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Handel on the News · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM 640, the Bill Handel Show
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  Speaker 1: on demand on the iHeartRadio.
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  Speaker 2: App. And now, Handel on the News. Ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 2: here's Bill Handel. Good morning, everybody. Handel here. Tuesday morning,
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  Speaker 2: September 8th, as we start.
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  Speaker 1: Well, actually, we need to start another week. I start
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  Speaker 1: another week. Neil, having filmed in for me yesterday, and
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  Speaker 1: something that I did for, I've never done before. You
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  Speaker 1: know how I've never listened in when Neil or anybody
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  Speaker 1: has hosted the show? Because I just don't listen when
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  Speaker 1: I'm not on the air. Actually, I don't listen when
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  Speaker 1: I'm on the air. even air checks. So Neil, I
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  Speaker 1: just want to tell you that again, I didn't listen,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm sure it sounded absolutely fine or it didn't.
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  Speaker 2: I have no idea.
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  Speaker 3: That means nothing to me.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, okay. That makes sense.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Hello. I think someone needs to mute there. Hello, everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Let's do that again. It is Tuesday morning, September 8th. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: quick word about Friday, September 11th, 25 years. We are
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  Speaker 1: putting together, we have a tape of what occurred that
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  Speaker 1: morning when I was reporting, and this all happened in
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  Speaker 1: real time.
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  Speaker 2: As this was happening, I was watching the TV. I
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  Speaker 2: had a bunch of monitors on the wall.
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  Speaker 1: And I was watching this thing happen and describing.
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  Speaker 2: And we were going nuts, as you can imagine, because
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  Speaker 2: we didn't know what happened.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't know whether an airplane had crashed into the
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  Speaker 1: World Trade Center, which.
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  Speaker 2: We thought was an accident at first.
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  Speaker 1: Because during World War II, there was a bomber that
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  Speaker 1: went into the Empire State Building. and killed a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of people. But that was a, first of all, I
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  Speaker 1: think it was a de Havilland. Just wanted to point
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  Speaker 1: that out. And it was, that was an error. That
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  Speaker 1: was an accident. So at first people thought this was
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  Speaker 1: an accident. And then the authorities came out and thought
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  Speaker 1: it was a small plane because it looks so small
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  Speaker 1: relative to the World Trade Center. And then, wait a minute,
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  Speaker 1: this is a big airliner we were talking about there.
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  Speaker 1: And then of course the second building was hit that
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  Speaker 1: we were watching. And anyway, that broadcast, we're going to
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  Speaker 1: play on Friday, 25 years after the fact.
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  Speaker 2: We play it every couple.
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  Speaker 1: Of years because it was so important to us here
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  Speaker 1: at KFI, to me, watching this thing happen and falling in.
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  Speaker 1: And then at that point, filling in for Rush Limbaugh.
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  Speaker 1: who was not on the air. And that was a
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  Speaker 1: hell of a story because I was at that point
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  Speaker 1: filling in for Russia. I think 35 million people or
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  Speaker 1: whatever were listening. They took all the local stations off
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  Speaker 1: the air and ran this station because, well, no one
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  Speaker 1: wanted sports. And, you know, music was kind of second
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  Speaker 1: in importance.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, good morning, Neil. Morning, buddy. Hey, thanks for filling
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  Speaker 2: in yesterday. I understand it was pretty good, although I
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  Speaker 2: don't know.
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  Speaker 3: We had a good time.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm glad to hear that.
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  Speaker 3: I fed them and they were happy.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, okay. You got it. And there's Will nodding his head.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Will. Good morning, Bill. Okay. Microphone isn't quite
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  Speaker 2: working there either.
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  Speaker 1: Oops.
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  Speaker 2: Here it is. Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 4: That was operator error.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there you are. Yeah, Neil Fettus.
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  Speaker 3: It was very nice.
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  Speaker 2: Did you actually feed them? I thought you were just
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  Speaker 2: feeding them information. What'd you feed them, everybody? Chick-fil-A.
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  Speaker 3: We got the new chicken and waffle sandwich, most of us.
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  Speaker 2: What time was that? Because they're not open this time
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  Speaker 2: of morning, are they?
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  Speaker 3: No, they weren't. They had breakfast.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, what time did you feed everybody?
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  Speaker 4: About eight.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, okay, because they're not open at 6 a.m., I
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  Speaker 2: don't think. Maybe they are. Don't know. Okay. We used
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  Speaker 2: to have interns. What's an intern?
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  Speaker 1: We used to have interns that on a regular basis
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  Speaker 1: would go to McDonald's or go to whatever place was open.
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  Speaker 2: Who are you.
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  Speaker 1: Telling?
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  Speaker 2: I was your intern.
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  Speaker 3: I was the one going to McDonald's and getting them.
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  Speaker 2: That's true.
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  Speaker 1: I think you have to reconnect, Neal. I'm hearing a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of static. Kono, am I hearing static or is
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  Speaker 1: it just me?
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  Speaker 2: You're hearing it. I'm hearing it. Okay. Not everyone's hearing it. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: I got it. You're not hallucinating. I am hallucinating. Yes.
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  Speaker 4: But it's good to make that distinction.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I don't hallucinate much anymore. I used to and I
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  Speaker 1: paid big money to do it, but not spent a
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  Speaker 1: few years.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Amy. Hi, Bill. Hi, Kono. There you are.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, Bill. And I remember you talking 9-11.
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  Speaker 2: I was on my way to seventh grade.
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  Speaker 1: I will.
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  Speaker 2: So it was like a 30 minute car ride.
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  Speaker 3: So you broke all the news of 9-11 to me
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  Speaker 3: and my family.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I did that a lot. You were in the
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  Speaker 2: seventh grade. That's great. He was memorable. I remember. No,
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  Speaker 2: I understand.
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  Speaker 1: Lindsay also, whenever I mention some event on KFI or
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  Speaker 1: some event in my life, she always points out.
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  Speaker 2: I was six. I was 11. That's weird.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't born yet. Thank you very much. I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: And I've often said, well, my third wife, she hasn't
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  Speaker 1: even been born yet.
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  Speaker 2: That's even grosser. Thank you very much.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But I wait until they're 18. Okay?
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  Speaker 1: That sounds horrible, by the way. Let's not replay that.
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  Speaker 1: And good morning, Ann.
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  Speaker 2: Hi.
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  Speaker 1: Hi.
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  Speaker 2: It's a great show. Yeah, I know. Boy, there it comes.
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  Speaker 2: A couple of emails. Is Handel that big a pervert
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  Speaker 2: and shouldn't he be arrested?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. All right. With all that said and done, it
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  Speaker 1: is time for, oh, of course, we have news. Big news,
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  Speaker 1: especially in the world of politics, followed by the world
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  Speaker 1: of commerce. In this case, it is a direct connection.
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  Speaker 2: So let's do it. It's time for Handel on the News.
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  Speaker 2: And that is Amy, Neil, and me. Lead story. Don't
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  Speaker 2: want to be a Canadian idiot. Okay. The war with.
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  Speaker 1: The United States and Canada continues on on the economic front.
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  Speaker 1: And the president, what he did is issue all kinds of.
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  Speaker 2: Tariffs.
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  Speaker 1: And a lot of people don't understand when you talk
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  Speaker 1: about tariffs, they are individual tariffs on specific goods, right?
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  Speaker 1: And even within specific goods, there are tariffs. For example,
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  Speaker 1: and here's an example. Let's say jewelry is brought in
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  Speaker 1: and rings are going to be tariffed. Well, depending on
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  Speaker 1: the amount of platinum or gold, that's one tariff. Whether
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  Speaker 1: the stone is put into the ring or not is
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  Speaker 1: another tariff. There's two separate tariffs. Can you imagine that
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  Speaker 1: across the board? For example, wood products.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Pine is one tariff. And then you have Douglas fir
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  Speaker 1: being another tariff. I mean, that's the kind of I
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  Speaker 1: think of twenty six or twenty eight thousand kinds of tariffs.
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  Speaker 1: So the president put in about twenty billion dollars worth
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  Speaker 1: of tariffs on various goods, including hockey sticks, which are
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  Speaker 1: destroying the Canadian economy. And Canada came right back with
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  Speaker 1: its own tariffs, $ 20 billion, tit for tat, and the
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  Speaker 1: war continues. Oh, a quick word about tariffs I want
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  Speaker 1: to say. The president keeps on saying that the countries
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  Speaker 1: that we are tariffing are going to be.
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  Speaker 2: Paying for the tariffs, not the consumer.
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  Speaker 1: So I called my partner Savo last night in view
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  Speaker 1: of this story, and I said.
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  Speaker 2: Who do we write the check to? Who do we
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  Speaker 2: wire the money to?
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  Speaker 1: Because it shouldn't cost us anything because tariffs should only cost,
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  Speaker 1: in this case, China. We bring in cookware or stainless
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  Speaker 1: steel cookware from China.
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  Speaker 2: The tariff we pay is 59.5%. For every $ 100 worth
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  Speaker 2: of goods we bring in.
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  Speaker 1: From China, $ 59. 50 goes to the.
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  Speaker 2: Government on top of that. And who writes the check?
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  Speaker 2: We do. And where does the check go to?
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  Speaker 1: It actually goes to Customs and Border Control in our case,
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  Speaker 1: which then turns it over to the U.S.
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  Speaker 2: Treasury. It doesn't go direct.
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  Speaker 1: For some reason, Customs and Border Patrol is the intermediary
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  Speaker 1: where it goes there to the Treasury Department. So when
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  Speaker 1: you hear the other that it's the countries that we're
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  Speaker 1: getting our goods from paying the tariff.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to look at our bank statement and
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  Speaker 1: see the 59 and a half dollars that goes in
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  Speaker 1: for every hundred.
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  Speaker 3: Is that in, is that the same in Canada then?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's no, no, it, yeah, it'd be the same.
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  Speaker 3: And it's the Canadians are cutting their nose off despite
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  Speaker 3: their face as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody's cutting their nose.
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  Speaker 1: The only difference is Canadians are saying this is we're
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  Speaker 1: in retaliation. We are, uh, what we are doing is
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  Speaker 1: just answering what's going on. It doesn't matter either way.
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  Speaker 1: It's a lot of people are going to be hurt
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  Speaker 1: really badly. And the president, to his credit, is doing
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  Speaker 1: this because he wants American, he wants products to be
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  Speaker 1: made in American factories, American workers, which, you know, that's
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  Speaker 1: a good idea. That's kind of nice. The problem is
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  Speaker 1: tariffs happen immediately. Building a new factory takes years. And
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  Speaker 1: so the tariff war continues. We just started actually this
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  Speaker 1: morning at 1 a.m.
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  Speaker 2: With the Canadian tariffs.
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  Speaker 4: Utter devastation. That's how NTSB's Jennifer Homendy has been. described
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  Speaker 4: the crash scene at Miami International Airport. That is where
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  Speaker 4: five people were killed when an Amazon cargo jet overshot
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  Speaker 4: the runway by about 1,300 feet. The people killed were
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  Speaker 4: in a van. They were part of a cleaning crew.
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  Speaker 4: And the van was inside the airport's perimeter. And then
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  Speaker 4: the plane kept going, went through a fence, and then
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  Speaker 4: hit more cars. And there was an SUV. That was hit,
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  Speaker 4: and that's where some people were injured.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and there's a whole discussion about what happens or
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  Speaker 1: what is put after the runway, what is placed on
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  Speaker 1: the ground. And there's that certain product, and it almost
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  Speaker 1: looks like a gravelly product that slows a plane down dramatically.
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  Speaker 2: Like a truck escape ramp?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like a truck escape ramp, but it's a
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  Speaker 1: certain surface they put on it. to slow down the airplane.
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  Speaker 1: And about 500 airports have that. And according to experts,
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  Speaker 1: I was reading about this, quite probably is what they're
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  Speaker 1: describing it. It would have stopped this plane from crashing.
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  Speaker 1: It would have not hit that road. And then they're
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  Speaker 1: trying to figure out 1,300 feet beyond the runway it goes,
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  Speaker 1: which is and it was uh 128 miles per hour
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  Speaker 1: at that point and it should have been a whole
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  Speaker 1: lot less so we're going to find out what happened
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  Speaker 1: it looks like pilot error and the pilots survived yeah
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  Speaker 1: both survived.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah so iran early uh this morning introduced a higher
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  Speaker 3: price for its heaviest users of gasoline uh their state
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  Speaker 3: media is now reporting so this is uh kind of
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  Speaker 3: the latest economic pinch caused by the months of war there.
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  Speaker 3: It's the second such hike since December. It goes up
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  Speaker 3: small increases, but they have a limitation on the amount
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  Speaker 3: of gallons. In this case, it's 29 gallons of gasoline
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  Speaker 3: a month. And if you go over that, 110 liters
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  Speaker 3: or so, um, then it goes up to another, another level.
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  Speaker 2: You start.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And what is that level? What has it gone up
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  Speaker 2: to dramatically?
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  Speaker 3: Seven cents per liter, but that's correct.
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  Speaker 2: 32, 33 cents a gallon. Yeah. That's how much it
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  Speaker 2: is in Iran.
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  Speaker 1: It's among the, uh, it is, uh, among the cheapest
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  Speaker 1: gas in the world.
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  Speaker 2: I think, uh, the, what was it?
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  Speaker 1: Venezuela was the cheapest at 5 cents a gallon, totally subsidized.
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  Speaker 3: Keep in mind, uh, It's easy to downplay here, but
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  Speaker 3: an increase back in 2019 sparked a nationwide protest there,
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  Speaker 3: and it killed 300 people.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. No, it's a big deal over there.
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  Speaker 3: A little different than here when it goes up.
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  Speaker 1: Right. First of all, they're not used to prices going up.
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  Speaker 1: They're used to the huge subsidy from the government. And
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  Speaker 1: even at seven cents per liter, a figure of 30-something
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  Speaker 1: cents per gallon, that's three weeks' worth of wages for
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  Speaker 1: the average Iranian with this economy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's not real apples to apples here.
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  Speaker 4: An eye for an eye, the family of Celeste Rivas
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  Speaker 4: Hernandez has publicly called for her accused killer, the singer
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  Speaker 4: known as David, To face the death penalty. Of course,
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  Speaker 4: he's been arrested and is being held and will face
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  Speaker 4: trial after the judge determined that there was enough evidence
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  Speaker 4: to take the case to trial. The family came out
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  Speaker 4: on the eve of what would have been Celeste's 16th birthday.
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  Speaker 4: She was 14 at the time.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: A couple of questions I have. One question is if
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  Speaker 1: he did this. OK, he's only accused right now. What
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  Speaker 1: the hell was he thinking? Getting away with this? Killing her,
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  Speaker 1: dismembering her, putting her body two blocks away in a
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  Speaker 1: car that he owns?
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  Speaker 3: Not sure he's meant to.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think so either. And calling for the
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  Speaker 1: death penalty will never happen. For a couple of reasons.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, California, it's almost impossible to get the
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  Speaker 1: death penalty.
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  Speaker 3: But we're on a moratorium.
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  Speaker 2: We are a moratorium. But but Newsom didn't stop it.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't overturn it or didn't say no way he's
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  Speaker 2: leaving soon. He is.
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  Speaker 1: So once again, it kicks back in. And but the
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  Speaker 1: other the other issue is when the prosecutors go for
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  Speaker 1: the death penalty, considering the automatic appeals going all the
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  Speaker 1: way up and these people don't have money, he's already
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  Speaker 1: has a public defender. But now we're talking millions and
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  Speaker 1: millions of dollars to handle the appeals that the state
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  Speaker 1: pays for.
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  Speaker 2: So you're not going to see the death penalty. It
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  Speaker 2: takes a lot more for the death penalty kick in
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  Speaker 2: than this one.
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  Speaker 3: And let them out.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, let them in the general population.
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  Speaker 1: Because all he did was kill a minor or is
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  Speaker 1: accused of killing a minor.
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  Speaker 2: That works in the general population, doesn't it?
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  Speaker 3: So more weather coming the U.S. 's way in this time.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to be Hawaii. And their officials there are
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  Speaker 3: urging residents and, of course, you know, visitors. It's highly
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  Speaker 3: populated by visitors, too, to prepare for heavy rainfall, dangerous
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  Speaker 3: winds as Hurricane Lowell appears to set and get very
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  Speaker 3: close to like Kauai. And I'm not familiar with this
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  Speaker 3: other island.
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  Speaker 1: Ni hao?
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  Speaker 2: It's a private island.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not familiar with it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's pretty. Here, did you notice how muggy it
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  Speaker 2: was here over the weekend?
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  Speaker 4: It's going to be a schvitz.
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  Speaker 2: It was a schvitz yesterday.
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  Speaker 4: No, we've got another schvitz coming.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, boy, it's schvitz-a-rama. We're looking at schvitz-a-geddon.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, my gosh. Schvitz-a-palooza.
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  Speaker 2: All of that. It's going to be schvitz-y. We are
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  Speaker 2: going to schvitz in the schvitz.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it's not only the U.S. and Iran going at
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  Speaker 4: it in the Middle East. Saudi Arabia has accused Yemen's
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  Speaker 4: Houthi rebels of launching attacks on civilian and economic sites
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  Speaker 4: in the kingdom. They say at least 73 civilians, including
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  Speaker 4: women and children, have been hurt. The Saudi-backed, internationally recognized
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  Speaker 4: government has launched a counteroffensive trying to retake territory from
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  Speaker 4: the Iran-backed Houthis. They're saying that these attacks are a
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  Speaker 4: dangerous escalation and blatant violation of Saudi Arabia's sovereignty.
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  Speaker 3: That's it.
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  Speaker 2: That's it.
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  Speaker 3: No, that's OK.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: Just in time for the anniversary of 9-11. You have
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  Speaker 3: Mayor Zoran Mamdami.
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  Speaker 2: Donnie.
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  Speaker 3: As directed his administration to release the records to the
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  Speaker 3: public through online porthole. What kind of records? Records about
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  Speaker 3: the air quality and things that were believed to be hidden.
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  Speaker 3: And just recently found papers and documents about the air quality.
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  Speaker 3: When people in New York were told that everything was fine,
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  Speaker 3: the air quality was fine. Apparently they were finding asbestos
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  Speaker 3: and other things in the air. What a way to
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  Speaker 3: commemorate the 25th.
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  Speaker 1: And they're finding it's I didn't know that there was
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  Speaker 1: that much missing. And I'm kind of shocked, actually.
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  Speaker 3: I wonder if he's going to do anything, you know.
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  Speaker 3: That actually commemorates.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, of course, he's going to.
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  Speaker 4: He's going to be at the ceremony. And there's actually
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  Speaker 4: there's calls for him not to be there.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there's a lot, lot of controversy about him. He's Muslim.
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  Speaker 2: And he is– I think it's fair to say he's anti-Israel.
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  Speaker 1: Or at least neutral. He doesn't want to give money
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  Speaker 1: to Israel. And now that's perceived as being anti-Israel. So
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: I don't know if he's come out pro-Palestinian as opposed
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: to let's not support Israel. And I think there's a
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: big difference there. And he's deemed an anti-Semite. I'm sort
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: of up in the air on that one.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: Score one for the water providers.
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: California lawmakers have passed a bill that would give water
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: agencies a new tool to defend themselves against lawsuits. Senate
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: Bill 1153, which is waiting for the governor's signature, would
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: clarify that public water agencies do not have a duty
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  Speaker 4: to design, build, or maintain a water system for wildfire
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  Speaker 4: defense or suppression, and that the inability to maintain water
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  Speaker 4: supply or water pressure during a wildfire is You know.
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  Speaker 2: I understand that.
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  Speaker 1: When you think about it, city water supplies are meant
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  Speaker 1: to provide city water. They were not meant to be
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  Speaker 1: used in massive wildfires. Certainly city water is used coming
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: out of hydrants. And so the other side of that
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: is if they don't do it, who does it? Where
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: are you going to get the water if the city
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: can't provide.
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  Speaker 2: It and is not has a doesn't have a duty?
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: It's it's a different way of now defining duty and
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: the legislature is or the city of well the senate
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  Speaker 1: bill legislation said there is no duty So now I
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: guess there's no one responsible for not providing enough water.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: There is never going to be enough water if you're
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: looking at something like the Palisades fire.
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  Speaker 2: That's it.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: There's not enough water on the planet in terms of.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: A supply of water.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: Even if the city did have enough water, it was
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: moving so quickly. You know, the firefighters were running for
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: their lives. trying to fight the fire. All the water
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: in the world wouldn't have done anything. So two sides
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: to that one, for sure.
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: Well, we're screwed. Let's just not have firefighters. Guess what
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: the average death at Burning Man is, or it's one.
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: They have about one death a year, and they're kicking
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: this year with bigger numbers A third reported death of
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: a festival goer in less than a week there.
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: That's a 300% increase.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: That's true, from one to three. And here is the question,
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: Burning Man.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: Does that mean they light someone on fire and you
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: have a Burning Man?
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: Have you not seen the Burning Man?
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: I have seen the Burning Man. I'm interested in the
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: guys that get too close to Burning Man and ignite.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: And there's your Burning Man.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: These are starting, it's starting to get older over there,
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: it looks like.
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: The guy who just died is 60, or was 60.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, there's a lot of people that go. A
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: lot of very senior people here at iHeart go.
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: Really?
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, way up, way up the totem pole, which
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: caught on fire, of course.
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: Not exactly being welcomed back with open arms. Harry and Meghan,
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: of course, moved back to the U.K., after living in
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: Montecito for six years. And King Charles put out a statement,
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: he put out a letter to reiterate that Prince Harry
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: and his wife, Meghan, are non-working members of the royal family.
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: They will not use royal titles. Any charity work they
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: do will be carried out in a private capacity. And
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: as far as security for the couple, they'll have to
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: deal with that with local agencies. So not the Kingsguard.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but this time I think with them is they
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: voluntarily bailed out because the accusation of racism against her
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: within the royal family, although Harry was quick to point out,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: not the senior members, not Charles, not Queen Elizabeth at
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: that time. And they're no longer HRH. They're no longer
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: her or his royal highness.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: He's still a prince.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: You can't take that away from him. But he's moving back.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: And one of the big fights was security. He wanted security.
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: He wanted security here in the U.S.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he also– I don't even think he
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: gets security there.
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: No, they're saying– that's what King Charles is saying. If
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: they want security, they're going to have to deal with
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: local agencies.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: And the– And they're saying, no, we deserve and should
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: get state paid for.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: Agencies protection. And so that's the fight.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: Andrew, for example, I think Andrew is no longer HRH either,
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: but that was King Charles that tossed him for that.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: And I think it was Queen Elizabeth that actually took
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: away that title from him. So Andrew is sort of
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: out there mainly because, well, all of it is connection
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: with Jeffrey Epstein.
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: Does he still have, so he doesn't have security either?
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: I don't think, I don't think so.
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: He's no longer HRH.
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: Hernandez brothers granted early parole hearing. Eric and Lyle have
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: been granted a suitability hearing, I guess what they call it,
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: to the delight of their families. And this statement was
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: released yesterday. So a family spokesperson confirmed this. They were
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: previously eligible for a parole suitability hearing next in August
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: of 2028.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Now, originally, they were sentenced to life imprisonment without possibility
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: of parole. And a judge overturned that and gave them
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: life imprisonment with the possibility for parole. But when it
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: happens under these circumstances, people spend decades in jail. And
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: they have been, I mean, they've been in jail since they.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: Were in their 20s. And now they're.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: Both 58 or 58 and 55. And so that's normally
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: what happens with parole hearings. even with parole, is decades
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: down the line.
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: Influencers not welcome.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: If you've watched the U.S.
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: Open this year, you may have spotted the influencers causing
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: a ruckus. Well, there's not going to be a swarm
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: of influencers at Wimbledon next summer. Security plans to confiscate
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: items like ring lights that could be used to disrupt matches.
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: Wimbledon will not have any accreditation accreditation category for influencers
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: or content creators. Of course, at the U.S. Open, people
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: have been creating content. They've been staging photo shoots. They've
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: been loud and disruptive. They've brought in lighting. And Naomi
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: Osaka's first round match even had to be paused because
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: of them.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you saw the video of that group of people
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: dancing in the stands.
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: It didn't look like content creators. It just looked like
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: people being obnoxious.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: But that's what a lot of content creators can do.
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess so. All right. Later school times, you know,
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: they've gone back and forth on this. And California went
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: ahead and moved forward that high schools can start no
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: earlier than 830. And most middle schools and the like
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: can start no earlier than eight. And they they find
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: that so far this is actually helping, especially with young
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: boys who are getting more sleep. And that they're seeing
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: a 13% rise in eight hours of sleep. And that
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: is turning into better grades and better attention and things
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: like that.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: It would work if classes started at noon because teenagers
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: love to sleep in. I remember going to junior high
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: school and if memory serves, I've had, I had semesters
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: where my first class was seven o'clock. I remember seven
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: Oh five in the morning. How the hell can you
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: do that, Lindsay? You're at 5 a.m.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: In a class? Oh, my God.
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: On the run with Renoir. Thieves have stolen four paintings
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: from the Renoir Museum in the south of France. Happened
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: at 5.48 a.m. local time, which was just before midnight,
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: our time. The two thieves broke in, made off with
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: four of the paintings, then ran off and dropped two
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: of them. on the way out. One of them was
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: recovered from a garden. The officials say that even though
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: police got there in five minutes, it was enough time
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: for the thieves to get in on the ground floor,
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: use electric saws, and cut through the fixtures securing the
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: frames of the Renoir Works before taking off.
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: They sound like pros.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's going to reach the point where the security
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: is going to be much like the Mona Lisa.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: Or the pieta. Behind.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, behind this bulletproof glass that you can't get through.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: A grenade wouldn't get through that stuff and you couldn't
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: cut it. Unfortunately, that's where it's going to go because
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: the security around these museums in many cases is nonexistent.
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: Well, and it shouldn't have to be.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: No, but people are slimeballs. Also, the value of paintings
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: today are insane. Picasso is going for $ 100 million. David Hockney,
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: while he was still alive, was going for $ 60, $ 70 million.
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: I think we have time for one more.
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: All right. Northwest Germany. Volkswagen has a car plant there.
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: They're going to convert it to defense production. It seems
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: this is a big, wide push for Europe and Germany
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: to start building more weaponry. Maybe people are looking at
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: the state of affairs in the world right now. But
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: they are Europe's biggest economy and they're ramping up military spending.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: Do you remember when we were kids and the future
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: was going to be flying cars and we'd work 30
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: hours a week and there would be peace all over
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: the world? Boy, has that gone south, hasn't it?
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: Well, give us the flying cars first and we'll see
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: how it goes.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we have flying cars.
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but we're not allowed to use them. We've had
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: flying car technology for decades.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, that's true.
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: We just don't trust anybody to use them.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, there is a little problem of these cars
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: running into each other, and people are kind of frightened.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: It makes sense.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: Okay, we're done, guys. Coming up, Canada imposes new tariffs
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: on U.S. goods, and the U.S. imposes tariffs on Canadian goods.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: And I'll tell you which ones they are and they missed.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: You have missed the important ones that are not being
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: talked about. And I'll share that. story with you upon
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: our return. This is KFI AM 640.