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Weight-Loss & Airlines | The ‘Death Café’ · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
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  Speaker 1: and the morning crew with you. Handle is out today,
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  Speaker 1: not answering that it's that called ask candle anything? You
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  Speaker 1: All right? So you know, I host the four Report
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  Speaker 1: on Saturdays two to five and I love doing it
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  Speaker 1: talking about food, and we talked recently about how the
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  Speaker 1: GLP won usage has gone up so much that it's
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  Speaker 1: changing the way people eat and that has changed the
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  Speaker 1: way restaurants look at food as well, and they're doing
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  Speaker 1: smaller plates and it's changing that. But I will tell you,
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  Speaker 1: in a bajillion years, I would not have guessed how
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  Speaker 1: GLP won's and the loss of weight has changed this industry.
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  Speaker 1: What industry, the airline industry. How crazy is this? So
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  Speaker 1: if you didn't know, every piece of weight, every piece
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  Speaker 1: of weight, every outs of weight that goes on a
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  Speaker 1: plane is accounted for. The reason why it's so important
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  Speaker 1: is because of the fuel usage. Fuels expensive. One of
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  Speaker 1: the ways to cut down on costs is it cut
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  Speaker 1: down on weight. So some of the things that go
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  Speaker 1: on in the industry are switching the thickness of paper
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  Speaker 1: in those magazines and things that you have, no joke,
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  Speaker 1: no joke. So by doing that they have reduced costs
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  Speaker 1: on planes. So it's crazy to think that they shifted
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  Speaker 1: to the thickness of paper right to reduce weight. They
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  Speaker 1: save money by doing that. Another thing they did is
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  Speaker 1: they switched those little cards out that did the emergency
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  Speaker 1: cards and they put them on the back of the
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  Speaker 1: screens that are already there so you can see, you know,
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  Speaker 1: this is what you have to do in case of
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  Speaker 1: an emergency. That saved money. So just that little percentage
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  Speaker 1: of weight ends up saving money. So now you've got
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  Speaker 1: us airlines that are coming out looking at these weight
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  Speaker 1: loss drugs and golp ones like ozambig would go v
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  Speaker 1: those types of things, and this January twenty twenty six
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  Speaker 1: report that came out from a financial firm called did Jeffries.
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  Speaker 1: It highlights that this shedding of weight that we're going
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  Speaker 1: through right now has this benefit that they didn't foresee
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  Speaker 1: passenger weight, and they're looking at significant savings for airlines,
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  Speaker 1: so fuel costs. You got this ten percent reduction in
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  Speaker 1: average passenger weight, ten percent that could translate into roughly
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  Speaker 1: two percent less total aircraft weight, reducing fuel costs by
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  Speaker 1: up to one point five percent. Now that could be massive.
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  Speaker 1: Four largest US carriers. You've got American Delta, who else?
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  Speaker 1: You got United, you got Southwest. They could save as
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  Speaker 1: much as five hundred and eighty million dollars annually. If
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  Speaker 1: fuel expensives dip like that, that is huge. Those savings
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  Speaker 1: could lift earnings per share for these airlines by up
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  Speaker 1: to four percent just on that change. They have been focusing,
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  Speaker 1: they being the airlines, have been focusing for a long
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  Speaker 1: time on weight reduction. That's why we get penalized for
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  Speaker 1: things more luggage. The weight of the luggage, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the shifting around of all that weight, It plays a part.
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  Speaker 1: Now I have never gotten to the play and this
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  Speaker 1: is probably would be the tipping point, well literally for
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  Speaker 1: me was I've never had to use an extender. I'm
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  Speaker 1: a big guy, six feet tall, two fifty two fifty
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  Speaker 1: five whatever I am right now, But that was my thing.
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  Speaker 1: I was flying to Vegas to do broadcasts for the
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  Speaker 1: Fork Report like once a month there to the wind,
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  Speaker 1: which is gorgeous by the way, Holy smokes. It's like
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  Speaker 1: the Disneyland and casinos. There's not a piece of trash
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  Speaker 1: anywhere in there. And that was my thing. I'm like, man,
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  Speaker 1: it's getting taught, but I haven't had to go to
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  Speaker 1: the extender yet. That's when I think I'd be super
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  Speaker 1: self conscious. But that I never thought that that weight
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  Speaker 1: was not only a discomfort to me and maybe the
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  Speaker 1: person next to me, but I lean that it could
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  Speaker 1: cause a difference in the money made by the airline.
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  Speaker 1: So they're looking at these changes. Not only did I
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  Speaker 1: say that they were changing the paper from magazines, they
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  Speaker 1: actually made it thinner so that that saved them money.
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  Speaker 1: But now they're looking at other potential benefits to organizations
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  Speaker 1: as well. Active wear brands, it's new Year, New U
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  Speaker 1: type thing they're looking at like Lululemon, Nike, These kind
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  Speaker 1: of form fitting active wear stuff that people with new
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  Speaker 1: bodies are putting going towards these they're you know, you
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  Speaker 1: heard Amy King talking about she's doing a new segment
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  Speaker 1: every morning on her cleaning her closet. Fascinating. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: Amy stu it is. I've been planning to do it
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  Speaker 1: for like a year and a half. I'm teasing you,
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  Speaker 1: but that's what people do. You clean your closet and
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  Speaker 1: you get active wear. But food producers, like I said
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  Speaker 1: the baby bel cheese has seen an increased demand for
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  Speaker 1: these like smaller high protein snacks. I mean, this is
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  Speaker 1: a major thing. The thing that we can't bank on
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  Speaker 1: is we've learned that you gain weight very quickly and
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  Speaker 1: more when you go off I mean not every bud eat,
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  Speaker 1: but that's a concern most Yeah, there's a large part.
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  Speaker 1: The new studies are saying it when you go off
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  Speaker 1: the glps, the weight comes back and it comes back quick,
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  Speaker 1: you know. And I'm and I get it. Hey, I'm
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  Speaker 1: looking at surgery at this point at fifty six, haven't
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  Speaker 1: lost the weight at this point. I've tried gone back
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  Speaker 1: and forth. Used to yo yo, Now I just yo.
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  Speaker 1: So you got to look at that. But it's fascinating
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  Speaker 1: how even these little patterns, any of these things that
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  Speaker 1: happened to us, that we start changing, it changes everything
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  Speaker 1: around us. So next time, you know, we see these
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  Speaker 1: you know the cost of airline. They're not going to
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  Speaker 1: pass it back to us. We're still going to pay
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  Speaker 1: the high prices. But they may be making more money
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  Speaker 1: because we're thinner. So ask for more pretzels. Good Thursday
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  Speaker 1: morning to you, Nil Svader in the morning crew with you.
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  Speaker 1: We got Will the birthday, We've got Ann, We've got
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  Speaker 1: Amy icy Kno, I see Jimmy, I see David. All right,
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  Speaker 1: let's get into death, shall we not fun to talk about? Right?
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  Speaker 1: They say death and taxes are the only guarantees in life,
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  Speaker 1: but nobody wants to talk about either really, And there
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  Speaker 1: is a group that says, ah, you need to talk
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  Speaker 1: about it and get more comfortable with it. And this
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  Speaker 1: is from the Orange County Deathworks Alliance. They've got an
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  Speaker 1: event going on today for those interested. They call them
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  Speaker 1: Death Cafe and it's going on tonight, Thursday, January twenty second,
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  Speaker 1: from five to six fifteen pm. That's kind of precise,
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  Speaker 1: and it's at the Neighborhood Congressional congregational rather a church
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  Speaker 1: Bridge hall there at three four one, Saint Anne's driving
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  Speaker 1: Una Beach. It's free. They happen monthly and it's just
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  Speaker 1: a chat. So you get all kinds of caregiving folks together,
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  Speaker 1: medical aid and dying, hospice, body disposition, home funerals, advice
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  Speaker 1: on all these things. And you've got all kinds of workers,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's doctors, caregivers, dulas, the people that deal with
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  Speaker 1: death death on a daily basis. And I kind of
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  Speaker 1: love this. I don't like that we make certain things taboo.
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  Speaker 1: I think we're smarter than that. I think we're better
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  Speaker 1: than that as a society. I would say that we're
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  Speaker 1: better off doing it when we're younger, to make plans
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  Speaker 1: and then change them as you get older if you
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  Speaker 1: think you'd like something different. But I think as we
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  Speaker 1: get closer and nobody knows their time, but I mean mentally,
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  Speaker 1: as we think we're getting closer, that line keeps changing
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  Speaker 1: every day. I mean there is I look back on
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  Speaker 1: the fact that my father in two thousand and one
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  Speaker 1: passed away at seventy three. Now he was sick, has
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  Speaker 1: the same disease I have Thanks Dad. Out of the
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  Speaker 1: seven kids, five of us got it. It's called polycystic
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  Speaker 1: renal disease. Means my kidneys filled up with cysts. And
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  Speaker 1: that's why I had to get the transplant six years ago.
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  Speaker 1: God bless you, Julie, my donor. And and now I
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  Speaker 1: look back on that he looked he looked ninety. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I look back on pictures of him, and he looked
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  Speaker 1: so old, and yet I think of seventy. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I buzzed handles chops all the time because I've known
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  Speaker 1: him for thirty years. He doesn't look his age. He
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  Speaker 1: doesn't act his age. He doesn't He's never you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's he kind of eternally forty five to me forty six.
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  Speaker 1: You know how people freeze the age when you met them,
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  Speaker 1: kind of and they just kind of freeze in that state.
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  Speaker 1: He's that way for me where I always see him
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  Speaker 1: at that age. But we have to get a grip
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  Speaker 1: on these things. And I know it's different. Like I
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  Speaker 1: have no problem getting life insurance for myself, but every
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  Speaker 1: time I'm given the option to get life insurance on
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  Speaker 1: my wife or my son, it bothers me emotionally. I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to think about them being harmed or dying
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  Speaker 1: or being scared or any of those things. For me,
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  Speaker 1: I just want to be a good husband and a dad,
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  Speaker 1: and I want to leave them in the best position
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  Speaker 1: I can. God bless my dad. He was a neat guy,
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  Speaker 1: very loving man, and I connected with him on so
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  Speaker 1: many ways. An artist, a creative, intelligent, but not educated.
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  Speaker 1: And yes they're two different things. And read a lot,
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  Speaker 1: explored a lot of things, questioned a lot of things,
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  Speaker 1: but a lousy provider except when he was doing his art,
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  Speaker 1: when he was really deep in doing design work and stuff.
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  Speaker 1: There was a time where he did well, but he
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  Speaker 1: wasn't off at the bar getting drunk. He wasn't with
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  Speaker 1: the boys all. He came home, but not a great provider.
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  Speaker 1: And so I saw, you know, when he passed away
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  Speaker 1: in two thousand and one, what my mom had to
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  Speaker 1: go with. There wasn't, you know, through and there was
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  Speaker 1: nothing there, barely enough to cover his funeral. Very you know, simple,
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  Speaker 1: But I'll tell you he knew exactly what he wanted
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  Speaker 1: and what he wanted to be buried. He wanted a
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  Speaker 1: mariachi band, he wanted these things, and he got those things.
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  Speaker 1: And it was lovely simple, but a lovely funeral. He
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  Speaker 1: didn't leave that to us. And I think that we
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  Speaker 1: get so fearful of talking about death at a group
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  Speaker 1: like the Orange County Deathworks Alliance. You know, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: crazy about at These are my own personal reasons about
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  Speaker 1: the medical aid in dying what they call made the
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  Speaker 1: end of life option act of you know, killing yourself. Basically,
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  Speaker 1: I get it. I get it, don't get me wrong.
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  Speaker 1: I wrestle with it spiritually. I wrestle with it, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in a lot of ways, because I think we're more
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  Speaker 1: than our pain. I think we're more than I think
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  Speaker 1: as long as the brain is there and active, there
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  Speaker 1: can be things that can be learned and taught. But
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  Speaker 1: that's easy for me to say. I'm not in pain,
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  Speaker 1: so I wrestle with that. I don't know that I've
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  Speaker 1: landed anywhere, but I wrestle with it. So God bless
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  Speaker 1: these folks. They talk about death and dying shared over
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  Speaker 1: tea and cakes and pastries, even cheese and crackers, and
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  Speaker 1: what one person said was pretty decent wine for those
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  Speaker 1: over twenty one, which is pretty much the people that
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  Speaker 1: go there. So the death cafes are a global movement.
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  Speaker 1: They're allowing people to discuss this taboo unfortunately taboo thoughts
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  Speaker 1: and questions about the end of life and you know,
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  Speaker 1: hospice and medical aid and all these things. And so
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  Speaker 1: if you're interested, they have one going on tonight. This
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  Speaker 1: death Cafe will be from five to six fifteen pm,
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  Speaker 1: two day, Thursday, January twenty second, at the Neighborhood Congregational Church.
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  Speaker 1: They have their bridges haul there three four one Saint
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  Speaker 1: Anne's Drive in Laguna Beach. It is free. They happen
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  Speaker 1: monthly and God bless them for answering questions of people
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  Speaker 1: during something very very scary. Protein big deal right now.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody's like, down with the protein. Everything's got protein, more
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  Speaker 1: protein in it, here's more protein. I love that we're
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  Speaker 1: always looking for new proteins. When we have great proteins, meat,
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  Speaker 1: great protein, eggs, great protein, lentils, great protein, peanuts. There's
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  Speaker 1: all kinds of things that we have naturally. But you've
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  Speaker 1: got beyond meat. You remember, beyond me. They have the
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  Speaker 1: meat analog. We'll say that. I don't want to say fake,
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  Speaker 1: mean it just it sounds. I don't bias and I
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  Speaker 1: don't mind the products themselves. I think they taste great
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  Speaker 1: and if it actually did anything for you, I'd be
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  Speaker 1: a little more on board. The only thing that these
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  Speaker 1: meat analogs tend to do is they have zero cholesterol,
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  Speaker 1: which is good. I mean, I'm not a doctor, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you the most recent studies about
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  Speaker 1: food cholesterol is that it doesn't transfer the way we
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  Speaker 1: once thought. You used to think eggs were bad and
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  Speaker 1: all of those things, but the reality is it doesn't transfer.
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  Speaker 1: It's like ten percent or less of it, you know.
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  Speaker 1: But again I'm not a doctor. However, they had kind
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  Speaker 1: of a burst. Everybody was investing in these meat alternatives,
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  Speaker 1: ya yay, but as far as like sodium, they were
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  Speaker 1: exactly the same, and now they started taking a dive.
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  Speaker 1: The problem being that they are uber processed food and
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  Speaker 1: so you can't talk about whole foods being great for
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  Speaker 1: you and then have these processed products that, yeah, maybe vegan,
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  Speaker 1: but not all healthful food is equal. Oreos are vegan,
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  Speaker 1: so you can't look at vegan being healthy because there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of things that are vegan that are unhealthy.
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  Speaker 1: So it's not about it's about the nutrients receiving. It's
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  Speaker 1: a vessel of nutrients into your body. And by far,
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  Speaker 1: I mean vitamins play a part with some people that
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  Speaker 1: are prescribed them. I'm prescribed vitamin D and you probably
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  Speaker 1: are too. There was a big thing some ten plus
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  Speaker 1: years ago where studies came out saying we needed more
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  Speaker 1: vitamin D in our diets, and so your doctor, probably
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  Speaker 1: if you're over forty, started prescribing you to take vitamin D.
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  Speaker 1: But most doctors, honest doctors, will tell you most supplements
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  Speaker 1: and vitamins, multi vitamins and the like end up becoming
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  Speaker 1: expensive urine unless you're prescribed to take them for whatever reason.
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  Speaker 1: So getting nutrients from these things, getting proteins from these things, chemically,
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  Speaker 1: your body is going to see certain proteins as the same.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a protein molecule, no matter how it's brought
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  Speaker 1: into your body. Beyond Meat is now launching Beyond Immerse.
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  Speaker 1: It's a line of fruit flavored carbonated protein drinks. This
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  Speaker 1: is to diversify its offerings declining plant based meat sales
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  Speaker 1: big time. By the way, you had the company's most
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  Speaker 1: recent quarterly lost widening one hundred and ten point seven
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  Speaker 1: million from twenty six point six million year over year
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  Speaker 1: with the rever my face, you got it, I got it.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks buddy. You know what, cono. I love when you cheerlead.
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  Speaker 1: You got this, buddy, big fat, stupid lips. They'll get it.
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  Speaker 1: Just keep going. Their revenue decreased by thirteen percent. It's
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  Speaker 1: because people start looking at this. Yes, they taste good,
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  Speaker 1: and they taste very very here's some great product out there,
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  Speaker 1: but they're uber uber. I saw that they're uber processed.
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  Speaker 1: So I think once you start going okay, beyond me
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  Speaker 1: going okay. We tried to capture the vegans and that
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  Speaker 1: really didn't work. We tried to get non vegans to
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  Speaker 1: try it because it's tasty, and that's not working. And
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  Speaker 1: now you're going to go to a fruit flavored carbonated
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  Speaker 1: protein drink basically a soda at this point. And I
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  Speaker 1: think that's the problem they're going in the If you're
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  Speaker 1: going to try and be healthful, be healthful, but in
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  Speaker 1: this case, I find this to be something that's going
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  Speaker 1: to fall flat as well. There's other ways to get
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  Speaker 1: protein in you without having it be a juiced based
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  Speaker 1: process drink. All right. The VA I've said this many
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  Speaker 1: times on this show and any opportunity I have to
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  Speaker 1: talk about it, is that our veterans are precious and
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  Speaker 1: the fact that we have any that are homeless is disgusting.
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  Speaker 1: The reality that many have been wounded to the degree
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  Speaker 1: that they are incapable of working or doing certain basic needs.
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  Speaker 1: Any of them being homeless is a shame and I
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  Speaker 1: hope that you agree with that. Now, can we all
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  Speaker 1: do something about it? You know, I don't know. It's
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  Speaker 1: like you go and you give to this group or
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: you give to that group, and then you hear good
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  Speaker 1: things about this group, bad things about that group. But
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  Speaker 1: beyond the charity, this is what the government should be
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  Speaker 1: for in my view. So the VA that is the
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  Speaker 1: Department of Veteran Veterans Affairs, they plan up to eight
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  Speaker 1: eight hundred tiny homes on its West LA campus. If
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  Speaker 1: you remember, this was the campus that had a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of veterans camping out in the front. Again a shame,
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  Speaker 1: a horrible shame. And so they were going to build
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  Speaker 1: these They plan to build these eighty tiny homes. But
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  Speaker 1: you know this is because the veterans they wanted, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in court saying hey, we need housing. So this court order,
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  Speaker 1: this housing order. They are going to put up these
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  Speaker 1: eighty eight or eight hundred tiny homes. They say that
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  Speaker 1: they're eight by eight foot sheds and they are absolutely unsuitable,
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  Speaker 1: And that sounds about right to me. I grew up
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  Speaker 1: in a family of seven kids. We all had to
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  Speaker 1: double up except my sister. There was six boys, one girl.
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  Speaker 1: She got her own room of the but you know,
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  Speaker 1: the rest of us had to team up. And I
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  Speaker 1: will tell you, I think our rooms were probably bigger
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  Speaker 1: than eight by eight. That sounds like a jail cell.
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  Speaker 1: So the disabled veterans are saying that the sheds are cramped,
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  Speaker 1: sounds like it's flimsy probably and problematic for wheelchairs and walkers,
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  Speaker 1: which the vast majority of them are dealing with. Now
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  Speaker 1: this is you know, major tensions flaring up between the
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  Speaker 1: VA as it struggles to comply with the twenty and
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  Speaker 1: twenty four court order to build thousands of permanent and
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  Speaker 1: temporary housing units. So now you got this planned by
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  Speaker 1: the US Department of Veteran Affairs to put up these
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  Speaker 1: eight hundred tiny homes this year out there in West Hollywood,
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  Speaker 1: West Los Angeles, rather on their campus. But you've got
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  Speaker 1: immediate pushback saying by the veterans they're the ones that
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  Speaker 1: won the federal court order requiring that the agency build
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  Speaker 1: these thousands of units are temporary and permanent housing. We
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  Speaker 1: can't treat people that signed up to defend our country
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  Speaker 1: if the need was there, that put their self in
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  Speaker 1: this situation, we can't take care of them. Last all
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  Speaker 1: that homeless money that you hear about, all that money,
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  Speaker 1: especially in Los Angeles, that we don't know where it's
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  Speaker 1: gone to. There's zero accounting or accountability on any of this.
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  Speaker 1: It should go to veterans first, women and children, and
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  Speaker 1: then we figure out. But the fact that we have
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  Speaker 1: any veterans, I mean real veterans, not these guys that
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  Speaker 1: are pretending to be veterans to squeeze money out of you.
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  Speaker 1: The ones with the American flags, you're not sure if
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  Speaker 1: they're real or not, or any of those things on
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  Speaker 1: their wheelchairs, and we've all seen it, but in reality
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  Speaker 1: we know they're veterans. Shame on us for allowing any
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  Speaker 1: of them to be on the streets like this and
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  Speaker 1: not giving the best premium care we can under the circumstances.
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  Speaker 1: That's an absolute shame, zero bright spot. The fact that
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  Speaker 1: it gets pushed aside, that it's not priority one throughout
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  Speaker 1: the country is an absolute blemish on America. It has
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  Speaker 1: to be the focus to make sure that they're taken
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  Speaker 1: care of and not homeless on the streets. You can't
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  Speaker 1: do that to people that have lost body parts and
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  Speaker 1: the like defending this country, or even if they opted
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  Speaker 1: in to defend this country. You just got to take
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  Speaker 1: care of them. It's like you know a person by
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  Speaker 1: how they treat animals, you know, yeah, yeah, no person.
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  Speaker 1: You know a country by how they treat those that
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  Speaker 1: have that have dedicated themselves to defend this country. We
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: have to do better. We absolutely have to do better.
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