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US Alcohol Consumption at 85yr Low | Young Americans’ Job Market · 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: Sixth sorty will Handle here.
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  Speaker 3: It is a Monday morning, May eleventh.
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  Speaker 2: Some of the big stories we're looking at.
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  Speaker 3: The potential piece accord between the Iranians and Americans fell apart.
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  Speaker 3: The President said absolutely not to the proposal of Iran.
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  Speaker 3: So the peace, well, the cease fire continues on. We'll
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  Speaker 3: see what happens with that.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 3: The story about Spirit Airlines has been in the news
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  Speaker 3: the last week week and a half, and we know
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  Speaker 3: the Spirit Airlines is going broke. They're going bankrupt. They've
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  Speaker 3: gone bankrupt two times in the past couple of years.
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  Speaker 3: And it was the FEDS did not allow the.
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  Speaker 2: Merger of Jet Blue, or I think.
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  Speaker 3: It was was the other one, the other airline, and
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  Speaker 3: I forgot which one it is. So what ended up happening.
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  Speaker 3: The government said no on that one, and that would
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  Speaker 3: have been kept alive. Spirit Airlines would have been kept alive.
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  Speaker 3: So how do you keep Spirit Airlines going? Well, another
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  Speaker 3: company buys him, not interested, a merger with a major
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  Speaker 3: airline not interested. So this time the bankruptcy is a liquidation,
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  Speaker 3: which means out of business, not a reorganization. Everything they
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  Speaker 3: have is sold off to creditors, and man are they
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  Speaker 3: in credit issues. They owe I think eighty billion dollars.
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  Speaker 3: So there's a guy by the name of Hunter Peterson
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  Speaker 3: who heard that Spirit's gonna close.
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  Speaker 2: Matter of fact, did close.
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  Speaker 3: And here's what he posted on social media. If a
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  Speaker 3: fifth of Americans each pitched in forty five bucks, which
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  Speaker 3: is a cheap flight on Spirit, we could buy Spirit
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  Speaker 3: Airlines and run the airline like.
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  Speaker 2: The green Bay Packers. So how does that work?
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  Speaker 3: Well, the green Bay Packers are owned by the city
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  Speaker 3: of green Bay. It is the only football team and
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  Speaker 3: then an NFL run owned by the city, actually not
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  Speaker 3: the city itself, but by residents of green Bay. They
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  Speaker 3: each own a tiny portion. They have stock certificates. They
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  Speaker 3: never issue dividends. It's just the joy of owning a
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  Speaker 3: share or two of the green Bay Packers. And whenever
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  Speaker 3: they need money, they just issue another one hundred thousand
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  Speaker 3: shares for let's say one hundred dollars.
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  Speaker 2: I don't even know what the.
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  Speaker 3: Cost of a stock today with green Bay. I think
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  Speaker 3: last time they issued one of their purchase shares was
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  Speaker 3: I think it was one hundred dollars.
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  Speaker 2: So you wonder.
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  Speaker 3: Usually it's billionaires who own football teams, and they run
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  Speaker 3: the football team. They choose the coaches, they're involved in
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  Speaker 3: selecting the players, drafting the players, selecting the manager. They
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  Speaker 3: all work for the owner of the team. Well, how
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  Speaker 3: do you work when you've got hundreds of thousands of
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  Speaker 3: people who own the team. And I was wondering about
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  Speaker 3: that because these owners, these hundreds of thousands of owners,
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  Speaker 3: hold five million shares of stock and they're not traded
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  Speaker 3: like normal stock and no dividends. I said, so here,
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  Speaker 3: and I was wondering, how does that work? How does
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  Speaker 3: the city manage a football team? And then as I
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  Speaker 3: looked at this, I'm going, boy, this is pretty unique.
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  Speaker 3: And incidentally, this guy Hunter Peterson is saying, we have
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  Speaker 3: to follow the same formula in owning Spirit Airlines. It
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  Speaker 3: can be owned by hundreds of thousands or millions of shareholders.
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  Speaker 3: So what the shareholders do is elect a board of directors.
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  Speaker 3: The board of director runs and they put down on
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  Speaker 3: the ballot what their experience is in football, etc.
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  Speaker 2: So you have people who know what they're doing.
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  Speaker 3: So there's the board of directors and the shareholders vote
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  Speaker 3: in an annual meeting to elect the Board of Directors,
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  Speaker 3: and the board acts like owning the ownership for the franchise.
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  Speaker 2: And usually it's the same board, you know.
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  Speaker 3: They don't go through them the way I go through
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  Speaker 3: underwear about once a week. And so the board then
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  Speaker 3: chooses the Executive Committee. The seven member Executive Committee is
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  Speaker 3: elected by the board, and the committee runs the packers.
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  Speaker 3: The committee approves major spending, sets the organizational policy, overseas
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  Speaker 3: management performance, supervises the overall business. The president the CEO,
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  Speaker 3: runs the team day to day, and the president functions
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  Speaker 3: a lot like an owner of a team, represents the
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  Speaker 3: packers at NFL owners meetings, oversees all of the day today.
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  Speaker 3: And this is absolutely fascinating. And the reason I'm bringing
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  Speaker 3: this up is because that model is being used by
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  Speaker 3: Oscar Peterson to buy Spirit out of bankruptcy. And Spirit
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  Speaker 3: is going to go very cheaply, and there's no one
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  Speaker 3: wants to buy Spirit Airlines.
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  Speaker 2: It's lost so much money.
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  Speaker 3: What killed it was the price of jet fuel that
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  Speaker 3: that did it. Price of jet fuel has doubled, has
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  Speaker 3: not gasoline, which has gone up fifty percent. It has
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  Speaker 3: doubled and done the major airlines have deep enough pockets
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  Speaker 3: where they're going to survive. As a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 3: some of them are even making money. How do they
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  Speaker 3: make money by charging us more junk fees than you
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  Speaker 3: could ever ever imagine.
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  Speaker 2: I knew it was over.
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  Speaker 3: Life was done when Southwest Airlines started charging for baggage.
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  Speaker 3: Come on, really, yep, the last holdout. So it's all
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  Speaker 3: those junk fees that are keeping the airlines going. And
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  Speaker 3: so the purchase of spirit this is not running or
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  Speaker 3: buying a football team. You're talking about dealing with the FAA.
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  Speaker 3: You're talking about financing because it still has to be financed.
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  Speaker 3: You're still leasing the planes, and you're still dealing with
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  Speaker 3: airports in terms of negotiations with them for gates, leans
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  Speaker 3: on the aircraft union contracts with the pilots and the stewardesses,
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  Speaker 3: the female and the male stewardess. Is all flight attendance,
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  Speaker 3: ground personnel, maintenance personnel.
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  Speaker 2: All of it.
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  Speaker 3: Can it be done, Yeah, it can be done. Now
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  Speaker 3: you can do it another way, and that's a private placement.
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  Speaker 3: But not you can raise unlimited money within a year
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  Speaker 3: and there's nothing you could You don't have to deal
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  Speaker 3: with the FCC on that one. But those are that's
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  Speaker 3: unlimited to anybody has at least the net worth of
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  Speaker 3: a million dollars, So is it going to work? That'd
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  Speaker 3: be kind of neat, wouldn't it. So you'd have two
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  Speaker 3: major organizations owned by hundreds of thousands of shareholders. Well,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you have hundreds of thousands of shareholders and
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  Speaker 3: major major corporations like Disney and GOE and Apple, but
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  Speaker 3: you have one individual who created the company. Usually in Disney,
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  Speaker 3: it's the CEO selected by the board, and it's the
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  Speaker 3: regular formula. Because someone owns fourteen percent, eighteen percent, twenty
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  Speaker 3: two percent. I think Elon Musk owns what is it,
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  Speaker 3: fourteen or seventeen percent of Tesla, but that controls that
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  Speaker 3: absolutely controls the entire company. All right, Okay, interesting Gallup
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  Speaker 3: poll that just came out, and the Gallop folks began
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  Speaker 3: tracking the US drinking rate since nineteen thirty nine and
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty five. It's the lowest it's ever been by
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  Speaker 3: a long shot. Last year, fifty four percent of Americans
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  Speaker 3: polled that they consume alcohol.
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  Speaker 2: Half of Americans.
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  Speaker 3: Now that question didn't regard frequency, but asked do you
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  Speaker 3: state from drinking entirely? That's over half the Americans and
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  Speaker 3: that marks the third year of consecutive declines. Oh man,
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  Speaker 3: we don't drink anymore. And I don't drink at all, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: And it's not because I'm a teetotaler. It's not because
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  Speaker 3: I have any moral issue with drinking other than drinking
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  Speaker 3: and driving.
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  Speaker 2: But to me, but do you remember as.
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  Speaker 3: A kid, whenever you took your first sip of alcohol,
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  Speaker 3: whether it was wine or hard alcohol. And I remember
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  Speaker 3: taking a drink and ooh my god, it tastes like turpentine.
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  Speaker 3: And I've never gone I have never gotten over that.
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  Speaker 3: That's why I don't drink. Now, let me tell you
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  Speaker 3: about my daughter, Barbara.
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  Speaker 2: Barbara.
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  Speaker 3: When the girls were fourteen years old, we went on
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  Speaker 3: a trip to Ireland and we ended up at the
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  Speaker 3: Jamis Distillery for a tour. And when you take a
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  Speaker 3: tour of Jamison and they give you the tour, at
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  Speaker 3: the end of it, they give you a shot of
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  Speaker 3: their whiskey, their sixteen year old or reserve, whatever you choose.
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  Speaker 3: And that's for the adults. The kids get soft drinks.
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  Speaker 3: And so obviously since my girls were pre tween, they
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  Speaker 3: were tweens, they got soft drinks. And what I asked
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  Speaker 3: for is three soft drinks and one shot, so all
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  Speaker 3: of us could taste the shot of whiskey. And I
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  Speaker 3: took one little sip, the tiniest sip.
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  Speaker 2: Ooh that's terrible. That's it.
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  Speaker 3: There was no drinking. There, never has been, there never
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  Speaker 3: will be again. Then my other daughter took a little
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  Speaker 3: sip of the whiskey and did the same thing.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, rather horrible.
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  Speaker 3: And then my ex Marjorie, she took a shot or
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  Speaker 3: a little sip, and the same thing happened. So now
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  Speaker 3: you've got a slug an ounce of jamison.
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  Speaker 2: Virtually the entire ounce is there.
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  Speaker 3: My daughter Barbara had never tasted whiskey in her life.
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  Speaker 3: She took it down in one slug. It just went
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  Speaker 3: right down her throat. She looked at me and said, boy,
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  Speaker 3: that's smooth. Oh okay, thank you so much. And that
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  Speaker 3: left open for a lifetime of dealings.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 3: The good news is she stopped several years ago. But
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  Speaker 3: I'll never forget that. And that leads right into the
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  Speaker 3: story about Americans drinking less and less. The other thing is,
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  Speaker 3: more and more Americans are buying into the science that
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  Speaker 3: says any drinking whatsoever is negative, much like smoking. That
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  Speaker 3: any smoking is bad for your health, and the same
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  Speaker 3: thing is done by or drinking. And we've gone all
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  Speaker 3: over the place on that. Remember a glass of wine
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  Speaker 3: once a night, it was good for you. It helped
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  Speaker 3: your digestion and was healthy. It's like coffee. One morning
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  Speaker 3: you wake up is good for you, the next morning
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  Speaker 3: is bad for you. Then you wake up and it's
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  Speaker 3: good for you. Same thing with avocados, same thing with eggs.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it just bounces all over the place, and
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  Speaker 3: some of it is kind of science, but this is
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  Speaker 3: solid year's long study of science that tells us drinking
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  Speaker 3: is not good under any circumstances, and more and more
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  Speaker 3: people are buying it, even those who do drink. This
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  Speaker 3: is according to Gallop, consumption is falling. Forty percent said
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  Speaker 3: it's been more than a week since they last consumed alcohol,
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  Speaker 3: and that's the highest percentage since two thousand, So it's
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  Speaker 3: I've been pretty substantial. The average number of drinks consumed
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  Speaker 3: over the past seven days the week two point eight,
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  Speaker 3: and that's the lowest figure since nineteen ninety six.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm going around the room. Will do you drink? Nodding? Yes?
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  Speaker 2: How often do you drink? I have a beer now
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  Speaker 2: and then for sure? Now okay, I have a beer now
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  Speaker 2: and then a kono? Do you drink? I do? And
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  Speaker 2: how much do you drink? I like whiskey?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, so when you come in falling down drunk, it's
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  Speaker 3: because you woke up in the morning at three in
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  Speaker 3: the morning and took a few shots. Amy, do you drink,
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  Speaker 3: of course? And what do you drink at? How often?
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  Speaker 4: Mostly wine now? But like you know, if we're going
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  Speaker 4: to a baseball game, it's beer. Okay, probably a cocktail,
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  Speaker 4: I'm a I may, I like a wide.
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  Speaker 2: Variety, all right. And do you drink? Yes? I do? Oh,
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  Speaker 2: everybody drink? And what do you drink? And have I
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  Speaker 2: probably maybe twice a month?
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  Speaker 3: And I okay, okay, So it's you're one of those
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  Speaker 3: that rarely drink. Will okay, fair enough, and will drinks
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  Speaker 3: a couple of times a month. And uh is every day,
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  Speaker 3: several times a day. And Cono is frankly he is Amy,
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, that's Amy, right, And Cono is uh plastered
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  Speaker 3: every day of his life. I have never Yes, you
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  Speaker 3: are come on. In the meantime, I what a shocker.
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  Speaker 3: My go to is diet coke.
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  Speaker 4: Another thing you have in common with President Trump. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: he doesn't drink either. Any loves does not drink.
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  Speaker 3: And the reason he doesn't drink, and this is a
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  Speaker 3: serious issue, is that his brother, who he idolized, his
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  Speaker 3: old brother, died of alcohol, of alcoholism when he was
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  Speaker 3: in his forties. And he will not take a drink.
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  Speaker 3: As a matter of fact, when you see him at
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  Speaker 3: state dinners and they lift the glass of champagne, he
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  Speaker 3: will lift it to his lips and he will not
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  Speaker 3: even take a sip. And I will take a sip
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  Speaker 3: at New Year's for example, I'll take a quarter of
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  Speaker 3: a flute of champagne, and I'm already buzzy. If I
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  Speaker 3: were to take half of flute, I'd be on the
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  Speaker 3: table taking off my clothes dancing. And I've done that before.
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  Speaker 3: It is really a joy. It's a joy to see. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: another Gallup poll and doing a lot of gallops stuff
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  Speaker 3: this morning. For years, young Americans, younger Americans have been
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  Speaker 3: far more optimistic about the job market than older Americans,
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  Speaker 3: which makes more sense even through the Great Recession. But
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  Speaker 3: this new poll released this so today, actually finds that
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  Speaker 3: young people's confidence has plummeted over the past two years,
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  Speaker 3: while older people that has remained more upbeat beat, and
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  Speaker 3: the gap between young and older Americans view of the
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  Speaker 3: job market is now greater than any country in the
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  Speaker 3: world among those one hundred and forty one surveyed. That's
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  Speaker 3: according to the Gallop World Pole. Young people just don't
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  Speaker 3: buy that there is opportunity there. So most people around
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  Speaker 3: the other countries one hundred and forty one countries think
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  Speaker 3: young people think that there's more opportunity. It's gone the
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  Speaker 3: other way here in America. Younger people who say it's
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  Speaker 3: a good time to find work in their local job
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  Speaker 3: market is now greater than their elders or the other
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  Speaker 3: way around. I'm sorry, and this is a generational rift
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  Speaker 3: of economic opportunities. Young people feeling downtrodden increasingly about job prospects.
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  Speaker 3: Older people say yeah, it's a good time to find work.
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  Speaker 3: And this is continuing generational device in politics. Why because
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  Speaker 3: younger people have focused a whole lot more in economic
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  Speaker 3: issue issues, housing costs, less faith in institutions. Now you
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  Speaker 3: have to break that down too, because the cost of
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  Speaker 3: housing if you already own a house, doesn't really affect you,
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  Speaker 3: and older people own houses far more than younger people,
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  Speaker 3: as in who can't buy a house anymore. So it
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  Speaker 3: is a big issue now. I talk to people on
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  Speaker 3: Saturday about living on social security.
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  Speaker 2: That is a tough one.
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  Speaker 3: But and younger people tend to be much more cognizant
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  Speaker 3: of what social security is going to do or not do.
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  Speaker 3: The answer there's not going to be social security or
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  Speaker 3: it's going to be far less benefits in the future.
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  Speaker 3: So and young people have fewer physical limitations. You know,
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  Speaker 3: they're not old and falling apart the way old people
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  Speaker 3: are the way the rest of us are. They don't
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  Speaker 3: have family responsibilities, they can adapt more quickly than older folks,
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  Speaker 3: and normally are more optimistic about their ability to land work. Ah,
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  Speaker 3: not anymore. I think AI has to deal with it.
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  Speaker 3: They're going to expand this poll because does AI affect
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  Speaker 3: any of us?
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  Speaker 2: Not really.
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  Speaker 3: If you've got a job, AI is not going to
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  Speaker 3: come in and toss you out. You're pretty well asconced
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  Speaker 3: in your job. Young people trying to find work, how
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  Speaker 3: about how often I told you about my daughter Pamela
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  Speaker 3: degree in computer engineering and really knows her stuff. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: she is strong in computer engineering. She's working a bakery
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  Speaker 3: because entry level and mid level jobs in the computer
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  Speaker 3: industry are basically gone. You've got the medical field, well,
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  Speaker 3: doctors are becoming less important. AI is taking over doctor's
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  Speaker 3: ability to diagnose. AI is better at it than doctors.
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  Speaker 3: Doctors make a lot of mistakes. AI makes far fewer mistakes. Now,
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  Speaker 3: do you need surgery? A doctor's still involved in surgery.
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  Speaker 3: But if you're talking about AI, how about truck drivers?
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  Speaker 3: Now they're going to disappear. And there are hundreds of
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  Speaker 3: thousands of truck drivers out there. And I'm just throwing
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  Speaker 3: a figure out there, but I don't think of exaggerating.
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  Speaker 3: Elon Musk Tesla just came out with a solar eighteen
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  Speaker 3: wheeler that is self driving and it has gotten rave reviews.
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  Speaker 3: Truck drivers will be gone. So imagine this. You work
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  Speaker 3: in a company produces a product and the automation produces it.
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  Speaker 3: It goes onto the floor of the warehouse. It's put
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  Speaker 3: away on the shelving. The forklift comes in, which is automatic,
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  Speaker 3: lifts the pallets, lifts the product onto a truck with
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  Speaker 3: no driver, and that truck then drives a couple thousand
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  Speaker 3: miles to its destination. And what happens The doors open up,
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  Speaker 3: the forklift comes in and into the warehouse, the product
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  Speaker 3: goes without one human being involved.
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  Speaker 2: That is the future.
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  Speaker 3: And so young people are looking at that old people,
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  Speaker 3: you know, not that many old people work in warehouses anymore.
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  Speaker 2: They're not.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, most people have retired or soon going to retire.
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  Speaker 3: So as much as I've always thought, you know, not
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  Speaker 3: that I I'm not okay with being my age, but
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  Speaker 3: I've always thought, Wow, wouldn't I want to be around
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  Speaker 3: fifty years from now, one hundred years from now, if
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  Speaker 3: nothing else, just to enjoy the technology.
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  Speaker 2: And live longer and just you know, just a better way.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to do better than I am now physically
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  Speaker 3: and mentally and the ability to work and longer living
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  Speaker 3: in you know, changing careers, et cetera. I've completely changed
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  Speaker 3: my mind. I want to die as quickly as possible,
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  Speaker 3: which is happening on this show with our ratings, I
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  Speaker 3: might add.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, we're done.
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  Speaker 3: A couple of things going on throughout the world, and
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  Speaker 3: that is attacks on Jewish sites, particularly synagogues all through
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  Speaker 3: Europe have increased dramatically. Same thing in the United States.
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  Speaker 3: And why is that Well, primarily at this point it's
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  Speaker 3: because of the war the fight against Hamas and the
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  Speaker 3: fight in Gaza, and also what's going on in Lebanon,
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  Speaker 3: because Israel, frankly, is I think, committing war crimes and
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  Speaker 3: just bombing the hell out of those countries and civilians
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  Speaker 3: are dying like crazy. At some point, civilians should not
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  Speaker 3: get involved with this. But what's happening around the world
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  Speaker 3: is that Iran may be behind this, and it is
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  Speaker 3: completely nuts. You know what I want to do since
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  Speaker 3: we're short on time, because this is a topic I
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  Speaker 3: want to share with you, because there's a lot of
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  Speaker 3: this that I want to share. But the bottom line is,
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  Speaker 3: and I'll repeat this again, the mantra of Jews all
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  Speaker 3: over the world. There is the mantra that is universal
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  Speaker 3: to all of us, and that is very simply, they came,
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  Speaker 3: they killed us, let's eat. And that is exactly what
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  Speaker 3: all of us of the Hebratic American persuasion know and
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  Speaker 3: think and utter. And I'll be talking much more about
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  Speaker 3: this because this is a complicated issue. There's a lot
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  Speaker 3: of stuff have you to do, and how he Ron
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  Speaker 3: is behind so much of it, but in a way
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  Speaker 3: that you may not know about or consider, and that
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  Speaker 3: I'll share with you. That's it, guys, We're done. There
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  Speaker 3: is no more to do on our show today. Tomorrow
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  Speaker 3: it's wake up Call with Amy and will hopefully Neil.
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  Speaker 2: Is back tomorrow.
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  Speaker 3: Right now, Neil's kidney is acting up because he had
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  Speaker 3: an orking kidney from someone who now is gonna make
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  Speaker 3: fun of the kidney, but the gal who donated it
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: was just too nice, so I can't make fun of her.
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  Speaker 2: And then that's it.
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: So Neil joins me, and then of course Ann and
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: Cono always here, Cono, who will come into the studio
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: completely drunk and falling down in front of the board
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  Speaker 3: as he does every day. True, we talked a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: We talked about a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: You ha, you slur.
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  Speaker 3: You know how hard it is for you to act
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  Speaker 3: act like you're not drunk. You you do it better
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  Speaker 3: than anybody I know, Cono. True, Oh, yes, it's true.
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  Speaker 2: I did that story.
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  Speaker 3: If you want to listen to that story, which I
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  Speaker 3: did at A twenty and you can podcast out on
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  Speaker 3: iHeartRadio app and we'll talk about how Cono. Well, this
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: defamation a handle on the law is uh yeah. But
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: here's the problem. I'm going to now give you a
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  Speaker 3: legal and.
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  Speaker 2: This is legit.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, A complete defense to any accusation is the truth.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: If it is the truth, I cannot be sued for
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: defamat defamation. Okay, We're done. Guys, Gary and Shannon up next.
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: Catch you tomorrow when we do it all over again.
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  Speaker 3: Kf I am sixty.
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