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Handel on the News · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handel on demand from KFI AM 640.
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  Speaker 1: And now, Handel on the News. Ladies and gentlemen, here's
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  Speaker 1: Bill Handel.
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  Speaker 2: And a good morning Wednesday now. Hump Day Wednesday, August 26th.
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  Speaker 2: Let's say hello to the crew. and good morning there
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  Speaker 2: you are hi good morning hi uh amy good morning
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  Speaker 2: is that a tie-dyed something that you're wearing it looks
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  Speaker 2: very tie-dye-ish.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's not really tied okay just just noticing it
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  Speaker 3: all right it's a shirt of many colors oh.
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  Speaker 4: Well there you are it's like sally's dress yeah very joseph.
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  Speaker 2: And the uh Code of Many Colors. Code of Many Colors.
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  Speaker 2: That's also a Dolly song. We're going to talk about
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  Speaker 2: that a little bit today, obviously. It has not stopped.
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  Speaker 2: The news has been going on balls to the wall
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  Speaker 2: about Dolly Parton. As it should. I mean, she truly
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  Speaker 2: was an American treasure. But, you know, I'm watching CNN
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  Speaker 2: for a moment, and they're interviewing anybody who had anything
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  Speaker 2: to do with her. People who sang with her, who
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  Speaker 2: were involved in television shows, people who ran into her
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  Speaker 2: in parking lots. people who met her as she was
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  Speaker 2: putting money in the meters. I mean, anybody who, it's astounding.
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  Speaker 4: You were at Home Depot actually interviewing Dollies.
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  Speaker 2: I know. It was, yeah, it was, you run out
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  Speaker 2: of things to say. I mean, there's tremendous coverage, as
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  Speaker 2: there should be, because she was an absolute unique American character.
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  Speaker 2: And it's fair, you don't often say American treasure in
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  Speaker 2: describing people, but it's fair to say that she is. But, okay,
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  Speaker 2: I got it already, you know? Do I really care
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  Speaker 2: about the junior assistant producer who got her coffee once?
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. But anyway, you can only, her background was extraordinary too.
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  Speaker 2: We'll spend a few moments, of course, talking about her
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  Speaker 2: at the seven o'clock hour. In the meantime, Will, you're next.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning, Bill.
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  Speaker 2: I was an extra in one of her movies. See,
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  Speaker 2: there you go. I think you ought to now start
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  Speaker 2: talking about that. Were you really an extra in one
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  Speaker 2: of her movies? Beverly Hillbillies. And did you.
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  Speaker 2: Beverly Hillbillies, that's the television show, right? No, they did
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  Speaker 2: a movie. Oh, I didn't know that. And then she
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  Speaker 2: performed in it. Oh, I didn't know that. And did
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  Speaker 2: you have any intercourse with her? Any social intercourse? No,
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  Speaker 2: I had no intercourse with Dolly Parton. No, I'm talking
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  Speaker 2: about did you have any run in? Did you speak
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  Speaker 2: to her? Did you? No, we were told. No, no.
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  Speaker 2: She was very.
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  Speaker 4: Nice to everybody, as was Lily Tomlin, who was in that, too.
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  Speaker 2: Almost almost the whole nine to five gang, except for
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  Speaker 2: Jane Fonda. But they told you to leave her alone
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  Speaker 2: and don't talk to her. Yeah, because extras are crazy. OK,
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  Speaker 2: fair enough. And Neil, there you are. Good morning.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning. I saw her speak once.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there you are. I went to the movies once
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  Speaker 2: and saw 9 to 5 at the movie theater. Therefore,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I should call CNN and get interviewed for
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  Speaker 2: that one. It's one of those things where you can
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  Speaker 2: only do so much with the news. And we were
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  Speaker 2: talking about 24-hour news cycles. You sort of have to
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  Speaker 2: do it over and over and over and over and
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  Speaker 2: over again. But, you know, we've done that before when
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  Speaker 2: Kennedy was assassinated, JFK. I remember four days of wall
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  Speaker 2: to wall coverage. I mean, four full days. And that
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  Speaker 2: was network. That was before 24 hour news cycles. And anyway,
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  Speaker 2: so much for that.
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  Speaker 4: OK.
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  Speaker 2: And Neil, I said hello to you.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, so yesterday, I didn't mention it yesterday. Yesterday was
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  Speaker 2: my birthday. And the only reason I'm mentioning it now
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  Speaker 2: is that I didn't know what Lindsay was going to
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  Speaker 2: do for me. She had a very special day planned
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  Speaker 2: for me. And guess where she took me?
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  Speaker 4: Dollywood.
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  Speaker 2: No. Where did I spend the afternoon?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: Costco?
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Did you get a cake there?
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  Speaker 2: No, I did not. We were going to... This is
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  Speaker 2: what she was going to do. She was going to
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  Speaker 2: sing Happy Birthday in line. She was going to belt
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  Speaker 2: that one out. And then she was going to... We
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  Speaker 2: were going to go to the food court and get
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  Speaker 2: a hot dog, of which she was going to put
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  Speaker 2: a candle in it and sing Happy Birthday to me
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  Speaker 2: on that one. But they closed the food court. And
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  Speaker 2: she didn't even... saying happy birthday in line because we
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  Speaker 2: went through, before she even realized it, went through the
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  Speaker 2: self-checkout just to get the hell out of there. So
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  Speaker 2: she missed out completely. So instead, we ended up, oh,
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  Speaker 2: we ended up at a restaurant that Jim Keeney gave
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  Speaker 2: me a gift certificate to. So that was kind of neat.
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  Speaker 2: And I had a dessert. It was actually my birthday,
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  Speaker 2: which is really weird because I, Lindsay has a way
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  Speaker 2: of having her birthday at every meal she ever has
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  Speaker 2: at a restaurant because that saves us big money on dessert.
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  Speaker 4: You guys are weird.
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  Speaker 2: It saves money on dessert. Desserts are very expensive these days.
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  Speaker 4: And you used a coupon yesterday and said, my wife
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  Speaker 4: will have, I will have the shrimp and she will
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  Speaker 4: have something of equal or lesser value.
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  Speaker 2: You know, that's exactly, those are part of my vows,
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  Speaker 2: by the way. When I was going to marry, when
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  Speaker 2: I did marry her, I married someone of equal or
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  Speaker 2: lesser value.
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  Speaker 4: Nicely said. We all celebrated with you on Saturday. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: we did.
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  Speaker 2: I had a thing. I don't know if we put
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  Speaker 2: them up yet, the photos, but it was kind of fun.
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  Speaker 2: It was a costume party, which we always do. Actually,
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  Speaker 2: a second time out. Okay. Enough of that. Why don't
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  Speaker 2: we start the news on this hump day? Dr. Gianchini
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  Speaker 2: is going to be with us coming up at 8.30.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm going to do that surrogacy story, a fascinating
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  Speaker 2: surrogacy story, a case of first impression. It has not
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  Speaker 2: happened before. And this was one of the things that
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  Speaker 2: we sort of anticipated when I started my surrogacy career.
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  Speaker 2: And it has come to fruition. And I'll explain that one.
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  Speaker 2: It's just fascinating, both legally, medically. Jim will fill us
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  Speaker 2: in on the medical part. And I'll sit down and say, hey,
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  Speaker 2: here's what's happening legally. And it really is interesting stuff.
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  Speaker 3: It is.
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  Speaker 2: Not just interesting for me. Okay, guys, let's do it.
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  Speaker 2: It's time for Handle on the News with.
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  Speaker 4: Amy, Neil, and me.
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  Speaker 2: Lead story. Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene Died in Nashville yesterday
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  Speaker 2: She was 80 years old And we knew she had
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  Speaker 2: all kinds of medical issues She shared that she had
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  Speaker 2: all kinds of medical issues Had to cancel her last
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  Speaker 2: appearance And said, hinted at the fact that she was
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  Speaker 2: Had a very, very serious illness Well, it turned out
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  Speaker 2: that she had cancer And died pretty quickly And we're
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  Speaker 2: going to do more about that at seven o'clock and
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  Speaker 2: truly a national treasure. I mean, there's no other way
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  Speaker 2: to describe her. And I was talking to Lindsay about
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  Speaker 2: this and she'd been married to her husband, I think
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  Speaker 2: 61 or 62 years. And when he died last year,
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  Speaker 2: she basically just went downhill. It absolutely destroyed her after
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  Speaker 2: this marriage of 62 years. It is a A story
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  Speaker 2: of love and of not only her love for him
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  Speaker 2: and a long, long lived marriage and also the love
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  Speaker 2: of this country for her. And rightly so. Usually I'm pretty,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I'm pretty skeptical of stories. Oh, they were terrific.
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  Speaker 2: And you make a big deal out of people. But
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  Speaker 2: this one, this one, you make a big deal out
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  Speaker 2: of legitimacy.
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  Speaker 4: Did you see the video that she her last video
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  Speaker 4: she did for Dollywood? The announcer, she had, how long
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  Speaker 4: ago was that, Amy?
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  Speaker 2: Four days ago.
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  Speaker 4: Oh my gosh. And you could see it on her.
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  Speaker 4: That's the first time I could see it because the
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  Speaker 4: other time she's come out, she's looked great and she
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  Speaker 4: still looked great, but she got up and put on
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  Speaker 4: her makeup and did a video for the people of Dollywood.
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  Speaker 4: And it's insane how close it was to her passing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. All right. We'll be doing more of that coming
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  Speaker 2: up seven o'clock. I'll go through her, a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of her history. And here is a story that kind
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  Speaker 2: of surprised me. Me too.
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  Speaker 3: Trump honors Dolly. The president has ordered that all flags
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  Speaker 3: at federal facilities be lowered to half staff across the U.S.
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  Speaker 3: for the next week in honor of Dolly Parton. He said,
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  Speaker 3: rest in peace, Dolly. The world loves you.
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  Speaker 2: Now, this, I was talking yesterday about this, really thinking
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  Speaker 2: it through. First of all, I found it interesting because
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  Speaker 2: she was adamantly anti-Trump. And she turned down the Presidential
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  Speaker 2: Medal of Freedom twice.
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  Speaker 3: But she turned it down from Biden, too.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I didn't know that. I did not know that.
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  Speaker 2: But she wasn't anti-Biden. Thank you for pointing that out.
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  Speaker 2: She wasn't anti-Biden. She was vociferously anti-Trump. And Trump, to
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  Speaker 2: his credit, Sort of bypassed that and gave her kudos.
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  Speaker 2: And then I'm trying to figure out. Did she talk
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  Speaker 2: about politics much?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 2: No. But it was a given. It was a given.
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  Speaker 2: It was a given. I mean, people knew. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it was no secret that she was anti-Trump. But what's interesting,
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  Speaker 2: and I was talking about this, is how much of
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  Speaker 2: it was political that Trump did— and how much of
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  Speaker 2: it was that he had to do it, and how
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  Speaker 2: much of it was he wanted to do it because
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  Speaker 2: he felt that way. And I think it's all three
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  Speaker 2: of them, because she is so beloved, especially by Southerners,
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  Speaker 2: to say anything negative would have been absolutely destructive. He
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  Speaker 2: could have said nothing, and it wouldn't have hurt him.
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  Speaker 2: He could have not said a thing, and he did.
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  Speaker 2: And so, again, I'm trying to figure out what the
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  Speaker 2: motivation is. Or maybe it's just she was so beloved
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  Speaker 2: that even if you weren't particularly a fan, you can't
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  Speaker 2: say no to her passing. And I don't know the
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  Speaker 2: answer to that. I really don't. Because I'll tell you,
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  Speaker 2: she's as popular as he is with the MAGA crowd.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you don't say anything negative about Dolly. Well,
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  Speaker 2: you don't anyway, but especially in the South and her background.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know. I don't know where you're getting that,
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  Speaker 4: that she was virulently. I.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I'm understanding. Cause I'm hearing that I'm hearing that.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm reading that, that she was, I'm.
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  Speaker 3: Reading that she's absolutely a political, that she wasn't a supporter,
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  Speaker 3: but she wasn't a.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Okay. That I'm reading the other way. Uh, but,
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  Speaker 2: In any case, let's move on. We'll talk about we'll
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  Speaker 2: talk about what happened and more importantly, her background.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 4: The swinging has started. Canada struck back at we, the
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  Speaker 4: United States of America. Yesterday, they announced these new tariffs.
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  Speaker 4: Of course, we knew they were coming up to 50
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  Speaker 4: percent on hundreds of American goods and deepening the trade
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  Speaker 4: war with the two longtime allies that have been going
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  Speaker 4: on between Donald Trump the minute he got back in
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  Speaker 4: the White House. So beginning September 8th, Canada will double
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  Speaker 4: its tariffs on American steel and aluminum from 25% to 50%.
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  Speaker 4: And it will impose tariffs ranging from 15 to 50%
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  Speaker 4: on about 700 other products. So you're looking at fish, milk,
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  Speaker 4: food products, plywood, which will be a bitch, I'm telling
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  Speaker 4: you now. Plastics, aluminum foil, appliances, architectural equipment, motorcycles, and electronics.
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  Speaker 4: And this comes as... Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, who's
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  Speaker 4: well known for hating, hating Dolly Parton. Can't stand her.
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  Speaker 4: I should probably Google things before I say them.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, thank you for that. Oh, come on, Neil. Hated her.
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  Speaker 2: Can't stand Dolly Parton. And I did Google it, by
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  Speaker 2: the way.
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  Speaker 4: She's apolitical. She lived her life that way. And when
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  Speaker 4: she dies and you make her a Trump hater.
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  Speaker 2: She probably was. Who knows? I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: But anyway, so Canadian Prime Minister hated Dolly Parton, apparently.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Thank you for that. Make sure you come in
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  Speaker 2: on every time we go on a break. Make sure
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  Speaker 2: you say that. The Canadian goods and the one that's
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  Speaker 2: a real killer, whiskey, they can live without. Dairy products,
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  Speaker 2: not the end of the world. Toys, clothes, you know,
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  Speaker 2: that's a big deal. Car parts, et cetera. The one
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  Speaker 2: that's a killer is hockey sticks. I mean, that is
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  Speaker 2: that is really going to affect Americans to a major,
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  Speaker 2: major level.
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  Speaker 4: I think the plywood, the aluminum and steel is.
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  Speaker 2: You think so? You think so? Lumber coming in, lumber
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  Speaker 2: coming in in northern part of the U.S., the the
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  Speaker 2: states that. are the border states in which, oh, manufacturers
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  Speaker 2: of furniture and housing. The lumber is the big one.
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  Speaker 4: Don't piss off Vermont.
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  Speaker 2: We're never going to have any syrup. Yep. Oh, and
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  Speaker 2: let's not forget tongue depressors. For real. I'm not kidding.
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  Speaker 2: That was one of the stories. Tongue depressors.
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  Speaker 3: Iran is talking, apparently, but not with us. Iran has
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  Speaker 3: held new talks with Oman on how to manage the
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  Speaker 3: Strait of Hormuz. Oman's foreign minister says he's hopeful a
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  Speaker 3: temporary corridor through the waterway could be announced soon. Iran
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  Speaker 3: and the U.S. are both trying to assert control over
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  Speaker 3: the channel, imposing separate blockades that has severely limited traffic
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  Speaker 3: through the strait. President Trump also said yesterday that all
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  Speaker 3: of the mines in the strait have been cleared. and
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  Speaker 3: is warning Iran not to try to lay any more.
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  Speaker 2: Or else. And now the issue is, what's the gist
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  Speaker 2: of the Omani-Iranian agreement? Is it that it's going to
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  Speaker 2: be a toll road, effectively, with the two of them
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  Speaker 2: sharing the tolls? And no one knows at this point.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, now it's a war of attrition. Now it
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  Speaker 2: just keeps on going. There is no uh, actual conflict.
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  Speaker 2: There's no physical conflict going on. Uh, but the straight
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  Speaker 2: is for the most part, just shut down and not
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  Speaker 2: much is happening there. And so it sort of just
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  Speaker 2: keeps on crawling along, uh, along. And, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: is there an answer who the hell knows at this
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  Speaker 2: point and what the answer is going to be?
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 2: They would have asked, they would have asked Dolly, but clearly. So, uh,
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  Speaker 2: This is weird.
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  Speaker 4: This is even news that we have to talk about this,
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  Speaker 4: but Pennsylvania reported two deaths related to measles as an
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  Speaker 4: outbreak there approaches 400 cases. Both these people were unvaccinated.
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  Speaker 4: Who would have guessed? No news on whether they liked
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  Speaker 4: Dolly Parton or not, but these two people have assumed
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  Speaker 4: room temperature because they were unvaccinated.
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  Speaker 2: And a stat that I read yesterday was that, or
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  Speaker 2: I heard yesterday, was that the number of cases, measles cases,
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  Speaker 2: that have been reported around the country now this year,
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  Speaker 2: more than the number of measles cases over the last
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  Speaker 2: 25 years combined, it's reached. Now, a couple of interesting
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  Speaker 2: facts here is that the U.S. Center for Disease Control, CDC,
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  Speaker 2: Disease Control and Prevention, CDC, said it's working closely with
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  Speaker 2: state and local health departments to strengthen response efforts. And
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  Speaker 2: this is the one case in which Robert Kennedy did
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  Speaker 2: say outright that measles vaccines are valuable and people should
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  Speaker 2: be vaccinated with measles vaccines.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, well, thanks for your blessing.
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  Speaker 2: But the administration has not come back on its measles
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  Speaker 2: equals autism. That's still there.
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  Speaker 4: And what is the other one? Immune... disease or something
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  Speaker 4: autoimmune problems too is another one they tack on to.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah they're tacking on virtually everything and it's 35 years
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  Speaker 2: by the way bill before 35 years last time pennsylvania
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  Speaker 2: had a death in regarding this and when is the
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  Speaker 2: next time when is that when are we going to
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  Speaker 2: start talking about polio again in the news Yeah, it'll
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  Speaker 2: come back. You know, even though the government doesn't mandate
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  Speaker 2: one way or the other, what the government does, the CDC,
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  Speaker 2: is recommend. And you have health departments, doctors, medical organizations
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  Speaker 2: follow the CDC recommendation. It is sort of the bully
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  Speaker 2: pulpit and has just a lot of influence without mandating.
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  Speaker 2: And it's, you know, people aren't getting vaccinated because that's
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  Speaker 2: part of conspiracy land these days. You know, don't get vaccinated.
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  Speaker 2: Your kid will get autism. Oh, last night, Darlene Graham
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  Speaker 2: won the primary to be the Republican nominee for Senate
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  Speaker 2: in South Carolina. And it just and the only the
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  Speaker 2: only reason that she got the nomination is because the
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  Speaker 2: president basically anointed her. And that puts to bed any
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  Speaker 2: question about the president completely owning the Republican Party. We'll see, though,
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  Speaker 2: what happens in the midterms. I think that's going to
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  Speaker 2: be the litmus test.
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  Speaker 4: Well, he literally said, don't worry about it. She's going
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  Speaker 4: to do what we want.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. And she said, I'll do what you want.
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  Speaker 2: But beyond that, but beyond that.
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  Speaker 4: Don't worry about what she knows and doesn't know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. But I think it proves that the control that
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  Speaker 2: this president has on the Republican Party. And again, we'll
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  Speaker 2: see what happens in the midterms coming up. And that
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  Speaker 2: may change fairly dramatically as Republicans vote. either realize or
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  Speaker 2: maybe accept the fact that he is not as influential
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  Speaker 2: or he may very well be. He may be that
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  Speaker 2: influential and be the kingmaker. OK, let's move on. More
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  Speaker 2: handle on the news with Amy, Neil and me.
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  Speaker 3: Immigrants on hold.
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  Speaker 2: All U.S.
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: Immigrant visa applications have been paused by the Trump administration.
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: The State Department's moving to tighten restrictions and limit access
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: to applicants who they deem could end up Relying on U.S. assistance,
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: apparently the State Department's been working on updated guidance and
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: training since early this year to ensure that all the
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: consular offices are fully equipped to evaluate every visa applicant
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: comprehensively and consistently. Applicants who already have interviews scheduled with
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: their embassies and consulates were sent emails that their appointments
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: had been canceled and they would be informed of a
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: new date and time.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: And this is a situation where, for example, these visas
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: and the president pointed out, and I think rightly so,
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: that when you have hundreds of thousands of people coming
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: in every year on tourist visas, on student visas, on
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: work visas that run out, they then claim asylum and
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: are allowed to work And they go in front of
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: an immigration judge years later in many cases. And the
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: president said, that's fraud. It is fraud. It's fraud on
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: its face. So how do you deal with that? Do
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: we simply let that go? Well, yeah. How about this, guys?
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: Why don't all of you come in on a tourist
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: visa and then immediately claim asylum and you can stay here?
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: So we really don't have an immigration policy. So that's... Now,
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: how he's going about it, I don't know if that's
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: going to work or not. Well, it certainly works in
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: terms of immigration. No one's coming in. Thank you. There'll
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: be no visas of any kind. You're not coming into
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: the country. That works. So that's a lot more complicated
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: than just, hey, we're stopping immigration coming in completely or
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: the asylum issue. OK, moving on.
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: Oh, you remember the big, you know, Mr. Gorbachev tear
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: down this wall with the Berlin Wall? Well, Trump sort
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: of is kind of in that area right now. The
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: JFK Center for Performing Arts could be demolished, so says Trump,
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: if repairs are not carried out.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: And his name put on it.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: Well, they're looking at not only the name on the building.
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: It also voted. The team also voted to name the
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: grounds the President Donald J. Trump Plaza.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: What is his obsession with having his name on the
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: Kennedy Center specifically?
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: Is it because all those famous people have to come
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: there once a year for the honors and now they're
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: going to have to say his name?
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: I don't know the answer to that. It's just there's
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: an obsession here that I just don't understand.
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: I agree with you.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: I can understand the president wanting to change the name
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: from Lake Ontario to Lake Trump. I get that.
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: I think it's Lake America. I think he wants to
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: rename Canada to America's Hat, and.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: I'm okay with that. Yeah, I don't understand this obsession.
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: This is weird, but now he's saying, hey, it needs
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: $ 250 million of renovation, and if it's not done, then
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: we'll just tear it down.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: And then it'll be known as, then it'll be known
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: officially as the Donald J. Trump hole in the ground.
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, crater.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: Do you want to do another?
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, one more.
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: El agua es caliente because of El Niño.
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: Nicely done.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: Thank you. Scientists have recorded the highest temperature ever measured
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: in the world's oceans. A powerful El Nino in the
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: tropical Pacific is contributing to that. The global average sea
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: surface temperature hit a record 70 degrees on August 22nd.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: That's according to Europe's Earth Observation Agency, Copernicus, which has
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: been tracking the temperature daily since 1979. Samantha Burgess with
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: Copernicus says El Nino is adding heat to the system,
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: but it's doing so on top of decades of human
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: driven warming.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: As the anti climate change crowd over years have said,
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: it's basically a hoax. And the climatologist said, oh, no, no,
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: we're going to get warmer and warmer. And it's going
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: to be very, very dangerous. The folks that are were
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: attacking the climatologist were right. except that it's actually moving
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: faster than anybody anticipated. That's the fact. And that is horrific.
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: Well, we better get rain from this El Nino. I'm
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: going to torch a bunch of glaciers myself.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: There you go.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: Darlene Graham defeated Representative Ralph Norman in the South Carolina
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: Republican primary runoff, as we talked about earlier. Victory for
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: President Trump, one would say, who recruited, endorsed, and campaigned
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: for her. You know how she won?
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: She wore a Donald Trump mask while she was going
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: public in her announcement. So, boy, okay. Yeah.
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: As I said earlier, Darlene.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: Darlene, Darlene, Darlene. We're going to see what happens during
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: the general election, the midterms. That is going to be
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: the end all be all in terms of the president's influence.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: Wendy, the wily coyote needs some help. Wildlife Care of
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: Southern California is asking for the public's help to get
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: some funding so they can treat a coyote in Studio City.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: That's been wandering around with an abscess or a growth
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: or something on its face for more than a year.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: The coyote has been seen by several local residents approaching
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: homes in the area. They're saying that they are trying
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: to capture her so they can get her the help
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: she needs and. They've been actively in the area trying
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: to capture her for at least four weeks now.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: All right, so let me get this straight. They want
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: to save the coyote so the coyote can eat your
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: dogs or cats, right? That's what they want to do. Yep. Yeah,
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: that's great.
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: There's a lot of weird stuff out there.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, let's save a coyote because the coyote is, if
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: you have a small dog, you're done.
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: All right. Representative Hakeem Jeffries, a Democrat out of New
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: York and happens to be the minority leader, I guess
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: had a private meeting recently with Jared Kushner. We all
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: know him as President Trump's son-in-law and top outside advisor.
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: But I guess they were discussing potential areas of common ground.
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: It was supposed to be kind of hush-hush, but it's
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: leaked out. And We all know that Trump has called Mr.
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: Jeffries a thug, referring to him as low IQ and
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: one of the Democrats.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: Well, this I think this goes to show you that
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: the Trump administration is looking forward or at least fearful
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: of losing the Senate and the House, certainly the House. Oh,
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: good chance for the Senate. And all of a sudden
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: they realize, hey, we've got two years left and we've
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: got to work with these people. And so inroads are
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: being made. It's easy to ignore the other party when
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: you control all three branches of government. Not when you don't.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: So it's just a practical approach saying, okay, we think
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: it's going to be over for us in terms of
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: controlling all branches. So let's sit down and figure out
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: what we can work together on.
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: The battle over baby.
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: A couple in California said, hired somebody to be a
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: surrogate mother. They're now in a fight with her over
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: a newborn because the newborn has a life-threatening heart defect.
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: They're going to court now. So originally the couple, when
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: they found out that the newborn had this heart defect
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: and was going to have to have several surgeries, the
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: couple said, we need to terminate the pregnancy. The surrogate
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: mom said, no, she's the surrogate. She doesn't have parental rights.
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: She went to Texas, had the baby and And now
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: she's fighting to keep the baby. But the California couple says, no,
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: that's our baby.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: Yep. We will talk about that because I'm up to
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: my eyeballs in cases like this. And this is a
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: case of first impression. Fearful of this is going to happen.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: But now with the legal aspects of it, and it's
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: across three states and across contracts. Are they enforceable? Are
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: they not? Who are the parents? I'll be doing that at.
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: Do the parents want the child back?
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: They do now.
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: And to raise it?
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: Do the surgeries.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: Yep. Yep. That's what they're saying. And the surrogate mother
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: is saying, wait a minute. You wanted this baby aborted.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: And now you're coming back after the baby is born.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: A surrogate would not abort the baby. She made the
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: moral choice not to, even though she had agreed to
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: on the contract. But that agreement is totally void. Uh,
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: that is completely unenforceable, uh, no matter where you are.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: And so, uh, the surrogate is arguing. I think there's
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: an argument there. As soon as you wanted this baby
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: to abort aborted, uh, you breached the contract. Now, uh,
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: did they, there's nothing in the contract that says that. Uh,
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: so it's a, it's a case of first impression, which
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: means the courts have never dealt with this before. And
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: I'm going to talk plenty about that. Uh, and that's
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: at seven 30 this morning. And, uh, I actually know
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: what I'm talking about. When we talk about this, this
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: is not marginal legal advice. Yeah, it's actually going to
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: be a treat. Yeah, okay. Let me put it this way.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: Calendar this one, okay? A legal issue of which I
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: actually know what I'm talking about. That's August 26, 2026.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: Handel said he knows what he is talking about legally. Wow. Okay,
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: coming up, of course, we'll talk about Dolly Parton, her background,
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: her influence, a true national treasure. We'll be back with that.
• 29:16
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