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Handel on the News · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handel on demand from KFI AM 640.
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  Speaker 2: And now, Handel on the News.
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  Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen, here's Bill Handel. Good morning, it is
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  Speaker 3: now a Monday morning, September 14th. Good morning to one
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  Speaker 3: and all. You know, I really enjoy that promo, Guaranteed Human.
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  Speaker 3: And I always find it very humorous that for some reason,
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  Speaker 3: iHeart guarantees this show is human. Explain that to me,
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  Speaker 3: because I've never, never... Yes, so that way. You know,
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  Speaker 3: real quickly, well, first of all, let me say a
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  Speaker 3: quick hello. Neil, good morning to you.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, sir.
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  Speaker 3: And Kono, there you are.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning.
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  Speaker 3: And Amy.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, Bill.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, hey, Disneyland. Heard you talk about Disneyland this morning.
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  Speaker 4: Good day, Disneyland.
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  Speaker 3: Yep. Will, you are there.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning.
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  Speaker 3: And Anne, you are there.
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  Speaker 4: Here I am.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning. Okay. Good. I was talking to one of
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  Speaker 3: the lawyers on handleonthelaw.com. Actually, the lawyer actually answers the
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  Speaker 3: phone calls for handleonthelaw.com because I give a phone number
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  Speaker 3: during the commercial if you need a lawyer, 888- 888-8668.
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  Speaker 3: Don't want to repeat that number because that's the number
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  Speaker 3: you call. 888-888-8668. And you've got operators are standing by 24-7,
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  Speaker 3: which is absolutely not true, by the way. Absolutely not true.
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  Speaker 3: But I wanted to point that out. Anyway, so he
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  Speaker 3: gets a phone call and that number he picks up
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  Speaker 3: and he goes, and I was there listening to him
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  Speaker 3: because we spent, I do yoga with him on Sunday mornings.
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  Speaker 3: So we're having breakfast and the phone rings and he
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  Speaker 3: picks that up. He goes, law office. And the fellow says,
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  Speaker 3: is this Handel's organization? He goes, yeah. And he said,
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  Speaker 3: I have a question for you. Is Handel as big
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  Speaker 3: an a-hole in real life as he is on the show?
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  Speaker 3: And Mark then says, you know, this is the personal
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  Speaker 3: injury line. Maybe you want to call the show itself.
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  Speaker 3: He goes, how do I get a hold of the show?
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  Speaker 3: Because I have to find out if Handel really is
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  Speaker 3: that big an a-hole. And so he says, look on
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  Speaker 3: the website. I don't even know, by the way, if
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  Speaker 3: you call into the show. Do we have a number
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  Speaker 3: where people can call into the show? Yes.
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  Speaker 4: No, we don't have anything that anyone can ever call
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  Speaker 4: here ever.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, I know that. No, but I'm talking about
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  Speaker 3: a number that a human being will answer if someone
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  Speaker 3: has a complaint about the show.
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  Speaker 1: Well, there's the main office line that goes to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the people in the front desk and, And then there's
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  Speaker 1: the talk show line, which is probably turned off right now.
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  Speaker 3: It is.
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  Speaker 2: On busy.
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  Speaker 1: And then they, but if they call the office line,
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  Speaker 1: they can get ahold of Michelle or something.
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  Speaker 3: So anyway, let him go.
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  Speaker 2: And of course, listen, I'll save him a call.
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  Speaker 4: Yes. Yes.
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  Speaker 3: The answer is yes. You know, stop it already. Now,
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  Speaker 3: do you know that I do not have an email
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  Speaker 3: at iHeart? And do I have a, I don't have
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  Speaker 3: a personal email because I never, I never ever look
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  Speaker 3: at my emails if I do have one. Yes, you
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  Speaker 3: do have an email. And people email to.
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  Speaker 4: No, but I email to you every morning.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but that's different. That's my personal email. That is
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  Speaker 3: not an email that is handed out to people.
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  Speaker 2: Michelle gets complaints. 818-566-6425.
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  Speaker 1: Michelle gets those complaints. Yeah, that's a problem.
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  Speaker 3: Michelle is now going to be inundated in the next
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  Speaker 3: 10 minutes.
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  Speaker 1: She has been for 27 years.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, there you go. OK, if you have a complaint,
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  Speaker 3: I just say you were listening and I really and
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  Speaker 3: my name is Neil Saavedra.
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  Speaker 1: We need a special line. And it would just answer
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  Speaker 1: all the questions. You've reached the handle line.
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  Speaker 3: Yes. The point is, I mean, realistically speaking, OK, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I sometimes come off a little bit as a jerk.
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  Speaker 3: I understand a little tiny bit.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 3: I'll buy that. But people but that's extrapolated and people
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  Speaker 3: think that's my life.
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  Speaker 2: They assume that you take your racism home.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. And my anti everything home. Okay, let's stop with that.
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  Speaker 3: Let me see. Football, did you watch football yesterday? Kono,
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure, did, right? Ann, you watch football? I watched
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  Speaker 3: little bits and pieces of it. Chargers didn't do well. No,
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  Speaker 3: that was ugly. Yeah, did you? Were you working the
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  Speaker 3: game yesterday? Yep. Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I was there, and it was just very bad,
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  Speaker 4: and fans were very upset.
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  Speaker 3: Because the Chargers lost? Just because they lost, or they
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  Speaker 3: played a horrible game? I didn't even watch the game.
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  Speaker 3: They looked awful.
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  Speaker 4: They looked awful, and they should have They should have
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  Speaker 4: won yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: They were playing Cardinals. Cardinals, yeah. Okay, that's it on
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  Speaker 3: all those lines. We've got, oh, and real quickly, Ann,
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  Speaker 3: weather this week. What are we looking at? Or Amy,
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  Speaker 3: excuse me.
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  Speaker 4: We're looking at really nice weather today. It's going to
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  Speaker 4: be mainly in the 70s and 80s, maybe low 90s inland.
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  Speaker 3: Good stuff.
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  Speaker 4: And then we cool down a little bit before we
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  Speaker 4: warm up. But it's not going to be schvitz-y like
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  Speaker 4: it was last week.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, last week was crazy. Okay, are you guys
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  Speaker 3: ready for some news? Let's do it on a Monday morning,
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  Speaker 3: September 14th. Handle on the news. Amy, Neil, and me,
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  Speaker 3: lead stars. Well, now the Saudis are up to their
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  Speaker 3: eyeballs in the war in Iran. Not just the problem
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  Speaker 3: with the Strait of Hormuz, but also there's an east-west
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  Speaker 3: pipeline across Saudi Arabia that goes to the other side,
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  Speaker 3: the western side of Saudi Arabia. And there are huge
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  Speaker 3: oil transport facilities there because that's also where Saudi Arabia
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  Speaker 3: pumps its oil, sends it out. Usually this stuff goes
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  Speaker 3: to northern Europe or goes to Europe, goes north to Europe.
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  Speaker 3: That's been shut down because of attacks by Iran. And
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  Speaker 3: now we're talking about the entire Mideast oil being shut
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  Speaker 3: down completely, the transport. Up to this point, the Strait
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  Speaker 3: of Hormuz has hurt. This one just stops everything cold.
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  Speaker 3: Not good. And of course, oil futures are, well, the
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  Speaker 3: intermediate oil, West Texas Intermediate, well, it doesn't matter. It's
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  Speaker 3: Brent Crude, which is the world international benchmark, is up
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  Speaker 3: to $ 108 per barrel. And it's going to get higher.
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  Speaker 3: And it's going to get higher today. And then there
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  Speaker 3: was a meeting between Iran and the other Gulf states
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  Speaker 3: to figure out what's going on. That's been canceled.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: It's coming. At least that's according to the president. President
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  Speaker 4: Trump says those $ 5, 000 dividends will happen 100% if Republicans
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  Speaker 4: maintain the majority in Congress after the midterms. He says
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  Speaker 4: the reason is because our country is taking in trillions
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  Speaker 4: and trillions of dollars. He also said he doesn't want
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  Speaker 4: to do it now because if the Democrats get control...
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  Speaker 4: Our country will be in shambles, says the president. He
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  Speaker 4: says that they won't be able to pay it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. A couple of things about that. First of all,
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  Speaker 3: trillions and trillions of dollars. That is not true. Hundreds
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  Speaker 3: of billions are. That is true because a lot of
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  Speaker 3: those trillions are commitments that as soon as the new
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  Speaker 3: president gets in are going to be pulled back. That's
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  Speaker 3: that's for starters, because it costs a lot of money
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  Speaker 3: to build a factory in the United States and then
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  Speaker 3: to ban it and pay U.S. wages. So I don't
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  Speaker 3: think you're going to see too many companies. Well, you're
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  Speaker 3: going to see some companies come in, but not a
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  Speaker 3: whole lot. And then the issue of the five thousand
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  Speaker 3: dollars is unbelievable. If you vote Republican, I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: give you money effectively is what they're saying. I'm surprised
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  Speaker 3: he's not saying if you vote Republican and prove that
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  Speaker 3: you voted Republican, you'll get money. I don't even know
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  Speaker 3: how legal this is.
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  Speaker 2: That would be very illegal.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. Of course that would be. Yeah, I understand.
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  Speaker 3: But that's the entire point. How about the war is
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  Speaker 3: now going to end right after the elections. So make
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  Speaker 3: sure you put in a Republican Congress because I will
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  Speaker 3: end the war right after the elections, not before. It's
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  Speaker 3: getting crazy. And I just, I don't understand what's going on.
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  Speaker 3: How many people you think still buy that the other countries,
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  Speaker 3: the tariff countries, China is paying the tariffs, for example,
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  Speaker 3: for Chinese goods coming into America? How many people actually
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  Speaker 3: believe it's China that's paying those tariffs? I would love
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  Speaker 3: for them to see the checks that my company, Savile
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  Speaker 3: and Mine Company, write to the U.S. government for the tariffs.
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  Speaker 3: Not to China. China doesn't write a check. It's to
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  Speaker 3: the U.S. government. We pay the government the tariff.
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  Speaker 2: Does anyone in the U.S. make pots and pans?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: They do. Would it be cheaper at this point to
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  Speaker 3: just buy them from? Well, no, because it's too expensive
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  Speaker 3: to do it in the United States. It is very, very,
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  Speaker 3: very expensive to do it in the United States because
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  Speaker 3: the U.S. doesn't allow eight-year-old kids work 15 hours a
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  Speaker 3: day for no money.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Democratic Representative Greg Stanton in Arizona said just yesterday that
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  Speaker 1: Speaker Mike Johnson should keep lawmakers in session because this
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  Speaker 1: all has to do with the rapid advancement of corruption.
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  Speaker 2: AI and these AI models.
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  Speaker 1: And he says, we should take warning of the leading
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  Speaker 1: investors of AI very, very seriously. And of course, if
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  Speaker 1: you were listening to Amy King with the morning, uh, with, uh,
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  Speaker 1: wake up call this morning, then you heard that, um,
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  Speaker 1: You have people coming out saying, we've got to slow
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  Speaker 1: this down.
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  Speaker 2: We've got to choke, put a choke on this.
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  Speaker 1: So I think a lot of it has to do
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  Speaker 1: with people wanting to be on the record saying things
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  Speaker 1: because I'm not sure how you're going to slow it down.
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  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, and we're going to talk about that. That's
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  Speaker 3: a big issue coming up at 720 and the risks.
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  Speaker 3: But it's interesting that Mike Johnson is considering moving the
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  Speaker 3: recess earlier. So he gets to call the president today.
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  Speaker 2: And Mr.
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  Speaker 3: President, what do I do with Congress? Do I go early?
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  Speaker 3: Do I go late? Because that's exactly what he did
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  Speaker 3: before on a vote that the White House was going
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  Speaker 3: to lose. And then Mike Johnson said, OK, we're leaving early.
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  Speaker 3: So the vote couldn't take place. Yep. So we'll see,
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  Speaker 3: because I think both sides are sort of in favor
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  Speaker 3: of limiting or somehow controlling A.I. And then the issue
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  Speaker 3: is how how dangerous is A.I.? And what kind of
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  Speaker 3: future are we looking at? I'll cover more of that
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  Speaker 3: at 720.
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  Speaker 4: The measles menace. A woman in Pennsylvania has died from
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  Speaker 4: complications associated with measles. It's the third death in Pennsylvania
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  Speaker 4: this year involving measles. This one, a 40-year-old woman, the
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  Speaker 4: county coroner is saying it was measles related, but didn't
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  Speaker 4: say anything more than that. Pennsylvania's two previous measles-related deaths
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  Speaker 4: involved infants.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, who are not vaccinated but shouldn't have been. It
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  Speaker 3: is not appropriate, medically appropriate. From what we're told, infants
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  Speaker 3: don't receive their first measles inoculation until the age of one.
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  Speaker 3: So the first two don't seem to be connected to vaccinations.
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  Speaker 3: This one we don't even know. We do know that
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  Speaker 3: the measles outbreak has certainly been connected to vaccinations, but
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  Speaker 3: not the deaths at this point. Unless this woman was
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  Speaker 3: not vaccinated and then, okay, it's her lack of vaccination. However,
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  Speaker 3: there is a small percentage of people who are vaccinated
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  Speaker 3: that still get the measles.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and health officials haven't said yet if this woman
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  Speaker 4: was vaccinated or not.
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  Speaker 2: Right. All right.
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  Speaker 1: Something to look forward to in 2027, everybody. Bunch of
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  Speaker 1: big companies are cutting back next year on health benefits.
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  Speaker 3: Woo-hoo!
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  Speaker 1: So big companies, Walt Disney, Bloomberg, Starbucks, the city of Dallas,
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  Speaker 1: they're among those taking actions next year. Reign in the
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  Speaker 1: health care spending. They're going to restrict spousal coverage, eliminating
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  Speaker 1: plan options, cutting drug benefits or these types of things
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  Speaker 1: just to balance out.
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  Speaker 2: Or they say, deal with soaring costs.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, health insurance has gone crazy. And you can't even,
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  Speaker 3: if you lose your health insurance, you can't even go
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  Speaker 3: out and get drunk because the cost of alcohol has tripled.
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  Speaker 3: So all of it, it's very, very tough. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: the cost of living is, well, it's getting tougher and tougher,
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  Speaker 3: to say the least. Affordability is, that's a big one.
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  Speaker 3: You're going to hear a lot about that prior to
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  Speaker 3: the primaries, I guarantee you. Oh, prior to the election,
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  Speaker 3: the general election, not the primaries. The general is coming up.
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  Speaker 3: The midterms.
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  Speaker 4: Only the president can save the Kennedy Center. Leaders of
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  Speaker 4: the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts say
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  Speaker 4: the center's on the brink of bankruptcy and say that
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  Speaker 4: putting the president's name on the facade may be the
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  Speaker 4: only way to avoid imminent and certain fiscal collapse. They
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  Speaker 4: put out a 57-page packet. and distribute it to the
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  Speaker 4: center's board of trustees ahead of a special meeting that
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  Speaker 4: they have. Center officials say they could be unable to
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  Speaker 4: make payroll or pay routine maintenance contracts within a matter
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  Speaker 4: of weeks and argue that publicly recognizing Trump would secure
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  Speaker 4: his help in raising enough money to keep the Kennedy
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  Speaker 4: Center open.
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  Speaker 3: Interesting. That's a wow, isn't it?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. That's an interesting tie.
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  Speaker 3: Yes. That's a big wow. Wow.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Amazon, if you remember the big Miami cargo plane crash,
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  Speaker 1: the company that they partner with there is 21 Air.
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  Speaker 1: And now Amazon has suspended the operations with that cargo carrier,
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  Speaker 1: carrier 21 Air. And they are that that started on
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  Speaker 1: the 13th of this month. And they said after the
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  Speaker 1: tragic incident last weekend, we spent time supporting Amazon. The
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  Speaker 1: investigation and reviewing some of the surrounding circumstances, we decided
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  Speaker 1: to pause our operations with 21 Air, the operator of
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  Speaker 1: Flight 7598.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so Amazon does not have its own airplanes, clearly.
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  Speaker 3: What it does is pay 21 Air to move its
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  Speaker 3: goods around and then label the planes as Amazon. It's
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  Speaker 3: much like when you go to an office building and
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  Speaker 3: you see the name of a bank on the top
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  Speaker 3: of the office building. They don't actually own airplanes. The building,
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  Speaker 3: they just pay for the right to have their name
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  Speaker 3: up there.
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  Speaker 1: Who would get popped in that situation? Would Amazon get popped?
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  Speaker 3: Well, they would. Well, first of all, 21 Air, of course,
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  Speaker 3: is going to be primarily responsible. But you can bet
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  Speaker 3: Amazon is going to. But there's enough insurance there, so
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  Speaker 3: it doesn't really matter. Because Amazon has its insurance. And
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  Speaker 3: part of the deal is that 21 Air has to
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  Speaker 3: have its insurance. I'm sure these guys aren't dumb. And inevitably,
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  Speaker 3: there's coverage there. The wrongful death, the first wrongful death
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  Speaker 3: lawsuit was filed the day afterwards. So they're looking at, what,
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  Speaker 3: six people having been killed, and there's not much of
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  Speaker 3: an argument as to liability. Now, you know what my
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  Speaker 3: question is? DHS and UPS, do they have their own,
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  Speaker 3: or DHL, do they have their own airplanes? Yes. Do
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  Speaker 3: those planes belong to UPS? And I don't know the
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  Speaker 3: answer to that.
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  Speaker 2: I would imagine maybe UPS, but I wouldn't think DHL.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe I have that wrong.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, DHL is a huge carrier too. I mean, enormous. So,
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  Speaker 3: and I don't know if they do more cargo than
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  Speaker 3: anything else. I actually will ask that. I'll ask Siri
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  Speaker 3: that during the break.
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  Speaker 4: UPS does own, it has a large fleet of cargo planes.
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  Speaker 3: All right, so it owns its own jets. How about just-
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  Speaker 3: For curiosity, say DHL. It doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 4: DHL operates its own dedicated fleet. And then it says
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  Speaker 4: that Amazon contracts.
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  Speaker 3: Right, with 21 Air. Okay, Tesla News.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, if you're in California.
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  Speaker 3: No, I'm sorry. Did I blow it here? It's me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Tesla News, Amy. I'm sorry, Amy.
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  Speaker 4: This could give Tesla drivers a charge. Tesla drivers in
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  Speaker 4: California have two weeks to file a claim in a
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  Speaker 4: class action settlement, which could earn them $ 350 in cash.
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  Speaker 4: The lawsuit alleges that Tesla unfairly charged idle fees to
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  Speaker 4: people who had bought Teslas with free lifetime supercharging. And
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  Speaker 4: if you have an EV, I don't. The idle fee
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  Speaker 4: is something that Tesla charges to people when one of
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  Speaker 4: its EVs is left plugged in at a supercharger state
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  Speaker 4: station after it's already fully charged. And so they're saying
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  Speaker 4: that They were illegally charged those fees. And so they're
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  Speaker 4: going to get a chance to get a settlement.
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  Speaker 3: So here's the argument that people who are suing and
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  Speaker 3: why they settled, I don't know, is you get free charging.
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  Speaker 3: But we're going to nail you if you decide to
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  Speaker 3: keep plugged in for the next three days and stop
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  Speaker 3: someone from coming in. But you're saying, oh, I have
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  Speaker 3: a right to do that because I get free charging.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if a jury would buy that. And
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  Speaker 3: I'm looking to see if I am eligible because I
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  Speaker 3: had a Tesla for two weeks before I said I'm
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  Speaker 3: done with it and lost my shirt on it because
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  Speaker 3: I dislike Tesla so much. So they settled. They settled.
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  Speaker 3: I'm a class action. I don't know. I would have
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: probably gone to court, but, you know. Look at the downside.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: Apparently, we're all tired here in the U.S.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: The cost of health care, you've got economic uncertainties, fear
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: of AI. And I guess just listening to this show
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: is enough to exhaust anyone anymore. So about 71.5% of
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: adults in the U.S. say they experienced fatigue on multiple
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: days over the past three months, according to this new
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: report from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm going to expand on that one.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: Well, women and younger adults are more likely to report this.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: That's correct. 820, I'm going to dive into this because
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: fatigue has a definite definition, which usually we don't do
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: a good job defining when we're trying to define the definition.
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: It's far deeper than just the way we think of
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: it when we're awake and asleep. I actually get paid
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: for this. I want to point this out, ladies and gentlemen.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: I just uh want to point that out and let you.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: Know now i'm tired.
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah i know but it's a thing i mean
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: it seriously speaking it is a thing this fatigue business
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: and how we're dealing with it uh i i don't
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: know well i do know not well.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: Stop watching the stupid news.
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: Uh I think it's a lot more than that.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: Okay, stop watching social media.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: That has a lot to do with it, but there's
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: still even more than that. For example, getting married. Very,
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: very tough on the fatigue level. I would highly recommend
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: that you don't do it.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: For women and children?
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: For anybody, everybody. Women, kids, husbands. Children don't do it. Yeah, fathers, yeah,
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: don't do it.
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: Street takeover has been stopped. No cars involved. Well, there
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: might have been one or two, but it was mainly e-bikes.
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: Police arrested and cited more than 70. They're now saying
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: 80 minibike and pocket bike riders after they took over
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: the Sixth Street Bridge yesterday.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: That only has one way in and one way out.
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: So they're riding along. They're doing donuts and wheelies. They're
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: weaving in and out of traffic. They're on the wrong
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: side of the road. So more than a dozen LAPD
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: cruisers then surrounded them and blocked them. And then started
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: rounding them up and handing out citations. And they said
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: that parents and guardians of those people taken into custody
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: were contacted. They explained the risks of riding around on
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: e-bikes and doing what they were doing and ensured that
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: every young person left the area without injury.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: Now, I have a question. First of all, have you
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: guys ever been in one of these where you have
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: a bunch of e-bikes surrounding you and doing wheelies?
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: Oh, I've been swarmed.
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: They're not fun. It's dangerous as hell. You look around,
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: you go shaky. I've had it happen on the freeway. Yeah.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: I mean, that I have never had that happen. That's crazy.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: And what they did, they seized the bikes, right, for
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: a couple of days. The law should be changed to
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: if you get caught doing this, we're going to impound
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: the bikes and you'll never see them again. That'll stop
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: people because you have an e-bike. They're $ 1, 200, $ 1, 500, $ 2, 000
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: for an e-bike. And then you have to.
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: Explain to your parents why you don't have it anymore.
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah. And you get the citation.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: Did you see the parent that one of the parents
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: was there riding a bike? with his 13-year-old.
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: No.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: And he's telling the reporter, we didn't do anything illegal.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: And they're all, you.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: Said she was 13. Yeah, she did. That's illegal. It's illegal.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: And he's like, well, they shouldn't have done this. Parents
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: are stupid.
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: You've got John Fetterman, who recently, that recorded speech, you remember,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: to the Republican Midterm Convention. Was that last Wednesday? Well,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: to many Pennsylvania Democrats, that was the last straw. And
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: they are trying to come up with someone else, regardless
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: of whether he's on the ballot or not.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: He's a weird guy, a Pennsylvania Democrat, wear shirts and hoodies,
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: try to get in shorts. I'm sorry, shorts and hoodies
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: and tried to get into the Senate to have his
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: vote counted. And the Senate said no. You're not going
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: to wear shorts and hoodies in the Senate chambers. And
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: he is he's accused of missing so many of these votes.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: I mean, he's basically and he had a horrible stroke, too,
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: where he had a very difficult time for a while.
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: That was before he was elected.
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: Are you sure? I thought it happened after he was elected.
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: No, because it was a big point of contention as
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: he was running for office.
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: Hmm. I thought it was afterwards. But in any case,
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: he's been accused of missing vote after vote after vote.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: He's an interesting dude.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Just being weird. Yeah, I don't give him a
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: big future in Pennsylvania politics.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: Or fashion.
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: Goo Goo Gaga. Lady Gaga and her fiancé, Michael Polanski,
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: have welcomed their first baby. They were spotted strolling in
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: Northern California last week with Gaga toting a baby in
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: a front sling, according to Page Six. Baby Gaga's name
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: and gender has not been revealed.
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: Why is this such a big story? I have a
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: hard time understanding why these stories are so huge.
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: Because Lady Gaga is huge.
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: I understand.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: She'll lose the weight.
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: That's not what I said.
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I don't know why. I guess that's our
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: royalty here in the United States.
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: Wait till Swift and Kelsey have their kid.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: What's going to happen is it's going to be wall-to-wall
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: coverage on CNN at the hospital. Right. It's going to
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: literally you're going to see it'll be like the assassination
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: of a head of state.
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: We have time for one more and then we will
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: move ahead with our last break.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: All right. U.S.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: President our very own Donald Trump said yesterday he called
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: on Ukraine President Zelensky to halt strikes on Russia and
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: their oil refineries and other infrastructure.
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: Why?
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: Because they're used to produce and distribute diesel, saying these
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: attacks of them protecting themselves are causing a global shortage
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: and soaring gas prices.
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, particularly diesel, by the way. That's what he really
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: is upset about.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: But how do you do that? How do you tell
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: them stop protecting yourself?
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, you tell Zelensky saying, because our prices for
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: gasoline and diesel are so high, you have to attack
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: other targets in Russia other than their oil production or
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: their oil transport system. And what's Zelensky going to say? Well,
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: you know, Zelensky's got some ammunition, too. He may very
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: well say, OK, just give me the arms that you
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: were promised, that you promised us or America promised us.
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: And you change your mind or you're or you're slowing
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: them down. So it's all how complicated it is right
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: now in the world and our allies who really aren't
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: our allies anymore. And this war, I mean, all of it,
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: we're living in some very, very tough and interesting times.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: Good dog. A man.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: Oh, no.
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: A man died in Northern California after attempting to save
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: a dog who had gone into the water. On Friday morning.
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: So I thought the dog rescued the guy. Should have
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: read all the way through. A 60-year-old man from Redding
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: was found dead after he attempted to rescue a dog
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: who had jumped from a boat that the man was on,
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: according to Shasta County Sheriff's Office.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: Trying to save a dog. Yeah, I can see that.
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: Drowning is no fun. It's, yeah. What can you say
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: about it? He loved his dog and he died.
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: The dog was saved.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: That was my favorite story. We should do Darwin Awards.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: We haven't done those in a long time. Those people
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: that win Darwin Award, they should be taken out of
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: the gene pool. And I was out of Egypt where
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: a chicken fell down a well. And so the owner
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: of the chicken dove into the well to try to
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: save the chicken. And he started drowning, and then his
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: family jumped in. I think five or six people jumped
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: in to the wells to save him. All of them died,
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: and the chicken survived. That was the winner that year
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: of the Darwin Award, by the way. This was a
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: weird story. Rick Springfield, who I had no idea was Australian,
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: by the way. I was this many years old when
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: I found out he was Australian. But, you know, the musician,
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: he opened up recently about some trauma of being told
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: he had killed a Viet Cong soldier while performing for
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: the U.S. troops as a teenager during the Vietnam War.
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: He was only 17 years old or something. And he
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: was on Joe Rogan's podcast. And he's now 77. And
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: he recounted that he was staying at the U.S. Navy
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: encampment there in the Marble Mountains near the city of
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: Da Nang and They suddenly came under attack. He said
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: several others took shelter. And he was in what they
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: call the radio shack. And he said they asked him
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: if he wanted to start throwing mortars down the freaking
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: tube there. And so he started doing it. And one
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: of them came up at some point and said, hey,
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: you got one.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: You got one.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: And he said he didn't know what he was doing.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: He could have lost a hand. And he thinks about
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: it all the time.
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: Okay, another one of those, yeah, who cares? But it
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: becomes news. The part that I find, if you look
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: at the geopolitical part, notice that he was fighting in
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: Vietnam as an Australian. And I don't know if you've
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: looked at this, but the only country in the world
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: that was crazy enough to join the United States in
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: the war in Vietnam was Australia. Yeah. After the United
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: States had asked for allies to join and everybody said,
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: you guys are dreaming except Australia as a friend of
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: the United States.
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: Maybe they just wanted to do some killing. They're a
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: very resourceful people.
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: Have we gone through all the stories? We did. We
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: did go through all the stories.
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: And did you see that? Bill got through all the
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: stories today.
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: Shocking. Yeah, it is shocking.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Let's go over the ones we liked the best. How
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: about that dog story, Amy?
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: Oh, that's so sad. I'm glad the dog survived. I
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: feel bad for the guy.
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: You know, I can almost understand diving in to save
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: a dog. I mean, I love my dogs. I totally would. Yeah. Well,
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: you know, you have to think of- Now, kids you
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: don't dive into. You know, you let the Coast Guard
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: handle the kids. And if they're drowning in front of you,
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: then you get on that radio and you really start
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: screaming at the Coast Guard and say somewhere with the lifeguards,
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: get in there. My kids are drowning. I can understand that.
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: These are just your kids, right?
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: Well, anybody's kids, but mainly my kids.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm going after my boy.
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: I tell you, you know, my daughter is in Scotland.
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: You know that she's going to school now in Scotland.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: Stay away from the locks.
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah. uh yeah it's she they don't eat bagels
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: there because they especially you know where they don't eat
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: bagels particularly is at the locks makes sense you know
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: no locks and bagels okay we're really spinning here aren't
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: we are we uh yeah yeah we're pretty much we're
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: pretty much spinning here um we should um can we
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: take an early one or do i tell a few
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: jokes Oh, it's fine.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: It's time to go.
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: This is just on time.
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not really.
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: It's the perfect time.
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: It's not. Okay. I was just about to do a
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: joke that would throw us off the air.
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: Time for a break.
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: Thank you. Thank you, Kono. It's time for a break.
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: All right. Coming up, some big, big geopolitical news and
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: what's going on with oil and Saudi Arabia and Houthis
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: and all of it does not bode well for us
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: and the rest of the world. Not this time around.
• 31:11
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• 31:15
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