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KFI Pastathon 2025 | Streaming Services Cost More and More · 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: JFI AM six forty Bill Handle here on a.
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  Speaker 1: Monday morning, November twenty four.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Pastathon is here, our fifteenth annual Chef Bruno's charity,
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  Speaker 2: Katerina's Club. We provide, we help provide more than twenty
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  Speaker 2: five thousand meals a week to kids in need, and
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  Speaker 2: without your generosity, it simply doesn't happen. So giving Tuesday,
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  Speaker 2: December second, from five am to eight pm, we'll all
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  Speaker 2: be at the Anaheim White House on Anaheim Boulevard and
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  Speaker 2: we're all gonna be broadcasting live there.
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  Speaker 1: But here's how you can help.
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  Speaker 2: Even in Arizona and Nevada, you can donate the amount
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  Speaker 2: of check out and any restaurants in southern California donate
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  Speaker 2: five dollars or more to Caterina's Club and you'll get
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  Speaker 2: a book, a coupon book worth a lot more than
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  Speaker 2: five dollars. And now the fun part Okay, the the
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  Speaker 2: part the auction items. For donation. You can co host
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  Speaker 2: an hour with John Cobilt. Minimum bid one thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 2: I would spend one thousand dollars not to be with
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  Speaker 2: John Cobilt, or a lot more than that, but it's
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  Speaker 2: always hugely popular. Imagine co hosting with John. Dodgers Game
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  Speaker 2: with Gary and Shannon. They do this every year. Dodgers
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  Speaker 2: Game with Dean and Tina Sharp.
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  Speaker 1: That's kind of neat.
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  Speaker 2: Doctor Wendy will give you a one on one relationship coaching.
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  Speaker 1: It will be a zoom meeting.
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  Speaker 2: So that is if you have bad, bad relationships or
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  Speaker 2: even want good ones. Uh, here's one Angel, Angel Martinez. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: it's a Nazi custom sandal kit.
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  Speaker 1: Really, how does that work?
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  Speaker 2: How do how do you end up auctioning off a
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  Speaker 2: Nazi custom sandal kit? So what's inside your Nazi custom
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  Speaker 2: sandal kit? Paint ready straps in the shape of a swastika,
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  Speaker 2: a crillic that's actually now naughty, not Nazi. I was
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  Speaker 2: just gonna, you know, I thought I was gonna take
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  Speaker 2: that one for a loop, but I didn't.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, and then what I think is the big one.
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  Speaker 2: We've never ever done this, and that is there will
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  Speaker 2: be a private backyard barbecue at my house and we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna be broadcasting this. It'll be a fork Report broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Nil Savedra will be at my house and we're going
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  Speaker 2: to have this very private. They'll be just one bitter
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  Speaker 2: and a guest will be invited to join me to
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  Speaker 2: this private backyard barbecue at mine and Lindsay's home. And
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  Speaker 2: that'll be a Saturday from two to five the four
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  Speaker 2: Core Portal broadcast.
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  Speaker 1: We'll figure out.
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  Speaker 2: What time and when, and it's going to be filled
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  Speaker 2: with incredible food from guest chef, guests and pitmasters.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we're going to make it really serious.
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  Speaker 2: It'll be catered by Anaheim White House, which is terrific.
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  Speaker 2: And as I think Dean wrote this, or excuse me,
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  Speaker 2: Neil wrote this cheap, crappy swag you'll regret taking and
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  Speaker 2: you can take selfies to show your friends that you've
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  Speaker 2: been to quote a radio celebrities house. No, it's not
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  Speaker 2: Neil's house, it's my house. And here are the perks.
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  Speaker 2: As written A non eventful ride in handles home elevator.
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  Speaker 1: I think Gamy did that one right up. She went down,
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  Speaker 1: she went exactly. It's very very slow elevator.
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  Speaker 3: What you took a video of it?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, cheap, crappy swag.
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  Speaker 2: Uh. So you can impress your friends and the perks. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: you get a tour of my broadcast entire broadcast facility
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  Speaker 2: here that I built in my house. This massive, huge
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  Speaker 2: broadcast facility.
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  Speaker 1: Is one room. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: And you'll even get to sit in my chair that
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  Speaker 2: I am depressed with every day of my life. Also
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  Speaker 2: keep in mind during the summers, I sit in my
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  Speaker 2: chair bare ass naked, and so you get the joys
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  Speaker 2: of switting, of sitting where I am shweating and as
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  Speaker 2: my you know, it's sweaty balls. Okay, fair enough Lindsay's
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  Speaker 2: private prosecco fridge man, Does she love that? And maybe
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  Speaker 2: even a belly rub from Neil also included in this
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  Speaker 2: look at this man. We're also adding a twelve piece
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  Speaker 2: professional knife set that's a two thousand dollars value. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: this is high end professional dives, and the good folks at.
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  Speaker 1: Zelman's is giving a year's supply. Now.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if you are a little upset about
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  Speaker 2: spending too much money on streaming services. It used to
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  Speaker 2: be streaming services were pretty inexpensive.
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  Speaker 1: You'd pay four ninety nine a month, six ninety nine
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  Speaker 1: a month.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Well, now US households spend an average of
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  Speaker 2: seventy dollars a month on streaming services. That's up twenty
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  Speaker 2: two dollars from a year ago. Now that's pretty insane.
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  Speaker 2: The amount of money that I spend on streaming services
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  Speaker 2: is completely crazy.
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  Speaker 1: And Lindsey goes out of her way to bundle.
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  Speaker 2: Every three months, she is bundling, and we get a
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  Speaker 2: great price for stuff.
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  Speaker 1: We are way north of two hundred dollars a month.
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  Speaker 2: But the big one is YouTube but TV that I
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  Speaker 2: use for my major platform, and that's seventy bucks a month.
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  Speaker 2: It has gone crazy. And I have everything because you know,
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  Speaker 2: I have no social life. As you know, I don't
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  Speaker 2: go out, I don't talk to anybody. I don't see anybody.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm at home watching TV a lot. And so
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  Speaker 2: I've got them all Peacock and brit Box and Acorn
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  Speaker 2: and Hulu and Disney plus I mean, go down the list.
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  Speaker 2: I've got virtually all of them. And it is a fortune.
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  Speaker 2: What's going on? Well, it is a fortune, and you
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  Speaker 2: know it's just gotten really expensive. What used to be
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  Speaker 2: a bargain. Now is a major major part of our budget.
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  Speaker 2: I mean two three hundred dollars a month, which a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people spend even seventy dollars a month. You
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  Speaker 2: can feel now, all right, Amy, streaming services?
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  Speaker 1: What do you have?
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  Speaker 3: All of them?
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  Speaker 1: Also?
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  Speaker 2: You pay big money too? Yeah, I'm worth of.
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  Speaker 3: I need to think about this because you'res right. Used
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  Speaker 3: to be nice and cheap and now it's like twenty
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  Speaker 3: bucks a month for each one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no kidding, all of them? No kidding?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, cono, do you have streaming services? Every single one?
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  Speaker 2: So you pay north of two hundred dollars?
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  Speaker 1: My wife pays north of two hundred dollars, that is correct?
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  Speaker 2: Well, okay, yeah, she makes money, of course will streaming services?
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  Speaker 1: Several of them.
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  Speaker 4: I just dropped YouTube TV because it's it's pricey.
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  Speaker 1: It is very pricey.
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  Speaker 2: But the problem is where else am I going to
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  Speaker 2: get National news CNN?
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  Speaker 1: Where am I going to get NBC? ABC? Fox? It
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  Speaker 1: takes basically YouTube TV? Well I figured out.
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  Speaker 4: You know, if you buy one of those indoor antennas,
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  Speaker 4: you can watch a lot over the air for free
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  Speaker 4: indoor like rabbit ears another round, are kind of cool
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  Speaker 4: looking if you're in the right part of town not
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  Speaker 4: blocked by a mountain. But there's still free TV over
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  Speaker 4: the air, which is you know all the networks, the
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  Speaker 4: big networks, yea, all three of them.
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  Speaker 1: And are you a big streamer? Yes I am. But
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  Speaker 1: how many do you have? I have all of them
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  Speaker 1: as well. You have malls? Yeah, look at this.
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  Speaker 2: So we're all spending except Will of course, who loves
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  Speaker 2: to play antenna where he's just there with his arm
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  Speaker 2: up in the air and he goes, hey, look at me,
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  Speaker 2: I'm an antenna. I get that and moving around. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: go over there. When I was a kid, we had
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  Speaker 2: some there was some issues with transmission. My dad would go, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: move over there. Now, I'll move over there, and I'd
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  Speaker 2: be holding the damn thing up.
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  Speaker 4: If a car goes by the signal goes out.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you remember putting up the antenna's the outdoor
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  Speaker 2: antennas on on the roof. Yeah, oh man, that was
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  Speaker 2: a lot of fun. The point is that we are
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  Speaker 2: not We're not unusual. And by the way, it's it's
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  Speaker 2: not as if we well, it's not as if you
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  Speaker 2: guys that I work with, you know, make a lot
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  Speaker 2: of money. It's just a lot of money to spend
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  Speaker 2: on streaming. The only good news is tax deductible. You
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  Speaker 2: know that, guys, Amy, you can tell deductible every dime
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  Speaker 2: of it. Yeah, she throws her thumb up. Yeah, but
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  Speaker 2: it's gotten so much money and it's not stopping either.
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  Speaker 1: It's not stopping. You know what the big hit is?
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  Speaker 2: By the way, there's one one big hit that it's
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  Speaker 2: cost everybody buckets of money.
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  Speaker 1: And what would you think that is? Do do do?
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  Speaker 1: Do do doo? Anyone if you can yell? What do
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  Speaker 1: you mean? What is the major? Uh?
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  Speaker 2: The number one reason that streaming is so expensive.
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  Speaker 1: Sports sports.
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  Speaker 2: They pay the streaming services pay more for sports than
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  Speaker 2: anything else. I used to have Direct TV and I
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  Speaker 2: would pay in ninety percent of it was sports. Sports
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  Speaker 2: broadcasting is ridiculous, Uh, completely insane.
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  Speaker 1: What was that? I just read?
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  Speaker 2: Uh that that Prime is going to carry uh an
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  Speaker 2: entire year's worth of sport And I like Prime. All
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  Speaker 2: you have to do is bry you know Prime, just
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  Speaker 2: regular Prime with the packaging and Lindsey we we get
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  Speaker 2: five packages a day. She more than makes up for it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, people with Prime Amazon. If you like something,
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  Speaker 2: you get four different five different colors, and your return
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  Speaker 2: four of them. The point is is that it's just.
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  Speaker 1: Gotten so damn expensive and the bumbling. Are you ready
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  Speaker 1: for this? The bundling.
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  Speaker 2: Ad free subscription to Netflix starts at eighteen dollars a month.
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  Speaker 2: Remember they were all ad free. That was the whole
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  Speaker 2: premise of streaming. It was all ad free.
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  Speaker 1: Hum what you pay? Now? Oh? Here it is?
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  Speaker 2: Apple is paying for F one Races are going to
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  Speaker 2: be an Apple next year? And F one is.
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  Speaker 1: I love watching F one? What's that say?
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  Speaker 2: That show that's on every year F one Survivor where
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  Speaker 2: they go through the entire season.
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  Speaker 1: I've always enjoyed that.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I know I'm going off on tangents here, but hey,
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  Speaker 2: welcome to the show. I go off on tangents, don't
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  Speaker 2: I sure?
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  Speaker 1: Why not?
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  Speaker 3: Is it that they're going to do F one Racing
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  Speaker 3: or is it F one the movie with Brad Pitt?
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no, I think it's F one Racing is
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  Speaker 2: going to be And I love watching F one Racing Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Because the movie actually it hits next month.
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  Speaker 1: Do you I hear? It's not all that good? Now?
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  Speaker 3: Let me uh be really good? Bill?
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  Speaker 2: What I love about F one racing and then we're
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  Speaker 2: going to bail out of here. You know how many
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  Speaker 2: slots are there in pro football? Hundreds and hundreds right
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  Speaker 2: to play pro football, baseball probably, you know, I don't
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  Speaker 2: know eight hundred nine hundred people that play professional baseball.
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  Speaker 1: You know how many drive F one in the world.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty people.
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  Speaker 2: That's it, twenty people drive F one racers. Boy, it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't get more rarefied than that. Okay, Now I want
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  Speaker 2: to spend a segment talking about something you already know,
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  Speaker 2: of course, and that's the price of living in California.
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  Speaker 2: But I just wanted to really nail it down so
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  Speaker 2: you understand how broke you actually are.
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  Speaker 1: Here's a shocker.
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  Speaker 2: We're paying through the nose to live in California.
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  Speaker 1: Really.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, There's been a bunch of recent studies that actually
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  Speaker 2: drive home how deeply we have to dig into our
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  Speaker 2: pocket to meet the costs of living, which are it's
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  Speaker 2: pretty fair to say are the highest of any state
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  Speaker 2: in the United States if you go across the board.
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  Speaker 2: So one of these studies comes from the Legislative Analyst Office.
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  Speaker 2: This is the Legislatorative Advisor on State Budget, which is
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  Speaker 2: completely bipartisan and that's the LAO, the Legislative Analyst Office,
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  Speaker 2: that California home prices far exceed the rest of the country.
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  Speaker 1: Oh what a shocker that one is. Welet's I have
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  Speaker 1: a little bit deeper.
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  Speaker 2: Mid tier homes those are roughly in the middle of
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  Speaker 2: the price range are more than twice as expensive as
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  Speaker 2: typical mid tier homes elsewhere in the United States. Monthly
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  Speaker 2: payments for these mid tier homes run about fifty five
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  Speaker 2: hundred dollars a month, which is seventy four percent more
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  Speaker 2: than what they were twenty five years ago, way going
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  Speaker 2: past inflation.
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  Speaker 1: And this is the part that absolutely floors me.
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  Speaker 2: That the annual household income needed to qualify for a
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  Speaker 2: mid tier home a mortgage on a mid tier home
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  Speaker 2: was in September two hundred and twenty one thousand dollars
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  Speaker 2: a year. That's how much you have to make to
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  Speaker 2: qualify for a mid tier home in the state.
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  Speaker 1: I keep on saying mid tier.
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  Speaker 2: Wait till we get to the rest of it, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: which is two times the media in California household income,
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  Speaker 2: which is about one hundred and two thousand dollars. So
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  Speaker 2: the mid income middle class income if you want to
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  Speaker 2: call it that the media in California, household income in
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four was one hundred thousand dollars. What you
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  Speaker 2: needed to qualify for a mortgage on that mid tier
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  Speaker 2: house was two hundred and twenty one thousand dollars, more
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  Speaker 2: than twice as much that you needed. So let's move
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  Speaker 2: to the bottom tier home. Okay, way down at the bottom.
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  Speaker 2: And these are homes at our first starter homes that
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  Speaker 2: you want to get into way way way back when,
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  Speaker 2: which is no longer way back when. To get into
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  Speaker 2: a starter home home or a bottom tier home, the
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  Speaker 2: annual income needed is one hundred and thirty six thousand
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  Speaker 2: dollars to qualify for a mortgage, which is a third
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  Speaker 2: higher than it was in twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 1: Yep. Which is why.
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  Speaker 2: California has the second lowest rate of home ownership in
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  Speaker 2: the nation. And I think a lot of it has
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  Speaker 2: to do with most of us having already been in homes.
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  Speaker 2: For example, as you know, I sold the Persian Palace.
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  Speaker 2: I could not afford the Persian Palace. When I sold it,
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  Speaker 2: I could not afford to buy it. And that says
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  Speaker 2: a lot for many people. And the way you used
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  Speaker 2: to homeownership used to be in the homeownership world, and
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  Speaker 2: you would move up the scale is you would buy
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  Speaker 2: a home mid tier, medium tier or mid tier or
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  Speaker 2: lower tier, sell it.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, equity goes up.
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  Speaker 2: Then you go into a higher house, you go into
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  Speaker 2: a more expensive house, and you keep ongoing. And the
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  Speaker 2: Persian Palace, I think was my fourth house, and I
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  Speaker 2: mean there was no way I could ever ever afford
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  Speaker 2: it at the end of it all.
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  Speaker 1: And that is not unusual.
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  Speaker 2: And today, while I remember I bought my first house
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  Speaker 2: when I was in my twenties and I was making
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  Speaker 2: a pretty good living as an attorney right off the bat,
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  Speaker 2: but nothing incredible, and I was able to comfortably comfortably
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  Speaker 2: buy a house, how many brand new inted attorneys out
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  Speaker 2: there can comfortably buy a house.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly. Okay, I want to come back and talk.
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  Speaker 2: A little bit more about this because the numbers are startling,
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  Speaker 2: and they really are and why and it's completely counter
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  Speaker 2: in intuitive that people are still coming into California. And hey,
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  Speaker 2: I want to throw something at you as we end
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  Speaker 2: the program, and that is how much thanks you have
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  Speaker 2: to give living here in southern California, especially in the
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  Speaker 2: world of costs, we have forty million people that live here,
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  Speaker 2: and I still think we're growing, or if we're not growing,
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  Speaker 2: we are. The number of people that are leaving are
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  Speaker 2: just a fraction of the number of people that are
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  Speaker 2: coming in, So it keeps it keeps our population fairly stable.
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  Speaker 2: And the part that I don't understand is how people
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  Speaker 2: can stay or even move here and get started.
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  Speaker 1: And I told you and buy a home. How about
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  Speaker 1: that one?
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  Speaker 2: I mean owning a home unless you've already owned a home,
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  Speaker 2: unless you're already there, it's going to be insanely difficult. Lindsey,
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  Speaker 2: who is a couple of young years younger than I am, well,
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  Speaker 2: a few years younger than I am, well, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of years younger than I am, well, a decade or
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  Speaker 2: two younger.
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  Speaker 1: Than I am.
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  Speaker 2: Let's just say she's a little bit younger than I am.
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  Speaker 2: She has said you baby boomers referring to me because
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  Speaker 2: I'm a couple of years older than she is, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: a few years older than she is, Okay, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of years older than she is, Okay, a few decades older.
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  Speaker 2: The point is is I'm a boomer, she is not,
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  Speaker 2: And quite often she said, you boomers have ruined it
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  Speaker 2: for the rest of us, And I said, no, we haven't.
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  Speaker 2: What we did is we just have We just had
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  Speaker 2: an environment in which we could buy a house.
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  Speaker 1: I told you prior to the break.
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  Speaker 2: I bought my first house in the twenties, my twenties,
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  Speaker 2: and it was like a year after I started practicing law.
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  Speaker 2: What lawyer coming out of law school and practicing law
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  Speaker 2: for the first year can buy a house today, even
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  Speaker 2: a medium tier house and it's so expensive, for example,
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  Speaker 2: a bottom tier house. And by the way, lawyers can
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  Speaker 2: do it if they're out of a Yale or Harvard. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: those guys first, top, top ten percent can do it.
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  Speaker 2: But the bottom tier home, bottom of the barrel. You
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  Speaker 2: need one hundred and thirty six annual income one hundred
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  Speaker 2: and six thirty six dollars annual income to be able
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  Speaker 2: to get a mortgage. Cal how about gas four dollars
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  Speaker 2: and sixty four cents a gallon in California. How about this,
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  Speaker 2: It's about a buck.
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  Speaker 1: Fifty a gallon higher.
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  Speaker 2: You remember what it used to be. I mean gas
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  Speaker 2: was always expensive in California. It used to be fifty
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  Speaker 2: cents a gallon higher. Now it's a dollar fifty cents.
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  Speaker 2: If you look at the Transparency Foundation and a conservative
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  Speaker 2: economic think tank, an upper middle class family with one
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  Speaker 2: hundred and thirty three thousand annual income pays almost thirty
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  Speaker 2: thousand dollars per year more than the national average for housing, utilities, healthcare, taxes,
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  Speaker 2: other costs of living, just utilities. You know, California, we
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: pay the most of any state other than Hawaii for energy.
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  Speaker 1: And I am very, very lucky.
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  Speaker 2: As you know, I bought a house in Orange County
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  Speaker 2: and I happen to be, Oh, this is great my
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  Speaker 2: utility costs. I happen to be in the most expensive
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  Speaker 2: utility in the most expensive state in the United States.
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  Speaker 2: I am in the literally the most expensive utility that
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: exists in the United States. So remember when you would
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  Speaker 2: occasionally see solar panels on houses around you. Occasionally there'd
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  Speaker 2: be a dot here, a dot there. Today, Well, in
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  Speaker 2: my neighborhood, you don't see houses without solar panels. Those
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: are almost impossible to see. Why, because the energy costs
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  Speaker 2: are astronomical. It is very tough living in Californorgnia. Yet
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  Speaker 2: people do And as I said earlier, why do.
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  Speaker 1: People do well?
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  Speaker 2: The opportunities here, aerospace is here. People love the weather.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of advantages to living in California, but
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  Speaker 2: man financially is not one of them.
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  Speaker 1: That's for sure. All Right, guys, we are done. You've
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