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Iranian Plot to Assassinate the President | Dodgers Headed to the White House · The Bill Handel Show

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Speaker 2: We handle here in the morning crew on a foody Friday.
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Speaker 2: Ask Candle anything Friday, which comes at the eight o'clock
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Speaker 2: hour top of the next hour. But I want to
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Speaker 2: share with you something that's going on, and that is
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Speaker 2: some information just came down and some intelligence information that
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Speaker 2: Israel shared with the United States that Iran had recently
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Speaker 2: devised a new plan to assassinate President Trump. That's two
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Speaker 2: sources familiar with this matter. And that's what usually happens
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Speaker 2: when you have these major news outlets reporting about something
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Speaker 2: like this and says, we can't get a quote because
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Speaker 2: a lot of these spokespeople and a lot of the
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Speaker 2: interviewees are not allowed to talk. They are not part
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Speaker 2: of the pr system. So you usually get that sources.
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Speaker 2: But usually when you're talking about major sources or major
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Speaker 2: news outlets, it's pretty well corroborated anyway. So one of
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Speaker 2: the sources said that the warning came this week. Now,
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Speaker 2: the US had picked up a steady drum beat. It
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Speaker 2: was described with intelligence in recent weeks about the plans
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Speaker 2: to assassinate Trump. But this warning from Israel, that's new,
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Speaker 2: and that was concerning because it was specific. Now the
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Speaker 2: other side of that, American officials are saying, you know
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Speaker 2: what Israel is doing, that simply sway Trump to be
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Speaker 2: more pro Israel and anti Iran, basically backing up whatever
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Speaker 2: Israel wants to do, which pretty much Trump is done
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Speaker 2: in his first term and the beginning of his second term.
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Speaker 2: And it's also noted the US has not vetted this
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Speaker 2: intelligence itself. It wasn't tracked before the Israeli warning. So
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Speaker 2: the President sorry about the cough. The President has said,
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Speaker 2: and this is a quote they want to take out
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Speaker 2: the US leader me and this was two reporters on Wednesday.
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Speaker 2: I'm on whatever list I saw this morning. I'm on
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Speaker 2: every single one of their lists. And so far, I
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Speaker 2: guess I'd been a bit lucky. And maybe that doesn't
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Speaker 2: last very long. They are evil, sick people. We have
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Speaker 2: to root out that cancer, that cancer, you know what
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Speaker 2: you do, You've got to cut out that cancer early.
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Speaker 2: And that's the way I feel, and he's probably right,
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Speaker 2: by the way. The issue here, though, is are the
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Speaker 2: Iranians really emphasizing taking out this president more so than
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Speaker 2: other presidents. I think, yeah, because what Donald Trump does
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Speaker 2: is make things very personal, and he takes things very personal.
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Speaker 2: And we were joking this morning about how heretofore before
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Speaker 2: these threats came down, he was upset that he wasn't
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Speaker 2: enough on the lists, that he wasn't being thought about
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Speaker 2: enough as a victim. And over the weekend and you
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Speaker 2: saw the usual. The Iranians were on the streets of
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Speaker 2: Tehran calling for the President's death during the funeral for
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Speaker 2: the slain Supreme Leader Leader the Ittoia Ayatola Ali Jimani,
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Speaker 2: the Grand Vizir, the Imperial the Imperial Wizard of Iran. Anyway,
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Speaker 2: so there were a lot more pictures of Trump bullets
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Speaker 2: going through his head and kill Trump. It's not just
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Speaker 2: kill America. It's killed Trump specifically. And why is that
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Speaker 2: Because while he personally ordered and this is the case,
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Speaker 2: the bombing or in this case, the drone attack of Suliman,
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Speaker 2: who is the chief military leader in Iran. And so
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Speaker 2: you're I think we're seeing is that it has been
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Speaker 2: ratchet up even more if you can, and I can't
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Speaker 2: believe it, how much more ratcheting can you do. Well,
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Speaker 2: there isn't a full blow, full blown war going on.
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Speaker 2: I mean there is a tit for tat. Israel or
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Speaker 2: Iran is attacking US forces, US bases as well as
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Speaker 2: other facilities throughout the entire Middle East. The US is
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Speaker 2: attacking Iran. The ceasefire theoretically is in effect, although the
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Speaker 2: President said that the ceasefire is over, but diplomacy is
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Speaker 2: still being followed. They're actually talking to each other.
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Speaker 1: And in the midst of.
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Speaker 2: All this is Israel that is being asked to pull
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Speaker 2: out of Lebanon because that seems to be one of
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Speaker 2: the big issues with Iran. And the President said, yeah,
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Speaker 2: pretty much, you pull out because we want this deal.
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Speaker 2: And Israel is telling him to go pound sand, particularly
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Speaker 2: in that part of the world, because there's a lot
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Speaker 2: of sand.
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Speaker 1: And this thing just keeps on going.
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Speaker 2: So it is an Israeli bit of intelligence now that
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Speaker 2: is much more specific. The US intelligence was more sporadic,
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Speaker 2: and it was chatter out there, but nothing very very specific.
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Speaker 1: Isruel said, hey, this is what's going on, all right.
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Speaker 2: The first person that I ever met that did not
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Speaker 2: have a landline, did not have a phone number to
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Speaker 2: the house, was Neil many years ago, Neil gave up
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Speaker 2: his landline just to use a cell phone.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I remember that. I remember that. It was a
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Speaker 1: long time ago too.
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Speaker 3: Because I'm a business line for a while. But yeah,
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Speaker 3: we got rid.
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Speaker 2: Of and today I don't have a landline at home.
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Speaker 2: I'm trying to get a landline. I always kept the
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Speaker 2: landline even when using cell phones.
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Speaker 1: And why is that?
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Speaker 2: Because cell phones go out, towers go out, power goes out.
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Speaker 2: With a landline, power does not go out because the
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Speaker 2: power goes through the line to create the power for
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Speaker 2: the phone, so you don't need outside power and it's
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Speaker 2: much safer. Interruptions are much much more difficult to even occur.
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Speaker 2: You don't have dropouts like you do with cell phone towers.
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Speaker 2: It's just a much better way now where to get
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Speaker 2: your landline at and T? Who wants to stop producing
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Speaker 2: and supplying supporting landlines at and T? Now? There are
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Speaker 2: certain areas where it's almost critical spotty reception. For example,
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Speaker 2: rural areas that don't have a good reception. They rely
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Speaker 2: on landlines at and T.
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Speaker 3: Satellite is coming down and you used to be like
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Speaker 3: fifteen dollars a minute or something like.
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Speaker 1: That, And I think that's going to replace it.
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Speaker 2: But AT and T is not saying satellite because they
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Speaker 2: don't provide satellite.
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Speaker 1: I don't think.
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Speaker 2: So what ends up happening is they want want to
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Speaker 2: stop it because it costs a billion dollars a year
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Speaker 2: to support it. And the reason they want to stop
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Speaker 2: it is because it costs a billion dollars a year
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Speaker 2: to support it copper wiring.
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Speaker 1: It's expensive as hell.
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Speaker 2: And what they're saying is the new technology when we
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Speaker 2: put in fiber optics et cetera, that is so much
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Speaker 2: better than any landline. And maybe the quality is, but
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Speaker 2: it's the landline that is the safest, most durable way
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Speaker 2: to call to make a phone call.
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Speaker 1: Now.
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Speaker 2: Also I always kept the landline. It was just in
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Speaker 2: case if everything goes down, I want to be able
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Speaker 2: to call. Not anymore, you don't have to do that anymore.
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Speaker 2: And they're trying AT and T is doing everything you
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Speaker 2: can to unravel that, stopping support, not installing lines. Now
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Speaker 2: a little secret here, if you ask for it and
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Speaker 2: you were within an a spotty reception, they have to
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Speaker 2: put it in. And they, I think, are willing to
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Speaker 2: do it when nothing else works. But the reason they're
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Speaker 2: taking it out like crazy is because the technology is
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Speaker 2: better and we're going to be there. Are you there yet?
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Speaker 2: We're going to be there at some point and for
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Speaker 2: many people and there was a story in the La
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Speaker 2: Times about this, and for many people who have said,
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Speaker 2: particularly during fires when power was gone, if it weren't
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Speaker 2: for the landlines, it's a matter of life and death,
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Speaker 2: even a matter of minutes.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so much for I'm a.
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Speaker 2: Big fan of having a land line in when everything
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Speaker 2: else goes south.
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Speaker 3: We have multiple backups. We do have digital options and
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Speaker 3: even radio options at our place and our cabin so
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Speaker 3: that I have, I have what a contingency plan that
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Speaker 3: I'm comfortable with. But it took me a long time
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Speaker 3: to get to the place where I was like, no landlines.
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Speaker 2: That's you, and there aren't many people that are like you.
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Speaker 2: On many different levels. There are a few people that
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Speaker 2: are like you, but on that one you do plan
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Speaker 2: out things. Also, we're talking about this warning about the
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Speaker 2: stuff that you create. It's like I don't understand it.
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Speaker 2: I mean, it's like to make things, no kid, but
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Speaker 2: there are things, and there are things and Neil takes
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Speaker 2: it to a whole new level. We actually ought to
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Speaker 2: we ought to have a a Neil convention, Is that right?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, just you showing your stuff sitting there. I like
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Speaker 3: meeting other makers and artists. And if you'd like to
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Speaker 3: join me on that on Instagram, you can join me
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Speaker 3: at Savco Industries SAA v COO Industries. It's not my
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Speaker 3: radio stuff, it's just building and fixing stuff.
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Speaker 2: That's fine, Okay, a story about Costco. How unusual I'm
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Speaker 2: doing a stororry about Costco. As a matter of fact,
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Speaker 2: we're just talking Ann and Neil and Moir. We're sitting
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Speaker 2: down a few minutes ago through the break and talking
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Speaker 2: about Costco and what they just did is raise their
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Speaker 2: maximum hourly pay to thirty two dollars and ninety cents
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Speaker 2: an hour. And I was about to do the math, Amy,
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Speaker 2: and would you do the math on that forty hour
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Speaker 2: week at thirty two to ninety an hour and tell
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Speaker 2: me what that is annually? And the more they raise
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Speaker 2: the money the hourly wage, the better they do, because
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Speaker 2: they have a very interesting philosophy. And the story because
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Speaker 2: they just raised the maximum pay. The Wall Street Journal
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Speaker 2: picked this up and started talking about this sixty eight
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Speaker 2: thousand dollars sixty what sixty eight plus sixty eight thousand
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Speaker 2: dollars to work as a clerk at Costco if you've
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Speaker 2: been there for a while. And the point is everybody
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Speaker 2: is there for a while. They do not have turnover
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Speaker 2: because it's too good a place to work. One, the
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Speaker 2: benefits are superb. Two the workers are and I don't
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Speaker 2: know how often this happens, but are truly treated well.
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Speaker 2: Because that's a philosophy of Costco. Those workers are frontline,
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Speaker 2: not just the work they do, and you can feel
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Speaker 2: it when you're in there.
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Speaker 1: They are.
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Speaker 2: One of the things is I'll ask a Costco person
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Speaker 2: where is something, and they'll go, come on over here
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Speaker 2: and I'll help you. It's not just pointing to it
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Speaker 2: and saying it's down Aisle one, O two or whatever
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Speaker 2: it is. Literally come on, I'll show you. And that
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Speaker 2: is a culture that Costco has, so looking at this,
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Speaker 2: why are they doing this and why does it work?
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Speaker 1: Well?
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Speaker 2: It costs more money in terms of their employees, but
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Speaker 2: it costs less money in terms of their employees long
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Speaker 2: tenured workers. That's their secret weapon wide because folks who
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Speaker 2: have been there for a while are reliable, they are experienced,
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Speaker 2: they're there to help shoppers go through a checkout line. Now,
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Speaker 2: one of the things about going to Costco, especially on
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Speaker 2: a weekend, those lines get long, and so you go
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Speaker 2: to the self serve area and that goes much faster,
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Speaker 2: even though the line goes down half the store, because
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Speaker 2: there are six or eight check out.
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Speaker 1: Little kiosks there there.
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Speaker 2: And you know you're standing in line, and all of
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Speaker 2: a sudden, there's six places that you have to fill up.
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Speaker 1: So it goes pretty quickly.
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Speaker 2: But there is somebody there not only to help, but
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Speaker 2: they also have their little gizmo where their card reader,
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Speaker 2: their QR code reader, and they actually do the checking
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Speaker 2: in for you while you're in line and your stuff
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Speaker 2: is in the cart and they will start checking and
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Speaker 2: by the time you hit the counter all you do
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Speaker 2: is hand the card. Your food is already in the cart.
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Speaker 2: And of course they don't have bags. All you can
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Speaker 2: get to those boxes and when they run out of
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Speaker 2: those boxes, that's a bitch. I have to tell you
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Speaker 2: you have forty or fifty items and there's nothing to
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Speaker 2: put them in. And for some reason people don't bring
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Speaker 2: their their non recyclable stuff.
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Speaker 1: I don't know why.
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Speaker 3: They've actually tricked us to take out their trash by saying, hey,
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Speaker 3: put it in this box that is tricky. Yeah, And
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Speaker 3: it's like, hey, we got that guy that got that
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Speaker 3: sucker to take out our box.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. And one of the yeah, and what they do
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Speaker 2: with those boxes is someone takes a box cutter so
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Speaker 2: they're easy to get into and they cut out this
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Speaker 2: big U shaped in the middle of the box, so
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Speaker 2: you really can't put stuff in there without falling out
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Speaker 2: of the box.
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Speaker 1: And there are some.
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Speaker 2: Downsides, but it's a very unique culture. And the costco
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Speaker 2: executive say, look at this. If we're paying more money
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Speaker 2: and our better benefits turnover is low, that actually reduces
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Speaker 2: the costs because training new hires is really expensive. As
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Speaker 2: a matter of fact, McKinsey, which is a major group
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Speaker 2: that does a lot of consulting, estimated that losing a
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Speaker 2: frontline retail employee costs an average of ten thousand dollars
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Speaker 2: per worker between the training and it's a lot of money.
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Speaker 2: I have hired people and the learning curve is pretty high.
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Speaker 2: Whenever any of my people left, and.
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Speaker 3: What does it take like six months minimum to get
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Speaker 3: up to speed.
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Speaker 2: It does anywhere it can it can and if you
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Speaker 2: have a complicated issue, for example, if you want people
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Speaker 2: to know the store, if you want people to understand
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Speaker 2: everything's going through, it's a learning curve. And they don't
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Speaker 2: need a learning curve because these people are already there
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Speaker 2: and they're seasoned and by the time they're there for
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Speaker 2: a long time, they're friendly, or else they're gone. And
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Speaker 2: it just makes a lot of sense. So annual bonuses
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Speaker 2: have increased. Also, an extra week of vacation for anybody
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Speaker 2: who's been there for thirty years. Okay, that's not a
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Speaker 2: big deal because how many people have been there for
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Speaker 2: thirty years? Although on the wall of the Costco that
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Speaker 2: I go to there is the wall of employees of
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Speaker 2: the month kind of thing, and instead it's how long
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Speaker 2: people have been working there and their portraits, and it's
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Speaker 2: about thirty years, thirty five years.
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Speaker 3: With Disney, the cool thing is that they're badge color
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Speaker 3: changes and there's certain things once they've been there and
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Speaker 3: they get more perks. If you do not have a
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Speaker 3: system of growth at your business, it will fail. People
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Speaker 3: won't want to be there. You have to have those
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Speaker 3: stepping stools. Yeah, and to.
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Speaker 2: Give you an idea of what Costco is worth. Right
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Speaker 2: around the two thousand and eight great recession if you
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Speaker 2: remember that, or maybe not, shares were forty bucks a share,
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Speaker 2: and yesterday the shares at Costco closed at nine hundred
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Speaker 2: and fifty three dollars. Wow, you would have made some money,
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Speaker 2: you bet you. All Right, top of the hour, it
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Speaker 2: is foody Friday. And at the bottom of the hour,
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Speaker 2: coming up at a thirty, it's ask handle anything, and
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Speaker 2: we tend to answer anything. By the way, Trump has
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Speaker 2: said he is not going to sign that bipartisan housing bill,
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Speaker 2: which the Senate and the House voted for overwhelmingly, and
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Speaker 2: he was supposed to sign, and he stopped it cold,
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Speaker 2: and I mean as they were setting up the table
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Speaker 2: and the lectern and the seats and the lighting. Nope,
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Speaker 2: because he thinks that that particular bill is not as
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Speaker 2: important as his voter id registration bill. And so I
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Speaker 2: think he's off based on that one, even as Republican
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Speaker 2: followers are going or supporters in Congress are going. Really,
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Speaker 2: you think people really think that voter idea is more
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Speaker 2: important than their housing affordability.
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Speaker 1: So anyway, that's the big news coming in on a
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Speaker 1: political front.
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Speaker 2: Another issue of politics is whether or not the Dodgers,
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Speaker 2: and which Dodgers are going to visit the White House
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Speaker 2: late this month to celebrate the twenty twenty five World
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Speaker 2: Series win. Now, what normally happens during the course of
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Speaker 2: these games and seasons is the winner, whoever takes a checkampionship,
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Speaker 2: whether it's hockey, whether it's baseball, football, the team gets
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Speaker 2: invited to the White House and it becomes a photo
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Speaker 2: op and the president is handed a jersey with his
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Speaker 2: name on the back. And the problem with this president
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Speaker 2: is a lot of people don't want to go. They're
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Speaker 2: just not interested in going.
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Speaker 3: Such a bummer as the people's house. You're standing in history.
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Speaker 3: You worked hard to get that invitation.
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Speaker 2: And that is what a lot of players who do
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Speaker 2: go and they say, we have to set politics aside.
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Speaker 1: But there is a history of doing that. I mean going.
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Speaker 2: Let's go back to twenty seventeen, right, Steph Curry the
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Speaker 2: NBA title, the Golden State Warriors had no not going,
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Speaker 2: not going, and consequently the White House rescinded the invite
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Speaker 2: and went to the National Museum of African American History
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Speaker 2: in Washington again. The same year Pittsburgh Penguins Penguins win
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Speaker 2: the Stanley Cup. At that time, then President Donald Trump
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Speaker 2: claimed that the whole team was coming, but no, a
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Speaker 2: few just didn't want to come due to political objections.
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Speaker 1: The Eagles.
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Speaker 2: The next year, they won the Super Bowl and a
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Speaker 2: lot of the players said nope, we're not attending, and
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Speaker 2: the administration canceled the visit altogether. I mean, we go
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Speaker 2: back to nineteen eighty four, the Boston Celtics skipped the
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Speaker 2: visit to the Reagan White House. We're not just talking
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Speaker 2: about Trump here, We're talking about all the way back
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Speaker 2: when Ronald Reagan was the president and Larry Bird a
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Speaker 2: great statement from him, if the.
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Speaker 1: President wants to see me, he knows where to find me.
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Speaker 3: What's that? Man?
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Speaker 1: I don't know. And so we're going to see now.
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Speaker 2: The Dodgers have accepted going to the White House and
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Speaker 2: having that photo op meeting the president, however, and Keiki
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Speaker 2: Hernandez has just said, Nope, not going.
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Speaker 1: And there's a whole political move here do you go?
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Speaker 2: And a lot of it depends on who obviously, who's
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Speaker 2: in power, who is the most polarized, And I think
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Speaker 2: this president happens to be the most polarizing president I
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Speaker 2: think we've ever had, certainly in my lifetime.
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Speaker 3: Oh absolutely, you know, you go all the way back.
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Speaker 3: Who the hell knows.
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Speaker 2: Well and he's one of And what he does is
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Speaker 2: he wouldn't say and wouldn't say, Okay, you know, it's
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Speaker 2: a shame that that person doesn't want to come or
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Speaker 2: the team doesn't want to visit, and I was looking
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Speaker 2: forward to it. Oh, no, they are losers. I'm yanking
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Speaker 2: back the invitation anyway. I shouldn't have invited them. And
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Speaker 2: a lot of people think, and the manager of the
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Speaker 2: Dodger says, you can't even think politics. You're visiting the
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Speaker 2: white House. You're visiting and it's the president. It's the president. C.
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Speaker 2: You're walking into the White House and that when you
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Speaker 2: think about it, does the presidency override the president?
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Speaker 1: Most people say yes. I would think there's one or
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Speaker 1: two people.
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Speaker 2: That say no, that the president is more important than
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Speaker 2: the president. C. Yeah, he brought all that stuff off right,
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Speaker 2: and that his position. I mean he The only time
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Speaker 2: we ever talked about Donald Trump slumming it in the
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Speaker 2: White House was when Donald Trump became the president. And
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Speaker 2: the same thing with Air Force one. The Trump plane
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Speaker 2: is far.
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Speaker 1: More luxurious than Air Force one. Oh.
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Speaker 3: He came into the White House the first time saying
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Speaker 3: what a dump. It was yeah, he retracted or something,
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Speaker 3: but it was.
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Speaker 2: Even Now what the first thing he said about Air
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Speaker 2: Force one, The first thing he said when the new
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Speaker 2: Air Force one took this guy's he's talked about its luxury,
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Speaker 2: its luxuriousness.
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Speaker 1: That's it. That's where he talked about. Now just it's
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