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World Cup Host Cities Economic Boost | Most Generous 401k Plans · The Bill Handel Show

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Speaker 1: six forty. Let's play football World Cut.
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Speaker 2: Cut jf I AM six forty Bill Handle here, Good
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Speaker 2: morning on a Monday morning, July twentieth, after the final
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Speaker 2: World Cup yesterday, where Spain handily beat well, I should
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Speaker 2: have been handily beat Argentina just completely outplayed Argentina. Before
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Speaker 2: All Right, yesterday the final, as I said, Argentina lost
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Speaker 2: to Spain and should have lost by bigger numbers. Completely
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Speaker 2: outplayed by Spain. But I want to talk about the
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Speaker 2: financial the economic boost of the World Cup that the
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Speaker 2: World Cup brought to the United States. First of all,
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Speaker 2: if you have any doubt that the FIFA president Gianni
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Speaker 2: Infantino was basically best friends with that Donald Trump, he
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Speaker 2: was has been with Donald Trump a whole bunch. For example,
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Speaker 2: there was even before the final kickoff, there was a
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Speaker 2: reception at Trump Tower and I love this. Infantano said,
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Speaker 2: this is when you get close to the president. And
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Speaker 2: I'm going to quote this has not just been the
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Speaker 2: greatest FIFA World Cup of all time, it is the
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Speaker 2: greatest human, social and cultural event that mankind has ever witnessed.
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Speaker 2: It was the best that ever was, that ever will
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Speaker 2: be in the history of the world. Don't you love those? Now,
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Speaker 2: let's get down to brass tacks. And as a matter
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Speaker 2: of fact, they sold a lot of brass tacks. Strangely enough,
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Speaker 2: Bank of America estimates that the credit and debit card
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Speaker 2: spending by Americans rose six point three percent.
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Speaker 1: In June from a year earlier.
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Speaker 2: That's big news because that's the strongest growth rate in
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Speaker 2: more than four years. Host City hotels at thirty five
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Speaker 2: percent more revenue out of the available rooms than they
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Speaker 2: did a year earlier during the same days, and you
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Speaker 2: would expect that to be you would expect that to
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Speaker 2: have happened. And a couple of things that were that
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Speaker 2: I don't think people were prepared for or overly prepared for.
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Speaker 2: One of them is, for example, there was no beer
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Speaker 2: left in Boston. The city ran out of beer. People
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Speaker 2: from Scotland drank every drop of beer and it was
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Speaker 2: kind of interesting. The Kansas City hotels were filled by
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Speaker 2: Dutch people, the French on Philly cheesecakes.
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Speaker 1: And it looks like.
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Speaker 2: Soccer fans at home abroad opened their wallets and boosted
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Speaker 2: spending in the World Cup, and the big winners weren't
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Speaker 2: the big big winners weren't just New York and LA
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Speaker 2: but the less obvious destinations Philadelphia, Kansas City, which actually
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Speaker 2: Shaw saw percentage wise the biggest boost. What is I
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Speaker 2: think interesting about this is that the World Cup was
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Speaker 2: going to be this big, insanely successful event, and then
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Speaker 2: a few months ago the experts in the hospitality industry said.
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Speaker 1: Well, this may be a bust. This may be a bust.
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Speaker 2: Nineteen eighty four Olympics in Los Angeles, for example, made money,
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Speaker 2: but was it a huge event for the city.
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Speaker 1: I don't know. Traffic was great.
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Speaker 2: I had left to go to Australia because the traffic
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Speaker 2: is going to be so insane. There was no traffic,
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Speaker 2: No one was on a street. And the other issue
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Speaker 2: is that in exactly this, that the World Cup would
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Speaker 2: keep traditional tourists from visiting host cities. Well, it turned
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Speaker 2: out that the Cup did everything it was promised to
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Speaker 2: do and more so. And for example, at Prinsinger's Bar
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Speaker 2: in Philadelphia, every day Super Bowl fans came, so Prinsinger
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Speaker 2: had to max out the number of bartenders because he
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Speaker 2: couldn't squeeze any more behind the counter. He could have
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Speaker 2: done much better, he says, we're running out of everything.
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Speaker 2: You can imagine. The soccer fans did show up, and
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Speaker 2: the United States is getting such grief around the world.
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Speaker 2: Our reputation has taken such a nosedive. This at least
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Speaker 2: was some respite. And there was story after a story
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Speaker 2: about foreigners loving everything American, the chiefs to Kates the
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Speaker 2: ranch dressing that became a phenom, a viral phenom. But
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Speaker 2: mac and chee, I mean everything that is American comfort food.
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Speaker 1: Hamburgers were an insane.
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Speaker 2: Hit among soccer players or among soccer fans around the world.
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Speaker 2: Even There's was a video of a bar where everybody
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Speaker 2: in the bar, I mean lots of people were singing
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Speaker 2: the national are national anthem.
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Speaker 1: And if you look at a baseball.
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Speaker 2: Game where it was just jammed with World Cup fans
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Speaker 2: from all over the world, and you saw that they
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Speaker 2: were taking me out to the ball game, which they
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Speaker 2: always sing seventh inning stretch there they were everybody standing
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Speaker 2: up and singing. It was just it was nice to
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Speaker 2: see what happened. It really was and probably the best
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Speaker 2: game of all wasn't the final. Yesterday's game was pitiful.
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Speaker 2: It was third place where it was France and who played.
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Speaker 2: France played who England? Right, France and England played. That
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Speaker 2: was an insanely great game. Even the commentator were screaming
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Speaker 2: that it was the best game and it clearly was.
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Speaker 2: Also the halftime show some new stuff where the World
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Speaker 2: Cup took a page out of American sports, particularly the
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Speaker 2: Super Bowl. For the first time they had a halftime show,
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Speaker 2: which was amazing.
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Speaker 1: It was tremendous.
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Speaker 2: Also, for the first time, the champions will have a
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Speaker 2: championship ring made much like the Super Bowl. All in
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Speaker 2: all terrific, except.
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Speaker 1: For the final.
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Speaker 2: The final game was kind of just a real letdown.
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Speaker 2: Spain completely outclass Argentina from minute one to the last minute.
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Speaker 2: Argentina didn't even show up. I mean they dialed it
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Speaker 2: in and MESSI who everybody thought would be once again
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Speaker 2: the miracle makers he has in earlier games and World Cups,
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Speaker 2: ended up doing nothing. He barely touched the ball. I
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Speaker 2: mean he might as well have been on the sideline,
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Speaker 2: and basically he was Okay, that's good news.
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Speaker 1: Now.
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Speaker 2: Now I want to move over to your retirement, my retirement.
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Speaker 2: And as I mentioned when I do my lyric commercials
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Speaker 2: about putting stocks and savings into your four to oh
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Speaker 2: one K plans, four oh one ks are actually the
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Speaker 2: best thing that has happened, I believe to workers since pensions,
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Speaker 2: which are quickly disappearing. So four oh one K plans
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Speaker 2: were passed, so the law was passed to sort of
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Speaker 2: supplement pensions.
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Speaker 1: Pensions have gone away.
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Speaker 2: So when you talk about retirement, you've got Social Security
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Speaker 2: which everybody gets. And if you don't have a four
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Speaker 2: to oh one K plan, you are crazy. And why
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Speaker 2: is this because most four to oh one K plans
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Speaker 2: around the country. I have an employer match. I did
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Speaker 2: that when I had my surrogacy agency. I had I
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Speaker 2: think a three and a half four percent employer match.
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Speaker 2: So you put an X number of dollars into the
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Speaker 2: four oh one K plan and my company or any
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Speaker 2: other company, well match that money. And the beauty of
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Speaker 2: it is the money that you are putting in is
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Speaker 2: tax deferred. You are not paying taxes on that money.
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Speaker 2: So you have the benefit of not paying taxes on
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Speaker 2: the money and getting a one hundred percent return if
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Speaker 2: nothing is made on it. If the money you put
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Speaker 2: on it makes nothing during the year, nothing I mean zero,
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Speaker 2: And that's that almost never happens. It always makes something,
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Speaker 2: three percent, four percent, whatever it makes, it's actually one
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Speaker 2: hundred percent because there's matching dollars. For example, let's say
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Speaker 2: you're saving and for every dollar you put in your
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Speaker 2: savings account, I give you a dollar.
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Speaker 1: Well, that means you're saving two dollars.
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Speaker 2: It's costing you one dollar, and you're not paying taxes
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Speaker 2: on that one dollar that you earn. No, I mean
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Speaker 2: this is you have to max out your four oh
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Speaker 2: one K plan. I don't care how or what if
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Speaker 2: you plan on retiring even beginning to be comfortable now
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Speaker 2: four oh one K plan. Most large employers have those.
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Speaker 2: Not necessary, by the way, you don't have to have them,
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Speaker 2: but you can do it on your own without employer matching,
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Speaker 2: and some employers are mandatory. They have them as part
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Speaker 2: of your pay and well, for example, Costco contributes four
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Speaker 2: percent of its pay into the four oh one K
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Speaker 2: accounts people with twenty five or more years of service
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Speaker 2: nine percent matching. So imagine this you're making let's say
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Speaker 2: a Costco after twenty five years, you're making one hundred
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Speaker 2: thousand dollars a year, okay, and you put in ten
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Speaker 2: percent on your four to oh one K Costco you
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Speaker 2: put in nine percent. Costco puts in nine percent. They match.
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Speaker 2: Now you're talking about really turbo charging your financial your
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Speaker 2: financial base of your retirement plans. And people don't think
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Speaker 2: we have enough. Think they at the end of it,
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Speaker 2: they think they have enough money for retirement, and no
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Speaker 2: one comes close. In order for you to make fifty
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Speaker 2: thousand dollars a year, let's say you make fifty thousand
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Speaker 2: dollars a year salary. Okay, Well, let's say you make
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Speaker 2: one hundred thousand dollars year salary, and I don't know
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Speaker 2: how much you're able to put away. Hopefully you're able
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Speaker 2: to put away the maximum amount you're allowed to in
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Speaker 2: your four oh and k plane with matching dollars at
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Speaker 2: the end. For fifty thousand dollars a year, you need
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Speaker 2: one hundred thousand dollars. You need a million dollars in
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Speaker 2: the bank, a million bucks throwing off income. Now you know,
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Speaker 2: fifty thousand dollars on top of so security, on top
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Speaker 2: of any pension, you're in pretty good shape. But if
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Speaker 2: you don't have those and you haven't planned, that's a
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Speaker 2: big problem.
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Speaker 1: So you've got.
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Speaker 2: Companies that would pay that pay just buckets of money.
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Speaker 2: For example, Boeing, Visa MasterCard offer four point seven percent.
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Speaker 1: The average is four percent.
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Speaker 2: By the way, Costco is also four percent, but it
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Speaker 2: goes way way up. And so as you would say,
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Speaker 2: Costco is one of the best places to work, as
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Speaker 2: as Michelle because there husband Tim works for Costco and
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Speaker 2: has forever. Also Costco inexpensive health care, higher than normal
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Speaker 2: hourly wage. And we've talked about Costco before. It's philosophy
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Speaker 2: of taking care of its employees really really well, saves
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Speaker 2: them money by paying really well and giving tremendous benefits.
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Speaker 1: They think that's an advantage.
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Speaker 2: So Southwest offers a dollar for dollar match of up
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Speaker 2: to nine point three percent, Boeing ten percent. Now, when
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Speaker 2: you look at those four oh one k plans, when
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Speaker 2: you're looking at or only go the other way, go
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Speaker 2: the other way. You're looking for work. One of the
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Speaker 2: things you look at is not just salary and benefits,
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Speaker 2: et cetera, working a remote or not working a remote
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Speaker 2: with people don't pay attention to is how much for
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Speaker 2: a one K matching money do you put up? Because
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Speaker 2: over the course of years, that can be an astronomical
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Speaker 2: difference in your retirement. And I started throwing my four
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Speaker 2: to oh one k. I started looking for retirement when
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Speaker 2: I was in my thirties. I should have been in
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Speaker 2: my twenties paying attention to retirement, and so I am
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Speaker 2: absolutely behind the eight ball in this one. Now, most
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Speaker 2: of us are very lucky that work here at KFI
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Speaker 2: and other radio stations. We do have pensions because of
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Speaker 2: our union after American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.
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Speaker 2: I love that we're always artists, aren't we. Sag AFTRA
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Speaker 2: and they have a pretty decent pension plan. But you
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Speaker 2: can't assume most companies today don't have. But it used
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Speaker 2: to be that all major corporations had pension plans. They
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Speaker 2: don't for the mart part. No, no, I don't think
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Speaker 2: iHeart has a pension plan.
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Speaker 1: I don't believe I Heart offers pensions for Yes, they.
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Speaker 3: Had pensions at KFI since Cocks, and I think even
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Speaker 3: those stopped by the time I got there.
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Speaker 2: Oh and just all I mean, so it's so much
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Speaker 2: more expensive just to go to work these days. It
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Speaker 2: used to be healthcare. When I first started CSP center
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Speaker 2: for sort of good parenting employees, one hundred percent coverage
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Speaker 2: for employees plus their families plus dental. By the time
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Speaker 2: I wrapped it up, it was seventy five percent for
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Speaker 2: employees no family members. Your teeth can rot and fall
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Speaker 2: out for all I care. It's just not the same.
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Speaker 2: And so what you have left, hopefully is your four
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Speaker 2: to oh one K plan to make life better for you.
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Speaker 2: So you have to look at the generous four oh
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Speaker 2: one K plans. Not today it's just getting a job.
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Speaker 2: Is getting a job. I mean today you're just a
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Speaker 2: great shape, just working. But a big part of your
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Speaker 2: work environment is something that one ever thinks about.
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Speaker 1: How much four oh one k money do you match?
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Speaker 2: All right, now, enough of that, and I want to
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Speaker 2: talk about what's going on with federal agents and the
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Speaker 2: shooting of well, I guess protesters at these various well
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Speaker 2: not just shooting the protesters shooting of what are called victims.
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Speaker 2: I think that's legitimate at these immigration stops. So it
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Speaker 2: used to be that you would think, and it was true,
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Speaker 2: that whatever a ICE agent shot up someone, particularly in
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Speaker 2: some kind of an immigration stop, the FBI would jump
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Speaker 2: in and investigate, because that's typically what happens. Well, the
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Speaker 2: FBI has just been told stop it don't investigate confrontations
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Speaker 2: with immigration agents.
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Speaker 1: Why.
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Speaker 2: Well, the answer seems to be that the evidence that's
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Speaker 2: collected by the FBI is often used to prosecute Department
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Speaker 2: of Homeland Security agents and that has to stop, and
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Speaker 2: it would limit law enforcement scrutiny of these immigration agents.
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Speaker 2: And keep in mind the criticism that the Trump administration
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Speaker 2: is drawing now over the killings at the hands of
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Speaker 2: federal officers. For example, just in the last two weeks,
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Speaker 2: there were two fatal shootings by ICE agents in Texas
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Speaker 2: and Maine, and of course those became insane news. FBI
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Speaker 2: managers around the country received written notice informing of the change.
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Speaker 2: The same day, ICE agents around the country were notified
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Speaker 2: by FBI counterparts, we are not going to be investigating
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Speaker 2: anymore now. Justice Department and Department of Homeland Security denied
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Speaker 2: that any of this took place. No, that's not true. Okay,
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Speaker 2: I love that. They also said there is there was
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Speaker 2: no rain on the East coast. Now, responsibility for investigating
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Speaker 2: cases is now going to fall to Homeland Security investigations,
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Speaker 2: which is an arm of ice, which means the agency
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Speaker 2: is investigating itself.
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Speaker 1: And where do you think that's going to go?
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Speaker 2: And cases involving these assaults on federal officers. Assaults on
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Speaker 2: officers have been such a source of tensions for more
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Speaker 2: than a year because White House and Justice Department have
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Speaker 2: pushed prosecutors to bring charges against protesters as much as possible.
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Speaker 2: Here's a federal statute felony charges can be brought against
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Speaker 2: anyone who quote forcibly, assaults, resists, opposes, impedes, intimidates, or
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Speaker 2: interferes a federal law enforcement officers. And so the Trump
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Speaker 2: folks have said that that language means anyone who makes
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Speaker 2: physical contact with an agent should could, and should be
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Speaker 2: charged with felony assault punishable way up to eight years
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Speaker 2: in present in prison. Todd Blanche, acting Attorney General, said
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Speaker 2: it is abhorrent to ever ever touch a law enforcement officer,
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Speaker 2: which is why anybody, at any time, anybody does that
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Speaker 2: and it's a federal officer will prosecute them. Okay, So
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Speaker 2: now New York Times is an investigation. The Trump administration
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Speaker 2: has filed charges against more than five hundred and fifty
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Speaker 2: people for assaulting federal officers usually doing these demonstrations. Four
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Speaker 2: hundred of those five hundred and fifty have been resolved,
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Speaker 2: half have unraveled completely, charges being thrown out or withdrawn,
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Speaker 2: or the defendants being acquitted. Now we're talking fifty percent
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Speaker 2: have unraveled or been thrown out or acquitted. Usually, when
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Speaker 2: the Justice Department files a criminal complaint against someone, their prosecution,
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Speaker 2: their conviction rate is ninety five percent. Ninety five percent.
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Speaker 2: When you're on the radar of the Justice Department, the Feds,
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Speaker 2: you are in trouble.
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Speaker 1: And if they charge you man, one of two things
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Speaker 1: can happen.
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Speaker 2: You're going to go to trial because you have nothing
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Speaker 2: else to do, or you get a plete out. A
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Speaker 2: fifty percent chance is ridiculous. But that's what's been happening.
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Speaker 2: And what's been going on, unfortunately, is the shootings have
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Speaker 2: taken place, the attack on prosecutors.
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Speaker 1: Oh, by the way, they'll me give you another figure.
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Speaker 1: Two people this is.
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Speaker 2: Second term, have been fired on since immigration agents. Since
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Speaker 2: January of twenty twenty five those two that were killed,
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Speaker 2: six people, including three US citizens, have been killed as
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Speaker 2: a result of shootings, and all of them were nearly
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Speaker 2: all involved officers firing into vehicles through windshields, And the
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Speaker 2: argument was that the drivers had weaponized their vehicles and
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Speaker 2: try to run over federal officers, even though the video
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Speaker 2: in many of these cases show exactly the opposite. People
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Speaker 2: were trying to drive away from these immigration officers.
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Speaker 1: This is not good news.
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Speaker 2: So here's another spin, which is I think just fascinating. Okay,
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Speaker 2: Tom Homan, who is the czar of the Advice, he
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Speaker 2: is immigration zar. After the last shooting, he said, in
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Speaker 2: the attack by the ICE agency, he laughs, are the
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Speaker 2: last shooting, he ordered that stops by immigration officers on
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Speaker 2: vehicles have to stop, because that seems to be the
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Speaker 2: big deal here. That seems to be the way it
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Speaker 2: is going. The immigration officers stop these vehicles during a
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Speaker 2: targeted raid, of which the last two shootings, the two
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Speaker 2: drivers were not even targeted. They were not the target
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Speaker 2: of the raid and they were killed. So Tom Homan said,
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Speaker 2: we're stopping all We're basically stopping those immigration stops. The
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Speaker 2: President the next day reversed it and said those immigration
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Speaker 2: stops are the majority of our ability to fight illegal immigration.
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Speaker 2: A lot of security going on, but the bottom line,
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Speaker 2: the agency is not going to investigate because we just
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Speaker 2: don't want to know.
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Speaker 1: That's a tough one, all right.
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Speaker 2: There's a new law that just came into effect requiring
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Speaker 2: colleges to prove their graduates earn more than someone with
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Speaker 2: only a high school diploma, or else students could lose
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Speaker 2: federal loans. About three hundred California programs failed the test,
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Speaker 2: a particular cosmopology, cosmetology, some arts programs.
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Speaker 1: So here is the rule, or here's a benchmark.
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Speaker 2: If you graduate college and you're earning less than what
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Speaker 2: you would earn as a high school graduate with no college,
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Speaker 2: then obviously it's a failure, and you're going to you know,
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Speaker 2: student loans, you're going to disappear. The average Californian is
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Speaker 2: expected to earn eighteen dollars an hour thirty six thousand
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Speaker 2: dollars a year, which is just above minimum wage, and
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Speaker 2: that is all that the federal government is asking for.
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Speaker 1: You earn just over minimum wage.
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Speaker 2: And about three thousand higher education courses of studying California.
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Speaker 2: Evaluated by the US Department of Education, ninety percent of
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Speaker 2: the graduates did earn at least eighteen dollars an hour.
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Speaker 2: I mean, that's crazy, a college degree eighteen dollars an hour.
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Speaker 2: That's why a lot of people have been arguing, don't
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Speaker 2: let your kids go to college. Do the you know,
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Speaker 2: hvac repair or wind wind the mill repair, you know
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Speaker 2: those wind turbines. You're going to earn a hell of
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Speaker 2: lot more money. And here is one that's been talked about,
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Speaker 2: Cal Arts, right that is or yeah, cal Arts, which
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Speaker 2: is probably one of the best known school for arts,
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Speaker 2: and they also have acting and they have a lot
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Speaker 2: of just the artistic endemps. Oh incidentally, you know who
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Speaker 2: went to cal Arts graduated Don Cheatle, the actor Tim Burton,
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Speaker 2: want the great directors, Paul Rubins, Pee Weee Herman, who
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Speaker 2: got a degree he specialized well, his first class was
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Speaker 2: it was at public masturbation one oh one. And it's
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Speaker 2: one of those courses where people just don't earn degree,
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Speaker 2: they don't earn any money. Now Here is the issue.
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Speaker 2: When you're getting a degree in fine arts and you're
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Speaker 2: learning how to build sets, guess what You're not going
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Speaker 2: to make any money.
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Speaker 1: It's all there is to it. You want to be an.
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Speaker 2: Actor, you go to college, the chances are you going
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Speaker 2: to be a waiter for the rest of your life.
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Speaker 2: You're simply not going to be able to earn enough
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Speaker 2: money as if you just have a high school degree
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Speaker 2: and got some kind of a job. This is your passion. Unfortunately,
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Speaker 2: these passions just don't pan out. It's one in a thousand.
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Speaker 2: My daughter Pamela, for example, has a nice voice. In
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Speaker 2: grade school, junior high she was in musical theater and said, Dad,
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Speaker 2: I want to do musical theater. I think I want
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Speaker 2: to do that for a living. And I said, you
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Speaker 2: are dreaming. I'll tell you why you are good. You're
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Speaker 2: going to be competing with people who are spectacular, and
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Speaker 2: out of every thousand person who is spectacular, one is
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Speaker 2: going to make it.
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Speaker 1: So that is an issue.
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Speaker 2: The other issue, not just fine arts, but these for
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Speaker 2: profit schools. That is cosmetology. Learn how to cut hair,
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Speaker 2: although that is where you can make some money, but.
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Speaker 1: I love this.
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Speaker 2: Learn how to be a front front of office receptionist.
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Speaker 2: Learn how to work in a doctor's office at the
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Speaker 2: front of the office. So you're gonna be paying three
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Speaker 2: or four or five thousand dollars and they're going to
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Speaker 2: teach you to pick up the phone and say doctor
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Speaker 2: is in. Can I make an appointment with you. That's
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Speaker 2: the other thing is that's always pissed me off, a
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Speaker 2: little tangent here, but it's it's not the doctor. It's
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Speaker 2: always doctor. And when I would call and talk to
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Speaker 2: one of the infertility doctors in my practice, I would
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Speaker 2: call and the receptionist picked it up and say doctor
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Speaker 2: is not in. Well, leave a message for this is
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Speaker 2: a message from a lawyer. It just drives me, just
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Speaker 2: drives me nuts. That's what they teach you to do.
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Speaker 2: And so those programs are losing money and they're losing
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Speaker 2: their accreditation as they should accept in. When you're dealing
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Speaker 2: with art, when you're dealing with fine arts, when you're
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Speaker 2: dealing with theater, when you're dealing with film, you're going
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Speaker 2: to work for minimum wage for years just to break
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Speaker 2: in if you can get a job breaking in. So
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Speaker 2: what's the bottom line. Have your kid get a high
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Speaker 2: school diploma, go out there and get some work. Also,
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Speaker 2: go to trade school. People who repair air conditioners make
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Speaker 2: a lot more money if you're a plumber.
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