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President Trump at U.N. · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM 640, the Bill Handel Show
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  Speaker 2: Before we jump into the state of emergency, and what emergency,
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you about that in a moment. Amy and Neil, Amy,
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  Speaker 4: And I gave.
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  Speaker 2: I gave.
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  Speaker 4: You did? I already donated. Yep. Oh, that's one of
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  Speaker 4: our anonymous donations. Absolutely. I always donate. That's quite all right.
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  Speaker 4: And you know why?
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  Speaker 2: Because I'm completely embarrassed that I give three dollars because.
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  Speaker 4: I know you were the three dollars.
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  Speaker 2: I was the three dollars, but I did it anonymously.
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  Speaker 2: So no one knows who I am. Yeah, I don't
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  Speaker 2: talk or allow calling or asking for money for charity
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  Speaker 2: on this show without jumping in.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, I have to.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, the governor yesterday declared a statewide emergency. What emergency? Well,
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  Speaker 2: it's anticipation of El Nino and what the storms are
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  Speaker 2: going to do this fall and winter. Yesterday, I talked
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  Speaker 2: about the Atlantic hurricane season is effectively going to be
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  Speaker 2: a nothing this hurricane season, which we're in the.
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  Speaker 4: Middle of it.
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  Speaker 2: But the storms that are going to come, that's a
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  Speaker 2: little bit different. The El Nino climate pattern is likely
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  Speaker 2: to fuel some strong storms that could hit California with
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  Speaker 2: very heavy rainfall, strong winds, mountain snow, high waves, flooding, landslides,
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  Speaker 2: debris flow, coastal damages, power outage. And that's what the
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  Speaker 2: governor warned yesterday. And what this does is it helps mobilize.
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  Speaker 2: Basically what it does is when there's a natural disaster,
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  Speaker 2: all of a sudden the agencies get involved, but it
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  Speaker 2: takes a few days for them to react. because we're
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  Speaker 2: basically reactive. This is proactive. They're ready to fly. All
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  Speaker 2: of the pieces are now in place. The dots have
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  Speaker 2: all been connected. And when the big one comes or
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  Speaker 2: the big ones come in terms of flooding and from
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  Speaker 2: the storm and the damage, that is, we basically are
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  Speaker 2: ready for it. And it's going to be a mess.
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  Speaker 2: For those people that spent $ 14, $ 18, $ 20 million for
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  Speaker 2: homes on the water in Newport Beach. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 2: one of the most expensive places in the world. You're
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  Speaker 2: going to be on stilts. It's going to be like
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  Speaker 2: Louisiana out in the bayou. Your home, the water will
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  Speaker 2: be under your house. And you talk about water, sea
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  Speaker 2: on the edge of the water. Yeah, you're going to
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  Speaker 2: walk out, go down to the beach, and you'll be
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  Speaker 2: up to your waist as soon as you walk out
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  Speaker 2: the door. And it's not fun. It really is not
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  Speaker 2: going to be fun. And so this emergency declaration allows
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  Speaker 2: accelerated permitting through the California Coastal Commission, prioritized support. from
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  Speaker 2: the California Department of Transportation and a lot more needed projects.
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  Speaker 2: For example, Orange County officials, they've just moved to expedite
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  Speaker 2: a project to move 200,000 cubic yards of sand from
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  Speaker 2: the mouth of the Santa Ana River to the Newport
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  Speaker 2: Beach shorelines, where severe coastal erosion has already happened. And
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be a mess. Long Beach City Manager
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  Speaker 2: Tom Modica said, we're expecting this to be one of
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  Speaker 2: the worst seasons we've seen in recent memory. And the
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  Speaker 2: city of Long Beach is particularly vulnerable to coastal and
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  Speaker 2: storm-related hazards.
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  Speaker 4: So Long Beach and other cities.
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  Speaker 2: Are working balls to the wall to repair any damage,
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  Speaker 2: to build up seawalls.
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  Speaker 4: Is it going to help? Not really. All these cities
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  Speaker 4: can do, those cities that have.
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  Speaker 4: They're on the.
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  Speaker 2: Edge of the water. They have waterfront property. They can mitigate,
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  Speaker 2: but you can't stop Mother Nature.
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  Speaker 4: You can't.
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  Speaker 2: And so it's not going to be good. Now, is
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  Speaker 2: there a definite El Nino coming that's going to affect...
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  Speaker 2: The weather pattern is going to cause all of this damage.
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  Speaker 2: Not necessary, not necessarily, but we now have gone from,
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  Speaker 2: what was it, 35% to 50% chance, and now it's 75% chance.
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  Speaker 5: They are wrong a lot, but the reality is you
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  Speaker 5: bet way better to be prepared for it and to
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  Speaker 5: get the money. At the starting line.
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  Speaker 4: And get ready to go. Get ready to go.
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  Speaker 2: There's a storm brewing in the Gulf right now. And
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be a Category 5 hurricane.
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  Speaker 4: It is a Category 5. It already is. Yep, 160
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  Speaker 4: mile an hour winds. And that's not in the Atlantic.
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  Speaker 4: It's in the Gulf. And that's another thing. You're giving
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  Speaker 4: me the look, Amy.
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  Speaker 6: Well, that.
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  Speaker 3: It's tracking in the same area as Hurricane Marie.
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  Speaker 4: So I believe it's in the Pacific. It may go up. Yes, exactly.
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  Speaker 4: It may go up.
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  Speaker 2: But when they talk about the Atlantic season, the hurricane season,
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  Speaker 2: it's just that one area. And it doesn't incorporate storms
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  Speaker 2: and depressions that are really bad. It's not going to
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  Speaker 2: be good. It really isn't going to be good. Well,
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  Speaker 2: keep in mind, there's no climate change, as you know.
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  Speaker 2: Climate change is a complete hoax as your house floats away.
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  Speaker 4: And you spent a fortune on it. All right. Coming up.
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  Speaker 2: Yesterday, the stalemate ended with the state of California, Rob Bonta,
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  Speaker 2: our attorney general, and Larry Ellison, Paramount Skydance. It looks
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  Speaker 2: like the deal went through with Bonta going the other
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  Speaker 2: way and concessions all through that from both sides. So
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  Speaker 2: I'll cover that when we come back.
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  Speaker 6: You're listening to Bill Handel on demand from KFI AM 640.
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  Speaker 2: The president is scheduled to speak before the UN in
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  Speaker 2: just a few minutes. The addresses from leaders, world leaders
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  Speaker 2: are going on right now. And 170 people are going
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  Speaker 2: to stand in front of the UN. And how long
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  Speaker 2: is that going to take? Particularly since the president, and
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  Speaker 2: they probably give several minutes, is going to probably go
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  Speaker 2: on for 40 minutes. And they don't have a hook for,
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  Speaker 2: You'd love someone to grab that hook and drag him off.
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  Speaker 2: Doesn't work that way. And so the president is going
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  Speaker 2: to focus primarily on Iran. And keep in mind that
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  Speaker 2: the United States is alone in dealing with Iran or
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  Speaker 2: starting the war. So it's going to be very interesting
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  Speaker 2: to see what happens. Also, AI and you may talk
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  Speaker 2: about that. I won't talk about the press.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe you will.
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  Speaker 2: Who the hell knows? But anyway, that's going to happen
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  Speaker 2: in a few minutes. And of course, that will be covered,
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  Speaker 2: except maybe it's not going to be covered by the majors. Political,
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  Speaker 2: MS Now, you've got CNN who have been denied coverage.
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  Speaker 2: And so the majors, our major networks are saying we're
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  Speaker 2: not covering anything the president does.
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  Speaker 4: We're just out of that. So we'll see what happens.
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  Speaker 2: Now, yesterday, our attorney general, Rob Bonta, here in California,
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  Speaker 2: announced that Paramount had reached a deal with state attorneys general. Now,
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  Speaker 2: there was a lawsuit that was trying to stop antitrust lawsuit,
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  Speaker 2: was trying to stop the Paramount deal with Warner Brothers
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  Speaker 2: Discovery Corporation. Because of the fear that this would completely
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  Speaker 2: overwhelm and take the entire market of television, movies, and
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  Speaker 2: it probably will. Because Warner Brothers and Paramount are two
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  Speaker 2: of the bigger film studios that were there during the
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  Speaker 2: golden era of movies. Now, that stopped. The golden era
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  Speaker 2: has stopped because it was all here in California. Because
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  Speaker 2: of the cost of productions here versus the cost of overseas,
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  Speaker 2: the tax breaks other states and countries give, the money
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  Speaker 2: other states and countries give to Hollywood productions or non-Hollywood
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  Speaker 2: productions now. And it's just cheaper by a long shot
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  Speaker 2: to film here. And what the governor did, particularly Bonta,
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  Speaker 2: who led this fight, was saying, we've got to keep
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  Speaker 2: production here in Southern California, in Hollywood, which of course
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  Speaker 2: is Burbank and the west side of Los Angeles where
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  Speaker 2: Sony is. And that is because when these major film companies,
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  Speaker 2: television companies leave, we're going to be an irrelevant, gee,
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  Speaker 2: we used to be the film center of the world.
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  Speaker 2: And so it was a huge fight. Didn't even know
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  Speaker 2: if it was actually going to happen. Bonta says a
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  Speaker 2: month ago they hadn't come to a conclusion.
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  Speaker 4: Well, now they did.
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  Speaker 2: The California is withdrawing its lawsuit and allowing the merger
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  Speaker 2: go through. $ 87 billion merger. And it got some concessions
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  Speaker 2: from Paramount. At least $ 1. 5 billion more will be spent
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  Speaker 2: in domestic production over the years. It also includes big
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  Speaker 2: penalties if Paramount fails to cut the deal, and that
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  Speaker 2: goes to Warner Brothers of $ 7 million per day, which
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  Speaker 2: is pretty extensive. Billionaire Larry Ellison, this is his son
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  Speaker 2: who has put this together to make him probably, I
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  Speaker 2: would think, the most powerful voice in entertainment. Here in
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  Speaker 2: the United States. And so is it going to help?
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  Speaker 2: Netflix originally bid on Warner Brothers. And they walked away
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  Speaker 2: saying they had gotten a $ 72 billion deal. They were
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  Speaker 2: talking about it and they said it's too much. Paramount
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  Speaker 2: Skydance is paying $ 87 billion. And pressure was growing from
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  Speaker 2: both sides to cut this deal.
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  Speaker 6: L.A.
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  Speaker 2: Mayor Karen Bass, movie theater chains. entertainment industry, labor unions,
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  Speaker 2: all of them fighting to keep production here in Southern California,
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  Speaker 2: which looks like this deal has come to pass. And
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  Speaker 2: so Paramount has said, as Ellison said, we're going no place.
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  Speaker 4: Really?
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  Speaker 2: I tend not to believe that, actually, because it's contrary
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  Speaker 2: to what good business practices are. Don't you go to
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  Speaker 2: a place that's far cheaper and produce the same quality films? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think you do. For example, Lord of the Rings
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  Speaker 2: was all in New Zealand. Titanic, in a great part,
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  Speaker 2: was in Mexico. You have, what else? Game of Thrones,
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  Speaker 2: huge production, was overseas. A lot of it, Dubrovnik, Croatia.
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  Speaker 5: Well, it's kind of hard to get those castles in Pacoima.
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  Speaker 4: You can now do it with software, can't you?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, but that's not the same as these physical sets.
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  Speaker 5: And those locations are kind of, you have to.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think you're going to see different productions because
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  Speaker 2: more and more are going over there. Maybe all of
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  Speaker 2: them have gone over there and very few are here in, well,
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  Speaker 2: we know that the number of productions are way down.
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  Speaker 2: Do you know that you, a few years ago, you
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  Speaker 2: could not get space on a soundstage? It was simply unavailable. Today,
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  Speaker 2: you can book any one of sound stages for your
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  Speaker 2: weddings and bar mitzvahs. And they're saying, you betcha. Full
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  Speaker 2: sound stage for your birthdays.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I'd do it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. That would be super cool. Wouldn't it?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: You know, just a quick aside.
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  Speaker 2: When I was a tour guide at Universal Studios, On
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  Speaker 2: stage 28, which was the only existing stage that they had,
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  Speaker 2: they kept historically because it wasn't soundproof. They used it
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  Speaker 2: for silent films. And the original opera house from Phantom
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  Speaker 2: of the Opera, the one that Lon Chaney was in,
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  Speaker 2: they kept. And it was extraordinary to see what the
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  Speaker 2: opera house was. Of course, those days are gone. It
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  Speaker 2: doesn't exist anymore. Hollywood is a very different place.
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  Speaker 4: Okay. The world leaders. Oh, the president is now addressing
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  Speaker 4: the UN.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't know if we're going to carry any
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  Speaker 2: of it because he's going to be around for a while.
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  Speaker 2: And he's talking about Iran war as oil prices remain high.
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  Speaker 2: And oil prices around the world have exploded, mainly because
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  Speaker 2: of his war in Iran. So he's going to try
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  Speaker 2: to justify it. I don't think he's going to succeed,
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  Speaker 2: but he's certainly going to attempt it. So we'll deal
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  Speaker 2: with that when we come back.
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  Speaker 6: You're listening to Bill Handel on demand from KFI AM 640.
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  Speaker 2: What's going on right now in front of the U.N.
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  Speaker 2: Before the U.N., the president is speaking. And no surprise,
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  Speaker 2: he has spoken of Iran as the biggest threat in
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  Speaker 2: the entire world. And I think the other countries, 130
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  Speaker 2: of them are going to speak, by the way. Leaders
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  Speaker 2: of 130 nations are going to speak, plus a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of ministers. Today, it's Macron. The president is speaking. Tomorrow,
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be Zelensky, Netanyahu on Thursday, and it's
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  Speaker 2: going on right now. And no surprise, the president has
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  Speaker 2: said he has a big decision to make. Either Iran
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  Speaker 2: come to the table or he will unleash the greatest
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  Speaker 2: attack the world has ever seen. And he has to decide.
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  Speaker 2: And that's today. We'll see tomorrow because I think he's
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  Speaker 2: changed his mind seven or eight times. the annihilation of Iran,
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  Speaker 2: then no, then yes. And I'm wondering what the nations
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  Speaker 2: of the UN are thinking, these leaders. And the president,
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  Speaker 2: as always, keeps on reiterating that he is the greatest
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  Speaker 2: president that ever is or was in the United States.
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  Speaker 2: And his bottom line now is, I mean, it used
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  Speaker 2: to be regime change. It used to be the Strait
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  Speaker 2: of Hormuz being open. Now it's simply Iran will never
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  Speaker 2: have a nuclear weapon. And the Strait of Hormuz is open,
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  Speaker 2: he said. And ships are going through like crazy. Well, okay,
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  Speaker 2: look at the numbers. Anything else is fake news. Where
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  Speaker 2: he is getting applause is when he discusses Iran not
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  Speaker 2: being able to have a nuclear weapon. I think that's
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  Speaker 2: a legitimate threat. Now, how do you handle that with
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  Speaker 2: a country like Iran not caving at all? Are they,
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  Speaker 2: in fact, going forward at a rapid pace? Has their
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  Speaker 2: nuclear abilities been severely curtailed? Well, we really don't know.
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  Speaker 2: We're hearing that it has. We're hearing that it hasn't.
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  Speaker 2: And we're hearing that if a deal is not cut immediately,
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  Speaker 2: although immediately doesn't, we don't have days anymore. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it used to be it's going to happen Wednesday. It's
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  Speaker 2: going to happen Friday. It's going to happen next Tuesday.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to happen today. And now I'm changing my mind.
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  Speaker 2: And now I'm in a decision mode.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, if the world if the world is also
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  Speaker 5: looking at this going, we don't want them to have
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  Speaker 5: nuclear weapons.
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  Speaker 4: How come it's on us?
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's exactly that's exactly his point. And I think
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  Speaker 2: it's a very good point because the world is in
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  Speaker 2: favor of no nuclear weapons and the world are a
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  Speaker 2: bunch of gutless wonders. If you look back in nineteen
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  Speaker 2: thirty six years. with the Sudetenlands in Czechoslovakia, the world
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  Speaker 2: caved when Hitler started with Europe, just caved. And the
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  Speaker 2: same thing happened when he undid the Versailles Treaty, that
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  Speaker 2: he rearmed Germany in violation of the Treaty of Versailles.
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  Speaker 2: The world just sat back when Darfur, millions of people
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  Speaker 2: were killed in Darfur.
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  Speaker 4: The world did nothing.
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  Speaker 2: Cambodia, where two million Cambodians were slaughtered by Pol Pot.
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  Speaker 4: The world did nothing.
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  Speaker 2: And the president, I think, to his credit, is saying
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  Speaker 2: that is a legitimate, legitimate concern in the United States today.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of frustration that he has. And I
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  Speaker 2: think that's legitimate. Now, how do you handle that? I
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  Speaker 2: think he's stuck between a rock and a hard place.
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  Speaker 2: Diplomacy seems to be off the table. What the Iranians
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  Speaker 2: are doing is they're hoping that they can hold off
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  Speaker 2: until the midterms. The president has said, we will go
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  Speaker 2: ahead and I will attack Iran. And I don't know, tonight, tomorrow,
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  Speaker 2: next week, immediately, soon, we're getting all kinds of timelines here.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't know who believes. I don't know who
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  Speaker 2: believes his. Well, I don't know if he believes his timelines.
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  Speaker 2: And he has said, I will decide. I will make
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  Speaker 2: the decision.
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  Speaker 4: I will unleash.
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  Speaker 2: It's me because I am the greatest. He sounds like
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  Speaker 2: Muhammad Ali. And I'm listening to it right now. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm only getting bits and pieces of it because obviously
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  Speaker 2: we're doing the show.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm assuming that tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to go through what he said today, because
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  Speaker 2: that's pretty important stuff. And he's still talking and he
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  Speaker 2: will be talking tomorrow. When we do this segment, we
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  Speaker 2: will continue to cover his speech because he will continue
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  Speaker 2: on throughout the day and tonight and to, and through
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  Speaker 2: tomorrow morning.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, he likes to talk, just loves it.
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  Speaker 2: All right, coming up, we're going to switch gears a
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  Speaker 2: little bit because so much is happening right now internationally.
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  Speaker 2: And we've been talking about jobs that earn six figures
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  Speaker 2: without going to college and Well, there are some issues.
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  Speaker 2: There are some parameters there, and I'll share them with
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  Speaker 2: you when you come back. And then Mike Dubosky at
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  Speaker 2: the top of the hour with our tech segment.
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  Speaker 6: You're listening to Bill Handel On Demand from KFI AM640.
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  Speaker 2: And we're listening to or trying to listen to the
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  Speaker 2: president speaking right now in front of the U.N. And
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  Speaker 2: he's going on and on. And no surprise. He is
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  Speaker 2: the greatest president that ever was. He's made that point
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  Speaker 2: a few times. And he will decide. what's going on
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  Speaker 2: with the war and what the United States is going
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  Speaker 2: to do. For the most part, that's true, although not
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  Speaker 2: to that extent. And then the touting of we have
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  Speaker 2: moving forward and we have the greatest amount of munitions
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  Speaker 2: that we've ever had. That's not true. And a few
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  Speaker 2: other things. And it really scary, not scary, but typical Trump,
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  Speaker 2: which I really have a hard time with. And he
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  Speaker 2: said those who speak against him, those who disagree with
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  Speaker 2: his stats are cowards and traitors. but I've said that
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  Speaker 2: before many times, is that if you don't agree with
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: the president, you are attacking the Constitution because he is
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  Speaker 2: the Constitution.
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  Speaker 4: In America, and he's pointing that out.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, what I want to do is spend a couple
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  Speaker 2: minutes talking about jobs, and then we have Mike Dubosky
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  Speaker 2: and a couple of other topics later on. Drones with
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: a cartel is kind of interesting.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, the value of higher education.
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  Speaker 2: There is a growing interest in high-paying jobs that don't
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: require a degree. And so we've known about that. So
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  Speaker 2: you go ahead and you take away the mandatory degree
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  Speaker 2: requirement for a lot of jobs, and the federal government
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  Speaker 2: and the state has removed bachelor's degree necessities. And here's, unfortunately,
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  Speaker 2: the bottom line, is that for those jobs— that pay
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  Speaker 2: more than $ 100, 000 a year, electrical work, HVAC, plumbing, and
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  Speaker 2: you don't need a four-year degree. You have to have
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: the equivalent of a four-year degree. You need that kind
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  Speaker 2: of training. My dad was a union electrician. It was
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  Speaker 2: a four-year apprenticeship. That's what it took. And you have
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: to know your stuff. Now, in reality, if you don't
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: have that kind of apprenticeship, if you don't have that
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  Speaker 2: skill level, you're just coming in The average wage for
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: all these workers that start basically are $ 45, 000 a year.
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  Speaker 2: And you don't get much more than that unless you
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  Speaker 2: are very highly trained and you get the kind of
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  Speaker 2: jobs that require that skill set. The reality is that
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  Speaker 2: a college degree still, and especially over a lifetime, makes
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  Speaker 2: a lot more sense. But, you know, the cost of
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  Speaker 2: a college education is It doesn't, you know, when you
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  Speaker 2: talk about how much that is and how long it
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  Speaker 2: takes you to get into the workforce and make that
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  Speaker 2: $ 100, 000 a year, the bottom line is we're looking at stats.
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  Speaker 2: that belie the concept that if you don't go to college,
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: you're going to make a lot more money. Bureau of
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  Speaker 2: Labor Statistics, those who make a median wage of $ 100, 000
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  Speaker 2: or more who don't require a bachelor's average, there's 9%
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  Speaker 2: of those.
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  Speaker 4: That's it.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: Four times as many openings that do not require a
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: bachelor's degree. but they all pay less. And there is
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: the problem. Do you spend that kind of money on
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: a college degree, which costs more, which is less valuable
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: than it was, and you look at the end-all, be-all?
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  Speaker 2: Just to give you an idea of the benefits, my
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  Speaker 2: dad became a union electrician. Now, keep in mind, union
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: labor is When you talk about municipalities, when you talk
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: about government, you talk about the city, they have to
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: pay union labor. That's the deal, which means that these
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: are union members. And the benefits that electricians and plumbers,
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: et cetera, had, those are basically all gone. I've shared
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: with you before that my mom, this is years and
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: years after my dad retired, ended up dying. She was
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: grandfathered in into his family. his medical plan. And it
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: was so good back then that she went, she called
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: me up and went ballistic when they raised her monthly
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: fee copay to $ 13 a month. She went out of
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: her mind. How dare they now charge me $ 13 a
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: month for full medical. I mean, full blown medical where
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: there is no copay. where surgeries are included, medical is included,
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: eyeglasses are included, birth control is included. And my mom
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: started her birth control when she was 82, and it
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: was covered by my dad's union plan.
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  Speaker 4: All right, we're done.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: Coming up, it's Mike Dubosky, ABC News technology reporter. Big
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: news with Meta. We'll talk to Mike. And then coming
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: up at the bottom of the hour, we're going to
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: talk about drones and a spin on drones that we
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: should be looking at that we haven't particularly.
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