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Handel on the News · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handel on demand from KFI AM 640.
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  Speaker 2: And the big issue is Strait of Hormuz. Saudi Arabia
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  Speaker 2: was the big one, insisted the Strait of Hormuz stay
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  Speaker 2: open as an international, free international waterway. Iran said, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: we want to make it a tollbooth. And that is
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  Speaker 2: a real crinkle, winkle, winkle, wrinkle. There you go. I know.
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  Speaker 3: Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Professional Broadcaster, thank you very much. And now, Handel on
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  Speaker 2: the News. Ladies and gentlemen, here's Bill Handel. It's a
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  Speaker 2: foodie Friday, September 18th. Good morning, everybody. Okay, let's get
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  Speaker 2: right to it. We've got some.
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  Speaker 3: Fun news today.
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  Speaker 2: We have a foodie Friday, of course, with Neil. We're
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  Speaker 2: holding off on Ask Candle Anything because the questions were
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  Speaker 2: sort of the same for a while. So we've got
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  Speaker 2: to figure something else out. Yeah, okay, boxer briefs. Okay, fine.
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  Speaker 3: Did that ever come up?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. Four and a half inches. Yeah, I'm
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  Speaker 2: not happy about it. There's certain personal questions that are
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  Speaker 2: being asked.
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  Speaker 3: Do you roll off the bed at night?
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  Speaker 2: Geez. I don't get it. Roll off the bed at night?
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  Speaker 2: Four and a half inches?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Saying that if you had a four and a half
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  Speaker 1: inch kickstand, your bike would fall over.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, got it. Yeah, yeah. Okay, fair enough. And I
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  Speaker 2: don't have balance, so I would use it as a
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  Speaker 2: kickstand if I could.
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  Speaker 3: I've seen you ride a bike in France.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It's gotten worse. You know, I have a trike, a tricycle,
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  Speaker 2: an e-trike, because I just fall on bicycles. Yesterday, I
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  Speaker 2: had my yoga teacher. Can you imagine? I'm doing yoga.
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  Speaker 2: I can't even believe that. But she had me do
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  Speaker 2: some things that I was toppling. I mean, I was
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  Speaker 2: just going down. Anyway, Neil, good morning.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, buddy.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. And there's Amy with her L.A. Dodgers T-shirt.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, the Dodgers just clinched the division.
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  Speaker 2: Already? Yep.
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  Speaker 5: Going for a three-peat.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: And all they need to do is spend $ 3 billion
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  Speaker 2: a year on the talent they have.
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  Speaker 5: Don't be a hater.
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  Speaker 2: Let me ask you, do they spend more money on
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  Speaker 2: their payroll than all of the other teams in Major
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  Speaker 2: League Baseball combined?
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  Speaker 5: Nah.
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  Speaker 2: They spend a lot of money. They do spend a lot.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know that you should be the one talking
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  Speaker 3: about this.
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  Speaker 5: They invest in their team.
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  Speaker 2: I wonder if it makes money. It can't. Not with
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  Speaker 2: the money they're spending. It cannot make money. The Dodgers,
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  Speaker 2: I can't imagine that they do. Although we don't have
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  Speaker 2: the figures because they're privately held, so they don't have
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  Speaker 2: to release the figures. All right. Kono, good morning.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning. And do you know today's historical significance?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 4: It's the day that the Air Force was established.
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  Speaker 5: Oh.
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  Speaker 3: 1947. My pops was in the Air Force.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's cool. Before that, it was part of the Army.
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  Speaker 2: That's correct. It was the Army War Corps or the
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  Speaker 2: Army War Department. Yeah. And then NASA came into being,
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  Speaker 2: I think, in 1948, 1949. Now, oh, last, certainly, maybe least,
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  Speaker 2: kind of. Anne, good morning.
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  Speaker 5: She's not going to say hi to you after that.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no, she's not.
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  Speaker 3: You have to say the most important person.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, I think Lindsay texted you, Amy, about the connection,
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  Speaker 2: the link.
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  Speaker 5: For Over the Edge?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. yeah two questions about over the edge yeah uh
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  Speaker 2: do you have a goal uh that you're trying to
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  Speaker 2: reach and how close are you to the.
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  Speaker 5: Goal we do team kfi has a goal they upped
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  Speaker 5: it this year to 30 000 we're quite a ways away.
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  Speaker 2: From that 30 000 wow how close are you uh
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  Speaker 2: i haven't checked this morning that's because she's embarrassed as
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  Speaker 2: to how little it is we're doing good i think
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  Speaker 2: we're we're Tracking along the same amount as we were
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  Speaker 2: last year. Well, what was last year?
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  Speaker 5: Last year we topped 20,000 by jump day.
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  Speaker 2: And what was the goal?
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  Speaker 5: The goal was less than that. And they go, wow,
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  Speaker 5: you hit your goal.
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  Speaker 2: So they increased it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It's been a slower go this year, but people are
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  Speaker 3: very generous.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I haven't given mine yet. And so, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you're talking about matching. So I will tell you right now,
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  Speaker 2: I will match any $ 5 donation that goes into the fund.
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  Speaker 5: Bill. Stop, you're warming my heart.
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  Speaker 2: You know what? Last year it was four, so I'm
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  Speaker 2: up to 20%.
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  Speaker 3: People are very kind and they are giving.
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  Speaker 1: It is a tough time, but it goes to a
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  Speaker 1: great cause that actually does something.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: So maybe if somebody is going to give a gift
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  Speaker 1: of like a car to a nephew or niece, they
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  Speaker 1: could just throw some money this way.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Okay.
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  Speaker 5: I like that.
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  Speaker 2: So do I.
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  Speaker 5: It doesn't have to be big. Every dollar counts and
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  Speaker 5: it adds up. And the great thing again about union
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  Speaker 5: rescue mission. No, I'm going to tell you is one.
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  Speaker 5: They have matching donations right now. You, you might match
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  Speaker 5: your $ 5, but they have, if you donate now, they'll,
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  Speaker 5: They've got an organization that is matching up to $ 500, 000.
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  Speaker 5: So it's like you get a double donation.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, they were going to match. They were going
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  Speaker 2: to give $ 500, 000 anyway. But it's a good sale. We'll match.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's a good thing to do. And by
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  Speaker 2: the way, you said every dollar counts. Thank you for that.
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  Speaker 2: That just saved me $ 4. Excellent.
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  Speaker 1: How much could we raise if we tossed you off
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  Speaker 1: the building ourselves without ropes?
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  Speaker 2: It depends on– well, let me put it this way.
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  Speaker 2: If we want ratings, we can promote me jumping off
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  Speaker 2: the building and– because there are times. There are times.
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  Speaker 3: All right. Harry Hoffman would donate to that.
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  Speaker 2: Donate big for that. Big for that. You betcha. Would
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  Speaker 2: donate at about 7.30 a.m. is when he would donate. Yeah. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: we are done with the morning pablum that we normally do,
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  Speaker 2: and I'll go right into Handle on the News with Amy, Neil,
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  Speaker 2: and me. Lead story. Oh, hold on. Will Kohlschreiber, are
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  Speaker 2: you there?
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  Speaker 5: He is not. It's Alex Krupe today.
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  Speaker 2: Alex Krupe?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Alex, are you there?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Who the hell are you? Have we ever worked together?
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  Speaker 4: I was here for a week a couple of months ago,
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  Speaker 4: but I'm just kind of a fill-in for Will every
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  Speaker 4: so often, so you might not remember.
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  Speaker 2: Not only do I not remember, you're not going to
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  Speaker 2: be around very long. You're gone by next week. You
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  Speaker 2: know that, don't you? Well, it was a good run,
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  Speaker 2: I guess. No, it wasn't. That's why you're not here
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  Speaker 2: next week. Anyway, Alex Kruppier. Kruppier. What is wrong with you?
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  Speaker 2: He's just doing his job. We have people that I've
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  Speaker 2: never met before. Valentine, on whatever station he's on, I
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  Speaker 2: used to run into him in the parking lot, and
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  Speaker 2: I didn't recognize him for 15 straight times until finally
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  Speaker 2: he goes, I'm Val, I'm Val, I'm Val, and I
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  Speaker 2: got him finally. Okay, let's do it. Handle on the news.
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  Speaker 2: Amy Neal and me, lead story. They won't let me.
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  Speaker 2: A helicopter crash that killed three people, including the traffic
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  Speaker 2: reporter for KNBC, Eliana Moreno. They were actually covering a
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  Speaker 2: bus crash where an SUV ran into an L.A. Metro bus.
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  Speaker 2: Horrific accident. And that's when the helicopter went down when
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  Speaker 2: it was over that bus crash. And all of the other,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, of course, those are covered by other helicopters
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  Speaker 2: and newscopters. And they saw the helicopter go down. I mean, boy,
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  Speaker 2: that'll wake you up. And then yesterday we talked to
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  Speaker 2: Will Kohlschreiber, who was on that helicopter for five years.
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  Speaker 2: But now we have our air reporting on the ground.
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  Speaker 2: So we're KFI on the ground. Do you know how
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  Speaker 2: long it was that we still called it KFI in
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  Speaker 2: the sky? When we were on the ground.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Moving on.
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  Speaker 1: But you kind of buried the lead here. The woman,
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  Speaker 1: she's 36. Yeah, she's 36. She's charged with murder.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, her speed was incredible. Have you seen the video?
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  Speaker 3: She was hauling.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. And she was high. And look
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  Speaker 2: at the aftermath of this thing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, she had drugs. Ann said she was high. She
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  Speaker 3: had drugs in the car, apparently, too.
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  Speaker 2: All right. One more story and then we'll take a break.
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  Speaker 5: Not so fast. A judge has ordered the Kennedy Center
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  Speaker 5: to provide more than 30 days notice to any changes
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  Speaker 5: in its construction plans, including any prospect of demolition. The
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  Speaker 5: White House said in a statement for years, Democrats let
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  Speaker 5: the Kennedy Center rot. As President Trump said last night,
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  Speaker 5: without his intervention, the Kennedy Center will inevitably continue to decline.
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  Speaker 5: So why did a judge step in now? Well, apparently...
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  Speaker 5: Trump was photographed on Air Force One Wednesday night looking
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  Speaker 5: at a large printout about the Kennedy Center. And there
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  Speaker 5: was a partially visible tile, a title that appears to
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  Speaker 5: read Kennedy Center demolished.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Did you see the sign that's going to be
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  Speaker 2: put in front of the Lincoln Memorial that Trump put up?
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  Speaker 5: What is that?
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  Speaker 2: That if my name isn't put on this memorial, this
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  Speaker 2: building is going down.
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  Speaker 1: His logic is if he's fixing it, then it needs
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  Speaker 1: his name. So he's going to go and do an
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  Speaker 1: overhaul on all the memorials.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, well, he's fixing the White House, you know,
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  Speaker 2: that ballroom. And that's the same thing. He's raising money
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  Speaker 2: to build that ballroom, which, of course, a good part
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  Speaker 2: of it can be built by taxpayer funds. But that's
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  Speaker 2: another story. And this is a guy who has to
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  Speaker 2: have his name on everything.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's going to be the gold house.
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  Speaker 2: I know the sheer hubris of this is incredible.
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  Speaker 3: All right, U.S. strikes on Iran.
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  Speaker 1: In this particular case, it was the school that we
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  Speaker 1: had heard about. May have been a war crime. The
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  Speaker 1: United Nations are investigating. They said this yesterday that there
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  Speaker 1: was reasonable grounds to conclude that two U.S. airstrikes back
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  Speaker 1: in February on Iran, at least 178 civilians died, and
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  Speaker 1: they believe that it could have been indiscriminate.
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  Speaker 3: And amount to war crimes.
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  Speaker 2: Now, you know what this means? Zero.
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  Speaker 3: Zip.
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  Speaker 2: The United States was accused of war crimes going back
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  Speaker 2: to the Vietnam War. That's just what happens. I can't
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  Speaker 2: think of any country that is not accused of war
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  Speaker 2: crimes during this kind of conflict.
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  Speaker 1: And as horrible as that is, you know, they're looking
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  Speaker 1: at Iran as well because they, you know, killed like
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  Speaker 1: tens of thousands of protesters.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, why not?
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  Speaker 5: ICE nominee frozen out. President Trump has withdrawn the nomination
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  Speaker 5: of Lance Schroer. He used to be an Oklahoma State trooper.
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  Speaker 5: He was nominated to be the new head of the
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  Speaker 5: Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency. But the nomination was pulled.
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  Speaker 5: There was no explanation given. The agency has not had
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  Speaker 5: a confirmed director since 2017. The last guy to hold
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  Speaker 5: it was in 2017, but a former ICE official who
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  Speaker 5: worked at a private prison company is now the acting
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  Speaker 5: chief of the agency.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's going through people that just cannot be or
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  Speaker 2: will not be confirmed. Now, Lance Schroer, former Oklahoma State trooper,
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  Speaker 2: and his credentials, like many, he actually gave a ticket
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  Speaker 2: once to an illegal alien agency. And therefore, there are
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  Speaker 2: the credentials to become the head of ICE.
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  Speaker 3: He once saw an illegal alien.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. And it's just the creds that these people
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  Speaker 2: have sometimes are stunning in their lack of creds.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so Pennsylvania, willing to duke it out, their
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  Speaker 1: health department said it was requesting emergency support from the U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention because it's still grappling
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  Speaker 1: with one of the country's largest and, at this point,
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  Speaker 1: most deadly measles outbreak. This is according to documents that
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  Speaker 1: were reviewed by Reuters just yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: Reuters? Reuters, sorry. Reuters. I'm turning into Handel. Don't rub
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  Speaker 3: off on me, bro.
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  Speaker 1: The request comes on condition that, uh, federal agencies recognize
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  Speaker 1: for these four measles associated deaths reported by the state. And, uh,
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  Speaker 1: are these the ones that, uh, that, um, RFK was disputing?
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Yeah. Those, those deaths are not included, uh, on
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  Speaker 2: CDC reports because, uh, Kennedy said that the illness and
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  Speaker 2: the deaths were not necessarily due to the virus, even
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  Speaker 2: though it was measles, the virus that killed these people.
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  Speaker 1: Was he saying it was kind of like COVID, where
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  Speaker 1: everybody died of COVID, like they were in a car
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  Speaker 1: accident and had COVID?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty much, pretty much. You know, Kennedy is interesting
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  Speaker 2: in that, on one hand, he's doing a very good
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  Speaker 2: job in terms of making America the maha movement. in
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  Speaker 2: that he wants foods that don't have as much coloration,
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  Speaker 2: don't have as many chemicals in it, and he wants
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  Speaker 2: the exercise. So he's pretty good on that level. But
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  Speaker 2: at the same time, this crazy-ass anti-vaccine stuff, that hasn't moved.
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  Speaker 3: By the way.
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  Speaker 2: And when he testified his confirmation, he said measles are
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  Speaker 2: a problem, and I believe in measles vaccination. Not so
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  Speaker 2: much anymore.
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  Speaker 5: No big surprise here russia and china have vetoed a
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  Speaker 5: u.s bid to renew the mandate of u.n experts monitoring
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  Speaker 5: nuclear sanctions against iran this happened at the u.n security
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  Speaker 5: council yesterday china's u.n ambassador urged council members to avoid
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  Speaker 5: in his words double standards political manipulation pressure and confrontation
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  Speaker 5: russia's u.n ambassador condemned what he called, in his words,
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  Speaker 5: the destructive path of our Western colleagues, determined purely by
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  Speaker 5: their economic interests in exerting pressure on the Islamic Republic
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  Speaker 5: of Iran.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, trying to stop them from building the nuclear weaponry
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  Speaker 2: that they are ostensibly not building, but it looks like
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  Speaker 2: they are building it. And to pressure them to have
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  Speaker 2: international oversight gets in their way. And it's the United
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  Speaker 2: States and these other countries that are interfering with the
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  Speaker 2: sovereignty of Iran. By the way, the war didn't particularly
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  Speaker 2: interfere with their sovereignty, did it? We recognized their sovereignty
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  Speaker 2: as we were bombing them like crazy. And these resolutions
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  Speaker 2: by the UN mean absolutely nothing because Russia and China
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  Speaker 2: veto anything the West puts down. Although, no, there was
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  Speaker 2: some legitimate discussion as to what was the font going
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  Speaker 2: to be on that resolution and the color of the ink.
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  Speaker 2: There they were having a legitimate argument.
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  Speaker 1: Geologists are looking at the African continent and they're saying
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  Speaker 1: it's going to split apart. But they're going, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's inevitable with some of these breaks. That's why we
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  Speaker 1: have the continents we have now. But they said sooner
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  Speaker 1: than we thought. What does that mean? That means millions,
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  Speaker 1: a few millions years more sooner than we thought.
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  Speaker 2: Yep. And this is where they found fossils, early hominin fossils.
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  Speaker 2: That's how we got grits. Did you know that?
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  Speaker 3: Wait, what? Never mind.
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  Speaker 2: Kono got it. Thank you. Let's just move on.
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  Speaker 5: Uber has been ordered to pay big time for one
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  Speaker 5: of its drivers $ 40 million. 23-year-old UCLA graduate Emily Normandin
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  Speaker 5: Parker was hidden killed by another car on the freeway
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  Speaker 5: after her Uber driver pulled over on the 73 and
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  Speaker 5: ordered her and her friend to get out. So what
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  Speaker 5: had happened in August of 2023 was that Normandin Parker
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  Speaker 5: and her friend Luna Moore were on their way home.
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  Speaker 5: They'd been apparently out partying. Luna gets sick in the Uber.
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  Speaker 5: The driver pulls over, demands payment for a cleaning fee,
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  Speaker 5: and then tells him to get out and leaves them
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  Speaker 5: along the side of the freeway. Emily Normandin Parker, who
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  Speaker 5: was drunk at the time, was then hit and killed
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  Speaker 5: on the freeway.
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  Speaker 2: Now, as horrible as that is, and it is, How
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  Speaker 2: many of us wouldn't do the same thing? Someone puking
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  Speaker 2: in your Uber?
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  Speaker 3: Not on the side of a freeway.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't matter. You can't let people puke in your Uber.
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  Speaker 2: Have you ever cleaned vomit from the inside of your car?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it stays there forever.
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  Speaker 5: No, but I did have to roll down the window
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  Speaker 5: and tell a gentleman who was in a in the
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  Speaker 5: passenger seat of my car to stick his head out
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  Speaker 5: the window because my mother will kill you if you
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  Speaker 5: get throw up in her car.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, that works. But puking, I mean, I told you
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  Speaker 2: the story that my partner and I were flying in
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  Speaker 2: a police helicopter. And she got sick and they landed
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  Speaker 2: immediately at Van Nuys Airport. And I said, and we
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  Speaker 2: were over a crime scene when the helicopter left and landed.
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  Speaker 2: And I asked the pilot, what happens if there's a murder?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, a big, he goes, no one's getting sick
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  Speaker 2: in my helicopter.
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  Speaker 3: I'm no.
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  Speaker 2: I don't care who gets killed.
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  Speaker 3: There are ways to take care of it.
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  Speaker 1: You don't leave two young ladies un-sober on the side
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  Speaker 1: of any road, let alone a freeway.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: Well, if I'm on the jury, I'm going for this.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: Well, I wouldn't let guys leave guys either, but especially
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: not women.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: All right. Come on. It's small potatoes, leaving them on
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  Speaker 2: the side of the freeway where there's a 95% chance
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: they're going to get killed. Oh, and it worked. Okay,
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: and somebody's going to take me seriously on that, I know,
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: and there'll be emails. Do we have an emoji, Anne,
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: where it's a picture of me grabbing my crotch and say,
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: bite me? Yes, yes, we actually do. Okay, yeah, let's
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: send that one out again.
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's actual size. Very small emoji.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: All right, thank you much. One more before we take
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: our break.
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: Yellow-bellied sneetches.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: You've got yellow bellied sea snakes recently washed along the
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: shore of Orange County because we need more crap here
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  Speaker 1: in Southern California. First time the venomous serpent showed up
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: has been seen in California since 2018. I guess it
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: does happen, but uh it's uh it's not a danger
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: to people as long as they don't handle them which
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: is pretty much any venomous animal just don't touch it
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: and you're fine but it showed up crystal cove which
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: a beautiful area by the way and um So now
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: we've got more stuff, and the Trump administration says they're
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: not here legally, and ICE is on their way.
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  Speaker 5: They're deporting the snake.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: Yes. Why not? Wasn't there a movie, Snake on the Beach?
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: No.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: No.
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: Snake on a Plane. Oh, okay.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: Monday through Friday, planes.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: Okay, good news now with Amy, Neil, and me.
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I know who's going to be first in line
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: for this, Bill Handel.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: Damn straight.
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: Costco is going to bring a familiar food court item back.
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: The problem is they're not saying what it is yet. So,
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: of course, there's lots of speculation. And tops on the
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: list is the churro, churro, churro.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: Oh, the churro. Do you remember when they took the
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: churro off the menu and I came so close to
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: committing suicide? I was so upset. The humanity of it. Oh, man.
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: It was removed in 2024 and replaced with chocolate chip cookies.
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: You don't like the chocolate chip cookies?
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: First of all, I'm not crazy about chocolate chip cookies.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: He doesn't like chocolate. Yeah, I'm okay with chocolate, but
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: it's not my favorite where churros are. And they were big, too.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: I mean, they were massive. Have you ever seen a
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: donkey about to... Okay, okay, okay. Oh, okay. Okay.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they are also, you know, some people are speculating
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: the combo pizza as well.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: $ 1.
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: 99 a slice.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: It's still cheese pizza is $ 1. 99 a slice. Pepperoni pizza
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: is $ 1. 99 a slice. And the combo pizza, and that's
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: with lots of meat in it. It's all $ 1. 99 a slice.
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: Well, the combo pizza is gone.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just the pepperoni and cheese pizza.
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: But there's speculation that if it's not the churro, it's
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: going to be the combo pizza.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: That would be very bad. Which one do you want?
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: The churro by a long shot yeah all right what
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: a cutie pie this little creature is um they call
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: it the kitten it is the first new what's that
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: kitty yeah hello kitty uh first new feline species in
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: a hundred years uh in bolivian forest they found this
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: don't get close to the waters man they got some
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: nasty fish out.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: There but It's a new tiger cat. It's been discovered
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: there in Bolivia. And researchers in current biology say it's
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: the first living feline species identified by scientists in over
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: a century.
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: It's a teeny. It's tiny.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: It's no more than three pounds.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: Cute as pie. Kono could ride it.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: Woo. Woo.
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: Sorry, buddy.
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: Don't mess with grandma. A grandmother in Tennessee was falsely
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: accused of bank theft crimes in North Dakota. 50-year-old grandmother
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: of five. Her name is Angela Lipps. She was arrested
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: in July of 2025 while she was babysitting her neighbor's kids.
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: She was detained for several months at a detention center
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: in Tennessee and then was taken to North Dakota where
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: she was facing multiple bank theft charges. They were ultimately dropped. Well,
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: now she's suing for $ 10 million. They're saying that AI
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: face recognition or facial recognition messed up and linked her
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: to the crimes.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, what do you do when you have a doppelganger
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: out there and someone looks exactly like you?
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but the face recognition is bad.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: Should be better than that.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: It should be better than that.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: By the way, this is Tennessee, so they got it wrong.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: She's not 50 as a grandmother. She's 40 and she's
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: a grandmother.
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: And the story doesn't even say who impregnated her.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, somebody walked by with a volleyball and I'm going
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: to get arrested.
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: They got to tune that better.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: Federal Communications Commission, the old FCC on Thursday, granted Paramount
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: Skydance and their request to allow Middle Eastern royal families
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: to hold a substantial stake. And this merged Paramount Warner
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: Brothers discovery that's been going back and forth. So the
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Abu Dhabi
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: are slated to indirectly own nearly 50 percent.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, still 49 percent. So they're not going to have control. But,
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: you know, used to be that foreign interests couldn't own
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: any part of broadcast facilities. And then what is it, 1934,
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: they changed it to 25 percent. And now it's going
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: to be 49%. At one point. They're already selling off
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: Los Angeles to the Chinese. Yeah. All right. I think
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: we have one more, I believe.
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: Bit of a black eye for Starkist. A two and
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: a half year investigation by the Washington-based rights organization Global
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: Labor Justice was collecting information by migrant workers of Involuntary
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: labor over the last five years aboard Taiwanese fishing boats
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: that supply Starkist with its tunas. The abuses include allowing
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: serious injuries resulting in severed fingers or vision loss to
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: go untreated. Recruitment fees that trap workers in debt and
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: months at sea, not debt, debt and months at sea
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: without contact with the outside world. Basically, slave labor.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: Now, why would you keep someone on a fishing boat
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: that has no fingers? Because wouldn't the tuna slip right through?
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: You can't, there's nothing to hold on to them. All right,
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: we're done. That's it. We're done.
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: Coming up.
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: New L.A.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: Fraud cases. Oh, we talked about this. The L.A. Homeless Agency. Oh, yeah.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: We're discovering all kinds of fun, wonderful facts about how
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: well it has been run. That's coming right up. KFI
• 26:18
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• 26:22
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• 26:25
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