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Live Nation an Illegal Monopoly | Europe Accelerating a NATO Fallback Plan · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 2: any segment of the show. Okay, So what happened yesterday, Well,
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  Speaker 2: a federal jury found that Live Nation, this was a
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  Speaker 2: case that was really looked at that Live Nation that
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  Speaker 2: owns Ticketmaster has operated as a monopoly in violation of
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  Speaker 2: antitrust laws. And boy, was just watched very closely because
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  Speaker 2: this is going to affect the music industry as a whole.
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  Speaker 2: Four days of deliberation and it was a complicated case
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  Speaker 2: and involved weeks of expert testimony and the jury had
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  Speaker 2: to parse through everything.
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  Speaker 1: Nine people in the jury.
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  Speaker 2: Now, the judge overseeing the case, a run Subrahmanjian, is
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  Speaker 2: to determine the remedies in a separate proceeding, and it
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  Speaker 2: could include anything divestment by Live Nation, even the breakup
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  Speaker 2: of Live Nation and Ticketmaster, which the federal government called
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  Speaker 2: for under the Biden administration when it filed the case
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  Speaker 2: two years ago. So Live Nation will face monetary damages
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  Speaker 2: as a result of this verdict. The case was brought
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  Speaker 2: by thirty three states in Washington, DC, and the jury
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  Speaker 2: determined that Ticketmaster had overcharged consumers. And this one, I
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  Speaker 2: don't understand a dollar seventy two for each ticket. Man,
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  Speaker 2: If it was a dollar seventy two and you're spending
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  Speaker 2: three hundred dollars to go to a concert, come on.
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  Speaker 1: Guys, really whoop?
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  Speaker 2: Now I've paid for one ticket and the hundreds of
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  Speaker 2: dollars because he Paul McCartney and it went through ticket Master.
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't believe it, could not believe how much it
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  Speaker 2: cost me to go see Paul McCartney. But then I
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  Speaker 2: should have seen the Beatles when they came out and
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  Speaker 2: I didn't. So that's one of my biggest regrets of
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  Speaker 2: my life. There's actually three regrets of my life. The
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  Speaker 2: number one regret not seeing Beatles and the other one
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  Speaker 2: getting married and having kids.
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  Speaker 1: That's what neil. Okay, well I didn't hear you which marriage.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have kids with this current marriage. Okay, I
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  Speaker 1: just want to make sure. Yeah, I do have an elevator,
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  Speaker 1: but I do not have tikes. Life is filled with
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  Speaker 1: ups and downs in that. Yeah, oh, very well said.
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  Speaker 2: In any case, so a seven week trial, and Live
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  Speaker 2: Nation said, we are not a monopoly. All we do
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  Speaker 2: is compete aggressively legally, though in a market filled with
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  Speaker 2: other ticketers, other concert promoters, other venue operators, other sports teams.
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  Speaker 2: And Live Nation said denies that it had threatened venues
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  Speaker 2: to sign deals with ticket Master or else losing access
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  Speaker 2: to the most popular concert series, of which Live Nation
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  Speaker 2: controls virtually all of the concerts. Well, we All we
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  Speaker 2: do is compete. There are plenty of other ones. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: number two is AEG. Okay, number one is Ticketmaster. Number
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  Speaker 2: two is AEG. Ticketmaster sells ten times as many tickets
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  Speaker 2: as AEG.
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  Speaker 1: You talk about controlling a market.
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  Speaker 2: Now, even though it had lot the case, it has
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  Speaker 2: lost the case. The company said, the jury's verdict is
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  Speaker 2: not the last word, and of course they're appealing like crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Now. The Trump administration likes to settle these cases. They do.
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  Speaker 2: A week into the trial, the Justice Department left the
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  Speaker 2: case exited after reaching a settlement with Live Nation because
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  Speaker 2: they just like settling. However, thirty four of the forty
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  Speaker 2: planets that had joined the federal lawsuit are saying, we're
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  Speaker 2: not part of that settlement.
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  Speaker 1: We want no part of that.
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  Speaker 2: We're continuing on because these are states that have sued. Now,
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  Speaker 2: the settlement that did come with a government Live Nation
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  Speaker 2: agrees to set aside two hundred and eighty one million
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  Speaker 2: dollars to settle claims from the states. But only six
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  Speaker 2: states Arkansas, Iowa, Missisippi, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota have said
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  Speaker 2: they would join the settlement and they are going to
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  Speaker 2: shell share eighteen point six million dollars all six states.
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  Speaker 2: So it's not very much money, to say the least.
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  Speaker 2: So the whole thing is about the monopoly, which I
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  Speaker 2: always sort of knew. I mean, you buy a ticket
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  Speaker 2: to see a concert, how are you not using Ticketmaster.
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  Speaker 1: So the case was filed.
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  Speaker 2: Literally after years of scrutiny about Ticketmaster because how many
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  Speaker 2: people have been complaining about Ticketmaster for years and years.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, their prices are completely crazy. And Neil and
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  Speaker 2: I were talking this morning about there are acts out
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  Speaker 2: there that have a rough time selling tickets to fans
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  Speaker 2: for as much money as the promoter is being charged.
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  Speaker 2: So but this is again, it's all part of what's
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  Speaker 2: happening in the entertainment industry, in the news business. Last month,
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  Speaker 2: a group of eight Democratic States attorneys general sued to
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  Speaker 2: block next Star in the purchase of tech Now, making
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  Speaker 2: a huge broadcasting company, but the FEDS agreed to allow
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  Speaker 2: the deal to go through because it's you know, this
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  Speaker 2: administration is pro business.
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  Speaker 1: It's that simple.
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  Speaker 2: Has no problem with major companies buying major companies. So
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  Speaker 2: hopefully and the judge is going to figure out what's
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  Speaker 2: going to happen with Ticketmaster. And now this is going
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  Speaker 2: to upband everything because all of a sudden, you've got
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  Speaker 2: this Surrey verdict and Ticketmaster is going to have to
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  Speaker 2: do business in a whole different way. All Right, we
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  Speaker 2: continue on another Donald Trumps US policy and Europe this
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  Speaker 2: one is talks about Europe accelerating a NATO fallback plan
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  Speaker 2: in the event that the President pulls the US out
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  Speaker 2: of NATO. Now Heretofore, the thought of the US leaving
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  Speaker 2: NATO was just inconceivable. NATO was created in nineteen forty
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  Speaker 2: I think nineteen forty eight when NATO was created to
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  Speaker 2: protect Europe from Russia a Russian cursion. And NATO is
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  Speaker 2: mainly an American invented, an American organization and sort of
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  Speaker 2: brings brings Europe with it. It's paid for, was paid
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  Speaker 2: for by America for the most part, its leadership is American.
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  Speaker 2: It's charter says that the commander of NATO will always
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  Speaker 2: be an American and it was there to protect Europe
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  Speaker 2: and we have it president. By the way, that's not
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  Speaker 2: necessarily bad. It depends on how you view it. That
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  Speaker 2: says we're paying too much attention to Europe, We're spending
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  Speaker 2: too much money, too much time to Europe, and there
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  Speaker 2: are a bunch of cowards anyway, they didn't back us
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  Speaker 2: up in Ukraine. NATO countries are not helping us at
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  Speaker 2: all in getting the Strait of Hornes Moves opened up.
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  Speaker 2: And so you know, we don't want to. We based
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  Speaker 2: on what Trumps said when we want no part of this. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: now you got a big issue because this has never
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  Speaker 2: happened before.
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  Speaker 1: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: One of the things that the President did do, to
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  Speaker 2: his credit, is tell the NATO countries you are going
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  Speaker 2: to pay your fair share, which NATO countries did not pay.
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  Speaker 2: I mean everybody had to pay, and I think it
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  Speaker 2: was two percent or two and a half percent of
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  Speaker 2: GDP and the United States was the only country doing that.
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  Speaker 2: And so the President said, you don't pay, we're pulling out. Well,
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  Speaker 2: they started paying. So you can't argue with that position,
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  Speaker 2: at least I can't. However, the thought of just leaving
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  Speaker 2: NATO and it just changes the world order in Europe completely.
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  Speaker 2: And this I mean with Greenland, the President threatened to
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  Speaker 2: either buy, invade, or just annex Greenland.
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  Speaker 1: That's from Denmark, which is a NATO country.
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  Speaker 2: And so you had also QB and Venezuela and so
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  Speaker 2: it's kind of and then what happened in the Ukraine,
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  Speaker 2: it's kind of obvious that the president is no fan
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  Speaker 2: of NATO and Europe has to deal with it.
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  Speaker 1: Now. Is this necessarily bad?
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  Speaker 2: Not really, because Europe, Well, first of all, let's talk
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  Speaker 2: about the possibility of a Russian invasion of Europe.
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  Speaker 1: You think that's gonna happen.
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  Speaker 2: You think that's possible for Russia to invade Europe. I
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  Speaker 2: don't think so, and most people don't. And you have
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  Speaker 2: Russia now has a decimated army, armed services. NATO is
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  Speaker 2: as strong as it's ever been. Did you know that
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  Speaker 2: our nuclear weapons that we keep in Europe are in Germany?
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  Speaker 2: And Germany was our biggest ally in terms of not
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  Speaker 2: moving around. I mean, there was talk of people wanted
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  Speaker 2: to change NATO around in Europe and Germany always there. Nope,
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  Speaker 2: whatever America wants, we are going to maintain that position. Well,
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  Speaker 2: there's a new chancellor who says, wait a minute, let's
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  Speaker 2: look at this. This is not this is pretty volatile stuff.
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  Speaker 2: And even if you have a new president coming in,
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  Speaker 2: which of course we're going to because President Trump has
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  Speaker 2: turned out he can't run again, although he might try,
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  Speaker 2: what will happen?
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  Speaker 1: Is Europe still now?
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  Speaker 2: And Europe looks at America and says, do we want
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  Speaker 2: to ever trust America again? Is the trust misplaced where
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  Speaker 2: it was automatic? So do you need to have those
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  Speaker 2: kinds of forces or is America willing to keep NATO
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  Speaker 2: or willing to be part of NATO, keeping in mind
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  Speaker 2: that NATO again, NATO is America for the most part.
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  Speaker 1: And so Europe is.
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  Speaker 2: Starting to realize, Okay, maybe we have to not rely
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  Speaker 2: so much on the United States and rely on ourselves.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe it's time for us to put our big boy
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  Speaker 2: pants on in terms of world security, and we can
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  Speaker 2: do it.
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  Speaker 1: We're on our own.
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  Speaker 2: I mean the armies of NATO. I mean these countries
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  Speaker 2: have world class armies. It's not like Germany doesn't have
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  Speaker 2: a great army or France doesn't have a great army,
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  Speaker 2: although they all march backwards.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, it is.
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  Speaker 2: It's a different world today, and the President is acknowledging that.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 2: Am I thrilled at how the threats happen. It's not
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  Speaker 2: after sitting down and through consensus and study and negotiations
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  Speaker 2: that we pull back from NATO over the course of years.
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  Speaker 1: It's Hey, you don't want to help.
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  Speaker 2: Us with the port with opening the straits we're bailing out.
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  Speaker 1: You don't want to help us with Ukraine we're leaving.
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  Speaker 2: You don't want you don't want to help us with
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  Speaker 2: any of our Uh, what we want to do. You
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  Speaker 2: don't want you actually are against us taking Greenland. We're
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  Speaker 2: out of here. So it's pretty arbitrary and it's pretty volacile.
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  Speaker 2: But over the long, long term, I think Europe has
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  Speaker 2: to come to the table. I mean, there's not there's
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  Speaker 2: not much choice they have, and it makes sense for
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  Speaker 2: them to do that.
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  Speaker 1: It does.
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  Speaker 2: Last year, Mrs the Chancellor of Germany started reevaluating the
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  Speaker 2: relationship after concluding the President was prepared to abandon Ukraine
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  Speaker 2: straight out. Now has the president have we no, although
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  Speaker 2: arms are not going there. What Mers was concerned about
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  Speaker 2: is Trump, Oh, here's a shocker, was confusing the victim
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  Speaker 2: with the aggressor no longer any clear values guiding US
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  Speaker 2: policy within NATO, looking at Putin as a friend, or
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  Speaker 2: he did it one point?
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  Speaker 1: I remember, do you remember, of course you do.
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  Speaker 2: When the the accusation of Russian interference in the election
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  Speaker 2: of twenty twenty, and every single intelligence agency within the
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  Speaker 2: United States, seventeen of them had in fact decided after
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  Speaker 2: looking at the evidence, that yes, Russia had in fact interfered.
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  Speaker 2: And so when Trump met Putin and Putin said, no,
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  Speaker 2: we didn't interfere, the President actually came out and said,
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  Speaker 2: I don't believe our intelligence community. I do believe Putin
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  Speaker 2: and so things are pretty mixed up. They really are.
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  Speaker 2: So is NATO going to bail? Is it going to
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  Speaker 2: be under European auspices? Yeah, I think it has. I
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  Speaker 2: think it will, and I don't think they have any choice.
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  Speaker 2: The shame of it is is that this government, our
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  Speaker 2: country is not going to have a lot of credibility
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  Speaker 2: anymore around the world. We're just you know, the president
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  Speaker 2: changes his mind every two seconds. You know, tariffs, yes, no,
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  Speaker 2: fift thirty percent. Are we going to be involved?
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  Speaker 1: No? Are we going to take Greenland? Yes?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: It's just very, very tough, it really is.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Now, a story I want to share with you
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  Speaker 2: on the Trump administration is cracked on a crackdown on
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  Speaker 2: illegal and legal immigration and something that oh.
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  Speaker 1: Here's a shocker. There is a problem. Now.
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  Speaker 2: It has exacerbated America's worker shortage. Now, the Trump campaign
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  Speaker 2: successful campaign on securing Americans border deporting illegal immigrants has
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  Speaker 2: worked beautifully, especially against people that have come into the
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  Speaker 2: country who entered c.
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  Speaker 1: Have committed crimes. So far, so good.
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  Speaker 2: Nearly three million people left in twenty twenty five. Wait
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  Speaker 2: a second three million people committing crimes. Yeah, maybe not now,
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  Speaker 2: Department of Homeland Security said the two point two million
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  Speaker 2: self deported, while six hundred and seventy five thousand were
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  Speaker 2: removed by law enforcement. Now, if you look at six
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  Speaker 2: seventy five, six hundred and seventy five thousand removed by
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  Speaker 2: law enforcement out of two point two million who self deported,
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  Speaker 2: let's look at the percentages of people who are not criminals,
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  Speaker 2: and that is a lot. The point is is that
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  Speaker 2: there is a net that has swept up so many people.
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  Speaker 2: And in the meantime, even legal immigration is being hindered.
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  Speaker 2: State Department is not issuing green cards to people from
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  Speaker 2: seventy five countries vetting procedures, fewer student visas. Staff has
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  Speaker 2: been diverted to focus on revetting applicants instead of processing
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  Speaker 2: immigration applications. And in the meantime, worker shortages are everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: Why because for.
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  Speaker 2: The most part, the illegal aliens, illegal migrants are Hispanic
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  Speaker 2: And if you look at well, cattle operations in Kansas,
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  Speaker 2: the craw fish industry in Louisiana. Here in southern California,
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  Speaker 2: restaurants hotels report more than nine hundred thousand vacant jobs.
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  Speaker 2: You look at the Central Valley because California is the
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  Speaker 2: bread basket of the entire country with food, especially fruits
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  Speaker 2: and vegetables. It's all Hispanic and there is a shortage,
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  Speaker 2: a big shortage, and so everybody is being affected by that.
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  Speaker 2: Of US workers are still foreign born. And so how
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  Speaker 2: about the H one bvs's bringing in someone who's pretty
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  Speaker 2: highly skilled. Let's say you have a computer's typically a
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  Speaker 2: computer company, software company, and it's bringing in foreigners from
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  Speaker 2: other countries, a lot from India, who are needed according
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  Speaker 2: to the companies, because there just aren't enough highly skilled
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  Speaker 2: people to deal with the problems or deal with the issues. Now,
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  Speaker 2: the law says you first have to look for Americans
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  Speaker 2: to fill those positions, and if you can't find them,
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  Speaker 2: then you can go out of country and bring in
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  Speaker 2: experts to fill those positions. Well, it's a little tough
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  Speaker 2: now because to bring in those experts on an H
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  Speaker 2: one B visa is now a one hundred thousand dollars
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  Speaker 2: fee per person. Well, that shuts it down pretty quickly,
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  Speaker 2: doesn't it. The MEDA President Dina Powell McCormick says the
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  Speaker 2: US is going to need a whole new workforce to
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  Speaker 2: support AI, and not just software developers, just five hundred
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  Speaker 2: thousand electricians that are going to be needed to build
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  Speaker 2: the infrastructure for AI. So if you are Hispanic, well,
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  Speaker 2: if you're Hispanic, and how many people and now all
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  Speaker 2: joking aside, it's certainly about Neo being an illegal immigrant
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  Speaker 2: because half of him is Hispanic. Well, actually I'm not
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  Speaker 2: doing a lot of joking about that. And which side
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  Speaker 2: would be picked up into by the way, Neil. The
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  Speaker 2: reaches that this have come to the far reaching that's
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  Speaker 2: why right I own to go. The far reaching consequences
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  Speaker 2: are extraordinary here. It just changes everything the hospitality industry.
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  Speaker 2: I mean there's no work. The other thing I noticed,
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  Speaker 2: and this is a little tangentile if you go to
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  Speaker 2: a fast food establishment, and I went to a El
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  Speaker 2: Poyo Loco yesterday next to Costco as a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 2: where I was at Costco with a shocker, every single
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  Speaker 2: person in that El Poyo Loco was bilingual. Today, when
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  Speaker 2: you go to a fast food establishment, every single person there,
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  Speaker 2: certainly at the counter, is completely bilingual and are not
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  Speaker 2: making particularly good wages.
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  Speaker 1: And so the.
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  Speaker 2: Shortage is going to increase, and it does, and it's
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  Speaker 2: it's it's a different world we live in. So immigration,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's showing, and the workforce is getting narrower,
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  Speaker 2: and it's becoming more difficult to hire people because there
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  Speaker 2: aren't enough people. Okay, I want to start with a premise,
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  Speaker 2: and you probably are not going to be surprised about
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  Speaker 2: how I run my life.
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  Speaker 1: All Right.
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  Speaker 2: I hang out with poor people so I feel richer.
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  Speaker 2: I hang out with dumb people because I feel smarter.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, doctor reminds me, Bill, are we going to have lunch? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: When I go to the gym, I make sure that
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  Speaker 2: I'm working out next to fat people, so I feel hondy.
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  Speaker 1: Were going to work out today? Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So with that, the more me, as I said earlier,
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  Speaker 2: the more miserable you are, the happier I am, because
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  Speaker 2: that's the misery happy scale.
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  Speaker 1: So with that in mind, every year there.
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  Speaker 2: Is a UCLA Los Angeles County Quality of Life Index,
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  Speaker 2: and what it does is survey people and ask questions
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  Speaker 2: and the index, the overall index, drive up to a
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  Speaker 2: historic low of fifty two. And I'll explain that in
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  Speaker 2: a minute. Six of the nine categories that are part
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  Speaker 2: of the index also falling to their lowest levels on record. Education,
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  Speaker 2: transportation slash traffic, cost of living steepest declines and reinforces
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  Speaker 2: what we all know affordability, infrastructure problems.
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  Speaker 1: So here are some numbers.
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  Speaker 2: You've got the entire Life Index fifty two. Forty percent
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  Speaker 2: share of voters are now undecided in the LA mayoral race.
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  Speaker 2: Now forty percent undecided says a lot about how we
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  Speaker 2: don't We're not thrilled about anybody running. It's all crap.
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  Speaker 2: Residents worried about deportation thirty one percent of those survey
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  Speaker 2: thirty one percent are worried about deportation neil twenty six percent.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: Wildfire related income loss, big deal. How about dissatisfied with
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: wild life wild fire recovery efforts. I mean, across the board,
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: it is we're just not happy about living here.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: We aren't all right.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: According to Zevyeroslavsky, who's director of the LA Initiative USA
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  Speaker 2: LA Luskin he conducts the poll.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: He says, we've been a lot through in the last
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: five years.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: COVID cost of living, immigration sweeps, the fires, Altaden and
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: Passa and Palisades, all of them had affected are not
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: only ability to live here, but by our perception of
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: how difficult it is to live here. Nearly a third
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: of the residents that were surveyed say they're worried that
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: they or someone close to them could be deported. Now
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: I'm assuming that is mainly Hispanic people, but you know,
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: not necessarily. Our housekeeper, Maria is legal.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: By the way.
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  Speaker 2: Every time I question her legality, she shows me your
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: passport and I say, it's that's fake news. That's not
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: a real passport. You bought it downtown. But she's had
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: people in her life who were deported and people I
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: know I've met who were deported. It's a lot of
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: us know people who are neil. You lost most of
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: your family. I understand that. No, Okay, well you should
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: make it would make a better you know, it would make
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: a better story if you did. You know, so, I'll
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: tell you what. Why don't you just agree and go
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: That's right, Bill, I have lost a good personage retroactive.
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: There'd be a problem because I believe my grandmother stayed
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: here illegally.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: Uh Well, Maria, housekeeperman with us for what twenty six
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: twenty seven years. She came to the United States in
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: the back in the trunk of a car when she
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: came to the US and she became a citizen. During
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: the first Ronald Reagan amnesty program, he did it twice
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: where millions of people got amnesty, and she grabbed grabbed
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: one of those. But it's it's a survey that tells
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: us that we're not doing so well, and we're particularly
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: not doing well. We're Southern California used to be just
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: at the top of the heap in terms of happiness
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: and satisfaction.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: We've just reversed ourselves.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: Now, this survey does not include Orange County, but I
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: am assuming that Orange County does better than LA County,
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: where the index of Orange County residents are happy.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: Now I happy. No, I think that's true.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: I would think that they're more happy people in Orange
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: County than in La.
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: Coun Absolutely, Why would you even question that. Of course,
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: people are more happy with Orange County than people here
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: in La County.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: Well, you know what's you know, I would question that.
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: You know, I mean, you've kind of windfold me and
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: put me in a passenger seat, and I could tell
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: you when we crossed the line on the freeway, on
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: the five Freeway, when we stopped being in La and
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: started being in Orange County.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: You know, I've never really noticed when I moved to
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: Orange County, I did not notice that there was that
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: big of a difference.
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: There's no potholes, there's people, that's true.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: You don't step in human fecal matter on the way
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: to the store, that's true. Okay.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: So there are tiny little differences between Orange County and
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: La County that you have to really look at carefully
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: under a microscope before you can tell the difference.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: Is that fair? Fair enough? Okay?
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: Jared Kushner an interesting guy to say the least. And
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: this is a story of how this president and this
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: president's family changing the rules completely about conflicts. I mean,
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: it's just crazy making for some people. We'll be back
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: kf I am six point forty.
• 25:06
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