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Mexico City: The ‘Gringo’ Influx | UFO Files · 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: Good morning. This is a Monday morning, May eighteenth.
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Speaker 3: The war in Iran at a standstill, and the President
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Speaker 3: issued yet another statement saying he's losing patience and this
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Speaker 3: better happened quickly. He is no longer giving timelines because
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Speaker 3: well every timeline is given has not occurred, and so
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Speaker 3: he is done with timeline just as you better make
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Speaker 3: it and make it quick. He is stuck between a
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Speaker 3: rock and a hard place, and that is his credibility
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Speaker 3: in terms of Iran and this timeline business, I think
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Speaker 3: has been hurt. And at the same time, full scale
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Speaker 3: war with Iran is going to be problematic, even though
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Speaker 3: the United States, of course will prevail. Still, you know
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Speaker 3: it's going to be tough, Okay. Carls Junior started as
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Speaker 3: an La hot dog start cart. Was right there on
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Speaker 3: the corner of Florence and Central, LA. Kind of interesting
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Speaker 3: nineteen forty one. It started as a cart and now
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Speaker 3: it's one, of course the biggest burger chains in the country.
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Speaker 3: There is one of the biggest franchise e fifty nine
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Speaker 3: Southern California stores, and it is file for bankruptcy. The
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Speaker 3: big reason they're saying is the new twenty dollars fast
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Speaker 3: food minimum wage. Workers on the other side say they're
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Speaker 3: undertrained overexposed to violence. They've staged walkouts, and the corporate
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Speaker 3: and the franchisee or trading blame saying it's your fault. No,
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Speaker 3: it's your fault. No, it's your fault. And why why
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Speaker 3: are they in so much in trouble? Well, this is California,
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Speaker 3: That's why labor issues. Competition, this is also the most
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Speaker 3: most competitive fast food market in the country. Crime, I
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Speaker 3: mean the people that closed the store up and there's
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Speaker 3: one person in the store and ripe for all kinds
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Speaker 3: of crime. These guys were first at the party in
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Speaker 3: southern California. According to the co founder of deal Ground
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Speaker 3: and AI platform, the tracks commercial real estate and what
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Speaker 3: ended up happening to this franchisee bankruptcy last month he
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Speaker 3: couldn't pay his bills. He also blamed, of course, California's
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Speaker 3: twenty dollars minimum wage, which has been a big issue,
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Speaker 3: and Carls Junior's lack of innovation.
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Speaker 2: I'll tell you what else.
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Speaker 3: And they aren't being given credit enough for this. And
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Speaker 3: you have to give Carl's Carl's Junior credit the most
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Speaker 3: expensive burger in southern California fast food.
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Speaker 2: They are so overpriced.
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Speaker 3: I went to a Carls Junior a couple of months ago,
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Speaker 3: maybe six months ago, and I ordered their big meal,
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Speaker 3: you know, double cheeseburger, fries, and a drink. It was
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Speaker 3: eighteen bucks. I go, come on, really, that's not going
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Speaker 3: to happen in this lifetime. I Am not going to
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Speaker 3: pay that kind of money and it's not that good. Neil,
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Speaker 3: you're an expert on this fast food. Where would you
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Speaker 3: rate Carl's relative to McDonald's, Wendy's in an out burger,
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Speaker 3: which is sort of a cult thing on its own.
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Speaker 2: Where is Carl's on your food chain?
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't call me an expert, but I'm not a
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Speaker 1: huge fan of Carls Junior. I'd put them for me.
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Speaker 1: They're the lowest as far as interest.
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Speaker 2: And the most expensive.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, go figure, I find you know, other places have
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Speaker 1: much much fresher tasting burgers.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and they're the most expensive at the same time
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Speaker 3: that I have found. So I don't frankly, I don't
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Speaker 3: know how they stay in business. And what's kind of interesting,
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Speaker 3: I little ironic the chain's founder, Carl Kartcher, became a
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Speaker 3: huge business leader, high profile business leader. He appeared in
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Speaker 3: the company's commercials. He was conservative, devout, catholic, was a
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Speaker 3: big target of women gay rights activists, and the same
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Speaker 3: time the chain later on had an ad featuring Paris
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Speaker 3: Hilton in a bikini washing a Bentley before taking a bite,
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Speaker 3: and there was an ad and some suggestive commercials later
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Speaker 3: featured Kim Kardashian and Kate Upton. Now I think it's
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Speaker 3: after Carl Karcher sold the sold Carl's, but the irony
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Speaker 3: and the alleged hypocrisy was still there and there are
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Speaker 3: dead at that point, he may have been dead. Carl
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Speaker 3: Junior is over a thousand locations. Heart Ease, of which
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Speaker 3: they bought many years ago, has more than eighteen hundred locations,
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Speaker 3: and like most restaurants, they've been struggling, big time, struggling, struggling,
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Speaker 3: but they.
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Speaker 2: Just didn't make it.
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Speaker 3: When you think of all of these promotional items and
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Speaker 3: tie ins with movies coming out and new products coming
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Speaker 3: out in terms of seasonal products, and just you know,
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Speaker 3: there's some crazy stuff that they come up with just
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Speaker 3: to get people in the store.
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Speaker 2: I don't remember Carl's Junior doing much of that, I
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Speaker 2: don't think.
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Speaker 3: I don't think they do much of it, and they're overpriced,
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Speaker 3: and you put all that together, it is really difficult
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Speaker 3: for small chains, or for small chains don't stand a
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Speaker 3: chance unless they are cult. With five guys, I don't
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Speaker 3: know how many they have, that's a cult chain, and
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Speaker 3: certainly in an out burger, which is the least expensive
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Speaker 3: and in many cases the best tasting, certainly in my mind,
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Speaker 3: which is why every time you go to an out
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Speaker 3: burger and they have someone that takes the orders, you know,
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Speaker 3: a guy out there that looks like he's a cigarette
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Speaker 3: girl where And by the way, I'm so dated with that,
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Speaker 3: but that was way back in old movies.
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Speaker 2: You've got Oh they do that at ballparks too.
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Speaker 3: You know, they have that tray with the straps in front,
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Speaker 3: and he is taking orders and if you look at
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Speaker 3: people that are driving through, that line can go all
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Speaker 3: the way around the block and be forty to fifty deep.
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Speaker 3: I don't see Carlos Junior doing that at all, for sure.
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Speaker 3: Now I brought this up before, and this is part
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Speaker 3: of what's happening today today globally recently over the last
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Speaker 3: few years, and that is as we've talked about it,
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Speaker 3: there's been a record number of Americans that are leaving
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Speaker 3: the United States because of political reasons, and they are
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Speaker 3: doing it in droves. Well, they have to go someplace,
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Speaker 3: and where do they go. Well, they end up going
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Speaker 3: to various countries where it is cheaper to live, where
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Speaker 3: you still have the facilities you need. And one of
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Speaker 3: those is Mexico City. It's fairly close and a lot
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Speaker 3: of people speak Spanish, and there's a lot of interaction
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Speaker 3: between Americans and Mexicans simply because of geography. Well, there
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Speaker 3: are some people in Mexico City that are not very
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Speaker 3: happy with us going on. And this happens all over
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Speaker 3: the world incidentally, where Americans or foreigners move in and
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Speaker 3: all of a sudden, rents explode, and you have neighborhoods
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Speaker 3: that are old and neighborhoods that are now gentrified, and
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Speaker 3: you have well, you have cafes, you have pilate studios,
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Speaker 3: I mean everything that is American, which they didn't have
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Speaker 3: in Mexico, especially in areas that were more traditional. So
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Speaker 3: there's a guy, but a named Frederico Crespo who owns
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Speaker 3: a nightclub in Mexico City, and he was tired of
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Speaker 3: American tourists and remote workers, because that's the other thing
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Speaker 3: you don't leave. You leave the United States for financial purposes,
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Speaker 3: not for the political purposes, because frankly, Mexico City, it's,
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Speaker 3: or Mexico in general, is a much a much cheaper
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Speaker 3: place to live, rents, food, labor. How many people don't
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Speaker 3: have help at home in Mexico. There are American communities,
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Speaker 3: expat communities where people live on two thousand dollars a
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Speaker 3: month in social security, let's.
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Speaker 2: Say, and they live like kings.
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Speaker 3: They don't worry about food, they don't worry about rent.
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Speaker 3: Now here two thousand dollars a month, twenty four thousand
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Speaker 3: dollars a year. Gross, How do you live comfortably? You don't.
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Speaker 3: There in Mexico, you do. So he owns a night club,
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Speaker 3: and what he did because he is so pissed off
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Speaker 3: of what's going on in terms of not only the
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Speaker 3: politics and people moving in mass but what's happening to
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Speaker 3: where he is in Mexico City, the number of people
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Speaker 3: that have moved in, and when that happens, rents go
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Speaker 3: up because they're in demand. Restaurants explode, fast food joints
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Speaker 3: come in and you have art galleries, you have it's
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Speaker 3: gentrified in general, as I said, pilate studios, cafes that
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Speaker 3: didn't exist, and it's all about these becoming little American
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Speaker 3: places or foreign places.
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Speaker 2: So here's what he did.
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Speaker 3: It's a very popular dance club that he has, and
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Speaker 3: he started charging Americans three hundred dollars cover charge. And
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Speaker 3: there actually are a few people that pay it crazy.
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Speaker 3: If you're Mexican or Latino in generally you pay fourteen bucks.
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Speaker 3: If you're from Canada, China or anywhere else you pay
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Speaker 3: twenty bucks. Americans pay three hundred dollars. It's him basically
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Speaker 3: giving a yuts to the United States, and he's going
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Speaker 3: to do this by charging Americans, and boy, what a controversy,
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Speaker 3: as you can imagine. But at the same time, there's
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Speaker 3: a growing backlash in his favor because of what's seen
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Speaker 3: as an invasion of Americans and other foreigners.
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Speaker 2: July fourth, of course a big deal for US.
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Speaker 3: Also in Mexico has become a big deal, and there
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Speaker 3: was a huge protest against American imperialism. That's how they
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Speaker 3: celebrate July fourth in Mexico. Now he has been he's
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Speaker 3: a jazz musician. By the way, he's been a critic
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Speaker 3: of the North American Free Trade Pact because that started
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Speaker 3: trade li like cracy, that brought prices up, that brought
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Speaker 3: rents up. And he's also been alarmed by the rapid
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Speaker 3: pace of change that accelerated since the pandemic, when Mexico
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Speaker 3: City became a quote hub for digital nomads, remote workers
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Speaker 3: who went abroad to take advantage of lower cost of living,
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Speaker 3: still working for the American companies. But you can work
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Speaker 3: remotely because everybody is well there. You know, look at
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Speaker 3: what the Internet's about. For example, I have a home studio.
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Speaker 3: Neil has a home studio. A ton of people here
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Speaker 3: on KF I have home studios. I broadcast most of
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Speaker 3: the time out of my home studio when the technology today,
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Speaker 3: because of the Internet, allows me to broadcast in the
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Speaker 3: same quality. Don't I sound like I'm in the studio?
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Speaker 3: Of course I do. And why is that? Because of technology?
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Speaker 3: So I am allowed I can go any place. I
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Speaker 3: literally can go any place. And as you know, I'm
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Speaker 3: going to be taking a vacation. Here's what I'm gonna try.
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Speaker 3: I'm going to I'm going to Italy. This at the
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Speaker 3: end of the year, and there is a piece of
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Speaker 3: equipment does Steve Gregory actually turned me on too, And
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Speaker 3: it is a satellite. It hooks up with starlink and
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Speaker 3: it is in a suitcase. It's one of those Pelican suitcases.
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Speaker 3: And you open it up and it has the equipment.
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Speaker 3: There's an equalizer, there are microphones in there, there's a
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Speaker 3: mixer in there, and a little antenna, satellite antenna about
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Speaker 3: the size of a dinner plate that you screw in
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Speaker 3: the top of this thing and you lay it out.
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Speaker 3: It is a radio station.
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Speaker 1: Why don't you just use the internet?
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Speaker 3: It is well because it's it's cleaner with the satellite
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Speaker 3: and you don't get interference. And where I can go
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Speaker 3: the Internet may be the same, not the same speed
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Speaker 3: or the same quality. We have amazing speed. Not the
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Speaker 3: rest of the world does. But it's a different world.
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Speaker 2: So he is.
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Speaker 3: This is Crespy. He's just changed, or is changing, the
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Speaker 3: way Americans are coming into Mexico. He wants to stop that.
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Speaker 3: And if you go to Chile, I love Chili. I'll
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Speaker 3: tell you what why. Because you go into Chili and
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Speaker 3: there is a board that talks about entry fees into
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Speaker 3: the country and They call it reciprocal entry fees. So
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Speaker 3: the United States used to have visas. I don't know
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Speaker 3: if the price is still the same. They charge various
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Speaker 3: countries visa prices. Point. I don't know how many years
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Speaker 3: ago they charged Chileans one hundred dollars to come in
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Speaker 3: the United States. So on the board in Chile one
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Speaker 3: hundred dollars. In Australia it was twenty dollars. There on
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Speaker 3: the board is twenty dollars to get into Chili. And
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Speaker 3: in certain cases it doesn't cost you anything, you know,
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Speaker 3: for example, going to Italy, there's no visa price, so
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Speaker 3: in Chile.
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Speaker 2: That would be zero.
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Speaker 3: Americans moving abroad it's and three hundred dollars cover charges.
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Speaker 2: What does that say to you? Now?
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Speaker 3: One of the things about President Trump is his transparency,
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Speaker 3: not so much when it's about him, but certainly in issues,
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Speaker 3: on issues that he really doesn't care about, and for
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Speaker 3: those people that really want transparency, he's been very good
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Speaker 3: about that. And one case in particular is releasing all
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Speaker 3: of the Pentagon files and governmental fly files regarding UFOs
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Speaker 3: unidentified flying objects. Matter of fact, I don't think they
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Speaker 3: call them UFOs anymore. What the hell do they call them. Now.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, uap s opes.
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Speaker 3: Okay, and that's what is U A p unidentified uh
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Speaker 3: phenom phenomena.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, phenomenon whatever. I mean.
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Speaker 3: I don't really pay attention except when I looked at
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Speaker 3: this story, except when I looked at the stats. Then
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Speaker 3: I was totally, absolutely, fundamentally.
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Speaker 2: Floored about the stats.
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Speaker 3: Okay, So Pentagon has begun releasing previously classified material related
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Speaker 3: to UFOs.
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Speaker 2: We'll keep it at UFOs.
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Speaker 3: And this is some Area fifty one and the visitation
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Speaker 3: from aliens, and for some reason, the government kept all
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Speaker 3: of this quiet. I don't know why. I've yet to
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Speaker 3: figure out. I can understand classified information, you know, keeping
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Speaker 3: nuclear secrets, keeping military secrets, I get that. Keeping UFOs
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Speaker 3: secret by the government, I don't understand what the motivation is.
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Speaker 3: I just don't get it. Now, why wouldn't you share it?
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Speaker 3: It's interesting stuff now here you go. It keeps people's names,
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Speaker 3: keep people attention off the craziness that's going on. So
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Speaker 3: that is one question I have. Why would the government
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Speaker 3: hide this? Okay, that's one issue. And what the trumpetmission
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Speaker 3: Trump administration has done is release all these files and
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Speaker 3: the ufone nuts think, oh, this will prove the existence
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Speaker 3: of extraterrestrial life and the creating this government sanctioned repository
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Speaker 3: of content that can be consulted for the truth about
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Speaker 3: unknown intelligence.
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Speaker 2: There is, there is the truth.
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Speaker 3: We have it, The government has it and is and
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Speaker 3: it is releasing it. And the argument here among the
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Speaker 3: netcases who believe in this, the US government has offered
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Speaker 3: support and recognition to a belief in UFOs, even though
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Speaker 3: I don't think it does offer a belief and recognition.
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Speaker 3: And when you think about it, belief in and UFOs
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Speaker 3: is a kind of religion. I mean, how is that possible?
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Speaker 3: How can it be religion? Because it's not a religion
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Speaker 3: in the traditional sense. You don't have centralized leaders or
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Speaker 3: popes or recognized doctrines. You don't have sacred texts, no institution.
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Speaker 2: Bill, bill bill.
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Speaker 1: Humans are too stupid and they're gonna freak out and
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Speaker 1: start killing each other, just like.
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Speaker 3: Oh, I get it, okay, And I told you that exactly,
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Speaker 3: and I told you there are too. There's a stat
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Speaker 3: before I get into the other question, and this one
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Speaker 3: I don't understand. Forty seven percent of the population think
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Speaker 3: that aliens have visited Earth. Forty seven percent, Okay, I
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Speaker 3: would think it'd be one.
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Speaker 2: Percent two percent of crazies.
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Speaker 3: Because that leads right into my second question, question number
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Speaker 3: one being explained to me why the government would keep
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Speaker 3: this classified for so long and make it secret. The
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Speaker 3: other question is, as these aliens are flying around UFOs
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Speaker 3: and occasionally and this is George Noryland on Coast to Coasts,
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Speaker 3: some one who went up is Martian anal probes.
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Speaker 2: That's my favorite alien topic.
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Speaker 3: Well, yeah, they came in and you know, they went
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Speaker 3: up on this thing and they drilled my butt and
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Speaker 3: it hurt for days. Clearly, you were in prison and
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Speaker 3: you didn't understand what was happening that they're trying to
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Speaker 3: fight like why, I don't know, they're trying to analyze
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Speaker 3: and do examinations. But yeah, analyzes, But yeah, very good.
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Speaker 3: Here is my second question, and that is if there
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Speaker 3: are aliens flying around, why do they do this in
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Speaker 3: front of the White House or in front of the
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Speaker 3: Federal building.
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Speaker 2: Why is it we don't.
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Speaker 3: Have aliens walking up and down the street. Why are
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Speaker 3: they always in these obscure places flying around?
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Speaker 2: Why people aren't going to walk around like that?
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Speaker 1: They have they have, you know, these disguises, you know
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Speaker 1: it could be Kono. That beard doesn't look real.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it could be. So it's always some place.
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Speaker 3: Where it's not readibly, readily visible.
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Speaker 2: It's just sort of out there.
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Speaker 3: The aliens, you know, they fly around, and then you
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Speaker 3: know with these files that are released, aren't just crazy people.
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Speaker 3: Pilots have seen them, military people, CIA operatives.
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Speaker 2: Pardon presidents. Jimmy Carter saw.
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Speaker 3: One, Yeah, I yeah, I don't don't remember that he
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Speaker 3: saw yeah.
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Speaker 1: I do.
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Speaker 3: And he was beating up and he had let's say,
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Speaker 3: he got into a fight on the canoe with they
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Speaker 3: killer rabbit. And also, yeah, he has lust in his
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Speaker 3: he has lust in his heart. Okay, fine, you know
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Speaker 3: that's okay. Jimmy Carter was a little bit crazy. But
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Speaker 3: the point is forty seven forty seven percent, which I
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Speaker 3: don't care. Tell me why in God's name, why don't
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Speaker 3: they walk around? Why don't we see them? Why don't
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Speaker 3: we have one? How come I can't interview one one?
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Speaker 3: Because obviously they're smart enough to fly from Zenan what
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Speaker 3: the nearest galaxy to us?
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 3: Zoro no idea. By the way, that's how Zoro got
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Speaker 3: his name. You know that, don't you? And so those
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Speaker 3: are my questions, you know, and explain to me why
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Speaker 3: the government would. I don't get it. I don't get
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Speaker 3: any of it. And then the little guy in Area
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Speaker 3: fifty one is a small alien and he's dead and
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Speaker 3: they did autopsies on him, and all of that is
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Speaker 3: super secret because you got to keep an autopsy of
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Speaker 3: an alien in Roswell, New Mexico, completely secret because that
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Speaker 3: has to be classified.
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Speaker 2: Crazy making. Okay, we're done. That's it.
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Speaker 3: Gary and Shannon are up next, and of course tomorrow
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Speaker 3: morning it's all over again with Will and Amy five
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Speaker 3: to six, wake up call, Neil and I jump aboard
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Speaker 3: from six to nine and cono and.
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Speaker 2: Put all of this together. We're done.
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Speaker 3: Pleasure tomorrow, same place, same time, same station. This is
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