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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handel on demand from KFI AM 640.
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  Speaker 2: And now, Handel on the News. Ladies and gentlemen, here's
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  Speaker 2: Bill Handel. Hey, good morning, everybody. On a Tuesday morning,
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  Speaker 2: September the 1st, as we start the show. And man,
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  Speaker 2: the weather is getting really weird. Amy, good morning. You'll
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  Speaker 2: be reporting on that in a moment. And that's we
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  Speaker 2: have a tropical storm coming up.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we don't know yet.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's true. And it's there's.
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  Speaker 1: A tropical depression.
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  Speaker 2: That's what we do every morning on this show. Mike,
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  Speaker 2: that's about right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, we can give a weather
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  Speaker 2: report every morning here on the show. We're starting with
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  Speaker 2: a tropical depression. Okay. I was going to say something,
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  Speaker 2: and it just slips my mind. No, it was having
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  Speaker 2: something to do with our weather report. Kono, good morning.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning. It was something I was going to have
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  Speaker 2: you do, but I'll think about it in a moment. Neil,
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  Speaker 2: good morning. Good morning.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning. Good morning.
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  Speaker 2: And there you are. Here I am. Hey, Will, is
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  Speaker 2: that a Costco shirt you're wearing, perchance? You know it, sir.
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  Speaker 2: You get it. $ 15 for a Costco shirt. In the meantime...
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  Speaker 2: A few people, I won't mention who, Ann, actually got
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  Speaker 2: me a Tony Bahama shirt. Or Tommy.
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  Speaker 1: Or Tommy Bahama.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no, Tommy's the real shirt. These are Tony Bahama shirts. No,
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  Speaker 2: I did not. Don't you dare. I know you did.
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  Speaker 2: That is real money. And you know I don't make money,
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  Speaker 2: so that was a big gift for me. That's true. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I have said no gifts. I have said no gifts,
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  Speaker 2: but people still did it, unfortunately, for me. I didn't.
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  Speaker 1: I followed your wishes.
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  Speaker 2: Good for you. Good for you. I mean, that's exactly
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  Speaker 2: what makes me uncomfortable. I mean, no gifts are no gifts. And, Ann, well, Ann,
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  Speaker 2: let me tell you, not only do I appreciate the
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  Speaker 2: fact that you didn't listen to me, but whatever esteem
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  Speaker 2: I had for you has dropped considerably because you didn't
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  Speaker 2: listen to what I wanted or didn't want to happen.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a good gift giver. Yeah, and my wife's the
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  Speaker 2: same way. Ann is a good gift giver. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I go into my closet. I only have like two
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  Speaker 2: or three Costco shirts left. They're being replaced by Tommy
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  Speaker 2: Bahama shirts and Tony Bahama shirts and the Jacks, J-A-X-X,
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  Speaker 2: which are the Costco knockoffs. I'm trying to.
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  Speaker 3: Lindsay is saving one of your shirts, one of your
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  Speaker 3: Costco shirts to bury you in it. And she's going
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  Speaker 3: to say, finally... All those shirts are out of the house.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. Okay. I'm thinking now it was going to be
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  Speaker 2: another drop for Schwitz because we're going to hear it's
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  Speaker 2: going to be pretty Schwitzy out there, isn't it, Amy, today?
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be a little Schwitzy, but the good
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  Speaker 1: news is it's not as hot.
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  Speaker 2: So it's hot, but still it's schvitsy.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's not super schvitsy. I mean, it's just a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more humid than we're used to. But it's not,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's not like being in the deep south.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. So now, well, it's true. Anything's not as, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the bugs down there are as big as your fist.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know why anybody live in the deep south. Now, Kono.
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  Speaker 2: We have to record a couple of more drops that
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  Speaker 2: we're going to the University of Schviziosity.
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  Speaker 3: Can we not?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no, of course we have to. Oh, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: It's Schvitz and Hot, part of the show since the
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  Speaker 2: day it started. Okay? That's it?
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  Speaker 3: Since the day it started.
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  Speaker 2: Since the day it started, we went right into it's
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  Speaker 2: a Schvitz.
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  Speaker 1: So this bit has been going on for 30 years?
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  Speaker 3: More.
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  Speaker 1: Longer.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my God. Longer. That's true. All right. Nice to
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  Speaker 2: be back again. It was, I had, just in case
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  Speaker 2: anybody is at all interested, yesterday, I should have been here,
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  Speaker 2: had all kinds of internet problems yesterday. Just a bear
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  Speaker 2: of a time connecting.
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  Speaker 3: I should just drive in on Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't know that until, didn't know I had that problem
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  Speaker 2: until Sunday night. It was fine until Sunday night.
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  Speaker 3: Then how come I was called Sunday afternoon?
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  Speaker 2: I have no idea why you were called Sunday afternoon. Huh.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe it's, you know, a divining rod came up with that.
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  Speaker 2: I have no idea. All right, guys, we've got a
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  Speaker 2: fair amount of news to talk about today for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Some legal news, of course, some weather news. The weather
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  Speaker 2: doesn't stop. The weather does not stop, especially with these
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  Speaker 2: floods and the people that have died in Nepal. And
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  Speaker 2: there's another one here. It's time for a handle on
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  Speaker 2: the news with Amy, Neil, and me. Lead story. Knock, knock. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: this one is a flash flood through the Grand Canyon,
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  Speaker 2: the bottom of the Grand Canyon. And there are a
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  Speaker 2: couple of campsites down there. I didn't know you could
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  Speaker 2: camp at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. I also
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  Speaker 2: didn't know that anybody actually cared or wanted to camp
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  Speaker 2: at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. I have no idea.
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  Speaker 2: But in any case, two people were killed and a
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  Speaker 2: third still missing. This flood came down, I mean, instantly.
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  Speaker 2: These flash floods, or the reason they call them flash
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  Speaker 2: floods is because they're pretty flashy. More than 80 people
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  Speaker 2: were rescued, most by helicopter, and they're just trying to
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  Speaker 2: figure out who was this, except that they have a
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  Speaker 2: pretty good idea of who was there because people have
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  Speaker 2: to have a permit to camp at the bottom of
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  Speaker 2: the Grand Canyon, and their names are on record. So.
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  Speaker 2: It's happening right now, and one person is unaccounted for.
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  Speaker 2: But whenever they say people are missing, they might as
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  Speaker 2: well just say people are dead. I mean, go ahead, Amy.
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  Speaker 1: Except that yesterday, 15 people were missing, and now just
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  Speaker 1: one is. So they did find a bunch of people.
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  Speaker 1: So that's good news.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I usually reference people who are missing that
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  Speaker 2: were there that were– appeared to be swept away. And
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  Speaker 2: I don't know whether they thought they were missing simply
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  Speaker 2: because there was no access to them, except by helicopter,
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  Speaker 2: or they got swept away. And when people get swept away,
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  Speaker 2: thank you, you're done, which is why you should never
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  Speaker 2: go camping, ever.
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  Speaker 1: Just stay in your house.
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  Speaker 2: That is correct. Stay in your house. And if you
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  Speaker 2: have a two-story house, only stay upstairs. Never go downstairs.
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  Speaker 1: Big, beautiful ballroom construction is back on. The Supreme Court
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  Speaker 1: had a split decision yesterday that allows construction to move
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  Speaker 1: forward indefinitely on the White House ballroom, the above ground
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  Speaker 1: portion of it. So the vote was five to four.
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  Speaker 1: The court granted an emergency request filed by the Trump
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  Speaker 1: administration that blocks lower court rulings that would have put
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  Speaker 1: the above ground portion of the project on hold. So basically,
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  Speaker 1: the The court said, we do not pass upon the
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  Speaker 1: legality of the government's East Wing project. We conclude only
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  Speaker 1: that based on the submissions before us, the government is
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  Speaker 1: likely to prevail in showing that the trust lacks standing
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  Speaker 1: to challenge the project in federal court. So the construction
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  Speaker 1: continue as it plays out in the lower courts. And
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  Speaker 1: there probably won't be a decision until after it's done.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: The injunction was lifted by the court. with Roberts going
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  Speaker 2: to the other side, strangely enough, but it doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 2: It's a 5-4 decision. And this just refers to or
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  Speaker 2: it amplifies the feeling that this court really believes in
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  Speaker 2: presidential power to a great, great degree. And this was
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  Speaker 2: a technical decision. You have to have standing to sue
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  Speaker 2: in court. In other words, you have to have a
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  Speaker 2: case where you are affected and the folks at the
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  Speaker 2: National Preservation or National Trust for Historic Preservation They're saying
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  Speaker 2: that they were not affected. Only Congress really was affected
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  Speaker 2: in the sense that their power was usurped. So they're
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  Speaker 2: going to go ahead and go for the next two weeks.
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  Speaker 2: And even if the court holds that it is illegal
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  Speaker 2: for construction to continue, the administration is going to say, hey,
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  Speaker 2: we're 80 percent done. What are you going to do
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  Speaker 2: about it now? And realistically speaking, the court is not
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  Speaker 2: going to say you've got to stop. You don't have
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  Speaker 2: the authority to go forward. So it's sort of a
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  Speaker 2: done deal. We're going to have that big, beautiful ballroom.
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  Speaker 2: That's going to be big and beautiful. Beautifully big.
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  Speaker 3: And ball-y.
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  Speaker 2: Ball-y, very ball-y, and yes. Okay, one more, we'll take
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  Speaker 2: a break. All right, so Dwayne Keefy D. Davis, guilty
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  Speaker 2: in the 1996 killing of rapper Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas.
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  Speaker 2: marking the very first conviction in a case that has
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  Speaker 2: obviously taken our attention in the hip-hop world for decades
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  Speaker 2: and infamous. So the jury reached its verdict in less
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  Speaker 2: than three hours after Alik's weeks-long trial. So Davis, 63.
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  Speaker 3: Charged of murder with a deadly weapon and intent to
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  Speaker 3: promote further or assist a criminal gang.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, 30 years ago, 30 years ago. Now, what he
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  Speaker 2: should have been convicted is of stupid. That there is
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  Speaker 2: no doubt. Yeah, writing in a book that he did
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  Speaker 2: all of that in terms of setting up Tupac and
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  Speaker 2: setting up Suge Knight, and just admitted all over the
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  Speaker 2: place and then said, oh, no, no, I was just
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  Speaker 2: trying to sell a book. I was just kidding. Well, no, jury.
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  Speaker 2: didn't buy that. So, all right, idiot.
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  Speaker 1: Dan Driscoll's out. The Army secretary has submitted his resignation
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  Speaker 1: to President Trump. This follows months of tension between Driscoll
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  Speaker 1: and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over the direction of the
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  Speaker 1: service and the Elimination of several senior Army officers. Apparently,
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  Speaker 1: they wanted to reduce the number of generals and admirals
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  Speaker 1: by 10 percent, plus have a 20 percent cut to
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  Speaker 1: the number of four-star positions. And Hegseth and Driscoll were
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  Speaker 1: at odds over that. So with Driscoll's departure, the Army
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  Speaker 1: will lack top Senate-confirmed civilian or military leaders.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's going to be– there is going to be
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  Speaker 2: a dearth of top leadership. But this is the way
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  Speaker 2: this is working, this Defense Department or Department that Pete
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  Speaker 2: Hegseth is running. If there is any hint of discussion
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  Speaker 2: or disagreement with the administration, you're gone. You're gone. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's just that simple. Unfortunately, a lot of senior staff
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  Speaker 2: are running scared. They're not going to contradict the Trump administration.
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  Speaker 2: They're just not going to do it. You know, for example,
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  Speaker 2: we have plenty of arms. You know, as the president said,
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  Speaker 2: we are not short of military arms at all. We
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  Speaker 2: have plenty of missiles. We have plenty of drones. And
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  Speaker 2: you can't say no. And so you're hearing no, but
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  Speaker 2: always through sources that will not be named because for
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  Speaker 2: fear of retaliation, which is unfortunately true. That's what's happening.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Lionel Messi has announced his retirement from Argentinian
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  Speaker 3: national team. Stepping away after more than two decades of
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  Speaker 3: putting on the blue and white shirt, he retires with
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  Speaker 3: 125 goals in 207 matches for Argentina. He scored 71
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  Speaker 3: goals in 147 official matches. Yeah, that's just for Argentina,
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  Speaker 3: the national team.
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  Speaker 2: Now, if you talk about the fact that he plays
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  Speaker 2: in the Premier League and the I don't know how
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  Speaker 2: many teams he's played at in first division, like throughout Europe.
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  Speaker 2: For example, Spain has Real Madrid and England has a
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  Speaker 2: Manchester United and has Arsenal, these incredibly credible teams. And
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  Speaker 2: he has scored, I don't know, thousands of goals over
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  Speaker 2: the course of his career.
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  Speaker 1: Well, good thing Bill is headed there to beef up
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  Speaker 1: the population because Italy's population is shrinking. They're expecting that
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  Speaker 1: the population is going to shrink by almost 4 million
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  Speaker 1: people by 2050. Prime Minister Giorgia Maloney said that when
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  Speaker 1: she took office in 2022, boosting the birth rate was
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  Speaker 1: a government priority, but apparently that's not happening. Birth rates
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  Speaker 1: have declined steadily since 2008. Last year, there were just
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  Speaker 1: 355,000 born. That's the lowest number since Italy's unification back
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  Speaker 1: in 1861.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and this is no small deal either. When you
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  Speaker 2: have an aging population and the population is not increasing dramatically,
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  Speaker 2: it's a real problem for the country at large. And
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  Speaker 2: we're going to talk more about that coming up at 8.30.
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  Speaker 2: And the story there is with China. under the mainly
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  Speaker 2: or basically the same circumstances. So that's 8.30 this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Country's population.
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  Speaker 1: Here's a question for you, Bill Handel.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, ma'am.
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  Speaker 1: How are all of these countries having their populations decrease
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  Speaker 1: when the world population is still exploding?
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  Speaker 2: Because what you have are first world countries that the
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  Speaker 2: population is decreasing. Immigration is down. certainly birth rate is
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  Speaker 2: way down. Italy is down. The United States is down.
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  Speaker 2: Japan is probably the lowest. So you're talking about countries
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  Speaker 2: that have money. Now, you go to the third world
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  Speaker 2: countries where basically they have nothing to do but shtup.
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  Speaker 2: That's it. There are no birth control. They don't know
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  Speaker 2: how to do it. You go to Sudan, for example,
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  Speaker 2: birth control there is getting killed. So if you're still alive,
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  Speaker 2: you're going to have kids. And that's that's where it's going.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, the population is it's probably going
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  Speaker 2: to even out at about nine billion. We're at, I think,
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  Speaker 2: eight billion now worldwide population. And that's decreasing pretty dramatically
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  Speaker 2: year by year. So that's why industrialized countries, there's just
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  Speaker 2: they just don't have kids anymore. For a bunch of reasons.
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  Speaker 2: And one of them being, do you want to put
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  Speaker 2: kids into the world today? They do not think of
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  Speaker 2: that in third world countries.
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  Speaker 3: All right. This is an interesting legal story, Bill. A
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  Speaker 3: 17-year-old girl accused of live streaming the deadly attack on
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  Speaker 3: that San Diego mosque is now facing murder charges. She
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  Speaker 3: wasn't even in California. The girl identified only as a
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  Speaker 3: high school student is accused of live streaming the attack
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  Speaker 3: where two gunmen 18 year old, 17 year old, opened
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  Speaker 3: fire at the Islamic Center in San Diego on May 18th.
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  Speaker 3: But the girl knew all this. She knew that the
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  Speaker 3: shooters had intended to follow up on their initial rampage
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  Speaker 3: by committing mass murders at a local Jewish temple and
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  Speaker 3: then a predominantly black high school on the same day.
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  Speaker 3: She was aware of all this. So even though she
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  Speaker 3: wasn't there, she is being accused of murder.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, now I'm going to ask you, and this is
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  Speaker 2: a technology question of which, you know, what a maven
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  Speaker 2: I am in technology. And that is, were they, during
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  Speaker 2: the course of a murder, were they in fact live
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  Speaker 2: streaming to her or they, yeah, they had to be
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  Speaker 2: if it was live.
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  Speaker 3: They had GoPro cameras.
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  Speaker 2: On their helmets. And then they transmitted that to her
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  Speaker 2: and then she put it on the internet. Do I
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  Speaker 2: have that right?
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So she, the law says you have to report that.
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  Speaker 2: And actually, it looks like she had nothing to do
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  Speaker 2: with it other than she knew about it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, she knew the whole plan.
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  Speaker 2: But I don't think she was engaged in planning it,
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  Speaker 2: the murder, because that's conspiracy. So this may be a
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  Speaker 2: little bit of a stretch. saying live streaming is, you know,
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  Speaker 2: for example, if you see a murder being committed in
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  Speaker 2: front of you, do you have a duty to get involved? No.
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  Speaker 2: Do you have a duty to report it? I think so,
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  Speaker 2: if you can report as you're reporting a crime. But
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  Speaker 2: do you know that if, you know, for example, someone
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  Speaker 2: is dying in front of you, a heart attack, literally
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  Speaker 2: dying in front of you, you have absolutely no duty
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  Speaker 2: to call the authorities, paramedics, nothing. You just watch them die.
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  Speaker 3: Really?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So if someone started choking right now and they all
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  Speaker 3: saw it?
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  Speaker 2: That's correct. All you could do is laugh.
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  Speaker 3: What are you eating this morning?
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. See, you could laugh and make fun. You know, hey,
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  Speaker 2: how's that sandwich working out for you, huh?
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  Speaker 3: What about a getaway car? If you knew they were
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  Speaker 3: going in.
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  Speaker 2: The getaway car is part of the crime.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, well.
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  Speaker 2: If you knew a crime was going to be committed.
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  Speaker 2: It's definitely and it doesn't matter what the crime is.
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  Speaker 2: You are guilty of conspiracy. And under the felony murder rule,
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  Speaker 2: if someone gets killed during the course of that crime,
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  Speaker 2: even if you had no idea that was going to
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  Speaker 2: happen or you had been told that it wasn't going
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  Speaker 2: to happen by one of the perpetrators, you're still guilty
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  Speaker 2: of the felony murder rule. You are guilty as they are.
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  Speaker 1: State farms being sued.
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  Speaker 2: L.A.
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  Speaker 1: County has filed a lawsuit against State Farm Insurance. The
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  Speaker 1: lawsuit alleges State Farm engaged in illegal and deceptive practices
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  Speaker 1: that kept victims of the Palisades and Eaton fires from
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  Speaker 1: getting what they were entitled to under their policies. County
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  Speaker 1: officials say there were systematic underpayments. Officials say they also
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  Speaker 1: found that State Farm had illegally suppressed smoke damage claims.
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  Speaker 1: State Farm says it's paid out over $ 6 billion and
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  Speaker 1: didn't do anything wrong.
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  Speaker 2: We've been hearing about this literally since days after the fire.
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  Speaker 2: And the accusation was the insurance companies were doing exactly
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  Speaker 2: this with State Farm, from my understanding, being at the
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  Speaker 2: top of the heap. And so they paid out $ 6 billion. Okay, terrific.
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  Speaker 2: What if $ 7 billion were filed and a billion of
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  Speaker 2: it should have been filed, should have been paid and didn't? So...
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  Speaker 2: We'll see what happens with that one. I think these
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  Speaker 2: suits are going to prevail, personally, because there's too many stories,
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  Speaker 2: way too many stories of complaints.
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  Speaker 3: What a lousy neighbor.
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  Speaker 2: All righty.
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  Speaker 3: California lawmakers have approved a bill that seeks to throw
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  Speaker 3: a lifeline to the state's struggling journalism organizations. This is
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  Speaker 3: an interesting one, Bill. It's simply Bill 2222. It basically
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  Speaker 3: creates this refundable tax credit to California local news organizations. Now,
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  Speaker 3: this is based on the number of journalists they employ.
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  Speaker 3: And this is, you know, one of a bunch of
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  Speaker 3: bills on Gav's desk right now. But the state Senate
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  Speaker 3: passed the bill on Sunday and the assembly nearly approved
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  Speaker 3: its amendments on yesterday, just yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: So.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so the KFI newsroom will be getting some help.
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  Speaker 2: Wait a minute. Hold on a minute. Okay, let's move on.
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  Speaker 3: But the thing that is interesting here, it says there's
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  Speaker 3: a bunch of news outlets apparently that are struggling, but
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  Speaker 3: it doesn't name any. It doesn't name. any where this
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  Speaker 3: is needed.
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  Speaker 2: How about this? How about this? All of them?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Burbank's butt sniffer is back, this time in Glendale. The
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  Speaker 1: guy's a registered sex offender, has a years-long history of
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  Speaker 1: sniffing women's butts in public. This time he was caught
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  Speaker 1: hunkered down inside some businesses in Southern California. Police said
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  Speaker 1: that apparently he was sniffing someone out. Glendale police were
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  Speaker 1: called to a business on Glen Oaks Boulevard on Friday afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: And there was a suspicious man lurking inside. And then
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  Speaker 1: a little while later, they got another call that came
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  Speaker 1: in from the marshals on Brand Boulevard. Apparently, same guy.
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  Speaker 1: So they tracked the guy down after looking at surveillance cameras.
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  Speaker 1: And yes, it is, they claim, 39-year-old Khalees Crowder, who's
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  Speaker 1: been convicted of doing this.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't understand the crime here because butt sniffing
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: is just another way of saying hello. Does anybody have dogs?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, what if, Bill, he believes in reincarnation and he
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  Speaker 3: came back as a human, but he was a dog
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  Speaker 3: in the last life?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, once again.
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  Speaker 3: Could he argue that?
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  Speaker 2: And the other thing is, and I heard this, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if it's true or not, but isn't this
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  Speaker 2: the way that lesbians say hello to each other? No. No?
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 3: Is it true that his last name is Crowder?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: That seems odd. Crowder. Crowder, my bad.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, moving on.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Tim Cook is out. The cook has left
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: the kitchen. Tim Cook stepping away and stepping down as
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: Apple CEO on Monday. He becomes one of those other,
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: they have all these like different executive chair or all
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: these different, he'll become something there. But he wrote a
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  Speaker 3: very interesting note to employees talking about sharing a belief
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  Speaker 3: that what We build matters, quoted Steve Jobs referring to
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  Speaker 3: leaving a dent in the universe and that what they
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  Speaker 3: did truly mattered and that they were all fortunate. He
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  Speaker 3: felt fortunate to have that opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he also probably felt fortunate to be worth hundreds
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  Speaker 2: of millions of dollars, if not more, as a CEO.
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  Speaker 2: But Jobs gets all the credit, of course, for creating Apple,
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  Speaker 2: which he should be. But Tim Cook is the one
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  Speaker 2: who brought Apple to being at various times the most
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  Speaker 2: valuable company on the planet under his leadership.
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  Speaker 3: Often it could be harder, that second.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: No, no.
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  Speaker 2: He has extraordinary, extraordinary management skills. And he was handpicked
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  Speaker 2: by Jobs from what I understand. All right. Let's do
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  Speaker 2: one more and then we will take our last break
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: of the hour.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: Kalshi has permanently banned ex-Congressman George Santos. The ex-Congressman has
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: been bumped from Kalshi's prediction market platform. Why? Because he
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: didn't cooperate with companies investigation into unlawful trades that he
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: allegedly made. I remember he apparently made some money off
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  Speaker 1: trades on whether he was going to attend the State
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  Speaker 1: of the Union address in 2026 and made bets.
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  Speaker 2: On Whether he was going to go or not. Whether
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: he was going to be there or not. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That's a little, that's disquieting. You think that's a little unfair?
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  Speaker 1: That's insider trading, right?
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah. That's about as insider as it gets. I'm betting
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: that I'm not going to show up. Oh, you didn't
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: show up and you made money on that.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: Well, I think at first he was hinting that he
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: was going to be there.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: And maybe that was part of his plan to make money. Yeah.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: They hit him pretty hard. Thirty five thousand dollar settlement.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: And then there was a ton of money, I think,
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  Speaker 2: that had to be returned or he had to give up.
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  Speaker 3: The singer David, spelled with the four, as we all remember,
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  Speaker 3: has dropped his high power legal team and will now
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  Speaker 3: be represented by the Los Angeles County Public Defender's Office
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  Speaker 3: on charges that he repeatedly sexually assaulted a teenage fan
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  Speaker 3: before killing her. And as we know, dismembering her corpse
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  Speaker 3: to cover up the sex abuse, put her in the
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  Speaker 3: back of his Tesla. And that's where she was discovered.
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  Speaker 3: He's 21 years old. His actual name is David Anthony Burke.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's– you never know. You could certainly cover up
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  Speaker 2: committing murder by dismembering someone and put them in pieces
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  Speaker 2: around the murder site. That works really well, doesn't it?
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  Speaker 2: And he was accused of effectively raping her while she
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: was a minor. And so he was looking at a
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: lot of problems. What is interesting about this, you know,
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: in order to get a PD, you have to basically
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: show abject poverty that you cannot afford an attorney. And
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: he got millions of dollars when he was performing and
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: in record contracts.
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  Speaker 1: So has he already spent all of that?
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  Speaker 2: He must have, because if you have money, you're not
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  Speaker 2: going to get the PD as part and parcel of
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  Speaker 2: your defense.
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  Speaker 3: No one's saying any of this, though.
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  Speaker 2: But that's the rules. Those are the rules. You cannot
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  Speaker 2: get a PD unless you're broke and can't afford representation.
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  Speaker 3: That's an expensive question.
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  Speaker 2: The Miranda warnings. say, you know, we will supply an
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  Speaker 2: attorney for you. And what does it start with? If
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: you cannot afford an attorney, we will, the state will
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: supply an attorney to you.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Dogs on the job. Well, kind of dogs. The U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Immigration and Customs Enforcement is planning to spend up to
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: $ 2 million on spot robot dogs. They're from Boston Dynamics.
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  Speaker 1: They're designed to enter potentially dangerous or suspicious locations that
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  Speaker 1: are too risky for an ICE officer to go. They've
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  Speaker 1: already been used by two of the nation's largest police departments.
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  Speaker 1: I think we've got them in L.A. because I remember
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  Speaker 1: there was a night where they sent like a robot
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: dog in for something. The Secret Service was seen using
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  Speaker 1: them at President Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in 2024. ICE says
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  Speaker 1: these are not attack dogs. They're intended to help keep
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  Speaker 1: officers out of harm's way and access dangerous situations.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there have been robots that have done that for
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  Speaker 2: a long time. Bomb squad. Yeah, they look like little
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: tanks is what they do with the arm, the articulated arm.
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  Speaker 2: So they've been around. Have you seen video of these dogs?
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  Speaker 2: They're really neat. Yeah, they're trained to do exactly that.
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  Speaker 2: And they're trained to smell each other's butts. which is
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  Speaker 2: very unusual.
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  Speaker 3: That's a funny thing to point out that we're in
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  Speaker 3: a world today where the dogs don't sniff butts.
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  Speaker 1: But the people do.
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  Speaker 3: Yay us. All right. UCLA has fired the athletic director,
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: director Martin Jarman and appointed a longtime Lakers executive, Tim
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: Harris to replace him as chief executive and director of athletics.
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  Speaker 3: So They say that Tim will develop a new strategy
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  Speaker 3: to grow revenue through partnerships, licensing and other ventures. Well,
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: ensuring you have to add this, that our student athletes
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: and coaches have the required support to compete at the
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: highest level.
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  Speaker 2: Hard to believe that UCLA, the sports is losing money
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: because usually the athletic department of any major university is
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: the big moneymaker for the school. You know, they can, well, UCLA,
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: when it plays SC, don't they just fill up the
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: Rose Bowl? Are they still doing Rose Bowl at that game,
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: UCLA-USC game? Yeah. I mean, that's 90,000 people in that place,
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  Speaker 2: or 75,000 people. And then the boosters, you have all
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: these business people that boost the games and sponsors. And
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: pay the players under the table, of course.
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: Oh, give that mom a house or something like that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Although it's kind of interesting. We should do a
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  Speaker 2: story on that soon because how you now have student
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: athletes in school getting paid huge amounts of money. But
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  Speaker 2: to their credit, they're saying, hey, people are not coming
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  Speaker 2: in to go to see UCLA game because of just UCLA.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: They're coming to see me. And you do have these
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: massive stars who players that are just known Heisman winners,
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  Speaker 2: that sort of thing, that are not getting a dime
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  Speaker 2: and they're creating a lot of business for the school.
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  Speaker 1: I never went to a college football game to see
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  Speaker 1: one player. I went to support my team.
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  Speaker 2: How much money did you give the school?
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Well, I went to school there. I don't know how
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: much I gave them.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: Well, I understand. But if you had a kid, would
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: you give millions of dollars to the school? No. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: There you go.
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  Speaker 1: I don't understand your point.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. I have no point. I didn't, I didn't understand
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  Speaker 2: my point.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Let's finish it up.
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: Hey, at least they're conserving water. There's a new thing
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: called pheromone maxing. Some Gen Z men are taking a
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: tick tock. They said they're skipping their showers. One guy
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: says I stopped washing my hair at all. And now I, I,
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: get more compliments on how it smells and I get
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: more looks from women. He says pheromone maxing is key.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: So don't shower. Don't use deodorant. Don't wash your hair.
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: Here comes Stinky Pete.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And now we're going back. to the butt sniffing story.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: There we go. It all circles back.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: It all circles back. As Shakespeare once said, to sniff
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: a butt or to not sniff a butt. That is
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  Speaker 2: the question.
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: Well, with all this smells, we have to end on this.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we do.
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: The last story. So, Old person smell is real, apparently.
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  Speaker 3: And so science says that, you know, your favorite grandmother,
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: how they smelled, or grandfather, how they smelled. Some describe
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: it as like an old book or something. something vintage
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: well it is real apparently it's an actual biological phenomenon
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: caused by an epidermal um change that happens when people
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: age after 40 you start aging aging and then you
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: get this aging odor that they say aldehyde is the
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: name of it but the production of aldehyde and it
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: makes um You know, them smell different, kind of like
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  Speaker 3: old cardboard.
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  Speaker 1: A distinctive dusty granny smell. It does.
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  Speaker 2: But you also had, when I was a kid, my
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: grandmother and my dad later on in life... They smelled
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: like mothballs because that was what they put in the closet.
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: You've smelled mothballs? By the way, it's not easy to
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: smell a mothball, by the way. Just getting your nose
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: in there is very, very difficult. Getting their legs apart? Yeah,
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: it's a tough one. Those old mothballs. The pheromones, those
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: mothball pheromones. Okay, I think we end on that note.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: Why not? Yeah, that's what this show is all about.
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: It's classy. OK, coming up, the story about those electric
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: shock gloves and what California is doing on a couple
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: of levels of, of course, with its fight against ICE.
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  Speaker 2: We'll start with that when we come back. KFI AM 640.
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