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Handel on the News · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM 640, the Bill Handel Show
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  Speaker 1: on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
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  Speaker 2: And now, Handel on the News. Ladies and gentlemen, here's
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  Speaker 2: Bill Handel. Good morning, everybody.
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  Speaker 3: It is a Friday morning, September 11th, 25 years ago today.
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  Speaker 3: the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon,
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  Speaker 3: and it's going to be wall-to-wall coverage. I am looking at,
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  Speaker 3: among the other monitors I have, I'm looking at, what,
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  Speaker 3: BBC News, CNN, Fox, MSNOW, and then I jump into
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  Speaker 3: other platforms.
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  Speaker 2: It's all 9-11.
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  Speaker 3: Every bit of it. And I think that's all we're
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  Speaker 3: going to see today. And, of course, we're going to
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  Speaker 3: do our 9-11 today. Yesterday I said I was on the.
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  Speaker 2: Air 9-11 for eight hours. And Amy, you were there
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  Speaker 2: for nine hours.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I was on the air for at least 12 hours.
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  Speaker 3: 12 hours?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't think I went home until about 4
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  Speaker 4: or 5 in the afternoon that day. Wow. Well, because
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  Speaker 4: I was the news department. So I wasn't working in
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  Speaker 4: a news talk station. I was at a country music station.
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  Speaker 4: And I was the news director.
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  Speaker 2: So you didn't do country music?
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 4: You know what? It was the weirdest day because we
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  Speaker 4: were like, what do we do? We can't play music now.
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  Speaker 4: And so, no, we just talked, which is what you
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  Speaker 4: do every day. But for us, it was completely foreign territory.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm assuming you didn't have a big news department.
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  Speaker 4: No, I was the news department.
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  Speaker 3: You were the nuts, as you said. Here, this was
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  Speaker 3: when we actually had a news department. And I had
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  Speaker 3: reporters and writers, newswriters.
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  Speaker 2: Can you imagine?
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  Speaker 3: We actually used to have a newswriter. And would be
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  Speaker 3: throwing information at me. And I would be asking, how
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  Speaker 3: about this? How about that? Give me this bit of history.
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  Speaker 3: Let's talk about it. Everybody knew early on that it
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  Speaker 3: was Osama bin Laden. They sort of knew that. I
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  Speaker 3: want some information on him. I want some information on al-Qaeda.
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  Speaker 3: Because that also was pretty well known because.
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  Speaker 2: The.
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  Speaker 3: Threats had been there for a while, and it had
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  Speaker 3: already happened at the World Trade Center in the basement.
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  Speaker 2: In 1993, that attack happened.
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  Speaker 5: That's what I was going to ask. That was Osama.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that was.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And so the intelligence was there. And the problem is
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  Speaker 3: that the United States failed miserably, the intelligence services. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: all the information was there. It's just the dots weren't connected.
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  Speaker 3: It's hard to pull one of these off without some
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  Speaker 3: kind of evidence. You just can't keep something like this
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  Speaker 3: a secret. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, we'll talk more about that later on.
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  Speaker 3: And then at 8.30, we are going to replay the
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  Speaker 3: broadcast of that morning where, well, when I was sitting
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  Speaker 3: behind the microphone, as Amy was, 9-11 at her music station,
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  Speaker 3: And they put together, I think it was Michelle put
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  Speaker 3: together a six-minute compilation because there was so much information.
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  Speaker 3: Because bits and pieces of information, when one of these
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  Speaker 3: natural disasters or unnatural disasters come out, the news breaks. Inevitably,
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  Speaker 3: you get little tiny pieces of information at a time.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of it is wrong. A lot of it
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  Speaker 2: is conjecture.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of this, that's why you hear, this is
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  Speaker 3: preliminary information coming in from, and.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes it's dead wrong.
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  Speaker 3: I thought there were tens of thousands of people that
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  Speaker 3: were killed. And it turned out there was only 3,000,
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  Speaker 3: only 3,000. I mean, that's obviously an insane number too.
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  Speaker 3: But 50,000 people a year are in those buildings. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: a day, 50,000 people.
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  Speaker 2: Are in those buildings.
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  Speaker 3: And it went down fairly early. A lot of people
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  Speaker 3: early in the day where workers were there.
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  Speaker 2: And plenty of them.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, because it was 846 in the morning.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was 846. And we were on the air
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  Speaker 3: because I went from five to nine in those days.
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  Speaker 3: And a couple of very, very interesting things happened. One
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  Speaker 3: of them, for example, Rich Barada, who was our news guy,
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  Speaker 3: who was our Neil at that time.
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  Speaker 5: Sports guy.
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  Speaker 2: Well, not really.
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  Speaker 3: He did some sports, but just to generate some kind
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  Speaker 3: of activity for him being on the show. Because in
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  Speaker 3: those days, we had to pretend there wasn't a you there.
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  Speaker 3: So we did. I mean, that was it.
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  Speaker 2: So we had to make up some excuse. It was
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  Speaker 2: a sports.
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  Speaker 3: And Rich was a sports guy anyway. And that morning,
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  Speaker 3: he talked about kamikaze airplanes in World War II.
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  Speaker 4: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you talk about weird. And then within half
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  Speaker 3: an hour, the planes hit.
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  Speaker 2: All right. So hello to Neil. Morning, Neil. And Kono,
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  Speaker 2: there you are.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning.
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  Speaker 2: And there is Amy wearing her USA sweatshirt hoodie.
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: Proudly.
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  Speaker 2: Very, very appropriate. And there is Anne. Good morning. Wearing clothes.
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  Speaker 4: As opposed to her not wearing clothes?
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  Speaker 2: That's correct.
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  Speaker 3: One of these days, I'm going to do a nudist story,
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  Speaker 3: a nude story. And I can do that because we
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  Speaker 3: only do waist up. So if we only see each
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  Speaker 3: other waist up. So, you know, during the summer when
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  Speaker 3: it gets very hot, I sometimes will go commando, as
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  Speaker 3: you know.
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  Speaker 2: And, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Poor chair.
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  Speaker 2: Poor chair.
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  Speaker 3: Wayne Resnick, the... neil just before neil what he used
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  Speaker 3: to do is uh he would be we'd be in
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  Speaker 3: the morning and he would take his pants down and
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  Speaker 3: rub his ass on the chair just to make sure
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  Speaker 3: that uh i would be sitting in that chair uh
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  Speaker 3: that's wayne he was crazy and then um there's will
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  Speaker 3: good morning will good morning okay All right, guys, obviously
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  Speaker 3: we have a ton to cover this morning. All of it, well,
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  Speaker 3: not all of it, but a lot of it dealing
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  Speaker 3: with 9-11 and some different spins on it. Because what
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  Speaker 3: we're seeing on the various platforms and we're seeing on
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  Speaker 3: Fox and, you know, every place is a commemoration. But
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  Speaker 3: what you would think would be your normal commemoration. And
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  Speaker 3: that's going on all day. And it's going to be tough.
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  Speaker 3: It is. Well, now they're putting up pictures of a
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  Speaker 3: police officer who died and just all these stories. Anyway,
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  Speaker 3: let's do this. Let's start with Handel on the news
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  Speaker 3: with Amy, Neil and me and lead story. OK, as
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  Speaker 3: a result of 9-11, as I said, we're going to
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  Speaker 3: do different spins on it. The feds have warned that
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  Speaker 3: for foreign terrorist organizations.
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  Speaker 2: One more time. Let's start this again.
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  Speaker 3: The feds are warning us that foreign terrorist organizations continue
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  Speaker 3: to encourage attacks in the U.S.
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  Speaker 2: And have released 9-11 related propaganda.
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  Speaker 3: And that has increased dramatically as we commemorate 9-11.
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  Speaker 2: So do those terrorists, obviously in a very different way.
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  Speaker 3: And this is the Department of Homeland Security reporting. said
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  Speaker 3: we are now facing a heightened and increasingly complex terrorism
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  Speaker 3: threat environment. And particularly today, there is a lot of chatter,
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  Speaker 3: a lot of.
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  Speaker 2: Video going out.
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  Speaker 3: On the Internet saying, hey, you know, for you guys
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  Speaker 3: who are radicalized, think again. We want to really go
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  Speaker 3: at it with America.
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  Speaker 2: 9-11 is only the start. Well, that's what they're saying.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I doubt it.
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  Speaker 3: You're not going to see an airplane going down anytime
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  Speaker 3: soon as a result of anybody going into the cockpit.
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  Speaker 2: Those days are gone.
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  Speaker 3: And then bringing bombs aboard an airplane, that's going to
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  Speaker 3: be difficult because of security.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, moving on.
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  Speaker 4: You get $ 5, 000 and you get $ 5, 000 and you get $ 5, 000. Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 4: The president said he was going to pay each American
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  Speaker 4: adult $ 5, 000 in dividends if Republicans keep control of Congress
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  Speaker 4: in the midterms. So, of course, Trump made this pledge
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  Speaker 4: during his speech at the Republican Midterm Convention, and he
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  Speaker 4: had only talked about it, apparently, with a very small
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  Speaker 4: circle of close political advisors, including Jason Miller and James Blair,
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  Speaker 4: which left a lot of people in the administration unprepared
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  Speaker 4: to manage that fallout. because of the $ 1 trillion price
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  Speaker 4: tag that's facing widespread blowback over its price and feasibility.
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  Speaker 3: But when he did say that at the convention, it
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  Speaker 3: was red meat to the people that attended there. And
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  Speaker 3: if you ask any one of them, yes, we're going
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  Speaker 3: to get $ 5, 000, yes. And how about the dividend when
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  Speaker 3: you were going to get money as a citizen when
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  Speaker 3: the tariffs came into play?
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Have you gotten a dividend check yet?
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  Speaker 3: No, but I know we're going to get it because
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  Speaker 3: the president said we're going to get it. And how
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  Speaker 3: about dividends that we are going to get along probably
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  Speaker 3: half a dozen other events that we never got? Oh,
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  Speaker 3: I know we're going to get it because the president
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  Speaker 3: said we're going to get it. At some point, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I don't even know where it stops.
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  Speaker 2: I really don't.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I have a theory. I think he's going to
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  Speaker 5: come out and say, I said $ 5, 000. hairs.
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  Speaker 2: Hmm.
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  Speaker 3: And by the way, I heard that when I heard
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  Speaker 3: five thousand dollars for every American adult, if you vote Republican,
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  Speaker 3: if the Republicans stay in power, I was so offended
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  Speaker 3: that it wasn't ten thousand dollars. I what are you doing?
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  Speaker 3: Only five thousand dollars if I vote Republican.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, come on. You can do better than that.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: It's one point three million one point three trillion dollars.
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  Speaker 3: No way to pay for it. Absolutely no way to
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  Speaker 3: get it. And even Thune, who is the Senate majority leader,
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  Speaker 3: who is a strong Trump supporter, was asked about it.
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  Speaker 3: And all he would say is we'll cross that bridge
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  Speaker 3: when we get to it. It was fun.
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  Speaker 4: To watch Ted Cruz try to tap dance.
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  Speaker 2: Around it, too.
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  Speaker 5: I know.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's and you can't say the guy's nuts
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  Speaker 3: that it's not going to happen. You do have to
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  Speaker 3: tap dance. Well, you know, he really maybe didn't mean 5000. Well,
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  Speaker 3: he'll figure out a way.
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  Speaker 5: To get it.
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  Speaker 6: So Houthi forces in Yemen are making a concerted. effort
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  Speaker 6: and drive to take over the country's red sea coast
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  Speaker 6: completely claiming control of the key port there is it
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  Speaker 6: mocha or mocha mocha senate in the most serious wave
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  Speaker 6: of fighting with the saudi backed government um this is
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  Speaker 6: massive because if you look at this the seizure of
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  Speaker 6: this coast and some of the islands in the sea
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  Speaker 6: would be massive disaster for saudi arabia and the u.s
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  Speaker 6: because it would take Iran and its proxies closer to
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  Speaker 6: full control of two, not one, but two choke points
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  Speaker 6: for Western shipping on opposite sides of the Arabian Peninsula.
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  Speaker 5: So eyes are on that.
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  Speaker 4: The fallout over Flock continues. At least three more police
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  Speaker 4: officers have been arrested. A fourth was fired for allegedly
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  Speaker 4: misusing those Flock license plate reader cameras. USA Today did
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  Speaker 4: a little poking around and wanted to know why people
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  Speaker 4: were repeatedly tracking individual cars and they were pressing their
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  Speaker 4: employers about why their officers were doing this. Police and
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  Speaker 4: sheriff's officials arrested, fired and put on leave or placed
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  Speaker 4: under investigation. A total of 22 people now who misused
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  Speaker 4: the flock cameras, including in Florida. There's former Fort Pierce
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  Speaker 4: police officer Joseph Crutchfield. who apparently used the service to
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  Speaker 4: search a woman's license plate 189 times over a period
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  Speaker 4: of eight months.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 5: Do we have a picture of her?
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  Speaker 2: That's not going to be hard to get, is it?
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  Speaker 5: Well, they're catching them, though.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they are, and it's all out there.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, all of the information certainly is out there,
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  Speaker 3: and no one can hide that because it's obviously Internet-based.
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  Speaker 4: And it's too bad that this is getting misused because—
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  Speaker 4: Because it like the cops are saying this is a
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  Speaker 4: really valuable service. It helps us catch bad guys.
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  Speaker 2: But let's look at the numbers, too. It could be
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  Speaker 2: just a handful.
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  Speaker 3: That's like arguing that, you know, if there is a
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  Speaker 3: Muslim criminal out there, that means all Muslims are criminals
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  Speaker 3: or all illegal aliens are criminals or they're all rapists.
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  Speaker 2: It just doesn't work that way.
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  Speaker 5: There's a phrase that I remember.
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  Speaker 6: That was abuse does not bar use that everything is
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  Speaker 6: going to be abused to a certain point.
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  Speaker 5: Doesn't mean you get rid of it.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 2: And there's a phrase that I've always followed. Loose lips
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  Speaker 2: sink ships.
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  Speaker 5: Gross.
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  Speaker 3: OK.
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  Speaker 6: I have such a good comeback that I could never say. Anywho,
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  Speaker 6: talking about beauty, Angelenos who miss P-22, of course, the
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  Speaker 6: Wild King Mountain Lion.
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  Speaker 5: There's a statue coming to Griffith Park.
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  Speaker 6: So the statue was created by Los Angeles-based artist, Adam Matano,
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  Speaker 6: will live at Griffith Park right there by the Visitor
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  Speaker 6: Center and the National Wildlife Federation and Friends of Griffith
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  Speaker 6: Park announced this just yesterday. And they're gonna create this
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  Speaker 6: little space there where people are able to pay remembrance.
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  Speaker 5: We've got all kinds of murals and.
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  Speaker 6: Stuff out here that I see that people have painted
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  Speaker 6: of Pete 22.
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  Speaker 4: This statue, apparently a bronze statue, is going to cost $ 200, 000.
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  Speaker 4: I wonder how long it's going to take for somebody
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  Speaker 4: to steal it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. And then you wonder, you have a mountain lion
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  Speaker 3: and somehow became a really popular, I guess, symbol of
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  Speaker 3: animals that are endangered in our area. And they ended
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  Speaker 3: up killing him or they end up euthanizing P-22 once
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  Speaker 3: he was attacked. once he was captured. And he committed
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  Speaker 3: three attacks on dogs within a month. So I would
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  Speaker 3: like to see if those dog owners were interviewed as
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  Speaker 3: to what they thought about putting up a statue to
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  Speaker 3: the mountain lion that ate their pets.
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  Speaker 5: Well, maybe they'll get little brawn statues next time.
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  Speaker 4: Using AI for evil. Anthropic says it has blocked multiple
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  Speaker 4: accounts that tried to use the company's artificial intelligence models.
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  Speaker 4: I think they call it clawed with Anthropic in ways
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  Speaker 4: that could support the development of biological weapons. The new
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  Speaker 4: report has five real life case studies in which users,
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  Speaker 4: as they put it, circumvented controls that block users from
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  Speaker 4: specific regions and, uh, Apparently, they were trying to figure
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  Speaker 4: out how to make a biological weapon, and Claude was helping.
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  Speaker 3: So is it going to be so easy that all
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  Speaker 3: you have to do is ask Claude, Claude, how do
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  Speaker 3: I make a weapon that can kill 100,000 people in
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  Speaker 3: one fell swoop?
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  Speaker 2: Boom, out it comes. And you go, OK, get a
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  Speaker 2: little bit of chlorine.
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  Speaker 3: Go to the drugstore or go to your local Lowe's
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  Speaker 3: or Home Depot, and here's a list of what you need.
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  Speaker 3: It can be pretty dangerous stuff. As a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 3: I think Monday, and I was talking to Ian about
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  Speaker 3: this Monday, I want to do a story on the, uh, uh,
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  Speaker 3: the argument or the fear that, uh, anthropic or any
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  Speaker 3: one of these ai programs uh it means the end
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  Speaker 3: of humanity as we know it uh which was talked
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  Speaker 3: about yesterday with one of the honchos of anthropic resigning
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  Speaker 3: and saying that and i want to talk about how
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  Speaker 3: we're viewing that is the world going to end and
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  Speaker 3: there actually may be some even easier ways of ending.
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  Speaker 6: The world all right uh federal officials are um poised.
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  Speaker 6: If they haven't already, Amy, there was kind of loose
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  Speaker 6: talk that they were going to declare the end of
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  Speaker 6: the cyclosporiasis outbreak. Maybe starting yesterday, I didn't hear anything,
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  Speaker 6: or today, soon, is what they're saying, is that they're
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  Speaker 6: going to declare that outbreak over. So thousands of people
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  Speaker 6: became sick. If you remember eating the shredded iceberg lettuce
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  Speaker 6: and Some people, someone leaking who didn't, who wanted to
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  Speaker 6: keep anonymity saying that, yeah, they're going to call the
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  Speaker 6: end of this soon. The Department of Health and Human
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  Speaker 6: Services has not given a comment yet, but that would
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  Speaker 6: be great news.
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  Speaker 2: The feds are also considering declaring Taco Bell over.
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  Speaker 4: No, Taco Bell's great. I think I'll go there today.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm going to get a Mexican pizza now.
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  Speaker 3: I like Taco Bell. Make sure you order extra on
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  Speaker 3: that shredded lettuce.
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  Speaker 4: So you're saying you would like both Neil and I
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  Speaker 4: to get sick?
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  Speaker 2: No, I would like both of you to.
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  Speaker 6: Who's going to cover you when you're pooping or peeing
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  Speaker 6: or making locks and bailings?
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  Speaker 3: I'm not going to eat the lettuce. It's the two
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  Speaker 3: of you I'm suggesting.
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  Speaker 6: I know, but we'll be out then, and then you'll
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  Speaker 6: actually have to give a rodent's hole about the show.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, okay. I'm sure we can get somebody to cover.
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  Speaker 2: Unintended consequences.
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  Speaker 4: Pay to play on Skid Row. A guy from Victorville
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  Speaker 4: has been charged along with two others with paying people
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  Speaker 4: on Skid Row to sign petitions using stolen identities of
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  Speaker 4: registered voters. James Brass is 47. He allegedly managed a
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  Speaker 4: team of signature collectors and also collected signatures himself for
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  Speaker 4: ballot petitions used to shape California law. That's according to
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  Speaker 4: a federal indictment that was returned on Wednesday.
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  Speaker 5: Voter fraud bill.
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  Speaker 3: Well, this one is you cannot get, well, this is
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: registration fraud. You cannot get a proposition on the ballot
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  Speaker 3: in California without having 500, 600,000 signatures. You cannot do
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: that without paying people to gather those signatures.
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  Speaker 2: It's just that simple.
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  Speaker 3: So every time you see in front of a supermarket,
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: that little table and the.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: Person say, hey, would you like to sign this petition?
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: It is a paid person.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 4: But then this person was paying people on.
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: Well, I know I understand that is I mean, that's
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: the crime. Legitimately, that is a crime. And I've always
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: wondered it's it's private property. For example, the Ralph's I
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: go to down the street.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: I pull in and it's, you know, a private parking
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: lot owned by the people that own the land. And
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: there are the petition gatherers. And then there's a sign
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: that says you don't have to sign petitions or they're
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: doing this without Ralph's permission or they have nothing to
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: do with this.
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  Speaker 2: I don't understand why they just don't kick them out.
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  Speaker 2: This is private property. Get out.
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: I've never understood that. Maybe it's an issue of First Amendment.
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: I have no idea. But, you know, it's private property.
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: You know, Okay, anyway, so petition gathers, and I'm always
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: against no matter what.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: I always say, no, I'm on the other side of this.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: Not interested.
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  Speaker 6: I always ask him a bunch of questions to keep
• 20:20
  Speaker 6: the other poor fool behind me from having to deal
• 20:23
  Speaker 6: with them.
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  Speaker 5: All right, 75% chance.
• 20:28
  Speaker 6: I love these polls, these percentages and stats and everything.
• 20:34
  Speaker 6: So forecasters now say there's a 75% chance that this
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: year's El Nino, uh, could become historic from October to
• 20:43
  Speaker 6: December and has a good chance of surpassing the strength
• 20:46
  Speaker 6: of every El Nino recorded since 1950.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: Now that's not bad for us.
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: And those 1950s were racist.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's not bad for us. That just means
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: more rainfall for us. But the problem is the storms.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: Look what happened to Nick, Nick, uh, Nicholas Cage house, uh, yesterday, uh, when, uh,
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: that went and went into the sinkhole and those, uh,
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: Was it Dana Point? Is that where those homes were
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: that I think 20 of them were red-tagged and it's
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: over for them?
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: Dana Point, Malibu, Seal Beach, and Long Beach.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: Don't forget to buy waterfront property.
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: Don't forget. Make sure you do that.
• 21:23
  Speaker 6: But, you know, if we don't get rain, oh, my God,
• 21:25
  Speaker 6: we're going to die from a drought. If we do, oh,
• 21:27
  Speaker 6: my God, everything's slipping into the ocean and there's erosion
• 21:30
  Speaker 6: on the coast.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: OK, so how about this? We don't get rain.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: We do have droughts. We do get rain and a
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: lot of it.
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: What happens?
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: Oh, I don't know. There is erosion. The houses do
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: fall into the ocean.
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: Yes, it's the problem is, is it exacerbates both sides
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: of that of that coin. There's too much or too little.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: And there's no such thing as temperate weather anymore. That's
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: the problem. So let's take a temperate temporary. That didn't work.
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: I know you're shaking your head. I tried on that
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: one and I just couldn't put that one together.
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: Valiant effort. Finger pointing time has arrived. Lineage Logistics is
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: the company that operates that massive cold storage warehouse that
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: burned down in Boyle Heights. It has now filed a lawsuit.
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: saying the company that operated the solar panels on the
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: roof of the building is to blame for the fire.
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: The company claims that Altus Power, which operated the solar panels,
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: was responsible, and it was because of negligent and reckless
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: conduct by Altus and its contractor. The subsidiary of Altus
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: has responded to the lawsuit, saying Lineage was attempting to
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: deflect responsibility.
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: And went on to say normal PR speak. It was
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: we were not negligent. We were not in any way
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: at fault. We take our we take our arson and
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: our fires very seriously. And this is not what we
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: would do. We would do a much better job.
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: Well put.
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: No doubt here.
• 23:11
  Speaker 6: In California, we're the home to the largest tech companies
• 23:13
  Speaker 6: for sure. But we're looking to put more guardrails around
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: social media, artificial intelligence and child safety. This comes out
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: of California Governor Gav Newsom's office. He signed more than
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: 10 bills aimed at keeping young people safe online. You've
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: got suicides, sextortion, all kinds of things that. Parents are
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: wrestling with their children and how social media and AI
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: chatbots could be harming their mental health and physical health
• 23:45
  Speaker 6: and anxiety and all those things. And how they're playing
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: more roles, larger roles in classrooms, offices and homes. So
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: that's a good one.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: No, it's something good.
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: But again, it goes back to a theme that I
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: have been talking about over and over again. Technology moves
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: at a very rapid pace. I mean, accelerates like crazy.
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: And then we get to deal with it. And so
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: here is the technology with AI chatbots. Kids use it.
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: Kids get in trouble. kids commit suicide because you have
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: the shaming.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: How do you deal with it? How do you get
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: the safeguards in?
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: Much, much more difficult than the actual technology. And this
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: is what happens. This is what science is all about.
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: And this is what law is all about. It's going
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: to get more difficult as AI increases technology.
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: Speaking of Governor Newsom, post-production peeps are making an appeal
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: to the governor. Hollywood's film and TV post-production workers have
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: taken their case directly to Governor Newsom, urging him to
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: sign the bill that would create the state's first stand-alone
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: post-production tax incentive. The bill passed is AB 2319, aimed
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: at supporting the industry's editors, sound mixers, composers, and visual
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: effects artists. Governor Newsom has it now, and he has
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: until September 30th to either sign it or veto it,
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: and he hasn't really said which way he's going to go.
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: The mayor... Karen Bass is urging supporters not to let up.
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: Keep pressing the governor to sign it.
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, if I'm not wrong on this, if he doesn't
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: sign it, that effectively is a.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: Pocket veto, isn't it?
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: That the only way this becomes law is for the
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: governor to actually sign a bill.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: And if you can look that up, if memory serves.
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: Pocket veto? Well, there's some bills that if you don't
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: sign it, it becomes law. But I think the governor
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: has to sign these. Let me check.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: I think so.
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: I think if it doesn't, if it isn't signed, it
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: becomes a pocket veto. See if I got that right
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: or see other way. Because I really know my stuff.
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: So either I am completely right or completely wrong. And
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: we are going to see in a moment whether I
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: completely ignore what I just said or I say, I
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: told you so.
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: He does not have to sign a bill for it
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: to become law. A bill can become law without a
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: signature if he takes no action within the Constitution.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: OK, well, there you go. There you go.
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: I was right because I said either one works. Either
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: he vetoes it or he's or it's automatically signed.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: I told you.
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: And I think it's that way at the national level, too.
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: Yeah. Trump just said something like it's not long ago.
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: Like if you don't do anything, it goes into into effect.
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: Good call, Bill. Good call.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: Listen, this is why I do this show.
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 26:42
  Speaker 6: We're not going to worry about cyclosporiasis anymore, but we've
• 26:47
  Speaker 6: got rabies coming in quick in the back end. The
• 26:51
  Speaker 6: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are warning Americans, that's us,
• 26:55
  Speaker 6: about the increase in animal rabies activity.
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: So This has to do, obviously.
• 27:01
  Speaker 6: With human exposure across the country during summer. My niece
• 27:05
  Speaker 6: actually had to get the vaccine for this.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, you have to.
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: And the vaccine is, I mean, it's not fun. I
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: think it's a bunch of shots in your stomach. Multiple.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is. But, man, you do not want to
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: get syphilis. That is no fun at all.
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: Not syphilis.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: I mean, rabies. Sorry about that.
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: Either one.
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: You don't want to put syphilis either. No, I understand.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: At the same time, by the way, if you have
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: sex with a certain... Rabies edibles.
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, let's let's change that around. But rabies, once it
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: hits a certain stage and you haven't dealt with it,
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: it's almost 100 percent. It is 100 percent, 100 percent fatal. Yeah,
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: it's no fun.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: We have room for one more.
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: Not ready for prime time. Jimmy Kimmel's interview with Texas
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: Senate candidate James Tallarico is not going to be on
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: ABC on late night with Jimmy Kimmel. He's going to
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: put the interview on his show's YouTube channel instead. He
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: said it's basically amid the current climate, airing the Tallarico
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: interview on public airwaves is just too much of a
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: risk and that he's worried that the FCC is going
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: to come after him because of political rules on, you know,
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: if you have one candidate on, you have to have
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: equal time and have the other candidate on.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: Well, there's that. There's that. We'll see what Brendan Carr,
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: head of the FCC. I mean, they're going after ABC.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: It's that simple.
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: The government is going after ABC and a fight that's
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: going to be very difficult for ABC to win. It
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: would have to be in court and it would be
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: down the line.
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: And it's just going to be hard for ABC to
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: win it.
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: No, no, it's going to be hard for ABC to
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: fight it because fighting it will take a long time
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: because the license will be yanked and then they have
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: to go to court.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: Do I think they're going to win in the end? Yes,
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: I do. Do I think there's going to be litigation
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: like crazy? Yes, I do.
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: Do I think license they're going to be yanked pending that?
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: Yes, I do. Then they're going to be injunctions.
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: The court's going to say, no, you keep on going
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: until we figure this out. And then you're going to
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: see the Trump administration going in on an emergency motion to.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: Shut down ABC. I mean, it's going to be a zoo. Okay,
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: we're done, guys.
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: Coming up, last night was the last night of the
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: two-night convention, the Republican Midterm Convention, which has never happened before.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: And what happened?
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: Hugely entertaining. Hugely entertaining. And I'll come back with that.
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