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Handel on the News · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to camp I am six forty the Bill
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  Speaker 1: Handles show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. One of
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  Speaker 1: the things that I like is he has also changed
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  Speaker 1: the tone rhetoric in politics. Now people are losers, not
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  Speaker 1: very bright. It's not political talk political speak anymore. I
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  Speaker 1: disagree with the position that the president has taken.
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  Speaker 2: He's a loser. I like it. I'm sorry. I think
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  Speaker 2: it's so entertaining. I think it's great. And now handle
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  Speaker 2: on the news. Ladies and gentlemen, here's Bill handle conversation Bill.
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  Speaker 2: But I think we should probably start to show puth.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's me okay. I was having a conversation with Neil.
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  Speaker 1: Talking about what's going on that a dear friend of
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  Speaker 1: my family's. She they lost their house and a fire
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  Speaker 1: a couple of days ago. So yeah, that's rough. That's
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  Speaker 1: so fun. Anyway, Hello, everybody, it's said July one, Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: and we're getting very very close to.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, that's not true.
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  Speaker 1: The important date is a few days ago that that
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  Speaker 1: was the present President Trump's birthday, which is far more
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  Speaker 1: important than July fourth.
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  Speaker 2: I don't stop. I'm going to be doing these references
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  Speaker 2: in these jokes. Literally forever.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I haven't even gotten my President Trump's birthday tree.
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  Speaker 3: I haven't done any of my President Trump's work day shopping.
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  Speaker 2: It's just gotten too commercial. I know, it really has.
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  Speaker 1: You know the story yesterday, I think it was New
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  Speaker 1: York Times that talked about the increase in Trump's wealth
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  Speaker 1: his family, not Trump, because of course he has nothing
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  Speaker 1: to do with the Trump organization anymore. Is they made
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  Speaker 1: two point two billion dollars just on crypto and on
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  Speaker 1: the presidential coin, the Trump coin, because those were all private,
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  Speaker 1: they weren't with the US meant, you know, the one
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  Speaker 1: was face his face on the hundreds of millions dollars
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  Speaker 1: they made the Trump administration or Donald Trump's family made.
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  Speaker 1: It's just it's insane. Okay, let me say a quick
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  Speaker 1: hello to one and all.
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  Speaker 2: Cono, good morning, Good morning, Bill and Neil. Good morning.
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  Speaker 2: Bill's doing Neil's doing well.
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  Speaker 1: He's feeling pretty good after Yeah, it's doing well and
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  Speaker 1: losing weight like crazy after his bariatric surgery.
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  Speaker 4: And Amy, good morning, good morning.
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  Speaker 2: Notice the shirt I'm wearing this morning.
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  Speaker 4: Amy, is it your Disney shirt?
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  Speaker 1: It is my Disney shirt, the one that you so
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  Speaker 1: graciously gave me well, thank you very much.
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  Speaker 2: And usually I got a big deal.
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  Speaker 1: But I know how much Amy spent on this because
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  Speaker 1: I went to Disneyland and looked and went wow.
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  Speaker 2: Of fortunately.
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  Speaker 4: To say, how much did she pay for that show?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Hell, yes, are you kidding?
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  Speaker 1: And and I would never give Amy the the a
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  Speaker 1: gift that had this kind of cost. There's just no
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  Speaker 1: way your favorite d Yes, there is. Yep, that's true,
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  Speaker 1: all right.
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  Speaker 4: There Will Dodgers.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Bill, Yeah, that's true. Hello, your shirt is
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  Speaker 2: a late show with ut a long gone late show.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you've got to put a big red circle with
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  Speaker 1: the line through it on that. And and good morning Anne,
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  Speaker 1: good morning. Oh you sound so excited.
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  Speaker 4: I am.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, July fourth command. But you know, here's a little factoid.
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  Speaker 2: Did you know.
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  Speaker 1: That there are three presidents James Monroe, Thomas Jefferson, and
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  Speaker 1: John Adams all died on July.
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  Speaker 2: Fourth, oh Soul Independence Day.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's pretty impressive. Okay, what else we have going?
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  Speaker 1: Oh we got well, the Supreme Court. The term is over,
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  Speaker 1: so go through some of the cases. They came down yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: not only during the show but after the show, so
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  Speaker 1: that's pretty important. We'll talk a little bit about the
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  Speaker 1: heat wave that's going on, and I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: be on the East coast. There's a reason so many
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  Speaker 1: people like southern California. It's the best weather in the world.
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  Speaker 1: You know. The most temperate, single place on the planet
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  Speaker 1: where we're the temperature, has the perfect humidity and has
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  Speaker 1: an average of the perfect temperature.
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  Speaker 2: Is San Diego.
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  Speaker 1: That's this close to seventy two degrees with fifty percent humidity.
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  Speaker 2: And the home of the Padres.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's exactly there goes, you know, and if you
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  Speaker 1: have you know, for example, you go to Saudi Arabia,
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  Speaker 1: which I have been during the summer, and for example,
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  Speaker 1: one of the things you do is you go to
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  Speaker 1: the Valley of the Kings, which is where touton Common,
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  Speaker 1: King Tut was buried along with other pharaohs. One hundred
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  Speaker 1: and twenty degrees. One hundred and twenty degrees. That's pleasant.
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  Speaker 1: And then there's a ry heat, it's a dry heat.
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  Speaker 1: And then I've had the pleasure of being in Norway
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  Speaker 1: in February, where you cannot believe how cold it is.
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  Speaker 1: It is just in Chicago. How about Chicago in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of winter when that lovely wind comes in off
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  Speaker 1: of the lake and hits the city. Oh that's a
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  Speaker 1: pleasant winter, isn't it. So here we are in southern California,
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  Speaker 1: you know, best place in the world temperature wise. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: are you guys ready to do it, because we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: start with a temperature story. It's time for hand on
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  Speaker 1: the news. Oh and one other thing I want to
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  Speaker 1: share with you. Last night, boy, did.
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  Speaker 2: I have a nightmare last night?
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  Speaker 1: And you know it's one of those where you usually
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  Speaker 1: you forget what you dream about. Last night, I had
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  Speaker 1: a nightmare and by the way, this is not shick.
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  Speaker 1: This is actually what I dreamt of.
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  Speaker 2: I dreamt you were John coblt No. Oh, that's a nightmare.
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  Speaker 1: No, I dreamt uh that people have finally figured out
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  Speaker 1: that I'm a horrible attorney, that I've been fooling everybody
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  Speaker 1: for decades and just and it became news, it broke
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  Speaker 1: that I really am as bad as.
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  Speaker 2: I joke about being. Wow, I was fine with that.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, it's not you know, I didn't care
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  Speaker 2: about what your nightmare is. Our reality. We've known you've
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  Speaker 2: been a sucking attorney for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: I know, but it was sort of you know, but
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  Speaker 1: I realized the first time how bad I actually I
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  Speaker 1: am because I thought I was.
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  Speaker 2: No, Yeah, I did, but I'm not. Or I certainly realize.
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  Speaker 3: Tell people on the show to kill wife it's cheaper
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  Speaker 3: than divorce.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's good. That's good advice. You know. It
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  Speaker 2: may be another maybe unorthodox, but if you're a financial planner,
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  Speaker 2: but not Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's usually in the case of someone calling me and saying, Bill,
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  Speaker 1: I'm in the middle of divorce.
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  Speaker 2: Is horrible, it's costing me a fortune.
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  Speaker 1: It is. Uh, just I have the biggest enemy of
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  Speaker 1: my life. We're fighting over the kids.
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  Speaker 2: I say it, Then kill her, just kill her. It's
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  Speaker 2: not hard.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you set it up where you can, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you'll do a couple years in jail. But
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  Speaker 1: here's what you do. You get your best friend, and
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  Speaker 1: you get your best friend to seduce your wife. There
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  Speaker 1: they are stopping their brains out in bed. You walk
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  Speaker 1: in the door, oh my god, and you shoot her
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  Speaker 1: because that becomes a crime of passion. It's one of
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  Speaker 1: those things where it's not planned.
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  Speaker 2: Uhuh. You see, I'm telling you this is advice. This
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  Speaker 2: is legal advice. Okay, that is actually very good legal advice. Okay, guys,
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  Speaker 2: let's do it.
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  Speaker 1: Handle on the news with Amy Neal and me lead story.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, one hundred and sixty million people under extreme
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  Speaker 1: heat warnings heat advisories. The East Coast is getting nailed.
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  Speaker 1: People are dying, not only in Europe but moving over
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  Speaker 1: to the US. It's going to be tough. And then
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  Speaker 1: the floods in Kentucky. I mean, there's no such thing
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  Speaker 1: as climate change doesn't exist. I don't remember there have
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  Speaker 1: been so many reports of whether this bad. Amy, You've
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  Speaker 1: been covering this for a zillion years. Do you ever
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  Speaker 1: remember it was this bad in terms of floods and heat.
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  Speaker 5: The heat, I think is the thing that we're hearing
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  Speaker 5: more about, Okay, more than the storms and stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah right, for Locus, Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Those are only ever every few years.
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  Speaker 1: The locusts, yeah right, those are bad. Yeah, we're wailing
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  Speaker 1: and we're just waiting for the killing of the firstborn. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: moving on, tabled for now.
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  Speaker 5: The Lacity Council has pulled a measure from the ballot
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  Speaker 5: that would have asked voters to allow non citizens to
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  Speaker 5: vote in certain city elections. The city council voted unanimously
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  Speaker 5: yesterday to pull the measure from the ballot. The committee
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  Speaker 5: says it wants to do some additional study after several
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  Speaker 5: council members and the black community raised some questions about
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  Speaker 5: the measure. Supporters say it would give people who have
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  Speaker 5: been paying taxes a chance to weigh in on their
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  Speaker 5: community policies. Critics say it would go against what the
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  Speaker 5: founding fathers wanted.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and both, by the way, are right, because it
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  Speaker 1: does go against what the Founding fathers I think, or
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  Speaker 1: certainly what the courts have said.
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  Speaker 2: Citizens are the ones that vote. It doesn't matter local.
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  Speaker 1: Elections, federal elections, state elections. And then the other argument is, well, gee,
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  Speaker 1: these people pay their taxes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah they do, now what.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, I happen to be of that of
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  Speaker 1: the thinking that you got to be a citizen to vote.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's not that complicated.
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  Speaker 3: That sounds so silly, it does. It's stupid to have
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  Speaker 3: to say they maybe they didn't. They want to open
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  Speaker 3: it up bigger. They want anybody on the planet to
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  Speaker 3: be able to vote in American elections.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean why not? All right?
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  Speaker 3: So not gonna take it laying down. President Donald Trump
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  Speaker 3: brushed off that massive loss at the Supreme Court six
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  Speaker 3: to three. We talked about it yesterday. The decision struck
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  Speaker 3: down one of his signature initiatives, which was, of course,
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  Speaker 3: an effort to limit birthright citizenship. So now what's he
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  Speaker 3: gonna do. He's gonna call upon Congress. So he's gonna
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  Speaker 3: where's he.
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  Speaker 2: Going with that?
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  Speaker 1: Congress can pass all the laws at once. A yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the only thing that is that I find
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  Speaker 1: interesting about this. It was a six to three decision
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  Speaker 1: that three justices upheld that Trump's premise that birthright citizenship
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  Speaker 1: doesn't exist, and that was predicated on the original intent
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  Speaker 1: of the fourteenth Amendment, and that was to enfranchise African
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  Speaker 1: Americans who were slaves. And they said this, We're never
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  Speaker 1: going to let slavery happen again. And that was the
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  Speaker 1: point of that, not people that were born in or
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  Speaker 1: outside of the United States. So I'm going to talk
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  Speaker 1: more about that because it's you know, sometimes it's nuts.
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  Speaker 1: But three Supreme Court justice said, yeah, Trump's right. WHOA.
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was going to be unanimous. Man, I'm
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  Speaker 1: stunned that it is not unanimous.
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  Speaker 3: But don't they use the same or similar arguments against
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  Speaker 3: the Second Amendment?
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh, absolutely at.
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  Speaker 3: The period and yes, yes, stuff like that, Yes they do,
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  Speaker 3: they do it different.
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  Speaker 1: No, you're absolutely right, But it's the Supreme Court interpreting
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  Speaker 1: the Fourteenth Amendment, like the Supreme Court interprets the Second Amendment.
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  Speaker 1: The language about the citizen militia the right to bear
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  Speaker 1: arms and for the purpose historically was to make sure
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  Speaker 1: that the citizenry was able to defend itself and go
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  Speaker 1: to the defense of the country. That has now expanded
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  Speaker 1: that anybody who wants a gun can get a gun.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, do we need a citizen militia to protect
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  Speaker 1: ourselves from a foreign invasion?
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  Speaker 2: We did when we fought Britain, That's true. Yeah, last
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  Speaker 2: time that happen.
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  Speaker 3: I consider it came from the fact that they said, hey,
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  Speaker 3: we beat the ass of the Brits. Yea with thirteen
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  Speaker 3: colonies and some rifles.
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  Speaker 1: I understood, But you looked at there really wasn't any well,
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  Speaker 1: there was, there was the Continental Army, but it took
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  Speaker 1: a lot more than just the Continental Continental Army to
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  Speaker 1: win the When the freedom or when the creation of America. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: it's real easy. It's what the Supreme Court says it is.
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  Speaker 2: That's it.
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  Speaker 1: And the language of the fourteenth Amendment is pretty clear,
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  Speaker 1: and so we'll probably talk more about that. Okay, let's
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  Speaker 1: get through some more stories. You've got a lot to
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  Speaker 1: cover today.
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  Speaker 4: Get out that mosquito repellent.
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  Speaker 5: Health officials are warning to take precautions after the deadly
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  Speaker 5: West Nile virus was detected in a mosquito caught in
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  Speaker 5: the San Gabriel Valley. It's the first one caught so
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  Speaker 5: far this year. Also, the first human case of the
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  Speaker 5: virus has been reported in Long Beach. Although most West
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  Speaker 5: Nile infections are not fatal, there is no cure and
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  Speaker 5: no human vaccine for the virus.
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  Speaker 4: Health officials say the key to.
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  Speaker 5: Staying safe is protecting your health, and protecting your health
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  Speaker 5: rather is to prevent mosquito bites.
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  Speaker 1: Did you know that the mosquito is indigenous to southern California,
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  Speaker 1: particularly Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 2: That's where this mosquito comes from.
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  Speaker 1: So I figure out how the West Nile is involved
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  Speaker 1: in this, and why the West Nile not the East Nile.
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  Speaker 1: And so there's a lot to think about on this one.
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  Speaker 4: It explains why there are so many bloodsuckers here.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, very well, said, very well, said, all.
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  Speaker 3: Right, millions of older Americans you know that are on
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  Speaker 3: medicare talking sixty five and above are about to receive
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  Speaker 3: a benefit that has never existed before, and that is
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  Speaker 3: coverage of obesity drugs. So now the infamous GLP ones
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  Speaker 3: can be you know, received by people that are older
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  Speaker 3: and obese with a cope of just fifty bucks per month.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, think about this.
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  Speaker 1: This makes so much sense because this is long term stuff,
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  Speaker 1: long term health ramification, diabetes, everything, diabetes, heart disease, because
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  Speaker 1: this really stops it. And now everybody over sixty five
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  Speaker 1: is eligible, which is good Will?
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  Speaker 2: How old are you not sixty five? Oh so you're
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  Speaker 2: just waiting. You've calendared that Amy.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, a quick whenever we do a story
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  Speaker 1: of mad cow disease or a hoof in mouth, or
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  Speaker 1: anything relating to price of beef for whatever, throw the
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  Speaker 1: story to Will.
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  Speaker 2: Would you please?
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  Speaker 4: You got it?
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  Speaker 2: Okay? Thank you? Am I accusing Will of being as
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  Speaker 2: big as a cow?
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  Speaker 4: One? I think so?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. His nickname in high school was Heffer. Okay, one,
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  Speaker 1: I was actually skinny in high school.
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  Speaker 2: No one on this show has ever been bigger than you.
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  Speaker 2: That's no one. But now that I am, I've lost
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  Speaker 2: my weight.
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  Speaker 1: I'm throwing it in everybody's face because I want to
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  Speaker 1: be gracious about it. There's a lot of nan gracious, wow, gracious, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: moving on, time to pay up.
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  Speaker 5: The federal student loans system is getting some major changes.
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  Speaker 5: It'll affect millions of borrowers starting today. About forty three
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  Speaker 5: million Americans currently have student loan debt, totally one point
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  Speaker 5: seven trillion dollars. Education Secretary Linda McMahon, whose mission is
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  Speaker 5: to shutterer the Education Department, has said that the Trump
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  Speaker 5: administration will no longer tolerate American taxpayer payers taking on
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  Speaker 5: the debts that are not their own. So now there's
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  Speaker 5: going to be two repayment plans for new student loan borrowers,
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  Speaker 5: the Repayment Assistance Plan or the tiered Standard replace repayment plan.
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  Speaker 5: They're going to phase out other plans that let students
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  Speaker 5: not repay their loans or defer them drastically.
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  Speaker 3: If you've been looking for a deal at Disneyland, it
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  Speaker 3: is here. So fifty nine bucks for a night time ticket.
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  Speaker 3: It's a little confusing the way it reads in some
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  Speaker 3: of the articles I've read about it, but this is
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  Speaker 3: what it comes down to. They're making summer nights simpler
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  Speaker 3: for you to go. So depending on which park, you
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  Speaker 3: can only go to one. It's not a park hopper deal.
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  Speaker 3: You can enter Disneyland Park starting at seven pm for
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  Speaker 3: that fifty nine bucks, and these are on days where
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  Speaker 3: it closes at midnight, so you're getting five hours. Or
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  Speaker 3: you can go to California Adventure Park starting at five pm,
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  Speaker 3: which closes at ten pm. You still get five hours
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  Speaker 3: at either park, usually smaller lines. It's obviously cool.
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  Speaker 1: I was going to ask both of you, you and Amy,
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  Speaker 1: isn't the best time to go anyway? In the evening
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  Speaker 1: line wise and temperature wise? And can you see is
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  Speaker 1: five hours enough to do the park?
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  Speaker 4: Is five hours enough to do the park? That's a
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  Speaker 4: different question. That's a different question.
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  Speaker 2: I know it's a good question.
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  Speaker 4: And Disneyland at Night is.
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  Speaker 2: So beautiful, gorgeous.
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  Speaker 5: I love Disneyland at Night and dcaight they're both great.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there is so for sixty bucks.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's a deal.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're talking, you know what, fifteen dollars and an
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  Speaker 3: hour one of that twelve dollars an hour, twelve dollars
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  Speaker 3: carry the one.
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  Speaker 5: There's a super sad congressman New Jersey Republican Representative Tom
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  Speaker 5: Keene Junior, disclosed that he was being treated for depression
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  Speaker 5: during his unexplained four month absence from the House. He
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  Speaker 5: said in a speech that it's difficult to fully understand
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  Speaker 5: how powerful this illness can be until you experience it yourself.
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  Speaker 5: And he gave his speech to the representatives, and then
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  Speaker 5: he left the Capitol quickly without any answers from reporters
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  Speaker 5: or answers to questions from reporters.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he had been up in the air, what was
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  Speaker 2: why was he missing?
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  Speaker 1: And all the information we got us for a medical reason,
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  Speaker 1: that's all that we got. Now we know it's depression.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, I mean, depression can be really depressing.
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  Speaker 4: Wouldn't you be depressed if you were in Congress?
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  Speaker 2: That's what I thought.
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  Speaker 4: I don't mean to make light of it.
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  Speaker 1: But no, I'm just I'm just depressed being on this
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: show much less in Congress.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: So, yeah, enough to leave for four months.
• 19:14
  Speaker 6: Please go, please God, only in my dreams, please, Although
• 19:18
  Speaker 6: I yeah, although I did leave for five months for
• 19:20
  Speaker 6: medical reasons, but with my heart, yeah, my heart exploding.
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah all right, Elon Musk So, uh, he's got his
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: x AI as we know, uh corporation and grock and
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: things like that that we use online. It's been Uh
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: it's going to be an unexpected test for the US
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: government's authority over air pollution because he's using these right now,
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: unpermitted gas turbines to power the data center and uh,
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: this is going to cause uh, well they're going to
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: have to look into it. See how do you enforce
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: the clean air especially if these things are not permitted
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: at this point. So the NAACP has sued over the
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: alleged pollution violations here in the US Department of Justice
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: is going to have to join the case.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: And well, the DJ is saying, yeah, there should not
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: be laws that restrict the turbanes in this case Mississippi,
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: why is that national not turbans turbines?
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: I think allowed.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: The termin is on your head, I understand this a
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: new way of producing power. Is you have like you
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: see those turbid Yeah, you know those little propeller caps
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: that you you wear that spin, Yeah, you can do that.
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: The battle, the battle over bachelor's degrees. It could soon
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: become easier for California community colleges to create new bachelor
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: degree programs. The state's community colleges usually offer two year
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: associate degrees and they are only permitted to create bachelor's
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: degrees to fill workforce needs. That means that existing A
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: laws allow them only to offer those bachelor degrees if
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: they don't duplicate what's offered at the four year universities
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: in California. But that is apparently going to change.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I don't even know what degrees the junior
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: colleges give that the four year colleges don't. I guess
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: vocational certificates. But do you really need a bachelor's degree
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: in you know, hvac or plumbing? You have to have
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: the skill set, And does it matter whether you have
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: a bachelor's degree or simply a certificate of accomplishment or
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: certificate if competence?
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: So what is it normally an A and then certificate courses? No?
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: I think you graduate with a certificate some times not
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: even an AA degree, sometimes just a certificate program. But
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: I don't know what it is that bachelor's degrees in
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: junior college would be that the big colleges don't doubt
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: where the four year.
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: Colleges don't know. So what this would do is there's
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: two bills. It hasn't been a past yet, but there
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: are two bills that would allow the community colleges to
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: offer four years degrees, even if they duplicated what's already
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: offered with the four year universities.
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: And of course CSU is totally opposed to this.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Of course they are there, you know, their own turf
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: that they're defending. But I mean, look at the cost
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: of junior college versus the state college, versus the UC
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: colleges versus the private colleges, and it goes up. I
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: don't even know how much a junior college unit costs.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: I mean, it used to be what ten, fifteen to
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: twenty dollars per unit? I wonder how much it is now.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: Haven't looked at Let me ask that question. That's done
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: this in a while.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: Hey, sirih how much.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: Does it cost per unit at a California at junior
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: college forty six dollars a unit five hundred and fifty
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: dollars a semester.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: How about that?
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: Try going to sc Try going to UCLA for that
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: amount of money.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: There you are life in the fast lane with Siri.
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: California has crap math test scores showing that sixty eight
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: percent of California public schools third graders, which my son
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: just just finished finished. Yeah, they do not meet grade
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: level standards. Thankfully my boy does. But state lawmakers are
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: considering one way to potentially reverse that trend. They want
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: to look at giving kindergartens a math test, find out
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: if they are ready for, you know, the first grade and.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: All of those things.
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: So they're going to go two plus two and they're
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: gonna go yellow, and then they're gonna go maybe that
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: kid shouldn't.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, a couple of things.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: It makes sense because it'll at least give information to
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: educator as to what's weak the weaknesses. And the scary
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: part about this is that you've got sixty eight percent
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: of as Neil you just said, sixty eight percent of
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: California school California schools third graders don't meet grade level standards.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Grade level standards are so low to begin with that
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: this even doubles the disgust of this.
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: I wish I was better at the stock market. Over
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: four hundred and forty thousand people, or more than twelve
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: hundred people a day in the US became millionaires in
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: twenty twenty five, accounting for nearly half of the world's
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: new millionaires. According to an annual report on global wealth,
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: more than twenty three point six million America are now
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: worth seven figures or more. The US gains apparently came
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: in large park because of the surging financial markets.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: Now here's my question, and that is, you have all
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: these people with equities, with stocks, having made a ton
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: of money, and they were invested in stocks primarily.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: Do stocks just keep on going up forever? Seems to.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: Looks like no matter what we do, stocks go up,
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: no matter how many people are employed, no matter how
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: big inflation is, it doesn't matter.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: Up up up. Well, guess what.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: At some point, of course, there has to be a correction,
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: which is ten percent or more, and there may be
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: another recession or a mini recession, and you'll see twelve
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: hundred millionaires a day becoming non millionaires. I mean, I
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: think this story just talks about the vat It shows
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: us what the volatility of life is.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but being active in it.
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: You know, well, during COVID, people running to Costco trying
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: to get toilet paper. And then the smarter people were
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: playing the stock market right, buying stock.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: To the low. You know.
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: All right, city approves downtown La. This is a mega
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: development there, massive real estate development, include more than fifteen
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: hundred residences and you know, three city blocks going to
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: alter downtown Los Angeles. The Skyline City Council yesterday this
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: has brought forth. This is on the fourth and Central Complex,
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: two billion dollars to build and include a mix of residential, office, restaurant, shops, bates,
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: all these over seven point six acres. The only problem is,
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: you know, this is by skid row and they they
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: don't even keep cleaner, manage the crap that they have
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: that they already built let alone.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well they're going to change. They're going to
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: change this one. You're cause you're not going to see
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: a skid row anymore, not in this area.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: You are.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: They going to put them, the homeless people right next
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: to you in your neighborhood because there aren't enough.
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: You know what they say when you call them the
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: city council, your council person, they say, it is not
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: our policy to move the homeless. It's only pushing it
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: into someone else's yard.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: All right, well that's going to happen.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: I mean, you cannot build a project like this without
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: moving homeless, obviously, and right now it's all you know,
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: old warehouses or parking lots.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: I mean, there's nothing there worth the dam. So they're
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: going to be doing this love downtown, but it's gotten
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: so crappy.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, interestingly enough, and this is what the city is about, right,
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: just to show you the city council in the end,
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: they can't control themselves. The thirty story skyscraper residential skyscraper
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: was originally panned to be forty four stories, and the
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: city council said, oh no, no, I'll.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: Bring it down to thirty stories.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: Eh, you know, why not you think they would build,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: you know, say, build a fifth the story skyscraper. What
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: difference they make? At least you get more density, you
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: get better use of the land. The footprint is smaller
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: for the number of people that you have in there.
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: All right, LA's dense enough.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: I resent that because that's the way you're describing this
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: show in US.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: Do not ever do that again.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: Coming up the Supreme Court decisions that just came down,
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: I'm going to go through some of them. Big win
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: for the president in many cases, big losses for the
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: president in cases that he was going to lose, come
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: hell or high water. So I'll explain all of that
• 28:37
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