The voice character he plays is Sheen Estevez.
• 19:53
  Speaker 7: Does he pick up on that handel Sheen Martin, Sheen Martin,
• 19:59
  Speaker 7: Sheen Mark she and Charlietz No and his son and right,
• 20:04
  Speaker 7: yeah but they but they no, not Charlie.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: Sheen, which we didn't want to use. His dad.
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: The character's name is Sheen Estevez.
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: But he played on many different shows, Happy Feet, Barnyard, Rio,
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: Bunch of other the Proud Family, but Unfortunately he passed away.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: Right. This is a good story.
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: It's a new take on driverless delivery. A woman has
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: delivered her child in a Waimo robot robotaxi while she
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: was on the way to U SEE San Francisco Medical
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: Center to have the baby. Waimo says that it's writers
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: support team detected unusual activity in the car.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: That's kind of screaming at the top of her lungs,
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: and and she delivered it herself.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: There was no one else in the car, just her, right.
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: Nope, she was alone in the car. And then when
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: she got to the hospital, she was with her baby.
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: She beat police there.
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: Right, and she called an ambulance instead of a way
• 21:07
  Speaker 6: mom because.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: It was already on its way and someone was probably
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: talking to her and saying we're gonna you know, we're
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: changing the direction of the car. And then she went
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: into the doctor less obstruct obsetrix department of the hospital.
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: You love that and the cars, Like, if you're going
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: to have a second writer, you will have to pay more,
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: I know.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: And it's actually it's actually a terrific story. I love
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: the technology.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: When it works.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: You're going to find that driverless cars are not only
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: the future, it's also going to be and that's generational.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: I mean it's going to take twenty five years.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: But this cars and that's not only the technology, just
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: the time it'll take to switch over. But it'll be
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: far far safer, and it will you won't see gridlock.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: It just will be neat.
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: Have you taken one yet? I have not, have you, No,
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: But there wasn't all over my neighborhood.
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: Yeah, everywhere in our hood. Amy. I see them three
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: times a day easy. I've taken them a bunch of times.
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: I did it in San Francisco bunch in July, and
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: then I do it here too.
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: They take a little longer.
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: They were taking a little longer to get to hail one,
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: uh than an uber or a lyft.
• 22:21
  Speaker 6: But they're great. I love it.
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: You can even watch how on the screen how it
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: scans the area.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: Huh.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 22:30
  Speaker 6: I've taken my family and them too.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: And they speak and they speak English with nobody speaking
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: as opposed to.
• 22:37
  Speaker 6: Uber and no body od or nothing.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, none of that.
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: An uber with a body odor No, But he's thinking
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: of old taxi jokes from me.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: I am old taxi jokes. And of course one of
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: the best Seinfeld episodes ever. H with the bo from
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: the parking.
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: Oh, they couldn't get it up and they try to.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: They tried to get it stolen.
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: Okay, story Bill handle it going to remark that this
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: is vindictive, and he's going to be exactly right.
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: Holy's smokes.
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: So you've got President Donald Trump inserting himself directly, by
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: the way, into this control battle for Warner Brothers, Discovery
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: and all this. And the first thing he says is
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: it's imperative that CNN be sold.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: After he'd be rated all of.
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: Their you know, their horrible news and the Earlier in
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: the week, The Wall Street Journal reported that David Ellison
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: recently offered assurances to Trump and had his administration that
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: if he bought Warner, he'd make sweeping changes to CNN.
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: Can that be legal?
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: It can It's nothing can be legal. I mean, you
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: know you'd throw it all up. How about this one
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: for a conflict of interest?
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: Part of Paramount's purchase, their hostile bid for Warner involves
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: a fund that Kushner is up to his eyeballs in sons.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: Trump's son in law is involved in the purchase of
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: where the hostile takeover.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's all of it is crazy.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: Just you know, originally Trump was against crypto until a
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: family company was created to deal with crypto. Uh, and
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: Kushner was involved in that. Now crypto is great. Uh.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: And he is pardoning people in the crypto world that
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: have been committed, that had been convicted of massive fraud.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: It's just it's so blatant. It's just ridiculous. It is
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: so blatant.
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: This is comical though, because essentially he's going to have
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: to bless some or his administration and some of the
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: alphabet soup organizations are gonna have to bless this merger.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, it's hit, but it's.
• 24:49
  Speaker 6: See, yeah, we'll get rid of people at the CNN
• 24:54
  Speaker 6: h that.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: You know. It's just it's it's it's it's it's so insane.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: And the part, you know, who I do blame, I
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: don't even blame particularly Trump, because I think he's just nuts.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: I really think that he's a self agrid, self aggrandizing
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: who thinks he controls the world and should and he's
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: king of the world. It's the Republicans who back him up,
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: who say yes. Wall Street Journal ran an op ed Peace.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: The Journal ran an op ed piece saying, all you
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: have to do is talk about his magnificence to him.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: That's the word.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: You talk your magnificence, mister president, and you get what
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: you want. I don't understand it. I know, I keep
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: on harping on this. I do not understand it. For
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: the life of me. Someone's got to explain this to
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: me because I just don't get it.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: So, uh, we'll say.
• 25:46
  Speaker 6: Your weakness in the Republican Party.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: I yeah, there's that, but I'm talking about the backbone. Yeah,
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: there's that.
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: But the whole well that people actually follow him.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: I mean I think that there is a percentage of
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: people who are believers.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, like the people.
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: Who go against him, like you're saying, they're there, they
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: have no spine. Well, it's because that's where the attention
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: is and the people, No, it's who is.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: Marjorie Taylor Green.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: She just had a sixty minute interview and she's gone
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: somewhat against him, not some basic uh that's political views,
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: but certainly on the Epstein business and on women in
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: the Republican Republican Party being marginalized. And she was asked,
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: you know, the Republicans all line up in logstep what
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: goes on behind closed doors, and she goes, you can't
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: believe it.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: They're just so frightened.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: And number one, they're frightened, and there are tons of
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: Republicans saying, my god, are we really moving in this direction?
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: But publicly, he the president has to be backed backed up. Now,
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: wait till the midterms, and you're going to see much
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: of what happened with Joe Biden. Anybody who associated himself
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: for herself with Joe Biden politically in the Democratic Party
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: got nailed.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: And this I believe the same thing is going to
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: happen to Trump.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: And the longer the president says prices are down, prices
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: are down a plus plus plus economy, you guys don't
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: know what you're talking about. If you think you're paying
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: too much for meat, you're not. It's just not true
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: because prices are down. He didn't say that about the meat,
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: but he has said prices are down, and people just
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: don't don't buy it because they're not buying. So we'll
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: stand and then this story I'm going to do later
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: on about what happened with Fed chair jer Own Powell.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: All right, lits, we have to do some more real
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: quickly because I've been going off on my soapbox.
• 27:47
  Speaker 6: Here.
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: Can we skip to Neil's next story?
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Absolutely, Neil, all right, Star Wars.
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: The original painting that we all fell in love with
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: became the iconic movie poster fifty years ago, sold at
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: auction for three point eight seven five million, almost four
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: million bucks. It's acrylic and airbrush painting. The movie poster designer,
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: it just brilliant. Tom Young first appeared in newspaper advertisements
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: back in May thirteenth of nineteen seventy seven, two weeks
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: before the movie opened.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: But this is one of a kind. Doesn't exist. This
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: should be in the Smithsonian. Yeah, but when you can
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: get four million dollars for it, screw the Smithsonian.
• 28:35
  Speaker 6: It belongs in a museum.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: There's some that do.
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: An AI ad is backfiring on McDonald's. McDonald's had to
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: take down an AI generated Christmas commercial from YouTube after
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: some customers said the AI slop filled, tongue in cheek
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: take on the holidays holidays was just distasteful. The ad
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: was titled it the Most Terrible Time of the Year.
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: It showed a series of short, chaotic clips of people
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: braving the winter, tripping while carrying overloaded gift bags, getting
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: stuck in tangled lights, burning homemade cookies, and starting an
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: unexpected cooking fire during a family gathering.
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: That sounds so why, I.
• 29:15
  Speaker 5: Mean, that's yeah, and that's cute, you know, and yeah,
• 29:18
  Speaker 5: but I so people were upset that it was Ai.
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: No I saw no actors were harmed in the making
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: of that commercial.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: Very well said, very well said no fingers were actually burnt,
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: right right, all right, we are done. By the way, Neil,
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: did it look perfect? It was Ai, but.
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: It looked excellent. Yeah, Okay, here's the thing. Somebody knew
• 29:42
  Speaker 5: what they were doing. You have to prompt It's like
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: a director. You're just not using actors. There are there's
• 29:48
  Speaker 5: actual humans interacting.
• 29:50
  Speaker 6: With it to get it.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: To do that.
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: Because it was very well done, it just you know,
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: turns people off.
• 29:55
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