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Handel on the News · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM 640, the Bill Handel Show
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  Speaker 1: on demand on the iHeartRadio.
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  Speaker 2: App.
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  Speaker 3: And now, Handel on the News. Ladies and gentlemen, here's
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  Speaker 3: Bill Handel.
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  Speaker 2: And good morning. Thursday already. What, five days to go? Ooh,
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  Speaker 2: this is getting so exciting. I love this.
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  Speaker 4: Until the midterms. So let me start with a hello.
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  Speaker 4: There's Mario.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Mario. Good morning, Bill. Good morning, everybody. And Amy,
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  Speaker 2: there you are with another Disney garb on.
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  Speaker 5: Yep, and green is another big Halloween color, and I
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  Speaker 5: got that on today.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, there you go. St. Patrick's Day? Sure, why not?
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  Speaker 2: But no, it's not.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I could wear this for St. Patrick's Day. I
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  Speaker 5: don't have any green in my wardrobe, really.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you could, although it's not Kelly green. It's sort
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  Speaker 4: of green, green.
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  Speaker 5: It's a little neon.
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  Speaker 2: That's it. That's what I was looking for. And Will,
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  Speaker 2: good morning. Good morning, sir.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 2: And finally, Ann, there you are.
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  Speaker 5: Hi.
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  Speaker 2: I'm wearing black. You are in black. You're going to
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  Speaker 2: a wedding today.
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  Speaker 5: That is a good Halloween color. Right.
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  Speaker 2: And Neil, how are you?
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  Speaker 3: No problem.
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  Speaker 2: Neil, I can't hear you. Neil, Neil, turn on your mic.
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  Speaker 1: Neil.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Neil is not there.
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  Speaker 5: Got it.
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  Speaker 4: Actually, I knew that. That was a little bit of shtick.
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  Speaker 4: Neil is not here today and tomorrow. And so he'll
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  Speaker 4: be back on Monday, Saturday. Of course, he'll be here
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  Speaker 4: day after tomorrow for his show, 12 to 5 o'clock.
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  Speaker 4: And calendar, if you will, the 14th of November, meal
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  Speaker 4: show from 2 to 5, the Fork Report, broadcast from
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  Speaker 4: the Wild Fork store in Laguna Niguel. And I will
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  Speaker 4: be there. It's the annual Thanks Grilling. And it's always
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  Speaker 4: super fun with chefs and a tremendous amount of... samples
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  Speaker 4: that are full meals, actually, is what you're going to get.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Now, what is going on? You know, I've not sent
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  Speaker 4: in my mail ballot yet.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't.
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  Speaker 4: It's just sitting around here and I've got to mail
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  Speaker 4: it in today. Otherwise, I'm going to get screwed and
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  Speaker 4: it's not going to be good if I don't vote.
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  Speaker 4: I'm pretty fanatic about voting. I don't miss voting at
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  Speaker 4: all because I'm kind of nuts about, you know, this
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  Speaker 4: franchised I think what ends up happening is immigrants, of
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  Speaker 4: which I am one, are more into being American citizens
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  Speaker 4: or appreciate becoming American citizens more than native-born people.
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  Speaker 2: Who sort of take it more for granted.
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  Speaker 4: Because people that are born here are not coming from
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  Speaker 4: a place that is not the United States, where you
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  Speaker 4: talk about opportunities and you talk about the right to vote.
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  Speaker 4: The United States was the first country in the world—
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  Speaker 4: to have a democratic, well, democratic republican form of government.
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  Speaker 4: Do you know who the sovereign is in the country,
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  Speaker 4: the United States? For example, the Queen of England is
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  Speaker 4: the sovereign. She's a head of state. You know who
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  Speaker 4: the head of state is, the sovereign in the United States?
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  Speaker 2: Any idea? No, it is not. It is not. It
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  Speaker 2: is the people.
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  Speaker 4: I knew that the people of the United States of
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  Speaker 4: America are the sovereign. And that has never happened. That
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  Speaker 4: would never happen before. And so the United States has
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  Speaker 4: an extraordinary history. Do not throw that away. Please use
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  Speaker 4: that franchise. And then the rest of the world, the
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  Speaker 4: democratic world has followed suit where most of the world
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  Speaker 4: now are democracies. And some still have head of state
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  Speaker 4: someone else. For example, in Israel, which is a true democracy,
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  Speaker 4: the head of state is the president who has no
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  Speaker 4: powers whatsoever. The sovereign in England is the queen or
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  Speaker 4: now the king of England who has no political power whatsoever.
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  Speaker 4: Doesn't govern but does rule. OK, enough of the history lesson.
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  Speaker 4: Let me see what we have going today. A lot
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  Speaker 4: of political news. Good God.
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  Speaker 2: New polls are out. Alaska.
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  Speaker 4: You know, as I make fun of Donald Trump, you know,
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  Speaker 4: talking about the election's rigged, the election's rigged. I go,
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  Speaker 4: stop it already. In terms of Alaska, he is absolutely right.
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  Speaker 4: The election has been rigged in Alaska by the Democrats.
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  Speaker 4: And it has turned out that part of the campaign,
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  Speaker 4: although Peralta's campaign is denying it, which I don't believe
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  Speaker 4: for a second her denial, they went out and hunted for,
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  Speaker 4: specifically looked for someone who was also Dan Sullivan, whose
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  Speaker 4: legal name is Dan Sullivan, and put him on the
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  Speaker 4: ballot to confuse Republican voters.
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  Speaker 2: 100% rigged.
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  Speaker 4: And the president is calling for his name, the second
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  Speaker 4: Dan Sullivan's name to be removed. I don't know how
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  Speaker 4: it can. Everything is printed. Mail of balloting has already
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  Speaker 4: gone on, so that can't happen. And call for a
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  Speaker 4: criminal investigation. Big problem there, too. This ain't criminal. It
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  Speaker 4: should be, but it's not. So we've got a lot
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  Speaker 4: to talk about today and some more stuff in medical
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  Speaker 4: news with Jim Keeney. So we've got a full day
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  Speaker 4: ahead of us. So let's go ahead and do it.
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  Speaker 4: Handle on the news. Amy, no Neil and me.
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  Speaker 2: Lead story. David O.
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  Speaker 6: Carter, federal judge and an appointee of President Clinton, actually,
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  Speaker 6: going back a long ways. And he was the judge
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  Speaker 6: that deals with the homeless situation here in Southern California,
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  Speaker 6: ruling after ruling in terms of the cities and the
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  Speaker 6: counties dealing with the homeless.
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  Speaker 2: Very liberal in that regard.
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  Speaker 4: He has shut down the administration request to that they
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  Speaker 4: asked to block California elections officials from counting the balance
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  Speaker 4: of 20,000 voters because the administration said we have questions
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  Speaker 4: about their citizenship. Wouldn't answer what questions, just whether they
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  Speaker 4: were citizens or not, wouldn't answer how they got to
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  Speaker 4: 20,000 voters. What they did to figure out that these
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  Speaker 4: were non-citizens or potential non-citizens, the administration wouldn't say. They
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  Speaker 4: just said, here it is, a list of 20,000, and
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  Speaker 4: we want California to segregate. Well, the judge shut it down,
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  Speaker 4: and I mean shut it down. Basically called the administration liars.
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  Speaker 4: The administration's allegations were not credible, that if he were
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  Speaker 4: to intervene and hold up that $ 20, 000 withholding of the vote,
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  Speaker 4: It would violate a whole host of federal laws, sow
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  Speaker 4: chaos in the election, lead to the disenfranchisement of legitimate voters,
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  Speaker 4: and on a political front, would foster future political.
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  Speaker 2: Meddling in elections. I mean, that is how bad it is.
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  Speaker 2: And it is that bad.
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  Speaker 4: And then he wrote, never in American history has a
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  Speaker 4: federal government on the eve of an election sought to
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  Speaker 4: coerce the state and local government to abandon their own
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  Speaker 4: constitutional election procedures and bend to the will of the
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  Speaker 4: executive branch. The Trump administration was asking the court to
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  Speaker 4: believe that the administration reigns as a sole sovereign.
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  Speaker 2: Which, by the way, Trump believes it is.
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  Speaker 4: The Republican Congress has no problem whether they believe it
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  Speaker 4: or not backing up. the concept that there is no
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  Speaker 4: legislative branch or whatever Donald Trump wants, he gets.
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  Speaker 2: It's the courts.
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  Speaker 4: The courts are the last bastion holding back the administration.
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  Speaker 4: And here's the problem, is that so far that Trump,
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  Speaker 4: for the most part, the administration has paid attention to
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  Speaker 4: what the court said, except in the building of the great, big,
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  Speaker 4: beautiful ballroom and the arch, all that, which is I mean,
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  Speaker 4: it's kind of a pain, but it's not overriding in
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  Speaker 4: its importance. This is overriding in its importance. And if
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  Speaker 4: the administration tells the court, too bad, we're doing it anyway,
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  Speaker 4: that becomes a problem.
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  Speaker 2: You know why?
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  Speaker 4: You know who enforces the court's order? Who enforces a
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  Speaker 4: federal order by the court? The Department of Justice. They're
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  Speaker 4: the ones that enforce. See the problem?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Okay, moving on.
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  Speaker 5: Now the wrangling begins. Neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu— or
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  Speaker 5: his main challenger, Gadi Eisenkot, were projected to win a
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  Speaker 5: parliamentary majority from Tuesday's elections. So political leaders are bracing
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  Speaker 5: for weeks of negotiations over a new government. About 90
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  Speaker 5: percent of the ballots had been counted as of last night.
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  Speaker 5: And Netanyahu's hardline bloc of parties held a modest lead
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  Speaker 5: in seats over the opposition bloc. But neither coalition will
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  Speaker 5: win the 61 seats needed to secure a straightforward majority
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  Speaker 5: in the Knesset, which is Israel's parliament.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 4: And that means that now they're going to try to
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  Speaker 4: cobble together a majority government with different parties. And it's
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  Speaker 4: a weird system in Israel, as I've said. It's a government–
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  Speaker 4: by the way, you know who calls for a leader to–
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  Speaker 4: be installed and put together the government. It's the president
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  Speaker 4: of Israel who has no power except in this case.
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  Speaker 4: Matter of fact, when Netanyahu put together his government last
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  Speaker 4: time around, he had fewer votes than the opposing party.
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  Speaker 4: And the president of Israel still told him, you put
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  Speaker 4: it together and you are the prime minister. So the
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  Speaker 4: negotiations are going to start like crazy, as Amy said,
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  Speaker 4: and it's going to be weeks of of negotiation to
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  Speaker 4: see what kind of government is put into place.
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  Speaker 5: And if they can't come up with a negotiation, that
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  Speaker 5: gets that 61?
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  Speaker 2: Then Netanyahu stays the prime minister.
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  Speaker 5: Do they just say, OK, forget it? Or do they
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  Speaker 5: do another election?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, they have to do it.
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  Speaker 4: They have to do election after election after election. Oh, no,
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  Speaker 4: they don't stop. To the chagrin of Netanyahu, who is
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  Speaker 4: a huge ally of President Trump, whatever it takes to
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  Speaker 4: stay in power.
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  Speaker 2: There is no issue.
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  Speaker 3: You're listening to Bill Handel on demand from KFI AM 640.
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  Speaker 4: Five more days and we go right into the midterms
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  Speaker 4: next Tuesday. I'm going to be up quite late Tuesday night.
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  Speaker 4: So come Wednesday, I'm going to sound pretty tired because, boy,
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  Speaker 4: am I going to be watching not only our local
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  Speaker 4: races and the propositions, but this year, the national races,
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  Speaker 4: Senate races. and House particularly are insanely important. All right,
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  Speaker 4: back we go. More Handle on the News with Amy,
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  Speaker 4: Neal's not here, and me. Matter of fact, that's his
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  Speaker 4: new name. Neal's not here. What do you think?
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  Speaker 5: I think I might catch on.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, at least today and tomorrow.
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  Speaker 5: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: And he'll be back on Monday.
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  Speaker 5: Paying respects, Governor Newsom has ordered flags in California to
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  Speaker 5: fly at half staff following the death of Dolores Huerta.
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  Speaker 5: He says she represented the best of us. California and
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  Speaker 5: the United States would not be what we are today
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  Speaker 5: without her resolute spirit, her passion for justice and fairness,
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  Speaker 5: and her commitment to those overlooked and forgotten. Of course,
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  Speaker 5: Dolores Huerta died yesterday at the age of 96. Yep.
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  Speaker 2: She had a long life and, boy, what a hero
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  Speaker 2: of the labor movement.
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  Speaker 4: I think the governor today has a dinner. I wish
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  Speaker 4: they were only going to serve grapes, which I think
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  Speaker 4: is kind of interesting. See, that is– that's not so
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  Speaker 4: much a joke. That was a reference to Uvasno, the
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  Speaker 4: great workers. You remember when we– never mind.
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  Speaker 5: Doxed again. 41,000 people who work for the U.S. Department
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  Speaker 5: of Homeland Security have had their personal information leaked. posted online.
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  Speaker 5: It includes names, work addresses, and phone numbers of DHS staff,
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  Speaker 5: including ICE agents and Customs and Border Protection agents, along
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  Speaker 5: with descriptions of the work they do for each agency.
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  Speaker 5: It was put online Wednesday by a group called the
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  Speaker 5: Department of Peace, alongside a cybersecurity researcher and hacker named
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  Speaker 5: Maya Crimu.
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  Speaker 3: How many?
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  Speaker 4: Well, let's talk about, or let's look at the numbers
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  Speaker 4: of hacks that have happened, databases. where names and numbers
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  Speaker 4: and social security numbers and work information addresses have been
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  Speaker 4: hacked into and released. Put all of those together and
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  Speaker 4: the number of people affected, like American Express, there's 20
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  Speaker 4: million people, or Visa, there's 10 million people. There was
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  Speaker 4: one of 80 million people, if I'm not mistaken. mistaken
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  Speaker 4: in terms of the information released. Hasn't twice or three
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  Speaker 4: times the population of the world, their information has been
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  Speaker 4: released over and over again. I don't even know why
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  Speaker 4: this makes news anymore because our information is released out
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  Speaker 4: there on a regular basis.
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  Speaker 5: Because this is doxing of DHS and ICE agents.
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  Speaker 2: No, I understand. But in general, no, you're right.
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  Speaker 4: This story is an important one because of the governmental
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  Speaker 4: agencies that have been doxed. But just as a general picture,
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  Speaker 4: the number of hacks, there's no such thing as privacy.
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  Speaker 5: None.
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  Speaker 4: It doesn't exist, which is why I do those incognito
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  Speaker 4: commercials on Saturday. It's the organization that forces data brokers
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  Speaker 4: to scrubbed your information and that's several hundred of those
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  Speaker 4: so i mean the whole thing is just good luck
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  Speaker 4: you can be private incidentally no credit cards ever you
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  Speaker 4: never own anything uh you uh buy everything for cash
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  Speaker 4: everything you.
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  Speaker 5: Can't a lot of places don't even take cash and.
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  Speaker 4: That's and how many places can you work at uh
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  Speaker 4: that uh will pay you in cash and not keep
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  Speaker 4: information your information on file Only the illegal ones.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true.
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  Speaker 4: Basically, you'd have to either be a farm worker getting
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  Speaker 4: paid for picking strawberries and get paid in cash or
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  Speaker 4: live a completely illegal life or put on and get
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  Speaker 4: a fake identity.
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  Speaker 2: I guess that works. And then go vote. That's important. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: moving on.
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  Speaker 5: Holding steady, the Federal Reserve has decided to keep interest
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  Speaker 5: rates unchanged. That decision yesterday comes despite inflation jumping from
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  Speaker 5: a 3.4% annual rate in August to 3.6% in September.
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  Speaker 5: The new numbers that were just released on inflation show
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  Speaker 5: that month over month, prices were up 0.5%, which is
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  Speaker 5: the largest increase monthly since May.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that does not bode well, because based on that,
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  Speaker 4: it's 6% inflation, which is pretty high. And Kevin Warsh,
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  Speaker 4: who is the Fed chairman... Wait, how.
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  Speaker 2: Is that 6%?
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  Speaker 5: It's 3.6. No, but if you said— Year over year,
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  Speaker 5: it's up 3.6.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, annualized.
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  Speaker 5: Right, but the month over month is 0.5. It's a
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  Speaker 5: half percent up.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, let me get the numbers right. Okay, just don't
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  Speaker 2: correct me, all right?
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  Speaker 5: No, I'm just wanting to make sure.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no, just don't correct me.
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  Speaker 5: 6% is really high.
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  Speaker 2: That is really high. Well, you're right. It's closer to 4%, 3.8%,
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  Speaker 2: so I stand corrected.
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  Speaker 4: Kevin Warsh, it was assumed interest rates were going to
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  Speaker 4: climb a quarter of a point to deal with inflation
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  Speaker 4: because inflation has not calmed down, and he kept the
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  Speaker 4: annual rate the same.
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  Speaker 2: All right. We'll see. It doesn't help inflation at all.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Some good news for Milwaukee.
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  Speaker 5: Yes. They're finally the winners. Finally, the Milwaukee Brewers won
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  Speaker 5: the World Series. They beat Tampa Bay 4-1 in Game
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  Speaker 5: 5 last year. last night and uh it was a
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  Speaker 5: great game great game and half of the sellout crowd
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  Speaker 5: was from milwaukee and the game was played in tampa
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  Speaker 5: bay but 40 000 people from milwaukee came down for
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  Speaker 5: the game isn't that awesome they were excited yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I stand so there was uh i'm reading this 57
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  Speaker 4: year franchise history never had a world series now they
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  Speaker 4: won the world series.
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  Speaker 5: It's their first one okay that's true.
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  Speaker 4: If you like baseball yeah yippee uh you watched the
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  Speaker 4: game obviously i did okay i didn't yeah That's okay.
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  Speaker 5: I kind of lost interest after the Dodgers, but the
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  Speaker 5: Brewers were such a good team and they beat the
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  Speaker 5: Dodgers pretty handily.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know. They swept the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 5: So it would, and they're just, they're a fun team
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  Speaker 5: to watch and it was good to see them win.
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  Speaker 5: Cause again, like you said, they've never won it before.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: We'll get it back next year.
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  Speaker 4: We?
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  Speaker 5: Dodgers.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Hope so.
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  Speaker 4: Not only for ratings, but the sales department, your lips
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  Speaker 4: to God's ears as far as the sales department is concerned.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. Oh yes, yes, yes.
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  Speaker 4: OK, let's take and by the way, the sales department
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  Speaker 4: hates sweeps because that's three games they can't sell.
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  Speaker 3: You're listening to Bill Handel on demand from KFI AM 640.
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  Speaker 4: Come next Tuesday and we have ourselves a midterm election,
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  Speaker 4: which clearly we're going to be talking about. From now
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  Speaker 4: until then, and I'm going to be up Tuesday night
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  Speaker 4: for a long time looking for results, watching the results.
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  Speaker 4: So let's return to Handle on the News. Amy Neal's
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  Speaker 4: not here and me.
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  Speaker 5: Still falling back. Daylight saving time ends Sunday, which means
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  Speaker 5: we'll turn our clocks back an hour. But several senators
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  Speaker 5: are responsible for it because they're holding up legislation to
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  Speaker 5: eliminate the process of changing our clocks. Supporters have argued
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  Speaker 5: that ending the time change would provide more daylight during
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  Speaker 5: the afternoon. when Americans are most active. But opponents say
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  Speaker 5: commuters in some states wouldn't see the sun until 9 a.m.
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  Speaker 5: Others say you'd be sending kids to school in the dark.
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  Speaker 2: I have a question.
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  Speaker 4: I'm a big fan of permanent daylight savings time. And
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  Speaker 4: when you look at it, you look at the benefits.
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  Speaker 4: You know, a couple of kids getting hit by a
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  Speaker 4: car because it's dark. That's a fairly small price to pay,
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  Speaker 4: isn't it, to keep daylight savings time?
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  Speaker 5: Well, if they're worried about kids going to school in
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  Speaker 5: the dark, why don't they just why don't they switch
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  Speaker 5: it to permanent standard time?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: But then again, you've got then people on the other
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: side of, gee, we want more time in the afternoon.
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: I'll tell you that who does like daylight savings time.
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: Keeping that going is Donald Trump, because he is an
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  Speaker 4: avid golfer. He's a good golfer, actually. Very good golfer.
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: And he wants more time. He doesn't want to get
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: nailed on his golf times. And he's arguing that changing
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: the time can be dangerous, especially when you have high
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: and dangerous steeples to reach, like on churches and municipal buildings.
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: We're talking about his golf swing, which is as good
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: a reason as any, by the way. I think that's
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: even more valid than a kid or two getting hit
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: in the morning on the.
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  Speaker 2: Way to school. I don't often agree with the president,
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: but this is what I'll go for.
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  Speaker 5: Okay. All right. OK, so now there's a new question.
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: Who doesn't have CTE? A new study published in JAMA
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: Network Open estimated that 75 percent of former NFL players
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  Speaker 5: who died between 2008 and 2023 had chronic traumatic encephalopathy
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: or CTE, which is that brain disease linked to high
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: impact sports like basketball. football and you can't diagnose it
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  Speaker 5: while you're alive. You can't tell if you had it
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: until you like do an autopsy on the brain. Some
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: of the same researchers involved in this new study had
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: just published a paper back in August that estimated one
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: in four players who died had CTE. Now they're saying 75%. Yeah.
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: Although I think that's going to change because now it's
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: a big penalty if you use your helmet. or a
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: player uses a helmet, certainly helmet to helmet.
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  Speaker 5: They have changed the rules.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they've changed the rules. So I think that's going
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: to go down.
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  Speaker 4: How many KFI listeners, how many morning show listeners you
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: think have CTE because they're constantly smashing their heads against
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: the windshield after listening to this show?
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: That number's got to be high. Or during the show. Yeah,
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: it's going to be very high.
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: Who is going to plan the attack? Defense Secretary Pete
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: Hegseth has fired the Pentagon's top military planner. It's the
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: latest in a series of generals to be ousted and
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  Speaker 5: comes as President Trump has been talking about hinting at
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: and weighing renewing strikes on Iran after the midterms.
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  Speaker 4: I can't even imagine what it is like to be
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: a senior military official in the Pentagon. probably scared to
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: death that Hegseth is going to walk down the hall
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: and just fire you.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: You're out. You're out. You're gone.
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: They have to be running scared that nobody is saying
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: anything against Hegseth. I mean, there's never been a situation
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: where a defense secretary did this sort of thing, fired
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: people across the board and had to do with loyalty.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's the bottom line. You're not loyal to
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: this president. You're done.
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: And it's a tough way to run the military. Things
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: have changed big time. So the president's going to go
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: after— so the president's going to declare war or go after Iran,
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: go back to military attack on Iran, and there's no
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: one there to plan it.
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: Coming to America. Defeated Brazilian presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro and
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: his family have touched down in Miami. They— fled Brazil
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: after he refused to concede his election to President Luis
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: Inacio Lula da Silva. Bolsonaro left for Argentina with his
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: wife and two daughters, and then they went to Ecuador
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: before they came to the U.S. Then they were granted U.S.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: Visas. Of course they were.
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: Because he's a big Trump supporter.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: That's right.
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: He's an ally of Donald Trump and uses exactly the
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: same language in his loss to Lula. And that is
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: the election was rigged. And I am the president. I'm
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: the one that's been elected, although he dropped that one.
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: And now he is the leader who has unfairly been
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: prosecuted or persecuted by the existing government going after him.
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: And the United States has granted him his visa. Now,
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: what's interesting, I think, is what happens when a democratic
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: government comes in, into a democratic elected government, democratic party
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: comes in.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: And to power here in the United States.
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: Brazil asks for extradition because of a criminal complaint.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: What does the U.S. do?
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: If I believe there's no extradition treaty for financial crimes,
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: I believe, between Brazil and the United States. It's going
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: to be very interesting. I'm just extrapolating legally what's going
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: to happen two years from now. But in the meantime,
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: Bolsonaro comes in on a private jet to Miami, goes
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: into a private airport and is given entry visas right there. Oh,
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: and the president, our president has also said the Brazilian
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: election was rigged. Also parroted that line. All right, let's
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: take a break. We're going to come back. I've got
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: a little bit of political news. Some of it is
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: you just don't know what is a joke and what
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: isn't a joke.
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  Speaker 3: You're listening to Bill Handel, On Demand from KFI AM640.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: We are just five days away from the midterms.
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: Quick word about a new podcast that Linz and I
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: are doing. It's a travel podcast because I love traveling,
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: and that's where my disposable income goes, as you know
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: if you've been listening. Actually, we're going to record our
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: first one today, but we have plenty already up on
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: the Internet. For example, you can go to Instagram at
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: Excessive Baggage Podcast. We have some fun videos and photos
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: that are up there. Instagram at Excessive Baggage Podcast. TikTok
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: at Excessive Baggage. And the website is excessivebaggage.com. And you'll
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: see me with my favorite sexual partner, Eddie the giraffe,
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: as well as using the facilities out on the bush
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: in Africa.
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: Those are the highlights of your trip.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: So far. So far. There's other stuff, but those are
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: the highlights.
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: I still think it's funny that they let you out
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: of the vehicle during the safari.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: Well, they know where the animals are.
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: One of the things about these guides.
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: They're incredible.
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: They are insane. Did you know how hard it is
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: to be a guide? It's equivalent to a college degree
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: at the lowest level. And they have three different levels, bronze, silver, gold.
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: And to reach gold level, which is the most qualified guide,
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: it's equivalent to a PhD. You have to write a
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: thesis to be a guide. They're all licensed. The testing
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: is insane. I mean, this is serious guiding.
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: Well, it's got to be because you think about it.
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: You've got, you know, eight to 10 people's lives in
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: your hands every time you take a Jeep out.
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, when I said, oh, I
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: really have to go to the bathroom. There's this. There
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: it is right over there. You see that?
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: No, it's and you don't want to go to the men's,
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: not the women's. So thank you so much for that.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: All right. Let's finish up handle on the news.
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: Amy and me cruising to the Supreme Court. President Trump
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: is floated nominating Trump. Senator Ted Cruz to the Supreme
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: Court if there's another vacancy. He was at a rally
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: in Texas this week and joked that the senator's confirmation
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: would get unanimous support because the Democrats hate him and
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: so do the Republicans and they both want to see
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: him gone.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: And there was Ted Cruz in the audience laughing. OK, thanks. Thanks, Trump. Cruz,
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: speaking of. Cruise canceled. A U.S. cruise ship that was
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: on a three-year around-the-world voyage to visit all the continents
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: stopped in Cambodia and isn't leaving again. It's still at port. Basically,
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: they said, okay, everybody has to get off, even though
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: they've paid for the cruise. But the cruise operators say
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: fuel costs are so high, they just can't do it.
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: They've gone up from $ 1, 800 on average a month for
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: fuel costs.
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: Per cabin. Per cabin.
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: Per cabin. to $ 6, 000 to $ 8, 000 a month.
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they just can't do it anymore. And these were
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: around-the-world cruises where you actually lived on the boat. There's
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: a few of them out there where you buy— effectively,
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: you're buying an apartment or you're buying a cabin, and
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: I think you pay monthly. And I met one of
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: those people on a cruise once. It was a couple
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: that lived in Beverly Hills. It was on a regent cruise, and.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: They lived on the ship. They literally lived on the
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: ship nine months a year.
• 26:38
  Speaker 5: You know, it had the capacity for 650 passengers, but
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: there was 200 passengers. So it obviously isn't either that.
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: Many people aren't that well off or just don't want
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: to be on a cruise ship for three years.
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: Well, no, there are plenty of people that are that
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: well off. I mean, I don't think that's the problem.
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: It's probably being on a cruise ship for three years.
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: I think it's, you know, sitting on a cruise ship,
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: especially if you're in a massive suite will cost you
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: a fortune. But most people have a simple room. I'm
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: going on a cruise with my daughter. I'm taking a
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: foodie cruise with Pamela and we're leaving on December 2nd.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: And it's one room.
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: I'm sharing it with Pamela. But that's only 10 days.
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: That's a room for 10 days. So yeah, a suite
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: costs just zillions of dollars. Okay, let's do one more
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: and then we're.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: Bailing, okay?
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: Exposed for fraud, trying to expose fraud. There are these
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: two right-wing provocateurs. facing election-related charges in Minnesota after posting
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: videos of an undercover stunt that was supposed to expose
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: alleged efficiencies in election security. So they go up to
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: elections judges at different precincts in Minneapolis wearing burqas, speaking
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: in fake accents, what could possibly go wrong, and allegedly
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: misrepresenting their identities in an effort to expose... What they
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: say are gaps in the rules that allow residents to
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: vouch for the identity of other voters. And instead, the
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: Hennepin County attorney said each man is now facing a
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: count of unlawful voting and identity theft.
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: See, the problem is you can't walk up to a
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: voting facility in a burka and go, hi.
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  Speaker 5: Which is what they do. We have audio of it.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: It would be great to have an audio of it.
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: We do have audio.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: Oh, there is audio of them doing it? Do you
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: happen to have it?
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: Uh, I do.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: I do.
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: Election voter fraud.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: Berka.
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I've got it. I just I would have to
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: find the story.
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: OK, well, when you do, I'm going to come back
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: during one of the breaks. And because I really want
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: to see.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: Hi, I'm wearing a Berka. I want to vote. All right,
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: let's bail out of here.
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: Coming up, California elections and why California is getting nailed
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: about how long it takes to count the votes. And
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: we're not alone, but the politics of that, of course,
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: are crazy. I'll deal with that coming right up. KFI
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