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Hegseth Barred Trans Troops · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM 640, the Bill Handel Show
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  Speaker 1: on demand on the iHeartRadio app. It is an October
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  Speaker 1: 26th morning and a whole lot's going on. Oh, yes,
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  Speaker 1: it is. The Israeli election tomorrow, we're going to talk
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  Speaker 1: about that. That's hugely important to us. Of course, midterms
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  Speaker 1: coming up on next Tuesday. Every day at 7.30, I'm
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  Speaker 1: doing a voter guide, my vote, why, and you should
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  Speaker 1: not follow my advice. And at the same time, what
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  Speaker 1: else is going on? Oh, calendar, November 14th, and we're
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  Speaker 1: going to be broadcasting. I'm joining Neil on his broadcast tomorrow. uh,
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  Speaker 1: for thanks grilling at the wild fork in Laguna Niguel.
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  Speaker 1: And that's two to five o'clock. So a lot's going on.
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  Speaker 1: So now I want to do, I want to give
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  Speaker 1: you a quote at the department of war. We do training,
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  Speaker 1: not trannies. That was an, uh, at the Iowa state
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  Speaker 1: fair in August of, uh, this year. Okay. No more diversity,
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  Speaker 1: no more equity and no more inclusion initiatives. Uh, All right.
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  Speaker 1: September of 2026, the following month, there was a state
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  Speaker 1: of the force addressed to junior officers and enlisted troops
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  Speaker 1: in Virginia. No fatties, no trannies, no beardos, no weirdos,
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  Speaker 1: no wimps, no radicals. Trans is out at the DOD
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  Speaker 1: posted on X in July. And what is going on? Well, clearly,
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  Speaker 1: Pete Hegseth, our secretary of defense of war, who is
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  Speaker 1: completely unqualified to be the secretary of defense, other than
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  Speaker 1: he is an acolyte of the president. Anybody who loves
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  Speaker 1: the president, the more you love, the higher position you get.
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  Speaker 1: And what he has done is that and this was
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  Speaker 1: in front of a Marines ridding the military of all
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  Speaker 1: transgender troops. So what the Pentagon did was set up
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  Speaker 1: these review boards at bases around the globe, manned by, well,
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  Speaker 1: uniformed service members, regular people, and officers and enlisted guys,
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  Speaker 1: with orders that basically ensured that trans troops that appear
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  Speaker 1: before them would be voted out of the military. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: Marine Corps Base Quantico. These boards assigned to carry out
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  Speaker 1: those orders. You must... throw out these soldiers who are trans.
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  Speaker 1: And instead of firing them, the boards are voting to
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  Speaker 1: keep them in direct violation of policy set by Hegseth,
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  Speaker 1: who has ordered those boards to throw out trannies. Trans. Trannies,
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  Speaker 1: as he said. And this was happening in the Navy.
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  Speaker 1: The boards were given strict rules instructing them to force
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  Speaker 1: out these sailors. And the boards are rebelling. And this
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  Speaker 1: is nine out of 12 cases Navy and Marine boards
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  Speaker 1: voted to retain the trans members. Now, the Pentagon keeps
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  Speaker 1: these proceedings absolutely secret. Outsiders, even spouses, are not allowed
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  Speaker 1: in there to attend the hearings. Officials don't release numbers.
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  Speaker 1: Leaders won't discuss the outcome. This information was compiled by
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  Speaker 1: the New York Times through interviews with service members and
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  Speaker 1: lawyers involved in the hearings. Now, the number of Navy
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  Speaker 1: and Marine cases is very small and could easily change
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  Speaker 1: as more hearings are conducted. So far in the Army
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  Speaker 1: or Air Force, people are being thrown out, not in
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  Speaker 1: the Marines and not in the Navy. And when you
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  Speaker 1: look at this, what a stunning rebuke from the armed forces.
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  Speaker 1: Following orders is bedrock. And these boards are going the
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  Speaker 1: other way.
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  Speaker 2: Why?
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  Speaker 1: Because there are trans troops that are highly trained, have
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  Speaker 1: been in combat, have exemplary records, have shown valor in
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  Speaker 1: some cases, and otherwise are just the kind of troops
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  Speaker 1: that this nation wants to keep. and retain the military
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  Speaker 1: and don't want them because they're trannies and beardos and weirdos.
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  Speaker 1: That's the other side. Now, the numbers are really small.
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  Speaker 1: 4,250 people, about a tenth of a percent of the
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  Speaker 1: military are, in fact, trans. And President Trump signed an
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  Speaker 1: order barring trans troops from his first week in office,
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  Speaker 1: saying the action was needed to weed out dishonorable radicals
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  Speaker 1: who poison morale and waste resources, because that's a given.
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  Speaker 1: If you're trans, you are immoral and you are a
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  Speaker 1: threat and you can't do a good job. And how
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  Speaker 1: do they know you're trans? What if you don't say
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  Speaker 1: you're trans? Well, any indication that you're trans, if you
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  Speaker 1: sort of look like you're trans. Now, if I'm in
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  Speaker 1: the military, I wouldn't last two minutes to Not because
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  Speaker 1: I'm who I am, but I've got a dirty little secret.
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  Speaker 1: At night, when it is dark and I have to pee,
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  Speaker 1: what I do is I go into the bathroom and
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  Speaker 1: I don't stand up because I'm going to miss. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: here's my secret. I sit down to pee in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of the night. That surprises no one. Yeah. you're out.
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  Speaker 1: You are out of the military. You pervert, you trans,
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  Speaker 1: you sit down to pee. How dare you do that?
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  Speaker 2: Gone.
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  Speaker 1: Pete has says, says get handle out because he does that. Uh, it's, uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's crazy. It really is. And it's unfortunate and it
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  Speaker 1: is a shame and it makes no sense. And frankly, it's, uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's not even humane. I mean, give me a break, huh?
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  Speaker 1: Can people be in a different light, a different sex?
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  Speaker 1: Can they be gay and still be valuable members?
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  Speaker 2: Nope.
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  Speaker 1: Nope. Not in this administration. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Let me tell you what's going on in Israel before
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  Speaker 1: the vote tomorrow. No, no, no. Let's do this instead.
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  Speaker 1: The cat and mouse game between premium credit card firms
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  Speaker 1: and points junkies and the scam that's going on, but
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  Speaker 1: not by the companies towards consumers. It's the other way.
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  Speaker 1: And I'll explain that. And I'm going to go and
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  Speaker 1: pee during the break. And since it's light, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to stand up to do that. Just want to point
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  Speaker 1: that out.
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  Speaker 2: You're listening to Bill Handel on demand from KFI AM 640.
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  Speaker 1: And it is, well, this week is going to be
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  Speaker 1: so busy. First of all, U.S. forces in the Middle
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  Speaker 1: East preparing to launch some potentially major military options against
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  Speaker 1: Iran or operations against Iran. Well, that's not going to
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  Speaker 1: happen until after the election, clearly, where the president said,
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  Speaker 1: after the election, I'm going to end the war. And
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  Speaker 1: I guess the inference is make sure you vote Republicans
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  Speaker 1: and then the war will end. Make sure you vote
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  Speaker 1: Republicans in. And then tomorrow, the Israeli elections. We'll talk
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  Speaker 1: about that because that is important stuff for us. And
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  Speaker 1: of course, the midterms coming up and every day at 730,
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  Speaker 1: my voter guide. I'm going through the propositions for the
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  Speaker 1: most part because that affects everybody in the state. Now,
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  Speaker 1: let me tell you what's going on in the world
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  Speaker 1: of credit cards. There is a cat and mouse game
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  Speaker 1: between premium credit card firms and points junkies. And I
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  Speaker 1: am a point junkie. Banks are cracking down on these
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  Speaker 1: credit card points on the junkies who say they use
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  Speaker 1: tactics that cross the line and violate the rules. I
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  Speaker 1: don't do that. I don't know how to do that.
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  Speaker 1: Although I can now go on the internet. YouTube has
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  Speaker 1: all kinds of fun ways of screwing the credit card companies.
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  Speaker 1: Citi and Chase have changed their policy that limits sign-up
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  Speaker 1: bonuses to target cardholders who apply for the same card
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  Speaker 1: multiple times to get the points. And there was no
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  Speaker 1: way of checking. Now they check. They didn't used to
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  Speaker 1: because that was a neat way of getting these ridiculous
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  Speaker 1: amount of points or a lot of points. American Express
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  Speaker 1: has a team to detect abuse and they claw back
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  Speaker 1: rewards and just close accounts. So there's a website offering
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  Speaker 1: Chase Sapphire cardholders, which I have, early access to World
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  Speaker 1: Cup tickets. And that crashed for certain users. The bank
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  Speaker 1: was offering to compensate those users because it crashed with
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  Speaker 1: 5,000 courtesy points. Well, there's a video out there that
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  Speaker 1: flagged a detail. Chase was not checking whether those cardholders
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  Speaker 1: actually tried to buy tickets. They just said they tried.
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  Speaker 1: and got the 5,000 points. So the dance keeps on growing.
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  Speaker 1: It's a universe of points junkies constantly hunting for ways
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  Speaker 1: to milk reward programs and the banks that are trying
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  Speaker 1: to stop it. And the banks pay money for this.
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  Speaker 1: It costs them money, these rewards programs, because that's the
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  Speaker 1: way to hold on to customers. When I signed up
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  Speaker 1: with Chase, boy, they offered me a whole lot of points.
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  Speaker 1: And of course I took it. Well, Citi this year
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  Speaker 1: implemented a policy limiting cardholders to one sign-up bonus a
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  Speaker 1: lifetime for its cards. And now, of course, they can
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  Speaker 1: figure out who it is because of technology. Chase implemented
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  Speaker 1: a similar policy last year for Sapphire holders. And on Friday,
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  Speaker 1: American Express, they were addressing more legitimate forms of gaming
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  Speaker 1: during an earnings call. And the chief executive, Steven Squarey, said,
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  Speaker 1: while AI may allow people to game a little bit more,
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  Speaker 1: the technology we have will allow us to make it
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  Speaker 1: easier to respond and the company can more easily adjust
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  Speaker 1: its rules. And for example, Amex Platinum card holders now
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  Speaker 1: need to spend $ 75, 000 a year to bring guests into
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  Speaker 1: certain lounges around the country and around the world. And Amex,
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  Speaker 1: for years, has had teams to stop that. It's a game.
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  Speaker 1: It really is. And this community of gamers, it's a
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  Speaker 1: small world that's getting bigger. They live on tips they
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  Speaker 1: find in online groups from influencers. And the richer the program,
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  Speaker 1: and they're all getting richer and richer, then these gamers
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  Speaker 1: are getting more and more perks. And here's a fight
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  Speaker 1: with technology. Technology starts negatively and then, in many cases,
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  Speaker 1: and then the patches come in. The patches always come
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  Speaker 1: in after someone has hacked, after a vulnerability has been found.
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  Speaker 1: So cardholders, agreements, if you read the agreements... generally allow
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  Speaker 1: the banks to close an account for any reason. I
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  Speaker 1: get that all the time on Handle on the Law. Bill,
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  Speaker 1: they closed my account. Do I have any recourse? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: get another card. Of course they can close the account.
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  Speaker 1: But there was no reason for them to close the account.
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  Speaker 1: They don't need a reason. Maybe they just don't like you. Okay. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe one of those cards, you know, like a Costco card,
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  Speaker 1: which I have, the Citi Costco card. Of course I do.
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  Speaker 1: And my picture is on there. And someone says, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't like the way he looks. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: just don't like it. Too many zits. He looks like
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  Speaker 1: a pepperoni pizza on his face. I'm just not interested
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  Speaker 1: in that. And so we're canceling the card. Okay. Now what?
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  Speaker 1: There's nothing now what? That's it. So these cardholder agreements
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  Speaker 1: allow banks to close an account for any reason. And
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  Speaker 1: they don't do that for that, but often with stipulations
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  Speaker 1: that let them seize points. They figured out that the
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  Speaker 1: points you have are not legitimate. That's another question that
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  Speaker 1: comes up. They're saying my points aren't legitimate. They took
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  Speaker 1: them away. Okay. Now, can you sue? Well, of course
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  Speaker 1: you can. But are you going to win? Of course not.
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  Speaker 1: And the banks have been tightening up rules for to
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  Speaker 1: stop these, I guess, scammers as far as the banks
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  Speaker 1: are concerned. And the perks are pretty good. My businesses,
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  Speaker 1: I run through credit cards, all of them. Everything I have,
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  Speaker 1: I run through credit cards, which means when I fly,
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  Speaker 1: you notice I fly business class, and you want to
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  Speaker 1: know why? Points. Points, baby, points. Love them points. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: coming up, L.A., and this is a Los Angeles story,
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  Speaker 1: also Orange County, but it's two different groups that are
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  Speaker 1: measured here. A large gap between city and suburban home
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  Speaker 1: prices and why L.A., it's the number one in the
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  Speaker 1: difference in price between city and suburban prices, which is
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  Speaker 1: really unusual. I'll explain. There's a reason for that. And
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  Speaker 1: then I'm going to do just one segment on what's
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  Speaker 1: happening in Israel, and we'll talk more about that vote
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow when it comes down.
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  Speaker 2: You're listening to Bill Handel On Demand from KFI AM640.
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  Speaker 1: I was just told by Ann that the Christmas trees
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  Speaker 1: are now coming in all over the place. And I
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  Speaker 1: think this year, as the past several years, the folks
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  Speaker 1: from Aldic are going to be providing Christmas tree, which
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  Speaker 1: they give away here on KFI. Aldic is an interesting store.
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  Speaker 1: It's probably illegal, but they only have male salespeople. You
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  Speaker 1: know that, don't you? What does that even mean? Pardon me?
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  Speaker 2: What does that even mean?
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Right.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Right over your head on that one. I guess so.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I am looking at the Americana on brand getting
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  Speaker 2: their Christmas tree right now.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Yeah. It's all male with all dick. Okay. Nevermind. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: you just got it.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: No, no. Thank you. That's the name of it. That's
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  Speaker 1: the name of the organization. Moving on.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry.
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  Speaker 1: Moving on. That is the name of the store. That's
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  Speaker 1: my fault.
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  Speaker 2: It is.
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  Speaker 1: That's my fault. Okay. I'm saying, you know, it's the
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  Speaker 1: name of the store.
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  Speaker 2: Leave me alone.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Keep it moving.
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  Speaker 1: Moving on. Okay. Moving on. All right. L.A. County, if
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  Speaker 1: you hear from the skeptics, will tell you that it's
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  Speaker 1: far from prime real estate these days. surveys show deep
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  Speaker 1: dissatisfaction about the quality of life. Data shows L.A. County's
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  Speaker 1: population dropping even as other places rebound. However, when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to real estate values, the center core of L.A.
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  Speaker 1: County still holds a major advantage over the suburbs. And
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  Speaker 1: the gap between L.A. center and And the suburbs out
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  Speaker 1: there is actually greater than in other major cities. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: greater than any city, which is, let me give you
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  Speaker 1: some stats about home. This is not just the affordability.
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  Speaker 1: This is affordability. Homes in L.A. County sold for 66%
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  Speaker 1: higher than the surrounding suburbs. That was June. The suburbs
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about, Riverside, San Bernardino, Ventura counties, Orange County,
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  Speaker 1: where average home prices are even higher than L.A., That
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  Speaker 1: was its own urban area in terms of being counted.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm going to talk about L.A. So you have
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  Speaker 1: the nation's 26 biggest metropolitan area. L.A. was first in
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  Speaker 1: this premium price difference compared with the suburbs. And if
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  Speaker 1: you look at it per square foot price, the difference
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  Speaker 1: is even greater. It is, well, homebuyers in L.A. proper, right,
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  Speaker 1: the core, We're talking about Hollywood. We're talking about L.A.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking about the basic core of L.A. County. The
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  Speaker 1: homebuyers are paying 84 percent premium over the surrounding areas.
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  Speaker 1: We pay so much more for the core of L.A.,
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  Speaker 1: more than any other city. 84%. Phoenix is 27% more.
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  Speaker 1: Dallas-Fort Worth, it's only 11% more. Denver, San Antonio, Detroit,
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  Speaker 1: suburban homes were actually more valuable than the homes in
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  Speaker 1: the city. Now, why? Well, there's a bunch of reasons.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, demand is being driven by young adults
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  Speaker 1: starting their own family. Where do they go? They can't
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  Speaker 1: be in the city core. Now, housing demand is half
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  Speaker 1: of the pricing picture. Then there's a supply factor. Are
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  Speaker 1: suburban homes coming on the market because boomers are passing
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  Speaker 1: on or moving elsewhere? Well, here's the problem with suburbs.
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  Speaker 1: Suburbs have always offered a lower cost alternative to people
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  Speaker 1: wanting a bigger house or a less urban feel. And
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  Speaker 1: the farther out you go, the cheaper it is, the
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  Speaker 1: bigger the home. I mean, there's no question. Your million-dollar
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  Speaker 1: home here in Burbank, which is right across the street,
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  Speaker 1: we look at that through the window, and these are
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  Speaker 1: homes at 1,100 square feet, one bathroom, two bedrooms or
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  Speaker 1: three bedrooms, one bath, a million dollars. Now, go out
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  Speaker 1: to San Bernardino. Go to the Inland Empire. Go out
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  Speaker 1: to Ventura County out there. What do you think a
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  Speaker 1: million-dollar buys you? Four-bedroom, three or four-baths? maybe 3,000 square feet,
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  Speaker 1: big yard, try to do that in Burbank, or try
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  Speaker 1: to do that anywhere in the Valley, or try to
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  Speaker 1: do that in West Hollywood, or you're not going to
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  Speaker 1: get a yard no matter what in West Hollywood. Strangely enough,
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  Speaker 1: Inland Empire, the prices have risen faster in recent years
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  Speaker 1: than L.A., but the disparity is so great because L.A.
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  Speaker 1: County still has the key advantages, more so than any
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  Speaker 1: other cities. First of all, the job centers are... basically
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  Speaker 1: inaccessible from neighboring counties. The drive is way too long.
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  Speaker 1: Remember Kono, who is no longer with us, drove an
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  Speaker 1: hour in every day. Uh, he's not dead. He's just
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  Speaker 1: working somewhere else. Oh no, he's dead. Uh, he's dead.
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  Speaker 1: He's dead to us.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, And Tony, how far do you drive in? Tony,
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  Speaker 1: who is doing our board Mondays for a while. 40 miles.
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  Speaker 1: 40 miles. How long does that take you? No traffic,
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  Speaker 1: 45 minutes, normally hour and a half to two hours. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I know. Look at, you know, with, and the rest
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  Speaker 1: of us, well, Will, how long does it take you
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  Speaker 1: to come in? About 15 minutes. Oh, that's not bad. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That's not bad. Neil, you're about 15 minutes, right? Yes. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: And Amy? Even less. Oh, good for you. Like 12 minutes.
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  Speaker 1: 12 minutes, which is great. And that's not a commute.
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  Speaker 1: That's just you jump in the car and drive down
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  Speaker 1: to the 7-Eleven. Well, that's driving in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: the night, though, too. That's true. That's true. So why also?
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  Speaker 1: Because the great job centers are here, too. And L.A.
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  Speaker 1: simply has just those advantages. But the problem is the
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  Speaker 1: prices are so insanely high. And it used to be
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  Speaker 1: where the city center was so it became so cheap
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  Speaker 1: because it was well, you know, it was falling apart.
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  Speaker 1: And in the suburbs, especially the suburbs close in, were
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  Speaker 1: becoming truly expensive. Even the point where you go out
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  Speaker 1: to Encino, go out to Sherman Oaks today, which is
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  Speaker 1: not part of the core. Uh, it's, it's the suburb.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the prices are, I mean, crazy. Uh, it's, it's,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I feel very bad. My daughter, Pamela, uh, said, dad,
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  Speaker 1: I'm never going to afford a house. Am I go?
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely not. But you promised me you'd help me with
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  Speaker 1: a down payment. Absolutely. The promise is still there. And
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  Speaker 1: this is an easy one. You make the promise. You
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  Speaker 1: never have to come through, go through with it. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: because even if I do help her or even pay
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  Speaker 1: for the down payment, guess what? She'll never afford a mortgage.
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  Speaker 1: Aren't I a good guy? You're damn right I am. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: the push to oust Bibi or Benjamin Netanyahu is actually
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  Speaker 1: drawing thousands of Israelis to fly home to vote, most
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  Speaker 1: of them from the U.S. Why? Well, there's one good
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  Speaker 1: reason for it. Actually, there's two good reasons for it.
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  Speaker 1: I'll share that with you, and we'll end the show
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  Speaker 1: with that.
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  Speaker 2: You're listening to Bill Handel On Demand from KFI AM640.
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  Speaker 1: And coming up next Tuesday, of course, the midterms and
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  Speaker 1: go out and vote, vote, vote. I think I'm sending
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  Speaker 1: in my mail-in ballot today. I just have to sign it. And, well,
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  Speaker 1: it's important that you vote. I don't care who you
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  Speaker 1: vote for. I don't care what you vote for. Please, please.
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  Speaker 1: You know, a lot of people died so you could
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  Speaker 1: vote in a democratic society. Okay. So with that, tomorrow
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  Speaker 1: is a vote in Israel. And it's an important vote.
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  Speaker 1: And it is a parliamentary system in which if a
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  Speaker 1: party doesn't get the majority vote– and it's been decades
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  Speaker 1: since that's happened– what happens is they have to cobble
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  Speaker 1: together various parties together. to make a majority. And that's
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  Speaker 1: what Netanyahu has been able to do. He's a Likud party,
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  Speaker 1: which is a very conservative party. But in order to
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  Speaker 1: make the vote, in order to get his majority, what
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  Speaker 1: he has to do and has done and will do
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  Speaker 1: is get the super ultra-nationalist, fundamental religious parties that all
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  Speaker 1: they care about is making sure Israel stays a state
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  Speaker 1: without Palestine, no Palestinian state, And that the conservative movement stays–
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  Speaker 1: and I mean conservative movement– for example, you have exemptions
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  Speaker 1: in the army. Do you know that people who go
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  Speaker 1: to religious schools are exempt from going into the army?
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  Speaker 1: If you're studying the Torah, and that's all you study.
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  Speaker 1: It's like a madrasa in Arab countries. All you do
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  Speaker 1: is study Torah and religion. You're exempt from going to
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  Speaker 1: the army. Let me tell you about the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the people who've had family members who died defending Israel,
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  Speaker 1: how they deal with it. But they're able to do
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  Speaker 1: that in Israel because they need that party. The ruling
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: party needs that in order to remain in power. Okay,
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: so Netanyahu is running. And people are very upset with Netanyahu.
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  Speaker 1: He's been around for 19 years, the longest-running PM, prime
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  Speaker 1: minister that Israel's ever had. And they're really angry with him,
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  Speaker 1: mainly because the October 7th attack, and it was a
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  Speaker 1: complete fiasco. The intelligence of Israel, which is usually the
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  Speaker 1: best in the world, missed it completely. And 1,250 Israelis died,
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  Speaker 1: 250 were taken hostage, and nobody was very happy about it.
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  Speaker 1: And so what's going to happen tomorrow? Well, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to spend some time tomorrow talking about the vote while
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  Speaker 1: it's happening. But I will tell you one fact before
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  Speaker 1: I bail out. You have to– in Israel, you have
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  Speaker 1: to vote in person. You can't vote by mail. You
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  Speaker 1: can't vote at embassies. Most countries, you simply show up
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  Speaker 1: to the council, council general office, and you vote if
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  Speaker 1: you're a citizen of that country. Not in Israel. Israel,
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  Speaker 1: you have to vote in person. So there are about
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  Speaker 1: 70,000 expats, of which most of them live here in
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  Speaker 1: the United States, that are flying back to Israel. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: with that, as you may know, Netanyahu is very close
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  Speaker 1: to Donald Trump and runs his government very close to
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  Speaker 1: the way the administration runs. There is an organization, a nonprofit,
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  Speaker 1: that helps Israelis come and vote in airfares, hotels, what
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  Speaker 1: they do is do the liaison. It's like a big
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  Speaker 1: travel agency, if you will, helping Israelis come back. Since
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  Speaker 1: the assumption of Israelis coming back to vote are anti-Netanyahu,
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  Speaker 1: which is actually true, certainly the polls have said that,
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  Speaker 1: Netanyahu went to court and to have that organization invalidated.
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  Speaker 1: It is illegal to help Israelis come to Israel and vote.
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  Speaker 1: Ask the court to say this organization cannot help Israelis
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  Speaker 1: come to court. It's a nonprofit. They don't ask who
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  Speaker 1: it is, who they're voting for, but guess what? Let's
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  Speaker 1: try to stop them because we think, actually, we know
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  Speaker 1: that it's an anti-Netanyahu vote. It's crazy. Tomorrow I'll spend
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  Speaker 1: a whole lot more time talking about this. And there's
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  Speaker 1: a world of what's happening in Israel. And how it
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  Speaker 1: affects us is very, very big time and very important.
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  Speaker 1: And that's it. We're done, guys. The Tuesday starts tomorrow,
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  Speaker 1: and we do this all over again. It's Will and
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  Speaker 1: Amy wake-up call. Tony is back next Monday. So tomorrow
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  Speaker 1: it's Mario. He comes back. Neil and I are here
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  Speaker 1: at 6 o'clock until right about now. You've been listening
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