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Los Angeles Headed in Wrong Direction | Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: coming up tomorrow, of course, is the one and only Thanksgiving.
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  Speaker 1: New Study Studies says this is some Loyola Marymount. It
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  Speaker 1: has to do with LA County. Now, whenever I mentioned
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  Speaker 1: LA City or LA County, that does not exclude Orange County.
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  Speaker 1: It's just LA County LA City are more problematic. If
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  Speaker 1: there is a ten problem, let's say in the city
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  Speaker 1: of Orange or Santa Anna our coast to Mesa, that
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  Speaker 1: means it's a twelve in LA. I just wanted to
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  Speaker 1: point out LA is the poster child of everything that's
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  Speaker 1: wrong in southern California in many cases. Okay, new study
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  Speaker 1: from Loyola Marymount a vast majority of LA County residents
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  Speaker 1: or an agreement I mean across the board on one
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  Speaker 1: specific topic, things are not going so great. Okay, This
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  Speaker 1: is a study among registered voters in LA County that
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  Speaker 1: they say that the government is off track, and which
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  Speaker 1: way is it going to get on track? And here
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  Speaker 1: is the general consensus. And I guess it makes some sense.
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  Speaker 1: Things are perceived as so bad that we need sweeping
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  Speaker 1: monumental changes. None of his bits and pieces and band
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  Speaker 1: aid stuff, I mean sweeping changes.
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  Speaker 2: And here's the analogy.
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  Speaker 1: The Great Depression hit and Franklin Roosevelt became president. He
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  Speaker 1: reinvented America, social Security, the SEC, various governmental programs, Civilian
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  Speaker 1: conservation Corps. I mean governmental intervention in a major way.
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  Speaker 1: Where beforehand the government stayed out of people's business. The
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  Speaker 1: government did not do what it does today, monumental changes
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  Speaker 1: to a lesser degree.
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  Speaker 2: Ronald Reagan, who.
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  Speaker 1: Got rid of an enormous amount of regulations that was
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  Speaker 1: sweeping change. What Margaret Thatcher did in England totally turned
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  Speaker 1: the country around. And this is what the people of
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  Speaker 1: Los Angeles, La County are saying. And by the way,
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  Speaker 1: the same thing would go in Orange County, or Ventura
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  Speaker 1: County or the Inland Empire.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think there's any surprise at all.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, voters have an extremely low confidence in elected officials,
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  Speaker 1: who the voters say put the interests of the population
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  Speaker 1: ahead of the big money interest, which is absolutely true.
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  Speaker 1: And here is the way elections, or right now, the
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  Speaker 1: elections work. And this is without a value judgment. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: Republicans who believe there may be something wrong with the
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  Speaker 1: administration now, it used to be that democrats, even though
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  Speaker 1: they are democrats, would rip into a democratic administration saying
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  Speaker 1: I disagree that's not true, or even though I am
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  Speaker 1: in favor of that program.
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  Speaker 2: I'm an n in favor of this program.
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  Speaker 1: Republicans are in lockstep, where you don't go off track
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  Speaker 1: on one item.
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  Speaker 2: Why is that.
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  Speaker 1: Because they want to get re elected and what does
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  Speaker 1: that mean? They need money to get re elected outside
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  Speaker 1: of they need Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 2: And let's forget Donald Trump for a moment. The lobbyists
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  Speaker 2: come in.
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  Speaker 1: And say, we're going to give you two million dollars
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  Speaker 1: through your campaign, and here's what we want you to do.
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  Speaker 2: And that's precisely what the politicians do.
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  Speaker 1: Big money interests are controlling and I don't know how
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  Speaker 1: many people would disagree with that. The point is is
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  Speaker 1: that we agree, and that's across the board. We agree
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  Speaker 1: that our political leadership. And I'm not talking about on
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  Speaker 1: a presidential letter level. Yeah, maybe only the presidential level.
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  Speaker 1: And I think there would be some that would say
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  Speaker 1: that even on a presidential level, big money does influence.
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  Speaker 1: But that big money is Donald Trump. He does not
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  Speaker 1: have to worry about donations. He does not have to
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  Speaker 1: worry about money coming in at all. The rest of
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  Speaker 1: the politicians do, and they want to get reelected. That's
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  Speaker 1: more important. Here's the bottom line is it is more
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  Speaker 1: important for a politician to become re elected than for
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  Speaker 1: the good of the country or good of his constituency
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  Speaker 1: or her constituency. And frankly, we're up to our eyeballs
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  Speaker 1: in that we're done with that. We do not want
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  Speaker 1: that to happen anymore, and it's done, not any going
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  Speaker 1: to be these little bits and pieces, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: homeless situation. Let's build one shelter over there, Let's build
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  Speaker 1: one little housing project of thirteen homes over there, and
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  Speaker 1: that's going to help. No. Sweeping, massive changes is what
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  Speaker 1: we want. Until they happen. And then again, what happens
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  Speaker 1: the detracted detractors go crazy, or power is taken away,
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  Speaker 1: or influence is taken away, or the law changed to
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  Speaker 1: hurt big money interests, and what happens, Oh, well, let's
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  Speaker 1: rethink this. I I don't know about this all right.
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  Speaker 1: I want to tell you about a story, a political story,
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  Speaker 1: for a moment. It's kind of interesting. First of all,
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  Speaker 1: in southern California, we have cities that are associated with
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  Speaker 1: certain ethnicities. Glendale, for example, has a huge Armenian population. No,
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  Speaker 1: I won't make the joke about gillett raisers here and
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  Speaker 1: the women not gonna happen. There's Little Tokyo, for example,
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  Speaker 1: in downtown la certain areas are designated and just where
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  Speaker 1: ethnic folks, people of the same ethnicity congregator become part of.
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  Speaker 1: Westminster is a city, and it is Vietnamese. This is
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  Speaker 1: where the Vietnamese, the boat people came and it's the
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  Speaker 1: population of Westminster is primarily Vietnamese or overwhelmingly Vietnamese. Vietnamese
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  Speaker 1: immigrants are very conservative. They're for the most part Republican.
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  Speaker 1: And so there is a small street parallel to the
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  Speaker 1: Vietnam War Memorial in Westminster is going to bear a
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  Speaker 1: brand new name, Charlie kirk way.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: There was a meeting of the city council all kinds
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  Speaker 1: of accusation as a partisan politics debate over the role
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  Speaker 1: of local government, and at the end of the meeting
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  Speaker 1: the leaders in Westminster the city Council voted four to
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  Speaker 1: one to partially rename All American Way to Charlie kirkway
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  Speaker 1: and what his There's still the official name, of course,
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  Speaker 1: still All American waying not necessarily of course, but in
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  Speaker 1: three inch font below the street name is the name
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  Speaker 1: Charlie Kirkwayer. Now the mayor Chi Charlie Wynn, a Republican
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  Speaker 1: who is running for Congress next year, said the reason
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  Speaker 1: he voted for it because Kirk reflects the values that
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  Speaker 1: make Westminster truly special. Pride in our country, belief in
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  Speaker 1: our freedom, and the spirit of civic engagement. One of
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  Speaker 1: the things about immigrant communities and immigrants in general, they
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  Speaker 1: are fanatically pro American. Those that become American American citizens
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  Speaker 1: who were born here don't appreciate the fanaticism in a
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  Speaker 1: positive way of immigrants who come from other countries. If
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  Speaker 1: you live in another country that is not so good
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  Speaker 1: and you come to the United States, let me tell
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  Speaker 1: you believe in this country in a big way. I
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  Speaker 1: think natural born citizens sort of take it for granted,
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  Speaker 1: and I in many cases take it for granted because
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  Speaker 1: I was naturalized at the age of eleven, you know,
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  Speaker 1: since I started remembering. But in the meantime, this is
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  Speaker 1: an immigrant population, very conservative and looking at this particular city,
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  Speaker 1: looking at Kirk in a way that well almost deifies him.
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  Speaker 1: And it's a whole range of emotions. Of course, were
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  Speaker 1: triggered by the death of Charlie Kirk, and I didn't
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  Speaker 1: understand it, and to some extent, I still don't the
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  Speaker 1: levels of this. And so here it gets really interesting
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  Speaker 1: because there was one one Democrat, and that's the mayor,
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  Speaker 1: who voted against designating the street in Kirk's honor, and
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  Speaker 1: when the proposal came down, he appeared like.
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  Speaker 2: At a loss for words. He goes, I don't understand what
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  Speaker 2: you're going doing.
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  Speaker 1: Kirk didn't live in Westminster, he had no ties the community.
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  Speaker 1: And what he did is he accused his colleagues of
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  Speaker 1: exploiting Kirk's death to score political points.
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  Speaker 2: Now is that true or not.
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  Speaker 1: I think that there are people, and maybe on this
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  Speaker 1: city council who legitimately believe that Kirk is the epitome,
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  Speaker 1: is the face of American values, almost to the point
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  Speaker 1: of deification. And let's go to the other side. Council
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  Speaker 1: member Amy Fawn West criticized the font as not being
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  Speaker 1: big enough on those signs. We need a bigger sign
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  Speaker 1: as a way to honor Kirk. It's an inadequate way,
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  Speaker 1: and she introduced to designate October fourteenth, Kirk's birthday, as
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  Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk Day in Westminster. That past so you're going
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  Speaker 1: the city of Westminster, it's Charlie Kirk Day. And she said,
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  Speaker 1: I'd like to take this opportunity to recognize Charlie Kirk
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  Speaker 1: as an American patriot and steadfast compend champion for freedom
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  Speaker 1: of speech.
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  Speaker 2: And this is what's going on in America.
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  Speaker 1: This is emblematic, emblematic of what we're seeing. And Charlie
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  Speaker 1: Kirk has become a well turning point, if you will,
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  Speaker 1: as to the politics of this country, the polarization. He
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  Speaker 1: is either a guy who is too conservative and way
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  Speaker 1: right wing to the point of being ridiculous, or he
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  Speaker 1: has literally become deified to the point where it's almost
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  Speaker 1: Jesus I believe I see that.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it is crazy stuff.
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  Speaker 1: There's also a move to have his face put on
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  Speaker 1: Mount Rushmore, right next to Jefferson. And the only reason
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  Speaker 1: that it's not is people realize there isn't Roome. We'd
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  Speaker 1: have to get rid of one of the presidents. Well,
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  Speaker 1: that's okay, Charlie Kirk is that important to us? Obviously
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  Speaker 1: I'm exaggerating here, but the point I'm making is I
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  Speaker 1: think it's almost to that level among those people.
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  Speaker 2: He has become a deity.
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  Speaker 1: And the analogy here I'm going to make to Abraham Lincoln,
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  Speaker 1: not in terms of how politics or whatever. Abraham Lincoln
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  Speaker 1: was vilified during his presidency by so many Americans. The
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  Speaker 1: day he was assassinated, he went into the pantheons of myth.
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  Speaker 2: He became a myth. He was no longer a human being.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm going to say the same thing about Charlie
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  Speaker 1: Kirk after his assassination. He meant so much to so
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  Speaker 1: many people. He wasn't just a person with views that
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  Speaker 1: are appreciated amongst conservatives. He became on a level that
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  Speaker 1: is above that. Jfk Right, John F. Kennedy won the
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  Speaker 1: election over Nixon by a hair I mean by literally
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  Speaker 1: just almost no votes. I think it was one hundred
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  Speaker 1: thousand votes. Something completely crazy. After the fact, after he
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  Speaker 1: was assassinated, if you do a survey.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody voted for John F. Kennedy.
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  Speaker 1: He stopped being a political figure. By the way, does
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  Speaker 1: anybody know if I were to ask what were John F.
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  Speaker 1: Kennedy's politics, I don't know. I think that's what's happening.
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  Speaker 2: So the city of.
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  Speaker 1: Westminster, great Vietnamese food, by the way, it's great fu
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  Speaker 1: or foe.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so much for that, all right.
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  Speaker 1: The Macy's Day Parade, the Thanksgiving Day parade happens tomorrow
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  Speaker 1: and millions of us, millions of Americans are going to
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  Speaker 1: tune in, and it ends the same way every year.
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  Speaker 1: You have the roar of the crowds, you have this
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  Speaker 1: blizzard of confetti, and then Santa Claus who ends at
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  Speaker 1: ways goodbye to everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Ho ho ho ho. All right.
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  Speaker 1: What we don't see, and this is the I love
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  Speaker 1: the backstory stuff. What we don't see is what volunteers
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  Speaker 1: do is take those floating icons, you know, those giant
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  Speaker 1: balloons and the shape of Snoopy and other character, Santa Claus,
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  Speaker 1: all those characters, and they're enormous.
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  Speaker 2: They're these huge.
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  Speaker 1: Balloons and filled with helium, and they're held up by
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  Speaker 1: they're held they're floating, and.
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  Speaker 2: They're connected to strings. Strings hold them up.
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  Speaker 1: And what ends up happening is they have volunteers that
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  Speaker 1: walk along holding these ropes that actually keep the balloons
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  Speaker 1: from floating away because they're helium.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: So what you don't see is they are now taking down.
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  Speaker 2: Those icons, those balloons.
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  Speaker 1: Take them down to the ground, unzip these industrial grade zippers,
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  Speaker 1: and this gust of helium comes out and then they
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  Speaker 1: dive right on top of the balloon to get the
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  Speaker 1: helium out, much like you see one of those kids
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  Speaker 1: centers where you dive into the balls, the phone balls.
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  Speaker 2: That's what they do, and.
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  Speaker 1: Then the balloon releases the helium. They're also told because
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  Speaker 1: you all that helium that is coming out, you don't
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  Speaker 1: want to sound like or maybe you do want to
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  Speaker 1: sound like Alvin and the Chickmunks because you know, you
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  Speaker 1: get that really high voice which is so much fun
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  Speaker 1: with helium, which you do with kids with helium balloons.
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  Speaker 1: The problem is there is so much helium that those
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  Speaker 1: volunteers who work say, you will simply go unconscious. It's
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  Speaker 1: not a question of sounding with a high pitched voice.
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  Speaker 1: You will go unconscious. So that's one of the big
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  Speaker 1: big things that are involved. By the way, it takes
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  Speaker 1: ninety minutes to inflate these balloons and it takes just
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  Speaker 1: fifteen minutes to deflate these balloons. Why because the pump
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  Speaker 1: of helium is going in and moving the gas into
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  Speaker 1: the balloon and it slowly inflates like massive balloons do.
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  Speaker 1: And what they do when it hits the ground they
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  Speaker 1: grab those ropes bring it to the ground is they
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  Speaker 1: dive right on top of it, they take a swan
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  Speaker 1: dive and the helium escapes fifteen minutes. And by the way,
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  Speaker 1: the reason I'm talking about this, according to the director,
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  Speaker 1: the urgency is real because if the team doesn't deflate
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  Speaker 1: fast enough, the next balloon comes right over them and
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  Speaker 1: walks on top, and the parade just keeps on coming.
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  Speaker 1: And it's like when you get to the bottom of
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  Speaker 1: an escalator. If you stop there and stand, everybody's coming
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  Speaker 1: behind you, so you have to keep on moving. And
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  Speaker 1: so these are hundreds of thousands of yards of cubic
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  Speaker 1: feet of helium and dozens of floats and just fans
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  Speaker 1: all over the place, two and a half miles going
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  Speaker 1: down mid time, midtown Manhattan, and this started in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: twenty four. In the late twenties is when the balloons
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  Speaker 1: came out, and that's of course the iconic representation of
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  Speaker 1: the Macy's Day balloon. And it used to be they
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  Speaker 1: would just let it go in the air. They would
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  Speaker 1: just let the balloons go until a pilot grabbed one
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  Speaker 1: while flying. Now the pilot lost it, went into the
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  Speaker 1: drink but survived. But after that they decided they weren't
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  Speaker 1: going to release the balloons into the air.
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  Speaker 2: And so here's what they're fascinating. The balloons. The flate.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry into six foot crates that collapse small enough to
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  Speaker 1: go through the Lincoln to tunnel. Otherwise they can't get through.
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  Speaker 1: So five thousand volunteers began with Macy's employees in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: twenty four. Now it's friends and family and volunteers. Training
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  Speaker 1: is months. It's called flight school, and they practice maneuvering
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  Speaker 1: around obstacles and for quick deflation.
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  Speaker 2: They know what they're doing and everybody knows the drill.
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  Speaker 1: And if you think that this is just a local parade,
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  Speaker 1: NBC just extended as contracts with Macy's for sixty million
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  Speaker 1: dollars ago. Pretty impressive. Okay, so much for that. There's more,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm not going to get into it. I just
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  Speaker 1: like background stuff I wanted to share with you. If
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  Speaker 1: you're going to see the parade, do you guys watch
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  Speaker 1: the parade, Neil, are you a parade watcher?
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  Speaker 2: Eh? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Amy parade watcher, yes, oh sore you go?
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  Speaker 2: And parade watcher sure wow? And Cono parade watcher. Not
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  Speaker 3: when you check out, and fifteen percent of your purchase
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  Speaker 3: will generously be automatically donated to the KFI Pastathon for
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  Speaker 3: Katina's Club. They've obviously been a great partner with thanks
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  Speaker 3: grilling and the events that we do on the show,
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  Speaker 3: So big thanks to Wildfork Foods for doing that. Again,
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  Speaker 3: fifteen percent of your purchase will automatically be not donated
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  Speaker 3: to KFI Pastathon for Katerina's Club. Just be sure to
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  Speaker 3: mention KFI Pastathon at check out at any of the
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  Speaker 3: Southern California Wildfork Foods.
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  Speaker 1: And you can also go to the smart and Final.
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  Speaker 1: There are partners Jess Wendy's Where and Neil and I
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  Speaker 1: were there the other day broadcasting and talking about their
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  Speaker 1: chicken strips. And this year we hope to raise more
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  Speaker 1: than last year, which was one point three million dollars.
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  Speaker 1: I do not think there is a local station in
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  Speaker 1: the United States that has ever come close to raising
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  Speaker 1: one point three million dollars for a local charity. And
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  Speaker 1: it's without you, as simply doesn't happen. It's that simple.
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  Speaker 1: And don't forget, Oh, and don't forget our auction items.
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  Speaker 1: Our auction items this year, they're phenomenal. This is where
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  Speaker 1: we auction off. The hosts here on KFI Things to Do,
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  Speaker 1: Gary and Shannon Dodger Game, Dean and Tina Sharp Dodger Game,
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  Speaker 1: and Cobalt an hour an hour of co hosting with him.
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  Speaker 2: I think I'm going to start bidding on that one.
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  Speaker 1: The thought of co hosting with co Belt is belief
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  Speaker 1: and then ours.
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  Speaker 2: It's Neil and Mola.
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  Speaker 1: We are broadcasting a Fork report live and we don't
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  Speaker 1: have the date yet, but we will, and we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: do it at my house and the top bidder is
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  Speaker 1: going to be invited to come to my house and
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  Speaker 1: you will partake in the tremendous food. We're gonna have
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  Speaker 1: grill masters and pitmasters. Anaheim White House is catering it.
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  Speaker 1: Lindsay will have the Lindsay Prosecco, of which she drinks
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  Speaker 1: morning new noon to night. There'll be lots lots to
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  Speaker 1: do there and it's going to be great, great fun.
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  Speaker 2: And so you start bidding.
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  Speaker 1: Just go to kf I am six forty dot com
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  Speaker 1: and there's a link to postiphon. All right, what we're
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: gonna do is the story that I was going to
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  Speaker 1: do about this AI companion, and it has to do
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  Speaker 1: with teenagers saying, oh no, you can't take it away
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  Speaker 1: from me. We'll do that next week because we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: try something with that. There's gonna be part one and
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  Speaker 1: two and that is going to be a hell of
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  Speaker 1: a lot of fun and it involves me and involves
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  Speaker 1: the crew here and you.
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  Speaker 2: So that's coming up next week.
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  Speaker 1: When we do that, don't have the exact time yet,
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  Speaker 1: but we'll get that together.
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  Speaker 2: This is KFI AM six forty you've been listening to
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  Speaker 2: the Bill Handle Show.
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