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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 1: And now, Handel on the News. Ladies and gentlemen, here's
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  Speaker 1: not Bill Handel.
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  Speaker 2: KFI AM 640 live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Good
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  Speaker 2: morning to you. Thursday morning. Holy hell, where did we go?
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  Speaker 2: Neil Spader in the morning crew handles having some technical issues,
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  Speaker 2: but we are with you until nine.
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  Speaker 3: And then, of course, Gary and Shannon take over. Good morning, all.
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  Speaker 3: Amy K. King, I heard you talking about our, not
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  Speaker 3: a jump. Not exactly a jump. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It is kind of interesting, for those of you who
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  Speaker 2: don't know, Amy King and I, once again this year,
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  Speaker 2: for our third year in a row, are going to
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  Speaker 2: be going over the edge for the Union Rescue Mission,
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  Speaker 2: a cause that Amy and I are near and dear
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  Speaker 2: with and support. It is one of my monthly charities,
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  Speaker 2: and I fell in love with them many years ago.
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  Speaker 2: as we're doing this and so this is a one-time
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  Speaker 2: thing that they do each year but the need goes
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  Speaker 2: throughout the year and this is our way of letting.
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  Speaker 4: People know about it and this one-time thing that they
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  Speaker 4: do uh we're talking to the ceo mark hood and
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  Speaker 4: he said it's it's really their largest fundraiser and the
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  Speaker 4: money that they raise for this single event which is
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  Speaker 4: again their big one uh we'll get them through the holidays.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they have a matcher, a donor who is going
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  Speaker 2: to match up to half a million dollars.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So it's a great time to do it.
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  Speaker 2: And quite honestly, I don't care if you donate to me,
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  Speaker 2: to Amy or wherever. The key is we'd love it
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  Speaker 2: to go into the KFI team and it all goes
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  Speaker 2: to the same place. And you go to URM.org. slash
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  Speaker 2: O-T-E for over the edge. And you'll see the KFI
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  Speaker 2: team link there. Click on that, please. It's coming up quickly.
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  Speaker 2: It is a week from tomorrow that we will be
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  Speaker 2: doing that over the edge. If you want to do
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  Speaker 2: it with us, you just need to raise a thousand
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  Speaker 2: dollars on your own and you can do it. We'll
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  Speaker 2: be doing it on Friday. I think they do it
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  Speaker 2: Saturday as well.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's all.
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  Speaker 4: Day Friday and Saturday. I mean, like there's hundreds of
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  Speaker 4: people do this.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. It's amazing.
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  Speaker 2: And as Amy has shared, both she and I are
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  Speaker 2: deathly afraid of heights. I will tell you this. Amy
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  Speaker 2: is a freaking champ. She doesn't bat an eye. She
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  Speaker 2: brought her brother last year. She goes over. Last year,
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  Speaker 2: my knees buckled. I still went over. But man, last year,
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  Speaker 2: I looked over. I saw the distance and it affected me.
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  Speaker 2: Still did it. But it's for a fantastic cause. They
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  Speaker 2: actually are getting people not only off the streets here
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  Speaker 2: in Los Angeles tangibly. But they have all kinds of
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  Speaker 2: work programs and trade programs for them to learn. So
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  Speaker 2: we'd love for you to be a part of that.
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  Speaker 2: We'll be talking more about that as we go along.
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  Speaker 4: We just had another anonymous donor. I was talking earlier.
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  Speaker 4: I was like, people are they're donating, but they're doing
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  Speaker 4: it anonymously. So it's harder for us to thank them.
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  Speaker 2: He does it anonymously. He does want people to know
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  Speaker 2: he's nice. That's the way he does it. Will, good morning, sir.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, Neal. How you doing, buddy?
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  Speaker 2: How's the community, the traffic community and people with the
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  Speaker 2: horrible helicopter disaster with Channel 4 this week?
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's going to take time. It's going to take time.
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  Speaker 3: People are pretty shaken by it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm blown away at the amount of people that really,
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  Speaker 2: you know, like yourself and those. There's a very tight community.
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  Speaker 5: L.A.
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  Speaker 3: Is a big place.
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  Speaker 2: But news, traffic, and those connections, we've all kind of
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  Speaker 2: dealt with each other in one form or another. I
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  Speaker 2: did not know either of them, but I was blown
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  Speaker 2: away at how many people did and how connected they
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  Speaker 2: are to these two.
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  Speaker 3: And the general public.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, when you've had someone in your living room
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  Speaker 1: on your TV, they feel very connected.
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  Speaker 3: So there's a lot of outpouring from the community as well.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I am glad we have you, sir. And I'm
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  Speaker 2: glad that you have added such a human touch to
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  Speaker 2: the story and a connection hearing you on the station
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  Speaker 2: with our reporters. And, of course, with Amy as well
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  Speaker 2: has been a comforting voice and a great insight. And
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate you doing that under the duress of the situation.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Kono, good morning. Good morning. It's a morning. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I know.
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  Speaker 2: I got a panic text from Kono saying, hey, we're
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  Speaker 2: having an issue.
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  Speaker 3: Panicked. Well, no, but I mean. That's not over exaggerating.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 3: I don't panic.
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 3: Let's say urgent. There you go.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: There you go. And last but never, ever least. Anne,
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  Speaker 3: how you doing? Great. I know it did. Never a
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  Speaker 3: dull moment around here. No, I know.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody wants that kind of change. Well, you're always dealing.
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  Speaker 2: You deal with a lot of change. Both you and
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  Speaker 2: Kono deal with anything that is spur of the moment.
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  Speaker 2: But we got a great show. We got a lot
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  Speaker 2: going on. And stick around. Let's start to handle on
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  Speaker 2: the news, shall we?
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  Speaker 3: Lead story. Oh, boy.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll be talking about this a little bit later
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  Speaker 2: as well. I might focus here locally as we, too,
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  Speaker 2: get affected with rate hikes.
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  Speaker 3: And L.A.
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  Speaker 2: Will see 10.25 as their baseline, which will be fun.
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  Speaker 2: The Federal Reserve yesterday raised interest rates, as we all know,
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  Speaker 2: at this point, first time in more than three years.
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  Speaker 2: This is the battle. OK, we've got a lot of
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  Speaker 2: wars going on. One of the wars is here at home,
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  Speaker 2: and that's the fight against inflation. And this is how
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  Speaker 2: we're going to see it picked up early in the
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  Speaker 2: year due to the war in Iran. That is affecting us.
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  Speaker 2: These things never go take place in a vacuum, of course.
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  Speaker 2: Officials voted unanimously, by the way, to raise this benchmark
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  Speaker 2: lending rate. It's a quarter point to a range of
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  Speaker 2: 3.75 to 4%. included Chairman Wersch himself, who, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: if you're playing the home game, was handpicked by President
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump to lead America's central bank.
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  Speaker 4: House members are headed home and leaving Pete Hegseth alone.
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  Speaker 4: Speaker Johnson announced that he's sending members home from Washington, D.C.,
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  Speaker 4: early for their seven-week campaigning recess ahead of the midterms.
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  Speaker 4: So that means that since that's happening early, there will
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  Speaker 4: be no vote on impeaching Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. That
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  Speaker 4: was brought up by one of the fellow Republicans, Representative
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  Speaker 4: Thomas Massey, said he was going to do it. So
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  Speaker 4: Johnson said, forget it. Everybody's going home. So they voted
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  Speaker 4: last night on a White House priority, the Russia sanctions
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  Speaker 4: bill sponsored by the late Lindsey Graham. They passed that.
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  Speaker 4: And it's headed to the president's desk. And now House
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  Speaker 4: lawmakers are headed for home, won't be back in Washington, D.C.
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  Speaker 4: until after the midterms.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Federal judge is limiting immigration arrests. This is in the
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  Speaker 2: form of warrants or in this case, without a warrant
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  Speaker 2: here in Southern California.
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  Speaker 3: So.
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  Speaker 2: Basically, agents are being ordered to stop making civil arrests
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  Speaker 2: without a warrant unless there's some sort of determination up
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  Speaker 2: front that a person is likely to escape uh before
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  Speaker 2: they can be obtained or.
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  Speaker 4: They have probable cause that they're here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah they i mean this takes place obviously uh in
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  Speaker 2: courts all the time whether it's bail or things like
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  Speaker 2: that in the sense like are they a flight risk
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  Speaker 2: i i don't know how they determine it in this
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  Speaker 2: particular case but The ruling requires federal immigration agents to
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  Speaker 2: consider the totality, everything, bird's eye view of the circumstance
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  Speaker 2: known to them before arresting somebody without a warrant. And
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  Speaker 2: just the mere presence of them within the United States,
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  Speaker 2: which is a violation of the United States immigration law,
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  Speaker 2: by itself is not sufficient. It's basically the nutshell of
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  Speaker 2: what that comes down to.
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  Speaker 4: Trump is targeting the EU. Okay, so- Canada is saying, hey,
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  Speaker 4: we might be a first associate member of the EU.
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  Speaker 4: So the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen proposed
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  Speaker 4: earlier yesterday during her State of the Union speech that
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  Speaker 4: Canada could become an associate member, which would make them
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  Speaker 4: a stronger trading partner, you know, because we've got a
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  Speaker 4: little fight, a little fight, a big fight between the U.S.
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  Speaker 4: and Canada. And President Trump's response was, He might respond
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  Speaker 4: to this new partnership association with serious tariffs if Canada
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  Speaker 4: were to become integrated with the 27-member EU.
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  Speaker 2: As opposed to those comedy tariffs or serious, like in volumes?
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  Speaker 5: And.
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  Speaker 4: Serious, serious tariffs. He says he thinks it's a hostile act.
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  Speaker 4: I will put very serious tariffs or stop trading with
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  Speaker 4: Europe on many things.
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  Speaker 2: So we've got Russia not wanting to be, you know,
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  Speaker 2: shouldn't be a part, or you're saying that Ukraine shouldn't
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  Speaker 2: be a part of NATO, and now you've got America
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  Speaker 2: saying that Canada can't be a part of the Union, European,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. It just seems a lot of bullying
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  Speaker 2: going on in this world.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, you know, I don't know. Back to
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  Speaker 3: let's go back to home, shall we go? Boyle Heights.
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  Speaker 2: I don't understand this. Now, I love Boyle Heights. They're
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  Speaker 2: my neighbors. I don't know why we are picking on
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  Speaker 2: the company. Lineage logistics for that fire when it seems
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  Speaker 2: that it might have been started by shoddy.
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  Speaker 3: Solar panels, solar or.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what exactly they did wrong. Are they
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  Speaker 2: a victim too, possibly? So Lineage Logistics, the operator of
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  Speaker 2: that scorched Boyle Heights cold storage warehouse, insists it's being
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  Speaker 2: unfairly blamed for the June fire and now sues a
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  Speaker 2: rooftop solar firm it says is responsible. So it's a
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  Speaker 2: huge fire, 89 million pounds of rotting food. gross, horrible smells,
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  Speaker 2: probably toxic, all of those things triggered over 4,900 odor complaints,
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  Speaker 2: 38 violations noticed as lineage missed the city's 45-day cleanup deadline.
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  Speaker 2: I get they missed cleanup deadlines, $ 150 million effort. You
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  Speaker 2: can't say they're not putting money into it. Neighbors, I
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  Speaker 2: feel for them. They went through a lot of problems,
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  Speaker 2: but It's a business in a business area that was
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  Speaker 2: designated for business.
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  Speaker 3: Why are they focused? What did they do wrong?
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  Speaker 2: Have they been, am I missing something, Amy? Is there
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  Speaker 2: something they did wrong?
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's a tough one because I understand that
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  Speaker 4: people want to blame somebody. And just from everything that
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  Speaker 4: I've seen, it seems like lineage has made Herculean efforts to,
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  Speaker 4: to go in and clear this up. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 4: cleaned up now, basically. And now they want to rebuild.
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  Speaker 4: They want to continue to do business. And the city's
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  Speaker 4: getting in the way of that, like by saying they're
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  Speaker 4: not going to issue permits or at least delay them.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, what I'm not sure what lineage actually did wrong.
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  Speaker 4: The fire started. It was a weird place. They couldn't
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  Speaker 4: get in to put the fire out because of all
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  Speaker 4: the racks that were like six stories high of this
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  Speaker 4: frozen food. So it made fighting the fire even more complicated.
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  Speaker 4: It meant getting everything out of that warehouse even more
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  Speaker 4: complicated because the roof had partially collapsed and all of
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  Speaker 4: those shelving units, for lack of a better word, if
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  Speaker 4: you think of Costco, just way bigger and way taller,
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  Speaker 4: all those shelving units were basically holding up the roof
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  Speaker 4: So we couldn't send people in because it wasn't safe.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: All those are circumstantial pain in the ass stuff because it's,
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  Speaker 2: you know, a company. But that company is providing food
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  Speaker 2: for vendors and other places as well.
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  Speaker 4: Eighty eight million pounds of food. Think of how many
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  Speaker 4: people that feed. feeds i don't know where all that
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  Speaker 4: food is distributed to but yeah i agree.
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  Speaker 2: I could absolutely be missing something here i just don't
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  Speaker 2: it's like uh going after the palisades people that lost
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  Speaker 2: their homes in the fire or the eaten people who
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  Speaker 2: lost their homes we're not.
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  Speaker 3: Cleaning it up or something yeah it just it.
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  Speaker 2: It i don't i know we hate corporations and i
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  Speaker 2: know everybody hates and but you know what these are
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  Speaker 2: who these are the companies that are feeding us these
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  Speaker 2: are the Trust me, I know you you maybe have
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  Speaker 2: some hate for corporations and you love the fact that
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  Speaker 2: you're going to order something from Amazon today and have
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  Speaker 2: it delivered tomorrow. So it's just a weird I don't
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  Speaker 2: know what I'm missing on that one.
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  Speaker 3: Should we end on one more?
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  Speaker 4: Let's end this segment on a happy note. Finally, something
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  Speaker 4: that lawmakers can agree on. The bipartisan Ratepayer Protection Act
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  Speaker 4: has cleared the House on a 417 to three vote.
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  Speaker 4: It now heads to the Senate. The bill is aimed
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  Speaker 4: at protecting Americans from shouldering potential costs of data centers.
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  Speaker 4: So the representative who introduced it was Gabe Evans of Colorado.
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  Speaker 4: It seeks to force the tech companies to pay for
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  Speaker 4: the costs of the new energy infrastructure that serves the
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  Speaker 4: data centers instead of passing the cost along to consumers.
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  Speaker 4: It encourages the state agencies that regulate utility companies to
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  Speaker 4: set up standards ensuring large load customers are billed for
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  Speaker 4: the cost of the new electricity.
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  Speaker 3: Makes sense. All right. One last hit.
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  Speaker 2: I know you were going to on an up note,
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  Speaker 2: but I just like the story. Maria Shriver, of course,
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  Speaker 2: former first lady of California, niece of former president John F.
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  Speaker 3: Kennedy. She went on social media a couple of days ago.
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  Speaker 2: And criticized the president after he threatened to cancel renovations
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  Speaker 2: on John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, unless
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  Speaker 2: his name was added to it. These are the types
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  Speaker 2: of things, and I know we've got all kinds of
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  Speaker 2: people listening here, and you can love President Trump and
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  Speaker 2: love some of his policies, but you gotta point out
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  Speaker 2: the stupid stuff too, of which this is a pinnacle of.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Any renovations to this building going through him right now,
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  Speaker 2: she says that a sitting president would not let any
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  Speaker 2: renovations to a public building go on unless he gets
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  Speaker 2: his first name put on the side of the building.
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  Speaker 2: What a sad state of affairs. And again, whether you
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  Speaker 2: love or dislike Trump, I think that kind of thing
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  Speaker 2: is what annoys people the most. It seems petty and small.
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  Speaker 2: When we're dealing with bigger things, you know, Iran, I'll
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  Speaker 2: give you. We don't want them to have nukes. I
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  Speaker 2: can see that. That's rational. But this other thing, I
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  Speaker 2: see why it annoys people.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Neil Savedra in the morning crew. It's the Bill Handel show.
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  Speaker 2: He had some technical problems this morning, but the crew
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  Speaker 2: is here and we're happy to be with you. We'll
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  Speaker 2: get back to Anne on the news in a moment.
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  Speaker 2: But let's go to the king of the IE and
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  Speaker 2: hear what today is. What is today's special day?
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  Speaker 3: September 17th.
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  Speaker 1: Kono.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 2: I was talking about technical issues. I know, technical problems.
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  Speaker 2: But we're going to the IE with you, the king
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  Speaker 2: of the IE, to hear what September 17th is.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, in the world? Yeah, in history. National Day. In
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  Speaker 3: the United States.
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  Speaker 2: It's the day the Constitution was adopted and signed by
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  Speaker 2: our founding fathers.
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  Speaker 3: Look at you.
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  Speaker 2: 39 delegates signed the U.S. Constitution at Independence Hall in Philly.
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  Speaker 2: On this day, and so it is considered Constitution Day
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  Speaker 2: and Citizenship Day.
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  Speaker 4: Right, we had the Articles of the Confederation, and then
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  Speaker 4: today is when they signed it and officially adopted the Constitution.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so they formally signed the official parchment copy on
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  Speaker 2: August 2nd as far as Declaration of Independence, July 4th,
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  Speaker 2: as we know. But yeah, the Constitution Day is today.
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  Speaker 2: Citizenship Day is today. So for all of you who
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  Speaker 2: have done it correctly.
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  Speaker 3: Good for you.
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  Speaker 4: Have you seen the Constitution?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So I was going to say a little fun fact
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  Speaker 2: is I've been to Philly and went to Independence Hall
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  Speaker 2: there with Bill Handel. And I went together and we
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  Speaker 2: sat there. We both got chills and we talked about
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  Speaker 2: history and who better, you know, chatting with Handel about
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  Speaker 2: American history.
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  Speaker 3: It was pretty, pretty cool. Is there a.
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  Speaker 4: Copy of the Constitution there? Because I saw it in D.C.
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  Speaker 2: Well, they have I've seen it in D.C., but they
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  Speaker 2: what sticks out to me, they have to. But they
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  Speaker 2: but what sticks out to me is some of the
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  Speaker 2: drafts I remember they have there.
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  Speaker 4: They just had some of those drafts on display at
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  Speaker 4: UCLA or USC.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: It was really, really cool to see the stuff like
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  Speaker 4: crossed out. And they're like, no, let's not put that in.
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  Speaker 4: Let's put this in instead.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, there's a lot.
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  Speaker 2: If you look at the things that were left out, pretty,
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  Speaker 2: pretty fascinating or things that were proposed.
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  Speaker 3: Pretty insane.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 2: So we go from Independence Hall to the Pentagon.
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  Speaker 4: OK, before that, Philadelphia does have a rare original printed
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  Speaker 4: copy of the U.S. Constitution on display today. At the
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  Speaker 4: National Constitution Center. In case you're headed to Philly.
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  Speaker 3: I seem to recall all that.
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  Speaker 2: And also, Edgar Allan Poe, one of his homes, I
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  Speaker 2: think where he wrote The Raven, is out there as well.
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  Speaker 3: And Bill Handel and I went there, too.
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  Speaker 5: Nice.
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  Speaker 3: I'm a big Poe fan. Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Speaking of the Pentagon, not everyone's invited to this party.
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  Speaker 4: The Pentagon is asking commanders to nominate troops to attend
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  Speaker 4: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's State of the Force address. Sounds
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: like something from Star Wars, doesn't it? It says service
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  Speaker 4: members must meet waist to height. requirements and exhibit impeccable
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  Speaker 4: grooming standards. The document also requires candidates be consistently rated
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  Speaker 4: as top performers within their formations, have a clear record
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  Speaker 4: of integrity, discipline, and selfless service, and service role models
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  Speaker 4: for their peers and subordinates. The State of the Force
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  Speaker 4: Address says is planned for September 30th. And this event
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  Speaker 4: comes a year after Hegseth ordered the nation's top generals
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  Speaker 4: and admirals to gather for his speech at Marine Corps
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  Speaker 4: Base Quantico, where he declared, no more beardos or fat generals.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: No, we use that. Those type of people should be
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: on radio. I will say this. Every time there's a
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: photo opportunity, I don't care if it's a television show.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: I don't care what they always put certain people up front.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: They always load the audience. I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: You have.
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  Speaker 4: Have you been to Hollywood?
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Democrats do this. Republicans do this.
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  Speaker 2: The president speaks at these things and they have, you know,
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  Speaker 2: one person in a wheelchair, a black person, a brown person.
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  Speaker 2: It's the, you know, colors of Benetton behind them. This
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  Speaker 2: is every time.
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  Speaker 3: It's nothing new. And Hegg said.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: We used to say this with KFI back in the
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: management days. You hire bulldogs to go on and rip
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: people apart on the air. You can't expect them to
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: be the sweetest people on the planet off the air.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: I'm looking at you, John Kobelt and Bill Handel. You
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: hire them for a reason. I'm not a Hegseth fan.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not.
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  Speaker 2: However, the military is the military. And do you want
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: someone dignified there?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: But you also want somebody who's a ball buster because
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: the military. And so I don't know why people are
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: freaking out when you have a military like person in
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: the military wanting people to be military like. That's what
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: that's kind of what you want. So I don't know
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  Speaker 2: why people point that out. It's like, oh, he doesn't
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: want the fat people. Well, no, you want, you know,
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: the most fit people. that represent what the military should represent,
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: the best of the best, protecting our country.
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: Yeah, guess who's back. We did have a little glitch
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: with the signal going into the station from my studio.
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: And I understand, Neil, they were able to find the
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: tubes that were necessary for the transmission.
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: Which is pretty terrific.
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: They pulled them out of an old TV set.
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: That's what they did.
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: The tube, this station was created, one of the first
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: stations in the country, 1922, where we'll see Anthony. And
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: we're using a lot of the same equipment.
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: And it's good news. All right. Someone's got a mute there.
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: I'm listening to someone who is, nope, nope, nope.
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: Everybody, everybody's on.
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: Huh.
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: I'm hearing an echo. There we go. That helps.
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: It's good to have you back, buddy. You know what?
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: It's just, what's that noise? Yeah. Yeah. What's that smell? Yeah, this,
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: I'm in my home studio today and, uh, that's the smell.
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: That is the smell.
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: And occasionally it glitches, uh, with the connection, which is,
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: you know, it shouldn't, but it does.
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: Uh, let's go ahead up and finish a handle on
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: the news on this Thursday morning.
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: Uh, with Amy, Neil and me.
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: Is it my turn?
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: No, it's mine. OK.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: House passes Russia sanctions. So Congress is sending the Russia
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: sanctions bill to President Trump's desk after the package cleared
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: the House just yesterday. So legislation which passed 262 to
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: 159 split lawmakers in both parties. The package, of course,
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: is intended to put pressure on Russian, the Russian economy,
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: which is kind of what we've been doing with the
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: aim of forcing President Vladimir Putin to end his war
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: in ukraine so thousands of civilians have been killed since
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: russia invaded ukraine in 2022 they said what it's going
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: to last three weeks or something and uh three days yeah.
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: Kiev was going to be taken over in three days
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: and now it's uh well let's just say the word
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: they still.
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: Don't have kiev do they.
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: No no no they don't all right if they have
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: kiev it's over And also the legislation is named in
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: memory of the late Senator Lindsey Graham.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: Originally it was to be named he's completely.
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: Dead legislation, but they decided that was not particularly appropriate.
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: Well, the top dog wants out of the post office.
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: Postmaster General David Steiner took office in July of 2025
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: after the White House forced out his predecessor, Well, he
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: has expressed a little frustration over a lack of help
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: from the White House and Congress in addressing the mail
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: service's long running financial problems. He has apparently told confidants
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: he is deeply discouraged by his job and wants to resign.
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: He's described his job as thankless, warned that the agency's
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: finances are increasingly dire without federal aid and says, I
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: just want to go.
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: It used to be the Postmaster General, that particular secretary,
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: that cabinet post was a nothing post. It was a
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: top donor was a name to the post and no
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: one paid any attention to it. And then what happened
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: is the post office was spun off. as a semi-autonomous
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: agency of the United States, still controlled by the government,
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: but it was to be federally funded on its own.
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: It pays its own bills. Money does not come from
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: the general fund. So when it goes in deficit, which
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: it has, it borrows from the government. And I think
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: it's $ 220 billion in debt right now, and it's ungovernable
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: is the way it works. And one of the reasons
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: it's ungovernable is not that it's bad governorship. It's that
• 26:23
  Speaker 5: every single piece of mail, every address in the United
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: States must have mail delivered to it, which means that Alaska,
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: they have to fly it in. Uh, then, uh, in
• 26:33
  Speaker 5: various villages, uh, you go to, if they're delivered to igloos, uh, the, uh,
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: bottom of the grand Canyon, uh, where there is a, uh,
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: somewhat of a very small population that's delivered by mule,
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: the postal service delivers it by mule.
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: So it's just, it's horrifically expensive.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: And only a white guy can deliver mail to your, uh,
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: gated area.
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: Right. So they have, no, no, no, plenty of, uh, no, no,
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: that's not true.
• 26:59
  Speaker 5: No, they're, Plenty of other people who work around there.
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: So Paramount Skydance in the news again. We'll meet with
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: California Attorney General Rob Bonta to talk this out. Representatives
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: are going to get together next month for this meeting,
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: but it's court ordered.
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: Because they need to talk this out.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: They got to have some clear path for David Ellison's
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: $ 111 billion takeover of Warner Brothers Discovery. Two sides going
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: to convene for two days in October on the 14th
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: and 15th, according to the court documents filed. And I
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: know a lot of people are saying if they leave,
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: Hollywood's over. But I say that's already done. If one
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: company like this, a big one, could leave and tear
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: it all down, we're already in such a precarious situation.
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: As much as I want Hollywood to stay, we're screwed.
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: We're We're done. It's already over. We're done. There goes
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: the news.
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: It was nice doing one segment of the news as
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: we unglitched our glitch. Coming up, as crazy as it
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: sounds with the inflationary problems and the economic problems we have,
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: we're in probably the best shape in the world. And
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: I'll tell you how that works when we come back.
• 28:19
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• 28:24
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