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Speaker 1: KFI AM 640, Bill Handel here.
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Speaker 2: Good morning.
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Speaker 1: It is a Monday morning, September 21, as we continue
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Speaker 1: with the show.
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Speaker 3: Now, the president, who hates any kind.
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Speaker 2: Of reporting against him, basically views it as almost traitorous.
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Speaker 2: He has said many times, I am the Constitution, basically
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Speaker 2: is what he has said. I'm paraphrasing, but I'm not
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Speaker 2: far off. And if you vote or you rule or
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Speaker 2: you report against me, then you are against the Constitution
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Speaker 2: of the United States. I mean, that's a lot of
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Speaker 2: hubris there. So he is pretty pissed off at CNN, MSNOW,
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Speaker 2: and Politico. And what he has done is yanked their credentials,
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Speaker 2: not allowed in the White House anymore. They will not
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Speaker 2: be allowed as part of the White House pool of reporters,
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Speaker 2: will not be allowed in the Oval Office.
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Speaker 3: They're just done. Of course, they filed a lawsuit.
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Speaker 2: And so now you have a situation where major news outlets, CNN, MSNOW,
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Speaker 2: and Politico, are have been denied coverage. As we talked
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Speaker 2: about earlier, Amy brought up Jim Acosta of CNN had
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Speaker 2: the same problem when he was thrown out because he
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Speaker 2: was asking the president questions that the president did not like,
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Speaker 2: and the administration caved. I don't even know if a
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Speaker 2: lawsuit was filed, maybe, but the administration backed down. We'll
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Speaker 2: see if it backs down this time, but that was
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Speaker 2: during the first administration. This is, the president is... feeling
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Speaker 2: a lot stronger and goes a lot further during his
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Speaker 2: second term.
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Speaker 3: And they're, of course, suing on First Amendment grounds.
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Speaker 2: Now, here is the bigger picture is, are they going
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Speaker 2: to win?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, probably, I would guess.
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Speaker 2: And the president can make it really easy simply by
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Speaker 2: allowing them in and just not letting any questions, because
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Speaker 2: it's the White House that chooses which questions will be answered.
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Speaker 3: So I think it was the easy fix. I think
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Speaker 3: he wanted to make a point.
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Speaker 2: And that is if you write about him in a
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Speaker 2: negative way, that's fake news.
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Speaker 3: It is a hoax.
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Speaker 2: He likes to call things a hoax a lot. And
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Speaker 2: he called what CNN was reporting a hoax. Anything that
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Speaker 2: basically is not in his favor. And he argues complete bias. Well,
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Speaker 2: you know, he's right. But there's no bias when they're
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Speaker 2: for him. You know, Fox is never biased. they just
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Speaker 2: run anything positive.
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Speaker 3: About the president. CNN, totally biased.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I watch, I listen to CNN as well
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Speaker 2: as Fox and other outlets. MSNOW, I don't even pay
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Speaker 2: attention to because they're irrelevant. And so we're talking about
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Speaker 2: Fox and CNN are the big players here. And CNN,
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Speaker 2: when it does this reporting, it's totally anti-Trump. There's no
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Speaker 2: question about it. not as anti-Trump as Fox is pro-Trump. Remember,
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Speaker 2: Fox had to pay a three-quarters, settled for three-quarters of
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Speaker 2: a billion dollars when it kept reporting that Dominion, which
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Speaker 2: manufactures those voting machines, that as fact they were reporting
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Speaker 2: that those votes were rigged. Not It has been reported
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Speaker 2: that those votes were rigged. They said it as a
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Speaker 2: matter of fact. That was their reporting. Those votes were rigged.
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Speaker 2: Those machines were rigged. Three quarters of a million dollars.
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Speaker 2: By the way, the other company, Smartmatic, I think is
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Speaker 2: the name, is in the middle of a lawsuit now.
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Speaker 3: That has not been resolved yet. So which way is
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Speaker 3: this going to go?
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Speaker 2: And here's the problem I have with it, because it
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Speaker 2: is the job of the media company. to rip into
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Speaker 2: whatever administration is on. It's the job of the right-wing
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Speaker 2: media to rip into what Democrats do and likewise the
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Speaker 2: other way. I have never heard of a president who's
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Speaker 2: been ripped. I mean, for example, covering the old ageness
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Speaker 2: of Joe Biden. Was there ever an accusation that it
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Speaker 2: was unconstitutional or whether it was a hoax? No, no.
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Speaker 2: I mean, they denied it. They said, no, that's not true.
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Speaker 2: But a hoax, it's fraud. And that's what the president's
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Speaker 2: position is. If you go against him, you are going
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Speaker 2: to be denied and they're going to go after you
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Speaker 2: as much. He's going to go after you as much
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Speaker 2: as possible. By the way, he's filed defamation suits across
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Speaker 2: the board. CBS, he filed, they caved.
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Speaker 3: Who else?
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Speaker 2: ABC? ABC came back. Disney came back and I think
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Speaker 2: won that one. But it is a situation where, you know,
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Speaker 2: I just don't I truly don't understand what's going on
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Speaker 2: where you have this imperial presidency where you can't even
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Speaker 2: say the emperor has no clothes, because if you do,
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Speaker 2: you're basically traitorous. I have a hard time with any
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Speaker 2: administration claiming that the administration and the Constitution are inseparable.
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Speaker 2: That if you say anything against the administration, you are
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Speaker 2: talking against the Constitution of the United States or the
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Speaker 2: United States. As a matter of fact, that was exactly,
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Speaker 2: I think, the quote. This was on Truth Social that
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Speaker 2: the president posted. when he said these news outlets have
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Speaker 2: been barred and he intends to bar other news outlets
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Speaker 2: in the future. And I'm going to quote a truth,
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Speaker 2: a social post outlet should not be able to constantly
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Speaker 2: write a report fiction and lies when they're covering the
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Speaker 2: president of the United States, the Trump administration or the
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Speaker 2: United States of America, because all of them are one thing.
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Speaker 2: The president is the administration, which is true. The president
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Speaker 2: is the United States of America. No, the president is
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Speaker 2: not the United States of America. The president is elected
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Speaker 2: as our chief, our chief of state and head of state,
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Speaker 2: as well as the most powerful position, the.
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Speaker 3: Head of the head of state. the executive branch.
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Speaker 2: But that doesn't mean the executive branch is the Constitution.
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Speaker 2: If you say anything against them, you are saying you're
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Speaker 2: talking against the Constitution. That's not true. And so now,
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Speaker 2: do these organizations, do they cave? I don't think so.
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Speaker 2: I don't think so. When Pete Hegseth denied a bunch
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Speaker 2: of these news organizations, Media access to the Pentagon, coming
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Speaker 2: up with some BS excuse about how they go through
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Speaker 2: the halls and they're able to get classified information that
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Speaker 2: they did, which is complete crap. And they just come
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Speaker 2: up with crap. But he limited them from covering the Pentagon.
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Speaker 2: And they said, OK, we're done. They gave up their
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Speaker 2: press passes to the Pentagon, then cave on that one.
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Speaker 2: So this is a story that keeps on going and
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Speaker 2: going and going.
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Speaker 3: Okay.
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Speaker 2: Now, a story last Tuesday, a horrific story. An NBC4 helicopter,
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Speaker 2: news helicopter, carrying reporter Ileana Moreno and the pilot crashed
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Speaker 2: covering a news story in Chatsworth. And both died along
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Speaker 2: with a bystander. And this helicopter, Will Kohlschreiber, had been
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Speaker 2: flying on this helicopter doing sports for five years.
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Speaker 1: News.
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Speaker 3: Pardon?
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Speaker 1: News.
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Speaker 2: News. Covering news. And this story that came out of
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Speaker 2: the LA Times is kind of interesting. And that is
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Speaker 2: the way it works with news helicopters is something breaks
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Speaker 2: and all of a sudden they're circling around or they're
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Speaker 2: following a high-speed chase and they sort of have an
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Speaker 2: unwritten rule that certain positions are going to be held.
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Speaker 2: And it's all about breaking news first. So, Will, I
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Speaker 2: want to throw this at you first of all. Why
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Speaker 2: is it so important that, for example, breaking news and
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Speaker 2: 30 seconds later, every news outlet has the same news?
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Speaker 2: Why is that 30, 40 seconds that critical to these
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Speaker 2: news outlets?
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Speaker 3: Good question.
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Speaker 1: I mean, as you tune around, when you see something
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Speaker 1: on one station and you see it there first, you
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Speaker 1: tend to just stick there because they happen to be
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Speaker 1: the one that got it first. I mean, it's about ratings,
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Speaker 1: I guess. Do you really think ratings make it or
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Speaker 1: it's just bragging rights? Bragging rights, but it comes down
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Speaker 1: to viewers. It comes down to number of viewers positively.
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Speaker 1: Even though, you know, while they're doing the breaking news,
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Speaker 1: they don't sell any commercials. But, you know, overall, it
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Speaker 1: just increases their number of viewers.
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Speaker 3: OK, so you're.
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Speaker 2: Flying around out there and you've got a major story
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Speaker 2: going on, you know, a major crime issue going on.
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Speaker 2: or a high-speed chase, and or something that the helicopters,
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Speaker 2: you'd have a lot of news helicopters out there.
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Speaker 3: Are you concerned about running into each other? Does that
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Speaker 3: go through your mind?
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Speaker 1: Oh, heck yeah, especially if it's something like a chase
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Speaker 1: where the person's driving crazy and they're having to deal
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Speaker 1: with air traffic controllers at the same time. And, you know,
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Speaker 1: everybody in the helicopter is looking out, even the reporters.
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Speaker 1: even though they're focused on what's going on on the ground,
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Speaker 1: they're looking, you know, well, that guy's, oh, five is
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Speaker 1: getting kind of close. Seven's kind of getting a little,
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Speaker 1: you know, same altitude. So yeah, it's a group effort
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Speaker 1: for sure.
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Speaker 2: So do they talk to each other and say, you're
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Speaker 2: too close, move away, leave me alone? Yep.
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Speaker 3: Yep.
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Speaker 1: There's a frequency that they use here in the L.A.
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Speaker 1: area that they all talk to each other in addition
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Speaker 1: to the air traffic controller. So like if it's in
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Speaker 1: the Van Nuys area, for instance, like Chatsworth was, they'd
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Speaker 1: be talking to the air traffic controller at Van Nuys Airport,
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Speaker 1: but also to each other on a side channel. Hey,
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Speaker 1: you guys are getting kind of close or could you
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Speaker 1: move a little over that way or.
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Speaker 3: Whatever, you know. But yeah.
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Speaker 2: I'm assuming these helicopter pilots have to be really seasoned
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Speaker 2: and experienced, because if you're talking about them looking around
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Speaker 2: and talking to air traffic and talking to each other
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Speaker 2: and covering the story and getting as low as possible,
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Speaker 2: all happening at the same time, that's a lot of
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Speaker 2: balls being juggled.
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Speaker 1: They are really good. Yeah, they're they're they're they're extremely
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Speaker 1: experienced in most cases.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: And from what I understand, this may have been a
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Speaker 2: technical aim that. just a malfunction of the equipment. And
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Speaker 2: you knew you, I mean, did you work with Eliana
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Speaker 2: or Moreno or did you just happen to know her?
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Speaker 3: I saw her. Yeah, we worked.
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Speaker 1: Well, when I was working with NBC four, she was
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Speaker 1: working at the time with KTLA five and I think
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Speaker 1: maybe the CBS station as well, but mostly channel five
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Speaker 1: at the time. And she'd fill in sometimes on channel four,
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Speaker 1: they'd move around. Cause we, we both worked for angel
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Speaker 1: city air there in Pacoima. And yeah, I, you know,
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Speaker 1: I didn't spend a ton of time with her, but
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Speaker 1: she was always just very sweet and, uh, just, you know,
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Speaker 1: eager to learn. And she learned a lot over the years.
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Speaker 1: She got so much better as every year passed and
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Speaker 1: it's just, it's sad.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it is.
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Speaker 2: And so, uh, there you are. And we used to
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Speaker 2: have a KFI in the sky with, um, with an airplane.
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Speaker 2: It was, uh, Mike Nolan had his own airplane, uh,
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Speaker 2: small that was, and airplanes at least are better in
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Speaker 2: terms of traffic because they can zip back and forth
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Speaker 2: across the city. Helicopters take a lot longer. And it's
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Speaker 2: come now to it makes almost no sense to have
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Speaker 2: a traffic reporter in the air because you have all
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Speaker 2: of these computer screens and you're looking at it because
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Speaker 2: you are KFI on the ground.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 2: And we did that for a while, by the way.
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Speaker 2: It was KFI in the sky. And then there was
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Speaker 2: no mention. about KFI in the sky. Actually, it was
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Speaker 2: for a little while. And then it all stopped. I
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Speaker 2: would say, and now let's go to Will Kohlschreiber, KFI
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Speaker 2: on the ground. And they sort of stopped me from
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Speaker 2: doing it.
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Speaker 3: They didn't like that?
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Speaker 2: No, they got a little upset about that. And then,
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Speaker 2: I mean, you do traffic, obviously. To me, it seems
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Speaker 2: like it makes so much more sense the way you
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Speaker 2: do it than flying around up there.
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Speaker 3: Now, yes.
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Speaker 1: Back in the day, and not even that long ago,
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Speaker 1: we didn't have cell.
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Speaker 3: Phones in every car that were reporting speeds.
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Speaker 1: That's what sends in the speed to Google Maps and
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Speaker 1: Waze and all the apps. But back before we had that,
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Speaker 1: we just had the CHP dispatch and callers, tipsters. Those
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Speaker 1: two things were our sources. So To get eyes on,
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Speaker 1: to really know what was going on, you had to
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Speaker 1: be out there over it. You had to be there.
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Speaker 1: And now it's not quite as critical. There are times when, oh,
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Speaker 1: I wish I could verify something or double-check something, but,
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Speaker 1: you know, what are you.
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Speaker 3: Going to do?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you could have talked to the old KFI reporters,
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Speaker 2: but they're all dead because they crashed.
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Speaker 3: No. Okay. Just one.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Amy, you're shaking your head. Stop it. Does that surprise you? Okay.
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Speaker 2: Anyway, before we go on to the story talking about
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Speaker 2: springtime for Hitler, the news just broke that the president,
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Speaker 2: as you know, has replaced, has kicked out MSNOW and
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Speaker 2: CNN and Politico from the White House. And the major
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Speaker 2: television networks are standing with CNN. declining to replace its
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Speaker 2: White House pool crew. The way it works, and so
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Speaker 2: Amy and I talked about this earlier, is that there
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Speaker 2: is a revolving group of reporters of news outlets that
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Speaker 2: go in and among them, one major one can share,
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Speaker 2: they share information with each other. In other words, one
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Speaker 2: will go in and actually video it and then that
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Speaker 2: is shared with the other news outlets.
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Speaker 3: And they also ask questions on behalf of the other
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Speaker 3: news outlets. Oh, thank you for that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. And now they're all saying we're not going to
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Speaker 2: be part of it. We are not going to be
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Speaker 2: sharing that pool. We will not have our reporters there.
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Speaker 2: And that includes Fox, by the way. Even Fox has
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Speaker 2: come to the CNN position. And so that's kind of interesting.
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Speaker 2: So is that going to only be the acolytes of
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Speaker 2: Donald Trump, the ones that love him, and there won't
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Speaker 2: be any reporting.
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Speaker 3: Against him, Amy?
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Speaker 2: No.
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Speaker 3: I don't know. Okay. Are they going to have reporters
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Speaker 3: in there, but just not the pool camera? Have no idea.
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Speaker 2: Isn't that interesting? So we'll see who wins that one.
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Speaker 2: I think the media is going to win that one
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Speaker 2: if I have to. Now, I want to share with
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Speaker 2: you a story that I take particular interest in. As
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Speaker 2: you know, World War II stories, I really, that's my wheelhouse,
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Speaker 2: the history of World War II, mainly because my dad.
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Speaker 3: Fought in the war.
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Speaker 2: So there is a television series called Babylon Berlin, which
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Speaker 2: is being filmed in Germany. And it's, let me tell
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Speaker 2: you what they had to do. Okay. They had to
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Speaker 2: set up outside a theater in Berlin. And it's the
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Speaker 2: final season of this show that's set in the Weimar
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Speaker 2: Republic before the Nazis came to power. during his rise
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Speaker 2: to power, Hitler's rise to power. And the scene called
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Speaker 2: for a group of Nazi henchmen in swastika armbands, I'm
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Speaker 2: sure you've seen video and photographs, to disrupt a crowd,
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Speaker 2: to beat up the Jews in there, to harass them,
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Speaker 2: to shut down stores, et cetera. And so when they
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Speaker 2: were filming that particular scene, tall barriers had to be
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Speaker 2: erected around the perimeter of the entire shoot. So there
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Speaker 2: would be no onlookers at all. No one could be
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Speaker 2: a looky-loo. Like, you know, they film on the streets
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Speaker 2: of L.A.
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Speaker 3: And people just love to watch because it's out in
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Speaker 3: the open.
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Speaker 2: And when there is a period piece, I, for example,
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Speaker 2: used to live in Hancock Park adjacent. And the houses
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Speaker 2: along that street were built in 1927 in the old
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Speaker 2: street lamps. It was always used for films that were
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Speaker 2: period pieces of the 1920s.
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Speaker 3: But it was public. I mean, we went there, we watched,
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Speaker 3: it was kind of neat.
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Speaker 2: And then of course, traffic was shut down and we
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Speaker 2: wanted to kill the directors. So you had these, basically
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Speaker 2: these fences around the entire shoot. We're talking about an
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Speaker 2: entire area of town. And not only were these fences,
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Speaker 2: these barriers erected around the shoot's perimeter. So onlookers couldn't
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Speaker 2: look There were swastikas that, of course, were worn because
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Speaker 2: these were Nazi henchmen. And when the crew was not
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Speaker 2: filming during the breaks, all the swastikas were removed from
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Speaker 2: their arms. Flags were taken down and put away during
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Speaker 2: the break. I'm talking about lunch breaks. They took them
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Speaker 2: all down and put them away.
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Speaker 1: All right.
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Speaker 2: Now, let me finish the segment about this television company. film,
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Speaker 2: this television show in Germany. It's called Babylon Berlin, and
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Speaker 2: it's set in the 20s prior to Hitler taking control
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Speaker 2: of Germany, the Weimar Republic. Hitler took over in 1932.
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Speaker 2: This was in the 20s when there was a democratic
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Speaker 2: government there for a little.
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Speaker 3: While, in any case. And so here they are. They're
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Speaker 3: There was one.
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Speaker 2: Scene or several scenes, and this is supposed to be
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Speaker 2: shot on the streets of Berlin. Well, it was done
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Speaker 2: on the streets, but tall barriers were put around the
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Speaker 2: perimeter of the entire shoot. So onlookers couldn't see it.
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Speaker 2: Swastikas that were out there and these Nazi flags had
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Speaker 2: to be hidden when the film, when the crew was
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Speaker 2: not filming. I'm talking about during lunchtime. They had to
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Speaker 2: take it down. Only when actual film was done. There
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Speaker 2: is a song, the Horse Vessel song, which was basically
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Speaker 2: the national anthem of the Nazis. And that's been banned.
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Speaker 2: And so it was silently mouthed on set. They weren't
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Speaker 2: actually singing it. They were just mouthing it. They were
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Speaker 2: lip syncing it. And then the song was inserted in post-production.
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Speaker 2: And so why is there so much of these controls
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Speaker 2: put on there?
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Speaker 3: I mean, it is really nuts.
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Speaker 2: In terms of what they have to do. As a
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Speaker 2: matter of fact, even to the point where the biggest
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Speaker 2: studio there, Babelsberg, which is being used, its back lot,
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Speaker 2: which is being used to film the streets of Berlin
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Speaker 2: during the 20s, it's actually an enclosed street with walls
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Speaker 2: around it, so no one can even look.
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Speaker 3: So why is it so crazy there?
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Speaker 2: Well, because Germany has made it illegal to show a
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Speaker 2: Nazi flag, to show the swastika, to call yourself a Nazi.
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Speaker 2: It is a criminal violation in Germany. That's what happened
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Speaker 2: after World War II. The Germans came to the table
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Speaker 2: pretty quickly. And they took, they owned what happened during
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Speaker 2: the Holocaust, unlike the Turks, who to this day deny
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Speaker 2: there was the Armenian Holocaust in 1914, when a million
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Speaker 2: and a half, give or take, Armenians were slaughtered. The
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Speaker 2: Germans came to the table pretty quickly, and they owned
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Speaker 2: what happened during the Holocaust and passed laws that anything
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Speaker 2: that is indicative of the Nazi era has to, cannot
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Speaker 2: be shown. So when you see these far-right figures and
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Speaker 2: far-right parties in Germany, they call themselves ultra-nationalists. You will
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Speaker 2: not hear the word Nazi whatsoever. Now, we have the
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Speaker 2: Communist Party. Even though it was illegal to be a communist,
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Speaker 2: we're fine. We bring it back. You know, hey, we're communists.
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Speaker 2: The law allows us to do that. You can't do
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Speaker 2: that in Germany. Absolutely not. And it was, you know,
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Speaker 2: that there is there was Nazi propaganda. There were booklets
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Speaker 2: that were there may still be where you had literature, booklets, pamphlets,
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Speaker 2: books that were secretly distributed throughout Germany and have been
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Speaker 2: for years.
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Speaker 3: You know where those are printed up?
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Speaker 2: You have any idea where the Nazi publication capital of
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Speaker 2: the world is?
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Speaker 3: Lincoln, Nebraska. That's where it all comes from.
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Speaker 2: In the United States, where you can print whatever the
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Speaker 2: hell you want, you can print up Nazi propaganda, and
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Speaker 2: if you bring it into Germany, you are now violating.
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Speaker 2: It's a criminal act to violate it. That is how
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Speaker 2: nuts they are. But, you know, it makes a great
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Speaker 2: deal of sense. Did you know that the number one
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Speaker 2: country after the war that helped beyond the United States,
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Speaker 2: that helped Israel, was Germany? Matter of fact, early days
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Speaker 2: of Early days of Israel, you'd go to Tel Aviv
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Speaker 2: or you'd go to Jerusalem, and the taxi cabs were
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Speaker 2: for the most part Mercedes-Benz because of what Germany did
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Speaker 2: during the war and how sensitive they are to mentioning
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Speaker 2: the Holocaust or to being anti-Semitic. And a whole lot
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Speaker 2: of Jews went back to Berlin, which no one thought
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Speaker 2: they ever would. So I have to keep it absolutely
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Speaker 2: clear Locked up. If you have a Nazi symbol or
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Speaker 2: a Nazi flag in a film, first of all, you
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Speaker 2: have to ask permission from the government to even have it.
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Speaker 2: And the government allows you to have it by permit.
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Speaker 3: And the film, the.
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Speaker 2: The film or the television show has to specify exactly
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Speaker 2: what they're going to use it for, what the scene is,
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Speaker 2: how long they're going to have it, and the safeguards
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Speaker 2: they're taking it so it cannot be seen in public
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Speaker 2: or cannot be inseminated. And one of the fears has
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Speaker 2: gotten tougher and tougher because of cell phones. And one
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Speaker 2: of the legislators said, can you imagine if we had
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Speaker 2: a swastika on a building, a swastika flag or one
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Speaker 2: of those banners, and with a cell phone, someone got
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Speaker 2: hold of it?
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Speaker 3: Or took a photo of it, can you imagine how.
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Speaker 2: Quickly that would spread around the world and what it
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Speaker 2: would do to the reputation of a democratic anti-Nazi Germany?
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Speaker 3: Okay, coming up.
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Speaker 2: If you want to kill and eat a bald eagle,
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Speaker 2: and by the way, they're not bad. I mean, breast
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Speaker 2: of eagle is actually pretty tasty. I've had it and it's...
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Speaker 2: It's not bad, not bad at all. I'll come back
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Speaker 2: with that because the rules have changed completely.
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Speaker 3: There really is no.
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Speaker 2: Such thing as an endangered animal anymore as far as
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Speaker 2: the feds are concerned.
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Speaker 3: I'll share that with you when we come back.
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