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’60 Minutes’ Correspondent FIRED| Dads Scaling Back at Work for their Kids · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
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  Speaker 1: six forty.
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  Speaker 2: Bill Handle Here. It is a Wednesday morning, June third.
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  Speaker 2: The primary elections are over, and Karen Bass, the mayor
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  Speaker 2: of Los Angeles, current mayor, has moved towards the general election.
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  Speaker 2: Of course she has. There was no issue there and
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  Speaker 2: the issue who is going to be running against her?
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  Speaker 2: Spencer Pratt super conservative, Nitia Rahman super liberal. And it's
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  Speaker 2: going to be an interesting run in November, although I
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  Speaker 2: think that Bass is going to be able to hold off. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: what happened on Tuesday yesterday? Scott Pelley of sixty minutes,
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  Speaker 2: probably the premier correspondent, most connected to sixty minutes, was fired.
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  Speaker 2: This was one day after a confrontation with his new boss,
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  Speaker 2: executive producer Nick Bilton. And this was in a room
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  Speaker 2: two people familiar with this and it's gonna be corroborated.
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  Speaker 2: And this was a meeting to introduce the crowd to
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  Speaker 2: the new executive producer. And in an email right after
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  Speaker 2: the meeting, Bilton wrote, the show I had parted ways
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  Speaker 2: with Pelly. He was fired for cause. And what Bilton said,
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  Speaker 2: I know how much Scott means to many of you,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't say this lightly. I've made repeated attempts
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  Speaker 2: to have direct conversations with him over the weekend and
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  Speaker 2: this afternoon. I tried to find common ground. This was
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  Speaker 2: not the path that Scott chose. Now this is the
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  Speaker 2: Washington Post. In a statement that was shared with him,
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  Speaker 2: Pelley said that sixty Minute staffers had been fighting against
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  Speaker 2: political interference under the new ownership of Paramount sky Dance,
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  Speaker 2: and sixty minutes is part of Paramount and it will
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  Speaker 2: be owned by sky Dance. Sky Dances trying to get
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  Speaker 2: the okay to buy Paramount needs federal okay from that
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  Speaker 2: from the FCC and argument it's not violation of Sherman antitrust.
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  Speaker 2: And the argument now is that this has become all political,
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  Speaker 2: which I believe one hundred percent. Pelly went on and
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  Speaker 2: said sixty sixty, referring to sixty minutes as has been
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  Speaker 2: the number one program in America for decades, because our
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  Speaker 2: beloved audience finds integrity, quality, humanity in our story. The
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  Speaker 2: new owner of our network is casting this legend aside,
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  Speaker 2: apparently to Korey a moment of favor with the Trump administration.
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  Speaker 2: Now a word about sixty minutes It was an extraordinary
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  Speaker 2: program and always has been. But there was a time,
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  Speaker 2: and I've met I've shared this with you before. In
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  Speaker 2: the mid eighties, I was lucky enough, because of my
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  Speaker 2: work in surrogacy to have a segment on sixty minutes done.
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  Speaker 2: And at that time, thirty five million people were watching
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  Speaker 2: sixty minutes every Sunday night. That was their average, That
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  Speaker 2: was their average audience. Sixty Minutes had a reputation of
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  Speaker 2: being the best news program that existed in television. It
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  Speaker 2: was stellar, and I can tell you about the facts.
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  Speaker 2: When I was interviewed for literally three hours and was
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  Speaker 2: taped on They used film in those days, and then
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  Speaker 2: transferred to transferred it to a video for the show.
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  Speaker 2: I spent probably four hours in front of the camera. Morely,
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  Speaker 2: Safer was the correspondent. Everything I said before they put
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  Speaker 2: it on the air was corroborated probably five times from
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  Speaker 2: different sources. They were fanatic about being as fair as possible.
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  Speaker 2: Now were they biased? Absolutely bad segment on sixty minutes
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  Speaker 2: You can kiss it goodbye. Right, You've got a good
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  Speaker 2: segment on sixty minutes, Man, you've hit it. And I
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  Speaker 2: often tell I told law students when they say well,
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  Speaker 2: what do we do? How do you build a practice?
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  Speaker 2: I go get a good segment on sixty minutes. That
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  Speaker 2: helps enormously and strangely enough, very few people were able
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  Speaker 2: to do that. And Pelly said that the new management
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  Speaker 2: had instructed him to inject falsehoods and bias into a
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  Speaker 2: politically sensitive story and to include assertions that are unverified.
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  Speaker 2: I believe that completely too, and he went further, writing,
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  Speaker 2: in competence and unprofessionalism is the new management in the
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  Speaker 2: new managements have raaked havoc? And then the new executive
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  Speaker 2: producer said that Pelly had been terminated for cause, and
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  Speaker 2: it was it was vicious where Pelly accused the new
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  Speaker 2: executive producer and the head of CBA News that it
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  Speaker 2: was that it's just a different show and has become
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  Speaker 2: a political mouthpiece, which I don't know if it has
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  Speaker 2: become a political mouthpiece, but certainly is leaning that way.
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  Speaker 3: Can I ask you a quick question about this? So
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  Speaker 3: when they say four cause, is that because of contractual issues?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I think so. I think so. One of the things,
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  Speaker 2: for example, well we have a clause in our contract,
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  Speaker 2: says said, I cannot put iHeart and talk about iHeart
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  Speaker 2: in a disparaging manner. Well, okay, so maybe I'm violation
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  Speaker 2: of the contract just a little bit like four times
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  Speaker 2: a day, but that is specifically in the contract.
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  Speaker 3: So that they need to do that, so that they
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  Speaker 3: don't have to pay him a severance or they don't
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  Speaker 3: have to pay.
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  Speaker 2: All for cause he's done. For cause he's done, he'll
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  Speaker 2: file a lawsuit. I mean, there'll be a lawsuit there,
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  Speaker 2: and based on his contracts, probably they're probably right that
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  Speaker 2: that is for cause. By the way, a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of a handle history there. Sixty Men was created by
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  Speaker 2: a guy named Don Hewitt, who, as a guy in
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  Speaker 2: his twenties working for CBS, produced the first debate between
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  Speaker 2: two presidential candidates, Richard Nixon debate on television. He produced
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  Speaker 2: that show and I think he was twenty four or
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  Speaker 2: twenty five, and then he came up with the idea
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  Speaker 2: of sixty minutes and he went to the Hanchos and said,
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  Speaker 2: I have this idea a news magazine show, and sixty
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  Speaker 2: Minutes was created out of that, and he ran sixty
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  Speaker 2: Minutes for I think thirty something years, and he did
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  Speaker 2: a great job too. It's a different world. It really
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  Speaker 2: is a different world. Everything everything is politicized everything. You
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  Speaker 2: can't go into a Hoggendas and get or he can't
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  Speaker 2: go into a Ben and Jerry's without getting something political
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  Speaker 2: in your ice cream. Well, actually that's true with Ben
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  Speaker 2: and Jerry's. It's just yeah, okay, I have to make
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  Speaker 2: another allergy. Okay, a story I want to share with you,
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  Speaker 2: and that has to be it has to do. And
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  Speaker 2: this is a study that was just done. And here's
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  Speaker 2: a statement. College educated fathers are working significantly shorter hours
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  Speaker 2: and spending more time with families, according to this study
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  Speaker 2: and country to that. I've often said about my best
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  Speaker 2: friend Savil, who I am partners with in business. When
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  Speaker 2: he dies, his tombstone will read I spend way too
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  Speaker 2: much time with my family. And as much as I
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  Speaker 2: joke about that, it happens to be true, because that's Savile.
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  Speaker 2: Now let's get a little bit into the weeds here.
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  Speaker 2: Fathers with degrees and have young children cut work time
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  Speaker 2: by six hours per week, increase their housework, slash childcare
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  Speaker 2: by over four hours. I don't know what they do
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  Speaker 2: with the other two hours. Men's preferences and women's workplace
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  Speaker 2: gains are driving fathers to spend more time with housework
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  Speaker 2: and childcare. And there are a couple of reasons why
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  Speaker 2: this is happening. And there's two big reasons why it's happening.
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  Speaker 2: Actually three big reasons why it's happening. One of them
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  Speaker 2: I just don't understand at all. Okay, One, the cost
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  Speaker 2: of childcare is so insanely high that it's some kind
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  Speaker 2: of accommodation has to be done at home and parents
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  Speaker 2: have to spend more time with kids because the cost
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  Speaker 2: of childcare is completely insane. Also, more women are moving
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  Speaker 2: up the ladder. For example, more women are graduating law school,
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  Speaker 2: medical school, professional schools, and our men. And that means
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  Speaker 2: that they are getting into fields as simply pay more money,
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  Speaker 2: or they have simply moved into a different mindset. And
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  Speaker 2: then you have these college educated dads and we don't
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  Speaker 2: have these numbers yet, and maybe they're not moving ahead
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  Speaker 2: at the same pace. And you simply look at Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I'm making X number of dollars, you're making x a
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  Speaker 2: number of dollars. Someone has to be home with the kids,
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  Speaker 2: and we don't and we can't afford childcare. So let's
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  Speaker 2: go ahead and make a selection. If not all day
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  Speaker 2: with a stay at home dad, at least some hours. Also,
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  Speaker 2: there's the issue of the stigma of fathers doing housework
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  Speaker 2: is gone. It used to be that women did all
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  Speaker 2: the housework, which is appropriate, and men in fact didn't. Well,
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  Speaker 2: that life has changed. And then there's a fact that
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  Speaker 2: men who traditionally work just want to spend more time
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  Speaker 2: with their kids. Now I don't understand that. I've never
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  Speaker 2: understood that concept.
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  Speaker 3: It's the best.
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  Speaker 2: That's what people you know what, that's what people tell me.
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  Speaker 2: And after having raised well, not having actually raised two
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  Speaker 2: girls because I wasn't home that much because I didn't
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  Speaker 2: want to be. It wasn't even fun at work, but
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  Speaker 2: it was the question being at home and work. Give me,
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  Speaker 2: give me a break, you know, I'll take the former.
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  Speaker 2: But it is a different mindset. Neil, Let's go to
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  Speaker 2: you because you have Max, who is a young and
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  Speaker 2: and do you have you Do you spend more time
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  Speaker 2: at home because of Max than you would or did?
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely?
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  Speaker 1: You know my work, my old work schedule, when I
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  Speaker 1: was in management and everything else there, I was always working,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm happy to as I get older and Max
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  Speaker 1: is now nine, to spend way more time with him
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  Speaker 1: and my wife.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, all right, Well, those are the reasons that people
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  Speaker 2: do that. And you know, the study is this is
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  Speaker 2: across years now, it's across well compared to three year
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  Speaker 2: period through twenty nineteen and a three year period through
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. And this was the latest the numbers
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  Speaker 2: of the latest data available. And what a shift it
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  Speaker 2: is from the two decades leading up to the pandemic.
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  Speaker 2: That's when things really changed because the amount of time
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  Speaker 2: that fathers spent at home and most fathers, most people
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  Speaker 2: were able to work remotely. I mean plumbers weren't et cetera,
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  Speaker 2: but no one was building either. And you have these
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  Speaker 2: dads realized that okay, you were living and working at
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  Speaker 2: home and being with the kids and family is something
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  Speaker 2: that they missed and would miss. So they change their lives.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, I work remotely, but then again, my
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  Speaker 2: kids are a little bit older. They're teenagers now, well
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  Speaker 2: chronologically they're in their thirties, but they are teenagers and
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  Speaker 2: spending time with them. Who else has kids here?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Kono, there you go, Kono? Do you find yourself? I
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  Speaker 2: know you don't spend more time because they pay you
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  Speaker 2: nothing and you have to have fourteen other jobs. But
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  Speaker 2: do you find yourself really missing not being at home. No,
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  Speaker 2: I'm actually at home, probably more than most. Oh okay,
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  Speaker 2: my second job, I can work from home. Okay, well
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  Speaker 2: that's fair and it does help.
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  Speaker 3: Childcare. Is ridiculous.
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  Speaker 2: Me you can't home? Yeah, me being at home probably
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  Speaker 2: saves thirty grand a year. I know, it's crazy. In
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  Speaker 2: many cases you make a choice that it's actually cheaper,
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  Speaker 2: less expensive for dads or moms not to work and
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  Speaker 2: stay at home. And sometimes one or the other or
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  Speaker 2: both want to work and they can't because of the
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  Speaker 2: financial because of the cost of childcare. It's that insane,
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  Speaker 2: all right. Now. Desalination is a big, big deal, especially
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  Speaker 2: in for example, the Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the
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  Speaker 2: various countries that are full of sand desert countries that
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  Speaker 2: are next to the ocean. They get their water because
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  Speaker 2: they are ate much on land in the wells and
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  Speaker 2: the aquifers. Is the desalination plants. Here's the problem is
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  Speaker 2: they take enormous amounts of energy and they punch back
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  Speaker 2: into the ocean a lot of salt. Well in California,
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  Speaker 2: we've got one one plant and another couple of them
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  Speaker 2: on the books. And again the problem is the huge
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  Speaker 2: amount of energy to take. So there's a company that
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  Speaker 2: created a deep sea system which ifiable will transform salt
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  Speaker 2: water into pure drinking water, which desalination plants do, but
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  Speaker 2: at a much lower cost than a coastal plant. Here's
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  Speaker 2: what they want to do. They want to go to
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  Speaker 2: fourteen hundred feet underwater and use the seawater pressure to
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  Speaker 2: go through ultifying filters and make drinking water. This is
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  Speaker 2: off the co the Malibu and they're in. There's not
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  Speaker 2: a lot of controversy, question of time and there is
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  Speaker 2: why this is going to work. The bottom line is
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  Speaker 2: there are two types of wars that are going to
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  Speaker 2: be actually three types of wars that are going to
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  Speaker 2: happen in the future, and I don't think they're going
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  Speaker 2: to be political wars like they are now. You're going
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  Speaker 2: to see water wars. You're going to see food wars,
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  Speaker 2: although there's ways around that, not ways around water wars.
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  Speaker 2: And you're going to see cyber wars. That's the way
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  Speaker 2: it's going to go. And you can do something about
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  Speaker 2: water without going and attacking other countries and using the
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  Speaker 2: technology and in this case, this new technology uses the
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  Speaker 2: water pressure at fourteen hundred feet underwater, so a lot
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  Speaker 2: of them right now. If you look at the desalination
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  Speaker 2: plants use ridiculous amounts of electricity, some have natural gas
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  Speaker 2: pipelines running to them, and dedicated plants ocean. Well, this
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  Speaker 2: new company estimates its technology will cut electricity use by
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  Speaker 2: up to forty percent. I mean, that's a big deal.
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  Speaker 2: So the plan is to have an array of units
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  Speaker 2: four and a half miles offshore. It'll cost five hundred
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  Speaker 2: million to a billion dollars a figure, and will deliver
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  Speaker 2: sixty million gallons of water per day. And that's enough
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  Speaker 2: for about four hundred thousand people. And this was created
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  Speaker 2: in the Las Virginis Municipal Water District because they're really
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  Speaker 2: severe water cutbacks. You're gonna see more and more water
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  Speaker 2: cutbacks happening because climate change is here. Drought is going
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  Speaker 2: to get droughtier, and rains and storms are going to
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  Speaker 2: increase dramatically. Well, look at the news. Is there a
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  Speaker 2: day And I've been watching a national news I do
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  Speaker 2: every night. There is not a day that goes past
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  Speaker 2: without some storm, some storm story. Not a day because
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  Speaker 2: we just have big problems with weather, and the problems
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  Speaker 2: with weather translate into more drought in areas like southern
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  Speaker 2: California and more rain, more storms, more hurricanes on the
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  Speaker 2: Gulf Coast and the Caribbean area, and it just doesn't work.
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  Speaker 2: So this is the new technology, and it's neat technology,
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  Speaker 2: and you'll hear more and more about this over the years,
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  Speaker 2: I guarantee you. And what makes these water plants so
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  Speaker 2: vulnerable is there right next to the ocean, and they're
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  Speaker 2: easy to see because they're huge, and they're easy targets also,
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  Speaker 2: And have we seen Iran attacking and taking out those plants?
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  Speaker 2: Not yet, but I think that's close. Okay. Now, some
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  Speaker 2: new information has come out by the FED and there's
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  Speaker 2: something called the Personal Consumption Spenditure Index and that went
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  Speaker 2: up three point eight percent from the same time last year,
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  Speaker 2: the fastest annual pace since twenty twenty three of May,
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  Speaker 2: when the FED was in the middle of raising rates
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  Speaker 2: to tame inflation. And that came after the pandemic, which
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  Speaker 2: was expected by the way, this underlying inflation. This measure
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  Speaker 2: strips out volatile food and energy prices, which happened to
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  Speaker 2: also notch a multi year price. Interestingly enough, the volatile
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  Speaker 2: food and energy prices, which are not considered in this index,
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  Speaker 2: went up the fastest anyway, and a lot more than
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  Speaker 2: anything else. So you add that to the mix, and
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  Speaker 2: now you've got some pretty serious inflation going on. And
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  Speaker 2: the Commerce Department released this underscoring the difficult position that
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  Speaker 2: officials at the Central Bank are in right now because
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  Speaker 2: of the war, because of the well you got the
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  Speaker 2: warrior of Ukraine, which affected oil prices. Of course, the
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  Speaker 2: Iranian oil affecting these prices. I mean, there are fact
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  Speaker 2: the tariffs. If you throw those into the mix and
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  Speaker 2: there it just all causes inflation. And so you have
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  Speaker 2: the FED, which hopefully is going to be independent and
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  Speaker 2: has been under Powell, under worsh we don't know, although
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  Speaker 2: he says that it's going to be independent. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: keep in mind is the President who nominates the head
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  Speaker 2: of the FED, and the President has been pushing, pushing,
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  Speaker 2: pushing for lower interest rates because lower interest rates do
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  Speaker 2: kick up the economy. The problem is on the other
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  Speaker 2: side is the economy can get so hot that inflation
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  Speaker 2: really kicks in. And so there's a very fine line
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  Speaker 2: that the Fed has to navigate between interest rates and
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  Speaker 2: that's basically what they do. So what's going to happen here, Well,
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  Speaker 2: we don't know what's going to happen, but I'll tell
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  Speaker 2: you what is happening, and that is we are paying
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  Speaker 2: a whole lot more. Every time I go to a restaurant,
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  Speaker 2: the prices go up. They go up, they go up.
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  Speaker 2: I went to Costco yesterday and I'm looking at some
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  Speaker 2: steaks that I wanted to buy, and I just got
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  Speaker 2: to the point where I'm done. You know, I'm done.
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  Speaker 2: I'm done with stakes, even though I love grilling them
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  Speaker 2: in my backyard. They have gone up. The price of
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  Speaker 2: steaks have probably gone up in the last few months,
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  Speaker 2: three dollars four dollars a pound. I mean, that's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm going to restaurants a whole lot less than
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  Speaker 2: I used to now. Granted, you know I can afford
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  Speaker 2: to do that. I can afford to go to restaurants.
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  Speaker 2: It's not going to make or break my life. But
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  Speaker 2: at the same time, you know, it's just a question
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  Speaker 2: of value. So I will. For example, I'm with Lindsay
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  Speaker 2: and I'm lazy, and I go, you know what, let's
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  Speaker 2: just go out to dinner tonight, and we don't. We don't.
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  Speaker 2: It's let's not spend the money because unfortunately, the value
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  Speaker 2: today well, I mean, the value is what we pay.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, is it legitimate for the price of meat
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  Speaker 2: to go three dollars a pound or four dollars a pound? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: if you look at all the factors. But we're the
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  Speaker 2: ones being affected by it all. And here's what happens.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, someone comes into the presidency. I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to use the analogy of Donald Trump here, not necessarily
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  Speaker 2: just Donald Trump. So his platform to get elected is
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to bring down prices day one, prices will
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  Speaker 2: be cut in half. Now, there's a lot of a
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  Speaker 2: lot of puffery involved and running for president. You promise
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  Speaker 2: the moon, you talk about how horrible the previous administration is.
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  Speaker 2: That's a given from for every single campaign. So, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: no one believed, of course that prices are going to
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  Speaker 2: be in half. We're going to be cut in half.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: I mean, that's just a candidate running for office. The
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: fact that Trump did a little bit, a little bit
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: of farther than other candidates, that's sort of a given.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: You know. I know I didn't think the price are
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  Speaker 2: going to be cutting halp. But I'll tell you what
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: a lot of people believe that prices were going to
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: go down prices would go down. They didn't, and prices
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: are going up. And now we have an administration which
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: I don't know how concerned. We're getting a lot of
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: lip surface about prices, but the terrorists are still kicking in.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: The war is still there. The attack on Ukraine, which
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: the President said, if I had been President Putin would
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: never have invaded Ukraine. Of course not. It just continues
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: the straight of horror moves. Instantly, I think I want
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: to do a story about the state of horror moves
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: and maybe tomorrow or the next day. Do you know
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: that the President was warned over and over again that
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: a war with Iran would cause the Strait of Hormuz
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: to close down as a matter of fact, not the possibility,
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: but it absolutely would happen. And the President chose to
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: ignore that because this was the intelligence community, it was
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: the intelligence of the military, all the military, the war
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: games that go on, all of them said the strait
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: was going to be closed down. All right, We'll talk
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: about that, no doubt over the next day or two.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: It's it. We're done. That's in coming up tomorrow, Amy
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: and will five o'clock wake up call, And then Michelle
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: is here as producer for the next couple of weeks.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: Neil and I oh, Neil, You're gone next week?
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: Right, yes, sir, so tomorrow's my last day.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: I do surgery on Friday and then I'll be off
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: for that week and hopefully that I'll be back after that.
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: But fingers crossed.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: Okay, So we are going to be sort of a
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: modified show over the next couple of weeks, and actually
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: are we going to miss Neil? Probably gonna be a
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: better show. I just want to let you know, Neil,
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: I mean, don't cry.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: You got it yet? Started?
• 23:05
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