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Housing Costs Crippling Americans | California’s Slump · The Bill Handel Show

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Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
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Speaker 1: six forty.
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Speaker 2: Welcome Control k.
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Speaker 3: Now, we have KFI AM six forty Bill Handle here.
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Speaker 2: Good morning.
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Speaker 3: It is a Monday morning, January twenty sixth. Some of
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Speaker 3: the stories we are looking at. The American Academy Pediatrics
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Speaker 3: released its updated recommendation for childhood vaccines and it is
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Speaker 3: different than what the CDC has recommended. And then besides
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Speaker 3: the storm, which is a just nasty, nasty, deadly storm
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Speaker 3: which twenty people have already died across a two thousand
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Speaker 3: mile front, and I mean life threatening.
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Speaker 2: We're one hundreds.
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Speaker 3: I think a million people are out of power throughout
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Speaker 3: the South in the Midwest. That that's a bad one.
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Speaker 3: And then of course the second shooting, the second fatality
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Speaker 3: in Minneapolis in a couple of three weeks, with the
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Speaker 3: shooting of that icy U nurse, and that's really controversial,
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Speaker 3: as the government has says, the ICE has said he
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Speaker 3: came to kill ICE agents and will not say that
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Speaker 3: he did or did not brandish a gun. He did
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Speaker 3: not if you look at the video he was shot.
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Speaker 3: And the argument is he was there to kill us.
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Speaker 3: It was self defense, and the administration ICE and Homeland
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Speaker 3: Security said, yep, yep, he a domestic terrorist who was there. Okay, Now,
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Speaker 3: housing costs, and I'm going to do a story about
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Speaker 3: little next segment about how home sellers actually outnumber buyers,
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Speaker 3: and I'll talk more about that. But the bottom line
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Speaker 3: is we need houses and there is a huge shortage.
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Speaker 3: Just in California. We have to add one hundred and
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Speaker 3: eighty thousand housing units every year to keep up with
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Speaker 3: the demand. Now, this has to do with affordability. People
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Speaker 3: can't afford houses anymore. Between mortgage payments and six percent
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Speaker 3: mortgage interest, which actually is pretty low, except people still
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Speaker 3: remember three percent. A lot of us who are looking
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Speaker 3: for houses, we've been priced out. Now the President, god
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Speaker 3: bless them, says the problem has been solved.
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Speaker 2: You can afford a house. The issue is done.
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Speaker 3: And if you are talking even using the word affordability,
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Speaker 3: that's a Democrat hoax. So for those of you that
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Speaker 3: believe that housing costs are in fact down and you
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Speaker 3: have been told and think you can't afford a house,
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Speaker 3: that's not true. The problem is over. It is done,
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Speaker 3: and that's the official statement. Well is it costing the
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Speaker 3: president grief? You bet it is, because you know This
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Speaker 3: is one of those where you know, if the President
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Speaker 3: says it's sonny outside when it's raining, you can say
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Speaker 3: it's sonny outside when it's raining. That is not going
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Speaker 3: to change your life so much. You just come off
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Speaker 3: like a nutcase. But if the administration says you can
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Speaker 3: afford a house, the problem of affordability is done. It
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Speaker 3: was a Democrat hoax to begin with. I'm going to
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Speaker 3: suggest go out and buy a house. Who doesn't want
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Speaker 3: a house? It's there, you can afford it.
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Speaker 2: But wait a minute, no I can't.
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Speaker 3: Oh, yes you can. The administration says you can afford
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Speaker 3: a house. Therefore you can afford a house.
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Speaker 2: No, I can't.
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Speaker 3: Prices are down, right, That problem is over. Inflation is over.
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Speaker 3: Prices have dropped. Your grocery bill has dropped significantly.
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Speaker 2: Since Biden left office.
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Speaker 3: And the President promised that, well, he was a little
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Speaker 3: bit off, and I'll give him this one. He said
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Speaker 3: prices would drop in half day one. Okay, I'll argue
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Speaker 3: that that's a little bit of puffree. All right, that's
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Speaker 3: just to make a point.
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Speaker 2: I get that.
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Speaker 3: But the other side of it is he legitimately says
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Speaker 3: prices are down, you are not paying three dollars more
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Speaker 3: for a pound of beef. I was looking at making
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Speaker 3: a roast yesterday. I was at Costco a couple of
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Speaker 3: days ago, and I'm used to, I don't know, for
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Speaker 3: a nice piece of meat, what eight ninety nine pound
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Speaker 3: and maybe nine ninety nine a pound? There it was
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Speaker 3: thirteen ninety nine. Because here's the math, thirteen ninety nine
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Speaker 3: is less than eight ninety nine. Wait a minute, Bill,
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Speaker 3: that's not true. Yes it is.
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Speaker 2: It absolutely is.
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Speaker 3: Five dollars more is actually five dollars less.
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Speaker 2: Okay, thank you. Well this is a shocker.
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Speaker 3: Even some Republicans doing the math are saying, well, maybe
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Speaker 3: five dollars more really is five dollars more, And maybe
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Speaker 3: I really can't afford a house, even though I'm being
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Speaker 3: told I can buy a house. And I'll tell you why.
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Speaker 3: Because the home sellers want real money. And when you
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Speaker 3: go to the store and you're there at the checkout counter,
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Speaker 3: or you're at the sell the self checkout, and when
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Speaker 3: you ring it up and it says thirteen ninety nine a.
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Speaker 2: Pound, you go, that's wrong, that's wrong. Okay.
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Speaker 3: I haven't seen that happen yet, have you. I haven't
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Speaker 3: seen anybody sit there and start, you know, bitching and
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Speaker 3: moaning and telling the clerk saying, oh, no, no, no,
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Speaker 3: it's this isn't thirteen dollars, this is eight dollars. What
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Speaker 3: planet are you guys on? Because thirteen dollars is less
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Speaker 3: than eight dollars. You don't think we've gone crazy. You
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Speaker 3: don't think that this is a nuts so time that
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Speaker 3: we're living in.
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Speaker 2: You got me on that one, you really do?
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Speaker 3: All right, let's move over to Oh and then of
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Speaker 3: course what's going on in Minneapolis with all the demonstrations
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Speaker 3: and the second shooting of a protester.
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Speaker 2: Within a couple of weeks.
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Speaker 3: Now, if you were buying a house a couple of
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Speaker 3: years ago, like I was, there weren't many houses available,
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Speaker 3: and when I bought my home, I paid pretty much
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Speaker 3: top of the market. If I were buying this house today,
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Speaker 3: I would I'd be paying close to the same amount
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Speaker 3: of money. Maybe because houses around me that are for
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Speaker 3: sale not bad. Maybe they've gone down five percent, which
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Speaker 3: is still substantial. But based on what we saw over
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Speaker 3: the last few years, prices for homes have exploded and
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Speaker 3: a lot of people just can't afford a home anymore,
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Speaker 3: which means that they are not buying, which means all
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Speaker 3: of a sudden, you see, home sellers are going, wait
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Speaker 3: a minute, we don't have enough buyers out there, and
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Speaker 3: now they're fighting for buyers. It has completely reversed and
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Speaker 3: in December forty seven percent more home sellers. We're talking
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Speaker 3: six hundred and thirty one thousand across the country that
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Speaker 3: we're looking to sell their homes. That's the largest gaps
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Speaker 3: is twenty thirteen, and it is not doing any better.
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Speaker 3: What's going on, Well, home buyers are backing off due
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Speaker 3: to stubbornly high home prices and mortgage rates. But that's
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Speaker 3: not true because the administration are actually telling us home
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Speaker 3: prices have dropped dramatically and you can afford a house. Well,
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Speaker 3: the reality is you can't because the prices on homes
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Speaker 3: have just exploded. You've got the mortgage rates, even though
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Speaker 3: it's six percent, which is normally a low mortgage rate,
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Speaker 3: it's not when people still remember three percent mortgage rates.
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Speaker 3: You've got layoffs, political uncertainty, people don't know, you know,
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Speaker 3: what's going to be happening and be able to keep
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Speaker 3: their jobs. Man, is that changed from twenty twenty one
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Speaker 3: when bidding wars were routine got You remember the bidding wars,
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Speaker 3: and people were buying homes a site unseen, and they
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Speaker 3: were buying garbage because it was just desperation time. And
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Speaker 3: when I found my house, it hit all the boxes,
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Speaker 3: but it was it was substantially more than I had anticipated.
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Speaker 3: But then every home I've ever bought was more than
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Speaker 3: I anticipated. But since prices go up and up and
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Speaker 3: up and up, and it was one of the greatest
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Speaker 3: values you can do if you buy a house. I mean,
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Speaker 3: I've been buying home since my twenties, and what I
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Speaker 3: would do is sell and then buy a home that
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Speaker 3: was more expensive than sell. To the point when I
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Speaker 3: sold the Persian Palace, there was no chance I could
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Speaker 3: ever afford to buy the Persian Palace at the point
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Speaker 3: I sold it, I just couldn't do it. So at
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Speaker 3: this point, where is this happening more than other places?
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Speaker 3: Actually the Sun Belt? And why is it happening in
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Speaker 3: the Sun Belt, Well, these were boom towns and there
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Speaker 3: was new construction, a huge wave of new construction, and
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Speaker 3: it added supply, and that helped slow down prices. Because
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Speaker 3: what happens when it's boom times people start building, but
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Speaker 3: it's two years down the pike before the homes are
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Speaker 3: ready to sell, and when things change, whoops, you've got
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Speaker 3: too many homes.
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Speaker 2: By the way.
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Speaker 3: In Austin one hundred and twenty eight percent more home
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Speaker 3: sellers than buyers in December, Fort Lauderdale one hundred and
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Speaker 3: twenty five percent more, Nashville one hundred and eleven percent more.
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Speaker 2: This is all the sun Belt states.
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Speaker 3: And also people who bought near the peak of the
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Speaker 3: pandemic market have been slow to reset their expectation. If
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Speaker 3: I wanted to sell my house today, well, I have
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Speaker 3: an expectation of what it should cost, what I should
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Speaker 3: sell it for, And here's the reality.
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Speaker 2: It's not going to sell for that much.
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Speaker 3: And people are looking at you bought a house two years,
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Speaker 3: three years ago, and you knew it was going up
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Speaker 3: ten percent a year. It hasn't it stopped, And they're
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Speaker 3: your expectations. So you list it for two hundred thousand
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Speaker 3: dollars more than it's actually worth in the market, and
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Speaker 3: you're gonna sit on it.
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Speaker 2: You're going to sit on it.
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Speaker 3: So right now, this moment, if you're trying to sell
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Speaker 3: a house, you're not even close to the position you
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Speaker 3: were in four years ago.
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Speaker 2: Uh, Neil. You well, you bought your house a long
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Speaker 2: time ago, right, yeah, but the.
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Speaker 1: Cabin we bought within the last four years, and that's
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Speaker 1: probably up fifty grand maybe more.
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Speaker 2: Okay, and you paid what for it? Can I am?
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Speaker 2: Or of course four hundred somewhere it's up. It's so,
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Speaker 2: it's up ten percent.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's up pretty significantly. You know, we bought our
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Speaker 1: home fifteen sixteen years sixteen. Oh yeah, now it is
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Speaker 1: vertually tripled. Oh it what we got it right before
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Speaker 1: things exploded and got out of our range.
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Speaker 2: I couldn't buy it now.
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Speaker 3: It's exactly the point with most people. But you want
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Speaker 3: to know something, it's actually it's going to cost me
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Speaker 3: if I want to buy your house less than what
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Speaker 3: you paid for it.
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Speaker 2: Do you know that that right? Yes, that's right. You
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Speaker 2: couldn't live in much. Actually, you like my house, but
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Speaker 2: it's I do like your house threw. No, it's not fruitfrough.
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Speaker 3: It's a very old house built at the turn of
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Speaker 3: the last century. And it's twelve yeah, neat neat house.
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Speaker 3: And of course Neil has done stuff with it that
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Speaker 3: very few people do.
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Speaker 2: All right, let's go to Welle.
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Speaker 3: A quick word about President Trump and Gavin Newsom, as
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Speaker 3: you know, they are probably the most public of all enemies.
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Speaker 3: There is nothing that the President is doing that Newsom likes.
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Speaker 3: There is nothing that Newsom is doing then the President likes.
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Speaker 3: A matter of fact, Newsom I think is going to
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Speaker 3: be running for president. While he is going to run
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Speaker 3: for president, of course, but a lot of his platform
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Speaker 3: is going to be anti Trump and anti Trump policies.
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Speaker 3: Does that work or not? I have no idea. But
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Speaker 3: in the meantime, evs are a big deal in the
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Speaker 3: world of Gavin Newsom, and he has unfurled a two
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Speaker 3: hundred million dollar plan to revive California's stalling electric car market,
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Speaker 3: and it has just a few fundamental problems. Two hundred
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Speaker 3: million dollars ain't enough money. It may not reach consumers
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Speaker 3: quickly enough is another problem. And who gets the money?
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Speaker 3: Is it a means tested or does everybody get the money?
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Speaker 3: When there was a seventy five hundred dollars rebate from
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Speaker 3: the Feds, everybody got it, didn't matter how wealthy you were,
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Speaker 3: there was a rebate from the state, everybody got it. Well,
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Speaker 3: now the argument is the money is limited, even two
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Speaker 3: hundred million dollars. But this is California a lot of people,
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Speaker 3: and so they're talking about okay, trying to figure out
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Speaker 3: a means tested and that's up in the air. And
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Speaker 3: now this budget proposal with a two hundred million dollars
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Speaker 3: came after the President dismantled federal electric vehicle incentives, blocked
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Speaker 3: the clean vehicle mandate of California, and two hundred million
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Speaker 3: dollars would cover about twenty percent of last year's EV sales.
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Speaker 3: That's the problem is who is going to buy an
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Speaker 3: EV if there aren't enough programs, rebates, incentive programs out there.
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Speaker 2: That's number one.
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Speaker 3: And in order for California to meet its requirements, it's
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Speaker 3: self imposed exhaust or climate requirements. Evs have to be
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Speaker 3: a big part of the equation. Can't be done without EV's. Also,
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Speaker 3: I believe it can't be done without nuclear power, but
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Speaker 3: that's a different issue. I'm a huge fan of nukes.
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Speaker 3: I love the idea of people living near a nuclear
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Speaker 3: power plant never having to have the use night lights
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Speaker 3: because the scroat just glows blue and it just works out. Well, Neil,
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Speaker 3: you're shaking your head. So the point is that the
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Speaker 3: fight continues on with evs. Now a personal note, and
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Speaker 3: I think one of the reasons evs are and are
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Speaker 3: selling less and lessumber one, they're still pretty expensive. Number
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Speaker 3: two and this is the real big one, and that
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Speaker 3: is at this point, I wouldn't buy an EV if
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Speaker 3: it was less money than a gas powered car because
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Speaker 3: there aren't enough charging stations. There has to be a
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Speaker 3: connection between charging stations and electric vehicles, and there aren't
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Speaker 3: enough of them. And you, of course you can find
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Speaker 3: go to your phone if you have any kind of
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Speaker 3: a program, which I do, and it tells me where
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Speaker 3: I can find an electric public charging station anywhere near me.
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Speaker 3: There isn't one within seven miles of my house. Now
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Speaker 3: there are more than a few gas stations within seven
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Speaker 3: miles of my house. And so since charging stations have
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Speaker 3: not kept up with the.
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Speaker 2: Sale of evs, I'm out.
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Speaker 3: I bought one. It's a great little car. I loved,
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Speaker 3: and I have a charger at home. I set up
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Speaker 3: a charging station in my garage, which a lot of
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Speaker 3: people do, and I go at night, I plug the
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Speaker 3: puppy in, and for me, electricity is absolutely free because
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Speaker 3: I have a solar power I have solar panels, and
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Speaker 3: I have a battery system in my house. So I'm
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Speaker 3: literally not paying for electricity, so I don't pay for gas,
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Speaker 3: and I don't pay for electricity that surpasses the gas issue.
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Speaker 3: And I'm still getting rid of my IV why because
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Speaker 3: of range anxiety.
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Speaker 2: That's the other issue.
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Speaker 3: Range anxiety that when I start driving, I literally have
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Speaker 3: to figure out how many miles am I going to go?
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Speaker 2: Is there a charging station?
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Speaker 3: Now? There is a charging station at the station, which
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Speaker 3: I use, And even though I probably don't need it
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Speaker 3: to go up and down from my house to when
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Speaker 3: I go to KFI from Orange County, I still charge
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Speaker 3: because of range and anxiety. And EVS are having a
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Speaker 3: real problem between those of us who have him and
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Speaker 3: those who are are proposing more and more evs. And
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Speaker 3: the administration, and we're talking about the federal administration. Donald
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Speaker 3: Trump does not like electric vehicles. It's that simple. Donald
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Speaker 3: Trump likes fossil fuel companies. He likes oil companies, and
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Speaker 3: oil companies sell oil, and they sell oil which is
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Speaker 3: made into gasoline. And that's where his political views are.
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Speaker 3: He's just an oil guy and not an electric vehicle guy.
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Speaker 3: Although natural gas is used to power power plants and
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Speaker 3: so therefore it's fossil fuels being used there. But I
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Speaker 3: am getting rid of my I lease the car when
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Speaker 3: I leased as supposed to buying it.
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Speaker 2: Thank goodness, I lease it.
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Speaker 3: And come my birthday August twenty five, which, by the way,
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Speaker 3: if it falls on a weekday, I will be coming
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Speaker 3: in Amy, who is not here today because it's her birthday.
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Speaker 3: I will work on my birthday because to be born
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Speaker 3: to me is not that great a It's not that
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Speaker 3: big an issue. I don't think it shows the accomplishments
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Speaker 3: that I've made in my life.
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Speaker 4: Well, technically tomorrow is her birthday. She took, so she
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Speaker 4: wants to be celebrated tomorrow.
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Speaker 2: Well can't we celebrate her today? And then she will
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Speaker 2: ignore her tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: And say no, sorry, you were gone for your birthday
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Speaker 1: and that's when we celebrated.
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Speaker 4: That's on you.
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Speaker 3: Then if anybody bring if anybody buys me a birthday present,
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Speaker 3: it is instantly regifted.
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Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, this year my holiday present.
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Speaker 3: You guys went out of your minds with holiday presents,
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Speaker 3: and I have to tell you I don't appreciate them.
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Speaker 1: You told me the cutting board I gave you was
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Speaker 1: a chunk of wood.
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Speaker 2: Yeah it was. It was a shoung. I'm just not impressed.
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Speaker 2: Just one quick story.
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Speaker 3: When I took Neil to Neil and I go to
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Speaker 3: eat meals on a regular basis and then early on
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Speaker 3: because I always pay, because it's that's yeah, I know.
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Speaker 3: And here is why my rule is always whoever makes
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Speaker 3: the most money pays. And I have friends that are
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Speaker 3: richer than I am, and I just give them the
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Speaker 3: bill because I'm not going to pay for a meal
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Speaker 3: with them at all.
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Speaker 2: So after the fifth.
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Speaker 3: Or eighth meal with Neil, I asked for the I
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Speaker 3: went to the bathroom, came back and asked for the check,
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Speaker 3: and the waitress, the female waitress person said, it's been
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Speaker 3: taken care of. I go, what do you mean it's
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Speaker 3: been taken care of? Well, the gentleman you're with paid
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Speaker 3: the bill. And I looked at Neil and I said, Neil,
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Speaker 3: let me tell you something. Not not only do I
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Speaker 3: not appreciate it, not only do I not thank you.
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Speaker 3: Whatever respect I had for you just went down ten points.
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Speaker 3: And ever since then, if the bill is put in
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Speaker 3: front of Neil and we're going and we're eating out,
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Speaker 3: he will take that little bill. The what do they
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Speaker 3: call a little the envelope thing, little tray. Yeah, the tray,
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Speaker 3: and he throws it out in me like a frisbee.
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Speaker 1: Never again, ever again, absolutely true story.
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Speaker 2: And I've never paid again.
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Speaker 1: I will push it towards him while staring him in
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Speaker 1: his stupid eyes.
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Speaker 2: Never again. That's right.
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Speaker 3: And I tend to take everybody that starts working with
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Speaker 3: me out at least to one breakfast or lunshaw. I
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Speaker 3: will have I taken out you out to lunch. Yet,
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Speaker 3: that is correct? Okay, coming up, Okay, that's also correct.
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Speaker 3: All right, okay, I've given that up. I haven't decided yet.
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Speaker 2: New Year, New you.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's my resolution that I'm going to actually make
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Speaker 3: and I'm going to be able to keep it all right.
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Speaker 3: my colon and that was from my colonoscopy.
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Speaker 2: And I'll tell you one of them why I did
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Speaker 2: that number one.
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Speaker 3: Because it's of course it's ridiculous and it's a typical
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Speaker 3: Handle stuff. But also it's important for you to get
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Speaker 3: a colonoscopy. It's a lifesaver, it really is.
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Speaker 2: It is.
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Speaker 3: It's I know, headther is going to have a colonoscopy
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Speaker 3: next week, right right.
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Speaker 4: I have a history of colon cancer in my family,
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Speaker 4: so my doctor wants me to, yeah, earlier than what
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Speaker 4: I think is recommended. Yeah, So I'm I'm anxious about
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Speaker 4: it for multiple reasons.
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Speaker 2: But I know, I mean, what why are you anxious
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Speaker 2: about it?
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Speaker 4: I don't like any major medical procedure, and it feels like,
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Speaker 4: you know, this feels like something big. But I'm also
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Speaker 4: nervous about the prep I've heard awful.
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Speaker 2: The prep is horrible. I know.
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Speaker 4: I'm like, I don't want to do that.
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Speaker 3: I know.
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Speaker 2: The prep is I mean, it's got awful.
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Speaker 3: First of all, you drink a gallon of a gallon
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Speaker 3: of this liquid the night before, and it's ironically named
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Speaker 3: go lightly, which I've always wondered.
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Speaker 2: I'm not kidding you. That is literally the name of
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Speaker 2: the product.
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Speaker 3: And so you're and it's to cause, of course, uh,
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Speaker 3: your entire bottl intestinal system to empty out. So you're
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Speaker 3: in the bathroom a lot. Let me give you just
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Speaker 3: a couple of pieces of advice. Number one, don't even
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Speaker 3: bother with the bathroom. Just go out in the backyard
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Speaker 3: with the garden host. Oh my god, you might as well.
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Speaker 3: You know, it's not bad. It's an easy procedure. He's
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Speaker 3: being hyperbolic.
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Speaker 2: Great, thank you.
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Speaker 4: Well, I just there any kind of procedure or anything
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Speaker 4: we have to go under when they're like you have
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Speaker 4: to bring someone to drive you home and make sure
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Speaker 4: they're you know, that makes me ancient.
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Speaker 3: Oh they have, I mean they're it's they're gonna knock
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Speaker 3: you out. And you have one of two ways of
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Speaker 3: doing Obviously, you get the or you can't get the
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Speaker 3: twilights leap was what they call it, where it's basically
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Speaker 3: I think it's nitrous oxide, the same stuff they use
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Speaker 3: in dentist's office. Or you can do what I did,
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Speaker 3: and that's asked for the propofol. Yeah, yeah, that knocks
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Speaker 3: you out completely and that extra extra caution, but you.
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Speaker 4: I think that's what they're doing. They there is going
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Speaker 4: to be I think an anesthesiologist there, so I think, well.
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Speaker 2: Then you'll be propofol.
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Speaker 3: If there's an anesthesiologist there there, then they're going to
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Speaker 3: use propofol. And you're not going to I mean, you're
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Speaker 3: going to get on the table and all. Just what
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Speaker 3: happened to me is I saw the anesthesiologist. The guy
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Speaker 3: didn't even speak English, and he there was the syringe
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Speaker 3: and all I saw was they ran an ivy and
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Speaker 3: I saw him press the syringe. And the next thing
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Speaker 3: I remember, because you remember nothing, The next thing I
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Speaker 3: remember it was I was in the recovery room.
25:50
Speaker 2: Quick word about the recovery room.
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Speaker 3: That's the fun part is there are bays, you know,
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Speaker 3: with the curtains that separate the beds, like twenty of
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Speaker 3: them on side, and they will not let you out
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Speaker 3: unless you have past gas because you have I'm serious. Yeah, no,
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Speaker 3: because you have to because you have CO two in
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Speaker 3: your system.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, no.
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Speaker 3: The sound effects are tremendous as you as you enjoy yourself.
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Speaker 3: And then not this time, but the last time I
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Speaker 3: had colonoscopy I've had.
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Speaker 2: This is number two.
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Speaker 3: I remember I was in one of these bays and
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Speaker 3: you know, I mean, I'm listening to everybody do their
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Speaker 3: thing too and along and it's just kind of fun.
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Speaker 3: And then at the far end I heard what sounded
26:38
Speaker 3: like an elephant in heat trumpeting. And even the nurses
26:45
Speaker 3: were looking down and they see this every day. They
26:49
Speaker 3: were looking over there and going, wow, that's impressive.
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Speaker 2: Oh my god. Yeah, so you'll do fine, you'll.
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Speaker 4: Do fine, laughing at that, but I also, yeah, I
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Speaker 4: just will not be able to keep a straight face
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Speaker 4: if there's a whole row of people, just.
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Speaker 3: Whole row of people all going into It's like a
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Speaker 3: xylophone of farts, is what it is.
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Speaker 4: I'm totally gonna think of you. Then when I'm laying
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Speaker 4: there and everyone's just ripping.
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Speaker 3: Along, just toot and tooting along. Oh right, guys, all right,
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Speaker 3: we are completely done. You're welcome on this Monday morning.
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Speaker 3: Gary and Shannon are up next. Heather is gone for today,
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Speaker 3: Amy is back, and the rest of us are here.
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Speaker 3: There's a you know, and don't forget my kolonosopy picture.
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Speaker 3: As I said, it looks like the inside of a
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Speaker 3: Japanese paper lanard, which it does.
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Speaker 2: Just saying I haven't eaten.
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Speaker 1: Toda Ley said, Uh yeah, we gonna.
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Speaker 3: Have a good time with all of it. This is
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