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Soldier Charged for Betting Big | Pregaming Like Its College · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 2: someone's trying to get a raise.
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  Speaker 3: I hate when he comes to work drunk. It's the worst,
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  Speaker 3: so difficult. Okay, chokey, let's get back into things. This
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  Speaker 3: story bothers me in many many ways. You have a
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  Speaker 3: US Special Forces soldier, his name Gannon Van Dyke, which
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  Speaker 3: is the coolest name ever Gannon van Dyke, private investigator.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, and then.
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  Speaker 3: That's my Conway tribute there. He just got arrested for
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  Speaker 3: allegedly turning a top secret military operation into a personal payday.
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  Speaker 3: That's the big takeaway here, right, So according to the prosecutors, he's,
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  Speaker 3: you know, directly involved in planning and carrying out the
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  Speaker 3: US mission that removed the Venezuela's leader, Nicholas Madora. So
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  Speaker 3: while the operation was still secret, nobody knew about it.
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  Speaker 3: The allegations here are that he started placing bets on
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  Speaker 3: a prediction site called poly market. Kno, I know. I
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  Speaker 3: just looked at Toto because he's up on you know,
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  Speaker 3: all kinds of things bitcoin and this type of stuff,
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  Speaker 3: and he's nodding. So you familiar with polymarket? I do
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  Speaker 3: know poly Market, yes, so explained. It's one of those
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  Speaker 3: newer sites that you can just bet on stuff.
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  Speaker 4: You bet on it's yes, I don't recommend it, but yeah,
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  Speaker 4: you can put up a thought and then have people
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  Speaker 4: bet on it. So they're like Neil this morning on
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  Speaker 4: KFI will say Bill handles seven times and then you
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  Speaker 4: listen and then if it hits I don't know the
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  Speaker 4: ins and outs. I don't know how they get paid.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know how money is transacted, but that's pretty
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  Speaker 4: much the idea.
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  Speaker 2: We should do that with handle.
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  Speaker 3: I know what he's gonna say every damn day, Holy smokes.
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  Speaker 3: So that's beyond betting. That is just that is gambling.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't know about this particular I'm not putting
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  Speaker 3: this on polymarket. I have no idea, but I'm just
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  Speaker 3: saying that is straight up. I want to I want
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  Speaker 3: to gamble on something today. Okay, I get it. So
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  Speaker 3: it's like betting on the outcome of a game, but
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  Speaker 3: you already know the score if you're participating. This is
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  Speaker 3: why sports figures are not supposed to bet on their
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  Speaker 3: own games and the like, or any games for that matter,
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  Speaker 3: because they can change the score or they're gonna know it.
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  Speaker 3: In this particular case, because if you're the one planning
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  Speaker 3: and taking out somebody because you have military insight, it
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  Speaker 3: puts you in horrible inside trading. So he placed about
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  Speaker 3: thirteen bets between December and late January, put down roughly
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  Speaker 3: thirty three thousand dollars no jump change there, but walked
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  Speaker 3: away with over four hundred and nine thousand dollars. Now
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  Speaker 3: things go from nah, that's pretty sketchy to federal charges
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  Speaker 3: because if he knew what was going on and was
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  Speaker 3: playing it, that causes a massive conflict of interest, not
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  Speaker 3: to mention inside trading, so using classified information that only
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  Speaker 3: you know he has, or a small few to make money,
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  Speaker 3: stealing non public government information, fraud because you got commodities,
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  Speaker 3: you go wire, you got all this stuff, legal financial transactions.
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  Speaker 3: In short, it's insider trading period across the board, but
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  Speaker 3: it's with in this case, military secrets. It's not stock
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  Speaker 3: tips or anything like that. So I know people are
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  Speaker 3: going to go, well, you know, politicians do it all
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  Speaker 3: the time. Didn't you follow follow Pelosi for a while?
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  Speaker 3: Con Yeah, so you can. You can basically buy what
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  Speaker 3: she buys and sell what she sells, and people made
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  Speaker 3: money off that, still do yeah, because I don't know,
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  Speaker 3: she seemed to know inside information. So the reason you
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  Speaker 3: can kind of see how easily it becomes sketchy. So
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  Speaker 3: after the operation, a photo of him showed up in
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  Speaker 3: his Google account, allegedly taken on a military ship, possibly
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  Speaker 3: the ussuh Iwashima.
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  Speaker 4: And.
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  Speaker 3: After cash in, he moved most of the money into
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  Speaker 3: crypto accounts overseas. That's probably not a good look either.
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  Speaker 3: Then he shifted into a new brokerage account, tried to
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  Speaker 3: delete his poly Market account, and lied about losing access
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  Speaker 3: to his email. So that kind of pushing things around
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  Speaker 3: tipped off poly Market, who says they're the ones that
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  Speaker 3: turned him in. They spotted this suspicious trading, turned him in.
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  Speaker 3: Their stance are like, hey, inside trading isn't tolerated, okay.
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  Speaker 3: Government Mint's message in this whole thing was if you're
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  Speaker 3: trusted with classified intel, you don't get to use it
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  Speaker 3: to win the lottery. It doesn't seem to be illegal
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  Speaker 3: in itself per se. He you know, Donald Trump came out,
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  Speaker 3: he was asked about this, and he says, hey, I
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  Speaker 3: don't like I don't like betting in general, but it
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  Speaker 3: smells bad. That's something he says, smells bad. But we'll
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  Speaker 3: see how this ends up. The thing that hit me
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  Speaker 3: though on all this, and I'll leave you with this thought,
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  Speaker 3: is those old traditional things that you think about with
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  Speaker 3: the military spree, honor, to be able to hold yourself
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  Speaker 3: above these things. You're handling secrets, you're handling weapons, you're
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  Speaker 3: handling the very safety of the United States. Or whatever
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  Speaker 3: country you're fighting for defending. And it bums me out
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  Speaker 3: that we've gotten to this place where it seems like
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  Speaker 3: every person for themselves.
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  Speaker 2: Listen.
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  Speaker 3: I have my own issues, but I'll tell you when
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  Speaker 3: I was held with information about the station in management,
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  Speaker 3: I told friends that I worked with, if you asked
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  Speaker 3: me a question you're not supposed to know anything about,
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  Speaker 3: I will lie to you. Don't ask me about stuff
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  Speaker 3: that you shouldn't know about, because they're trusting me with
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  Speaker 3: this information. And I think that's an important part of character,
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  Speaker 3: is not using information trust me. We've had people at
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  Speaker 3: the station who would throw information around or give it
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  Speaker 3: to press or the trades, and it always bummed me out.
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  Speaker 3: It's like you're supposed to be above those things when
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  Speaker 3: you put in a position of authority, and that you know,
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  Speaker 3: bums me out most about this. That even those that
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  Speaker 3: are high up in the military, that are are held
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  Speaker 3: to specific standards are letting us down on one end
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  Speaker 3: of this and putting money in their pocket alone and
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  Speaker 3: whatever arguments they don't get paid enough for. That's all
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  Speaker 3: crap to me. Integrity and character, we all lose it,
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  Speaker 3: we all make mistakes, but like this, to me, is just.
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  Speaker 2: Gross, all right.
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  Speaker 3: Justice Department Internal watchdog is launching a review into the
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  Speaker 3: DOJ's production of files and documents related to Jeffrey Epstein.
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  Speaker 3: A couple of trending stories here, and of course, Meta,
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  Speaker 3: the parent company of Instagram and Facebook set it plans
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  Speaker 3: to lay off roughly ten percent about eight thousand people
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  Speaker 3: and close thousands of open roles due to AI and
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  Speaker 3: their usage and efficiencies. We must be efficient, so efficient
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  Speaker 3: by everybody. So some of the stories that were unfolding
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  Speaker 3: and letting you know about going on right now?
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  Speaker 2: All right?
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  Speaker 3: So new air quality report says a massive chunk of Americans,
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  Speaker 3: that's US, are breathing unhealthy air. And guests, who's the
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  Speaker 3: worst offender by far?
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  Speaker 1: Pick me?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, California, uber ales it's the worst offender by far.
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  Speaker 3: About forty four percent of people in the US are
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  Speaker 3: dealing with bad air, but in California it's way way worse,
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  Speaker 3: eighty two percent, eighty two percent of residents.
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  Speaker 2: Here in wait, are.
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  Speaker 3: We the Golden State or the sun sunshine? I get
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  Speaker 3: us competed with Florida the Golden right? Where the Golden State?
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  Speaker 3: And then what is Florida Sunshine?
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  Speaker 2: Okay? Thanks? Pal love you mean it.
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  Speaker 3: Eighty two percent of residents live in polue areas here
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  Speaker 3: in California. Holy hell, don't we have like every rule
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  Speaker 3: environmental rule known to man? Don't we pay like triple
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  Speaker 3: what everybody else pays in gas? Not because of Trump people,
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry. We've long before Trump was sitting in that seat.
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  Speaker 3: We've had issues that might be a new issue right now,
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  Speaker 3: but we've had We've been paying out the nose for
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  Speaker 3: gasoline here and I thought that's all environmental stuff, isn't it.
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  Speaker 3: And they're they're saying that we have to drive electric
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  Speaker 3: cars and all of that. God knows it isn't factories
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  Speaker 3: because everybody, all big companies are moving out of California.
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  Speaker 3: So why the hell we live right by the beach.
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  Speaker 3: We've got massive sequoias, we've you know, with what do
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  Speaker 3: they refer to these areas like the lungs of the
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  Speaker 3: world that have lots of trees, like the rainforest and
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  Speaker 3: the life, and still we're bringing all that in. So Okay,
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  Speaker 3: if you the La Long Beach area, worst boom smog everywhere, horrible, horrible, horrible,
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  Speaker 3: Even though I remember growing up and seeing that thick
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  Speaker 3: brown blanket that was all over. So it's held that
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  Speaker 3: title twenty six of the last twenty seven years worst
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  Speaker 3: smog in the country. Region averages around one hundred and
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  Speaker 3: fifty nine unhealthy smog days a year. It's over half
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  Speaker 3: the year. Man right, Okay, the one man Sam's close enough.
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  Speaker 3: Rank seventh worst of particle pollution. That's the you know, particulates,
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  Speaker 3: that's stuff that we breathe in. And I wish you
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  Speaker 3: could say, well, it's just bad, but we didn't just
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  Speaker 3: fail here. We completely landed on our face in every category.
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  Speaker 3: You've got nearby counties San Bernardino, the sand Burdio there,
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  Speaker 3: Riverside also failed everything. Orange County didn't do that much better,
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  Speaker 3: and they tend to do most things better than Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 3: So the things in the air that are concerning smog
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  Speaker 3: or ozone comes from cars, trucks, just anything dealing with heat, sunlight.
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  Speaker 3: It irritates your lungs, makes breathing harder. People with COPD
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  Speaker 3: and asthma and the like get it worse. These tiny
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  Speaker 3: little particles from the factories, wildfires, these types of things.
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  Speaker 3: You know what's crazy is like those house fires we
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  Speaker 3: had over a year ago. When you look at wildfires.
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  Speaker 3: Those reverse anything we have ever done as far as
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  Speaker 3: conservation and trying to save ourselves from impending doom. So
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  Speaker 3: La has the lowest particle pollution levels ever recorded right now,
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  Speaker 3: which is good, But smog is actually getting worse again,
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  Speaker 3: that's not good. Kids are hit the hardest. Their little
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  Speaker 3: lug lungs are still developing. They breathe more air for
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  Speaker 3: their size than we do as adults. They spend more
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  Speaker 3: time outside, not as much as we did when we
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  Speaker 3: were kids. And there's no undo button with that. The
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  Speaker 3: lugs lungs can be beaten to a pulp and no
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  Speaker 3: way to undo it. So the bottom line here is
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  Speaker 3: we've got massive environmental issues. No matter what we do.
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  Speaker 3: People are getting sick, costing families money, and kids are
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  Speaker 3: being kept out of school and parents are out of
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  Speaker 3: work because of the horrible, horrible air here. We just
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  Speaker 3: can't get it right in California. There's something has got
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  Speaker 3: to change. Let's hope it changes with the Google natorial race.
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  Speaker 3: As far as understanding and dealing with things here at home,
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  Speaker 3: more and more, all right, Israeli Prime Minister, A couple
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  Speaker 3: of things we're following, Benjamin Netanyaho said today that he
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  Speaker 3: has undergone treatment for prostate cancer. This is in his
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  Speaker 3: first public acknowledgment of the diagnosis. But don't they say
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  Speaker 3: we all men get it eventually, so something to look
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  Speaker 3: forward cono. I don't think that's right, well, that all
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  Speaker 3: men get it.
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  Speaker 2: I've heard that several places that all.
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  Speaker 3: Will give you. Yeah, if you live long enough, you're
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  Speaker 3: going to get it. It just kind of goes with
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  Speaker 3: the territory.
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  Speaker 2: Why are you looking at Creed to disagree on this one?
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  Speaker 3: Why are you turning into Cliff claven Hey agreed to
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  Speaker 3: disagree on that one.
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  Speaker 2: Sammy, Okay, fine, all right, move on.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, let's see, we'll wait it out.
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  Speaker 2: See who gets it? All right?
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  Speaker 3: Drinks Drinks has always been you know, cocktails, booze has
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  Speaker 3: always been expensive. You go to any event nowadays, though,
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  Speaker 3: you go to a sporting event, anything, and you're gonna
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  Speaker 3: be charged up the wazoo to get a beer or
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  Speaker 3: booze of any kind. And they're getting so expensive that
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  Speaker 3: the adults are going back to that old college trick, pregaming.
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  Speaker 2: That's where you feilure will cole struver with the big
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  Speaker 2: old nod.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's where you buy your own booze, get liquored
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  Speaker 3: up on the cheap stuff, throw back a couple of paps,
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  Speaker 3: blue ribbons, and you don't worry about the expensive stuff. So,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I thought people still did this anyways, but
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  Speaker 3: apparently it's becoming much more in vogue. People are drinking
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  Speaker 3: at home before they go out so they don't have
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  Speaker 3: to spend all that money at bars, concerts or events.
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  Speaker 3: I can see that.
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  Speaker 2: And now.
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  Speaker 3: You know you can you can uber over or way
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  Speaker 3: mow or whatever. Yeah, have you done that recently? Will?
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  Speaker 2: Is that why you're nodding?
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  Speaker 3: Have you been to an event recently where you said,
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  Speaker 3: you know what we're gonna We're gonna tie one on
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  Speaker 3: before we leave. Of course, friends will be like, hey,
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  Speaker 3: you want to go out, and I'll be like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: I mean I need to be here first. Yeah, I'm
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  Speaker 3: gonna prime the freaking pumps before we go out.
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  Speaker 2: Aactly.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, it's funny reading this particular article, they're
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  Speaker 3: saying the average cocktail in the US is thirteen sixty one,
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  Speaker 3: and I laughed.
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  Speaker 2: Not in LA.
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  Speaker 3: You're not getting a cocktail for under fifteen bucks for one,
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  Speaker 3: and you're probably knocking on the door of twenty or
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  Speaker 3: twenty five bucks depending on where you are. Some venues
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  Speaker 3: are going to be really high like that, then they're
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  Speaker 3: gonna be ridiculous. So people are, you know, calculating that
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  Speaker 3: carry them one going not going to happen. So this
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  Speaker 3: whole thing, they're gonna have a few drinks beforehand. They
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  Speaker 3: probably meet over at will Cole Schreiber's house. He tells
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  Speaker 3: them first you want to take the one on one
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  Speaker 3: and he gives them great directions, I'm told, and or
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  Speaker 3: they bring you know, flasks or small bottles.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I gotta tell you something.
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  Speaker 3: I like old movies, and I'm a sucker for the
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  Speaker 3: tall man movies or the thin man movies. Rather thin man,
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  Speaker 3: the old thin man movies. And it makes me think
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  Speaker 3: back to the days of having a hip flask, like
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  Speaker 3: that's completely illegal to be walking around with. But the
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  Speaker 3: concept to me is like the ah man, what a day,
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  Speaker 3: reach back and and that kind of concept to me
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  Speaker 3: seems like, wow, that would be nice if that was
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  Speaker 3: the norm. I know, listen, if you abused alcohol, this
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  Speaker 3: is not for you, I'm saying, if it's not your issue,
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  Speaker 3: But having a little a nip, oh it's cold outside,
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  Speaker 3: pulling that out of the back pocket, So oftentimes they're
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  Speaker 3: meeting up at places before the event. Some have even
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  Speaker 3: doing post game to avoid going to a bar and
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  Speaker 3: having to spend very common. About one in three drinkers
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  Speaker 3: say right now they're pregaming to save money. Others are
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  Speaker 3: just skipping alcohol altogether. That seems so drastic.
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  Speaker 2: Switching to.
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  Speaker 3: Let's say, switching to switching to what her? Is that
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  Speaker 3: a booze? Is that a vodka? There's so many vodkas.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what's there? A new vodka by George Clooney.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: People also sharing tips online how to sneak drinks into
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  Speaker 3: into events. Now, I've some of the things that I've
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  Speaker 3: seen little flasks, uh, fake bras that have you know,
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  Speaker 3: two flasks in them.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, this one's rough.
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  Speaker 3: Fake tampons, so it's a little tampon container. It's like
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  Speaker 3: a little why are you nodding?
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  Speaker 2: Cono? I've seen them, you've seen them, you used them? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I guess you could pass. I'm there for.
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  Speaker 3: They're yeah, they're empty and it's a flask, so you'd
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  Speaker 3: have to drink out of it.
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  Speaker 2: Well and they plastic, Well.
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  Speaker 3: No, they're not the they're not real. These are actual
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  Speaker 3: flasks that are made you can't have metal because then
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  Speaker 3: you can't get into places. Ah, Okay, I'm learning a lot.
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  Speaker 3: It's a whole different world in the I E. I'm
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  Speaker 3: finding it's just a different there's a lot. There's a
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  Speaker 3: separate set of rules in San Bordeu and I get it.
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  Speaker 3: So the funny thing is that you know America alcohol
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  Speaker 3: brands looking at this, and you know what they're doing.
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  Speaker 3: They're putting out these fifty millilter mini bottles. They're like, hey,
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  Speaker 3: if you can't beat them, join them, make them easier
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  Speaker 3: to carry in some brands even marketing them as stylish.
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  Speaker 3: Some things trending bad Bath and Beyond confirmed it's going
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  Speaker 3: to be returning to California after filing for bankruptcy just
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  Speaker 3: a couple of years ago, back in twenty twenty three.
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  Speaker 3: So the home goods retailer is going to open about
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  Speaker 3: twelve locations throughout the state here in Cali. Is that
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  Speaker 3: what people say Cali? No, we call it the Forn,
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  Speaker 3: the Fornia. Welcome to the Forn in a combined joint
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  Speaker 3: combination with a container store, which I love. So I
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  Speaker 3: do love to be some bed Beth Beyond looking forward
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  Speaker 3: to that stroll through the aisles and look for curtains, drapes. Cheers,
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: let's go in the way back machine to nineteen eighty six. Yeah, Chernobyl.
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  Speaker 3: The disaster freaked the entire world out and everybody in
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  Speaker 3: one fail swoop when maybe we shouldn't be doing nuclear power.
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  Speaker 3: Decades have gone by and still people have freaked out
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  Speaker 3: about it, but the mood seems to be shifting. Nuclear
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  Speaker 3: energy is making a comeback. Handle's talked about it here.
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  Speaker 3: He's a fan of it. I'm a fan of it
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  Speaker 3: as well. There's issues, there's issues with any you know.
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  Speaker 3: Energy is a powerful and sometimes volatile thing. You know,
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: I remember, you know, I was pretty young there in
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  Speaker 3: the eighties, still as a teenager, but one of my
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: first punk rock bands the name was three m I
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  Speaker 3: for three Mile Island, and that was like this big
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  Speaker 3: deal nuclear energy and what's it gonna do? It's gonna
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: kill us all. But of course I grew up in
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: the nuclear age and when the Cold War still existed,
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  Speaker 3: even though it was pretty cool, but we had to
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: do those drop underneath your desk and basically kiss your
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  Speaker 3: ask good bye, because what are you gonna do if
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: there's nuclear war? Boy, this wood pulp fiber desk with
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: the laminate is really gonna save me.
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  Speaker 2: But it's changing.
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  Speaker 3: Countries need we need reliable power. Clean edge energy is
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: in demand. We're looking for new ways and let's face it,
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: solar is a great option. As the technology gets better,
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: it can be if you know, it could be space.
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: What's the word I'm looking for. It could need a
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: lot of space depending some of it's not that attractive,
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: but that keeps getting better and better. The wind turbines
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: seem silly. I mean it, just I get it. But
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: they're massive, they take up a lot of space, and
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  Speaker 3: I don't know how much energy they truly truly produce.
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: So you've got war, You've got global tensions where right
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: now dealing with Iran. And as you have these things
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  Speaker 3: come to the forefront, every country is looking at ways
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: to have better options for energy. We're using energy more
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: than ever before. The advent of AI is creating a
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: need for even more energy, and on the flip side
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: of that, more cooling needs more use for water to
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: cool the because of the amount of information and the
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: speed of information when it comes to AI. So there
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: are four hundred plus some odd nuclear reactors running worldwide,
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: about seventy more being built right now, and it provides
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  Speaker 3: about ten percent of global electricity. Reactors safer than before.
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: Despite what the Simpsons will have you believe, it's cheaper,
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: it's more efficient to run low carbon energy source. So
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: the US, China, and you know, the globe as a
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: whole is looking for more and more. The US has
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: the most nuclear power right now with ninety four reactors,
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: but we want to quadruple that by twenty fifty. China's
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: building reactors will go crazy. Right now, wants to overtake
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: the US in that Russia is exporting nuclear tech worldwide.
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: They got building plants and other countries all kinds of things.
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: And now it's not just about the energy. There's a
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: point like the Space program, things like that. It's about
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: global competition, and we're jumping into that. Europe is rethinking
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: that because they don't have as much and looking into that.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: Countries like France are all.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: In Germany and war is a big factor. Ukraine depends
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: heavily on nuclear power, especially during the war with Russia.
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: Right now, control over nuclear plants becomes security, It becomes
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: that part of the security of your country. So this
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: as we get further away from nineteen eighty six and
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: the Chernobyl disaster, this is becoming reliable, low carbon and
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  Speaker 3: hard to replace. So this is going to be a
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: furthering discussion and something that we have to look at
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  Speaker 3: seriously because really, even though there are dangerous aspects to it,
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: it's the best option that we have thus far. All right,
• 27:23
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