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Handel on the News · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handel on demand from KFI AM 640.
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  Speaker 1: And now, Handel on the News. Ladies and gentlemen, here's
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  Speaker 1: not Bill Handel. Oh, God, so custom. What do they
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  Speaker 1: call that kind of bespoke? Tailored just for me? KFI
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  Speaker 1: AM 640. Excuse me. Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
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  Speaker 1: Good Friday morning to you. Neil Saavedra and the Morning Crew.
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  Speaker 1: Handel is out. He's on his safari with his new bride.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to go to Africa. They're going to see animals.
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  Speaker 1: Handel's gone before. Linz has not. So that should be
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  Speaker 1: a nice treat to be gone for a couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 1: But we've got you here. Tons of things to get
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  Speaker 1: to per use. Amy King.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Gosh, what is today? It's Friday the 25th. Friday, September 25th.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it's Dolly Parton Day.
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  Speaker 1: Is that what? Oh, yeah, it's 9 to 5, right? Yep,
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  Speaker 1: 9 to 5. 9 to 5, Dolly Parton Day. But
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  Speaker 1: I feel like something else is going on today. Uh...
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  Speaker 1: What do you have planned today?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I was thinking about jumping off a building.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. That's it. We're going to go rappelling off
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  Speaker 1: a building today at noon-ish.
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  Speaker 2: Going over the edge for the Union Rescue Mission.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, and Amy's been doing a wonderful job keeping you
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  Speaker 1: posted on that. URM.org slash O-T-E for over the edge.
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  Speaker 1: 87 cents on the dollar. So 13 cents basically of
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  Speaker 1: every dollar goes to the organization to run and everything
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  Speaker 1: else goes to the people that are in need.
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  Speaker 2: That's a pretty amazing number. I know that we've talked
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  Speaker 2: to them before and they have had everything vetted and
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  Speaker 2: they consistently rank as one of the top charities and
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  Speaker 2: that kind of thing because they run a tight ship,
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  Speaker 2: like you said.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. But it's the real deal. And we'll be talking
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  Speaker 1: about that throughout the day just because we are a
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  Speaker 1: little behind and KFI listeners are the most charitable on
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  Speaker 1: the planet. And we don't ask this lightly. They are
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  Speaker 1: one of my monthly charities, as a matter of fact.
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  Speaker 1: Not only have I donated to this particular event, as
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  Speaker 1: has Amy. But they three years ago, I was so
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  Speaker 1: impressed with them that they became one of my monthly.
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  Speaker 1: I have this. So my my charity thing and it's
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  Speaker 1: not like like I'm this massive philanthropist or anything. But
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  Speaker 1: my basic rule is local, national and global. So you
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  Speaker 1: pick one local, one national, one global charity. And I
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  Speaker 1: don't care what it is. You give five dollars to each.
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  Speaker 1: Just be consistent.
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  Speaker 2: What's your national one?
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  Speaker 1: National one is a Haiti organization that builds schools and orphanages.
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  Speaker 2: Nice.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And then I have those that are regular. That's
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  Speaker 1: called Three Angels. I was turned on to that through
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  Speaker 1: Gary Hoffman and his wife. She used to be very
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  Speaker 1: participatory in it. I don't know if she still is,
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  Speaker 1: but I really liked it. And so they get my
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  Speaker 1: national and then others. If something comes up, I'll add.
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  Speaker 1: And then I give some charitable stuff that's not, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's not like tax deductible charity, like to the arts
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  Speaker 1: and things like that. Very important. East L.A. has a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of programs for young Latino artists and things like that. Nice.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, that's how I do it. So they were
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  Speaker 1: added to local along with, you know, some military charities
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  Speaker 1: and things like that. And then, you know, around the holidays,
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  Speaker 1: if you find something else that pops up, then you
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  Speaker 1: can add those in. Or, you know, of course, you've
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  Speaker 1: got Katarina's Club and things like that. So great stuff.
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  Speaker 2: But if you can do... Union Rescue Mission, if you
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  Speaker 2: want to do monthly, that's great. If you want to
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  Speaker 2: do one time, whatever you can give, we appreciate it. Again,
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  Speaker 2: URM.org slash O-T-E for Over the Edge, which is where
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  Speaker 2: Neil and I are headed today.
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  Speaker 1: And I'll be bringing that up on our page so
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  Speaker 1: we can give some shout outs to the people donating
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  Speaker 1: today as well while we're on the air. And Amy
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  Speaker 1: and I are responding to every single one of you
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  Speaker 1: through the website as well. But we really appreciate that.
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  Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, Amy did a wonderful interview
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  Speaker 1: this week with someone who's been helped. And we'll replay
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  Speaker 1: that in the 8 o'clock hour today segment.
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  Speaker 2: Her name is Irene. You got to hear her story.
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  Speaker 2: It's a good one.
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  Speaker 1: It's insane. And it really helps. So URM for Union
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  Speaker 1: Rescue Mission, URM.org. slash ote for over the edge and
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  Speaker 1: you can find out all the information there if you
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  Speaker 1: follow me on instagram at fork reporter at fork reporter
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  Speaker 1: it's in my bio link in bio baby and you
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  Speaker 1: can get all that information there if that's easier for
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  Speaker 1: you but whether you donate to amy or me we're
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  Speaker 1: team kfi and it all goes to the same place
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  Speaker 1: mr koto how are you sir i didn't.
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  Speaker 3: Have jury duty or like i didn't get chosen for
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  Speaker 3: a jury so i'm good.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're feeling good?
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  Speaker 3: I did get braided by a homeless person, though, on
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  Speaker 3: the homeless note.
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  Speaker 1: About your outfit?
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  Speaker 3: No, I don't know what I did.
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  Speaker 1: I was just walking.
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  Speaker 3: At the San Bernardino Courthouse, the parking lot is across
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  Speaker 3: the street, so you have to walk across.
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  Speaker 1: We understood the whole story when you said San Bernardino Courthouse.
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  Speaker 1: She was not happy with me being alive that day. Really?
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  Speaker 1: I have some days like that.
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  Speaker 3: And then I ran into another homeless man who lost
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  Speaker 3: his shirt. And then was just having the longest conversation
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  Speaker 3: with the tree.
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  Speaker 1: So there was that. Did the tree talk back? I
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  Speaker 1: think so. That's why you need a system and not
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  Speaker 1: just try and throw people in a house.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You need, there's other stuff. Are you going to make
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  Speaker 1: any announcements today? Regarding? You? I don't know. I don't
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  Speaker 1: have a jury duty. Is there an announcement? You tell me. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know something? Yeah, I know all things.
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  Speaker 2: Who's the person giggling like a girl in the background?
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  Speaker 1: That would be Clay.
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  Speaker 2: That's new Clay.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, new Clay. Or it's Will. It's not me. Was
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  Speaker 1: it old Will? The old Will? It was new Clay.
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  Speaker 1: I was going to say, that was a little girly.
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  Speaker 1: He looks disappointed. I bet his parents did too. Good morning,
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  Speaker 1: new Clay. Good morning, Neil. Always nice to see you, sir,
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  Speaker 1: with those smoky bedroom eyes. Mwah. Glad to see you.
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  Speaker 1: Glad to see you live here. Get a room. I
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  Speaker 1: can't get a room. Will, how are you, sir?
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, sir.
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  Speaker 1: I'll do the handle. I can't see you, but I'm here.
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  Speaker 1: I've already gotten to see him. And, of course, the
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  Speaker 1: beautiful and talented Anne. How are you? Neil. Hey, call
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  Speaker 1: him out. I see him, sugar.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I love having you here.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just saying, the tiniest person. You make Kona look huge.
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  Speaker 1: That's how. Okay, thanks. Nothing else. She'll take that. She
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  Speaker 1: adores you, and she'll take me hitting on you like that.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's get into some Handle on the News,
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  Speaker 1: shall we go? I love you, Kono. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: miss you if you make an announcement. All righty. If
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  Speaker 1: announcement is ever made, bastard. All right, let's do Handle
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  Speaker 1: on the News lead story. Iran, I'll gladly pay you
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  Speaker 1: in seven days if you give me the end of
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  Speaker 1: the war. So Iran's foreign minister said yesterday that Tehran
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  Speaker 1: had proposed to Washington a seven-day plan to cease hostilities,
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  Speaker 1: reopen the strait, of course, and then begin comprehensive talks
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  Speaker 1: on the country's nuclear program, which... At the UN, they
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  Speaker 1: said they weren't going to get rid of, so I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. But that's what the foreign minister told reporters,
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  Speaker 1: press briefing there at the United Nations General Assembly. So
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  Speaker 1: we'll have to see this MOU is what they call them.
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  Speaker 1: You ever hear that? That's the Memorandum of Understanding.
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  Speaker 2: That apparently they didn't understand when they read it?
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  Speaker 1: No one ever understands them. Like if you work in
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  Speaker 1: television or film or if you're making a pre-deal and stuff,
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  Speaker 1: you always have an MOU. It's like, look at the MOU,
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  Speaker 1: like corporate speak. So we'll see what comes out of
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  Speaker 1: this and why the seven days as it unfolds.
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  Speaker 2: Bibi comes out swinging. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has
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  Speaker 2: fiercely defended his country's military campaigns in Iran, Gaza. And
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  Speaker 2: around the Middle East in a speech to the U.N.
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  Speaker 2: General Assembly yesterday. Now, before he started speaking, dozens of
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  Speaker 2: delegates walked out. There's 193 countries. i think 70 left
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  Speaker 2: as he uh took the stage he told the crowd
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  Speaker 2: we're going to win we have no other choice and
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  Speaker 2: then he also said it was kind of ironic that
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  Speaker 2: uh All those delegates walked out. He said it was
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  Speaker 2: ironic because Israel's actions against Iran helped protect many of
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  Speaker 2: those countries whose delegations walked out.
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  Speaker 1: It's a weird thing. Now, he says his country's actions.
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  Speaker 1: I would say that it's his actions. His country isn't
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  Speaker 1: completely in lockstep at this point. There are people that
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  Speaker 1: have concerns what he did and what he continues to do.
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  Speaker 1: We forget history, apparently. As to why Israel exists. You
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  Speaker 1: heard from Amy King just moments ago that Susan Sarandon
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  Speaker 1: and Hannah Einbinder. Einbinder. Einbinder. Sounds familiar.
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  Speaker 2: She's from Hacks.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yes, yes, yes.
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  Speaker 2: She's the writer from Hacks.
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  Speaker 1: Arrested in the anti-Netanyahu protests there in New York. Apparently
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  Speaker 1: hundreds were arrested there. And but that's Susan Sarandon. She
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  Speaker 1: she likes the protest. So let's get in there.
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  Speaker 2: Follow the money, folks. President Trump hosted Chinese President Xi
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  Speaker 2: Jinping at a state dinner last night. And some other bigwigs,
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  Speaker 2: big dollar donors, big dollar or people who stand to
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  Speaker 2: win a lot with AI were there, too. They had
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  Speaker 2: Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Michael Dell, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, NVIDIA's
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  Speaker 2: CEO Jensen Wang, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, ex-CEO of Apple
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  Speaker 2: Tim Cook, Google co-founder Sergey Brin.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Jeff Yates with Susquehanna, which holds a substantial stake in ByteDance.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. And President Greg Brockman
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  Speaker 2: also going to be there.
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  Speaker 1: These are all the people that know everything about you. Like,
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't you stand in front of them feeling naked? They
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  Speaker 1: know what you search. They know what you watch. I'm
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  Speaker 1: looking at you, Kono. They know all these things about you.
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  Speaker 2: You know who wasn't there? Who? Anthropic CEO Daria Amadei. Amadei.
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  Speaker 1: Hmm.
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  Speaker 2: He's the one who said, you know what, we need
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  Speaker 2: to slow this down.
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  Speaker 1: Well, wait, wasn't that, didn't he leave Anthropic? And he
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  Speaker 1: said that afterwards? Or am I getting confused? No, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: There was a guy who worked at one of the AIs.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And he had been there for four months. And he's
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  Speaker 2: the one who said, hey, there's a 10% chance that
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  Speaker 2: AI is going to destroy humanity. That wasn't the owner
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  Speaker 2: of it.
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  Speaker 1: So you're saying there's a chance.
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  Speaker 2: There's a chance. All right.
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  Speaker 1: Senate Republicans just yesterday blocked a Democratic effort to end
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  Speaker 1: the U.S. war in Iran, voting down a House-passed war
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  Speaker 1: powers resolution as the conflict that has killed 19 American
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  Speaker 1: service members past the 200-day mark. These things, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: as quickly as time seems to be going by, you
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  Speaker 1: look at some of these conflicts and it's like, holy smack.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, we're– going into two thirds of
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  Speaker 1: a year, almost a little over half a year, I suppose.
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  Speaker 1: But the measure which passed the House last week with
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  Speaker 1: bipartisan support just failed there in the Senate by a
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  Speaker 1: 49 to 50 vote. Want one more? Sure.
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  Speaker 2: Give those ballots back. The California Supreme Court has ordered
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  Speaker 2: Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco To immediately hand over all
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  Speaker 2: remaining materials.
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  Speaker 1: Was he doing an investigation or did he declare an
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  Speaker 1: investigation and just hold like 40,000 plus?
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  Speaker 2: He seized 650,000 ballots after getting a complaint that there
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  Speaker 2: may have been irregularities with the last election that was
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  Speaker 2: over Prop 50, which was the redistricting issue. So he
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  Speaker 2: had a hold of those votes and said he was
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  Speaker 2: going to do an investigation. And along the way, he's
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  Speaker 2: been ordered to stop the investigation. And yesterday, the Supreme
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  Speaker 2: Court said, The California Supreme Court said, we hold that
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  Speaker 2: the seizure of the ballots was unlawful. While allegations of
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  Speaker 2: election improprieties are a serious matter, our elections code contains
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  Speaker 2: numerous established mechanisms for investigating and proving misconduct that do
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  Speaker 2: not compromise the integrity of voted ballots, contrary to the
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  Speaker 2: means employed here. So they kind of. went after him
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  Speaker 2: and said, give those ballots.
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  Speaker 1: Back and say, just don't don't touch anything anymore. Just
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  Speaker 1: don't just leave it. Don't touch anything. And real quickly, CNN,
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  Speaker 1: MS Now and Politico, all the reporters and such allowed
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  Speaker 1: back into the White House after being briefly blocked. So
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  Speaker 1: the judge, it came down with the order to let
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  Speaker 1: them back in and they didn't right away. But I
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  Speaker 1: think later in the day, they ended up doing that.
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  Speaker 2: Wouldn't it be nice if all this money was going
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  Speaker 2: to Union Rescue Mission instead? A federal appeals court has
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  Speaker 2: rebuffed the Trump administration's efforts to say who can be
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  Speaker 2: responsible for those millions of dollars of money from the
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  Speaker 2: Department of Housing and Urban Development that goes to homeless programs.
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  Speaker 2: The ruling frees up federal funding that had already been
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  Speaker 2: approved but hadn't been distributed to homeless service organizations in L.A.
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  Speaker 2: HUD had suspended LASA, the L.A. Homeless Services Authority, in June.
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  Speaker 2: citing a record of mismanagement and said organizations should apply
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  Speaker 2: directly to the government to get their funding. But the
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  Speaker 2: court said, nope, LASA can have it. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: That whole all of that to me is insane. That
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  Speaker 1: that way, the not. Being accountable. You know, people ask,
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  Speaker 1: you know, on the Jesus show all the time, they'll
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  Speaker 1: call in and ask about church recommendations and stuff. And
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  Speaker 1: the one thing that's said on the program all the
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  Speaker 1: time is never go to a church that doesn't at
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  Speaker 1: least once a year open up their books to the parish.
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  Speaker 1: So you can see where everything is spent. And I
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  Speaker 1: wish there was something like that, that we, the people
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  Speaker 1: could look at that was organized and easy and all
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  Speaker 1: of that. But that, yeah, a shame. And you know what?
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  Speaker 1: The inside safe, Mayor Bass's inside safe, I think 60% stay,
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  Speaker 1: something like that, the percentage. And they went to URM,
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  Speaker 1: Union Rescue Mission, to help with, they gave some money
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  Speaker 1: for a portion of that. And Union Rescue Mission, I think,
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  Speaker 1: is over 80%. Because of the way they go through
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  Speaker 1: the process of teaching people a new.
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  Speaker 2: Job and they get you into rehab if you need it.
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  Speaker 2: They give you counseling so you can figure out what
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  Speaker 2: cycles you're you know, what things are you doing that's
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  Speaker 2: exacerbating this issue? Yeah. And training, education, all kinds.
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  Speaker 1: Of get you back in the world, by the way.
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  Speaker 1: Someone asked about the donations because we're knocking on the
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  Speaker 1: door of 20,000 and we're trying to hit 30,000 is
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  Speaker 1: our goal. Underneath them, the Union Rescue Mission for the
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  Speaker 1: Over the Edge is trying to raise 1.9 million. So
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  Speaker 1: people were asking, wait, it looks like you've got two
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  Speaker 1: different numbers there. No, they've raised 1.3 million for the
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  Speaker 1: Over the Edge and they're trying to raise almost 2 million.
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  Speaker 1: Our portion of that is 30,000 and we're at just
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  Speaker 1: knocking on the door of 20,000. And we appreciate your help.
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  Speaker 1: Rebecca Curry donated. Hi, Rebecca. That's very nice of you.
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  Speaker 1: 25 bucks. Penelope McMillan. I donated a hundred bucks. Also very,
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  Speaker 1: very kind of you. Kate Sixel donated $ 250. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: so much.
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  Speaker 2: And did you see what she said?
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  Speaker 1: Amy and Neil, thank you for going over the edge
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  Speaker 1: for such a worthy cause. Don't look down.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's because I told everybody that last year you
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  Speaker 2: looked down.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I did. Oh my God. Knees buckled. It was horrible.
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  Speaker 1: $ 200 anonymously. Thank you, Chuck Hall. Donate 50. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: guys so much. We're getting there. URM.org slash O-T-E for
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  Speaker 1: over the edge. Powerful hurricane. We know this Polo, it's
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  Speaker 1: drenching Mexico right now, their coast, as NOLO takes aim
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  Speaker 1: at Hawaii. So we've got these two big hurricanes coming
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  Speaker 1: in the Pacific.
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  Speaker 2: I think Rolo's next.
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  Speaker 1: Polo, Nolo and Rolo. Oh, my God. Aren't those like
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  Speaker 1: those cartoon dogs? Yeah. Paw Patrol. Not Paw Patrol. The
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  Speaker 1: other one. Anyways, don't shake me off. So not only
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  Speaker 1: is that, but they were talking about how it might
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  Speaker 1: hit us or maybe even North Northern California.
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  Speaker 2: OK, so Polo isn't going to hit us, but it.
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  Speaker 2: They're saying that there's a good chance that we're going
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  Speaker 2: to have increased swells and beach erosion, that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: NOLO may be taking aim at Hawaii. And they just
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  Speaker 2: had a hurricane brush by a couple weeks ago.
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  Speaker 1: I can't catch a break. That's beauty tax for living
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  Speaker 1: in one of the most beautiful areas in the world, apparently.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Why don't we hit number 10, if you would, Amy?
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  Speaker 2: We're working nine to five today. Nine to five. It's
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  Speaker 2: Dolly Parton Day. There's going to be parades, pink lights,
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  Speaker 2: book drives. And I love this. They're doing events at
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  Speaker 2: different libraries in L.A. County. They're doing an event downtown.
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  Speaker 2: And a lot of the events are focused on the
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  Speaker 2: Imagination Library, which she started and has distributed millions of
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  Speaker 2: books to children to help them learn to read. Because
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  Speaker 2: we know that reading levels are not great. And Dolly's
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  Speaker 2: been doing this for years. And then the Ferris wheel
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: on the Santa Monica Pier is going to light up
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: pink tonight in honor of Dolly.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: And Tom Likas is going to be doing Flash Friday.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: Do you care? You don't care?
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: You don't care about Dolly Parton?
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: I do. I was doing my Tom Likas. Flash Friday
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: is when you show your boobs and somebody flashes your lights.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: Dolly Parton. It's kind of a shot at Tom and
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: the L.A. radio folks that listen for a long time
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: are dying right now.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: Like falling off their chairs.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: You got it. And more than 12,000 homeless related fires
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: already reported in L.A. this year. Fire crews have said
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: that almost 70 percent or so of the fires or no,
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: 77 of the fires were homeless related. And that's just
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: so far this year. Now, you know, we're talking about
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: the Union Rescue Mission. And one of the pet peeves
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: I have, and I know Amy shares this, is the
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: implication when you say the unhoused or homeless is all
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: they need is a home. It's not. They need to
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: be funneled back into society. That means they need to
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: get off drugs and they need to get a job
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: and be trained if necessary, if they don't have a skill.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: And that's what Union Rescue Mission does. So this story
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: ties right into our frustrations with having people, feral humans
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: on the street is what it ends up being. And
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: why Nithya Raman, God forbid, if she gets elected, you'll
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: see more of this. And that's part of the focus
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: of the Democratic Socialists of America. I'll be talking a
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: little bit more about the DSA later on in the program.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: I think you might be very surprised at to who
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: and what they believe and who they are. But, yeah,
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: that's another thing that needs to be stopped are those fires.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: After three delays, we got a plea. The woman charged
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: with murder. In that SUV crash into a Metro bus
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: in Chatsworth has finally made a court appearance. She'd been
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: scheduled to be arraigned, but they kept having to delay
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: it because of her medical condition. And in fact, when
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: she was brought into court yesterday, she was brought there
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: in an ambulance and was in court on a medical gurney.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: Bailey Rios is facing two second degree murder charges, driving
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: under the influence and also reckless driving. Police say she
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: was speeding, going the wrong way, ran a red light
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: and smashed into that Metro bus, killing two people in
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: Chatsworth and ultimately kind of causing the crash of the
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: NBC4 helicopter that killed a reporter and a pilot and
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: somebody on the ground.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, just an insane day, crazy situation. Maybe too little
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: too late, but there's this bipartisan group of congressional leaders.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: They came together and officially introduced a bill to create
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: a federal film and television tax credit. This has been
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: a goal for many in Hollywood who say it's necessary
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: to help bring production back to the U.S. I believe
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: in this. I think it's a great thing, the Television
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: and Entertainment Revitalization Act. I think here in L.A., we've
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: screwed the pooch, and I fear that it's gone the
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: way it was forever. I think we've seen that with
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: Paramount just saying, hey, we're going to leave, and we'll
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: shut the lights off when we go. All right, one more.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: There's a Barbie for everyone, and not everyone's happy about that.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: Mattel has debuted its first official Hanukkah Barbie.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: Oy vey.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: Part of the holiday sweaters collection. It's $ 28. The Barbie has,
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: there's a black Barbie and a white Barbie. There's one
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: that's blonde. They're dressed in green and red Christmas sweaters
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: that light up. But then they also have the Hanukkah Barbie.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: This version has a blue sweater with a menorah on it.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Keep going.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: Baby blue dreidels.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, dreidels.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: Dreidels. Yeah. And little snowflakes along with the blue stars
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: of David.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: Keep going.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: She has olive-toned skin.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: That makes sense.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: Babka-colored brown hair.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: Sure she does.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: Brown eyes.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Uh-huh.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: A closed smile.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: Uh-huh.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: Kind of a half smile.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: She's adorable.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: And here's the part that probably is making everybody freak out.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: She's got a more pronounced nose.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: What?
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: Than the noses on her Christmas cousins.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: A Jewish nose?
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: Is this much ado about nothing? Or is it something?
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: Because we went to the Barbie Museum, I will tell you.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: They had that big, the pop-up display, and there were
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: Barbies for everybody. They had all these versions that I'd
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: never seen. I mean, they had a prosthetic Barbie.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: Did they have like, isn't Barbie just one big prosthetic?
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: But did they have a Mexican Barbie with like eyeliner
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: on the lips?
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: I don't know that they had that.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: Did they have a little torta Barbie?
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: I think they had different nationalities of Barbies.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: From Santana?
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: Different ethnicities of Barbies because they want to have the
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: little girls be able to have somebody who kind of
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: looks like them.
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: But why does the nose make it a Jewish? Why
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: can't just a regular Barbie have a big nose?
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, because she's, you know, European, all that kind of.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: Like she's like the white Anglo-Saxon. I think it was
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: a big misstep there, guys. She's waspy.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: You think it was a big misstep?
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: Well, here's the deal.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: No, I'm just curious.
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: Is it?
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: No.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: She's adorable.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: We all have different things, and I know it's a joke,
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: but stereotypes and jokes come from reality.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: Was it meant to be a joke?
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: I know some Jewish ladies that don't have pronounced features
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: like that.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and those are the ones that they look at
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: and go, she doesn't look Jewish. Mazel mazel. So I
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: don't know. Well, Hanukkah Barbie is adorable. Yeah, I think
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: she's delightful looking. So I don't see it.
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: On a side note, have you seen the Lenny Kravitz Barbie?
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: It's pretty sweet. You have a Lenny Kravitz Barbie?
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: They just released it and I would get it. It's
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: Lenny Kravitz as Barbie.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: It's Lenny Kravitz. Isn't he like 70 and still looks
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: like he's 25? Yeah, it's amazing. I want to be
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: Lenny Kravitz.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, there is a Lonnie Kravitz Barbie doll.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: Are you going to go his way?
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: He's a Ken-bassador.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: A what?
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: A Ken-bassador.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Oh my God, I thought you said something else.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: What did you think?
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: Nothing. Let's go. Neil Cervator and the Morning Crew, stick around.
• 27:40
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• 27:44
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• 27:46
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• 27:47
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• 27:48
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