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GKN Aerospace | Los Angeles Crime · 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: I mean, good morning, Tuesday, May twenty six.
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Speaker 3: The unofficial start of summer summer officially starts, I think
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Speaker 3: June twenty first, right the summer solstice, and that's when
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Speaker 3: you go to England and Stonechinge and you see those
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Speaker 3: druids that are dressed in bathrobes and they're dancing around
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Speaker 3: the stones and singing weird stuff and just just tremendous.
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Speaker 3: I I love stuff like that. And so we've had
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Speaker 3: a lot to cover today, but let me get into
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Speaker 3: what happened over the last couple of days. If you
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Speaker 3: were watching it all, and the big news in Orange County,
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Speaker 3: actually it was the big news all over the country
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Speaker 3: was what was happening in Garden Grove And there was
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Speaker 3: that tank belonging to GKN Aerospace, which is a manufacturing
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Speaker 3: company based in the UK actually Nautic Kingdom, and it
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Speaker 3: produces jet engine parts, landing gear and components for military
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Speaker 3: and civilian aircraft. Sixteen thousand people are employed overall across
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Speaker 3: the world, with only five hundred and forty at the
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Speaker 3: location in Garden Grove where there was that leak in
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Speaker 3: a tank and the chemical that was there. Boy, it
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Speaker 3: was dangerous stuff because if that tank exploded, it would
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Speaker 3: be catastrophic. They, as a matter of fact, evacuated fifty
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Speaker 3: thousand people within a ten mile radius of this of
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Speaker 3: this tank, and now it's down to sixteen thousand. That
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Speaker 3: was really fear of it exploding. It was hit or miss,
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Speaker 3: and it turned out to be pretty good news. By
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Speaker 3: the way, the products are used by Airbus, Boeing, Bombader,
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Speaker 3: the space industry. Now a lot of those businesses are
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Speaker 3: Southern California businesses. Northrop Grumling, Lucky Martin, Boeing, RTX all
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Speaker 3: have substantial operations here in Southern California because aerospace is
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Speaker 3: a huge part of our industrial base here in Southern California,
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Speaker 3: having come from World War Two actually where many many
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Speaker 3: of the factories here were converted and airplanes were built.
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Speaker 3: Matter of fact, I think SpaceX is an old hangar
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Speaker 3: or an old facility that was owned by one of
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Speaker 3: the major plants that it was built for the aerospace
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Speaker 3: industry during World War Two, and also the jet age
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Speaker 3: of the fifties and sixties. All of that has to
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Speaker 3: do with Southern California. Now, this particular facility was undergoing
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Speaker 3: an expansion because they were going to create a new
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Speaker 3: production line, and all of a sudden, guess what a big,
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Speaker 3: big problem because you had this chemical that is incredibly
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Speaker 3: toxic and had that tank exploded. And what ended up
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Speaker 3: happening is the temperature of the tank was going up
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Speaker 3: and up and up, and once it hits.
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Speaker 2: Critical mass, this thing explodes.
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Speaker 3: And the way it was being described by the authorities,
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Speaker 3: that would have had a catastrophic effect. That was the
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Speaker 3: word that was used, catastrophic effects. So if you saw
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Speaker 3: any of the video, you saw fire. You saw fire
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Speaker 3: hoses and fire trucks just throwing as much water as
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Speaker 3: possible thing to cool it down. Now, let's talk a
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Speaker 3: little bit about g k N Aerospace. It's had a
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Speaker 3: couple of problems. For example, air quality nine hundred thousand
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Speaker 3: dollars that they paid in fines to the South Coast
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Speaker 3: Air Quality Management District permitting violation operation, operating modified or
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Speaker 3: unregistered equipment, exceeding emission limits, volatile organic compounds. They also
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Speaker 3: have workplace the machine violations. Now this goes back eight
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Speaker 3: ten years, but of course when these stories come out,
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Speaker 3: these stories come out. Okay, penalized for failing to inspect
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Speaker 3: and maintain active machinery, improperly covering cooling tanks, adding covers
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Speaker 3: to the machines without following safety procedures. Now a lot
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Speaker 3: of that is a lot of companies do this, but
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Speaker 3: improperly covering cooling tanks. These tanks have to be cooled otherwise.
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Speaker 3: There's some big, big problems that occur, like a tank exploding.
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Speaker 3: And guess what again, when's the last time when you
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Speaker 3: had some kind of a problem with an oil refinery
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Speaker 3: or gas refinery and fifty thousand people had to be evacuated.
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Speaker 3: I don't remember the last time that happened. Amy, you've
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Speaker 3: been covering the news for a whole bunch of years.
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Speaker 3: Do you remember fifty thousand people evacuated because of one
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Speaker 3: tank one incident?
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Speaker 2: No? No, I mean it's.
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Speaker 3: Really crazy, and there's some waste disposal stuff. So the
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Speaker 3: bottom line is it's going to be okay. Sixteen thousand
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Speaker 3: people are still being are still evacuated. The other people
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Speaker 3: have gone home. Now, this was Disney. You're connected with
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Speaker 3: Disney in a big, big way. I'm assuming Disneyland shut
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Speaker 3: down because they're only four miles.
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Speaker 4: No Disneyland, as far as I know, I wasn't at
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Speaker 4: the park this weekend. I think Disneyland was open and
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Speaker 4: send her daughter was working, and her daughter works at Disneyland.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you got me on that one, because if you
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Speaker 3: have an evacuation area, well maybe Disney is exempt because
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Speaker 3: Disney is Disney.
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Speaker 4: Well, they weren't within the zone.
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Speaker 3: I think they were. They were only four miles away.
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Speaker 3: Maybe I'm wrong on that one, but that was my understanding.
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Speaker 3: But okay, I may be wrong, but then again I'm
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Speaker 3: probably not because I'm very, very very wrong. Please don't laugh,
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Speaker 3: Come on, Amy, straight face please. Oh yes, you were
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Speaker 3: by laughing at me.
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Speaker 2: Got me on that one. Okay, there you go. All right.
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Speaker 3: The mayor race is coming up and Mayor Karen bay
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Speaker 3: Bass in the June second primary. She's running and she
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Speaker 3: has made of course she is running for reelection. Public
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Speaker 3: safety a central issue. Former reality TV star Spencer Pratt
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Speaker 3: has attack Bass over homelessness, public drug use, and crime.
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Speaker 3: Council member snith Ya Rahman has criticized police pay raises
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Speaker 3: because spending on the LAPD is coming at the expense
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Speaker 3: of other city services. So bottom line, which on the
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Speaker 3: homelessness issue. That's absolutely correct. There's no question about it.
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Speaker 3: On the police issue, that's somewhat because money is being
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Speaker 3: spent and has been for raises, and that means that
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Speaker 3: other services. When you spend more on one service, you
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Speaker 3: know it's a some zero game and guess what happens.
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Speaker 3: You know, something's got to give right now. When it
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Speaker 3: comes to crime, this is an interesting one because since
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Speaker 3: the nineteen sixties, the population of Los Angeles has doubled.
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Speaker 3: We're talking about the city of LA It's gone from
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Speaker 3: about two million to over four mill or almost four
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Speaker 3: million people. Homicides are down the levels not seen since then.
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Speaker 3: Neighborhoods are washing gang violence. Remember how often we talk
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Speaker 3: about gang violence not so much anymore.
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Speaker 2: That's way down.
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Speaker 3: Follow home robberies, those are way down, except it is
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Speaker 3: perceived to be way up because everything that happens is
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Speaker 3: hosted instantly on the internet. Every crime that is committed,
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Speaker 3: there's some video someplace that's put up on the internet
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Speaker 3: or on the news. So we're looking at crime as
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Speaker 3: a huge issue when in reality, if you look at
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Speaker 3: the figures, crime is really way down. As a matter
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Speaker 3: of fact, if you look at the actual crime rate,
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Speaker 3: the city is safer than it has been in generations,
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Speaker 3: although we all think or a lot of people think
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Speaker 3: exactly the opposite. So one of the big issues Karen
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Speaker 3: Bass is zero in a homelessness, public drug use one
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Speaker 3: hundred percent true, and it's argued that she hasn't delivered
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Speaker 3: in public safety.
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Speaker 2: On public safety and probably true.
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Speaker 3: How the police department is operated, h I don't know,
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Speaker 3: and how it's been funded. I mean that's a that
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Speaker 3: is a legitimate complaint and a legitimate concern.
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Speaker 2: Now you've got Pratt, Pratt who is is.
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Speaker 3: The former reality star, and Pratt is one of the
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Speaker 3: front runners. I mean, it's going to be Pratt, It's
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Speaker 3: going to be Ramen, or it's going to be Karen Bass.
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Speaker 3: Pratt has been active on social media. He has shared
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Speaker 3: ai videos created by his fans depicting him as a
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Speaker 3: superhero coming to the rescue of the city that you
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Speaker 3: don't often see. And he's rallied against thousands of drug
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Speaker 3: related calls that the emergency officials respond to every month,
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Speaker 3: and he said if elected mayor, he would order the
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Speaker 3: police and fire chiefs and the county health director to
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Speaker 3: treat every encampment as a grave disability zone. I don't
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Speaker 3: even know what that means, but a grave disability zone.
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Speaker 3: I'm assuming that there is going to be a government
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Speaker 3: thrown at that. Now Ramen has argued that Bass has
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Speaker 3: thrown too much money at the LAPD, raising raises for
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Speaker 3: public officers, police officers coming at the expense of other
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Speaker 3: basic services apart maintenance street paving. That's true because when
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Speaker 3: you give one department and there's only so much money
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Speaker 3: you have, As I said, something's going to give now,
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Speaker 3: Raman said, the lap pay increases have bankrupted the city
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Speaker 3: and she is a more sensible alternative. And now when
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Speaker 3: she first ran for office, this is Ramen. In twenty twenty,
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Speaker 3: she called for defunding the police, an LAPD should be much.
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Speaker 2: Smaller, specialized armed force.
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Speaker 3: Since then, of course, she has voted for increase in
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Speaker 3: police races. Because defunding the police is not particularly popular.
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Speaker 3: I don't know how many people are saying, well, there's
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Speaker 3: defunding the police, and then there's dismantling the police, and
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Speaker 3: the two are often conflated. Defunding the police is not
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Speaker 3: spending any more money or.
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Speaker 2: Cutting the budget.
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Speaker 3: Still there's a police force there, but cutting the budget
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Speaker 3: fewer officers. Different ways of approaching the way crime is handled,
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Speaker 3: for example, arguing that instead of police officers showing up,
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Speaker 3: you have social workers showing up, and the police officers
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Speaker 3: are tremendously in favor of that because their argument is
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Speaker 3: and if I was a cop, I would have the
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Speaker 3: exact same argument. Hey, if someone is going to get
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Speaker 3: shot and have their heads blown off, let it be
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Speaker 3: a social worker instead of a policeman.
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Speaker 2: I'm okay with that if I'm a cop. Okay.
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Speaker 3: Do social workers wear vests? I don't think they do
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Speaker 3: when they're sent out.
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Speaker 2: Bulletproof vests, I think so. I think so traditionally not okay?
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Speaker 2: Or are they get armed?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I can just see social workers coming out and say,
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Speaker 3: please put that gun down as shots are being fired
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Speaker 3: all over the place.
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Speaker 1: I'm actually impressed. Nythia Rahman didn't say we should just
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Speaker 1: stop funding the police and have puppies. Puppies arrive on
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Speaker 1: scene of crimes, because who doesn't love puppies.
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Speaker 2: She is a maroon. But it's just as I love politics.
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Speaker 2: I love politics.
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Speaker 3: But the bottom line is, as we're going to hear
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Speaker 3: about crime, it has dropped. It actually has dropped dramatically.
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Speaker 3: Crime is less.
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Speaker 2: Than it was, is less now than it was when the.
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Speaker 1: Population statistics, and then you have to dig in and ask,
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Speaker 1: are you talking about violent crime?
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Speaker 2: Are your top?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, all of it. It's all gone down, and life
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Speaker 1: crime is not down. There is no way you're going
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Speaker 1: to convince me that this isn't number play.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I think it's legitimate. I think the numbers are down.
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Speaker 2: I really do.
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Speaker 3: I think if you look at people that are absolutely affected,
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Speaker 3: you're going to see that those relatively small Except on
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Speaker 3: the news, they blow up because today every porch pirate,
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Speaker 3: there's a video shows up on the news.
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Speaker 1: Get out, get out of the beautiful, lovely, cared about
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Speaker 1: Orange County and you come stay downtown and you will
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Speaker 1: see that.
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Speaker 2: It is okay. How about this, here's my bucket list.
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Speaker 3: I want to be a social worker downtown and get
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Speaker 3: called out to one of these domestic dispute calls.
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Speaker 2: All right, The Pope.
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Speaker 3: Has issued his first in slickical, in cyclical, in cyclical,
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Speaker 3: big deal. It's forty two thousand words and it is
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Speaker 3: called Magnifica Humanitus.
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Speaker 2: They do this in Latin for some reason.
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Speaker 3: Well, because Latin is the official language of the Vatican.
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Speaker 3: You know, my dad was in the Vatican I'd explained
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Speaker 3: that many many times, as in World War Two, as
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Speaker 3: he was hidden in the Vatican and as they masqueraded
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Speaker 3: as a Jesuit priest.
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Speaker 2: Actually they spoke.
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Speaker 3: Latin to each other in the Vatican. I mean, that's
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Speaker 3: what the priest spoke to each other, Latin for God's sake. Anyway, So,
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Speaker 3: and encyclical is a huge deal in that it lays
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Speaker 3: out it's a sweeping statement that lays out the philosophy
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Speaker 3: of a pope. And there's a lot of history to
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Speaker 3: this too, because his cyclicals go back actually hundreds of years.
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Speaker 3: Pope Leo, as a matter of fact, named himself Pope
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Speaker 3: Leo after Pope Leo, who's in cyclical in eighteen ninety
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Speaker 3: one am a rerun Novarion has television rerums probably not anyway,
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Speaker 3: that was addressing the social consequences of the Industrial Revolution
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Speaker 3: and established the foundation of modern Catholic social teaching on
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Speaker 3: labor technology. And it goes on. You had Pope John
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Speaker 3: the twenty third, his nineteen sixty three in cyclical Possum
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Speaker 3: in terras, Nuclear Threats and world Peace during the Cold
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Speaker 3: War is what he talked about. Then you have Pope
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Speaker 3: Paul the Human a vite issued in sixty eight, and
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Speaker 3: that was over birth control and church authorities. So it's
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Speaker 3: a sign of the times and a sign of the
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Speaker 3: times with this cyclical no surprise the dangers of AI
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Speaker 3: and why is this so dangerous? By the way, Leo
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Speaker 3: is not opposed to AI. I mean, he understands AI
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Speaker 3: is the wave of the future. But he does say
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Speaker 3: and he agrees. And many people in the United States,
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Speaker 3: people that are in the no sociologists and experts and
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Speaker 3: people of religion and people of government say we've got
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Speaker 3: to control AI. We've got to put some guard rails here.
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Speaker 3: And the Pope says, there are no guard rails, and
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Speaker 3: this thing could spin out of control.
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Speaker 2: Government has to have guardrails.
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Speaker 3: Business, the market has to have guard rails because if not, well,
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Speaker 3: we're in for a big, big problem. And he also
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Speaker 3: talks about how AI can be used in warfare, where
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Speaker 3: what ended up happening as warfare became more and more modernized.
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Speaker 3: Nobody looks at anybody else anymore. It's all done with
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Speaker 3: technology now. The missiles hit population centers, the drones hit people,
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Speaker 3: or hit population centers and kill dozens of people at
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Speaker 3: a given time, and you never see those people. And
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Speaker 3: that's one of the fears because AI is going to
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Speaker 3: be even more prevalent in warfare, and that he is
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Speaker 3: particularly concerned, out concerned about. And he also talks about
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Speaker 3: out work centered concerns that rapid automation could displace workers
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Speaker 3: and reshape labor markets in ways that would risk leaving
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Speaker 3: many enforced inactivity.
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Speaker 2: Well, guess what that's going to happen.
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Speaker 3: And his argument is, and it's totally legitimate if you
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Speaker 3: don't have work, if people are not employed, because work, well,
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Speaker 3: dignity is part of work. One of the big problems
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Speaker 3: of unemployment is a loss of dignity, not just a
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Speaker 3: loss of money coming in, but just your basic dignity
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Speaker 3: as a human being to be employed and to do
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Speaker 3: something to feed your family, to take care of your children.
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Speaker 3: And that is very tough when there isn't work. Well,
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Speaker 3: the argument's going to be and he makes it that
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Speaker 3: AI is exploding to the point where work in many,
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Speaker 3: many areas is going to either be dramatically reduced or
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Speaker 3: even non existent, and that has to be looked at
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Speaker 3: and it does what do you do with that?
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 3: I don't know, because by the very definition of AI
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Speaker 3: in the workplace. It reduces the number of people that
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Speaker 3: are working. I was just talking to someone at lunch
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Speaker 3: where a friend of mine who is pretty he's okay
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Speaker 3: with AI. He's in the computer industry because he's pretty
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Speaker 3: rarefied here. He's sort of at the top of the market.
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Speaker 3: But middle management gone, entry level jobs completely gone. I'll
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Speaker 3: talk about that at a twenty because there's a.
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Speaker 2: World to that.
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Speaker 3: And so we have our new in cyclical, and it's
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Speaker 3: about AI and the dangers of AI and so the Pope.
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Speaker 3: I wish he had put in his favorite pizza place
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Speaker 3: in Chicago. I think that would have been given a
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Speaker 3: lot more to the incyclical.
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Speaker 2: People would pay much more attention.
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Speaker 1: Papa John's.
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Speaker 3: I don't think it is Papa John's. I think it's
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Speaker 3: a mom and papa, and I don't think anybody's named John.
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Speaker 3: But he has this one pizza place that he used
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Speaker 3: to go to all the time and he loved their pizzas.
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Speaker 1: I just sat them pop up. Part might be.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, it's very funny. Actually I didn't think about that.
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Speaker 3: I that went over my head very well. My Joe
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Speaker 3: Pop I understand. So it's wasted, but it's actually popa John. Okay,
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Speaker 3: we're done. And in the meantime, before we get to
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Speaker 3: what is going on with FIFA and Iran, neil A
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Speaker 1: Of course, tonight is Mexican Heritage Night. If you've never
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Speaker 1: it's a lot of fun.
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Speaker 3: I no, I was just wondering what you get at
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Speaker 3: Mexican Heritage Night. And you know what do you get,
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Speaker 3: like a jersey or I don't know, whatever it is.
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Speaker 2: You get Iranians.
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Speaker 3: You get Iranians, that's true, you get Iranians. Well said Kono.
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Speaker 3: And with that, let me go right into the story,
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Speaker 3: which I thought I had done the segue, but Kono
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Speaker 3: did it and said Fifas confirmed that the Iranian national
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Speaker 3: team is officially moving its base camp, the World Cup
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Speaker 3: base camp, from the United States to Tijuana, Mexico. And
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Speaker 3: of course they had to do with the ongoing military
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Speaker 3: conflict between the.
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Speaker 2: US and Iran and the influence that it has.
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Speaker 3: On World Cup preparations, and as we know, the war
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Speaker 3: began on February twenty eighth, the US and Israel targets
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Speaker 3: Iran with military strikes that kills their supreme leader Atona
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Speaker 3: Kamani and puts his son in charge. And a week
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Speaker 3: before the war started, the King Sports Complex in Tucson
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Speaker 3: announced that it would be the the Iranian training base.
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Speaker 2: Well.
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Speaker 3: On Saturday, the president of Iran Soccer Federation said, our
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Speaker 3: request to change the team's base from the United States
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Speaker 3: to Mexico was approved.
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Speaker 2: Didn't want to get anywhere in the United States.
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Speaker 3: I mean they're going to play in the United States,
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Speaker 3: of course, in Los Angeles the first two games, but
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Speaker 3: not hangout and train. So, following meetings with FIFA and
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Speaker 3: the World Cup officials in Istanbul last week and webinar
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Speaker 3: meetings that happened on Friday with the FIFA General Secretary,
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Speaker 3: the Iranian said, we will establish our base camp in Tijuana,
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Speaker 3: located near the Pacific Ocean and on the Mexico United
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Speaker 3: States border, explaining where it is but within Mexican teary
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Speaker 3: and the contract will be finalized and there are no issues.
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Speaker 3: It already has been approved by FIFA. Now, FIFA didn't
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Speaker 3: initially confirm the switch, but it did announce yesterday that
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Speaker 3: Iran would be hosted in Tijuana as a base camp
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Speaker 3: Tijuana Centro. And then there's an Aztec name Zola Tiquentela,
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Speaker 3: whatever the hell that is. Mexico's president, Claudia Scheinmam also
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Speaker 3: confirmed that Mexico has agreed to hosting the training camp
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Speaker 3: and hosting the sleep camp because that's where they train
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Speaker 3: and they have Then they're going to come into the
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Speaker 3: United States in the Los Angeles and they are going
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Speaker 3: to play the game and the head down south, and
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Speaker 3: she said we have no reason to deny them the
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Speaker 3: possibility of staying in Mexico, but also warned please don't
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Speaker 3: drink the water now. The decision comes only seventeen days
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Speaker 3: before the World Cup and I was co hosted by
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Speaker 3: the US, Canada and Mexico and this gets underway and
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Speaker 3: I think it's the first time that three countries are
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Speaker 3: hosting the World Cup. And the construction of security apparatus
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Speaker 3: for the team in the United States was already underway
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Speaker 3: and that was the Keno Sports Complex and they were
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Speaker 3: going to come in and staff it and the security.
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Speaker 3: That's basically all done now. One of the more interesting
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Speaker 3: parts of this is President Trump had posted on social
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Speaker 3: media he did not believe it was appropriate for Iran
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Speaker 3: to participate in the tournament at all for their own
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Speaker 3: life and safety, and the Iranian officials were negotiating with
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Speaker 3: FIFA to hold Iran's matches in the World Cup in Mexico,
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Speaker 3: which FIFA said, absolutely not. We are not changing these venues.
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Speaker 3: So FIFA said, you've got to do. You have to
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Speaker 3: play the games in the United States. Read the United States.
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Speaker 3: I read Los Angeles. For the first two games. By
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Speaker 3: the way, New Zealand and Belgium, Iran will be playing.
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Speaker 3: And since then, Trump and Marco Rubrio, the Secretary of State,
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Speaker 3: have said that Iran's team is welcome.
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Speaker 2: So you won't have the Iranian team to kick around anymore.
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Speaker 3: They're gonna be uh sleeping and training in Tijuana and
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Speaker 3: will I'm assuming be bust up from Tijuana to Los Angeles.
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Speaker 2: That's a long bus ride too, isn't it. It's like
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Speaker 2: what four and a.
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Speaker 3: Half five hours from Tijuana, I would think, So I
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Speaker 3: have been there a very, very long time. Once I
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Speaker 3: got they got rid of the donkey shows, I was
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Speaker 3: done with Tijuana completely. Okay, why do you shake your heads?
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Speaker 2: Stop it?
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Speaker 3: Okay, water in southern California always at at risk, and
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Speaker 3: always it comes top of the mind, and I'll explain
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Speaker 3: what's going on, and some changes may occur big time.
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