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California Voter Rolls | Welcome to Greenland · The Bill Handel Show

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Speaker 2: Special needs? Okay. Now, as I have said many times,
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Speaker 2: we are looking at a president who is stretching the envelope,
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Speaker 2: whether you agree with him or not, because this isn't
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Speaker 2: a political move, although certainly politics are part of it.
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Speaker 2: The point is that the power of the presidency, which
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Speaker 2: is somewhat limited. Our president at this point doesn't think
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Speaker 2: there are any limits to what the president can do,
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Speaker 2: and things like that pesky constitution get in the way
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Speaker 2: and he has a hard time with that. For example,
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Speaker 2: birthright citizenship, where he wants to make sure that people
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Speaker 2: that are born in the United States of undocumented parents
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Speaker 2: are not citizens in the United States. Well, there's that
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Speaker 2: old fourteenth Amendment getting in the way. It says natural born.
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Speaker 2: Anybody who's born in the United States is a citizen.
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Speaker 2: And on this one he had there's another one where
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Speaker 2: this the city of California. Okay, first of all, let's
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Speaker 2: start with Trump issued a directive to the state of
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Speaker 2: California to turn over all the voter records to the Feds,
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Speaker 2: to the Department of Justice. We want to see all
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Speaker 2: the voter records. And the California said no, absolutely not.
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Speaker 2: And so the Department of Justice sued California to turn
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Speaker 2: over the voter records. And why is that Because Assistant
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Speaker 2: Attorney General harn Meat Dylan, this is of the US
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Speaker 2: heads the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, said she was
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Speaker 2: proud of her office effort to clean up voter rolls nationally.
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Speaker 2: Here's the problem. There are no voter rolls nationally because
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Speaker 2: there are no national elections. The Feds have nothing to
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Speaker 2: do with elections. It's the state. How do I know that? Well?
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Speaker 2: Article one of the Constitution says specifically the state shall
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Speaker 2: control the election as to place and time and as
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Speaker 2: to how elections are run. Well, we don't want the
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Speaker 2: states to do that, even if it says that in
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Speaker 2: the Constitution. Why that constitution gets in the way, and
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Speaker 2: we really hate it, don't we unless we agree with
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Speaker 2: it or certainly the Second Amendment is great. We think
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Speaker 2: that one's fabulous, but the rest of it not so much.
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Speaker 2: For example, freedom of assembly and no freedom of speech. No,
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Speaker 2: I mean, you have those five congress people that issued
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Speaker 2: as senators and congress people who are in the service.
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Speaker 2: Remember the video they said, you cannot if you're in
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Speaker 2: the military, you cannot or you should not follow illegal orders.
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Speaker 2: It's in the Constitution, both the First Amendment, right, and
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Speaker 2: on the books in the Code of the Criminal Justice System,
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Speaker 2: which the military I'm sorry, the Code of the Military
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Speaker 2: US Code of the Military. And that's that doesn't matter. No, No,
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Speaker 2: we don't agree with that. Na, No, that doesn't work
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Speaker 2: for the Trump administration. So the lawsuit was filed. Department
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Speaker 2: of Justice filed a lawsuit against the head of the
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Speaker 2: Department of Justice in California, and the federal judge said no, no,
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Speaker 2: and he went beyond that. This is David o'carter, who
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Speaker 2: has been involved in the homeless issue for years and years,
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Speaker 2: and he said that central voting data would chill voter registration,
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Speaker 2: cause Americans to fear misuse of their personal information, which
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Speaker 2: is probably true, and it is unconstitutional and attack on democracy.
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Speaker 2: I mean, that's going pretty far. But here's another one
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Speaker 2: of the stretching of the powers of the presidency beyond
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Speaker 2: anything the Constitution says. And certainly congres is letting him
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Speaker 2: do that because there's a Republican majority in Congress, and
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Speaker 2: what the President says, Congress jumps how high as far
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Speaker 2: as the Republicans are concerned, and the Democrats can't do
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Speaker 2: much about it because the majority is held by the Republicans.
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Speaker 2: I wondered during the midterms it may really change. I
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Speaker 2: think it's going to big time. All right, Okay, story
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Speaker 2: of Greenland. You know when Donald Trump first said we
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Speaker 2: should have Greenland. I want Greenland. The United States wants Greenland.
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Speaker 2: I want to buy it or will and then the
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Speaker 2: hint of invading it. I was one of those that
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Speaker 2: justa come on, you know, It's like when he went
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Speaker 2: down the escalator. Please. That was his third go round
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Speaker 2: for the presidency, and frankly he was thought of as
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Speaker 2: a joke. And now of course he is not. And
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Speaker 2: I thought some of the stuff he says so bombastic
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Speaker 2: that either he is out of his mind or there's
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Speaker 2: a method to his madness, which I think is part
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Speaker 2: of it. And also it of course stretches what the
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Speaker 2: presidency can do. So he wants Greenland, a sovereign country
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Speaker 2: or part of a sovereign country, was a territory that
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Speaker 2: is owned by Denmark, and the president wants it. Now,
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Speaker 2: so let's say we get Greenland and we're not going
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Speaker 2: to invade Greenland. I mean, that's not going to happen.
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Speaker 2: So we kind a deal to buy it from Denmark
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Speaker 2: or Greenlanders. Let's say, well, Denmark gives Greenland a billion
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Speaker 2: dollars a year. Greenland's almost entire economy is one of
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Speaker 2: two things, the money they get from Denmark and shrimp,
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Speaker 2: not fishing shrimp, just shrimp. Now, I happen to like shrimp.
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Speaker 2: So that is I think reason enough to go and
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Speaker 2: live in Denmark or live in Greenland, because they have
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Speaker 2: lots of it. And the problem is the economy has flatlined.
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Speaker 2: And if you look at the billion dollars a year
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Speaker 2: for the fifty seven thousand people that live in Greenland, man, woman, child, child,
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Speaker 2: that is approximately seventeen thousand, five hundred dollars per person annually.
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Speaker 2: That's how much is spent in Greenland, where believe me,
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Speaker 2: the government does not spend seventeen thousand dollars a year
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Speaker 2: for US. Maybe big picture, but no. The Marshall Islands,
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Speaker 2: for example, is sort of the same. Marshall Islands used
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Speaker 2: to be part of US territory, now has become independent,
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Speaker 2: but we're really connected. And the US supplements or pays
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Speaker 2: for the Marshall Islands every individual that lives in the
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Speaker 2: Marshall Islands. That comes to about twenty three hundred dollars
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Speaker 2: per person. Similar deal in terms of financial impactference would
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Speaker 2: be However, seventeen five hundred dollars per person not such
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Speaker 2: a great deal. Okay, So why do we want Greenland?
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Speaker 2: Why is the president so adamant about Greenland? Because of
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Speaker 2: its natural resources is one reason it has enormous amounts
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Speaker 2: of for example, rare earth elements that you dig out
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Speaker 2: as like it's mines. The problem is there's only one
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Speaker 2: mine on Greenland and it's very small. You want to
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Speaker 2: know why, because it's under three hundred feet of ice.
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Speaker 2: It's almost impossible to get through because how do you
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Speaker 2: get to the mines from the capitol. Now, keep in mind,
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Speaker 2: Greenland is as big as Mexico and it has one
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Speaker 2: hundred miles of paved road. One hundred miles of paved
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Speaker 2: road for a country as big as Greenland. Now it's
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Speaker 2: small population fifty seven thousand, So roads have to be built,
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Speaker 2: Infrastructure has to be put into place, mining operations have
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Speaker 2: to be established. It is a huge deal economically, totally
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Speaker 2: unfeasible at least now. No one's jumping up and down
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Speaker 2: to do this. No company. Okay, how about its strategic
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Speaker 2: value up in the Arctic, because as the President said,
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Speaker 2: if we don't get Greenland, then China and Russia are
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Speaker 2: going to get Greenland. China has not had a ship
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Speaker 2: near Greenland for ten years. Russia is so bogged down
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Speaker 2: in the Ukraine it has nothing up there. They're not
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Speaker 2: very interested. So that part of the world as of
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Speaker 2: right now, Yeah, no, it's not. There are another would
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Speaker 2: they go about getting who Russia or China. They'd have
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Speaker 2: to invade or they'd have to cut a deal and
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Speaker 2: buy it, just like the United States the bike. Can
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Speaker 2: you imagine a bidding war. Can you imagine the three
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Speaker 2: countries playing poker? I'll call you Greenland. Well, here's the Ukraine.
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Speaker 2: So that part of it doesn't make any sense now. Commercially,
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Speaker 2: Greenland is is pretty strategic, there's no question. And in
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Speaker 2: terms of defense, it is pretty strategic because it isn't
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Speaker 2: a place of the world where our defenses are. We
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Speaker 2: have a military base there and it's mainly to defend
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Speaker 2: ourselves from missiles that are flying from Russia because they
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Speaker 2: fly over Greenland, and so it's an easy way to
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Speaker 2: determine that we've got missiles because have you been to Greenland? No,
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Speaker 2: what does one do in Greenland? You eat shrimp apparently,
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Speaker 2: and subsidies and subsidies and you enjoy subsidies. I mean,
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Speaker 2: what else can you do? You hike and it's only
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Speaker 2: during the summer because man, that's it is cold. You
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Speaker 2: go to Greenland is not green and Iceland is far
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Speaker 2: greener than Greenland. Wow. Yeah, and they have the York Yeah.
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Speaker 2: It's very it's very, very strange. It's like Republicans and
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Speaker 2: Republicans and Democrats or liberals and conservatives. Right. Liberals want
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Speaker 2: you to have unlimited access to abortion, right, and then
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Speaker 2: they take care of you for the rest of your life.
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Speaker 2: Conservatives want to do have that right. Want to quote,
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Speaker 2: trying to quote George Carlin, I am, I am, And
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Speaker 2: it's not working. No, it's fun to watch though, Yeah,
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Speaker 2: it's not working. It's not working, all right. George used
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Speaker 2: to be a big fan of this show, by the way,
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Speaker 2: George Carlin, that's huge. Yeah, he was. He's been honored
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Speaker 2: a few times. You know. I had it was he
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Speaker 2: had my home phone number and I and I had his.
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Speaker 2: He would call me about once a week and go
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Speaker 2: something that I said, and he would rip it apart
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Speaker 2: and say that wasn't funny. Okay, what we all do?
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Speaker 2: I know, I'm just like George Carlin, It's true. Okay.
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Speaker 2: Some of the stories, the big stories we're looking at
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Speaker 2: is opposition leader Maria Coriina Machado of Venezuela, who's surrogate
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Speaker 2: actually ran or ran for president against against the president.
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Speaker 2: Oh my god, did I just lose his name? Maduro? Yeah,
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Speaker 2: my mind just went. And anyway, she he in stepping
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Speaker 2: in for Marina Maschado, got seventy percent of the vote,
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Speaker 2: of which Maduro just immediately eliminated and effectively just said no.
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Speaker 2: And he still remains a dictator. Anyway, she got the
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Speaker 2: Nobel Peace Prize, and she was at the White House
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Speaker 2: yesterday and gave the Peace Prize to President Trump and
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Speaker 2: said here, it's yours, and the president who has coveted
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Speaker 2: and begged for the peace price ice, I don't what
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Speaker 2: do you do with someone else's peace prize? Cross out
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Speaker 2: her name, put yours in Uh with one of those markers.
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Speaker 2: I have no idea, And then the flu is going
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Speaker 2: crazy all over the place. We've got a lot going
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Speaker 2: on in the meantime. Here is what's happening internationally and
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Speaker 2: and nationally. The US military is asked to do a
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Speaker 2: whole lot of stuff right now. Uh that two billion
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Speaker 2: or two trillion dollars were spent in Afghanistan. We've got
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Speaker 2: troops in a rock. We have all kinds of military
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Speaker 2: issues going on with ym and Iran, as you know,
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Speaker 2: Somalia and US military commanders are used to having whatever
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Speaker 2: they need their their budget. The military's budget is almost
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Speaker 2: a trillion dollars. But Pentagon officials are privately warning the
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Speaker 2: President and the White House, you know what, we may
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Speaker 2: not be able to do at all, you know, Bret
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Speaker 2: in Venezuela. Support protesters that toppling into or seeking to
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Speaker 2: top of Iran's government, protect our interests in the Asia
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Speaker 2: Pacific area without being completely overstretched. I mean, keep an eye.
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Speaker 2: Keep in mind. What did the president do? He sent
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Speaker 2: a carrier task force from the Mid East to the
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Speaker 2: Caribbean outside of Venezuela. I mean a carrier task force
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Speaker 2: is eleven ships in this case, eleven ships and submarines
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Speaker 2: and the cost of moving them it's about sixteen I'm
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Speaker 2: gonna's about two weeks to move the task force from
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Speaker 2: the Mid East to Venezuela. Can you imagine the cost
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Speaker 2: of what it took to pick up Maduro. I mean,
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Speaker 2: it's just unbelievable. You know what it costs to run
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Speaker 2: an aircraft carrier alone. And so there isn't enough. We're
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Speaker 2: stretched too thin. Now. This is the most assets that
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Speaker 2: have been in this part of the world since the
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Speaker 2: Cuban missile crisis. I mean, this is a big deal,
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Speaker 2: and that's to capture one guy. What's it, capture Maduro
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Speaker 2: and leave the government in place, the Maduro government in place.
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Speaker 2: Now again, is there a method to his madness? Because
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Speaker 2: originally he started about drugs, Right, We're going to do
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Speaker 2: this for drugs and the drug boats. Have you noticed
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Speaker 2: that the drug conversation of drugs is over? What is it?
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Speaker 2: It's about oil And that's always been the case with
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Speaker 2: the president, and the drug issue has really been sort
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Speaker 2: of just a cover for what he always wanted.
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Speaker 1: Isn't it always about oil? No, I've been hearing that
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Speaker 1: since I was a kid. It was always oil.
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Speaker 2: Because over here for oil, there and over there for oil. No,
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Speaker 2: because there's plenty of places that there is no oil.
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Speaker 2: Afghanistan wasn't about oil. You've got Serbia wasn't about oil.
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Speaker 2: Cuba isn't about oil now, people in the countries in
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Speaker 2: the Middle East. Yeah, it's about oil and Venezuela because
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Speaker 2: that has the world's largest oil reserves, much larger than
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Speaker 2: the US Saudi Arabia, which have enormous The problem is
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Speaker 2: is the Chavez slash Maduro government came into power and
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Speaker 2: simply didn't have the resources and just let it all
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Speaker 2: fall into the toilet to where production is ten percent
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Speaker 2: of what it used to be. And oil is the
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Speaker 2: biggest revenue for Venezuela. So going back to the president
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Speaker 2: started with drugs and it really is about oil. He
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Speaker 2: wants that oil and he recognizes that Venezuela, the country
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Speaker 2: cannot produce the oil. Cannot it doesn't have the ability
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Speaker 2: to pump the oil and refine the oil. And so
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Speaker 2: here's what he did. He captured Maduro and lets the
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Speaker 2: next president, who is the vice president and again this
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Speaker 2: the Maduro regime is still in place, and tells the
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Speaker 2: vice president, here's what I want you to do, and
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Speaker 2: she is doing it, and took all the oil that
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Speaker 2: was in storage that Venezuela had because no oil is
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Speaker 2: being shipped out. He has put a stamp. I mean
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Speaker 2: he it's that that blockade is in place. It that
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Speaker 2: oil is going no place, that Venezuela is pumping. That
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Speaker 2: little oil that Venezuela is pumping and then selling on
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Speaker 2: the black market. This shadow fleet that goes around the
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Speaker 2: world and picks up oil and sells it under the
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Speaker 2: table and goes to various countries and sells the oil.
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Speaker 2: He stopped that cold. So what is the country of
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Speaker 2: Venezuela doing? What is the vice president who is now
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Speaker 2: the acting president listening to Donald Trump? Frightened that Trump
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Speaker 2: is going to really invade men Asa. And by the way,
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Speaker 2: when he says it, he means it. This is imposturing
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Speaker 2: on his part. He doesn't posture at least when it
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Speaker 2: comes to this sort of stuff. So he grabs half
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Speaker 2: a billion dollars worth of oil, sells it, sells the oil,
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Speaker 2: and the money is moving in an account account for
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Speaker 2: the people of Venezuela. And it can be argued, and
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Speaker 2: I thought he was out of his mind, he can
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Speaker 2: be argued that what he's doing is the best thing
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Speaker 2: for the people of Venezuela, where the oil money is
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Speaker 2: going back to them as it should. And he wants,
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Speaker 2: of course, the infrastructure to be built, and he wants
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Speaker 2: American companies to build the infrastructure because America first. You know, what,
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Speaker 2: is there a method to all of this madness? There
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Speaker 2: seems to be fascinating stuff. Boy, They're going to be
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Speaker 2: studying this presidency forever. And I will tell you right now,
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Speaker 2: there has never been a president like President Trump, and
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Speaker 2: there never will be a presidentlike Donald Trump. All right, Okay,
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Speaker 2: So moving over to malls in southern California, we have
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Speaker 2: lots of them, and the economy, especially after the Great Recession,
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Speaker 2: kind of tanked. And what's been going on also is
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Speaker 2: retail stores are not doing well. Very few are doing
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Speaker 2: really well. Sacks just is going under chapter eleven. Target
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Speaker 2: is not doing as well. You've got Costco of courses, Costco,
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Speaker 2: but you have majors that are just going down. Why
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Speaker 2: because it's kind of old. The internet shopping has exploded,
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Speaker 2: so there are malls that have simply been abandoned. I
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Speaker 2: mean they're still owned, of course by the owners, but
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Speaker 2: there are no renters. For one, for example, the Westminster
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Speaker 2: Mall considered just iconic in that part of the city
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Speaker 2: in Westminster, and it closed last year. People were so upset.
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Speaker 2: It was even a funeral that was held for this
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Speaker 2: Orange County relic. But that was just the beginning. If
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Speaker 2: you go to social media, there are videos that are
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Speaker 2: being circulated about the rampant vandalism and destruction inside these malls.
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Speaker 2: These are huge structures and if you look at the images,
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Speaker 2: which really angered and saddened the locals who spent their
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Speaker 2: youth there. I mean, this is where he hung out.
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Speaker 2: This was the mall in Westminster where you just went.
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Speaker 2: Sorry about that. And that's my phone going crazy here
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Speaker 2: it honks it had honks it hanks when I get
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Speaker 2: a text.
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Speaker 1: Okay, anyone in particular, what who's with the honk noise?
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Speaker 1: What does it do when I call you a honks
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Speaker 1: h Yeah, I'd like La cucar Utcha to play point.
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Speaker 2: It's a honking horn. Anyway, back we are to the
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Speaker 2: malls that have literally been destroyed by the vandals, destroyed
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Speaker 2: by the homeless people who are living inside. The Westminster Mall,
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Speaker 2: for example, it will first open in nineteen seventy four.
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Speaker 2: JC Penny was there, gone, Victoria's Secret was there. I
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Speaker 2: don't know are they still in business Victoria's Secret. But
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Speaker 2: they've closed a lot of stores Anti Auntie and no Idea.
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Speaker 2: What that is like a pretzel? Yeah, it's like a press.
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Speaker 2: They have a lot of like Wetzel's pretzels and a
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Speaker 2: lot of those stores and what they're being used for
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Speaker 2: is eventually they're going to be transformed into the mixed
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Speaker 2: use development. They'll be retail space, housing. But that's hideously expensive. Right.
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Speaker 2: The malls have closed, as I said, do to consumer
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Speaker 2: shopping habits going just gone. Also, the land itself has
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Speaker 2: become so valuable in many cases that the develop the
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Speaker 2: opportunities are great, and the owners just shut them down
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Speaker 2: and say we'd rather develop them or sell them because
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Speaker 2: of the land. And it's really expensive. You have to
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Speaker 2: level them all and then you have to build something new,
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Speaker 2: and that takes years and costs tons of money. But
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Speaker 2: if you look at the videos there, they are people
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Speaker 2: tagging the storefronts, skateboarding, riding bicycles inside, just destroying them all.
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Speaker 2: The Hawthorn Plaza, for example, closed nineteen ninety nine and videos,
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Speaker 2: music videos were shot in there, and a lot of them,
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Speaker 2: Taylor Swift, Beyonce, Travis Scott. Because it is desolate, it
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Speaker 2: has a lot of trash in there, and it's just
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Speaker 2: one of those backdrops that a lot of these Hollywood
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Speaker 2: stars and major music acts tend to go. Now, you know,
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Speaker 2: I've always wondered about that. You get someone who's worth
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Speaker 2: a billion dollars, Taylor Swift, it then does a video
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Speaker 2: in the mall that is being destroyed. Valley Plaza in
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Speaker 2: North Hollywood. I grew up in North Hollywood. I remember
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Speaker 2: going there constantly. It was once the largest shopping center
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Speaker 2: on the West Coast. Ten years has been abandoned and
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Speaker 2: the hot spot for fires and criminal activities. It was
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Speaker 2: demolished last year. In San Bernardino, the Carousel Mall has
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Speaker 2: now become a center for criminal activity, meth labs, that
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Speaker 2: dot every store. That's not true. That was for Kno's sake,
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Speaker 2: that's close. I know, I know fires. There was a
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Speaker 2: shooting there. There was an electrocution there. Now that's entertainment.
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Speaker 2: When someone gets electrocuted. Does that happened with a gnawing
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Speaker 2: through wires? I don't know, I don't know. There must
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Speaker 2: have been there must have been a live wire there
23:36
Speaker 2: and someone got hit with a nice big jolt, And
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Speaker 2: I mean, that's really entertainment. That was demolished in twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty three and there it is empty. Now there's some
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Speaker 2: that are doing pretty well. The West Sidevilion. It closed
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Speaker 2: in twenty nineteen and was later purchased and it was abandoned,
23:58
Speaker 2: but it's doing great as a building because it was
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Speaker 2: later bought by UCLA, which is transforming it into a
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Speaker 2: Research Center, so that one is doing well even though
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Speaker 2: close closing. So you know, what do you do with
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Speaker 2: malls in southern California that have closed and they're now
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Speaker 2: I sores and they now have become playground for vandals.
24:21
Speaker 2: You shut them down and a lot of them put
24:25
Speaker 2: fences up. Of fences don't stop people from going over
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Speaker 2: there because security. But that's a loss. So you take
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Speaker 2: them down, and we're going to see the loss of
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Speaker 2: the mall. Now. Neil and I have talked about this before,
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Speaker 2: and that is the only way any kind of retail establishment,
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Speaker 2: especially malls, can survive, is to make it an experience
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Speaker 2: to go there. Yeah, and you know, for example, I'm
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Speaker 2: off to next I think March April and taking on
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Speaker 2: vacation and I happen to be going to Dubai Go
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Speaker 2: Figure and Dubai they have a mall, one of the
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Speaker 2: biggest in the world, and they have a full ski
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Speaker 2: they have a full ski parsh portion of the mall.
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Speaker 2: It's one hundred and twenty degrees outside in Dubai and
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Speaker 2: inside there's a whole section there's a whole part of
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Speaker 2: it that have been sectioned off and they put a
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Speaker 2: slope in there. And you can ski inside. That's destination.
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Speaker 2: The Mall of America in Minnesota has a full Disneyland
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Speaker 2: type of amusement park in there. Rides that's in the mall,
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Speaker 2: so that's what you have to do. We don't have
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Speaker 2: anything like that, but we do have is a break.
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