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  Speaker 1: You're listenings KP I AM six forty the Bill Handles
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  Speaker 2: I don't hang around people with a lot of money.
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  Speaker 2: I want to feel rich. And now handle on the news,
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  Speaker 2: ladies and gentlemen, here's Bill Handle and goodmurry, everybody.
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  Speaker 1: It's a Monday morning, December twenty two, which means Thursday
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  Speaker 1: is the big day for those of you that celebrate Christmas.
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  Speaker 2: Even those of you that don't.
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  Speaker 1: And today is they six, seven or eight of Hanukkah.
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  Speaker 1: Usually Amy at this point jumps in and tells me
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  Speaker 1: what they Honey is, well, what is it?
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  Speaker 3: I've lost? Count?
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  Speaker 4: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, well there's eight. You know it's not that complicated.
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  Speaker 1: You know it's we know it's not one.
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  Speaker 5: And I think today is the last night or last
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  Speaker 5: night was last night?
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  Speaker 3: Right?
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  Speaker 5: It started Monday or last Sunday?
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  Speaker 2: I know you count?
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  Speaker 3: Today's Today's the last day.
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  Speaker 5: Today is the last day.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it's sweet?
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  Speaker 3: So that does that make a day eighth.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well they it's last day and you know, spent
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  Speaker 1: a long time, so I've been to Hebrew School, so
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  Speaker 1: what the hell do I know? And I'm getting a
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  Speaker 1: gift every single night of Hanuka from Lindsay you're.
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  Speaker 3: Getting a gift even though you don't know what the
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  Speaker 3: days of the that is are.
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  Speaker 2: That's correct.
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  Speaker 1: For example, a couple of days ago, I got a
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  Speaker 1: box of matza that was half priced because it was
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  Speaker 1: last Passover and it was one of those that was
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  Speaker 1: still on the shelf. So that was impressive. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: getting some really neat, really neat stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Is that like getting a box of rocks?
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  Speaker 1: No, because you can eat a box of rocks, you
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  Speaker 1: can't eat the matza. Okay, yeah, it's very eating matza.
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  Speaker 1: It's uh, it's it's a cracker. That's well imagine this, okay.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, all I know is matza balls.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's well yeah, yeah, and those it depends because
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  Speaker 1: you're maazas. They have to be in season, uh to
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  Speaker 1: have matsa balls because male matzas. Uh what they is,
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  Speaker 1: what they do is uh, they reach puberty at the
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  Speaker 1: right time and you have to grab them exactly the
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  Speaker 1: right time.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, everybody.
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  Speaker 5: The balls are made from crushed up matza.
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  Speaker 1: That's correct. The balls are made from a pulverized matza.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, got it.
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  Speaker 5: It's like a yeah, like a meatball, but without me.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly, a meatball without meat. That's correct. It's a Mansa
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  Speaker 1: ball without meat. Anyways, made for Matsa. They're really really good.
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  Speaker 1: There's huge dumplings, is what they are. You know, about
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  Speaker 1: the size of a softball. Except my mother's Matsa balls,
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  Speaker 1: which were the size of a small meatball, and you
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  Speaker 1: could use them in large bore weapons. They were so
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  Speaker 1: dense and thick. They were like depleted lead. It was
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  Speaker 1: pretty impressive.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Michelle is here through Wednesday, right, I am okay, so
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  Speaker 1: Michelle filling in for Anne. Michelle is back. Michelle and I.
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  Speaker 1: You won't even think about it. She sends me stuff.
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  Speaker 1: She knows exactly the way I do this show. It's
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  Speaker 1: like falling off a horse, you know, it's like riding
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  Speaker 1: a bicycle. It doesn't matter how long ago. It's muscle memory.
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  Speaker 1: You come right back in and you do it all right, Amy. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: of course Amy's worriing Disneyland Garb again.
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  Speaker 3: Of course it's Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, this is a good week to go to Disneyland,
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  Speaker 1: especially with their kayak ride is going to do very well.
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  Speaker 2: What else they don't They don't have the boat thing?
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  Speaker 3: Do they through the boat thing?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, like a little boat ride. They used to have
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  Speaker 1: that boat ride through about forty years. Yeah, it's about right. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's true. It's been a while since I've been to Disneyland.
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  Speaker 1: Will Coles Riber, good morning, Good morning, sir. And a
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  Speaker 1: little boat ride that goes through It's a small world though.
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  Speaker 3: He's sort of by the little jet boats though.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. They rode around the Matterhorn and they were right.
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  Speaker 1: They road and it's sort of the same place where
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  Speaker 1: the submarine fleet was. Do they still have the submarines
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  Speaker 1: or those who have gone?
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  Speaker 3: They have the submarine ride, but now it's the Finding
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  Speaker 3: Nemo ride.
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  Speaker 2: I feel better, Okay, it's very cute. Yeah, no, it
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  Speaker 2: is cute.
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  Speaker 1: It's definitely cute with the I really love the Mermaids
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  Speaker 1: where you could see the strings the ropes that what
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  Speaker 1: are you talking about?
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  Speaker 3: There were no ropes. Those were real mermaids. What's wrong
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  Speaker 3: with you? Bill?
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  Speaker 2: Exactly?
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  Speaker 1: And then there's Cono who is here so and Neil
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  Speaker 1: is not it's it's a holiday week, and Michelle puts
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  Speaker 1: together these schedules. So who's doing what Michelle on the
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  Speaker 1: morning show over the next well, here you're here.
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  Speaker 5: Through Wednesday, and then Thursday will be Jesus will be on,
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  Speaker 5: and then Friday it's going to be a best of
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  Speaker 5: bill handle, which we haven't done in a long time.
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  Speaker 5: And then all next week is Neil.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah for you because you are off.
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  Speaker 2: So Jesus does he comes in started with Easter.
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  Speaker 1: I know, Will you may have not heard this story,
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  Speaker 1: you know how the Jesus story actually came into being
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  Speaker 1: the Jesus Show. All right, So one Easter I asked
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  Speaker 1: the man who hosts the Jesus Show. I got to
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  Speaker 1: keep on with a straight face, saying this, okay, the
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  Speaker 1: quote producer of the Jesus Show, and it was Easter,
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  Speaker 1: and he happens to be a sort of a biblical scholar.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he really knows his stuff backwards and forwards.
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  Speaker 1: So I asked him, I said, listen, it's Easter. Why
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  Speaker 1: don't you come on the show and do it straight,
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  Speaker 1: not blasphemous in any way, as if I am interviewing
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  Speaker 1: Jesus for real.
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  Speaker 2: And he said okay. So we got on the show.
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  Speaker 1: He had no idea, and my first question is, let
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  Speaker 1: me ask you, Jesus, did you ever masturbate? And that
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  Speaker 1: was the first question, right out of the right out
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  Speaker 1: of the day, of course, and he was wonderful. He said, well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm both the man and the son of God.
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  Speaker 2: I go, so the man part of masturbated, huh.
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  Speaker 1: And he just kept on saying no, I'm both God
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  Speaker 1: and man.
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  Speaker 2: That was kind of neat.
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  Speaker 1: And then out of that came the Jesus Show, because
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  Speaker 1: we did it Easter, and then we did it Christmas,
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  Speaker 1: and out of that came to Jesus Show, and then
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  Speaker 1: out of that fill in for Easter and for and
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  Speaker 1: for Christmas. And the show is syndicated now it's hurt
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  Speaker 1: in a lot of stations around the country, so it's
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  Speaker 1: done very well. All right, guys, let's do it. It
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  Speaker 1: is Did I say hello to you, Cono? I think
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  Speaker 1: I did right?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, See how south important you are in life? Okay?
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  Speaker 2: And Cono, good morning? Hey Bill?
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  Speaker 1: Hey there you go. All right, guys, guys, to do it.
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  Speaker 1: It is time for handle on the news. On the
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  Speaker 1: December twenty two lead story.
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  Speaker 2: Oh Man we're looking at it.
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  Speaker 1: You know the old saying, what comes down always comes down.
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  Speaker 2: I defer to you.
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  Speaker 3: We heard that old thing.
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  Speaker 1: Oh what the hell, Well, it comes down, always comes down.
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  Speaker 1: All right, it's close, Amy. I defer to you on
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  Speaker 1: the weather on this one. I always do.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to rain, yeah, thank you, and that's it.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be wet.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So explain what's going on, because this is going to
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  Speaker 2: be a huge one, isn't it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: They're calling it an atmospheric rivery. You know, if you've
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  Speaker 3: been paying attention at all, Seattle got hit with it
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  Speaker 3: a couple of weeks ago, Portland got it. It's moving
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  Speaker 3: out in northern California is getting hammered, and it's headed
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  Speaker 3: our direction. And we could see rain by as early
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  Speaker 3: as tomorrow afternoon, and then it's going to get heavier
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  Speaker 3: tomorrow night, and then the heavy, heavy rain Christmas Eve
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  Speaker 3: and then rain continuing on Christmas Day. But I think
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  Speaker 3: the heaviest is late Tuesday and into Wednesday. And they're saying,
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  Speaker 3: especially because of the downpours, that that's going to really
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  Speaker 3: increase the risk of mudslides and debrief flows and that
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  Speaker 3: kind of stuff, especially in the burn areas foothills.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so the heaviest is going to be right around Christmas,
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  Speaker 1: is what you're saying.
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  Speaker 3: The heaviest will fall on Christmas Eve, Christmas, then it's
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  Speaker 3: expected to continue on Christmas Day.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, for those of you that are religious, Merry Christmas. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: Moving on.
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  Speaker 3: Target oil tanker again, the US Coast Guard is going
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  Speaker 3: after another oil tanker in international waters near Venezuela. This
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  Speaker 3: is the third one in less than two weeks. An
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  Speaker 3: official says the tanker is under sanctions and it hasn't
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  Speaker 3: been boarded so far, at least from our last report,
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  Speaker 3: but they were going after it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And this is and sanctions against Venezuela have been
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  Speaker 1: going on for a very long time. And Trump is
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  Speaker 1: the only president that is and I'll say it right
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  Speaker 1: out has the balls to go. Okay, it's under sanctions,
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  Speaker 1: and we're not going to let the.
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  Speaker 2: Let this oil be sold. It is sold under the table.
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  Speaker 1: It is not allowed to be sold, certainly not on
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  Speaker 1: the international market, and payment cannot be made through the
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  Speaker 1: international market. There is an organization called Swift and it's
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  Speaker 1: actually a imagine a clearing house for banks. Well, this
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  Speaker 1: is a clearinghouse that governments and major oil companies pay
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  Speaker 1: each other for oil through this Swift clearinghouse. They're not
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  Speaker 1: in Swift. Venezuela is out of Swift. Iran is out
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  Speaker 1: of Swift, and so everything is under the table, which
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  Speaker 1: is difficult to put a tanker under the table because
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  Speaker 1: they're very big.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Well, power is back on in the city
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  Speaker 3: by the Bay fire at an electrical substation knocked out
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  Speaker 3: power to more than one hundred and thirty thousand people yesterday,
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  Speaker 3: including shopping districts, Golden Gate Park, small areas of downtown.
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  Speaker 3: The first outages were reported around one o'clock on Saturday.
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  Speaker 3: The lack of power snarled traffic around the affected areas.
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  Speaker 3: Traffic signals, of course, were dark. Power has been restored
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  Speaker 3: to about one hundred and ten thousand of the PG
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  Speaker 3: and E customers, but that leaves still twenty one thousand
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  Speaker 3: left in the dark.
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  Speaker 1: And I saw some news some video of waymo cars,
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  Speaker 1: which San Francisco is one of the premier places, and
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  Speaker 1: they were simply stuck at intersections, blocking.
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  Speaker 3: Everything because they don't know what to do. When the
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  Speaker 3: powers had, yes, you would think that they would have
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  Speaker 3: the auto like.
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  Speaker 1: Defult their battery right and they would go off and
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  Speaker 1: pull over to the right. And the other thing I
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  Speaker 1: have a question about is how was bart affected. You know,
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  Speaker 1: if there's no power and you're underground and you're in
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  Speaker 1: the subway, that's fun. Where everything goes complet the dark.
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  Speaker 1: I'm assuming there's backup power for that too, at least
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  Speaker 1: to get you to the next station. But that is
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  Speaker 1: power outages are absolutely no fun. And they thought this
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  Speaker 1: may have been terrorism. You remember when the story first broke,
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  Speaker 1: you immediately go, this is what we default to. The
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  Speaker 1: first question, is this terrorism? And that never used to happen,
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  Speaker 1: certainly prior to nine to eleven.
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  Speaker 3: We used to just say, is it a squirrel? Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: And a lot of times it was.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Well the Cascades. Remember the Cascade in New York
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  Speaker 1: where the entire Eastern Seaboard went down. This was in
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  Speaker 1: the seventies, and I mean the whole seaboard went black.
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  Speaker 2: And that was for a couple of days.
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  Speaker 1: It was it was a rat eating chewing on one
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  Speaker 1: wire someplace, and then the cast skating happened.
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  Speaker 3: Not quite there yet. House Minority Leader Hakim Jeffries said
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  Speaker 3: that the partial release of the files tied to Jeffrey
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  Speaker 3: Epstein just doesn't cut it. He says. Congress has acted decisively,
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  Speaker 3: Bipartisan majorities in both the House and Senate signed a
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  Speaker 3: bill into law. The President signed it. And it does appear,
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  Speaker 3: of course, that this initial document release is inadequate.
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  Speaker 2: Of course it was.
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  Speaker 1: I'd been saying that, actually they did better than I
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  Speaker 1: thought I were think I thought they were going to
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  Speaker 1: release any of it, because Pam BONDI was going to announce, quote,
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  Speaker 1: we are now investigating various individuals who are seen in
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  Speaker 1: the in those photographs, of course, all being all Democrats
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  Speaker 1: they were investigating.
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  Speaker 2: I'll do more about this.
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  Speaker 3: At seven o'clock, Trump taken out than put back in.
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  Speaker 3: Speaking of the Epstein files, the Justice Department said it
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  Speaker 3: had restored a picture that had been removed from the
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  Speaker 3: public release of the investigative files related to Jeffrey Epstein.
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  Speaker 3: That's after they looked at it and said, okay, it's fine,
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  Speaker 3: and put the photo back up, saying it posed no
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  Speaker 3: risk of public exposure to victims of Jeffrey Epstein. The
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  Speaker 3: Justice Department apparently said the image had been flagged by
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  Speaker 3: federal prosecutors in New York for potentially exposing Epstein victims.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is going to be a lot of problems
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  Speaker 1: for the Trump administration this one. Keeping in mind that
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  Speaker 1: releasing those files was a major part of the campaign
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  Speaker 1: when Donald Trump ran for president.
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  Speaker 2: Release the files, Release the files.
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  Speaker 1: The Democrats were the Republicans were screaming, release the files.
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  Speaker 2: And all of a sudden it goes the other way.
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  Speaker 1: We're we have some problems with them, we have to redact,
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  Speaker 1: and it's a potatic Democrats and the Republicans on both
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  Speaker 1: sides are getting really upset with this. Why because this
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  Speaker 1: deals with predators and minors and sexual assaults. You know,
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  Speaker 1: that's where that line that goes beyond poulics. And it's
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  Speaker 1: going to be very interesting as to what happened. So
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  Speaker 1: that's both seven A and seven twenty this morning, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to talk about this and Pam Bondy is up
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  Speaker 1: to her eyeballs.
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  Speaker 2: In this thing.
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  Speaker 3: A rose parade controversy. Okay, So the Sierra Madre Rose
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  Speaker 3: Float Association has a float. It features three firefighters gathered
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  Speaker 3: around a giant stack of pancakes and they're pouring syrup
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  Speaker 3: over the top of the pancakes with a fire hose.
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  Speaker 3: One firefighter jokes that he needs more syrup. Sounds innocuous enough,
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  Speaker 3: but it's got people riled up. And do you know
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  Speaker 3: why did you see the picture of it?
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  Speaker 2: I did.
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking at it and it seems fairly benign to
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  Speaker 1: me because it's lighthearted.
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  Speaker 2: I don't find it offensive.
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  Speaker 1: It is they're saying, because the people that have a
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  Speaker 1: real problem with it is when you look at the
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  Speaker 1: recent fires, when you see the heroism of the firefighters,
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  Speaker 1: we don't want to make fun of firefighters. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think it does well. I'm not offended. Are you offended
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  Speaker 1: by it?
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  Speaker 2: Amy?
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  Speaker 3: I'm not offended by it, but I can see where
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  Speaker 3: you can look at it. If you look at the picture,
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  Speaker 3: it looks like the firefighter who's putting maple syrup on
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  Speaker 3: top of the pancakes. The firefighters run out, right, and
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  Speaker 3: part of the big problem with the fires was running
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  Speaker 3: out of water, and the firefighters didn't have water to
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  Speaker 3: fight the fires.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So people are saying this is really inconsiderate and badrighting.
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  Speaker 1: So, considering that it takes a year to put these together,
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  Speaker 1: they're planned a year in advance, and this happened relatively recently,
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  Speaker 1: certainly in comparison to the timeline of the fires.
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  Speaker 2: What do you do just scrap it completely? I don't
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  Speaker 2: know the answer to that. I mean, it's a.
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  Speaker 3: Cute float and it is a good The float Association
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  Speaker 3: said they didn't mean to offend anybody. They said it
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  Speaker 3: was designed to honor firefighters, celebrate teamwork, that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I get that, but.
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  Speaker 3: I can see where people will be a little bent up.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're being a well, what was it?
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  Speaker 1: The Sierra Madre Rose Flowed Association is being accused of
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  Speaker 1: being tone deaf, and that may be the case, but
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  Speaker 1: I think there's a timeline.
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  Speaker 2: Here, all right.
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  Speaker 3: I think everybody just wants to be offended, that's.
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  Speaker 2: All I think. So too, you know, let's get offended.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I bet this is going to offend you. Bill.
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  Speaker 3: A segment has been pulled from sixty minutes. People are
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  Speaker 3: threatening to quit, says staffer. CBS News shelve the segment
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  Speaker 3: about the Venezuelan man deported by the Trump administration to
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  Speaker 3: that maximum security prison in Al Salvador. The correspondent who
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  Speaker 3: did the story, Sharon Alphonsi, said in an internal memo
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  Speaker 3: that the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship.
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  Speaker 3: The editor in chief for CBS News is Barry Weiss.
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  Speaker 3: He said the Trump administration didn't respond to their requests
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  Speaker 3: for comment on this. They said, we needed we needed
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  Speaker 3: additional reporting, So we're going to shelve it for now.
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  Speaker 3: But people are saying, hey, they spike the story.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's another one, and I'm going to talk about
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  Speaker 1: that later on because there's also histories of what the
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  Speaker 1: Trump administration has done to the media and how the
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  Speaker 1: media is caving across the board on this one, and
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  Speaker 1: we'll be talking about that later on.
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  Speaker 3: US retaliation. The usas the military has carried out a
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  Speaker 3: massive strike against ISIS in Syria in response to that
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  Speaker 3: deadly attack on American forces. Fighter jets, attack helicopters, and
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  Speaker 3: artillery struck more than seventy targets at several locations across
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: central Syria. According to Sencom, President Trump said, we are
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: striking very strongly against ISIS strongholds following the December thirteenth
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: ambush in the city of pal Palmyra, in which two
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: US soldiers and US civilian interpreter were killed.
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  Speaker 1: You notice that there is no discussion of the word proportional.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: That does not exist anymore, because it used to be
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: where you would have an attack on western target and
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: the argument would be we should have a proportional response
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: and therefore about the same level. Well, those days have changed.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: Between BB NETANYAHUO and President Trump. There is no proportional
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: You attack us, and we're going to hit you twice
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: as hard. And that is a philosophy and a mantra
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: of President Trump's which I have no problem with under
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: these circumstances, because we're talking about truly the security of
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: American forces. And with Israel after the murder, the terrorist
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: murder of twelve hundred Israel Israelis, there was no proportional
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: response there. So again this is one of those where
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: I give the President, and I'm not a big fan
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: of the president, shocker, shocker, where I give him kudos
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: on this one. You know, don't screw with us. You know,
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: this is just not going to happen.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: Still, all talk, no action. White House Envoy Steve Whitkoff
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: says the talks in Miami over the weekend with both
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: his Russian counterpart and Ukrainian Ukrainian National Security Advisor were
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: productive and constructive, but there's no clear breakthroughs on ending
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: the war between Russia and Ukraine. They met during the
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: weekend after the administration Trump administration proposed a plan to
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: end the war that Kiev officials and its backers and
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: the EU said was unworkable because they were supposed to
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: give up a bunch of territory. Ukraine and Russia still
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: have not directly spoken. They're going through US officials.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and they're now being told to bring a deck
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: of cards. You might as well enjoy yourself, p knuckle
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: while you're having these non discussion discussions. That's not going
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: to end anytime soon. I mean, it's real simple, and
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: that is you've got Putin who wants territory, he wants
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: eastern Ukraine, and Ukraine is saying you're not going to
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: take a third of our country and did go ahead.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: What's in eastern Ukraine that he wants to about? Just
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: the territory? Is there stuff there?
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: No? No, there's stuff in eastern Ukraine a bread basket there.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: But it's more historical. I mean it does have value.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: I mean it's not just a piece of land out there.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: But it's more a historical issue because it was part
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: of Russia at one point and as far as Putin
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: is concerned.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: This is not just arbitrary for him.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: He woke up one morning and said, oh, I know,
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: let's go after Ukraine. This has been a basic tenet
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: of Putin's belief ever since he's been a public figure.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: So is it going to happen anytime soon?
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: You know how where at some point piece has to
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: be declared, But who the hell knows.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: When you look at peace, what was it.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: With the Irish and the Brits. It took seventy years
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: for that piece to happen. And look how long it
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: took the accords in Israel to happen with Egypt and
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: that was what.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: You know, thirty years.
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but they weren't actively fighting, not at that time, no, no,
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: after this was the last time they had a major,
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: major fight was nineteen seventy two with the Young Keeper.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: War taking out targets inside Russia. A car bomb has
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: killed a Russian general in Moscow early Monday morning. He
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: was killed when an explosive device installed under the bottom
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: of a car was detonated. There is talk that it
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: was related to the organization of the crime by the
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: Ukrainian Special Services.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: That's what rushes well, that makes sense I mean they're
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: at war, and to whatever extent you can kill the
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: other sides on the heads of departments and military and civilians,
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: you go for it. Israel has a way of taking
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: out nuclear physicists and sort of killing them all, as
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: well as commanders of various arm part of the Hamas
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: armed forces.
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: Well, fitness is key in the army, but spiritual fitness
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: not so much. The army is scrapping it's spiritual fitness
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: got it was used for about five months. The idea
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: behind it, the army set at the time was to
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: help soldiers grow in the spiritual domain. A termmant to
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: cover mental and emotional health. In the same way that
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: the army pushed troops to grow stronger physically, this would
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: be used to help them spiritually. But five minutes and
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: they said, yeah, we're getting rid.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: Of this now.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: I'm not certainly I'm not a fan of pete hegxith.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: But my question is is during the Trump administration the
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: first year, how does something like this get even started.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: It had to fall through the cracks because spiritual fitness,
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: I mean, come on, you know, what do you do
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: run around a tree five times and then hold hands
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: and singing kombai ya. Okay, there's not much more to say,
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: is there. No, that's it.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Spiritual fitness, okay, wonderful, fantastic, let's get spiritually fit.
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: Moving on, Santa Loves Pizza two. Christmas is coming early
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: for pizza delivery fans in North Pole, Alaska. The local
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: franchise owner, Brian Dobbs, hosting a series of events this
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: month to celebrate the grand opening of the new Dominoes
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: on Santa Claus Lane. Now the first pizza place. They
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: already have a pizza hut and great Alaska Pizza company.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: And that actually is a town right North Pole. That's sweet?
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah there.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: What is the town in Carolina? Tumor if I remember correctly,
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: and what do you do about that?
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: A fun place to live?
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: It is?
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like boring Oregon, Yeah exactly.
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: It is, right, Yeah, Okay?
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: What is that voodoo that you do? In New Orleans
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: where they've been conducting ice raids, The people of New
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: Orleans have been pushing back, there's been protests, there's been
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: protecting fellow members of the community who might be targeted.
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: And now there are voodoo dolls. A voodoo doll that
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: looks like an ice agent was found in a tree
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: in a residential neighborhood. The doll was seen with a
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: number of pins puncturing it.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: Now, I have a question, why would this number one
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: be a story? And number two even more? I think
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: a bigger question is why would there only be one
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: voodoo doll in New Orleans? You think they would find
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: dozens of these all over town.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: By the way, it is a story.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: I take that back, because it's just kind of fun,
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: you know, poking.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: Oh, I love that, you right?
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: Fun?
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: No.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: I once had a voodoo doll sent to the station
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: for me and I loved it.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: What do you mean?
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: And well, I'm wondering. I mean, like, did you keel over?
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: Did you?
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: So?
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: You know what I did. I'll tell you.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: What happened is I got obnoxious and rude and over
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: the top and it just changed my life completely.
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: You're blaming it all on a voodoo doll.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: That's correct. If I were that, I was the sweetest
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: guy in the world.
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Turning Point turns to JD. Vans. Turning Point, USA's
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: first major events since since Charlie Kirk was assassinated, drew
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: thirty one thousand people in our zone over the weekend,
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: and she said, Erica Kirk said, we are going to
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: get my husband's friend jd Vance elected for forty eight
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: in the most resounding way possible. So Turning Point USA
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: is supporting jd Vance in twenty twenty eight.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that is basically is Donald Trump junior, because you
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: know that jd Vance probably would not have his own
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: agenda a niche, at least initially. The way he's going
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: to get MAGA and the Conservatives in this case, even
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: Turning Point is to run and I think he very
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: well may be the nominee and he will simply say
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: I am the new Donald Trump. Now is that going
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: to help? I don't know, because jd Vance is no
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Donald Trump. I don't think anybody could ever be a
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: Donald Trump. I mean Donald Trump is a unique figure
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: as a president, never has been one. I don't think
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: there ever will be something that compares to him. So
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: now what happens, Well, it's for example, okay, the president
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: just a couple of weeks ago said that the affordability
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: issue is a democratic hoax. Now he is the affordability president,
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: and you've got jd Vance blaming it all on Joe Biden.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: Any problems we have is Joe Biden. Joe Biden, Joe Biden.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: He keeps on doing that, and the economy doesn't do well.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Where's he going to go? And there is no frontrunner
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: right now? The Democrats have no front runner. There is.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: The last time I think someone actually controlled certainly the
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: Democratic Party was Barack Obama and he's out of the picture.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: And you'll see Donald Trump being out of the picture
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: in twenty eight. Although I do believe that Donald Trump's
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: going to be a king maker, there's no question in
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: my mind that his influence is going to remain big time.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: So anyway, j d Vance, is he going to make it?
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: Well.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: The other thing, and did you ever read his book,
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: He'll Be Theology?
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's good.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: It is excellent. It is a very fairy good book.
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: The movie is really good too.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: Uh yeah.
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: I think he was a darling of Hollywood until he
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: decided to back Trump.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: Uh yeah, Okay, I think we're done. Guys. Okay, this
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• 28:22
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