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Retirement Depriving Families Of Their Inheritance · The Bill Handel Show

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Speaker 1: Iraq reported drone attacks this morning, our time this morning,
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Speaker 1: and that's two days after the US suspended that two
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Speaker 1: week campaign of airstrikes against Iran, and all of a sudden,
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Speaker 1: we've got three countries saying we're being hit obviously by Iran,
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Speaker 1: and then wildfires in France and Spain two hundred and
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Speaker 1: fifty thousand people evacuated. And I'm going to talk more
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Speaker 1: about that at eight point fifty because there's a story
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Speaker 1: of how France is dealing with this, and we're talking
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Speaker 1: about the heat, not necessarily the fires.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 1: I want to ask you a question, okay, and that
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Speaker 1: is and by the way, your opinion is your opinion.
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Speaker 2: I'm just stating facts now.
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Speaker 1: And this has to do with President and Trump and
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Speaker 1: he or what the administry is doing to projects around
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Speaker 1: the country, federal grants for example, for clean energy projects,
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Speaker 1: and it was framed the cutting of the canceling of
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Speaker 1: those projects were framed to correct urgent matters, to protect
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Speaker 1: protect taxpayer funds from waste. Okay, that's what they say. Okay,
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Speaker 1: And when the argument is no, you're using these for
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Speaker 1: political purposes. You are using the power of the government,
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Speaker 1: the power of the Department of Justice, to punish your
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Speaker 1: perceived enemies, and to punish states that are anti Trump,
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Speaker 1: that are Republican. Absolutely not true. It's all about governmental waste. Well,
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Speaker 1: there are some court documents that have come out where
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Speaker 1: federal officials acknowledge they terminated the funding based solely on
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Speaker 1: political criteria. Now, again, you may believe that's okay, and
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Speaker 1: that is your opinion, but just don't tell me that
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Speaker 1: it is not true, because the facts are the facts.
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Speaker 1: And the argument is when you look at all of
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Speaker 1: this and you look at the numbers, they are extraordinary
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Speaker 1: and it clearly shows that the president has weaponized the
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Speaker 1: provision of federal education, energy, health, housing, Infrastructure aid in
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Speaker 1: his second term. He is and this is the part
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Speaker 1: that I am stunned by that everybody just sits back,
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Speaker 1: especially the Republicans that allowed this to happen. What he
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Speaker 1: has done is taken the power of the federal government
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Speaker 1: and weaponize that because he's fighting the weaponization that the
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Speaker 1: Biden administration had. See, the Biden administration weaponized Department of
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Speaker 1: Justice and other agencies. And what we're doing is straightening
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Speaker 1: that out. And of course we don't weaponize. What we
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Speaker 1: do is just get a fraud and waste. Okay, if
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Speaker 1: that's the case, let's look at the numbers, all right.
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Speaker 1: For example, the Energy Department last fall created a list
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Speaker 1: that recommended canceling more than six hundred grants that were
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Speaker 1: awarded by the Biden administration for all kinds of energy
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Speaker 1: project projects. And by the way, that list included projects
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Speaker 1: in states represented by both Republicans and Democrats.
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Speaker 2: It was pretty wide ranging. It was across the board. Okay,
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Speaker 2: that's last fall.
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Speaker 1: In October, the White House Budget Office, led by Russell Vought,
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Speaker 1: terminated two hundred and eighty four of those six hundred
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Speaker 1: grants that had been recommended to be terminated. And guess what,
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Speaker 1: Every single one of those terminations were in states and
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Speaker 1: programs that were led by Democrats, States that voted for
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Speaker 1: Kamala Harris, cities that voted for Kamala Harris and other Democrats.
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Speaker 1: Every one, and you know what, how many of those
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Speaker 1: in the Republican areas were terminated.
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Speaker 2: Zero, not one. And again I want to point something out.
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Speaker 1: You may agree with that, I know I disagree with
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Speaker 1: your disagreement. And a lot of people think that the
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Speaker 1: president should have the power to terminate and a lot
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Speaker 1: of people believe that, And frankly, I think a lot
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Speaker 1: of people believe that the president should have the power
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Speaker 1: to terminate on political grounds. Now, what can I tell you?
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Speaker 1: You can't argue political grounds or out waste and abuse
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Speaker 1: grounds when it is clearly.
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Speaker 2: Political and they have admitted it.
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Speaker 1: And if you look at the facts, if you look
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Speaker 1: at the number of programs, if you look at where
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Speaker 1: they have been canceled, you're talking about states and areas
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Speaker 1: of which are basically democratic. For example, alternative energy has
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Speaker 1: been gutted, I mean just gutted. The president is absolutely
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Speaker 1: set on pitching oil producing states and areas and wiping
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Speaker 1: out green energy if possible. Where where do you think
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Speaker 1: those that green energy comes from? You think it comes
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Speaker 1: from Republican states? You think it comes green energy? How
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Speaker 1: many alternative fuel energy programs are available in the South
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Speaker 1: versus California, versus New Jersey versus the Eastern seaboard. The
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Speaker 1: point is that's really happening? You know, just you know,
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Speaker 1: there's a wonderful phrase. Okay, don't pee down the back
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Speaker 1: of my leg and tell me that it's raining. I
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Speaker 1: don't want to hear that. Okay, you can't do that.
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Speaker 1: And here's what's white as black, what's black is white,
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Speaker 1: what's round is square, what's left is right, what's sunny?
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Speaker 2: It's raining.
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Speaker 1: That's what we're getting. That's what we're getting. We own
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Speaker 1: the straight of horror moves. It is ours. We control it.
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Speaker 1: Why aren't ships going through it? We have won the war,
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Speaker 1: and do the Republicans go around and say, Yep, we've
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Speaker 1: won the war. Yep, we've won the war. I mean,
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Speaker 1: that's the problem that's happening right now. It's facts just disappear.
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Speaker 1: And by the way, the weaponization is there, I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's a given. I mean the president is clearly using
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Speaker 1: his power, in the administration's power to punish those I mean,
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Speaker 1: James Comy with that seashell fun stuff. He took a
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Speaker 1: picture of those seashells on the beach and it read
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Speaker 1: he took a picture of it.
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Speaker 2: He didn't put him there.
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Speaker 1: He took a picture and it read forty seven eighty six, right,
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Speaker 1: forty seventh president eighty six, as in, it's off the menu,
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Speaker 1: get rid of it. And he has been indicted for that,
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Speaker 1: or he was until it was thrown out, arguing the
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Speaker 1: government art that is a direct threat to the president.
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Speaker 1: Sea shells that say forty seven eighty six. Do you
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Speaker 1: want to know something, If you or I were to
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Speaker 1: stand up and say I wish the president was dead,
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Speaker 1: that is the first Amendment that you can't be punished for.
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Speaker 2: You cannot. You can't do a direct threat.
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Speaker 1: By the way, you say I wish the president were dead,
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Speaker 1: it's you could say it legally.
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Speaker 2: It's the first Amendment issue.
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Speaker 1: Now does it by yourself a nice long visit from
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Speaker 1: the Secret Service? Yeah, yeah, you're gonna have some splaying
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Speaker 1: and to do lucy. But the point is this is America.
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Speaker 1: As long as you're not threatening, you can say that.
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Speaker 1: And by the way, you can photograph shells on the
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Speaker 1: beach that say forty seven eighty six. And he was
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Speaker 1: indicted for that, but not to punish him because it
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Speaker 1: was a genuine threat against the president of the United States,
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Speaker 1: and that's what we're dealing with. It really is a shame, Okay,
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Speaker 1: enough of that, enough of the depressing. I just want now,
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Speaker 1: I want to talk about how you're going to live
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Speaker 1: in a dumpster for the rest of your life, You're
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Speaker 1: going to retire, You're just going to be in a dumpster,
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Speaker 1: and are you going to be eating cat food?
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Speaker 2: Maybe?
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Speaker 1: Maybe let me tell you what's going on about going
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Speaker 1: around going on about America. And it's something where you know,
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Speaker 1: the stats are not particularly wonderful here, they really aren't.
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Speaker 3: six forty.
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Speaker 1: Some of the stories we are looking at is three
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Speaker 1: people killed, four injured. This it was a shootout between
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Speaker 1: two gunmen in Seattle. Isn't that fun? We just don't
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Speaker 1: get enough of those, do we. And then France and Spain,
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Speaker 1: the wildfires have for more than two hundred and fifty
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Speaker 1: thousand people from their homes. I mean, just if you
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Speaker 1: look at any of the video, it's just crazy. I mean,
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Speaker 1: the fires are so intense and so big. They're making
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Speaker 1: their on weather and you can see these tornadoes of fire.
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Speaker 1: I mean, just it's crazy. Making At eight fifty, I'm
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Speaker 1: going to talk a little bit about what France is doing.
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Speaker 1: Looking at Spain actually saying, oh, okay, that's how you
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Speaker 1: do it all right. Now, something a fact that I've
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Speaker 1: shared with you before, and that is baby boomers. Baby
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Speaker 1: boomers control half of us household wealth, and economists are
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Speaker 1: talking about the greatest wealth transfer in history because when
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Speaker 1: the boomers die, with all that wealth that's expected to
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Speaker 1: go to their errors and estimates are sixty eight to
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Speaker 1: eighty four trillion dollars and assets will change hands over
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Speaker 1: the next two decades. However, for many, many people, the
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Speaker 1: cost of care after they retire and when they get
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Speaker 1: into their old age just sucks up the money that
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Speaker 1: they have and would leave to their kids. And we
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Speaker 1: have a growing segment of elder care of elder folks
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Speaker 1: and elder Claire Cox. Costs are not just diminishing savings,
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Speaker 1: they are obliterating people's savings and adult children, that's the
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Speaker 1: other side of it, instead of being the beneficiaries of
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Speaker 1: this generational wealth, actually are in some cases spending their
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Speaker 1: own savings and decimating their future to care for their parents' health.
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Speaker 1: And the cost of this stuff is astronomical. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's also it's almost beyond belief really, because you figure
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Speaker 1: someone that goes into assisted living let's say you have
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Speaker 1: a mom or dad that goes into assisted living. Well,
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Speaker 1: a decent place is seven eight thousand dollars a month,
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Speaker 1: it's one hundred thousand dollars a year. Bored and care
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Speaker 1: can be twelve thousand dollars a month. I mean, that
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Speaker 1: is completely crazy. My mom, and this was years and
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Speaker 1: years ago, was in a boarding care and it was
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Speaker 1: eight thousand dollars a month. It was one hundred thousand
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Speaker 1: dollars a year. And she lasted until she was ninety eight.
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Speaker 1: And I tell people that when my mother died, I
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Speaker 1: actually became fairly well off because I wasn't writing eight
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Speaker 1: thousand dollars checks a month anymore.
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Speaker 2: That's why. And she lasted five years more than she
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Speaker 2: should have. Just a screw with me. And yes, and I.
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Speaker 1: Should have parked her on the sidewalk, but that's beforehand.
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Speaker 1: She wasn't there particularly for a lot of years. But
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Speaker 1: the point is is that you're talking about people that
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Speaker 1: are wiping out their savings for their parents and wiping
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Speaker 1: out their savings for themselves. And if you look at insurance,
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Speaker 1: because they have elder care insurance, and man, that's a
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Speaker 1: good idea. And the earlier you buy it. Of course,
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Speaker 1: the better off you are.
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Speaker 2: The problem. You know, how many people actually have elder.
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Speaker 1: Care insurance as a matter of percentage, how about this,
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Speaker 1: three percent of adults have elder care insurance three percent.
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Speaker 1: And Medicare, by the way, does not provide for long
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Speaker 1: term long term care. Medicare provides for medical expenses and
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Speaker 1: short term.
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Speaker 2: Let's say you need to rehab after.
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Speaker 1: Broken leg, Medicare will pay for that, but not for
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Speaker 1: long term care. And so much of the cost of
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Speaker 1: elder care falls right into a family's lap.
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Speaker 2: And it is very difficult.
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Speaker 1: And you know, we just we don't do very well
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Speaker 1: when it comes to dealing with our elders.
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Speaker 2: We really don't.
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Speaker 1: If you look at other countries and you look at
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Speaker 1: other societies, Asian society for example, Asian cultures. Even in
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Speaker 1: this country, it's multi generational that elder people live with
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Speaker 1: their kids, and their kids live with their kids, and
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Speaker 1: you can see three generations of families living in the
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Speaker 1: same household as a matter of course, when it doesn't happen,
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Speaker 1: that's aberrational. Now, how many of you live with your
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Speaker 1: your adults, and how many of you live with your
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Speaker 1: mom and dad or just one of one of your
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Speaker 1: parents at home with your kids. We don't do that
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Speaker 1: in America. We just don't. It's just not part of
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Speaker 1: our culture, which means that old people have to well
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Speaker 1: they're sort of on their own. And since we don't
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Speaker 1: have that system, and we don't feel good about that
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Speaker 1: because frankly, parents living in with their kids, I'm talking
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Speaker 1: about adult children. I mean that is you know, that's
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Speaker 1: an encourage into people's into people's homes. We just don't
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Speaker 1: like it. I mean, when I think about it, the
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Speaker 1: thought of living with my parents, I'd rather have a
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Speaker 1: root canal every single morning and wake up to my
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Speaker 1: parents being at my house. In the meantime, my grandmother
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Speaker 1: lived with us when I was a kid, for ten
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Speaker 1: years until she died. Because again, it's just a cultural
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Speaker 1: issue in my parents East European background, that's their culture was,
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Speaker 1: and it's just how we live. So we're going to
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Speaker 1: a position where it's going to kill us. The other
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Speaker 1: thing is people are living longer, a lot longer, and
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Speaker 1: we've dealt with the medical part of it. We're doing brilliantly.
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Speaker 1: How about the mental part of it. Alzheimer's dementia haven't
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Speaker 1: cracked that nut. Yet so all of it. So here's
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Speaker 1: what I'm going to leave you with to make you
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Speaker 1: feel good until next time. Is you are going to
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Speaker 1: die a very lonely death. You are going to be
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Speaker 1: living in a dumpster, You will be eating out of
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Speaker 1: cat food tends, and no one is ever going to.
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Speaker 2: Talk to you again. Have a good day coming up.
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Speaker 1: The President went to that correspondence White House Correspondence dinner.
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Speaker 2: I WHOA.
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Speaker 1: I was shocked that he did, because you knew what
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Speaker 1: was going to happen. Oh and it did.
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Speaker 3: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
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Speaker 1: As you all know, climate change is a complete hoax
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Speaker 1: and none of that exists. Okay, and I'll be talking
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Speaker 1: more about what they're doing in France and actually looking
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Speaker 1: to Spain. We're talking about just dealing with the heat,
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Speaker 1: not so much the fires.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 1: The White House Correspondence dinner, surprisingly to me, is a
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Speaker 1: president decided to show up.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: I think this is the first one since I don't
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Speaker 1: know how many years he's gone. I don't know if
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Speaker 1: he did it in the first his first term, if
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Speaker 1: he did or did not go, but he certainly has
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Speaker 1: in the last few years.
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Speaker 2: And so there he was for.
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Speaker 1: An hour up there, and it was off color, and
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Speaker 1: there were some potshots and among the audience members, remember
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Speaker 1: this is the White House correspondent dinners, This is correspondent dinner.
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Speaker 1: These are reporters that are assigned to the White House.
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Speaker 1: And among those members were reporters that he had denounced
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Speaker 1: specifically and barred from events. And this was rescheduled because
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Speaker 1: in April there was he was at the dinner and
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Speaker 1: it was attacked. There was a gunman who they got him.
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Speaker 1: You know, there's no question about it. And he didn't
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Speaker 1: make it very far. But the Secret Service, particularly after
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Speaker 1: what happened in Butler, Pennsylvania, is really sensitive, as they
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Speaker 1: should be. Anyway, took about an hour, and he assured
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Speaker 1: the crowd journalists that actually he had scraped or scrapped
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Speaker 1: most of the worst part of his remarks. He said,
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Speaker 1: this was going to be a doozy, or was going
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Speaker 1: to be a doozy, and he was prepared to give
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Speaker 1: that doozy speech back in April, but as I said
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Speaker 1: three months ago, after it was shut down, the show
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Speaker 1: must go on. So I haven't give him credit for
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Speaker 1: going there, because you knew he was going to be attacked,
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Speaker 1: and you knew he was going to attack. So usually
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Speaker 1: you have the comedian there and you have a roasting.
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Speaker 1: He had a roasting, okay, but there was a lot
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Speaker 1: of vitriol here. It wasn't in good fun, which is
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Speaker 1: usually the case at the White House correspondence dinner. And
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Speaker 1: this represented quite a place with his relationship with the
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Speaker 1: news media.
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Speaker 2: The very news he attacked.
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Speaker 1: He had sued taken administration action again since he began
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Speaker 1: his second term, and there were targets, no surprise there.
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Speaker 1: He directed pot shots at Jane Fonda, Bruce Springsteen, Barack
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Speaker 1: Hussein Obama. He for some reason, he keeps on calling
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Speaker 1: Barack Obama whussin for obvious reasons, among what, he can't
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Speaker 1: call him dirty or you know, cheating Barack. I mean,
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Speaker 1: that doesn't work. What can he accuse him of doing personally?
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Speaker 2: What?
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Speaker 1: Big hands, fat ugly piggy can't do that. So it's
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Speaker 1: Barack Hussein Obama, which is, by the way, his name.
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Speaker 1: He also targeted Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, representative of ilhan Omar,
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Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom, former Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey, his
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Speaker 1: own speech writers. He criticized even as he delivered the jokes.
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Speaker 1: And he also spent some time, you know, I talk
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Speaker 1: about how great he is. Not unusual because the event
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Speaker 1: was at the ballroom with the Waldorf Astoria, which used
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Speaker 1: to be the Trump International Hotel, and he said, it's
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Speaker 1: great to be back at a place that I know
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Speaker 1: very well because I built it. And he made a
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Speaker 1: reference to the journalism awards that had been handed out.
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Speaker 2: Before he spoke. Most of the awards were for stories.
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Speaker 1: Challenging him in the administration, and he asked, do I
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Speaker 1: have a say in.
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Speaker 2: Those reports or in those awards?
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Speaker 1: And he did make a brief mention of the war
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Speaker 1: and some about the ballroom he is building at the
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Speaker 1: White House, and it was I would say it was
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Speaker 1: a little bit strained, to say the least. It was
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Speaker 1: an hour he sat through of awards presentations, and usually
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Speaker 1: presidents don't go for long periods of time. They go in,
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Speaker 1: they speak, and they're gone. And we're only about seven
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Speaker 1: hundred people at this venue. Security far tighter, no red carpet,
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Speaker 1: no separate cocktail receptions proceeding the.
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Speaker 2: Dinner, no comedian.
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Speaker 1: And in his speech he said, you know what I'm
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Speaker 1: going to tone this one down. And at one point
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Speaker 1: he said, this is really the largest group of Trump
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Speaker 1: derangement syndrome put together at one time. See, I think
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Speaker 1: that's kind of funny, depending on how he delivered it.
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Speaker 1: And there was another change and this one, I go,
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Speaker 1: come on, really one another change and that is two
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Speaker 1: additional reward awards. One was presented to Victor Gonzalez, the
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Speaker 1: Secret Service agent who was standing at a security checkpoint
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Speaker 1: in April and was struck in his protective vest.
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Speaker 2: Now you know, and.
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Speaker 1: What the president of the White House Correspondence dinner. White
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Speaker 1: House Correspondence said that he placed himself. Gonzalez placed himself
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Speaker 1: directly in harm's way and engaged the arms suspect.
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Speaker 2: He stayed in the fight and the attacker was stopped.
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Speaker 2: Was he the only one?
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Speaker 1: I mean, the fact that he was hit is horrific.
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Speaker 1: Did he throw himself in front of anybody? I don't
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Speaker 1: get that. I really don't These awards for heroism when
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Speaker 1: they just do their job, I don't get. Also, a
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Speaker 1: second award was presented to the staff of the Washington
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Speaker 1: Hilton Hotel that they were hailed for professionalism under pressure
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Speaker 1: the first time around. Another one, Yeah, what did they
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Speaker 1: do or not do well? They kept on serving meals.
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Speaker 2: I guess so.
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Speaker 1: I always have a problem with determining who is a
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Speaker 1: hero and who is not. You know, everybody, everybody who
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Speaker 1: dies as a police officer or a fire person or
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Speaker 1: a member of the military is a hero. And I
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Speaker 1: don't understand the definition of heroism anymore, I really don't.
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Speaker 1: To me, a hero is a cop or a fireman
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Speaker 1: who enters into a burning, burning building and at great
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Speaker 1: risk to life and limb rescues someone that it would
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Speaker 1: be weasonable for the firefighter not to go in there,
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Speaker 1: truly puts himself for herself at risk.
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Speaker 2: That to me is a hero.
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Speaker 1: Or someone who receives the Medal of Honor who is
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Speaker 1: out on the battlefield and under fire rescues his fellow
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Speaker 1: service people under withering fire. That is a hero. The
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Speaker 1: rest of it, I mean, I just have a problem
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Speaker 1: with everybody's a hero. Yeah, we're all heroes, you know,
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Speaker 1: we all win, We all should get awards. We all
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Speaker 1: should get awards for showing up and doing our jobs. Okay,
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Speaker 1: France and Spain tremendous wildfires, and now France is looking
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Speaker 1: at Spain because the heat wave is coming over and
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Speaker 1: over again. We're looking at some real heat happening in
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Speaker 1: the next forever, and Spain seems to have dealt with
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Speaker 1: it a lot better.
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Speaker 2: And I'll dive into that.
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Speaker 3: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand KFI AM six forty.
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Speaker 1: I'll tell you where a lot of heat is coming from,
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Speaker 1: or going to or being experiences in Europe. The wildfires,
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Speaker 1: particularly France and France and Spain in Italy too, not
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Speaker 1: to the same extent. And so what's happening is this
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Speaker 1: and this is not directly connected to the wildfires, but
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Speaker 1: in a sense it is because life is just going
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Speaker 1: to be hotter, a lot hotter, and the right now
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Speaker 1: it's bone dry in that part of the world, and
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Speaker 1: the winds are whipping up and just perfect weather for
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Speaker 1: these massive wildfires that are going on. So long term,
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Speaker 1: what you do is have officials look at cultures, look
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Speaker 1: at societies, looking at other ones that deal with the
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Speaker 1: heat better. France is now looking at Spain. Now what's
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Speaker 1: the down side of France, Well, there are two major downsides,
24:03
Speaker 1: particularly parrots. For example, if you've ever been to Paris,
24:06
Speaker 1: you notice that the roofs of these buildings and they're
24:09
Speaker 1: wonderful built. You know, century two centuries ago ago are
24:13
Speaker 1: all tin roofs. Have you noticed that those black roofs,
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Speaker 1: they're made out of tin? And what do you think
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Speaker 1: ten does when the sun beats down, you're sweltering under that.
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Speaker 1: And what they don't have is air conditioning. Air Conditioning
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Speaker 1: is very rare in Europe because you really didn't need it.
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Speaker 1: Ted Lasso, if you've ever seen that television show which
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Speaker 1: is so worth seeing. One of the things he says
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Speaker 1: as he is experiencing Europe he goes to be a
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Speaker 1: soccer coach in England.
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Speaker 2: He said, air condition.
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Speaker 1: I had to figure out or I had to experience
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Speaker 1: that air conditioning is a privilege, not a right. Where
24:50
Speaker 1: air conditioning is this part and parcel of what we do.
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Speaker 1: I mean, at what point do you buy a home
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Speaker 1: that doesn't have air conditioning? Very very rare over there,
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Speaker 1: it is very very rare have air conditioning. So that
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Speaker 1: has to change and they know it. And good time
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Speaker 1: to be in air conditioning salesperson or HVAC.
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Speaker 2: Tech in Europe right now.
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Speaker 1: And the other thing they're looking at Spain because Spain
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Speaker 1: has dealt with the heat for a very long time,
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Speaker 1: especially parts of Spain that are coming up through the
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Speaker 1: Moorish when the Arabs came and from the Mideast where
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Speaker 1: a lot of Spaniards, where a lot of Spain was
25:30
Speaker 1: originally settled by. That is, the buildings are very thick
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Speaker 1: stuccoed walls that keep the cool in a lot of installation,
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Speaker 1: a lot of shutter, smaller windows, roofs are such. They're
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Speaker 1: certainly not ten it's just a better way of dealing
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Speaker 1: with it. And that's without air conditioning. And they're looking
25:53
Speaker 1: at that more green areas, more trees, which help enormously
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Speaker 1: and the world has to change, especially in those areas
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Speaker 1: that are enormously hot.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: The big answer, of course is and the number one
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Speaker 1: the number one change and the number one replacement or
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Speaker 1: name replacement, the number one ability to deal with its
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Speaker 1: air conditioning.
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Speaker 2: Air conditioning is it. But air conditioning sucks up power.
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Speaker 1: Like you can't believe, well you can actually if you
26:27
Speaker 1: look at what your costs during the summer is of
26:30
Speaker 1: running your air conditioner, it just doubles triples your power bill.
26:35
Speaker 1: And it's you know, I can't imagine living in a
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Speaker 1: place without air conditioning. And because I live in an
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Speaker 1: area that's particularly hot and it's going to be warm
26:42
Speaker 1: as hell. I run my air conditioner twenty four to seven,
26:47
Speaker 1: and I put in a solar system in my house,
26:49
Speaker 1: and I have a battery system because it's going to
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Speaker 1: pay for itself in four or five years because electricity
26:58
Speaker 1: is so expensive and conditioning is so necessary. So you're
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Speaker 1: gonna look at France becoming Spain in terms of building,
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Speaker 1: in terms of how to deal with the heat, and
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Speaker 1: the rest of the world is going to be doing
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Speaker 1: exactly the same thing. You ever noticed when you see
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Speaker 1: men of the Arab persuasion in those hot countries, they
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Speaker 1: have those they're they're fully in case. They have those
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Speaker 1: billowing robes and the and their the cafia, their hats
27:29
Speaker 1: or the h you know what looks like, uh, what
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Speaker 1: does it look? I always make fun of I always
27:36
Speaker 1: make fun of our friend Will when he comes with
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Speaker 1: a shirt that I say, you just took I took
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Speaker 1: it out of a restaurant last night, or a Palestinian restaurant.
27:47
Speaker 1: Because they wear those scarves, they wear that headgear because
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Speaker 1: it's just they know how to deal with the heat.
27:52
Speaker 1: You're gonna see the same thing happening. Traditional clothes don't
27:54
Speaker 1: work of traditional weather. Clothing does not work well in
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Speaker 1: in the heat where if you look at the way
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Speaker 1: Arabs dress, it does.
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Speaker 2: It's a very different way of dealing with life. It
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Speaker 2: really is. So we're gonna see it.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be wearing my cafa pretty soon. I will
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Speaker 1: look like an Arab businessman. But just so no one
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Speaker 1: confuses me, I will also be wearing a very big
28:17
Speaker 1: star of David on a chain in front of that robe.
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Speaker 1: I'll confuse you, won't it. Yeah, damn right, Okay, we're done, guys.
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Speaker 1: That's it, or back again tomorrow. I think Neil comes
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Speaker 1: back tomorrow, if I'm not mistaken Elmer's do you know
28:32
Speaker 1: if kno Is coming back tomorrow or not?
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Speaker 2: I hope so.
28:38
Speaker 1: I know this is a baptism and fire here. Yeah,
28:41
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