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House Votes to End Government Shutdown!!! · The Bill Handel Show

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Speaker 3: Forty Bill Handles Morning Crew. It is a Friday morning,
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Speaker 3: May the first. It is May Day where we dance
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Speaker 3: around the poll? Don't we also dance around the pole
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Speaker 3: for Festivus? I believe that's the case, very important day
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Speaker 3: to say the least. Now here is what happened in
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Speaker 3: terms of the shutdown? Who thought that there was a shutdown? Still, well,
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Speaker 3: there has been for seventy six days because you have
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Speaker 3: some FEMA employees, Coast Guard TSA employees that have not
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Speaker 3: been paid for seventy six days and worked because the
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Speaker 3: law says that they have to work without pay under
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Speaker 3: certain circumstances, and these were certain circumstances. So what happened, Well,
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Speaker 3: it all has to do with the folks at ICE
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Speaker 3: and Border patrol. And this is about the immigration roundups.
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Speaker 3: As you know, immigration huge issue for the administration and
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Speaker 3: the absolute position of President Trump saying we must deport
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Speaker 3: every illegal alien who is in the country. Now, initially
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Speaker 3: it was just the bad ones, right, that was it.
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Speaker 3: All We're going after are the bad people that should
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Speaker 3: be deported. Well, that was a croc because immigration went
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Speaker 3: after everybody, and the vast majority of people who were
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Speaker 3: detained are detained and were deported were innocent or the
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Speaker 3: infractions were minor, not a threat at all, and yet
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Speaker 3: they were being bounced out of here also with a
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Speaker 3: lot of force.
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Speaker 2: Those videos.
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Speaker 3: So what happened with immigration aids that were dealing with
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Speaker 3: people being pulled out of cars and separated from families
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Speaker 3: and then the two individuals who were shot and it
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Speaker 3: was absolutely horrific, and Christine Olim at that that time,
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Speaker 3: the head of the Department Homeland Security was saying that
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Speaker 3: these were terrorists. It was just crazy. I mean, it
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Speaker 3: made no sense at all. So she got bounced. So
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Speaker 3: what ended up happening is a boy was there a backlash.
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Speaker 3: And if you notice, the Trump administration is really downplaying
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Speaker 3: the immigration raids, really downplaying the number of people who
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Speaker 3: are being deported. Why because of the perception of the
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Speaker 3: utter chaos and the inhumanity of doing this, separating families
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Speaker 3: and beating people to a pulp and arresting them, and
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Speaker 3: it was it's bad news. So what ended up happening
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Speaker 3: is the Democrats wanted to they have to pass a
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Speaker 3: bill they got has to be funded.
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Speaker 2: And the Democrats say, I'll tell you what.
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Speaker 3: You separate out. This is the House senator has already
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Speaker 3: dealt with this. You separate out the department those departments.
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Speaker 3: You separate out Ice and Border Patrol and will take
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Speaker 3: up paying for them at a different time. Let's just
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Speaker 3: fund everything else. The Republicans were so adamant that ICE
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Speaker 3: and Border Patrol had to be funded as part of
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Speaker 3: this funding bill that they didn't move, and that was
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Speaker 3: the impasse. And the Democrats, what forty days ago, a
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Speaker 3: month and a half ago, kept on insisting, they have
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Speaker 3: not stopped, insisting that we want that funding to be
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Speaker 3: considered in a separate bill, and the Republicans said no.
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Speaker 3: As I said, what happened. The Republicans caved. It's exactly
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Speaker 3: the same bill that Democrats wanted. They just couldn't take
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Speaker 3: it anymore. Because how many people, other than adamant supporters
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Speaker 3: of the immigration process policy that President Trump has been following,
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Speaker 3: or they've been following him, how many people are in
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Speaker 3: favor of what happens and what ICE agents are doing.
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Speaker 3: Not many, not many, And the perception is getting worse
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Speaker 3: and worse. So the House voted, Mike Johnson put it
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Speaker 3: on the floor. Finally, and here is the problem. You
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Speaker 3: had the hard right, You had the real conservative Republicans
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Speaker 3: fighting like crazy to make sure that the funding continued
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Speaker 3: on or would not be passed. The funding would not
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Speaker 3: be passed by separating out ICE and Border Patrol. And
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Speaker 3: they said, it's all or nothing. We want funding of everything.
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Speaker 3: Democrats saying, no, we want to separate it out. And
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Speaker 3: here's the logic. If you have this kind of controversy
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Speaker 3: going on with two of these police agencies, Ice and
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Speaker 3: Border Patrol, and the Democrats say, let's deal with this
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Speaker 3: later on. In the meantime, we have to fund all
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Speaker 3: these other agencies. How logical is that? Doesn't that make sense? Well,
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Speaker 3: you have hardcore Republicans that are saying absolutely not, we.
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Speaker 2: Are not going to cave.
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Speaker 3: And finally, moderate Republicans, even right wing Republicans, went the
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Speaker 3: other way.
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Speaker 2: They said, Okay, we have to do what the Democrats want.
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Speaker 3: We have to go ahead and separate out the two bills.
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Speaker 3: So ICE and also Border Patrol is going to be
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Speaker 3: considered in a separate bill. All the other agencies are
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Speaker 3: now funded, although certain aspects of border control have been
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Speaker 3: funded through President Trump's entire term, so he doesn't have
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Speaker 3: to worry about it. And the Speaker acknowledge Johnson yesterday
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Speaker 3: that he had trash the spending bill originally when it
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Speaker 3: was first sent to the House by the Senate in March,
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Speaker 3: how because he called it hap hazardly drafted and criticized
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Speaker 3: it for zeroing out immigration enforcement operations. We threw a fit.
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Speaker 3: We had to, although he caved now much how much
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Speaker 3: it has to do with the President wanting the bill
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Speaker 3: considered in one fell swoop?
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Speaker 2: Oh, I don't know.
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Speaker 3: I have no idea that Mike Johnson wouldn't follow everything
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Speaker 3: anything that the President asks him to do. Okay, Moving
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Speaker 3: on California locally robo taxis. How do you ticket a
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Speaker 3: robo taxi for violation of the law, maybe going too fast,
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Speaker 3: maybe blowing through a stoplight, maybe making a U turn.
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Speaker 3: That is a problem, and California is taking care of
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Speaker 3: that problem.
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Speaker 2: It just slipped through the cracks.
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Speaker 3: It's not that there was any political backlash on this
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Speaker 3: or any political view.
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Speaker 2: We just slipped through the cracks. And I'll explain what's
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Speaker 2: going on.
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Speaker 3: With this camp by AM six forty Bill handle here,
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Speaker 3: Good morning. It is a Friday morning, It's Foody Friday
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Speaker 3: was such a backlash that the camp has withdrawn its
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Speaker 3: application for this year. It was heartbreaking to hear the
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Speaker 3: hearings where parents have lost their children. Now here's some
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Speaker 3: news that just came down and this is pretty expensive,
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Speaker 3: pretty extensive and important as to the war in Iran,
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Speaker 3: there is a proposal from Iran that has just happened.
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Speaker 3: First of all, we are in the middle of a well, actually,
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Speaker 3: the sixty day or was it a thirty day ceasefire?
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Speaker 3: OH War Resolutions Act of sixty days, thirty day or
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Speaker 3: two weeks ceasefire with Iran and the War Powers Act.
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Speaker 2: It connects.
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Speaker 3: The War Powers Act says that a president can only
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Speaker 3: use force along these lines for sixty days and Congress
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Speaker 3: has to fund anything thereafter. And the President is arguing, well,
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Speaker 3: since we're in the middle of a ceasefire, none of
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Speaker 3: that works. Pete Hegseth yesterday in front before Congress but
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Speaker 3: basically argued that there was a tolling of quote the statute,
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Speaker 3: So as long as ceasefire is happening, the War Powers
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Speaker 3: Act do not apply. Where of course, you got Democrats saying,
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Speaker 3: where is that written in the Act? Explain that one,
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Speaker 3: and he danced around that, and so you got the
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Speaker 3: War Powers Act.
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Speaker 2: You have the this.
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Speaker 3: Ceasefire going on right now, and the President has come
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Speaker 3: up with some ideas and that is basically the same
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Speaker 3: thing he has asked for, and that is the nuclear
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Speaker 3: facilities not to be used, the transfer of that enriched
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Speaker 3: uranium to someplace else. Well, here is what happened with Iran.
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Speaker 3: Their latest proposal. They want to restart negotiations through Pakistan.
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Speaker 3: They do not want direct talks, and they want to
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Speaker 3: first focus on de escalation, nothing about nuclear concessions, simply
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Speaker 3: de escalation, reopening the Strait of Hormuz. Then the issue
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Speaker 3: becomes the the excuse me the Iranian the military of
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Speaker 3: the Iranians basically controlling horror moves. The revolutionary Guard, which
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Speaker 3: controls the government, and they're going to keep on opening it.
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Speaker 3: It's not going to be free opening. It's not going
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Speaker 3: to be an international waterway as far as they're going
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Speaker 3: to concern. What Iranian is Iran is saying is we
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Speaker 3: will control the strait, we will open it, and ships
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Speaker 3: are going to go through, but they're going to pay
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Speaker 3: us a toll to get through. The toll for a
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Speaker 3: tanker is about two million dollars, just to let you know,
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Speaker 3: it's about a dollar a barrel. And when you figure
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Speaker 3: out there are hundreds of tankers they go through the
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Speaker 3: strait every year, that's a lot of money. So that
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Speaker 3: is new. Uh, they want to go ahead and basically
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Speaker 3: charge the toll. Also, they want security guarantees from the
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Speaker 3: US and Israel. And then they'll start talking about the
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Speaker 3: nuclear facilities they have and dealing with and reach enriched uranium.
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Speaker 3: Whether they continue or not, that's not on the table
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Speaker 3: right now. The manufacturer of drones not on the table
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Speaker 3: right now. Uh. The attack, the ability to attack, not
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Speaker 3: on the table right now. And so there isn't much
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Speaker 3: we'll see if the President moves on Pete Hegseth yesterday.
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Speaker 3: He's so contentious. Now when you have members of the
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Speaker 3: administration or anybody get into it, there's no such thing
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Speaker 3: as this collegial view anymore, or people respectful in front
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Speaker 3: of Congress used to you used to look at anybody
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Speaker 3: called in front of Congress as showing complete deference to Congress. Yes, Enator, no, congressman.
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Speaker 3: Now it's how dare you accuse us of doing whatever
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Speaker 3: the accusation is? How dare you should be ashamed of yourself?
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Speaker 3: I mean, it is contentious. And that's exactly what happened
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Speaker 3: yesterday with Pete Hegsith. He was asked by a Democrat
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Speaker 3: this quagmire that we're in because, remember it was the
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Speaker 3: nuclear program has been obliterated. Well, then why are you
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Speaker 3: arguing about the nuclear program? The war has been one
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Speaker 3: day one? Well really, then why are we still at war?
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Speaker 3: We're going to end this were two weeks, then it's
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Speaker 3: going to be two to four weeks. Well we've started
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Speaker 3: month three. And what he did is simply deflect quagmire. Quagmire.
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Speaker 3: You say, we're not in a quagmire. Look at what
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Speaker 3: happened with Afghanistan. That was a quagmire. Look what happened
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Speaker 3: in your rock that was a quagmire. And then I
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Speaker 3: wish I had been on the panel asking hegseeth the
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Speaker 3: question where is at what point is a quagmire? Tell
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Speaker 3: me when a quagmire occurs, and what do you if
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Speaker 3: it reference to Afghanistan an Iraq? The quagmire is years
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Speaker 3: away if you want to compare the two. Therefore defending
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Speaker 3: any kind of military action because we're not in a quagmire.
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Speaker 3: The other issue that's going on is munitions are really reduced.
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Speaker 3: I mean the United States has gone through a lot
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Speaker 3: of munitions, a lot of missiles, a.
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Speaker 2: Lot of shells used.
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Speaker 3: And the problem is you got a drone that is
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Speaker 3: entering the airspace let's say entering Kuwait or entering Oman
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Speaker 3: and they have American bases there and they are a
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Speaker 3: to shoot down drones. Drones cost thirty five thousand dollars
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Speaker 3: to manufacture. A missile costs four million dollars. You have
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Speaker 3: other missiles that cost a million dollars. You have fighters
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Speaker 3: that unload their missiles at hundreds of thousands of dollars each.
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Speaker 2: It isn't close.
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Speaker 3: And Iran, which has now been obliterated because there's no
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Speaker 3: military left in Iran, And why do you need a ceasefire.
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Speaker 3: But we've wiped out the military, as President Trump said
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Speaker 3: day one, we wiped out their military and their ability
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Speaker 3: to fight. And we've taken out their navy, which is true,
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Speaker 3: and taken out a lot of their missing l the
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Speaker 3: launching systems, which is true. However, we're talking maybe forty
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Speaker 3: percent or sixty percent has been removed. The military experts
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Speaker 3: are telling us they're still plenty. There are still plenty
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Speaker 3: of drones, still plenty of missiles that Iran has and
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Speaker 3: can unload them, and plenty of small ships that can
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Speaker 3: mine the Strait. Iran has control of the straight or Romus.
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Speaker 3: We have gone from an international uh, international path right.
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Speaker 3: We've gone from literally allowing or they have gone from
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Speaker 3: allowing ships from any country to go through the strait.
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Speaker 3: And that's from the Persian Gulf into the Arabian Sea
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Speaker 3: that then turns then delivers oil to refineries all over
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Speaker 3: the world or all over the Middle East. We've gone
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Speaker 3: from that where it is an international Uh, what's what
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Speaker 3: I'm working for on that? An international pathway where no
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Speaker 3: tolls were charged to now Iran once they opened this
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Speaker 3: right and part of their negotiation is going to be
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Speaker 3: we want a toll for every single ship other than
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Speaker 3: the ships that, of course are allied.
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Speaker 2: Russian ships are not going to be charged because Russia
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Speaker 2: is an ally of Iran.
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Speaker 3: But the rest western world two million dollars a ship
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Speaker 3: per tanker.
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Speaker 2: If you want to get through, it's tough. It is tough.
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Speaker 3: Okay, Let's move over to Disneyland. And this is where
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Speaker 3: Amy and Neil jump in. Disneyland is cracking down on guests.
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Speaker 3: There are new restrictions and those are causing backlashes.
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Speaker 2: Let's deal with that, the two of you. When we
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Speaker 2: come back.
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Speaker 3: KFI AM six forty Bill Handle here, good morning.
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Speaker 2: It is a foody Friday.
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Speaker 3: Ask handle anything Friday, May one May day? Okay, something
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Speaker 3: new happening at Disneyland. And of course Amy and Neil,
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Speaker 3: who are are Disneyland experts. And just a quick story.
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Speaker 3: I went with Amy a couple of mondays ago. I
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Speaker 3: was her guests, and I had not gone in probably
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Speaker 3: thirty years, and at the time of my life just
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Speaker 3: enjoyed myself. But then I'm never I never said that
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Speaker 3: Disneyland is not fun. I just bitched about the price
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Speaker 3: and the lines, so you know, we lived with it
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Speaker 3: and the rides and everything was terrific.
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Speaker 5: And there's a great little video on Instagram of it,
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Speaker 5: so you can see your return to Disneyland. It's a
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Speaker 5: lot of fun.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I had a good time. Okay.
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Speaker 3: Now I was on a ride and that's a Web
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Speaker 3: Slinger where it's probably the most interactive ride in the
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Speaker 3: park where you're moving in these cars and in front
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Speaker 3: of you are I guess holographic. It's like a video game, right,
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Speaker 3: where you have bad guys and good guys and you're
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Speaker 3: supposed to kill the bad guys and you're wearing yeah,
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Speaker 3: and it's it's you're it's a game. It's a video game,
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Speaker 3: but interactive and you're part of it. And the what
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Speaker 3: you do is you have your spidy web uh, and
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Speaker 3: you're with your hands and you go pow pow, and
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Speaker 3: then you sort of just throw your hands in front
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Speaker 3: of you and aim for the bad guys.
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Speaker 5: Like Spider Man does when he throws out his arm
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Speaker 5: and the web comes out. You simulate that.
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Speaker 2: Right, Thank you for explaining that. Uh. And what ends
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Speaker 2: up happening is then in.
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Speaker 3: Your car, uh, the number of successful attacks that you
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Speaker 3: have made, the number of bad guys you have killed
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Speaker 3: show up in front of you on this screen and
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Speaker 3: gives you the numbers how you did. And the people
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Speaker 3: that I was with did pretty well, did pretty well.
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Speaker 2: Not bad? Were you on that ride with me?
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Speaker 3: Amy?
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Speaker 5: I was on the ride, but in a different car.
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Speaker 3: Okay, I'm trying to remember. Anyway, I did worse than
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Speaker 3: anybody else, because.
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Speaker 5: I did worse than anybody else in my car.
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Speaker 3: But here's what I did, because instead of flipping my
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Speaker 3: fingers and pointing to the bad guys and having my
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Speaker 3: spidy web hit them, I did jazz hands. Yeah, and
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Speaker 3: just it was just enjoyable. I didn't hit anybody, that's right.
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Speaker 3: I did sort of jazz hands and did a dance
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Speaker 3: move where you know, I take my hand and I
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Speaker 3: circle each arm and I go the other way. And
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Speaker 3: I didn't do well. I did not do well, but
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Speaker 3: I had the time of my life. But I'll tell
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Speaker 3: you what did happen if you remember on this, Amy,
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Speaker 3: the ride stopped twice and we had to sit there
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Speaker 3: for several minutes twice, okay, And then there was I
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Speaker 3: guess it happens so often because because there is a
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Speaker 3: recording where you have this lovely voice that says, we
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Speaker 3: only have stopped for a few minutes.
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Speaker 2: Everything is fine, relaxed.
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Speaker 3: See if I did that, if I was in charge
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Speaker 3: of that voice, So what do you think I would say?
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Speaker 3: You're going to die, don't get out of the car.
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Speaker 3: You're probably going to be electrocuted. And that is entertainment
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Speaker 3: with a capital E. So the point is, and now
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Speaker 3: we're going to get to the point of the story,
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Speaker 3: and that is why did the ride stop.
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Speaker 2: Was it a technical issue?
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Speaker 3: Probably not, because Disney had Disneyland has technology and they
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Speaker 3: know what they're doing. It is that either someone threw
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Speaker 3: something or dropped something in their sensors all over the place,
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Speaker 3: or they threw their arms in the air or had
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Speaker 3: a cell phone that dropped in. Any interference with the
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Speaker 3: ride just shuts it down cold. And they're dealing with
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Speaker 3: that or trying to deal with that. And for example,
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Speaker 3: on the Incredit Coaster, one of the best roller coasters,
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Speaker 3: I mean it's a serious roller coaster, I mean a
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Speaker 3: no joke roller coaster, they were really fanatic about if
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Speaker 3: you have a phone, put it in your pocket. If
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Speaker 3: you have a bag of any kind, put it at
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Speaker 3: the floor of your car, Do not show it, do
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Speaker 3: not bring it out, do not take pictures, do not
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Speaker 3: put your hands in the air, do none of that.
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Speaker 3: And they are fanatic about that, and they check every
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Speaker 3: single cars, not just the seat belts which they check
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Speaker 3: or the barrier.
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Speaker 2: I mean, they really go crazy with that.
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Speaker 3: And why is that. Well, first of all, there's fraud
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Speaker 3: that's going on. We're going to talk about that in
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Speaker 3: a minute, because I really don't get the front. And
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Speaker 3: second of all, there is this code of conduct targeting
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Speaker 3: a surge and ride disruptions. Are people getting more obnoxious?
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Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 3: Probably. There are more cell phones out there. There are
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Speaker 3: these selfie sticks because everybody takes selfies. Now, Disneyland, why
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Speaker 3: these have been banned?
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Speaker 2: You can't have them in it.
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Speaker 4: I think gimbals are now banned too. But the truth
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Speaker 4: is people do not self regulate anymore. They do whatever
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Speaker 4: they want, dian them whatever they want to do, and
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Speaker 4: they you know, use flash on cameras when they're not
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Speaker 4: supposed to do, and they stand on rides and they
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Speaker 4: do stupid things, and they're you know, they have to
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Speaker 4: keep adapting to everybody's comfort. You know, these huge thermoses
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Speaker 4: that they're bringing to drink water all day and all
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Speaker 4: these things. It's just it's getting too much.
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Speaker 2: We's thee I were and I'm trying to remember.
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Speaker 3: Originally it was e O and it was Michael Jackson
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Speaker 3: Ryde and that was the roller coaster that you're in.
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Speaker 5: The dark Space Mountain.
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Speaker 2: Theater okay.
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Speaker 3: And this was the ride where you sit in that
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Speaker 3: roller coaster and US Mountain okay, and you thank you.
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Speaker 3: You have absolutely no idea where you're going, and it
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Speaker 3: is I find that scarier than even riding a much
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Speaker 3: more sophisticated, faster roller coaster with tighter turns.
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Speaker 4: You should be a side player on your show. It's similar.
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Speaker 4: You're in the dark, you don't know where it's going. Excellent,
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Speaker 4: you're holding on for the whole ride.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was those That ride really scares me because
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Speaker 3: all that goes through my mind is what there What
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Speaker 3: if there is an earthquake and I go flying off
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Speaker 3: the track and I have no idea. I want to
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Speaker 3: see where I'm going to die for some reason, I
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Speaker 3: want to have eyeballs on death. And I mean clearly,
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Speaker 3: I mean there's never been an issue. No one has
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Speaker 3: ever died or been heard on that ride. I don't think, Okay,
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Speaker 3: we're done with that. New security at Disneyland.
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Speaker 5: New security at Disneyland.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and new security. They really are getting into your bags.
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Speaker 5: They've been doing that for a while.
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Speaker 3: And then the facial recognition business is happening now as
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Speaker 3: opposed to the photographs. I mean, it's getting it's getting
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Speaker 3: tighter and tighter. And then that's they're going to ask
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Speaker 3: what do you think of Mickey? You had better say
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Speaker 3: I love Mickey. It's almost like immigration coming in. It's
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Speaker 3: almost like the immigration officer asking you the questions that
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Speaker 3: you have to answer appropriately when you ask for asylum.
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Speaker 3: It's almost to that point you better come up with
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Speaker 3: the right answers or you're not getting in the park.
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Speaker 3: For example, what do you think of knots Erry Farm?
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Speaker 3: I hate it. It is, It's horrible. You'd better have
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Speaker 3: the right answer, all right. Coming back, let me tell
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Speaker 3: you what Walmart is doing, a very Unwalmart thing, and
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Speaker 3: we'll dive into that day. By am six forty Bill
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Speaker 3: handle here on a Friday morning, May first, some of
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Speaker 3: the big stories we're looking at. Congress voted to reopen
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Speaker 3: parts of the Department of Homeland Security, including tsa heretofore
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Speaker 3: it was.
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Speaker 2: A seventy six day Wow.
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Speaker 3: You know that was a stoppage of Yeah, it wasn't
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Speaker 3: funded various departments, and now everything is funded except ice
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Speaker 3: and border patrol. The Republicans caved. Okay, you go into
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Speaker 3: a high end department store. You going to Niemen's for example, right,
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Speaker 3: or Nordstrom. Do you even have a norths from anymore
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Speaker 3: Southern California? I don't know, because I never shop at
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Speaker 3: those department stores. But they when you go in there,
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Speaker 3: right near the front anywhere near one of the exits,
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Speaker 3: you have the makeup and you have the perfume department,
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Speaker 3: and there is generally someone there who can help women.
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Speaker 3: As always women do their makeup, sit in the chair,
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Speaker 3: and you have this makeup artist who helps someone knows
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Speaker 3: what they're doing and helps you look the best. And
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Speaker 3: these are the high end department stores, and they have always,
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Speaker 3: of course young ladies there who are incredibly good looking.
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Speaker 3: I think that is a requirement. You cannot be ugly,
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Speaker 3: you have to be very good looking. Well, those are
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Speaker 3: the high end stores. Walmart, who you would think would
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Speaker 3: never do that, is starting to do that. They're starting
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Speaker 3: to put those makeup people to help women customers do
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Speaker 3: their makeup. Let's put some foundation on, or maybe you
26:59
Speaker 3: want to change your lips so you'll look better.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 3: Again, those are incredibly good looking. And I don't want
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Speaker 3: to sound like a misogynist or a sexist, but they're
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Speaker 3: very good looking young ladies. Whereas Walmart greeters you have
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Speaker 3: to be ugly, you have to pass the ugly tests
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Speaker 3: to be a greeter, and here it's the other way.
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Speaker 2: And what makes this story so interesting.
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Speaker 3: Is Walmart, the king or queen of the discount change,
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Speaker 3: is moving in that direction. Makeup and scared and care
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Speaker 3: products now have in store advisors offering personalized tips and recommendations.
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Speaker 3: I always thought that they these people, these women were
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Speaker 3: paid for by the various products you know you're paying.
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Speaker 3: They're being paid for by the big names in makeup
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Speaker 3: and in perfumes.
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Speaker 2: They're not.
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Speaker 3: They're actually paid for by the store. And Walmart's doing
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Speaker 3: the same thing. They are hiring and right now they're
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Speaker 3: breaking out of the no frills service model staffing the
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Speaker 3: beauty aisles with these quote train specialists, yeah, train specialists.
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Speaker 3: I think the academy that these women go through last
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Speaker 3: for four hours and they're trying twenty two stores in
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Speaker 3: Arkansas and in Texas.
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Speaker 2: Do women wear makeup in Arkansas and Texas? What do
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Speaker 2: they do do?
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Speaker 3: For example, to make your skin smoother? Do they put
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Speaker 3: bacon grease on your face? Use that as a hand lotion.
28:39
Speaker 3: I don't even know how that works. But these beauty
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Speaker 3: experts are being brought in. Target seems to have them,
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Speaker 3: Sephora and the department stores. Of course, it had him forever.
28:52
Speaker 3: The market for US beauty and personal care is one
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Speaker 3: hundred and twenty nine billion dollars, and Walmart is missing
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Speaker 3: on the high end stuff, a lot of bear Greece
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Speaker 3: in Arkansas, in Tennessee. You're looking at me like it
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Speaker 3: doesn't happen, Neil.
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Speaker 4: I just think Walmart's an interesting place because well, like
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Speaker 4: if I go to a Walmart, I'm the skinny guy.
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Speaker 4: So it seems like it just seems like there's some
29:22
Speaker 4: other areas they may want to work on before they
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Speaker 4: get to the old what do they call it?
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Speaker 2: Walmart is very it's very regional. It's very regional.
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Speaker 3: I remember going to a Walmart and maybe it was
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Speaker 3: a Costco, and it's it's all regional. So they I
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Speaker 3: went through Jacksonville, Florida, and stopped off at a Walmart.
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Speaker 2: And imagine this.
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Speaker 3: There were five gallon jars of pigs knuckles, pigs feet,
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Speaker 3: and they had built a mountain of them as a display,
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Speaker 3: almost floor to ceiling. It looked like a pyramid of
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Speaker 3: five gallon jars of pigs feet. So I came back.
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Speaker 3: I spent two days in Jacksonville and drove back along
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Speaker 3: the same road, stopped at the same walmart. There was
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Speaker 3: not one left, not one jar left of pigs feet. Now,
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Speaker 3: how many jars of pigs feet you think you would
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Speaker 3: get at your local Walmart here in southern California.
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Speaker 4: I don't know, but they're rare. They are only four
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Speaker 4: per pig, so a lot of pigs to get that.
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Speaker 4: A lot of pigs out there, for sure. And also
30:38
Speaker 4: it depended the on Costco also, just for fun, is
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Speaker 4: very regional too. You go to the costco in Alaska,
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Speaker 4: literally you get moose meat. You can get some stuff
30:48
Speaker 4: that you can't even begin to get here, and you have.
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Speaker 4: And I go to a costco near here that has
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Speaker 4: a large Asian population because I live near an Asian neighborhood,
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Speaker 4: that you can buy rice in hundred pound bags and
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Speaker 4: they have you look at them, and they have fifteen
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Speaker 4: different brands of rice in these huge bags, almost lining
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Speaker 4: up an entire row. Do that in a Hispanic neighborhood.
31:19
Speaker 4: By the way, hot tip. I was at the Holy
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Speaker 4: Land yesterday aka Costco and the short rib lasagna.
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Speaker 2: Very strong, very short, very strong, right.
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Speaker 3: And also as you notice that the people that work
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Speaker 3: at Costco are getting older, and there was oh, there
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Speaker 3: was one lady. I go into the lane of the
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Speaker 3: self help lane because that goes much quicker than standing
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Speaker 3: in line. And what they'll do is they bring out
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Speaker 3: their little scanners. They can I scan this for you,
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Speaker 3: and they start. The woman in this case started scanning
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Speaker 3: did not speak English for starters. And as she sat
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Speaker 3: there and scanned all of my goods and it wasn't
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Speaker 3: very much. I had six items, fifteen people walked past
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Speaker 3: me and I almost kicked her. I go, come on,
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Speaker 3: but she was slowing you down, yeah, ridiculously.
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Speaker 2: She was slowing me down.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, And I would scream at her, but I didn't
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Speaker 3: speak whatever language she spoke. Okay, we're done, coming up
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Speaker 3: Footy Friday with Neil Savedra right here.
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