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U.S to Impose Naval Blockade | LAUSD & Teachers’ Union Reach Agreement · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
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  Speaker 1: six forty.
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  Speaker 2: This ISFI AM six forty Bill Handle here and a
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  Speaker 2: good morning on a Monday.
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  Speaker 1: A couple of big things are going on.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to talk a bit later on about the
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  Speaker 3: teachers Union and LA Unified School District. Looks like they
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  Speaker 3: reached attended of agreement. Big news for us here in
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  Speaker 3: southern California. The big news around the world is that
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  Speaker 3: there is a blockade going on in the Gulf the
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  Speaker 3: Straight of Horror moves, But it's an American blockade that
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  Speaker 3: the President has just instituted, which started what seven minutes
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  Speaker 3: ago ten am Eastern time, and the US Navy, according
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  Speaker 3: to all the various news outlets, are saying, yep, it
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  Speaker 3: has already begun. Now this is a blockade of Iranian ports,
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  Speaker 3: not the Straight, although the Strait is obviously going to
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  Speaker 3: be blockaded by the fact that the President is saying
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  Speaker 3: around Iranian ports are going to be blockaded. Now, keep
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  Speaker 3: in mind oil comes from Iran and it is sold
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  Speaker 3: mainly to China. Iran still has an economy going, albeit
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  Speaker 3: not a very strong one, and so the President decided
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  Speaker 3: he's changed his mind. I mean it has gone from
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  Speaker 3: we've obliterated it to we've won the war, to we
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  Speaker 3: have to get rid of the nuclear possibility of nuclear enrichment,
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  Speaker 3: although they already have some nuclear uranium enriched almost to
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  Speaker 3: the point of weapons grade. And then it turned out
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  Speaker 3: the Strait of Hormuz was the big one. If the
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  Speaker 3: Strait of Hormuz isn't opened up, and I think this
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  Speaker 3: was Friday or Thursday night, then the attacks would happen.
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  Speaker 3: Civilization in Iran would disappear, it would be bombed into
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  Speaker 3: the Stone Age. And at the same time, Okay, that
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  Speaker 3: one didn't work. So now the straight of horror moves.
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  Speaker 1: Is still blocked.
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  Speaker 3: They still have not given up anything that the United
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  Speaker 3: States has demanded. The United States has not given up
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  Speaker 3: anything that Iran is demanding. Lifting of economic sanctions, allowed
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  Speaker 3: to keep its nuclear program, allowed to support the various
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  Speaker 3: terrorist organizations around the world, mainly the Mid East. So
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  Speaker 3: you had Steve Whitcoff and Jered Kushner and the Vice
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  Speaker 3: President there for talks, twenty one hours of talks, nothing not.
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  Speaker 3: So now it's the blockade.
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  Speaker 1: One of the things I.
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  Speaker 3: Want to point out, and this one is really troubling,
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  Speaker 3: and I don't even blame the president for this. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: the president, we know he was elected, we knew the
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  Speaker 3: kind of person he was. I blame, I blame Congress.
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  Speaker 3: Congress has given up every bit of power that it
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  Speaker 3: has to the president, even the War Powers Act, which
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  Speaker 3: was introduced by the Democrats, saying, you know what, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the president has the right to do what he wants,
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  Speaker 3: but we want to have some say and therefore he
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  Speaker 3: has to go to Congress to continue attacking. And the
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  Speaker 3: Republican Congress said, no, he doesn't. He can do whatever
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  Speaker 3: he wants, including okay, we're doing a black blockade, will attack.
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  Speaker 1: We won't attack. We are going to.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to make sure that the economy of Iran
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  Speaker 3: is destroyed. Oh that we're not, And I mean it's
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  Speaker 3: a tough way to go, it really is. So now,
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  Speaker 3: what are we going to do with the blockade? Well,
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  Speaker 3: a lot of this has to do with China, because
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  Speaker 3: this puts China right in the middle of this, and
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  Speaker 3: hopefully the blockade of Irania ports is going to give
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  Speaker 3: China the opportunity and actually ask China to now pressure
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  Speaker 3: Iran into some kind of a deal. But at this point,
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  Speaker 3: there is no deal at all, and everything the president
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  Speaker 3: said has not come to fruition, just hasn't. Iranians have
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  Speaker 3: said no to everything, and all of the threats that
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  Speaker 3: the presidents made, unfortunately.
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  Speaker 1: Have not come to the table.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, frankly, the accusation that the president is a
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  Speaker 3: paper tiger, where he says, I'm going to, I'm going to,
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to here's the deadline, here's the deadline. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: there were six of those, so we'll see on this one.
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  Speaker 3: What is going to happen. I think the blockade is
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  Speaker 3: going to happen. And Iran has threatened not to attack
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  Speaker 3: American ships. I don't think they're going to attack. I
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  Speaker 3: can't imagine there'll be an attack on American warships because
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  Speaker 3: that would be a full blown war with Iran, which
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  Speaker 3: it has no chance of winning. What they're saying is
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  Speaker 3: we're going to attack oil facilities in the neighboring Gulf States.
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  Speaker 3: That's what we're going to do, and that is going
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  Speaker 3: to do some real damage. Oh my allergies acting up,
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  Speaker 3: acting up? Okay, So where was I real damage? Sneezing?
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  Speaker 3: And the world economy and oil is up dramatically, It's
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  Speaker 3: up over one hundred dollars a barrel. Again, stock market
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  Speaker 3: is in trouble. And then later on what I really like,
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  Speaker 3: I am now looking at the post that the president
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  Speaker 3: has put up, reposted him as Jesus. Yeah, yeah, as Jesus.
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't get better than that. It's spectacular. Okay, yesterday
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  Speaker 3: good news. LA Unified and the teachers union well averted
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  Speaker 3: the strike. They have a tentative agreement. The strike was
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  Speaker 3: to happen tomorrow, and so they announced that a two
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  Speaker 3: year agreement with United Teachers Los Angeles would increase salary
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  Speaker 3: scales by eleven point sixty five percent and raised the
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  Speaker 3: beginning teacher salary from sixty eight thousand to seventy seven
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  Speaker 3: thousand dollars per year. Now, why is it important that
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  Speaker 3: it's a two year contract? Usually they're three year contracts.
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  Speaker 3: So all of this was a compromise, and there are
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  Speaker 3: there were three unions involved in this one, and the
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  Speaker 3: three unions would shut down the schools. The school district
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't even didn't even pretend that they were going to
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  Speaker 3: make arrangements to have students learn or maybe they were
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  Speaker 3: going to do remote learning.
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  Speaker 1: I mean nothing. It was just going to be shut down.
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  Speaker 3: So there's still agreements that have to be reached with
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  Speaker 3: a couple of more unions, but the big one was
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  Speaker 3: just established. So the meetings with Local ninety nine, well,
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  Speaker 3: they were set for yesterday. The three unions negotiating over
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  Speaker 3: the weekend cover about seventy thousand of the district's eighty
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  Speaker 3: three thousand employees and all the campus workers. So, as
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  Speaker 3: I said, shut down isn't going to happen, I'll tell
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  Speaker 3: you what did happen. It's historic in the sense that
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  Speaker 3: all three unions joined together. Now keep in mind that
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  Speaker 3: the unions represent different workers. Some represent teachers, some represent
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  Speaker 3: like cafeteria workers, custodians, other represent administrator, school principles, vice principals. Well,
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  Speaker 3: they all got together, even though the contracts are different.
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  Speaker 3: And so all three unions they had joined together and
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  Speaker 3: threatened to walk out as in tomorrow if agreements could
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  Speaker 3: not be reach and three hundred and ninety thousand students
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  Speaker 3: would be without school. Now, it's not yet clear what's
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  Speaker 3: going to happen if one or the two unions would
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  Speaker 3: not settle, and it seems like all three involved would
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  Speaker 3: honor everyone else's picket line. So if they don't get
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  Speaker 3: all three going, it's going to be a little problematic unions.
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  Speaker 3: Here's what's been going on. Not in terms of returning
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  Speaker 3: people to school, kids to school. What's been happening is
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  Speaker 3: unions have been printing and distributing signs. They're ready to go,
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  Speaker 3: organizing the picket lines.
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  Speaker 1: Ready to go. Rallies already set up.
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  Speaker 3: The union is arranging food distribution for its members.
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  Speaker 1: Right off the bat.
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  Speaker 3: The average pay of Service Employees International representing teachers' aids,
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  Speaker 3: campus as, Gardner's custodians, etc. About thirty thousand of them.
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  Speaker 3: The average pay is thirty five thousand dollars per year.
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  Speaker 3: How does someone live in Southern California for thirty five
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  Speaker 3: thousand dollars a year. Let's say you have two members
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  Speaker 3: of the family, spouse or a loved one, or your partner, whatever,
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  Speaker 3: and both of you are making thirty five thousand dollars
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  Speaker 3: a year. You're at seventy thousand dollars a year. How
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  Speaker 3: difficult is that to live on in Southern California. The
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  Speaker 3: administrators have their own union. We're talking about principles and
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  Speaker 3: assistant principles represent about three thousand of these people. They
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  Speaker 3: haven't cut a deal yet and the fact that principles
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  Speaker 3: and assistant principles can strike is beyond me because the
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  Speaker 3: whole point of management was not being able to strike.
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  Speaker 1: That was it.
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  Speaker 3: You either joined the union and if you went in
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  Speaker 3: the management, no striking. And same thing with state federal workers,
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  Speaker 3: no striking. Guess what laws have change? They all now strike. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: do you know how many participants there were sitting down
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  Speaker 3: to negotiate this stuff. One hundred and fifty people were negotiating.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, that's crazy. The district sends about ten people
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  Speaker 3: and they negotiate with the other unions, so they have
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  Speaker 3: people negotiating on behalf of themselves with other unions. And
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  Speaker 3: so what ended up happening is both sides met in
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  Speaker 3: the middle. And as I said, the contract is for
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  Speaker 3: two years instead of three years. And one of the
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  Speaker 3: things that I have brought up, and this one, I'm
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  Speaker 3: one of the few people that actually defends teachers in school.
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  Speaker 3: In teaching, LA Unified has become an unteachable school district. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 3: they have to teach. Teachers have to teach the lowest
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  Speaker 3: common denominator and we're not talking about lowest common denominator
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  Speaker 3: in terms of intelligence or special needs or any of that.
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  Speaker 3: I'm talking about kids who come over immigrant kids from
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  Speaker 3: immigrant family so don't speak English and.
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  Speaker 1: Their parents have no marketable skills.
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  Speaker 3: Are over people that sneak across the border do not
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  Speaker 3: have marketable skills. There are very few Mexican thorstic surgeons
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  Speaker 3: that sneak across the border. And so the teachers now
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  Speaker 3: have to teach English is the second language, and their
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  Speaker 3: entire schools that have those kids, it's very difficult, if
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  Speaker 3: not impossible, to teach them. And then the other kids
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  Speaker 3: who are not who do not engage in English as
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  Speaker 3: the second language, who have parents who give a damn
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  Speaker 3: much like well, Neil and Tracy very heavily involved in
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  Speaker 3: the school the school does well.
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  Speaker 1: Go into the inner.
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  Speaker 3: City and find out how many schools don't have parents
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  Speaker 3: because they're too busy in front of the home depot
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  Speaker 3: trying or earn some money to feed their families. So
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  Speaker 3: it's a tough way to go. Southern California is a tough, tough,
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  Speaker 3: tough place to live. And I'm going to do a
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  Speaker 3: story about that also a little bit later on. Okay, now,
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  Speaker 3: a spend that's not dangerous, but you know, typical Donald
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  Speaker 3: Trump the fight with Donald Trump and Pope Leo, and
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  Speaker 3: yesterday the President issued rather sharp criticism of Pope Leo,
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  Speaker 3: calling him weak on crime, terrible for foreign policy, and
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  Speaker 3: saying that Pope Leo, the first US foreign pontiff, would
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  Speaker 3: not have been selected as pope if it weren't for
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump being president.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think I want.
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  Speaker 3: To pope who thinks it's or I don't want to
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  Speaker 3: popeho thinks it's terrible that America attacked Venezuela. I don't
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  Speaker 3: want a pope who criticizes the President of the United States,
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  Speaker 3: because I'm doing exactly what I was elected in a
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  Speaker 3: landslide to do.
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  Speaker 1: And Leo should be thankful because his.
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  Speaker 3: Election by the College of Cardinals last year was a shock.
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  Speaker 1: Wasn't on any list to be pope.
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  Speaker 3: He was only put there by the church because he's
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  Speaker 3: an American and they thought that would be the best
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  Speaker 3: way to deal with President Donald J.
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  Speaker 1: Trump. I guess you talked to the third person.
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  Speaker 3: If I wasn't in the while White House, Leo wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: be in the Vatican. And I called Leo a very
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  Speaker 3: liberal person. I don't think he's doing a very good job.
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  Speaker 3: He likes crime. I guess I'm not a fan of
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  Speaker 3: Pope Leo. Well, Pope Leo responded, I have no fear
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  Speaker 3: of the Trump administration or speaking out loudly of the
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  Speaker 3: message of the Gospel, which is what I'm here to do.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to get into a debate with him.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think the message of the Gospel is meant
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  Speaker 3: to be abused in the way that some people are doing.
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  Speaker 1: The Pope read President Trump. Now.
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  Speaker 3: Last year, President steered away from attacking Leo, and Leo
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  Speaker 3: stayed away from much direct criticism of Trump until recently
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  Speaker 3: because of the administration's policy on immigration and the war.
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  Speaker 3: Trump last year, or this was in twenty sixteen, when
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  Speaker 3: he was running, said that it was disgraceful that Francis,
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  Speaker 3: who was Pope, would question his devotion to the Christian faith.
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  Speaker 3: And they had already clashed over Trump's Middle East policy
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  Speaker 3: all right. Shortly before Leo was named as Pope, Trump
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  Speaker 3: posted to social media an AI generated photo of himself
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  Speaker 3: as Pope. Now, he didn't do it, but he reposted
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  Speaker 3: it only to be beat by the one that just
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  Speaker 3: came out. Where he is Jesus And if you think
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  Speaker 3: I'm kidding. I want you to look at go to
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  Speaker 3: social media and look at what this AI generated photo
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  Speaker 3: or depiction is of Trump as Jesus putting his hand
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  Speaker 3: on the forehead of ostensibly a dead person American flag
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  Speaker 3: in the background.
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  Speaker 1: What do you do with that?
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  Speaker 3: Now, as I told you, I am now going to
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  Speaker 3: tell you something that is not known that President Trump
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  Speaker 3: has actually asked or maybe forced, the Catholic Church to
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  Speaker 3: exhume Mother Teresa so he can start a war with her.
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  Speaker 1: Now, very few people know.
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  Speaker 3: That that any part of the Catholic Church or the
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  Speaker 3: Pope the President is at.
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  Speaker 1: War at I tell you you are.
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  Speaker 3: Anybody who says anything about Donald Trump in criticizing him
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  Speaker 3: is immediately part of the left wing radical cabal that
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  Speaker 3: is there to destroy America or the world. And Pope
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  Speaker 3: Leo has now join the fray because he is Chris
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  Speaker 3: critical of the President. By the way, that's not really
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  Speaker 3: real about exhuming Mother Teresa.
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  Speaker 4: That's sad that you have to clarify.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, And they're in the problem is there isn't much
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  Speaker 3: of Mother Teresa left.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, she was very small to.
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  Speaker 3: Begin with, and then you got the decomposition. So anyway
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  Speaker 3: you get it that. By the way, would you be
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  Speaker 3: surprised if the Pope made that demand, I wouldn't be.
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  Speaker 4: You mean Trump, Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm not surprised. The
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  Speaker 4: only thing that surprises me is that the Catholic Church
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  Speaker 4: is not in an uproar right now.
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  Speaker 1: Or the Catholic defenders of Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 4: Any Christians should be offended by that image. And uh,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. The ant mingling of politics and religion
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  Speaker 4: is horrific.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's what Pope Leo has said.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, it's his job to say that war, war
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  Speaker 3: is horrible and let's come to the table in peace,
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  Speaker 3: et cetera. But again, if the president is demanding or
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  Speaker 3: engaging in war, then you have to be behind him
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  Speaker 3: no matter what. And as far you're right as the
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  Speaker 3: Christians are concerned, Donald Trump pretty vociferously said, anybody who
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  Speaker 3: questions me being a Christian is a disgrace. I didn't
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  Speaker 3: see anything where Popo Leo is questioning his Christianity. I
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  Speaker 3: don't certainly questioning the way he treats people with immigration,
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  Speaker 3: the war, et cetera. So it's why not. The Pope
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  Speaker 3: is on the list too, And you're right, why the
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  Speaker 3: Christian right isn't in an uproar. I don't get that.
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  Speaker 3: I truly don't Why you don't see Catholic Christian members
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  Speaker 3: of Congress in an uproar over the President of the
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  Speaker 3: United States depicting himself as Jesus christ.
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  Speaker 1: Man. It's like they'll have.
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  Speaker 3: An argument, they'll have an argument. Why it's okay, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I know. It's like Jews depicting themselves as being members
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  Speaker 3: of the Fed when they're not. Okay, I had to
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  Speaker 3: go there.
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  Speaker 4: Excellent analogy, Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Excellent analogy. Okay, okay, Uh.
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  Speaker 3: Based on the music that we just heard, according to
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  Speaker 3: the experts, the shark experts, uh. That's Chris Lowe, director
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  Speaker 3: of the Shark Lab at cal State, Long Beat, didn't
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  Speaker 3: even know there was one uh, and his team has
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  Speaker 3: been have been watching the waters very closely for more
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: shark activity which is going to happen, which is happening
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: warmer than normal ocean temperatures and a looming El Nino
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  Speaker 3: means a repeat of conditions that were happened a decade
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  Speaker 3: go that brought shark populations close to the shore. So
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  Speaker 3: climate change, for those of you that are saying climate
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  Speaker 3: change doesn't exist. Stop it already, I feel fewer and fewer. Well,
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  Speaker 3: it doesn't just affect us in terms of heat waves
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  Speaker 3: and hurricanes and storms, and I mean all the rest
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  Speaker 3: that we see on TV constantly. It also affects the ocean,
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  Speaker 3: and in this case specifically sharks, because sharks are kind
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  Speaker 3: of fun, they're scary, they're hugely entertaining, look at jaws.
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  Speaker 1: And from twenty fourteen through.
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  Speaker 3: Twenty sixteen, pockets of sharks were recorded across southern California,
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  Speaker 3: and those groups are growing young sharks sticking around in
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  Speaker 3: the warm water created by the marine heat wave, and
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  Speaker 3: instead of heading south as they typically would each spring,
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  Speaker 3: they stay in the warm waters and females come back earlier,
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  Speaker 3: giving birth all of it. Science, it's going to be
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  Speaker 3: a sharky summer is what they're calling it. Going back
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  Speaker 3: to twenty fifteen in Mexico, the experts were studying nurseries
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  Speaker 3: where the sharks are and saw very few sharks that
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  Speaker 3: year because the waters were too warm, and they opted
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  Speaker 3: form for milder waters off southern California. And it's going
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  Speaker 3: to be a long beach and Huntington Beach looks like
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  Speaker 3: are going to be the hotspots. That's what it's looking
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  Speaker 3: like this shark season. We're actually going to have a
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  Speaker 3: shark season. Tag sharks have been moving around a lot
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  Speaker 3: lately in Santa Monica Bay off of Santa Barbara also,
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  Speaker 3: and it's moving down the beach. And according to these experts,
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  Speaker 3: once they find a good hot spot, even if they
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  Speaker 3: migrate in winter to Baja, there's a high probability they're
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  Speaker 3: going to come back to the same spot, much like
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  Speaker 3: salmon do after a couple of years out in the ocean.
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  Speaker 3: And homing pigeons. Matter of fact, a lot of people
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  Speaker 3: are using baby sharks as homing pigeons. But when you
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  Speaker 3: throw sharks up in the air, they generally have a
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  Speaker 3: hard time going back to where they came from. That,
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  Speaker 3: by the way, is visual, and that one didn't work.
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  Speaker 3: And there's a video making the rounds of an angler
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  Speaker 3: catching a shark off Hermosa Beach. And according to the
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  Speaker 3: guy who wrote this paper, the heavy duty fishing line
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  Speaker 3: that anglers use to catch large fish is like a
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  Speaker 3: cheese grater, and if a shark pulls on it to
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  Speaker 3: get away, a surfer could be decapitated.
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  Speaker 1: Boy, there's a video for you. Huh.
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  Speaker 3: You betcha, and if a shark is agitated after being freed,
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  Speaker 3: which happens, it could act radically and bite unsuspecting swimmers.
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  Speaker 1: So here's what we recommend.
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  Speaker 3: Lo said, If you want to fish that way, do
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  Speaker 3: it at night when surfers and swimmers aren't out there,
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  Speaker 3: so you don't have a chance of grabbing them around
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  Speaker 3: their faces and if not, decapitating them cutting their legs off.
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  Speaker 3: And a lot has changed in the past decade. Researchers
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  Speaker 3: actually have learned a lot more about sharks. Previously, we
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  Speaker 3: didn't know anything about sharks. We didn't know how long
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  Speaker 3: they lived, for example, no idea or how far they
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  Speaker 3: traveled and migration. So the Shark Lab in San Diego
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  Speaker 3: started tagging sharks and using acoustic receivers on buoys to
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  Speaker 3: track their behavior and to alert lifeguards when they're near
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  Speaker 3: beach populations, and that's when the lifeguards shut down the
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  Speaker 3: beach and the researchers are also using drones to search
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  Speaker 3: for sharks and document their movements. So it is getting
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  Speaker 3: a lot easier to find sharks and to study them.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 3: Much of the Shark Labs research fueled by a twenty
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  Speaker 3: twenty eight State grant or a grant that would end
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  Speaker 3: in twenty twenty eight three point seven million dollars, but
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  Speaker 3: that money is quickly running out. So there was a
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  Speaker 3: private donation from a foundation that gave an eight hundred
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  Speaker 3: thousand dollars additional amount of money to get the shark
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  Speaker 3: Lab through the next.
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  Speaker 1: Couple of years. Sharks.
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  Speaker 3: I don't go swimming in the beach. Frankly, I hate
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  Speaker 3: the beach. I don't know people who enjoy the beach.
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  Speaker 3: You know, if you really want to, aren't you just
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  Speaker 3: better off getting you know, eighty grit sampaper and rubbing
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  Speaker 3: it across your ass instead of the sand. It's just
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  Speaker 3: really uncomfortable. And now I'm not going to go through that. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: here's a topic for you. LA's population, which was growing
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  Speaker 3: actually was one of the fastest and historically has been
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  Speaker 3: the fastest growing county in the country. And that's across
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  Speaker 3: the years, the decades. Guess what it's falling and that's
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  Speaker 3: long term problems that I'll share that with you when
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