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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
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  Speaker 1: six forty. Welcome the day. Why am six forty Bill Handle?
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  Speaker 2: It is a humpday, Wednesday, June twenty four, and we're
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  Speaker 2: still looking at what's going on with the war in Iran.
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  Speaker 2: It seems there are two different not only countries, but
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  Speaker 2: two different views on what's going on. Iran and the
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  Speaker 2: United States. They're not on the same page. Now, what
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  Speaker 2: happened yesterday pretty important. There was a bill that passed Congress,
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  Speaker 2: the twenty first Century Wrote Housing Act, and it passed
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  Speaker 2: overwhelming me I mean overwhelmingly three fifty eight to thirty two.
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  Speaker 1: In the House.
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  Speaker 2: The Senate approved basically the same bill on Monday, the
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  Speaker 2: same bipartisan support and now heads to President Trump's death
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  Speaker 2: for his signature. Senator Elizabeth Warren, Communists from Massachusetts, Massachusetts,
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  Speaker 2: a sponsor of the bill, said, housing affordability has become
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  Speaker 2: a priority for Congress.
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  Speaker 1: Aha, is it really true that the government, and this
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  Speaker 1: is through Congress, is looking.
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  Speaker 2: At real issues in this country because the voter's just
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  Speaker 2: a little tired of the bipartisan crapol of that's going on.
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  Speaker 2: And she said, and this is legitimate because Congress. People
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  Speaker 2: have to be elected every two years. Every time every
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  Speaker 2: member of Congress goes back home, they hear how urgent
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  Speaker 2: it is to bring down home prices.
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  Speaker 1: Why what's going on?
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  Speaker 2: Well, a number of factors have made homes out of
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  Speaker 2: reach for US buyers, a lot of them.
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  Speaker 1: According to Redfinn this is national.
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  Speaker 2: The family needs an income about one hundred and seventeen
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  Speaker 2: thousand dollars a year to afford a typical home on
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  Speaker 2: the market. That's thirty thousand dollars a year more than
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  Speaker 2: most most US household earns.
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  Speaker 1: Now, let's look at southern California.
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  Speaker 2: We did a calculation where a family of four needs
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  Speaker 2: what one hundred and seventy five thousand dollars a year
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  Speaker 2: or over two hundred thousand dollars a year to afford
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  Speaker 2: a median price home. And that's after writing a check
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  Speaker 2: for twenty percent, which on a million dollar home, which
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  Speaker 2: is no big deal here in southern California, is a
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  Speaker 2: two hundred thousand dollars check after taxes. How much fun
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  Speaker 2: is that? So mortgage rates have climbed inflation. The mortgage
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  Speaker 2: rates have climbed over the past several years Iran because
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  Speaker 2: of the War the cost of borrowing is now at
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  Speaker 2: six point five percent. Inflation have outstripped wages, and one
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  Speaker 2: of the other reasons is the US simply does not
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  Speaker 2: have enough houses to keep up with demand. Again, we
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  Speaker 2: look at southern California, where the requirements for building, the
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  Speaker 2: laws for building make it almost impossible, I mean, the
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  Speaker 2: cost of building a new home, the fees literally make
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  Speaker 2: it ridiculous.
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  Speaker 1: So there is no single change here.
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  Speaker 2: It's really a hodgepodge of provisions and it designs designed
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  Speaker 2: to either encourage housing construction or make it easier for
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  Speaker 2: people to buy the homes. One is the band, and
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  Speaker 2: this was fairly controversial, A band that prevents corporate investors
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  Speaker 2: from buying up more than single family homes.
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  Speaker 1: To rent out. I mean, there.
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  Speaker 2: Are full organizations, investment firms that do nothing but buy
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  Speaker 2: single family homes and then rent them out, fix them up,
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  Speaker 2: and rent them out. And so the bill says, if
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  Speaker 2: one of these groups already owns at least three hundred
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  Speaker 2: and fifty houses, they can't buy more.
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  Speaker 1: Huh. Interesting.
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  Speaker 2: Now, the big deal or the small deal about this
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  Speaker 2: is these investors make up about three percent of the
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  Speaker 2: single family rental market. So is it a big deal. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: And it depends on the neighborhood, depends on where you live.
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  Speaker 2: And some experts are saying that the ban actually limits
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  Speaker 2: the supply of available homes because these investors buy up
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  Speaker 2: and fix the homes that otherwise would fall out of
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  Speaker 2: the market. It chills investment and we need more investment,
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  Speaker 2: according to some investors. And the legislation doesn't provide new
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  Speaker 2: federal dollars direct federal dollars for home building. What it
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  Speaker 2: does is streamline regulations that make it easier. For example,
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  Speaker 2: one of the regulations is aimed at making manufacturing homes
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  Speaker 2: more affordable. There's a rule that says these manufactured homes
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  Speaker 2: really have to be our vs. For the most part,
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  Speaker 2: they have to have a permanent chassis or a steel
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  Speaker 2: frame that makes them movable. Your house doesn't have a
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  Speaker 2: steel chassis. Your house has it's built on a concrete
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  Speaker 2: foundation and it's wood.
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  Speaker 1: Well.
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  Speaker 2: Manufactured homes are often on top of permanent foundations. Like
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  Speaker 2: I just said, it's housing, and so experts are saying
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  Speaker 2: that you remove that chassis requirement, that's going to cut
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  Speaker 2: the cost of a manufactured home five to five ten
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  Speaker 2: thousand dollars off the construction costs also encourages local governments
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  Speaker 2: to speed up home building, giving more federal dollars to
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  Speaker 2: places that build more housing. The problem is the FEDS
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  Speaker 2: being involved in housing.
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  Speaker 1: The FEDS have a very limited role.
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  Speaker 2: Local governments have a much bigger say over construction. For example,
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  Speaker 2: la it is probably the most difficult city in the
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  Speaker 2: country to build. Santa Monica is up that up there too.
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  Speaker 2: You go to Houston, for example, the building codes are
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  Speaker 2: pretty loose. It is not as expensive to build home
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  Speaker 2: as it is here in southern California. Now there's a
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  Speaker 2: reason you've got the big earthquake, So you have to
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  Speaker 2: have homes that have a lot more requirements. When I
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  Speaker 2: built the Persian Palace, I put enough concrete at in
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  Speaker 2: the foundations that could build another runway at Lax because
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  Speaker 2: the laws had changed, and that makes sense. And then
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  Speaker 2: you have the Gulf States that have to be anti
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  Speaker 2: hurricane well not proof, but have to be hurricane resistance resistant.
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  Speaker 2: So that makes it difficult and more expensive. But the
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  Speaker 2: bottom line is the FEDS are trying to do something
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  Speaker 2: and it is a political statement and it has to
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  Speaker 2: be because what is someone running for Congress going to do?
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  Speaker 2: Vote against helping you buy a home. How's that going
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  Speaker 2: to fly next time an election comes up? And remember
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  Speaker 2: the election with Congress people every two years, So the
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  Speaker 2: second they are elected, they're already hustling money for the
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  Speaker 2: next two year election. I mean, that's one of the
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  Speaker 2: reasons that people don't run or they bail out, is
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  Speaker 2: because if you're running for Congress, basically you're a whore.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you are, It's that simple. You're begging for money.
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  Speaker 2: And we look at the horrors of big business and
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  Speaker 2: big groups and unions, etc. Who pour money into these
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  Speaker 2: campaigns based on the politics of a candidate. You know,
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  Speaker 2: that's not really democracy. The United States, the Supreme Court
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  Speaker 2: really screwed it up, starting with Citizens United where pack
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  Speaker 2: money can be unlimited because it was a First Amendment issue.
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  Speaker 1: So it's just difficult. Things have to change.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you need a lot of money to buy
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  Speaker 2: a house, even to the point where here in southern California,
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  Speaker 2: new buyers well they don't exist. How does a young
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  Speaker 2: person in their twenties buy a home today?
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  Speaker 1: You can't.
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  Speaker 2: The only way to own a home, a nice home,
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  Speaker 2: is you have to buy a home twenty years ago
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  Speaker 2: and then sell it and then move up, and then
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  Speaker 2: move up, and then move up. For example, the Persian
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  Speaker 2: Palace that I built twenty five years ago, I could
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  Speaker 2: never afford to build it if I didn't have previous
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  Speaker 2: homes that I sold. So that's good news. Now a
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  Speaker 2: little bit of politics and the war in Iran. The
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  Speaker 2: Democrats have introduced invoking the War Powers Act to stop
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  Speaker 2: the President from going forward with the war in Iran
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  Speaker 2: without congressional approval. And the President, as we know, expands
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  Speaker 2: the concept of presidential power more so than any other president.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he pushes the envelope as far as presidential
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  Speaker 2: powers is concerned. And Supreme Court is pretty much on
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  Speaker 2: his side in many cases, although lowly lately has been
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  Speaker 2: stopped cold. Well, what happened yesterday? The Senate voted to
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  Speaker 2: block the President from resuming the war with Iran. The
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  Speaker 2: resolution was passed fifty to forty eight, four Republicans joining
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  Speaker 2: Democrats to support the measure.
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  Speaker 1: And that's new.
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  Speaker 2: Two Republicans Mitch McConnell, who is ill and I still
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  Speaker 2: think in the hospital. Dave McCormick missed the vote, allowing
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  Speaker 2: a measure to pass. Bill Cassidy, for example, was primaried
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  Speaker 2: out so he is not running again. He can't, so
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  Speaker 2: he is just voting the way he thinks. He does
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  Speaker 2: not have to cowtow to the president at all. The
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  Speaker 2: President posted on True Social these senators have just made
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  Speaker 2: my job more difficult. But I will get it done
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  Speaker 2: one way or the other, because I always get it done.
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  Speaker 2: And this is one of the biggest fissures between Trump
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  Speaker 2: and the Senate, Republican controlled Senate during his second term.
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  Speaker 2: And why and how well the agreement with the Iranian
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  Speaker 2: government and the war has really pissed off even those
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  Speaker 2: who support the President in the Republican Party because the
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  Speaker 2: agreement to end the war lifts sanctions on Iranian oil.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, right now, Iran is allowed to sell its
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  Speaker 2: oil on the open market, which has not happened in years,
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  Speaker 2: and so they're able to get money. And now we're
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  Speaker 2: in we're talking in the billions of dollars. Also the
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  Speaker 2: release of the funds that have been seized by the
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  Speaker 2: United States in terms of billions of dollars, the sanctions
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  Speaker 2: in terms of selling goods, but mainly oil from Iran
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  Speaker 2: that's been lifted. And so here's what's going on. Because
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  Speaker 2: the President is saying, yeah, if we're at war with Iran,
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  Speaker 2: maybe you have a shot at this resolution passing. By
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  Speaker 2: the way, the president can veto cannot veto this. But
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  Speaker 2: his argument is, we're not at war.
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  Speaker 1: Now. Is a cease fire still war?
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  Speaker 2: I think so, I mean a cease fire is a
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  Speaker 2: cease fire, it is not a peace deal. So it
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  Speaker 2: goes back to the War Powers Resolution of nineteen seventy three.
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  Speaker 2: This was right after Nixon and the war in Vietnam,
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  Speaker 2: and it's the law that Democrats used to force the
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  Speaker 2: vote that the president must remove US forces engage in
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  Speaker 2: hostilities abroad without congressional approval authorization if Congress passes this resolution.
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  Speaker 2: Another president says it's unconstitutional because I the president have
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  Speaker 2: the right to engage in war, and that's based on
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  Speaker 2: a nineteen eighty three resolution that was passed, a law
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  Speaker 2: that was passed, and this dealt with immigration. Congress could
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  Speaker 2: not restrain the president's veto power. Though the Democrats are
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  Speaker 2: arguing this only had to do with immigration and not
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  Speaker 2: to the War Powers resolutions, and the Republicans naturally are
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  Speaker 2: saying that does not apply. And so the argument is
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  Speaker 2: underlying the vote and why it actually passed. And we
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  Speaker 2: have a few Republicans jumping ship is that this deal
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  Speaker 2: that the President is cutting with Iran is far worse
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  Speaker 2: than the deal that Obama put us through. And one
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  Speaker 2: of the campaign promises and he did this, The President
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  Speaker 2: did this is to cut the deal off, get the
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  Speaker 2: United States out of that agreement because it was so bad.
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  Speaker 1: Well, if it's so bad, why are we going back
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  Speaker 1: to where it was? Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Also, the big deal right now is we're opening up
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  Speaker 2: the straight of horror moves we who control and has
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  Speaker 2: said Hegsat said this, It's not the Iranians who control
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  Speaker 2: the straight, it's we, the Americans control the straight.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. And to prove it now, look.
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  Speaker 2: At twenty five ships passing and at least twenty five
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  Speaker 2: ships passed a few days ago. Amy, do we have
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  Speaker 2: the numbers of how many ships have passed in the
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  Speaker 2: last couple of days beyond the twenty five that was reported.
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  Speaker 1: I think two days ago.
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  Speaker 3: It was over one hundred that are passing three days.
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  Speaker 3: I don't have an exact number.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just curious. Now, keep in mind, as far as
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  Speaker 2: headsets and the administration, it's not Iran that controls. We control, Okay.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, come on, did we just drop off the
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  Speaker 2: turnip truck. And that's another federal federal declaration that the
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  Speaker 2: President has issued that there will be turnip trucks distributed
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  Speaker 2: to all fifty states so people can drop off them.
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  Speaker 2: And so we see this bill is not very popular
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  Speaker 2: because it is being said that the United States has
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  Speaker 2: gotten the worse of this deal. And Republicans are going,
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  Speaker 2: we're done, or a lot of them are, or at
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  Speaker 2: least four of them are.
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  Speaker 1: And here we go. Here's a story, because I misplace
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  Speaker 1: stories all the time.
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  Speaker 2: And this is out of the La Times and it
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  Speaker 2: has to do with La Unified school district where I
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  Speaker 2: went to school. It is banning classroom screen time before
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  Speaker 2: second grade and has even in acted limited use for
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  Speaker 2: older students. It's a policy approved yesterday by the school
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  Speaker 2: board pioneering policy and reflects this growing backlash from parents
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  Speaker 2: and educators who are concerned about overreliance on computers in
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  Speaker 2: technology and K to twelve learning. Now we've been talking
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  Speaker 2: about AI being used in business, being used in school
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  Speaker 2: but on a college or high school level, to write papers,
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  Speaker 2: to take tests other than in the schoolroom.
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  Speaker 1: In the room.
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  Speaker 2: Now you know, for example, when I took the bar exam,
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  Speaker 2: and it's still the I think under the same circumstances,
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  Speaker 2: you had to be in the room and you couldn't
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  Speaker 2: get out of the room, and if you had to
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  Speaker 2: go to the bathroom, a proctor followed you into the bathroom.
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  Speaker 2: Because of the security. You certainly couldn't bring in a laptop.
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  Speaker 2: You could bring in a typewriter, not that they had
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  Speaker 2: many laptops in those days, but today the security is crazy.
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  Speaker 2: Now let's bring it down to second grade and third grade,
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  Speaker 2: elementary school, middle school. The reliance on AI is crazy.
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  Speaker 2: And here we've talked about this before. It's not that
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  Speaker 2: AI is inherently bad, it's what people do with AI. Now,
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  Speaker 2: guns don't kill people. People kill people. AI isn't cheating.
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  Speaker 2: It's people who cheat. But if you have the tools
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  Speaker 2: to cheat, you move.
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  Speaker 1: Forward in cheating.
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  Speaker 2: But even more important than that is if using computers
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  Speaker 2: in AI has become the norm, what educators and teachers
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  Speaker 2: are saying, it takes away the critical thinking. It takes
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  Speaker 2: away people's ability to go from A to B, to
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  Speaker 2: process information, to analyze what is happening.
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  Speaker 1: You just don't. You just don't, even if.
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  Speaker 2: You're not caught, even if you're allowed to use AI now.
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  Speaker 2: For example, here, I get copy all the time for commercials,
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  Speaker 2: and the copy used to be god awful.
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  Speaker 1: It's that simple.
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  Speaker 2: And so now the copy is run through a I
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  Speaker 2: to where I get copy from.
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  Speaker 1: Commercials, and this is a strange one.
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  Speaker 2: Is as terrible as the copy was when these account
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  Speaker 2: executives were writing it. Now with AI, it's even worse.
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  Speaker 2: Figure that one out. The point is is there is
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  Speaker 2: you don't have to think it through.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm using my example here.
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  Speaker 2: When I write copy, and I'm not the greatest copywriter
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  Speaker 2: in the world, what I do is I think, what
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  Speaker 2: do you want? What is going to work for you?
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  Speaker 2: What is the problem that I'm helping you deal with?
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  Speaker 2: How do I overcome that product with this or that
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  Speaker 2: problem with this product? I mean literally, I think it
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  Speaker 2: it's important to me. With AI, if I were going
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  Speaker 2: to run through everything through AI, I don't care because
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  Speaker 2: AI is going to do all my thinking. It's going
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  Speaker 2: to figure out what you want and my analysis means
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  Speaker 2: nothing anymore.
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  Speaker 1: And the same goes.
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  Speaker 2: And that's just my example, and it's a very small example,
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  Speaker 2: simply what I deal with every day. But when school
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  Speaker 2: and you're dealing, you're dealing as a kid or your
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  Speaker 2: children are dealing every single day and what is school about.
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  Speaker 1: School is about.
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  Speaker 2: Learning, certainly, and you can argue that AI helps people learn.
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  Speaker 2: School is about thinking and processing. AI takes that away
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  Speaker 2: from students. AI gives you a base a form without AI,
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  Speaker 2: and you're dealing with education, you have a basis of
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  Speaker 2: which to move ahead because you have this body of wisdom.
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  Speaker 2: Now third graders and fourth graders don't have wisdom, but
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  Speaker 2: they do rely on what they've learned before to move
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  Speaker 2: to the next step. And it is a logical progression.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't happen with AI. It simply doesn't. So the
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  Speaker 2: school LAUFD is moving in the direction where they're just
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  Speaker 2: banning screen time for second grade and then theremitting screen
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  Speaker 2: time for example, twenty minutes including homework assignments per day.
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  Speaker 2: That's in second and third grade, thirty minutes in fourth
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  Speaker 2: and fifth grade. Middle school, one hour of screen time
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  Speaker 2: per day and that's spread throughout the week in each
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  Speaker 2: class for a total of six hours weekly, and that
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  Speaker 2: increases to one point five hours for high school students.
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  Speaker 2: So the older you get, the more AI is allowed.
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  Speaker 2: But not a whole lot, not a whole lot Now
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  Speaker 2: I love artificial intelligence. I think the wave of the
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  Speaker 2: future is AI with some real problems. So I mean,
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  Speaker 2: we haven't even begun to come to grips with this.
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  Speaker 2: This is where science or where laws and the ability
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  Speaker 2: for society to deal with it is way behind science.
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  Speaker 1: And AI is science. All right.
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  Speaker 2: I was going to askam Me a question and Cono
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  Speaker 2: a question, and so I'll ask Kno.
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  Speaker 1: If an Amy comes back, I'll throw it at her. Cono,
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  Speaker 1: of all.
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  Speaker 2: The cities that are hosting the Olympic Games, I mean
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  Speaker 2: the FIFA World Cup, which city do you think was
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  Speaker 2: and is the most successful in terms of hotel rooms
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  Speaker 2: and in general in the United States? Yeah, now Mexico,
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  Speaker 2: not Cowboys Stadium in Texas, Texas?
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: And and you've read the article, so oh you don't know, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: if you had to guess, which, oh she does know? Okay,
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  Speaker 2: So that's not that doesn't help Amy. Which city do
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  Speaker 2: you think is the most successful?
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  Speaker 3: Mmmm? Well, I mean they I think everybody's doing a
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  Speaker 3: great job. That's it. I've been watching a lot of matches.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well that's that's the story. Not doing a great
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking about tourism. I'm talking about people. I'm talking
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  Speaker 2: about people coming in. Sorry about that, I'm talking about
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  Speaker 2: people coming in, attendance, hotel rooms, selling of tickets.
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  Speaker 1: Atlanta. Kansas City is the.
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  Speaker 3: Answer because it's probably less expensive there.
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  Speaker 2: That's one reason it's less expensive. The other reason is
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  Speaker 2: it's in the middle of the country. So people that
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  Speaker 2: want to visit the country, or even people that are
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  Speaker 2: driving in and are going from other places, Kansas is
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  Speaker 2: the perfect place because from there you go out, it
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  Speaker 2: becomes the hub and there's and you've got the red
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  Speaker 2: ruby slippers because you're not in Kansas anymore. People come
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  Speaker 2: for the mountains in Kansas. You know that not only
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  Speaker 2: do they have the ocean in Kansas, much like California,
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  Speaker 2: but they also have the mountains and the desert. They
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  Speaker 2: have a lot of grasslands is what they do, lot
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  Speaker 2: of corn. But the point is, and I want to
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  Speaker 2: get to this story, is that when you go to
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  Speaker 2: the major cities New York, Los Angeles, it hasn't been
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  Speaker 2: any nearly.
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  Speaker 1: As successful as.
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  Speaker 2: Was anticipated by these cities by FIFA.
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  Speaker 1: And it is I mean there's a big difference.
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  Speaker 2: For example, in the city of New York, the FIFA
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  Speaker 2: estimated that there'd be one point two million visitors. The
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  Speaker 2: city itself at this point is would be thrilled with
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  Speaker 2: four hundred thousand. Now there are games where people pour
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: in and the price of hotels are still astronomical. Of course,
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: the finals, there's no question. Any game that Messie is
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: in draws in saying crowds, did you what game was
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  Speaker 2: it that I just saw where Messi was in three
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  Speaker 2: commercials in the same commercial break three different products where
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  Speaker 2: Messi was in the star of the commercial. And keep
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  Speaker 2: in mind, a guy like Messi really needs the money.
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  Speaker 2: He makes one hundred million dollars a year and he's
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: doing commercials. But you have and also Kansas City has
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  Speaker 2: luck of the draw. I got some of his quarterfinals
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  Speaker 2: and he got some pretty good games. So anything that
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  Speaker 2: Argentina is and is going to be great. Anything that
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  Speaker 2: the Los Angeles team is going to do well. But
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  Speaker 2: the rest of the country, they're simply not selling the
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  Speaker 2: hotel rooms.
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  Speaker 3: You know what they are, They're selling beer. Do you
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  Speaker 3: hear that they ran out of beer? I think they're
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: in Boston. Yeah, yeah, ran out of beer.
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  Speaker 1: And they're out of ranch dressing.
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  Speaker 2: But when you talk about across the board and FIFA
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  Speaker 2: for the first time. It's forty eight teams. They've never
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: had that before. I mean they're stretching. There is I
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  Speaker 2: guess there's not enough money in the world for FIFA.
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  Speaker 2: What is the best job in the world. I'll tell
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  Speaker 2: you right now if you can get it to be
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  Speaker 2: on the FIFA committee that chooses the city. So you
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: fly around and you're being and you're investigating, you're looking
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  Speaker 2: at the various cities. The red carpet is rolled out.
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  Speaker 2: To what extent do you think if FIFA comes round
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  Speaker 2: and is considering your city, You're gonna get pretty good food,
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  Speaker 2: and you're not going to stay at a motel six,
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  Speaker 2: and they're not going to take into McDonald's for dinner.
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  Speaker 2: They're gonna treat you very very well, to say the least. Oh,
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: Bob Scott just called me. That's the one in Missouri,
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  Speaker 2: not Kansas. Okay, it's the same concept, Bob, leave me alone,
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  Speaker 2: don't ever, don't ever Bob bother me again. Okay, Bob Scott,
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  Speaker 2: we used to wear we used to work with us
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  Speaker 2: here at KFI, and that this will be the last
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: time that Bob corrects me. Absolutely Kansas City, Missouri, same process,
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: all right, guys, what are we gonna do? Ooh, the
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: America's two hundred and fiftieth birthday. And there are different
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  Speaker 2: ways to celebrate. And there are two big, big powers
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  Speaker 2: that are involved, big players, And I'm gonna explain what's
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: going on, and it is, of course, it's politics. Politics
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