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Podcast Tours | What is the 'Pink Tax?' · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 3: Good Wednesday morning to you. It's New Year's Eve. Can
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  Speaker 3: You can get a robot that can do laundry and
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  Speaker 3: it's a biped walks around your house and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Almost got one, and that sounds strange. I do it
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  Speaker 3: I mean we've got that laying around for a robot.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, it's twenty twenty six. Man knocking on the door,
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  Speaker 3: the end of next year, that will be a thing.
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  Speaker 3: It will be doable for people to have that kind
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  Speaker 3: of help in the house.
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  Speaker 3: the old calendar. A week from today, that's January seventh,
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  Speaker 3: one year later.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 3: So, ah, Christmas, do you take your decorations down now,
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  Speaker 3: Heather Brooker? Or do you wait till the end to
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  Speaker 3: the weekend or we'll probably do it this weekend, gotcha?
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  Speaker 3: You know, the Twelve Days of Christmas, the famed Twelve
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  Speaker 3: Days of Christmas, actually starts on Christmas, not before.
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  Speaker 2: It's not counting up to Christmas. It's a big confusion.
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  Speaker 4: So technically the twelve days of Christmas my true love
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  Speaker 4: gave to me happened the twelve days after Christmas.
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  Speaker 2: That starts on Christmas.
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  Speaker 4: Oh so you're getting gifts for every day after Christmas,
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  Speaker 4: I guess.
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  Speaker 2: So let's bring that back. Yeah, keep the body going.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're gonna kick Honnika's ass eight days. Well we
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  Speaker 3: got to about twelve crazy nights. Man, we're in. So
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  Speaker 3: there is no right answer. By the way, some people,
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  Speaker 3: even I like leaving them up. Now I have left
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  Speaker 3: them since Christmas Eve. My lights have stayed on overnight,
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  Speaker 3: like that's a tradition. Is I will keep them up
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  Speaker 3: for Christmas Eve because you know, Santa like landing lights
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  Speaker 3: and show. You know, I don't think it hurts. I'm
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  Speaker 3: not saying he plays favorites, but I think if your
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  Speaker 3: house is decorated, he's like, let's land here, maybe throw
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  Speaker 3: down a little something extra. Turns out we did a
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  Speaker 3: test this year. Put milk out with the cookies and
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  Speaker 3: the carrot and all that stuff. But some Martinelli's Sparkling
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  Speaker 3: cider as well. A little bit of milk left spark
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  Speaker 3: queensider all gone.
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  Speaker 2: So that's what he likes. I don't know I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe he's like, hey, wait, maybe he thought it was cervesa.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Interesting, Yeah, but he he jumped right in, so timing
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  Speaker 3: really to here tequila. Yeah yeah, there's a man in
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  Speaker 3: our backyard face down with a couple of reindeer poking
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  Speaker 3: at him.
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  Speaker 2: Oh boy, it wasn't smart. Not again.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So it comes down to personal preference. That's reality.
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  Speaker 3: There's no whatever. If they did the survey of a
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  Speaker 3: thousand US adults found most people take decorations down in January,
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  Speaker 3: that makes sense. Forty seven take their tree down during
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  Speaker 3: the first week of January twenty four I would imagine
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  Speaker 3: whether that's real or fake, because if it's if it's
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  Speaker 3: a real tree, you're taking it down asap because that
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  Speaker 3: thing is kindling at that point. Twenty four percent wait
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  Speaker 3: until later in January, and twenty percent move decorations between
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  Speaker 3: Christmas and New Year's So Christian tradition observes Christmas for
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  Speaker 3: twelve days.
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  Speaker 2: Look at that, but Lata la de.
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  Speaker 3: La from December twenty fifth through January sixth, So that's
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  Speaker 3: why you get all those great things through twelve days
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  Speaker 3: of Christmas. So January sixth is the Epiphany that's the
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  Speaker 3: Three Kings Day traditionally marks the end of the Christmas
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  Speaker 3: season for many Christians Catholics in the life. So as
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  Speaker 3: far as social media goes, some people take their decord
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  Speaker 3: down as early as December twenty sixth.
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  Speaker 2: Boo, bah humbug, you're stupid.
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  Speaker 4: I saw a video some posted on TikTok of literally
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  Speaker 4: moments after they opened the present, the mom came in
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  Speaker 4: and started taking the street down and the decorations, and
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  Speaker 4: the yed was telling the dad come in and help.
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  Speaker 2: Like she was like, and we're done.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to put words in my wife's mouth,
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  Speaker 3: but I get the vibe. Like she put the tree
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  Speaker 3: in with the wrapping paper as it goes in after
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  Speaker 3: She's like that if one piece of paper comes off
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  Speaker 3: the package, it goes straight into the bag. Like she
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  Speaker 3: doesn't she doesn't want that littered.
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  Speaker 2: And then I don't. Yeah, I like things nice and neat.
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  Speaker 4: It adds to the cozy feel of holidays. So would
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  Speaker 4: you say then she wants the tree down sooner rather
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  Speaker 4: than kay.
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  Speaker 3: She's an interesting one, like I'm more sappy sappy. No, No,
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  Speaker 3: she's a she's a rationalist as well, but I'm more
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  Speaker 3: sappy and romantical and sentimental I think about things. Yet
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  Speaker 3: she still has all those traits in there somewhere, that hard,
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  Speaker 3: thick black heart and skin. But uh uh. But I
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  Speaker 3: think she likes to get things back to normal as
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  Speaker 3: soon as possible. And I think she grits her teeth
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  Speaker 3: through it because Daddy is is an emotional mess.
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  Speaker 5: It's like Chris yay more Star Wars toys yeay, Kono
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  Speaker 5: is dumb.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well it might be a routine thing. I know
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  Speaker 4: for me, I like to have a routine and I
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  Speaker 4: find comfort in that. So maybe she likes to get
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  Speaker 4: back to the routine of life.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so, And she likes to get it
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  Speaker 3: all the Christmas gifts should be now disseminate because they
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  Speaker 3: stay under the tree for a little bit. You know
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  Speaker 3: they're opened, but you haven't moved them to their new
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  Speaker 3: spot yet.
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  Speaker 2: So I think.
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  Speaker 3: She's like, Okay, everybody take their stuff and it should
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  Speaker 3: go where it needs to go. And everything's coming down,
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  Speaker 3: but I have to put the lights up and take
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  Speaker 3: them down, so I'm not always thrilled about that. Plus,
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  Speaker 3: there is nothing better than pulling up to a lighted house.
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  Speaker 2: Oh with the tree and everything so festive.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and that little bay window, you know, it just
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  Speaker 3: pops out of the house just ever so slightly enough to.
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  Speaker 2: Want some hot chocolate. Let's do it. How can we?
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  Speaker 4: Let's order some Starbucks, you'll ask me, Oh sorry, let's
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  Speaker 4: order who makes hot chocolate other than Starbucks?
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  Speaker 2: That would deliver well.
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  Speaker 3: During the winter months. You may not know this, but
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  Speaker 3: you can get it in and out. In and out
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  Speaker 3: serves hot chocolate during I did not have winter months.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Uber Eats here I come. Neil Savedra and
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  Speaker 3: the morning crew here handles out this week and we're
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  Speaker 3: happy to be hanging with you. Heather Brookers in for
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  Speaker 3: Amy King, and of course Kono's here, and Will is
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  Speaker 3: here and Matthew is in for and as they have
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  Speaker 3: justified reasons to be on vacation. You don't take much vacate.
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  Speaker 3: You're taking Friday off, right, Kono? That's it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm taking it right now.
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  Speaker 6: You just have like dedicated vacation like spring training and
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  Speaker 6: then have a fishing trip with my pops.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know about the fishing trip. What do you
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  Speaker 3: do for spring training, Gona? Yeah, but you're not training.
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  Speaker 6: Sometimes maybe they'll call me out. We need a left fielderday.
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  Speaker 2: Kono. We gotta get Kono and you go. I brought
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  Speaker 2: my glove. I'm here, I'm ready. I've been Oh my god,
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  Speaker 2: I've been waiting for this.
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  Speaker 3: Gary Hoffman, Yeah, oh man, alrighty, So, uh where was I.
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna talk about podcasts in the second and how
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  Speaker 3: everything new is old again or everything old is new
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  Speaker 3: again or whatever. But I want to remind you of
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  Speaker 3: a couple of things. One, you got Gary Shannon coming
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  Speaker 3: up at nine o'clock. But also, if we're going to
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  Speaker 3: do it, ask us anything on Friday. Normally it's asked
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  Speaker 3: handle anything, ask us anything. So anybody on the show
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  Speaker 3: that you want to ask a question too, that will
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  Speaker 3: be here, that will be well. Kona won't be here
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  Speaker 3: on Friday, but you, I guess you can ask question.
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  Speaker 2: I'll answer. Yeah. I can dumb myself down to answer
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  Speaker 2: a question for you.
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  Speaker 5: Uh well lol, let's see none turn Fred flint Stone
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  Speaker 5: two is for that one? I know?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Great?
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  Speaker 3: Well Ma, no, it's uh well, but Heather Brooker will
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  Speaker 3: be here, will We'll be here.
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  Speaker 2: I will be here, Matt will be here.
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  Speaker 3: So if you have any questions for us, just go
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  Speaker 3: on that radio that iHeartRadio app and a little red
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  Speaker 3: button with the mic on there that you primarily used
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  Speaker 3: during the Gary and Shannon Show. They got a butt
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  Speaker 3: ton of them. You just ask away there, okay, and
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  Speaker 3: we'll do our best answer, all right. Podcast The reason
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  Speaker 3: why I want to talk about podcasts. I love I
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  Speaker 3: love how radio is this magic thing. I said this yesterday,
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  Speaker 3: I'll say it again. I never approach approach this mic
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  Speaker 3: without reverence for how cool it is to do something
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  Speaker 3: like this for a living.
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  Speaker 2: It really is.
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  Speaker 3: And the fact that I get to connect with you
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  Speaker 3: when you're in your home or car or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: Huge.
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  Speaker 3: I get to meet cool people you know that love
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  Speaker 3: this thing that we call radio as well. And I've
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  Speaker 3: always liked the intimacy of I've done television before.
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  Speaker 2: It's weird. They get in your face.
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  Speaker 3: About all kinds of things all the time, like I
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  Speaker 3: don't know, just like all these cues, and it's like, no,
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  Speaker 3: I'm a person.
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  Speaker 2: We can go at our own speed. We don't. The
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  Speaker 2: show's not written.
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  Speaker 3: We have guides, we have great producers, we have people
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  Speaker 3: that you know, move us along. But there's just something
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  Speaker 3: really cool about it. So along comes podcasts. Everybody like
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  Speaker 3: this is the greatest thing in the world, and it is.
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  Speaker 3: I love podcasts. I think they're great. I think they're smart,
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  Speaker 3: most of them, and or a lot of them at least,
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  Speaker 3: and all of that. Well, now the big thing is
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  Speaker 3: touring going live. Well, if you go back in time,
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  Speaker 3: the early days of radio was live in front of
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  Speaker 3: an audience. They would do shows just like Gary Shannon
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  Speaker 3: do their Christmas show that they just did. They did
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  Speaker 3: a Christmas Carol written by Gary and a great cast
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  Speaker 3: which Heather was a part of along with their daughter,
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  Speaker 3: and essentially everybody was hanging around watching it as it
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  Speaker 3: was going on here.
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  Speaker 2: They did a fabulous job. It's worth going back and
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  Speaker 2: listening to.
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  Speaker 3: So now podcasts are doing that because there's something about
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  Speaker 3: the live energy. I remember I laughed at I don't
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  Speaker 3: know if it was a meme, like somebody wrote it
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  Speaker 3: on purpose or it was really somebody that's stupid. But
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  Speaker 3: they're like, they should make a podcast that's live and
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  Speaker 3: covers like the live news and things like that. And
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, that's called radio. What you just described there
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  Speaker 3: Little Philly is radio. And so now that they're going
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  Speaker 3: around and doing these tours, I mean Amy Poehler if
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  Speaker 3: you haven't heard her podcast, good hang, it's it's fan
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  Speaker 3: tabulous they're doing.
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  Speaker 2: I think they's gonna win Golden Globes.
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  Speaker 3: Oh I bet you, yeah, because Golden Globes now has
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  Speaker 3: entered that arena. This is the first year, right, Heather,
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  Speaker 3: that's right. Yeah, So they did a live show.
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  Speaker 2: If you offer the.
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  Speaker 3: The one on one freeway, you see the Ford Theater
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  Speaker 3: there or the Fond of the Wait, No, Fonda Theater
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  Speaker 3: is different than the Ford Theater.
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  Speaker 2: What am I talking about? Now, where's the Fonda the there?
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  Speaker 2: I don't think there is a Fonda.
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  Speaker 3: The Oh my gosh, hold on, maybe that's somewhere else.
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  Speaker 3: Information Fonda Theater is that it sounds familiar. There is
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  Speaker 3: a Fonda Theater on Sunset.
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  Speaker 2: It's on Sunset, Okay that.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I got a little screwed up. So on Sunset
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  Speaker 3: is the Fonda I remember I've seen shows there. And
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  Speaker 3: then I'm thinking of the Ford, which is off of
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  Speaker 3: the one on one right, yeah, right by the exit
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  Speaker 3: there Barrom or whatever. Okay, So the Font they packed
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  Speaker 3: that theater, big time crowd. People were all excited. Everybody
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  Speaker 3: shows up. So now that's becoming the thing is to
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  Speaker 3: do these tours. I know that my favorite Murder goes
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  Speaker 3: on tour all the time, and they were one of
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  Speaker 3: the first I think that started doing that. But it
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  Speaker 3: it goes to show you it's not about the platform.
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  Speaker 3: It's about connection, information, connection.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing does it.
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  Speaker 3: Television doesn't do connect should like radio does. There's no script.
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  Speaker 3: Heather's an actress, she's a comedian, there is no ties
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  Speaker 3: or you're not tethered in the same way. We're connecting
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  Speaker 3: to the audiences taking the time to listen. Of course
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  Speaker 3: they'll be a podcast afterwards, but this is all ephemera
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  Speaker 3: right now.
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  Speaker 2: This is the moment is now.
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  Speaker 3: And to do it live, I've always said, and we
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  Speaker 3: got close when I was in management with Robin Bertolucci.
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  Speaker 3: We talked about getting a storefront essentially in a mall
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  Speaker 3: or something with glass and you could do the shows
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  Speaker 3: there and people could walk by and do that when like.
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  Speaker 2: The Today Show where they have like the window in
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  Speaker 2: the backyard.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, just that connection with it, because I think that's huge.
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't mind going out during the morning show and
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  Speaker 3: being live somewhere where you know, out and about with
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  Speaker 3: people or connecting with people. It's what it's all about now.
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  Speaker 3: Cast tours are becoming the rage and huge business because
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  Speaker 3: not only do you get the ticket sales, but you
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  Speaker 3: get the merch sales too. You get connection, you get
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  Speaker 3: that excitement, And I think I love that artists are
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  Speaker 3: doing this. I love that that actors are doing this
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  Speaker 3: because I think actors work for too many people. Too
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  Speaker 3: many people take a cut of their talent. And I
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  Speaker 3: like that when actors can own their own stuff. And
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  Speaker 3: I think if you've got a podcast and you're owning
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  Speaker 3: your own stuff and you're going on tour, that's you
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  Speaker 3: making the money instead of ten different name.
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  Speaker 4: I used to have a podcast called Motherhood in Hollywood,
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  Speaker 4: and the reason I started it was because I was
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  Speaker 4: an actor who was very low, like a new mom,
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  Speaker 4: who wanted to make connections with other parents in the industry.
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  Speaker 4: So I started Motherhood in Hollywood and I did a
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  Speaker 4: live show. I was so nervous, but I produced a
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  Speaker 4: live show. I had two incredibly funny women come on,
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  Speaker 4: Laurie Kilmartin that I was one of the guests, very
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  Speaker 4: funny moms who came on and did a live show
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  Speaker 4: at the ACME Comedy Theater, And it was so nice
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  Speaker 4: to get that instant audience reaction and meet people who
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  Speaker 4: had been listening to my show. So there's something magical
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  Speaker 4: about a live audience.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's just an energy that you can't get.
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  Speaker 3: I try and picture them always, like if I wasn't
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  Speaker 3: on the air right now at eight twenty, not in
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  Speaker 3: their underwork.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, what do you mean?
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  Speaker 3: But like I've always done this, someone taught me early
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  Speaker 3: on is whatever time I'm on and try and think
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  Speaker 3: what would I be doing if I wasn't on the air,
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  Speaker 3: like right now, and try and talk to that person
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  Speaker 3: doing whatever is they're getting up having their coffee, doing
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  Speaker 3: whatever right now. Anyways, this is they're finding that it's
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  Speaker 3: the same I don't care if it's a podcast or not.
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  Speaker 3: It's the same ingredients that we have here and have
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  Speaker 3: had for decades, you know, over one hundred years. KFI
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  Speaker 3: has been on Since nineteen twenty two. April of nineteen
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  Speaker 3: twenty two, KFI has been on the air, and it's
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  Speaker 3: just insane that kind of connection and it was live
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  Speaker 3: in front of an audience for a long time. You're
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  Speaker 3: talking about Jack Benny and some great people that have
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  Speaker 3: been behind the KFI mind.
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  Speaker 2: It's insane when you do the history.
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  Speaker 3: So much history? Yeah, so everything old is new again? Hey,
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  Speaker 3: can you pop up my computer in there please, mister
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  Speaker 3: Kono to hear from Jeff here.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Neil. Jeff here have an interesting fact for
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  Speaker 2: you on New Year's Eve. The reason why there's an
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  Speaker 2: S on New Year's Eve is that the S indicates
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  Speaker 2: possession of Eve instead of New year Eve.
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  Speaker 3: So that's why you never want to name your daughter
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  Speaker 3: Eve because Eve is possessed.
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  Speaker 2: Happy New Year's.
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  Speaker 3: Eve.
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  Speaker 2: Un Tracks, that was helpful. I learned something there. Thanks.
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  Speaker 3: You can leave your talkbacks any questions for us for Friday,
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  Speaker 3: for any of the crew here, we'll answer them on Friday.
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  Speaker 3: Instead of ask Candle anything. You can ask any of
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  Speaker 3: us anything, just on the iHeartRadio app and you see
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  Speaker 3: the little talkback symbol read icon with a mic there
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: and you can leave it there.
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  Speaker 2: Don't forget.
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  Speaker 3: A week from today, on the seventh January seventh, at
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  Speaker 3: seven pm, KFI is going to be airing the KFI
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  Speaker 3: News special La Fires one Year Later, hosted by our very.
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  Speaker 2: Own Michael Monks.
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  Speaker 3: So the specials can include all kinds of things report
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: from KFI News team. You know, the devastation of the fires,
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: the aftermath, lasting impact all of those things as we
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: continue a year later, the road to recovery, So be
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: sure to check that out. Michael does a great job
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: and there's a lot to learn from.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: That, all right.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: So robo taxis, I dig them, and I'm seeing more
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  Speaker 3: and more on the eastern side of Los Angeles. I
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: know they started out on the west side of things,
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: and they were all over the place, but now they're
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: all over my neighborhood. But there's some things that are changing. One,
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: there's starting to get more expensive. I like them because
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: they were cheaper for one, and you don't have to
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: tip because it's just a ROBOTAXI. So I know some
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: people go, well, what about the drivers and all that. Listen,
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: there's it's supply and demand. It's always been that way.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: The opportunities everything else that we've got going on in
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  Speaker 3: the US, that's what it comes down to. If it's
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: not a special skill, then sooner or later automation is
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: going to pop in, is my guess. But there is
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: some crazy stuff that they're still working out now. I
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: believe the same as handle on this, which is listen,
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: when you started air flight, commercial flight and all these
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: things there's always going to be problems at the beginning.
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  Speaker 3: Doesn't mean that it's horrible or that we shouldn't do it,
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: just means, yes, anything new, you're going to have issues.
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: So waymore had some big outages recently because they had
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: a power outage there in San Francisco. So that knocks
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: out the traffic lights and then the robotaxis freeze in
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: the intersections. They're not sure what's going on block lanes, crosswalks,
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: and that in this particular instant, because they've been doing
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: in San Francisco but longer than I think anywhere else.
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: Then you know, these things arise and people go, hey,
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: it's just not going to work. Here's this this case
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: study right here where it disrupted an entire city. Not
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: that human fecal matter and people laying in the streets
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: causing problem, but there in San Francisco. There you go,
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: there's issues. It's going to be interesting to see how
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: these things work. New Year's Eve is going to be
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: a big deal for this. They're saying that this is
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: there's going to be a major demand for robotaxi, popular
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: with writers leaving bars, parties, and a new study they're
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: calling the Pink Tax on this is that which is sexist,
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: but that women are preferring robotaxis. Now, guys are going
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: to look for whatever is cheaper and oftentimes right now,
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: I guess it's going to be your Uber or your
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: Lyft or things like that. But women prefer robotaxis. They
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: don't want late night driver interactions. And man, I don't
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: blame them. I don't blame them at all. I'd prefer
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: my wife to be in one of these because at least,
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: not only do they have multiple cameras and sensors and
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: all these things all over them, but also you can
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: connect with an actual person via the system they have,
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: the two way system they have in there. Apparently they're
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: not so supposed to be listening or connecting with you
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: unless you activate it.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: But that's making them go up in price.
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: So now these row taxis, which to me were cheaper
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: when I when I originally started taking Roo taxis, they
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: were much cheaper than a human driven vehicle. But now
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: they're saying, like Uber if it's seventeen bucks, or lift
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: is eighteen bucks, way Mos like fifty?
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: When did that happen? Yeah? It has?
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: That?
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: Is that something new? Heather? You're nodding your head, because you.
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: Know, when we were in San Francisco last year was
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: our first real encounters with the weaimos, and they were
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: so much more expensive, and I because we were like,
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: oh fun, you know, there were so many on the
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: road there and we thought we would give it a try,
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: but it was more than double the cost of just
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: like a regular Uber ride and we were like, that's.
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: Not see, that wasn't my experience in San Francisco or here.
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: Maybe it was just because it was I don't know,
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: it wasn't like a holiday or anything.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: I don't know why, but it was really expensive.
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: But here's the interesting thing is with Uber or lyft,
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: you've got if you've I've never worked for either of them,
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: but my understanding is that if you are on their
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: platform and you're one of their drivers, that you can
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: get notified at any time, Hey there's you know this
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: going on, or there's a surgeon need and they'll go, okay,
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: I'm going to hop in my car and I'm going
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: to work for a little while. So now you're flooding
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: the market with more vehicles and it's going to change
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: costs and surge pricing and all those things whatever it is.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: But they only have a set number of the the robotaxis,
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: so that won't fluctuate, that won't change. I suppose they
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: could always have a fleet and put more out on
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: the road.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: I think they. I think they can still just increase
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: the price. Yeah, but yeah, but that's what I'm saying.
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: So that price is going to shoot up because they
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: have a limitation of how many they can never put
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: on the road. Whereas Uber, you know, if you've got
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: a bunch of people that are on that app and
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: that are you know, they have the ability to be
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: a driver, they may go, ah, you know what, maybe
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: I'll jump in right now, so I'll be curious. But
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: this new PIK text they're talking about is that men
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: more likely to choose just a cheaper human driven right,
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: where women are likely to pay a premium for perceived safety,
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: which is as you know, I don't want some creepy
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: guy taking me home if I've had a couple of
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: pops or any of those things, and I don't blame
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: them at all, I would much rather my wife be
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: in a safer situation and not have to deal with
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: some creep it's asking a bunch of questions or things
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: like that. So these pricing algorithms are going to be
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: something interesting to figure out as we get more into it.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: My hope is the bigger the fleet gets that it
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: will come down in pricing, because again, every time we
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: do this, all this is going to be better than
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: regular taxis. We've got uber, it's going to be this
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: gig economy. Then all of a sudden they want, you know,
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: all kinds of insurance and these types of things, so
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: the price goes back up again. It's like, how is
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: this different than driving a taxi was back in the day,
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: and then now you get rebo taxis in that Hopefully
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: the bigger the fleet can to bring the price down
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: and they go, well, then we want more money because
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: we have to you know, maintenance on me on the light,
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: our cameras and everything, and then it goes back up again.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: We keep doing things that they're supposed to save us
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: money and then ultimately we end up paying more like
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: subscription television all right.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: From the game, she was saying.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: The money.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: Feeling. Oh see, it's not me, he picks on me.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: Sometimes it's you, Heather, Heather the kind one brooker. Sometimes
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: it's it's both of you. It's both of you. Okay,
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: you're the voice of reason. Oh no, bring it back,
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: bring it back. It's New Year's Eve. Man. We got
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: to go out with a bang er a banger. Yeah, John,
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: we're getting hurt.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: KF I am six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: Neil Svader in the morning team, here with you. Happy
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: New Year's Eve. Look at us, look at up, look
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: at us all.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: Gosh, twenty twenty five was so last year, so last year,
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: so last year. We're like cruising towards twenty twenty six.
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: You're gonna know if I stay up with my wife
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: and boy to celebrate, you're gonna stay home. No, you'll know,
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: You'll just know. You'll just know what I sound like,
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: and they're gonna be like seggagg to get break regged.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: It's whatever you do you don't do. I'm surprised you
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: don't do the earlier, like the nine o'clock one.
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we did that when my daughter was little because
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: she needed to go to bed, and we also wanted
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: to stay up ourselves and have a little you know,
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: like one on one time.
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: Look at you, bubbles, Good for you.
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: But we don't do that now now we let her
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: stay up, but tonight she and my husband will just
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: be at partying because I go to bed at like
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: six in order to get here for this shift.
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, oh, I thought you said something else, you shift.
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: Oh wow, you're really letting lose come with talk about
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: your hump days this place.
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: Listen. We don't know what I Heeart's gonna do. We
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: could come in tomorrow and this will be a country
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: radio station and we'll.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: All be like all fun games. But uh, let's go
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: out with a bank. It's called Manila and Neil and
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: I'm here with Heather Bang Bang broker. Al Right, they'll
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: just flip the switch and we're done.
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: What would be a hick name for Kono cono? I
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: think Cowboy cono, Cowboy Cono from the Little Lady.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: That's not stop. We'd still do it still.
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: That was real.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah's not. I hate you both. Oh my god.
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: We leave the snorting to uh miss Shannon Farren. She's snort.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: She's got the best laugh though, she's the best.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: It's contagious. It is contagious, along with that rash on
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: her arm.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: Oh dear, no kid speak the big Boss. It's the
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: big did you hear me? Saying you're doing.
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: Here on New Year's Oh, look at the you're listening
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: to you doing all the and now I'm going to
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: talk to corporate America with your round tones. Hey, so
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: do you get asked Larry about uh it's free.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: We should tell people it's corbino l a president in
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: the house. So the slick back hair. Did he hear me? Yeah?
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: We talked about the station flipping the country tomorrow? We
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: never know. Yeah, are we going to be country tomorrow?
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: You're the boss? Do we have jobs tomorrow? What in
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: the New year? We had job We had a good year.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: We had a banner year. This is great. Listen to
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: that accent. A banner year, banner year. Yeah, you're an
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: East Coaster, aren't you? This year we had nice game before.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: Look at that. Get on the mic. We can't hear you.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: Turn on the.
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: Mic to talk about iHeart and how we've had a
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: great year, and then no one will be fine.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, audio has made ad. I'm not going to say
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: comeback because he never went anywhere, but a resurgence in
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: the way people are viewing it, especially with our guaranteed
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: human approach that we're taking. We're all we're always human
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: all the time.
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well with handles on the question mark as to
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: what he is, whether he's still we need a DNA test, No,
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: we need a DNA test to see these human My
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: weekend with Bernie every day were saying, it's just saying,
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: I don't know what the hell he is?
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: Human maybe maybe yeah, always alive.
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: But uh yeah, you know that hit pretty quickly is
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: coming from a marketing background myself. When that hit, it
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: pinged my ear and now everywhere you go you're hearing that.
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: All we did a guarantee humans.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: On what's happening, and people want to feel connected, but
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: they also want to feel connected with a live person,
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: and that's what radio has over a podcast. By the way,
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: I love the piece you just did on podcasts. I
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: agree with everything right saying I love the idea of
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: being able to get out there do some live broadcasts
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: that way.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: It's it's it's a connection all the way with radio,
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: and as.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: You mentioned, it's what's what Jack Benny was doing in
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: this uh for the station.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: I don't know, almost one hundred.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: Years ago, I guess basically yeah, yeah, But and in
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: the surveys it came out that people want to be connected,
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: and what we have over podcasts and almost every other
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: form of media is that we're live. People get to
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: drive to work with their friend in the morning.
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: I came in on Christmas Eve following Gary and Shannon
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: and they just had done their production, their live production
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: here in studio of a Christmas Carol rewritten by Gary,
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: and I just said thanks, thanks to everybody that came in,
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: Thanks Gary for writing it, Thanks for it was so
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: magical and reminded me.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: Of why I love radio.
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: To hear a live production on Christmas Eve was super
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: special and there's something about that you can't and even
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: podcasts are learning that.
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: It's interesting.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: One of our people in corporate was telling the story
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: how recently she was in a car with her kids
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: who was like seven years old boy in the backseat
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: and had the radio on. I asked the question, what
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: are other people listening to? Cause other people hear the
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: same thing we're hearing. He was like shocked that other
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: people in other cars were listening to the same thing.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: He says, so the person in that car, in that car,
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: in that car might be listening to the same exact
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: thing that we're listening to. And he got all excited
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: about that, right, there is other than sports. There really
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: is no longer a collective experience.
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: No, because.
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: Television is time shifted and film you're limited to However,
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: many seats are in the theater or you're watching it
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: at home, and so radio is still one of those
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: in the theater.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: People aren't going to the theater. I mean, it's it's
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: a shame. I mean, I miss it. And I think
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: the the human connection is really important. And if you're
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: not out in the real world, at least have that
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: connection with your with your personality on the radio while
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: you're in your car, or while you're at home or
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: you know, wherever you are.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: I have.
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: You're hearing Paul Corbino, the division president here for I
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: heart Media Los Angeles.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: And my dad passed away.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: I just stopped it to say, very Christmas, but years.
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: Ago, Happy New Year, Happy New Year. Well it's all
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: the same the holidays here.
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: But my dad passed away in two thousand and one.
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: But prior he had come out to events and things
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: like that, and he was blown away at how people
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: knew who he was because I talked about him and
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: I have him on every now and I used to
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: do a segment called Ask the Old Guy, and.
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: You've been listening to The Bill Handle Show.
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: Catch My Show Monday through Friday, six am to nine am,
• 33:18
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