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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KF I
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  Speaker 1: am six forty.
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  Speaker 2: She would help me take my pants off, really weird
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  Speaker 2: the doctor. And I said, so where do I put this?
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  Speaker 2: He said, on the peg over there, next to my pants. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: Is that a promo?
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  Speaker 1: By the way, And now handle on the news, ladies
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  Speaker 1: and gentlemen.
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  Speaker 3: Here's Bill Handle. It is a Thursday morning, April sixteenth.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning everybody, Handle and the morning crew, as we're almost.
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  Speaker 3: To the end of the week.
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  Speaker 2: And let me just say a quick one here before
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  Speaker 2: we get started. Kno, there you are, good morning, sitting
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  Speaker 2: at the driver's seat. Then Neil, there you are, Morgan,
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  Speaker 2: good Morgan to you. And Will Coles Riber, good morning, sir. Hello,
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  Speaker 2: and and there you are here, good morning. Oh you
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  Speaker 2: gotta mute there and Amy yes.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning. Okay, this morning and tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: What we are going to do is have you promote
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  Speaker 2: and pitch something else sneering dear your heart.
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  Speaker 3: And there are two things. The thing Number one is
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  Speaker 3: uh uh the piggly wiggly waggly woke.
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  Speaker 4: It's the wiggle waggle walk.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that one too, And so we'll be talking about
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  Speaker 2: that and people can donate, and you want people to
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  Speaker 2: walk with you too, Absolutely do they do.
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  Speaker 3: They bring their their dogs.
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  Speaker 4: With them, Yes, they do. And if you don't have
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  Speaker 4: a dog, you can still walk. But yeah, tons of
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  Speaker 4: people come out and hundreds and hundreds of people bring
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  Speaker 4: their dogs. It's such a great day.
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  Speaker 2: Well that is I'm gonna I think, uh, I think
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  Speaker 2: Lindsay's gonna come. Uh and she, well, she has to.
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  Speaker 2: We have to dig the dogs out of the closet.
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  Speaker 2: They're in box, is uh And so I was just
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  Speaker 2: going to come carry the box.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, just the dead Ones and uh yeah radio.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, dude, I don't.
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  Speaker 2: Know if well, certainly Neil was around. Do you guys
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  Speaker 2: remember when Rich Maratta was part of the morning crew
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  Speaker 2: and he uh he was our sports guy, you remember,
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  Speaker 2: but I don't know if the rest of you remember Rich. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: he retired and uh, Rich had this dog, Henry, who
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  Speaker 2: was more important to him than his wife was, which.
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  Speaker 3: Is not unusual.
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  Speaker 2: And Henry unfortunately died, uh and it died of old age.
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  Speaker 2: So it was a pretty good life. And so I
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  Speaker 2: call Rich just to see how he's doing. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: I did that for a few years after the show,
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  Speaker 2: and he said, I'm taking Henry for a walk. And
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  Speaker 2: I said, excuse me, because I'm taking Henry for a walk. Well,
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  Speaker 2: Rich lived on a golf course will Does up in Reno,
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  Speaker 2: and he would walk around the golf course with Henry
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  Speaker 2: every day.
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  Speaker 3: That was his walk.
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  Speaker 2: And after Henry died and was in a box, he
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  Speaker 2: would literally literally carry the box with him around the
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  Speaker 2: golf course, taking Henry for a walk.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, I can't wait till Lindsay does that with you.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: We have five you know, we have five dogs on
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  Speaker 2: a shelf.
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  Speaker 3: And she wanted she wanted to put the dogs on
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  Speaker 3: a shelf in the living room.
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  Speaker 2: And I said to her, if you think you're gonna
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  Speaker 2: put boxes of dead dogs in the living room on
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  Speaker 2: a shelf, you are out of your mind. So she
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  Speaker 2: has her own little wellness room and she can keep
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  Speaker 2: boxes of dogs. And she said, you know we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: have I'm gonna have a box for you, you know,
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  Speaker 2: right next to all the other boxes.
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  Speaker 3: Like, well, yeah, I absolutely, yeah, I think you are.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna look like the ending scene of Raiders of
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  Speaker 1: the Lost Arc when they're just all these boxes up
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  Speaker 1: to the ceiling, a lot of boxes.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, that's basically it for what's new in the world.
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  Speaker 2: And once again Amy and I are not going to
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  Speaker 2: be here Monday because we're going to do our We're
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  Speaker 2: going to be on a date and I'm very excited
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  Speaker 2: she is taking me to Disneyland because I've been talking
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  Speaker 2: so much about Disney in sort of a negative way.
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  Speaker 2: Although I love Disney. The only thing I bitch about,
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  Speaker 2: frankly are the weights. And that's coming from a history
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  Speaker 2: of not waiting at all.
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  Speaker 3: As I've said many times years ago.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's still memories still are there one hundred
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  Speaker 2: years ago.
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  Speaker 3: You know, they're they're going.
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  Speaker 4: To have a great time Disney and we're going to
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  Speaker 4: get you good food. We're going to go on. It's
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  Speaker 4: going to be so much fun. And Willie so no,
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  Speaker 4: thank you very much.
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  Speaker 2: Well I believe, yeah, no, I totally believe I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to have a good time. Well, it used to be
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  Speaker 2: when I was a kid, and I'm talking about a
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  Speaker 2: lot of years ago. Uh, Andy, the Disneyland was fairly new.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it was the most exciting day of my
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  Speaker 2: year when we knew we were going to Disneyland. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know two months ahead. I couldn't sleep tonight before
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  Speaker 2: I was so excited.
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  Speaker 4: And so that's still happening for kids around the world
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  Speaker 4: every night.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, get your Oswald the Lucky Rabbit ears, you'll have
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  Speaker 1: a good time.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, we got to get you some mirrors.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Are you guys park copy, yep?
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  Speaker 3: Are we White Park? Oh Park?
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  Speaker 4: You've ever been to Disney California Adventure, then have you?
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  Speaker 4: Because if I have, so, it's been okay. I thought
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  Speaker 4: you said just when.
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  Speaker 2: It opened and the only ride worth of dam was
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  Speaker 2: Soaring over California at that time.
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  Speaker 4: That is still there and it's still spectacular, and now
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  Speaker 4: there's more.
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  Speaker 3: I loved it.
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  Speaker 2: You would we would soaring over California as you're literally soaring,
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  Speaker 2: and it's terrific ride. And then you it used to
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  Speaker 2: be pass orange groves and the scent of oranges would
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  Speaker 2: come into the room or come into the ride, and
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  Speaker 2: then you would go past the cemetery.
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  Speaker 4: And cemetery there was no cemetery.
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  Speaker 1: Really flies in La now and you can smell the
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  Speaker 1: urine and the feces.
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  Speaker 4: Especially at the metro stations.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, fantastic. You can see robberies happening again.
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  Speaker 4: And it flies over the valley.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, what is the soaring over what? And I
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  Speaker 2: know they did as soaring internationally for a while.
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  Speaker 4: Well it was soaring around the world and then they
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  Speaker 4: bring sore and over California, soaring around California or throwing
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  Speaker 4: over California back. But I know they're bringing it back.
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  Speaker 4: I was googling it to see if it has started again.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Also, it's a real foody place now and oh.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, oh, we're going to feed you good bill.
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  Speaker 3: As a matter of.
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  Speaker 1: Fact, until the twenty seventh, the wine, the food and
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  Speaker 1: Wine Festival is still going on at California Adventure, So
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  Speaker 1: they have special kiosks set up with food around right.
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  Speaker 3: Oh dog.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and my daughter is coming, Pamela, who let's just
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  Speaker 2: say she u does not hesitate to take a sip
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  Speaker 2: or two of the libation, and she is going to
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  Speaker 2: be falling down drunk. I'm going to be dragging her
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  Speaker 2: like a cadaver dog, you know, those cadaver dogs.
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  Speaker 1: So she drinks while she's smoking pot or what.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, she does. Yeah, it's true.
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  Speaker 2: I've always thought about those cadaver dogs, and they actually
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  Speaker 2: are live dogs, which I've always wondered. I always thought
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  Speaker 2: cadaver dogs were just dead dogs you dragged on a leash.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm wrong on that. Okay, are you guys ready
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  Speaker 3: to do it? Yes?
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  Speaker 4: Oh and by the way, it is soaring over California
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  Speaker 4: now through July second.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, guys, is time for handle on the news. Amy
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  Speaker 2: Neil and me lead story. Take a Master in a
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  Speaker 2: lot Nation got nailed in a courtroom in New York
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  Speaker 2: and it's the jury said that yep, particularly Ticketmaster way
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  Speaker 2: overcharged and effectively and literally had a monopoly. Of course
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  Speaker 2: they said, oh no, no, we don't have a monopoly.
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  Speaker 2: We compete with other with all these other venues and
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  Speaker 2: ticket brokers. Yeah, they're ten times bigger than the next
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  Speaker 2: biggest one. And so it didn't take long for the
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  Speaker 2: jury to figure it out. So now the judge has
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  Speaker 2: to determine how it's going to pay, what the renewnerration
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  Speaker 2: is going to be, because Ticketmaster controls well you want
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  Speaker 2: to see somebody and anybody of note, Ticketmaster controls it.
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  Speaker 3: I just want to let you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, bands have been complaining about the Pearl Jam complained
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  Speaker 1: about this for decades.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Yeah, that's right, because you have certain bands that
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  Speaker 2: just refuse to overcharge.
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  Speaker 3: I think Bruce.
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  Speaker 2: Springfield, spring spring Seek, I know, I know that. I
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  Speaker 2: just there's another Springfield out there, Rocket Risk. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: know who no one pays attention to. But I've always
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  Speaker 2: conslated the two, and he wants people to pay a
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  Speaker 2: reasonable amount of money for his concerts. So anyway, you're
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  Speaker 2: going to see some big doings and they're going to
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  Speaker 2: change the way they do business. And certainly, and if
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  Speaker 2: there's refunds available, I don't know what the judge is going.
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  Speaker 4: To say, but before that happens, they're going to appeal.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh yeah, They've got a lot going on.
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  Speaker 2: They're not going to take this one lying down.
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  Speaker 4: Getting closer, but are we getting anywhere? Key Pakistani mediator
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  Speaker 4: says they've made a breakthrough on some sticky issues between
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  Speaker 4: the US and Iran that have boosted hopes that they
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  Speaker 4: Iran War may soon come to an end, but Iran
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  Speaker 4: has warned that the fate of its nuclear program has
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  Speaker 4: not been resolved, and of course that's one of the
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  Speaker 4: biggest issues out there, So the nuclear ambitions and also
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  Speaker 4: the Strait of horror moves.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they haven't gotten very far, but at least Iran
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  Speaker 2: is willing to sit down now. Whether anything happens as
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  Speaker 2: a result of that, Iran can go on forever because
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  Speaker 2: the people have no say. It's the regime. In the
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  Speaker 2: United States. There is some political fallout if this war
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  Speaker 2: continues on for months, or negotiations continue on for months.
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  Speaker 2: There are one or two Republican congress people that are
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  Speaker 2: going to go and Senator are going to go. Ah,
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  Speaker 2: this isn't such a good idea because no one runs
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  Speaker 2: for office in Iran.
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  Speaker 1: All right, LA sucks and we can prove it. UCLA
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  Speaker 1: Luskin Summit put out this report, and we here in
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  Speaker 1: Los Angeles think the quality of life is at a
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  Speaker 1: record low, so says this report came out yesterday, the
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six Los Angeles County Quality of Life Index
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  Speaker 1: found the overall score dropped to a record low of
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  Speaker 1: fifty two, with six of the nine categories measured reaching
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  Speaker 1: their lowest levels on record, an eight showing year over
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  Speaker 1: year decline. So among the lowest in the survey, we're education,
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  Speaker 1: of course, transportation, and cost of living. The crazy thing
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  Speaker 1: here is, you know we have the lowest rating with education.
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  Speaker 1: Yet not only did we just skate by one strike,
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  Speaker 1: but now they're looking at the UC system going on.
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  Speaker 3: So, oh yeah, it's all crazy.
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing this story at seven point fifty where we
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  Speaker 2: go through the list of how difficult it is to
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  Speaker 2: live in southern California, particularly LA.
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  Speaker 3: And I'll continue that discussion.
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  Speaker 2: Through the end of the show tomorrow because there's a
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  Speaker 2: fair amount to talk about in terms of l a.
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  Speaker 3: Rough place to live in southern California.
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  Speaker 4: Trump really wants to say, you're fired again. President Trump
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  Speaker 4: says in a TV interview that he will not drop
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  Speaker 4: the investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, and also
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  Speaker 4: threatened to fire Powell if he doesn't resign when his
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  Speaker 4: term as chair ends this month. Technically, he can stay
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  Speaker 4: on if he wants, and he has said I have
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  Speaker 4: no intention of resigning, but Trump wants him out. So
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  Speaker 4: Trump said, okay, well, then we'll just have to fire him.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, except that the law does allow to fire him.
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  Speaker 2: But what the hell? Yeah, there's that. I mean, the
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  Speaker 2: law sort of gets that pesky the whole series, those
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  Speaker 2: pesky laws.
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  Speaker 1: And you're so hung up, I know, because you're a lawyer. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: all right, speaking of law enforcement and information. Until last
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  Speaker 1: year around December or so when any immigrant that was
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  Speaker 1: in US detention centers when they died, you had Immigration
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  Speaker 1: and Customs enforcement put together like a package. It's like
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  Speaker 1: this very detailed three page report. They broke down the circumstances,
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  Speaker 1: the number of detainee deaths, all that, you know, those
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  Speaker 1: types of things, what happened where they were in custody,
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  Speaker 1: all this stuff detailed. Well, those reports have been cut
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  Speaker 1: to a four paragraph summary. So we're told the policy changed,
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  Speaker 1: and what would happen in a quick turnaround now instead
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  Speaker 1: of the two days of detainee's death when they would
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  Speaker 1: normally come out. Now, then within ninety days they'll get
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  Speaker 1: a report of these smaller following the paragraph things and
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  Speaker 1: this detember.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well they're changing it again.
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  Speaker 2: I'm looking at one of these reports and there it
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  Speaker 2: is HEYESUS Rodriguez dead.
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  Speaker 3: That's the that's the little yes, there is a report.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah wow, yeah, that's a little thin.
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  Speaker 5: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: These sailing ships were apparently up to something rather sneaky.
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  Speaker 4: Norwegian Cruise Line has agreed to pay two million dollars
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  Speaker 4: to a dozen states in the US following an investigation
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  Speaker 4: during the that started during the pandemic. Consumers say that
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  Speaker 4: NCL Norwegian Cruise Line implemented unfair policies regarding future credits
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  Speaker 4: and refunds associated with cruises canceled as a result of
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  Speaker 4: the COVID nineteen pandemic. Remember when in the whole world
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  Speaker 4: shut down and cruises were one of them. So yep,
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  Speaker 4: they apparently were a little sneaky on the whole.
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  Speaker 3: But it what's two million dollars?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you know that, I was like two millions, said.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's you know, coins in the couch money.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm wondering how many people are actually going to
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  Speaker 2: file lawsuits customers, And according to this story, between twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty and twenty twenty five, I had issued more than
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  Speaker 2: three billion dollars in refunds. So we'll see what the
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  Speaker 2: numbers are if they're really small, and they don't seem
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  Speaker 2: to be very big with a two million dollar settlement,
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  Speaker 2: the merry go.
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  Speaker 1: Round of all the Trump stuff, whether it's Iran or
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  Speaker 1: Epstein files.
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  Speaker 2: You remember the tariffs, No, I've completely forgotten about the tariffs,
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  Speaker 2: says I look savile, and I wright writing these checks
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  Speaker 2: that are just insane to the government. But it's like
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  Speaker 2: it's weird. Stuff goes to the back burner, and then
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  Speaker 2: it comes to the front again. If you remember, there
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  Speaker 2: was some hubbub again that stinking law business. So the
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  Speaker 2: Trump administration is expected to start accepting claims next week
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  Speaker 2: for refunds dealing with those tariffs President Trump called collected illegally. Right.
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  Speaker 2: Court said that those were illegal tariffs because the President
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  Speaker 2: didn't have the authority to wake up one morning and go,
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  Speaker 2: let's do some tariffs. Turns out that Congress has to
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  Speaker 2: do that. Now. I don't even want no way bothered
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  Speaker 2: because Mike Johnson would make absolutely sure he had the
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  Speaker 2: authority to do that.
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  Speaker 3: But so be it.
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  Speaker 2: In any case, they're trying to figure out how and
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  Speaker 2: where this is going to happen, and we filed our claim.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I've come.
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  Speaker 2: You know you've heard my complaint because the cookwear business, Saville.
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  Speaker 1: And Iron all day, the audience has been so concerned
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  Speaker 1: about you.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you very much for that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they've just been like, god, his handle lokay? Does
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  Speaker 1: he need? All?
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  Speaker 5: Right?
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  Speaker 3: Now, that's it. You're never riding in my elevator again.
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  Speaker 1: You shun me from your elevator.
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  Speaker 4: You should apologize that elevator's fun.
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  Speaker 3: There you go.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't written this one.
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  Speaker 3: It's a fun elevator.
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  Speaker 1: I remember the old one. Yes, so you could fit
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  Speaker 1: a football team in it, you know.
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  Speaker 2: I Before people make fun of me, I should actually
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  Speaker 2: explain the elevator.
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  Speaker 3: It actually makes sense. But that's besides the point.
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  Speaker 2: Continue me on with more handle on the news. Amy
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  Speaker 2: Neil and me, and I do not see Amy in
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  Speaker 2: her chair.
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  Speaker 4: I'm right here.
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  Speaker 3: I know you about our dates. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: I will do the story as Amy is running around someplace.
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  Speaker 2: And this is the president considering the possibility that Samuel Alito,
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  Speaker 2: Justice Samuel Leto might step down, and the President gets
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  Speaker 2: to yet nominate a.
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  Speaker 3: Fourth justice to the Supreme Court.
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  Speaker 2: Now that's not going to have any realiant kind of
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  Speaker 2: import it's just not going to be that important. Why
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  Speaker 2: because Alito is already the most conservative jazz. He and
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  Speaker 2: Clarence Thomas are the two insanely conservative justices, so it'll
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  Speaker 2: be just replacing one or the other. And he and
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  Speaker 2: the President talked about Ruth Bader Ginsburg and he noted
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  Speaker 2: that she wouldn't retire, so Joe Biden could have nominated
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  Speaker 2: another Supreme Court justice. And that was a horrible thing
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  Speaker 2: that she did to the liberal cause. She was eighty
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  Speaker 2: seven years old and said, no, I'm not retiring. And
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  Speaker 2: the problem is she died after Trump was sworn in,
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  Speaker 2: and that means she was replaced with a very conservative
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  Speaker 2: I think it was.
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  Speaker 1: Some people said it was very selfish of her.
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  Speaker 2: It was not a good move politically, that's for sure.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't a good move socially in terms of her position,
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  Speaker 2: her liberal position. Yeah, And people were saying, that's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of hubers. She's eighty seven, she's a Supreme Court justice.
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  Speaker 2: I ain't given it up. And then she dies, Well,
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: I mean she wakes up one morning dead. She was.
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  Speaker 1: She was quite slight. I don't know that that's the sound.
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  Speaker 3: Oh okay, there you go.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: That's that's more sensitive speaking about justice. We just aren't
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: nice to each other anymore. Liberal Supreme Court Justice Sonia
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: Soda Mayor issued an unusual apology yesterday. She made some
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: what they're calling critical remarks about the upbringing of one
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: of her conservative colleagues, Justice Brett Cavanaugh. And this was
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: talking to a disagreement about gosh, what they were talking about.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: I just blanked on the conversation that started this whole thing.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: It was an immigration, immigration thing, that was an immigration issue.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: So it is an immigration issue. And she she didn't
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  Speaker 1: even call him out by name. I don't think this
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  Speaker 1: is really apology worthy. She says that without naming him.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: This is from a man who's parents were professionals and
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: probably doesn't really know any person who works by the hour.
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  Speaker 2: That's a dig A and Supreme Court justices don't do
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: personal digs. I mean they do digs on decisions. You know,
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: you're out of touch with reality. It's crappy a little
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: to say, Hey, listen, we all come from our own perspective.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: And if you only came from a you know, a
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: household professionals that don't know, I think you would have
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: gotten the same point across. Well, how about the how
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: about the statement that she said that she believes he
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: has sex with goats?
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: Well, I think do you think that was a little offensive.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: She has to apologize for it. By the way, she
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: didn't say that, but a step up from a count grace.
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: It's a great story.
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: Okay, moving on last call for call boxes. So you
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: know those call boxes that used to be everywhere along
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: the freeway for when you broke down in Orange County,
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: they installed a thousand of them. That was back in
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: nineteen eighty seven, and they used to get eleven thousand
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: calls a month from blud breakdown, blow attire or something
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: like that and needed help. Well, apparently less than one
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: fewer than one person a day in the last year
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: has gotten out of the car and walked to the
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: call box to give it a call. So they're why
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: they're gonna.
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  Speaker 3: Why do we no longer need call boxes?
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: Cell phone?
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: That's it. Everybody has a cell phone.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: And how is this not racist? Don't we have to
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: make things available to everybody, like even the poor.
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  Speaker 4: Racist? Yeah, because everything's racist, Neil, everything's racist, Neil.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: Liberals tell us they speaking like a Mexican. This is
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: Neil projecting. Okay, I got grades.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: I'm like one of you.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: This is Neil having gotten fired because of affirmative action
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: here at the station, getting hired.
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: Excuse me? And who will never get fired ever? Kid?
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: You not?
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: I am surprised someone hasn't come out and said, well,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: someone that can't afford a cell phone?
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: Well, how about someone who can't afford a car to
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: then get stuck on the freeway?
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: Who, yeah, you can go.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: There's no way you would pass that in La County.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: All righty, so ACA, if you remember the Affordable Cares Act,
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: big doings, and then Trump came and said we need
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: more money for this. Premiums rose sharply, and now the
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: falloff rate is growing. People aren't paying, people can't pay,
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: and some of the numbers are pretty crazy. One woman
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: who covered herself and her twenty year old son, the
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: costs went from one hundred and fifty dollars a month
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: last year to seven hundred dollars a month.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: Yike. Yeah, well, yeah, that's what's happening with insurance.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: I mean, this is Obamacare, the ACA, and it has
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: been decimated. The President and the Republics have said the
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: ACA is the most horrible bill in the world. And
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: we have a replacement. Okay, what is it? Well, we
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: have a replacement, Okay, what is it. Well, we're going
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: to come up with a replacement. We have plans for it. Okay,
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: what are those plans. Well, we're thinking about it at
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: some point. By the way, that literally is what ended
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: up happening. So you had people who because they're no
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: longer government subsidies, or very few of them, it just
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: become too expensive. Insurance in general has become expensive that
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: even the key, but under.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: The symptoms rather than the real root cause.
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: Well there's two.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: That is one, and then the other issue is people
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: who had government help in terms of insurance are just
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: they're out of luck. And you have millions of people
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: who are not no longer insured, or can no longer
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: afford insurance, or are struggling to pay for insurance and
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: not paying utility bills for example. It's a tough way
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: to go. It's you know, it is horror to be
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: poor in this country. Also, we don't have a national
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: health plan, which is ludicrous on its face. Every industrialized
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: country in the world has a national health plan except
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: for US. Everyone maybe South Africa doesn't. But it's it's
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: all right, let's just take a break.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: I think we have more opportunities what to not pay
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: that's correct? Poor?
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: Uh maybe, oh no, no, it depends on it depends
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: on which country looking at. If you look at Vietnam,
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: huge opportunities. You look at other countries, huge opportunities. Now
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: we are the land of opportunity, don't mistake that we are.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: But you know, it's it's getting harder and harder not
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: to be poor, especially if you are poor. So boy,
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: that was deep. That was very deep. Okay, Amy, you
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: want to get me out of here.
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: So you know how the bee public populations have been declining,
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: Maybe they were just hiding. A New York State cemetery
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: could be home to nearly five point six million ground
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: nesting bees. A new study says the colony is one
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: of the largest ever recorded and likely one of the oldest.
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: Of course, you know bees. Obviously people think they live
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: in hives, but apparently seventy percent of them are ground
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: nesting bees. They burrow in the ground.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: Wow, and they will and they and they will. Part
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: of this which is where we got to phrase the
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: bees needs no I don't think that's right. Huh. Sometimes
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: they work and sometimes they don't.
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: That was actually very clever, very well, thank you.
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: Well, thank you for that one. I can't get that
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: out of meal or that's for sure.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: You guys hate each other. After one day out, all right,
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: more than forty thousand UC workers, as we talked about
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: a little bit earlier, are threating, threatening to go on strike,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: even though here in California we've got other big problems
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: and in Los Angeles even bigger. So a union representing
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: this group obviously is saying it's time. The union is
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: demanding let's see probably something unique. Oh no, higher wages,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: lower health care costs, all that stuff.
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: You're going to see a lot.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: Of these walkouts and these contract negotiations is going to
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: get expensive.
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: It really is.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: It's already expensive. And listen, say they don't deserve it.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: I think educators are have more thrown at them than
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: ever before. But when we're doing so horribly nationally, it
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: just seems like, wow, in any other business, can you
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: go have the balls to walk up and say, I
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: know we're doing horribly, but we deserve a raise. And
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: that's coming from somebody that supports teachers.
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: I'm just saying, time to name the babies.
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, this is certainly Amy's topic, I know, right.
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: Okay, So the eagles in a nest high above Big
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: Bear Lake are doing very well. The eglits are actually
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: up and they're on their own right now. Jackie and
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: Shadow have left the nest, but they've survived, you know,
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: the first couple of weeks. They're both eating really well,
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: and so they said it's time for the naming contests.
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: They do this every time Jackie and Shadow have eglitz
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: and so if you would like to submit a suggested name,
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: I'm guessing there's going to be about fifty thousand. Sandy's
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: suggested you can do that on the Friends of Big
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: Bear Valley website Sandy because the founder of Friends of
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: Big Bear Valley, Sandy Steers, passed away, but you can
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: do it on their website, Friends of Big Bear Valley
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: dot com. It's five bucks to make one suggestion, ten
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: bucks to make three suggestions, twenty five to make ten suggestions,
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: and then from there they randomly pick computer generated randomly
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: pick the finalists, and then the third graders at Big
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: Bear Elementary School are the ones who make the final
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: choice for names this year.
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: Okay, I have submitted Adolph and Eva.
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: Wow, would you do that?
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: How do you think it's going to work out?
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: Well, you know, it could be rat It could be
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: a finalist because they're supposed to be a computer generated
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: That would be scary.
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: Mustache on the eglist.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: What the third graders are going to be doing the
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: final Do you like poopy pads, poopy pants and Senorita
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: poopy pants?
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: Well, last year they did Sonny and Gizmo.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: So, and then Sonny and Gizmo ended up dying or no,
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: they fledged actually Sonny.
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: Gizmo flying around. That's kind of fun. I like Gizmo. Yeah,
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: it's kind of a cute name.
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Anyway, all the money goes to friends of Big
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: Bear Valley, and part of it is, you know, to
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: keep that nest cam going that about fifty thousand people
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: are watching right now.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, all right. Uh who would have guessed. But
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: House Speaker Mike Johnson yesterday appeared to side with the
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: White House and it's growing feud with the Vatican. I
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: can't believe I'm actually saying that got a growing feud
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: with the Vatican.
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: I know, it's crazy.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: The Pope and you know, why don't you just say
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: the Pope has different concerns.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the Pope always says that war is horrible, and
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: he always that's what the Pope owners.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: Pope wouldn't even be there without me.
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, it's just crazy.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: And in Vance, who is a converted Catholic, tells the Pope,
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: you be careful, you be.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: Careful, ranking Catholic. It's collected official to the US, and
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: he said warning Pope Leo to be careful when discussing
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: theology bodies isn't that is yet his job, Hope has
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: directed lying to God.
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: That's true. It's on speed dial.
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: The Pope has a owing to God and just he
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: just presses the button. It's like nine to one one
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: except one number is And it's because the Pope when
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: it comes to yeah.
• 30:10
  Speaker 5: Because because anybody who anybody who says anything negative about
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: the administration immediately gets into a fight with the president
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: just standing down.
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: And the only.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: Reason the Pope is not being arrested for treason and
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: sedition is because he's in Italy.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: Well, and he's like and the people who protect him
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: look like candy stripers.
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: He's also he's also a Chicago Bears fan too.
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: Speaking of feuds, there is a food going on now
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: between the National Park Service and the National Parks Conservation
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: Association over potential gold in them there hills. So uh,
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: there's mining going on, and the National Parks Conservation Association said, yeah,
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: you can't just allow mining in the Mojave National Preserve
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: because it's an open pit that used to be mined
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: but now it's home to big horned sheep and some
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: other animals, and they said, you don't have a right
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: to do this.
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: So they're fighting, of course they're fighting, and the National
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: Park Service, which of course is part of the executive brand,
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: saying not only do we allow mining, we're in favor
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: of mining, but those sheep, that's mutton, and so that's
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: not a bad deal. Okay, we are done with the
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: news coming up the decision yesterday by the jury involving
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: Live Nation and Ticketmaster. YEP, it's a monopoly, and we'll
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: come back and talk about that.
• 31:48
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• 31:53
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• 31:54
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