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President Trump Pushes for Election Security | Most and Least Affordable Cities in CA · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
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  Speaker 1: six forty.
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  Speaker 2: KFI AM six forty Bill Handle. Here it is a
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  Speaker 2: Friday morning. Was that broadcast? By the way, the stuff.
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  Speaker 1: That I was saying just goodbye? I think okay, got it.
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  Speaker 1: I was just.
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  Speaker 2: Talking for a moment, which you know is far more important.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I'm doing the show. Thanks for reminding me.
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  Speaker 2: The show sort of gets in the way sometimes, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I'm you know, peeing or making coffee or toasting a
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  Speaker 2: bagel or something. Yeah, then we do the show. Okay, Now,
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  Speaker 2: this is great fun. And this was the speech last
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  Speaker 2: night that the president gave primetime speech, and I anticipated
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  Speaker 2: what exactly he was going to do, and I'm not alone.
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  Speaker 1: He had blockbuster evidence.
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  Speaker 2: It was going to be a blockbuster speech where he
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  Speaker 2: had evidence of hundreds of thousands of people just in California,
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  Speaker 2: for example, that were illegally either registered to vote or
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  Speaker 2: did vote. How about some proof? Well, no, there really
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  Speaker 2: isn't any. He talked about the mail in ballots, how
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  Speaker 2: fraudulent they are.
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  Speaker 1: How about some proof?
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  Speaker 2: How he didn't actually say outright the twenty twenty election
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  Speaker 2: was fraudulent, although it was tons of references to illegal voting,
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  Speaker 2: and he said a couple of things that just I
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  Speaker 2: thought were just terrific. For example, the information that the
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  Speaker 2: Chinese hacked about voter registration. Who they know, what party
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  Speaker 2: affiliation do they vote? Addresses? You know that it's all available.
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  Speaker 2: You can buy that stuff. It's all public documents. It
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  Speaker 2: is so now what it's spinning, I guess, to some
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  Speaker 2: extent the truth. Also, ABC and I think it was
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  Speaker 2: NBC would not carry the speech on broadcast television, and
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  Speaker 2: he called them fraudulent by not carrying the speech, straight
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  Speaker 2: out fraud and let's take away their license to broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: I guess you're if you decide not to broadcast something
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  Speaker 2: as a network and it's the president speaking, that's fraud
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  Speaker 2: and therefore they should be punished allegation after allegation. Now
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  Speaker 2: keep in mind that he just re litigated the twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty election once again. He just will not let that go.
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  Speaker 2: He won't. Here we are six years later, even Republicans
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  Speaker 2: are saying, come on, we've got other big, big problems.
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  Speaker 2: What are you doing about inflation? You know, what are
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  Speaker 2: you doing about stopping the war? And his attention is
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  Speaker 2: this twenty twenty election failed to mention that when he
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  Speaker 2: attacked the twenty twenty election. When he lost the twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty election, there were sixty three judges that ruled against him.
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  Speaker 2: Every single judge that a lawsuit was filed in front
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  Speaker 2: of said no, no.
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  Speaker 1: Proof, no proof. You don't have proof.
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  Speaker 2: How do I give you a judgment when you can't
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  Speaker 2: prove your allegation? And then you had yesterday in front
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  Speaker 2: of the Senate committee, I think it was the Justice
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  Speaker 2: Committee where we had Clayton what's his face? Going in
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  Speaker 2: for Director of National Intelligence and was asked by Senator Rossof,
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  Speaker 2: a Democrat, did Joe Biden win the election? And the
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  Speaker 2: answer was all I can tell you, Senator, is Joe
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  Speaker 2: Biden was certified as the president. Did he win the election?
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  Speaker 2: All I can tell you is he was certified? Yes
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  Speaker 2: or no? He was certified. I wish I had been
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  Speaker 2: there to ask the question. Let's go through this, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure you had this on high school civics. Was
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  Speaker 2: Joe Biden a nominee for the presidential run? Was he
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  Speaker 2: nominated by the Democratic Party?
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  Speaker 1: Yes? Or no?
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  Speaker 2: What do you say to that? And how does a
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  Speaker 2: president get elected? Does a president have to win an
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  Speaker 2: election to become president. All I can tell you is
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  Speaker 2: Joe Biden was certified. You cannot say that Joe Biden
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  Speaker 2: won the election. You cannot say it in Trump world
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  Speaker 2: because if you do, you're done. You're done, nomination is withdrawn.
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  Speaker 2: You're an enemy, and now you're a target of the
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  Speaker 2: Justice Department. And despite dozens of investigations, audits, recounts, court
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  Speaker 2: proceedings at the local, state, federal level, no production of
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  Speaker 2: major voter fraud.
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  Speaker 1: None.
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  Speaker 2: And yet this went on and on and on. He's
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  Speaker 2: against mail in voting. He thinks that's fraudulent. How about
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  Speaker 2: some proof, Well, we really have any proof? Now, there
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  Speaker 2: was amongst the investigation at various investigative authorities, in national
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  Speaker 2: security authorities, we have seventeen agencies. There was some talk
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  Speaker 2: within the agency saying that we have some concerns, not
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  Speaker 2: any proof, but concerns. There was also talk of how
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  Speaker 2: this is not an issue as far as fraud is concerned.
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  Speaker 2: It just didn't happen. Why said fraud? And as a
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  Speaker 2: matter of fact, he pointed out documents he had and
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  Speaker 2: submitted documents that said there was no widespread fraud. His
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  Speaker 2: own administration said there was no widespread fraud. Some of
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  Speaker 2: those documents were given to him.
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  Speaker 1: Man. I just don't get this, I really don't.
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  Speaker 2: And the majority of Republicans believe that the election was rigged.
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  Speaker 2: You know how the idea that first came out that
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  Speaker 2: the election was rigged, you know, he came up, came
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  Speaker 2: up with it. Donald Trump never heard it before until
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  Speaker 2: he said the election was fraud. That had been trying
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  Speaker 2: to push that scenario. Now for six years, they're going
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  Speaker 2: to keep on pushing it. And it seems like the
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  Speaker 2: only overwhelming group of people that believe that it was
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  Speaker 2: fraudulent that are convinced that we go to their graves convinced,
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  Speaker 2: are the MAGA people self proclaimed Maga people. There's no
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  Speaker 2: MAGA organization and that you join, that you pay your
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  Speaker 2: dues and elected president. It's just people who are self
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  Speaker 2: proclaimed Maga they believe it and the rest of it,
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  Speaker 2: you know, even people who lost it. You know, come on, guys,
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  Speaker 2: you know, at some point, why is it when a
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  Speaker 2: Democrat wins it's rigged. Why is there not one instance
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  Speaker 2: of Republican fraud? It doesn't exist. There is no such
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  Speaker 2: thing as a Republican defrauding anybody or anything. When it
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  Speaker 2: comes to elections. Republicans are honest about elections. It drives
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  Speaker 2: me nuts, it does. And this is what we're listening
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  Speaker 2: to over and over and over again. Okay, great speech
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  Speaker 2: last night, you know, just terrific. Did exactly what we
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  Speaker 2: thought he was going to do. Bombshell, No, none of that,
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  Speaker 2: all right, before we jump into a story of affordability
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  Speaker 2: of housing and it's a spin. By the way, you
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  Speaker 1: It's starting to sound like me, Neil, Oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: I gotta stop hanging out with you, no kidding.
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  Speaker 2: All right, I'll talk a little bit about housing and
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  Speaker 2: a spin that you're probably not aware of, and that
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  Speaker 2: is where people can afford housing. And there was in
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  Speaker 2: La Times analysis that just came out, and it has
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  Speaker 2: to do with you would think that the housing in
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  Speaker 2: super expensive places Orange County, Newport Beach along the coast,
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  Speaker 2: for example, insane pricing, Right, how do people afford that
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  Speaker 2: versus housing for example in East Niles, a little town,
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  Speaker 2: or to Lare, Great Song by the way, Tulay too,
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  Speaker 2: you know it's okay.
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  Speaker 3: You mean central California, Tularry. Oh yeah, there, that's where
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  Speaker 3: my dad was born.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, now all right, so all right, let's talk about
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  Speaker 2: to laure The median home value is three hundred and
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  Speaker 2: twenty nine thousand dollars, so that's pretty easy to afford, right,
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  Speaker 2: And you talk about the higher end homes Orange County,
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  Speaker 2: for example, La County along the beach San Francisco area,
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  Speaker 2: those homes are in the many millions of dollars in
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  Speaker 2: many cases. So what the La Times did is analyze
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  Speaker 2: the California cities by how many years of household income
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  Speaker 2: it takes to buy a median home, sort of straight
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  Speaker 2: down the middle. And here's what ended up happening. It
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  Speaker 2: is more expensive to buy a smaller home than it
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  Speaker 2: is one of the larger homes. It's I always it
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  Speaker 2: the other way around. To buy a median value home,
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  Speaker 2: and the median income is fifty five thousand dollars and
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  Speaker 2: you're paying two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, so years
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  Speaker 2: of income to reach a home value is four and
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  Speaker 2: a half years of income is what you need?
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  Speaker 1: Okay? Not bad.
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  Speaker 2: Then we move to the more expensive homes. Ridgecrest is
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  Speaker 2: only two hundred and fifty thousand more three hundred and
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  Speaker 2: twenty eight.
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  Speaker 1: Now most expensive.
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  Speaker 2: Right And for example San Luis OBISPO nine hundred and
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  Speaker 2: thirty five thousand dollars. Median income is seventy four thousand dollars,
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  Speaker 2: so the value to income ratio twelve and a half years.
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  Speaker 2: You need twelve and a half years of income to
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  Speaker 2: buy an expensive home. When you're buying Newport Beach, the
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  Speaker 2: average value is two million dollars for the home meetian
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  Speaker 2: income is one hundred and fifty six thousand dollars, so
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  Speaker 2: the home value to income ratio is twelve point seventy
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  Speaker 2: five percent, or twelve point seventy five years to buy
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  Speaker 2: a home in the more expensive areas. So there's no
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  Speaker 2: issue that more expensive are more expensive. But here is
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  Speaker 2: the issue when you're talking about your real expensive homes.
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  Speaker 2: And that is and this is why this formula I
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  Speaker 2: don't think works well where you have to have years
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  Speaker 2: and years of income to buy a home versus instead
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  Speaker 2: of four years of income in smaller cities, versus fourteen
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  Speaker 2: years worth of income to buy the more expensive homes.
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  Speaker 2: Do you know the people that buy the more expensive homes?
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  Speaker 2: How many you think have mortgages? When you buy a
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  Speaker 2: ten million dollar house, how many people do you think
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  Speaker 2: have mortgages?
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  Speaker 1: A small percentage?
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  Speaker 2: Most of the big expensive homes, they're bought by check.
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  Speaker 2: They're here, you go, just paying a cash. They don't
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  Speaker 2: use checks anymore. I still think of check of checks.
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  Speaker 2: How dated am I? Neil?
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  Speaker 1: You're shaking your head.
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  Speaker 2: That's why I'm so loud in terms of my view
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  Speaker 2: of technology.
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  Speaker 1: CONO.
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  Speaker 2: You have to pot me down to the lowest possible
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  Speaker 2: level right of me screaming usually okay, way down, I
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  Speaker 2: mean all the way down, just above cutting me off?
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  Speaker 2: And why is that? Because I am very loud? Why
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  Speaker 2: am I very loud? Because I know people one hundred
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  Speaker 2: miles from here are listening. How do you get people
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  Speaker 2: listening one hundred miles from here? You have to be
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  Speaker 2: very very loud that's how it works. That's technology, Neil,
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  Speaker 2: that's my understanding of technology. I still don't understand how
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  Speaker 2: phones work without a wire in the wall.
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  Speaker 1: I don't get that. I still use rollodexes.
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  Speaker 3: Got your Thomas Guide in your car?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, yeah, yeah. I'm not going to say those were
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  Speaker 2: the good old days. But the point is housing is
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  Speaker 2: if you compare the housing by how many years of
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  Speaker 2: household income it takes to buy that median home, look
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  Speaker 2: at the difference.
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  Speaker 1: Enormous, enormous difference.
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  Speaker 2: All right, a story about Great whites and human beings
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  Speaker 2: sharing the same water. It's going to be a sharky summer,
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  Speaker 2: experts are telling us. And there is a program that
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  Speaker 2: tracks great whites and health beach goers stay safe. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: it's a California Beach Shark Safety program cal State Long
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  Speaker 2: Beach since twenty eighteen. It tags great whites and local
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  Speaker 2: water shares those locations with lifeguards and it's pretty important stuff.
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  Speaker 2: And the number of juvenile Great whites along the southern
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  Speaker 2: California coast has been increasing in part by warming waters,
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  Speaker 2: and so they're congregating along beaches and feed on stingrays
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  Speaker 2: and small fish and people attacks are still very rare.
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  Speaker 2: But it used to be you'd have two three shark
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  Speaker 2: attacks around the world and we'd be huge news.
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  Speaker 1: Now it's every other day.
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  Speaker 2: Well, guess what the money is run out. It's just
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  Speaker 2: the beach Safety program is just running out. Annual operating
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  Speaker 2: budget of about a million dollars is in danger of
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  Speaker 2: closing coming up in September. The sharks director trying to
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  Speaker 2: figure out funding foundations, private donors, maybe corporations. And the
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  Speaker 2: Shark Safety Program covers five hundred miles of coastline up
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  Speaker 2: from Morro Bay to the to the Mexican border, and
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  Speaker 2: the director, Christopher Lowe, says, and it makes sense that
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  Speaker 2: the program, even though it costs a million dollars and
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  Speaker 2: how much is a million dollars in a public program,
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  Speaker 2: I mean just nothing. It saves coastal communities from unnecessary
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  Speaker 2: beach closures, which can cost millions of dollars in loss revenue.
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  Speaker 2: Because it helps the beaches the authorities assess the risks
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  Speaker 2: instead of just shutting down the beaches then selves, And
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  Speaker 2: he says, if we're not monitoring, how are we able
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  Speaker 2: to tell the public what to expect, maybe how to
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  Speaker 2: change their behavior to keep them safe. Now we've had
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  Speaker 2: an unseasonably warm spring that leads to an uptake, an
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  Speaker 2: uptick in sharks. A strong super almino is coming, which
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  Speaker 2: you're going to make the ocean around our state, our
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  Speaker 2: coastline even toastier. That's going to track more sharks. For example,
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  Speaker 2: in April, a surfing competition in Huntington Beach internationally known
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  Speaker 2: as postponed after officials noticed and aggressive ten foot shark.
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  Speaker 1: Now the numbers are pretty small still.
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  Speaker 2: Since nineteen fifty, California has recorded two hundred and thirty
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  Speaker 2: five shark attacks incidents, ninety seven resulting in no injury
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  Speaker 2: at all, one hundred and twenty one resulted in a
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  Speaker 2: non lethal injury, and seventeen were fatal. And the Sharks
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  Speaker 2: Safety Program has tagged about three hundred and eighty Great
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  Speaker 2: whites since it started and two hundred and fifty sharks
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  Speaker 2: have active transmitters. And the way it works, acoustic receivers
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  Speaker 2: collect the data. I guess sharks talk to each other.
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  Speaker 2: That data is shared with lifeguards. It also has sixteen
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  Speaker 2: buoye systems to send real time life live detection to
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  Speaker 2: lifeguards and they're saying it unless the program gets more
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  Speaker 2: funding that equipment, all of that will have to be removed.
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  Speaker 2: And now the lifeguards, well it makes it a lot
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  Speaker 2: harder for lifeguards to know exactly where the sharks are.
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  Speaker 2: And the program also teaches kids about sharks and beach safety.
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  Speaker 2: And so a couple things are going on with this program.
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  Speaker 2: Number One, money is no longer funding this program, which
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  Speaker 2: if you're a beach goer, I mean I would think
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  Speaker 2: that's pretty serious watching out for sharks in the water.
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  Speaker 2: Money is running out, and the number of people working
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  Speaker 2: there is decreasing rapidly because a lot of those people
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  Speaker 2: that were employed by the shark program have been eaten
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  Speaker 2: by sharks, and so it's a double hit. No money,
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  Speaker 2: nobody left, or at least those that are left may
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  Speaker 2: be missing a limb or two. And now we have
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  Speaker 2: the state buying them prosthetic limbs. It's a whole thing
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  Speaker 2: that I want to share with you. But the point
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  Speaker 2: is is, well, if you're a beachgoer, are you concerned
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  Speaker 2: at all about sharks?
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  Speaker 1: Which of you are beach goers? Neil, are you a
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  Speaker 1: beach goer? I do like the beach. Okay, are you
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  Speaker 1: concerned about sharks at.
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  Speaker 3: All as a as a phobia?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, intellectually. No, Okay, do you really think about it?
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  Speaker 3: The probability is so pretty small, but yes, I get
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  Speaker 3: my head.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, unless the shark is chomping on your on your
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  Speaker 1: feet Cono beach, big time beach A. No, it's never
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  Speaker 1: really a thought, to be honest, all right, Uh, Heather,
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  Speaker 1: you beach person.
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  Speaker 4: I like the beach. Yes, I don't.
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  Speaker 1: Any fear of any fear of sharks at all. What's
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  Speaker 1: any fear of sharks?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I generally don't like the in the water itself.
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  Speaker 2: You're a sand person, yes, got it right, Yeah, the sand.
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  Speaker 2: I've always thought, if you want to go to the
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  Speaker 2: beach and sit in the sand, aren't you just better
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  Speaker 2: off going to a hardware store and getting uh sandpaper
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  Speaker 2: and putting that, uh the crack of your butt?
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  Speaker 1: Why?
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  Speaker 4: Why if you want sand in my butt, I'm just
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  Speaker 4: sitting there.
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  Speaker 2: If you sit there, you get sand in your butt.
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  Speaker 2: I do not, yes, but it rubs. The sand rubs
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  Speaker 2: it for you. It's there, it's of your butt. When
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  Speaker 2: you go to the beach.
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  Speaker 4: I'm just picturing you at the beach, just scooting.
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  Speaker 2: I don't go to the beach, but I don't go
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  Speaker 2: to the beach will Are you a beach goer?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but I'm not.
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  Speaker 1: I don't like the sharks. They don't bother me.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So you sit out on the beach with a
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  Speaker 2: towel under you, right, or on a chair?
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  Speaker 1: Yeahs are better? All right? Do people come out and
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  Speaker 1: pokey with sticks? Wow? Really?
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  Speaker 4: God, Bill?
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  Speaker 2: Really?
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  Speaker 1: I can? I hope Sam finds new places with you
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  Speaker 1: and beach goer? Yes or no? Yes, I love the beach, okay.
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  Speaker 1: Fear of sharks, I think about him.
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  Speaker 2: Sure? When I go in the water, all right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't go in the I don't go in the water.
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  Speaker 2: The only thing I we go in the water if
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  Speaker 2: I have to pee, now, I'll go.
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  Speaker 1: Into the water.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: That is the only reason to go in the water.
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  Speaker 1: Damn right. Not swimming with Bill?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, who's walking all the way back to the public bathrooms?
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  Speaker 1: Exactly? All right.
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  Speaker 2: A story about Jeopardy, A little bit history about Jeopardy.
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  Speaker 2: Jeopardy is sixty years old and it was MERV Griffin
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  Speaker 2: who created Jeopardy. If you know who MERV Griffin was,
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  Speaker 2: he was a singer and had he had sort of
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  Speaker 2: one of the early talk shows, The MERV Griffin Show.
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  Speaker 2: And then he became a TV producer and became a real,
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  Speaker 2: real powerhouse in the world of television. And he's on
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  Speaker 2: an airplane sixty years ago and he's talking to someone
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  Speaker 2: and he said, I ought to do a game show.
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  Speaker 1: Let's do that.
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  Speaker 2: But instead of your normal game show, tell you what, why,
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  Speaker 2: don't we throw the answer out first and then someone
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  Speaker 2: can come up with the question that had not been
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  Speaker 2: done before, and that was Jeopardy.
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  Speaker 1: How's this first success?
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  Speaker 2: All right? So Jeopardy is doing something that has never
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: been done before. If you've ever wondered how do they
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: get writers on Jeopardy, Well, they actually go.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: To people that writers know.
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  Speaker 2: They go to people that are in the television industry,
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: they go to people that are referred to them. But
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  Speaker 2: this time around opening because the head writer Hancho is
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  Speaker 2: retiring and for the first time they are going public.
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  Speaker 2: You can apply to be a writer on Jeopardy, and
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  Speaker 2: that is one of those gigs that a whole lot
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  Speaker 2: of people want.
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  Speaker 1: It's not bad either.
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  Speaker 2: It's one hundred and seventy two thousand dollars a year
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  Speaker 2: and to apply you have to complete the same online
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  Speaker 2: tests as prospective contestants do. Answering fifty clues, submitting twelve
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  Speaker 2: written samples of potential Jeopardy in double Jeopardy rounds covering history, geography,
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  Speaker 2: pop culture, famous people, each of them containing five questions
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  Speaker 2: and to get a well, here's what they're looking for.
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  Speaker 1: A good Jeopardy.
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  Speaker 2: Clue jumps off the page with a sense of fun
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  Speaker 2: and whimsy, befitting the task. The fact that this is
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: a game and anybody can actually write a Jeopardy clue.
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  Speaker 1: But to really be the game worthy for.
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  Speaker 2: These amazing contests, you have to really know what you're doing.
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  Speaker 2: And boy, you talk about a skill set, a skill level.
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  Speaker 3: I met a writer for Jeopardy once in the studio
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  Speaker 3: here at KFI, her husband, I think it was the
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: head of security for the Kings or something, and they
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: were visiting Conway, and she was fascinating. I was super
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: smart and she was just fascinating to chat with.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and the knowledge that these people have, I mean,
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: it's pretty thin, it's not very deep, but it is
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: very wide.
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  Speaker 1: One of the things that's.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: A black mark. You never use the word trivia in
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: your application. We do not use the word trivia at Jeopardy.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: We don't regard what we write as trivial. We regard
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: this as subjects, the facts, the things that an elite
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: modern American should know. One writer, by the way, he
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: previously worked on Star Trek, some in late night TV,
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: all of them curiosity about the world.
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  Speaker 1: Of course they are.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: And a typical week involves working in an on site library.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: They have a library on site, strong security measures. No
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: going on Wikipedia, no going on anything you can find
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: on the internet. We use that for fact checking. And
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: that's all. And we put last year twenty five thousand
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: clues between the different versions Celebrity Jeopardy.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: College, Jeopardy Masters, etc. The spin offs, and.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: The goal is to find a new hire by the
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: time the show ends at the end of next month.
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: Okay, I will be here, what I will be applying?
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so here is a jeopardy question and uh that
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: you have to come up with the answer.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: What show in a major market?
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: Uh? Major market radio should not be on the air?
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: Do do Do? Do?
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: Do Do do? Excellent?
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: You you have answered the jeopardy question correctly.
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: What is Monks and Merrill? What is John Cobbels Show?
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: How cheare you?
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: We don't want to We don't know, We don't want
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: to get into that because this last thing I needed
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: someone shooting me in the hall.
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: Yes, what is what is sand in in my butt?
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: What is sand in your butt?
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: It's going to the beach? What is going to the beach?
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: We only answer the big questions here on the Bill
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: Handles Show.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: Okay, why don't we quit right there while we're ahead?
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, while we're really ahead? Right? All right? Coming up
• 25:54
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