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Newsome mulls sparing lives of all 563 prisoners on death row · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM 640, the Bill Handel show
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  Speaker 1: on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
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  Speaker 2: 22 days from now is the midterm election. And boy,
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  Speaker 2: is that fascinating. Republicans are losing their, well, disadvantage and
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  Speaker 2: they're being disadvantaged at a much faster pace. We'll talk
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  Speaker 2: about that. And that made absolutely no sense what I
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  Speaker 2: just said.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: A couple of stories. We're looking at a couple of
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  Speaker 2: death penalty stories. One of them, Of course, Pete Hegseth
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  Speaker 2: has decided that Abdul Nassan or Hassan, the Fort Hood shooter,
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  Speaker 2: is going to be executed, which we know that, December 3rd,
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  Speaker 2: but he wants to live stream it. Well, we don't
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  Speaker 2: know about that. Also, Krista Pike, who survived Tennessee's attempt
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  Speaker 2: to execute her by lethal injection. Two hits of phenobarbital,
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  Speaker 2: she survived. That's never happened before. So now the issue
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  Speaker 2: of capital punishment in general has come up all over
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  Speaker 2: the country where governors and various lawmakers, legislators, and even
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  Speaker 2: the general public is reexamining the death penalty and saying, oops,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. It used to be that those in
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  Speaker 2: favor of the death penalty was in the 60s or 70s.
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  Speaker 2: percentage in the United States. Now that's dropped to 53%.
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  Speaker 2: So the death penalty is losing traction big time. And
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  Speaker 2: now let's move to California because Newsom, our governor, who
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  Speaker 2: has put a moratorium on executions, that means that he's
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  Speaker 2: not commuting. He's not stopping execution. He just says during
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  Speaker 2: my term, there will be no executions. And if Xavier
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  Speaker 2: Becerra wins the governorship, which he's going to, He's going
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  Speaker 2: to continue that same philosophy moratorium. Well, now Newsom is
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  Speaker 2: considering doing away with it completely. Now, he can't do
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  Speaker 2: away with it, but he can commute every single sentence.
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  Speaker 2: 563 death row inmates are sitting on death row right now.
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  Speaker 2: And it takes, well, today it takes like 30 years
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  Speaker 2: to be executed. They all die way, way before they're executed.
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  Speaker 2: So we don't do many executions in this state. It
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  Speaker 2: just doesn't happen, nor will it happen, even if the
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  Speaker 2: commutations are off the table. But he's looking at it.
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  Speaker 2: He's really looking at it. Now comes the question, because
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  Speaker 2: it's all political. Now, he talks about the morality of it.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think many legislators have morality in their names.
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  Speaker 2: I think they are political, and all decisions are made
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  Speaker 2: based on politics. So he has to decide. And let's
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  Speaker 2: say I'm going to give him a benefit of the doubt.
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  Speaker 2: He thinks it's wrong. Now, what does he do? Does
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  Speaker 2: he commute all those sentences and take them off the table?
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  Speaker 2: Which means that the inmates now automatically go life imprisonment
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  Speaker 2: without possibility of parole. And is he going to alienate,
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  Speaker 2: especially middle America, who are really in favor of the
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  Speaker 2: death penalty? Would I vote, stop my vote for Newsom
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  Speaker 2: if I were to vote for Newsom based on his commutation? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'd think twice. I like the death penalty. I like
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  Speaker 2: it not only for retribution. Those that say it is
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  Speaker 2: some kind of the death penalty somehow makes people rethink
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  Speaker 2: it and it stops, somehow influences criminals. It doesn't. No,
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't. You're still going to see the same amount
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  Speaker 2: of murders. But the death penalty in and of itself,
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  Speaker 2: that's fairly controversial, especially the way people are killed. Because
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  Speaker 2: there's lawsuit after lawsuit, cruel and unusual punishment. That's how
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  Speaker 2: they got away with no more hangings anymore. No more, well,
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  Speaker 2: I think Utah was the last state that allowed execution
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  Speaker 2: by way of firing squad, although the feds still allow it.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what's going to happen to Hassan. So it's
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  Speaker 2: a question of people survive and how much pain are
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  Speaker 2: they in? And the only one to now come out
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  Speaker 2: of that and can testify to that pain is Krista Pike.
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  Speaker 2: And what's she going to say? She doesn't remember anything.
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  Speaker 2: She was unconscious.
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  Speaker 3: She was snoring.
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 3: She was snoring.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, she was. And then they said, whoops. She was
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  Speaker 2: on life support for a period of time. Then they
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  Speaker 2: took her off life support when they found her breathing.
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  Speaker 2: And then she woke up and she's walking and she's talking.
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  Speaker 2: So what do they do about the death penalty?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to change, which is too bad, by the way.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, the United States and I think South
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  Speaker 2: Africa are the only two countries left in the world
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  Speaker 2: other than Saudi Arabia and North Korea and some Arab
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  Speaker 2: countries that still do the death penalty. But, you know,
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  Speaker 2: first world countries, they've all done away with it, except
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  Speaker 2: the United States. And these countries don't understand that it's
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  Speaker 2: not a question of morality when it comes to the
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  Speaker 2: death penalty. It's a question of entertainment. And they've given
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  Speaker 2: up the concept of how entertaining the death penalty is.
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  Speaker 3: How come you never got into politics?
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's a good point. I should have. What's
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  Speaker 2: my platform? I don't even know.
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  Speaker 3: Carnival Barker.
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  Speaker 2: Come ye all, see an execution. Step right up. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: election deniers. Oh, you're going to hear a lot of
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  Speaker 2: that coming up in the next few weeks. And I'll
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  Speaker 2: talk about what election deniers are doing in terms of
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  Speaker 2: public records. We'll come back with that.
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  Speaker 4: You're listening to Bill Handel on demand from KFI AM 640.
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  Speaker 2: It's Monday, October 12th, 22 more days until the midterms. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: talking about the midterms, what's going to end up happening? Well,
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  Speaker 2: it looks like the Republicans are going to get their
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  Speaker 2: clock cleaned. Or is it they're cleaning or clocking their
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  Speaker 2: cleaning supplies? I know it's one of those. So here's
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  Speaker 2: what you're going to hear, and I'm convinced of this,
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  Speaker 2: is those districts in which I have historically gone Republican
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  Speaker 2: and are now gone Democrat, you will hear the term
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  Speaker 2: fraudulent vote. Rigged election over and over again. Now, keep
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  Speaker 2: in mind, there is no such thing as a free
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  Speaker 2: election if the Democrats win or if the Republicans win.
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  Speaker 2: They do so in spite of a rigged election. The
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  Speaker 2: only free election in this country is a Republican win.
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  Speaker 2: That's what election deniers basically say. And a lot of
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  Speaker 2: these election deniers are using a tool that all of
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  Speaker 2: us can use, but they do it very effectively, and
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  Speaker 2: that is using public records. Filing for information requests, public
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  Speaker 2: information requests. And anyone can have the legal right to
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  Speaker 2: request government documents under the California public records law, but
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  Speaker 2: the election fraud activists have a history of using information
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  Speaker 2: obtained from these public agencies. to add to their veneer
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  Speaker 2: of credibility. And we have seen, for example, the entire Georgia,
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  Speaker 2: Fulton County, Georgia, every single ballot has been picked up
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  Speaker 2: and has been recounted. Of course, there's nothing of it.
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  Speaker 2: And then you had Chad Bianco, right? Riverside County sheriffs.
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  Speaker 2: He picked up 650 ballots from last November's election. The
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  Speaker 2: FBI said, Just went to the Shasta County to inspect
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  Speaker 2: the June primary ballots.
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  Speaker 1: Why?
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  Speaker 2: Because of election fraud. Because if a Democrat wins, it's
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  Speaker 2: just that simple. It is fraud. Americans only want Republicans
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  Speaker 2: to win. Okay, that is a fact. When you hear
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  Speaker 2: about the attack of democracy, that is a myth. There
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  Speaker 2: isn't no attack on democracy because democracy is when Republicans win.
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  Speaker 2: That's our democracy now. And election deniers, well, where does
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  Speaker 2: it start? Where did it come from? And once again,
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  Speaker 2: you are going to hear rigged. And when is that
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  Speaker 2: going to happen? Well, we're 22 days out. And I
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  Speaker 2: think it's going to happen either close to or right
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  Speaker 2: after the election. Now, interestingly enough, there is no election
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  Speaker 2: fraud when a Republican wins. That doesn't exist. Republicans do
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  Speaker 2: not commit fraud. It's almost impossible because Republicans are among
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  Speaker 2: the most honest people on the planet. They would never,
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  Speaker 2: never involve themselves in election fraud or rigging an election.
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  Speaker 2: It is only the Democrats that do that. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's not crazy. If I did that topic four years ago,
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  Speaker 2: eight years ago, when I said there are major, we're
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  Speaker 2: talking about major politicians, including the president, who have said,
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  Speaker 2: if a Democrat wins, it's rigged. You would have said,
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  Speaker 2: I'm crazy. That's not the way America works. Well, that's
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  Speaker 2: the way America works, unfortunately. And you have these election-denying organizations,
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  Speaker 2: and some of them are within government. One of the
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  Speaker 2: biggest election fraud, election deniers, He is head of the
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  Speaker 2: Civil Rights Commission of the Justice Department, one of the
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  Speaker 2: premier election deniers. It is– it's completely crazy. Last month
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  Speaker 2: there was the Shasta County Register of Voters, Clint Curtis,
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  Speaker 2: and he hinted about the election fraud movements and goal
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  Speaker 2: to get this all information of election fraud in front
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  Speaker 2: of President Trump, who then and the argument is invalidate
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  Speaker 2: the election. I mean, that's what happened in 2020. He
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  Speaker 2: specifically ordered Mike Pence, his vice president, to not certify
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  Speaker 2: the election based on the fact that it was fraudulent.
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  Speaker 2: And somehow under some crazy-ass legal concept that I think
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  Speaker 2: is Charles Eastman. who former dean of Chapman College, actually
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  Speaker 2: a constitutional scholar, came up with this crackpot scheme that
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  Speaker 2: if the vice president doesn't certify, which the vice president
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  Speaker 2: has to do, then Trump remains the president. And if
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  Speaker 2: there is never certification, then he is always the president.
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  Speaker 2: And there will always be a vice president that he
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  Speaker 2: can order not to certify. I mean, just insanity. But
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  Speaker 2: that's what's going on. And we're going to see the
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  Speaker 2: same thing happen. Now, the good news here is that
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  Speaker 2: the election rigging argument, I think, is getting less and
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  Speaker 2: less traction. I think Americans are just sick of it.
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  Speaker 2: They're just sick of it. They're done with it. And
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  Speaker 2: there's still the MAGA followers who believe the election is rigged,
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  Speaker 2: that it will always be rigged if a Democrat wins.
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  Speaker 2: And now you're going to see, well, wait till the
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  Speaker 2: Republicans are trounced, which it looks like it's going to happen. Now,
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  Speaker 2: it's not certain because polls have been wrong. The biggest
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  Speaker 2: one was Truman versus Dewey in the election of 1952,
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  Speaker 2: where all the polls showed Dewey to be the former
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  Speaker 2: governor of New York. to win the election for the president.
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  Speaker 2: And you saw Truman with that huge headline from the
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  Speaker 2: Chicago Tribune holding it up, and it says, Dewey wins.
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  Speaker 2: They had printed it before the count. And he's grinning
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  Speaker 2: like a Cheshire cat. All right, moving on. Unfortunately, we're
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  Speaker 2: going to be talking about that again, and that really
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  Speaker 2: pisses me off. But let's talk about award shows and
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  Speaker 2: why they are so important. I don't know what's the
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  Speaker 2: word I'm looking for. Incredibly stupid. And what's happening to them. Uh, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: things are a changing as, uh, Bob Dylan, uh, used
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  Speaker 2: to say, we'll be right back.
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  Speaker 4: You're listening to bill handle on demand from KFI AM
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  Speaker 4: six 40.
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  Speaker 2: And the storm for the most part is over. Although, uh,
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  Speaker 2: the orange County coastline, man, what a mess. Newport Huntington beach, uh,
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  Speaker 2: That entire area of the seashore has been wiped out.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of homes used to be worth millions of dollars.
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  Speaker 2: You can grab right now for the sale price of $ 9. 99.
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  Speaker 2: And that's the weather. That's climate change, which does not
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  Speaker 2: exist at all. Okay, the network TV shows, and we're
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  Speaker 2: talking about the award shows. Now, I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: you watch award shows. I don't because I think they're
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  Speaker 2: fairly dumb. People that watch award shows, why do they
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  Speaker 2: do it? Well, because they get to see movie stars
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  Speaker 2: that you never see talk in real life to become
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  Speaker 2: real people. If you're into the fashions, of course, the
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  Speaker 2: women go crazy on that red carpet. The questions are
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  Speaker 2: actually the questions that these reporters asked are absolutely brilliant.
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  Speaker 2: I remember last year, one reporter was asking one of
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  Speaker 2: the stars about celestial navigation and how it works. And
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  Speaker 2: the star answered brilliantly because having had a PhD in
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  Speaker 2: celestial navigation, Well, oh no, I got that wrong. I'm sorry. It's, yes,
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  Speaker 2: I loved working with my co-star. And yes, it's like
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  Speaker 2: the ballplayers. Why'd you win? Well, you put our game
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  Speaker 2: faces on. And it's just stupid. And then when an
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  Speaker 2: award is received, you get five minutes of recitation. I
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  Speaker 2: want to thank my lawyer. I want to thank my agent.
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  Speaker 2: I want to thank the producers. I want to thank
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  Speaker 2: the director who gave me a great script. I want
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  Speaker 2: to thank my mother. All right, stop it already. So
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  Speaker 2: they're kind of dumb. And it's three hours long, you
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  Speaker 2: hear that. Well, the networks are bailing. They're out of it.
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  Speaker 2: Falling ratings, high fees, done. Now, the Grammys are the
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  Speaker 2: only exception. ABC still is involved with the Grammys in 2027.
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  Speaker 2: They take it. But everybody else is gone. Even the Oscars,
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  Speaker 2: the granddaddy of all of them, the big one, that's
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  Speaker 2: gone off the air and is now going to streaming.
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  Speaker 2: And the Emmys and the Oscars, your favorite stars and
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  Speaker 2: designer clothes, you get to hear how unbelievably dumb most
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  Speaker 2: stars are, although there are some that are really smart
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  Speaker 2: that come from high-end universities. You go, wow. Most, not
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  Speaker 2: so much. So these shows have become money losers. And
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  Speaker 2: the network TV business with a decline in viewers, which
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  Speaker 2: means a decline in money coming in or cutting them loose.
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  Speaker 2: The TV Academy just announced a six-year deal with Amazon,
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  Speaker 2: Prime Video. Amazon is going to be home of the
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  Speaker 2: Emmy Awards next year after 70 years of airing on
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  Speaker 2: broadcast network. The Oscars, the big one. They're going to
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  Speaker 2: YouTube in 2029. ABC passed on renewing its rights deals.
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  Speaker 2: They had the option. That ends a relationship dating back
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  Speaker 2: to 1961. The Screen Actors Guild Award, now known as
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  Speaker 2: the Actors Award, also known as the next dumb award
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  Speaker 2: show of the many that you can't even list anymore,
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  Speaker 2: they moved to Netflix in 2024. The Academy of Country
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  Speaker 2: Music Awards— has been on prime time video since 2022.
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  Speaker 2: I've been on prime video since 2022. The shows don't
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  Speaker 2: deliver anymore. People are watching, are listening differently. People, over 50%
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  Speaker 2: of the viewing audience now does it on devices. And
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  Speaker 2: they watch snippets. And that's just the way it works.
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  Speaker 2: And these three-hour events... that are being broadcast by network channels,
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't work. And so basically you're done. Even ABC
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  Speaker 2: considered dropping the Oscars. But who was the person that
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  Speaker 2: changed his mind on this one? Former Walt Disney chief
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  Speaker 2: executive Bob Iker, who started his career at ABC. He said,
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  Speaker 2: now we're still keeping it. He liked the prestige. So,
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  Speaker 2: you know, where do you go with this? Well, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know. I don't watch any of the awards. Do you, Neil? No. Amy,
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  Speaker 2: do you watch the awards? I usually do, yeah. But
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  Speaker 2: I don't enjoy them. I used to like them more.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Anne, do you watch the awards?
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  Speaker 3: I do.
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  Speaker 2: The Academy Awards. Yeah, the Emmys. Yeah, I enjoy them. Tony,
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  Speaker 2: wake up!
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  Speaker 1: Tony!
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  Speaker 2: Tony! Do you watch the awards? Never. That's because he
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  Speaker 2: sleeps through them like he sleeps through this show. Tony is, uh, Will,
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  Speaker 2: do you watch the awards?
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  Speaker 4: Hello?
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  Speaker 3: I used to more than I do now. Maybe the Oscars,
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  Speaker 3: but that's about it.
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  Speaker 2: That's the point.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That is the point is that even people who like
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  Speaker 2: the Oscars don't watch the Oscars or watch for a
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  Speaker 2: limited amount of time.
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  Speaker 3: And the kids are changing. My nine-year-old could name the
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  Speaker 3: five top YouTubers but couldn't name one actor. I guarantee it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Life has changed. Okay. I want to finish up the
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  Speaker 2: show with the worst airline for bumping passengers. I didn't
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  Speaker 2: even know that was happening. And I've been on airplanes
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  Speaker 2: where this has happened or something close to this. And
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  Speaker 2: which airline do you think is at fault? Which is
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  Speaker 2: the worst airline? And it's not an Ethiopian airline. It's
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  Speaker 2: not Air Ethiopia where they serve gruel for your meal.
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  Speaker 2: We'll be right back. I'll explain as we finish the show.
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  Speaker 4: You're listening to Bill Handel On Demand from KFI AM640.
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  Speaker 2: Back, and it's a Monday morning, October 12th. And one
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  Speaker 2: of the big stories we are covering is the weather
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  Speaker 2: or it was the weather, Rachel. And what's that other
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  Speaker 2: storm in the IZS? I have never, the name is
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  Speaker 2: weird on that. What was the name of that? It
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  Speaker 2: hit the East coast more than it did is we're
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  Speaker 2: Rachel and.
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  Speaker 3: A CC, a CCS. What was it? I see. I
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  Speaker 3: was just, I don't know, but it's, it's good. With
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  Speaker 3: sushi and great with baseball.
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  Speaker 2: There you go. In any case, the aftermath of the storm,
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  Speaker 2: and it's pretty brutal, especially along the Orange County beaches. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: this is something I want to end with, and I've
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  Speaker 2: never seen this happen. and I didn't even know it
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  Speaker 2: does happen, but American Airlines is going to stop involuntarily
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  Speaker 2: bumping passengers from flights. I have no idea it was around,
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  Speaker 2: and it is the worst airline for bumping passengers. I
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  Speaker 2: am talking about passengers who have tickets, who are in
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  Speaker 2: their seats. And American Airlines walks in and bumps them,
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  Speaker 2: oversold and said, you're out of here, and puts in
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  Speaker 2: either someone who's paid a lot more for the seat
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  Speaker 2: or one of those gold card members who fly a
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  Speaker 2: zillion miles a year. Now, I have been in airplanes
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  Speaker 2: where it has been overbooked, and the female stewardess comes
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  Speaker 2: aboard on the microphone on the PA system and says,
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  Speaker 2: we've overbooked, and we need two seats, and then starts
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  Speaker 2: auctioning off those seats. And everybody just sits down, and now—
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  Speaker 2: We'll give you a free first-class ticket to the next
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  Speaker 2: destination if you give us your seat. Nothing. We'll give
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  Speaker 2: you $ 400 plus a first-class ticket plus a hotel tonight
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  Speaker 2: to put you on a flight tomorrow. Inevitably, someone raises
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  Speaker 2: their hands and goes, okay, because they can hang on
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  Speaker 2: for a day and get all of the amenities. American
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  Speaker 2: Airlines used to throw people off the airplane. There was
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  Speaker 2: one case in which a doctor was being thrown off
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  Speaker 2: and a fight ensued and it made absolutely no sense. Well,
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: they're stopping that. I didn't even know it was legal
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: to do that. I can see the auctioning off the seat.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: And now what they're doing is when they've overbooked, the
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: announcement comes on in the waiting area at the gate,
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: which a lot of airlines have done. And it's happened
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: to me once. And the reason I said the $ 400
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: plus the first class ticket, plus overnight stay at the hotel.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: I was in the airplane when that happened. And they
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: first started with, we'll give you a free ticket.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 2: All right, we'll give you a free first-class ticket. No.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: No one raises their hands. First-class ticket plus hotel stay. No.
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  Speaker 2: Plus $ 400. Then it went up. Finally, someone said, yeah,
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: I'll take it. That works, but in volume- They can't
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: because they always overbook because inevitably someone doesn't show up.
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: Well, that's like anything. You're going to do that with
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: a concert too.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's, but you, if you over, it makes sense
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: to overbook because what will happen, people don't show up
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  Speaker 2: and that seat goes empty. Although if they've paid for
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: the ticket up front. You know, they've paid for it.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: No, no.
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  Speaker 2: I have no problem with airlines overbooking. But if they
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: do overbook and they need to fill those seats or
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: if someone is in the seat and they need to
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: fill it, OK, auction off those seats. And people, as
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: I said, I've seen people pay for it. So I
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: had no idea. The reason I started talking about this,
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: because American Airlines is going to stop it. I didn't
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: know American Airlines did it. And it looks like airlines
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: do it with American Airlines being the worst at it. Well,
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: those days are gone. And for those of you that
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: are going to fly and the seats are overbooked and
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: you're sitting down, hold off because they just keep on
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: going and going and going with the money and the
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: tickets and the amenities. All right, guys, we are done.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: Nice to be back. And tomorrow morning, I am back.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: Kono is no longer with us. Kono has left the show.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's not dead.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: No, but he has taken a job with a much better, well, frankly,
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: more money and better benefits. He is now working at
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: Adele Taco. Would you like fries with that?
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: Hey, your voice sounds familiar.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: It certainly does. Although he runs the cash register because
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: he's so good with the buttons and runs the machines.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: All right. And then so Tony has been filling any
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: will for Mondays for a little while. And then our
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: new guy, Mario, comes in tomorrow and we're going to
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: say hello to Mario. And I've already asked Mario and
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: I've told him you're not going to last a week.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: And are you already training your replacement? Hey, welcome to
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: the show. Coming up, Gary and Shannon. And we come
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: back tomorrow. Amy and Neil and Will and Mario, our
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: new guy, and me. Nice to be back, sort of.
• 24:30
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