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Primary Elections: Governor of CA and Mayor of LA | SCOTUS Decisions Time · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: You're list Saints KFI AM six forty the Bill Handles
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  Speaker 1: show on demand on the iHeartRadio.
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  Speaker 2: F Well, everybody just out, who's that AM sixty forty
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  Speaker 2: Bill Handle here on a Monday morning, June first, tomorrow
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  Speaker 2: is a day that will live an infamy. The prime
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  Speaker 2: the primaries. Eh, I really don't care. I don't think
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  Speaker 2: you care. And I'm going to talk about that in
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  Speaker 2: a moment. So let's start with the gubernatorial primary affecting
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  Speaker 2: every one of us. Okay, you've got a bunch of candidate.
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  Speaker 2: It's actually just a few.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of them have dropped off, some have dropped out,
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  Speaker 2: but a lot of them have dropped off, and they're
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  Speaker 2: hoping to succeed Gavin Newsom, and they're crisscrossing the state
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  Speaker 2: making their closing arguments to voters. No, there used to
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  Speaker 2: be a time when canates did not campaign. It was
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  Speaker 2: considered not only a non starter, there was something not
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  Speaker 2: quite immoral, but untoward. For example, for a candidate to
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  Speaker 2: go out and campaign. It was just something that you
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  Speaker 2: didn't do. Of course, now the candidates are begging for
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  Speaker 2: your vote. Okay, you've got a former Biden Cabinet secretary,
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  Speaker 2: a Zavia Bessara, and he is he's gone up in
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  Speaker 2: recent polls. Now he's saying a little bit. You've got
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  Speaker 2: Steve Hilton, former conservative commentator. And by the way, Besara
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  Speaker 2: is a liberal. Hilton a former conservative commentator, a commentator
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  Speaker 2: who rocketed past his main rival, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco.
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  Speaker 2: And it almost doesn't matter. I want to make a
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  Speaker 2: point here. President Trump endorsed Bianco in Abril, and what
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  Speaker 2: he urged that is Chad beyonc hears voters to back
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  Speaker 2: him to avoid the possibility of two Democrats facing off
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  Speaker 2: in November. And if two Democrats face off in November,
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  Speaker 2: and if no one gets the vote, no one gets
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  Speaker 2: the majority of the two Democrats and they run in
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  Speaker 2: the general, and what a Democrat is going to win? Now,
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  Speaker 2: if a Republican gets in the top two, what a shocker.
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  Speaker 2: The Democrat is going to win. And now it's a
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  Speaker 2: question of winning by how much. If Chad Bianco wins
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  Speaker 2: a spot, it's going to be a complete total wipeout.
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  Speaker 2: And if Steve Hilton wins second place, it will be
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  Speaker 2: kind of sort of a complete wipe out wipeout. And
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  Speaker 2: why is this well, it's about Democrats are two to
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  Speaker 2: one in California. It is the bluest of the blue state,
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  Speaker 2: and Democrats are not going to lose, come hell or
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  Speaker 2: high water. The only thing they'll get interesting is Democrats
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  Speaker 2: are the top two states. I don't know why Republicans
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  Speaker 2: even run. I can see where they run in districts
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  Speaker 2: that may be flipped. But why run in a race
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  Speaker 2: that you have zero chances of winning? And there are
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  Speaker 2: plenty of time, plenty of places where you have one
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  Speaker 2: candidate running unopposed. Just okay, we're not going to go
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  Speaker 2: a bunch of sheriffs, for example, all over California run unopposed,
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  Speaker 2: because it's just a waste of time. I don't think
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  Speaker 2: you're going to see, for example, in Todd Spitzer's district,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know who's going to run against Todd. Todd
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  Speaker 2: is in an area well he's not political because it's
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  Speaker 2: don partisan, but people know what he did as an
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  Speaker 2: elected official where he was, and Todd, who's doing a
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  Speaker 2: good job, has a good reputation. Who's going to run
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  Speaker 2: against them? And that's the case here where you have
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  Speaker 2: these three four places, you have you have stire Right,
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  Speaker 2: who has spent two hundred and thirty seven million dollars
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  Speaker 2: of his own, and he has bought his way into recognition.
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  Speaker 2: Californians who try to buy their way into the governorship
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  Speaker 2: don't do well. They just don't. It's something that we
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  Speaker 2: as the electorate are not overly pleased at. We want
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  Speaker 2: people to run. We want people who are politicos, we
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  Speaker 2: want people that we can hate. We want people that
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  Speaker 2: are on the political spectrum. And Stire is running just
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  Speaker 2: as an environmentalist. That's it. There's this whole campaign. Well
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  Speaker 2: got a lot more problems than that. Spent two hundred
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  Speaker 2: and sixteen million dollars, and you have labor unions and
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  Speaker 2: interest groups, the California Association of Realtors backing bisera Styre
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  Speaker 2: backing Stire, you have conservatives backing Hilton, and you've got Bianco.
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  Speaker 2: Is it going to be any kind of a real race,
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  Speaker 2: not only it's the top two? Is it going to
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  Speaker 2: be two Democrats? Or is it going to be a
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  Speaker 2: Democrat and a Republican? And none of that matters? And
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  Speaker 2: if I had to guess right now, I think Besarah
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  Speaker 2: has it. Besarah has the machine. Bessarah has been a
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  Speaker 2: liberal and a democratic state He has been a cabinet
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  Speaker 2: secretary in a Biden administration, and Biden is known as
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  Speaker 2: a liberal politician, a liberal president, which is kind of
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  Speaker 2: interesting to do because it's hard to be that liberal
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  Speaker 2: while you're asleep. I find that a very interesting way
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  Speaker 2: to govern. Okay, we're done. Okay, now a story that
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  Speaker 2: I want to share with you and about it's entitled
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  Speaker 2: no raise, no promotion.
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  Speaker 1: And.
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  Speaker 2: It makes sense. And this is for people, for example,
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  Speaker 2: that their kids have a gap year. When kids have
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  Speaker 2: a gap year, or they take time out between let's
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  Speaker 2: say a high school and college, well, those people that
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  Speaker 2: graduate college are a year or two years ahead. Do
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  Speaker 2: you know that is for a lifetime because you're always behind.
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  Speaker 2: And if you look at the stats of people who
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  Speaker 2: graduate college and then move on to their employment versus
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  Speaker 2: people that take their time graduating college, there is a discrepancy,
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  Speaker 2: and there is a big one. There's a new study
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  Speaker 2: tracking the careers of one point three million dollars mid
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  Speaker 2: career professionals across a range of industries since two thousand
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  Speaker 2: and you coming in earlier and you're probably going to raise,
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  Speaker 2: You're probably going to get a promotion far more than
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  Speaker 2: someone coming in a couple of years after you, and
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  Speaker 2: I was aware of that when I went to high
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  Speaker 2: school and I went out of my way to finish
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  Speaker 2: high school in three years. It was a four year
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  Speaker 2: high school I went to, and I wanted to finish
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  Speaker 2: high school a year earlier so I can get into
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  Speaker 2: college a year earlier. And then I was going to
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  Speaker 2: finish college by the age by the age of twenty
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  Speaker 2: to get into the workforce. And I turned out going
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  Speaker 2: to law school, but started college at the age of seventeen,
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  Speaker 2: which is pretty good. And instead of graduating by the
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  Speaker 2: age of twenty, I graduated at twenty six. So it
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  Speaker 2: only took me nine years to graduate college. Okay, it
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  Speaker 2: didn't work out so well for me. Okay, fair enough,
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  Speaker 2: But the point is that we are living in an
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  Speaker 2: age and that's one factor. The other factor is, even
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  Speaker 2: though there was a hiring spree during the pandemic, mid
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  Speaker 2: career stall persisted. It's gotten far worse now. Hiring a
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  Speaker 2: sload to a trickle and companies from Amazon to Meta
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  Speaker 2: to ups have laid off thousands of managers and other staff.
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  Speaker 2: And who are the managers that are being laid off?
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  Speaker 2: Middle management gone for the most part, and iHeart is
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  Speaker 2: in the same absolutely the same bucket as everybody else is.
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  Speaker 2: And how many middle managers have we lost? I mean
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  Speaker 2: so many? It is a Actually, I think the last
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  Speaker 2: bastion here is the CEO of iHeart, and people that
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  Speaker 2: are on the air and everything in between is history. Michelle.
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  Speaker 2: How many people under you I have disappeared? Oh? Lot? Okay,
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  Speaker 2: that's helpful. Well, I can't. I understand. No, I understand.
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  Speaker 2: You don't keep track of all. You don't keep numbers,
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  Speaker 2: but the number is huge. Yeah, Amy, how many people
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  Speaker 2: in the news department have disappeared? I'm sorry, I didny
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  Speaker 2: of that. How many people in the news department have
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  Speaker 2: disappeared here at KFI more than half? Yeah? Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 2: way more than half. How about ninety percent? But it's
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  Speaker 2: ninety percent. I'm telling you. We could argue it. I've
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  Speaker 2: just done the numbers. Ninety percent. Don't correct me. It's
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  Speaker 2: ninety percent. The point I am making is the layoffs
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  Speaker 2: are incredible, and the market is doing well, and the
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  Speaker 2: unemployment rate is low. It seems like after everybody has
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  Speaker 2: been laid off and they've gotten jobs. I mean, people do,
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  Speaker 2: they get in jobs, but what they do is they
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  Speaker 2: get in jobs at a lower level and they don't
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  Speaker 2: move up. They simply don't move up. I know of
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  Speaker 2: one person in in our producing department that has actually
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  Speaker 2: moved up to a pretty high level. And who would
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  Speaker 2: that be, Michelle? I don't know who? Well, I yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking to her. Yeah. And we've had a lot
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  Speaker 2: of producers since then. And that is the problem. And
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  Speaker 2: the issue is can you help yourself? Yeah, a couple
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  Speaker 2: of things you can do. Beat all of your contemporaries
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  Speaker 2: by going to work early, finish that degree early. The
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  Speaker 2: other one is get as many skills as you possibly can.
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  Speaker 2: If you have one skill, you are at risk. If
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  Speaker 2: you have several skills, you are far less at risk,
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  Speaker 2: because then look what I can do for you, right.
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  Speaker 2: Not only can I run the board, for example, there's
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  Speaker 2: a there's kno. I can run the board. I can
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  Speaker 2: be a producer. I'm a good janitor and can clean
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  Speaker 2: the place up. I can speak Farsi. When it comes
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  Speaker 2: to Iranian advertisers, I'm great looking and you just put
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  Speaker 2: in some picture you put on the dating app. The
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  Speaker 2: more you have in terms of the skill level, and
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  Speaker 2: that seems to be the two big ones. And this
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  Speaker 2: is what you tell your kids, because you're already history,
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  Speaker 2: is get into school and get that degree as quickly
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  Speaker 2: as possible. If you're getting that degree, and that's another story.
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  Speaker 2: Is that degree worthwhile and we're going to be doing
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  Speaker 2: that I think tomorrow, right, Michelle? Is that degree worthwhile?
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  Speaker 2: And then what I had just said, So the bottom line,
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  Speaker 2: no rais no promotions. One in four white collar workers
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  Speaker 2: are stalling out. And then it depends on blue collar workers.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, they just did the census in Yemen,
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  Speaker 2: and you know how they broke it down, white cholera
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  Speaker 2: and blue coolera. Okay. A couple of things about the
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  Speaker 2: Supreme Court. Supreme Court is usually we just get the
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  Speaker 2: decisions sort of a middle end of June, but not
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  Speaker 2: this time around. Some significant rulings have actually already been decided.
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  Speaker 2: Now there are still twenty six cases waiting to be
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  Speaker 2: decided before the court goes on its summer recess. One
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  Speaker 2: of them is birthrights citizenship. That's going to be a
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  Speaker 2: fun one, gun rights, transgender athletes, and the President Trump's
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  Speaker 2: power over independent agencies. And there are a couple that
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  Speaker 2: are really important and deal with all of us. The
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  Speaker 2: big one in the last five years. Of course is
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  Speaker 2: Roe v. Wade doesn't affect anybody in California. In California,
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  Speaker 2: the abortion is guaranteed by the state constitution. So far,
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  Speaker 2: Trump has lost a couple of big cases striking down
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  Speaker 2: the tariffs where it is now. You have I don't
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  Speaker 2: know how many companies, tens of thousands, of nine hundreds
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  Speaker 2: of thousands of companies now applying for the tariffs to
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  Speaker 2: be returned. Also, the president is going to probably suffer
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  Speaker 2: a defeat with the citizenship laws to undoing the fourteenth Amendment.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how he's going to do that now.
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  Speaker 2: Republicans won a big one when the court struck down
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  Speaker 2: the Louisiana congressional district that favored a black Democrat, and
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  Speaker 2: the argument was that the way redistricting has done. Two
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  Speaker 2: things about redistricting. Redistricting is playing around with the districts
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  Speaker 2: that send people to Congress, and the court held that
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  Speaker 2: if it's based on race, you can't do it. If
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  Speaker 2: it's braced simply on politics, you can redistrict. One of
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  Speaker 2: the issues is when the redistricting starts. Usually it happens
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  Speaker 2: at the end of it every census, when the census
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  Speaker 2: is reported at the end of ten years, because the
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  Speaker 2: President asked Texas a don't wait, do it right now,
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  Speaker 2: and let's get more Republican districts. Republican districts means that
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  Speaker 2: they put together these districts where Republicans are more apt
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  Speaker 2: to vote in greater numbers, and they have then limited
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  Speaker 2: the black districts to one or two and the minorities. Right,
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  Speaker 2: those that are advocating that minorities have been disenfranchised argue
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  Speaker 2: that that is racial. Well, the Republicans argue, that's not racial.
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  Speaker 2: It's strictly political. It doesn't matter what color they are.
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  Speaker 2: They can be brown, they can be black, they can
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  Speaker 2: be purple, they can be striped. It's a political decision.
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  Speaker 2: And the court said, when you have a political decision,
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  Speaker 2: then you go for it. You're allowed to do that.
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  Speaker 2: That is a big, big deal. Already, there have been
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  Speaker 2: several congressional districts that have moved towards the GOP, but
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  Speaker 2: the big impact will be in twenty twenty eight. Now,
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  Speaker 2: Republicans are likely to prevail in two other pending cases.
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  Speaker 2: One and I don't know how important this is. It
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  Speaker 2: frees party committees to raise and spend more money to
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  Speaker 2: support candidates directly. The law says that party committees cannot
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  Speaker 2: donate to candidates campaigns directly, and the attack is on
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  Speaker 2: First Amendment. Hey, we can support anybody we want. It's
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  Speaker 2: our First Amendment issue. Here's why I don't think it's
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  Speaker 2: such a huge deal because party committees, I think, can
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  Speaker 2: donate to packs. Maybe I'm wrong, but packs are involved.
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  Speaker 2: Is it going to change the vote very much? It
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  Speaker 2: is not. It is not another one that I find
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  Speaker 2: kind of interesting. I don't know where Trump's going to
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  Speaker 2: go on this one, but it's his anti immigration push,
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  Speaker 2: and he's trying to undo the fourteenth Amendment, which basically
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  Speaker 2: says that anybody born in the United States is a citizen,
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  Speaker 2: thank you or done. And he is arguing that's not true,
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  Speaker 2: that oh, the people who are born here have to
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  Speaker 2: be born of at least one parent who is legal,
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  Speaker 2: and if you were born of illegal parents, and there's
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  Speaker 2: lots of them, then you are not a citizen. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know where he's going with that. Not only is
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  Speaker 2: the fourteenth Amendment in play, but there was a Supreme
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  Speaker 2: Court case in eighteen ninety eight that specifically said that.
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  Speaker 2: Now his first day in office, Trump signed an executive
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  Speaker 2: order to deny citizenship to newborns of parents who are
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  Speaker 2: in the country unlawfully. I mean, come on, where are
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  Speaker 2: you going to go with that? Huh? A judge block
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  Speaker 2: that orders. Several judge blocked that order from taking effect.
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  Speaker 2: There's also an interesting Second Amendment case that's going down
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  Speaker 2: the pike, and the question is can the government make
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  Speaker 2: it a crime for quote, habitual users of unlawful drugs
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  Speaker 2: to have a gun or does that violate their Second
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  Speaker 2: Amendment rights. There is a law since nineteen sixty eight,
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  Speaker 2: federal law that prohibited gun possession by anyone who is
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  Speaker 2: an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance.
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  Speaker 2: Now I don't know what unlawful user is. Is that
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  Speaker 2: once a month? Is that once a week? Is that constant?
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  Speaker 2: The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in Texas struck down
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  Speaker 2: that as unconstitutional and said, the way that has to
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  Speaker 2: be interpreted is only someone who is under impairing influence
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  Speaker 2: of drugs at the time of the arrest. That's it.
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  Speaker 2: That makes sense. You know, I agree with the Trump
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  Speaker 2: administration on that. What if you are a raging alcoholic
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  Speaker 2: but you're not drunk when the police stop you. Does
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  Speaker 2: that mean that because you're a habitual drunk and you've
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  Speaker 2: been in rehab fifteen times that make you not able
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  Speaker 2: to drive? I don't think so. And then we have
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  Speaker 2: whether licensed gun owners can be stopped from carrying a
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  Speaker 2: firearm into stores where private businesses open to the public
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  Speaker 2: unless the owners give you permission. You cannot walk in
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  Speaker 2: unless the owners give you permission. Boy, that's a Second
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  Speaker 2: Amendment fight for sure. And then the lower court, now
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  Speaker 2: we're talking about discrimination against transgender girls. I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know how many transgender folks you know, probably not
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  Speaker 2: Mary many. Does this affect all of us? It does not.
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  Speaker 2: This is more where the country is going in our philosophy.
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  Speaker 2: So the question whether the court is going to rule
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  Speaker 2: narrowly to uphold laws in the Red States or go
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  Speaker 2: further to decide how Title nine applies. Title nine is
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  Speaker 2: the anti discrimination title, and the transgender folks have argued
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  Speaker 2: that those laws that stop us from exactly going to
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  Speaker 2: restrooms with our gender identification are unconstitutional. There are a
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  Speaker 2: few others, but one of them is and I'll stop
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  Speaker 2: at this one. The question is can the Trump administration
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  Speaker 2: cancel legal protection for more than three hundred thousand Haitians
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  Speaker 2: and Syrians who are living and working in the United States.
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  Speaker 2: In nineteen ninety, Congress created a protected status for foreign
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  Speaker 2: nationals who couldn't return home safely because of armed conflicts
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  Speaker 2: or natural disasters In Haiti. I don't know how long ago,
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  Speaker 2: Haiti had that huge earthquake that really destroyed a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of as just the country itself basically, and the Obama
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  Speaker 2: administration extended that protection to Haitian and Syrians because the
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  Speaker 2: argument was, or the determination by the administration said that
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  Speaker 2: the Haitians and Syrians can return, so therefore the protections
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  Speaker 2: are gone. And Trump's Homeland Security Advisor then Homeland Security
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  Speaker 2: Advisor Christinome herself, sought to terminate this. Of course, under
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  Speaker 2: Trump's decision, judges blocker order because the judges said it
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  Speaker 2: is still dangerous and unsafe, and the argument's going to
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  Speaker 2: be do the judges determine that or does the president
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  Speaker 2: determine that? So we're going to be seeing some big
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  Speaker 2: cases coming down. We'll be talking about them when they
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  Speaker 2: come down. Okay, I'm thinking of here we go, let's
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  Speaker 2: do this one. Thousands of people are leaving LA as
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  Speaker 2: well as Orange County as well as the Inland in
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  Speaker 2: Inland Empire every single year. So why do we still
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  Speaker 2: have a housing crunch? Because it just doesn't seem to
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  Speaker 2: make sense. I'll explain how it does. This is KFI
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