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US Sends Iran Ceasefire Plan | Magic Number of Close Friends · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
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  Speaker 1: six forty.
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  Speaker 2: AM six forty bill Handle. Here it is a Wednesday,
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  Speaker 2: March twenty five. The president of a couple of days
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  Speaker 2: ago talked about how the US in Iran, we're sitting down,
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  Speaker 2: and Iran wanted a deal and they reached out to
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  Speaker 2: the United States and the deal was imminent. That was
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  Speaker 2: I'm paraphrasing. Now, well, you know there's some truth to that.
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  Speaker 2: Did was there any reaching out? Well, it turns out,
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  Speaker 2: at least the reports are that it's the US that
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  Speaker 2: has reached out to Iran, and at least they're sort
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  Speaker 2: of kind of sitting down. And the way it works
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  Speaker 2: is the parties go to a hotel room in a
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  Speaker 2: hotel in a city that is neutral, and they're usually
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  Speaker 2: on separate floors, and you have negotiators on each side
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  Speaker 2: going back and forth. And the US has said, okay,
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  Speaker 2: but we want And this is President Trump because he
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  Speaker 2: makes the call and he decides virtually everything. Under these circumstances,
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  Speaker 2: that the US wants a fifteen plan fifteen points ceasfire plan.
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  Speaker 2: Now Tehran wouldn't confirm it even receiving the plan, and
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  Speaker 2: dismissed any diplomatic effort, and it was launching more attacks
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  Speaker 2: on Israel.
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  Speaker 1: Don't know if that's true either.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know which side to believe, and there may
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  Speaker 2: be a tiny little bit of truth to both sides.
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  Speaker 1: And while this is going on.
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  Speaker 2: Israel keeps on attacking Iran, and Ron keeps on attacking
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  Speaker 2: not only Israel, but also it's neighboring neighboring countries in
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  Speaker 2: the Gulf, in and around the neighbors. So here is
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  Speaker 2: the issue with the fifteen point plan. We don't know
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  Speaker 2: what is involved in the fifteen point plan, but a
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  Speaker 2: couple of the big ones is that Iran will no
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  Speaker 2: longer suffer from sanctions. International sanctions at the United States
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  Speaker 2: not only is placed on Iran, but also make sure
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  Speaker 2: that other countries that deal with Iran don't for fear
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  Speaker 2: of sanctions placed on them by the United States, indicating
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  Speaker 2: the United States is still a big gorilla in the room,
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  Speaker 2: which it is. Also a rollback of Iran's nuclear program.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's doable as far as Iran's concerned. Limits
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  Speaker 2: on missiles, no reopening the strait of horror moves. That's
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  Speaker 2: a given support of armed groups militias its proxies. Iran
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  Speaker 2: say no, we need that because that is part and
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  Speaker 2: parcel of our.
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  Speaker 1: Security, which I don't understand.
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  Speaker 2: Giving money and support and training and material to the
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  Speaker 2: Hutis and Hezbollah, I don't know how that helps Iran
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  Speaker 2: in terms of its own security. And so giving up
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  Speaker 2: the missiles, certainly giving up the straight with Horbuz, which
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  Speaker 2: is going to happen, that'll be the first thing that
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  Speaker 2: any agreement is made. And the ballistic missile program and
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  Speaker 2: not paying for militias as proxies and giving up as
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  Speaker 2: missiles as I just said, giving up its drones. That's
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  Speaker 2: another one that seems to be those two big pieces
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  Speaker 2: of ammunition that Iran has. Number One, shutting down the
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  Speaker 2: Strait of Hormuz, boy, I'll tell you, shutting down that
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  Speaker 2: straight gives Iran unbelievable power in terms of negotiation. And
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  Speaker 2: its drone program. The ballistic missile program is going full blast.
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  Speaker 2: The drones, they have tens of thousands. They are very
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  Speaker 2: cheap to produce, at thirty five thousand dollars each to
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  Speaker 2: shoot down. They are very expensive. Every time a patriot
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  Speaker 2: missile is launched from Israel or from any one of
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  Speaker 2: the neighboring states that are close to Iran, or an
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  Speaker 2: attack is made on an American base and the missile
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  Speaker 2: goes up to intercept the drone or another missile, it's
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  Speaker 2: four million dollars per missile, even the cheaper ones are
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  Speaker 2: a million dollars per missile and other programs versus a
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  Speaker 2: thirty five thousand dollars drone, which means that Iran has thousands,
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  Speaker 2: and we have a fair number, but it's we're a
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  Speaker 2: lot more limited than we are. So of these fifteen points,
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  Speaker 2: what's going to end up happening right now? Not even close.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe there's some tentative we're going to go there at
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  Speaker 2: some point in the future. And the diplomats who have
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  Speaker 2: been contacted that are near and dear and close to
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  Speaker 2: this proposal say major major challenges, which means ain't gonna
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  Speaker 2: happen very soon. And then there's an article in New
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  Speaker 2: York Times talking about the New year in Tehran, how
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  Speaker 2: the new year is celebrated by people going to the
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  Speaker 2: stores and buying clothing and going over to each other's
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  Speaker 2: homes and big dinners and celebrations.
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  Speaker 1: That's all done.
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  Speaker 2: People of Iran, especially Tehran, are subdued. They are depressed.
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  Speaker 2: They know they have a government that is willing to
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  Speaker 2: kill thousands of citizens without compunction. And it's a tough
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  Speaker 2: place to be. So the war continues. Israel keeps on
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  Speaker 2: nailing Iran. Iran keeps on nailing Israel and American forces.
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  Speaker 2: So far, infrastructure, at least in Iran, and that's oil
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  Speaker 2: infrastructure is being left alone. Even though the President has
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  Speaker 2: threatened and saying, if you don't open the Strait of Hormuz,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to bomb your infrastructure, your power plants, you
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  Speaker 2: will have zero power. And that was supposed to end
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  Speaker 2: Monday night, he's extended that to what Friday, five days
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  Speaker 2: if the Strait of horm Moz isn't open, we'll see
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  Speaker 2: what happens. I don't think it will. I don't think
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  Speaker 2: the President is going to attack all the power point
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  Speaker 2: the power plants in Iran, because that now starts major,
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  Speaker 2: major war. If you can believe it right now, it
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  Speaker 2: is somewhat somewhat compartmentalized, it'll blow it wide open, all right.
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  Speaker 2: An interesting story about what's happening in La hotels and
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  Speaker 2: stadiums and the union representing what thirty two thousand union members,
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  Speaker 2: service workers, hospitality Work is demanding that southern California hotels
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  Speaker 2: and stadiums refrain from hosting ICE agents as guests if
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  Speaker 2: the government is putting ICE agents in those rooms, which
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  Speaker 2: typically happen because they have to put him someplace and
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  Speaker 2: they house him in military barracks or hotels, et cetera.
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  Speaker 2: And there are contracts with various hotels facilities, and so
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  Speaker 2: ICE is going to be someplace and unite here. Locals
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  Speaker 2: said that you employees can walk off the job and
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  Speaker 2: you can't be forced to work. Now, how ridiculous is that? Arbitrarily,
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  Speaker 2: the union says, you don't have to work. But there
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  Speaker 2: is a method to this madness, and that is under
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  Speaker 2: the union contract, an employee doesn't have to work if
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  Speaker 2: the facility has unsafe conditions and usually that means work conditions,
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  Speaker 2: you know, kitchen conditions that don't meet OSHA standards.
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  Speaker 1: Along those lines.
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  Speaker 2: Well, what the union is saying is the very housing,
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  Speaker 2: just the housing alone of ice agents puts the workers
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  Speaker 2: at that facility in danger. Why and how well, because
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  Speaker 2: of the pushback, because of the possible demonstrations protests that
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  Speaker 2: would be around those areas, because of the danger of
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  Speaker 2: ice shooting its employees, for example what happened in Minneapolis,
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  Speaker 2: because of the danger of death threats, because of the
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  Speaker 2: danger of immigration rousting them. We're talking about US citizens
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  Speaker 2: or people here that are legal, the danger of ICE
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  Speaker 2: picking them up arbitrarily, and that, according to the union,
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  Speaker 2: is considered, as far as they're concerned, an unsafe working condition.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's the first time I've ever heard of
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  Speaker 2: that being used to get workers out of there. We
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  Speaker 2: want to be clear, the union said in its letter
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  Speaker 2: to these various facilities, hotels, and stadiums, we want to
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  Speaker 2: be very clear. If ICE or similar enforcement agents are
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  Speaker 2: present at or near your property, workers must be allowed
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  Speaker 2: to leave or refuse to report to work without reprisal. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they're saying that heavily armed federal agents their presence. That
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  Speaker 2: means that that could escalate very rapidly in terms of
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  Speaker 2: the workers they're going to be in the middle of,
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  Speaker 2: which is not true. If they just stay put everything
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  Speaker 2: go on on the street. Yeah, they put themselves in danger.
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  Speaker 2: But You've got news for you. If there is a
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  Speaker 2: riot going on, if there is a protest going on
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  Speaker 2: against ICE, considering there's a history there, I would stay
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  Speaker 2: away Now I understand I have a right to be there.
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  Speaker 2: There's a First Amendment right to assembly. I get that.
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  Speaker 2: And now, is I supposed to arrest you?
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  Speaker 1: No, they're not supposed to arrest you. And they do.
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  Speaker 2: When they throw you into tention and you're released a
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  Speaker 2: few days later and you turn around and sue Ice
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  Speaker 2: the federal government, it ain't gonna work. It's simply not
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  Speaker 2: gonna happen. So what I'm telling you, if you are
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  Speaker 2: a worker there, or you are in any facility, any
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  Speaker 2: place where a protest is happening, stay away, you know,
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  Speaker 2: just stay in the hell away.
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  Speaker 1: Do yourself a favor.
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  Speaker 2: You know. I get questions all the time on handle
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  Speaker 2: on the law. Well that's why, right, that's why Fourth Amendment.
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  Speaker 1: Right, yeah it is. Now let's get practical.
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  Speaker 2: Leave it alone, all right, drop it, don't play lawyer
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  Speaker 2: with me, save your ass. And so does that change anything.
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  Speaker 2: I'd love to see what's going to happen right now.
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  Speaker 2: There's no response from the hotels and facilities and the
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  Speaker 2: management team. See what's going to happen. I've never seen
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  Speaker 2: this happening before. Here's a Wall Street Journal story and
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  Speaker 2: the question is, and they asked this question, why shout
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  Speaker 2: because kind of neat? What is the magic number when
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  Speaker 2: it comes to close friends and I mean close friends?
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  Speaker 2: So I'm going around the room. Kono magic number? Close friends?
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  Speaker 1: Seven? Seven? Okay? Amy?
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  Speaker 3: Close friends?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 4: How many?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Oh gosh? Like four? Best friends?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, that's close friends. I think they mean best friends. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: you're at four?
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  Speaker 1: All right?
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  Speaker 3: Well, close friends, best friends.
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  Speaker 1: Three or five? Cono is obviously very popular.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, or he thinks he's very popular, or he looks
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  Speaker 2: in the mirror every morning goes best friends. Yeah, seven
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  Speaker 2: best friends, best friends?
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  Speaker 1: And then neil friends?
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  Speaker 4: Are they real?
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  Speaker 1: Okay?
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  Speaker 4: I go, I hit around the five. I'm a big believer.
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  Speaker 4: Al Capone said, be careful who you make friends with.
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  Speaker 4: Better to have four quarters than one hundred pennies, and
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  Speaker 4: I believe in that in life, have fewer friends and
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  Speaker 4: make sure they're real.
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  Speaker 2: Well, four quarters is about the same as one hundred pennies.
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  Speaker 2: So that made absolutely no sense. But thanks for the thought,
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  Speaker 2: greatly appreciated.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't understand. You didn't understand the illustration. I did not.
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  Speaker 1: It's still a dollar no, so there's a hundred of people.
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  Speaker 1: He still he only understands the money part of it.
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  Speaker 1: I get. That's okay, guy for breaking that. That's absolutely
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  Speaker 1: that's absolutely true.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, And I have what I consider too, I see
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  Speaker 2: neither one basically ever. Neil I consider a best friend
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  Speaker 2: and my other best friend, Savil lindsay also. But that's
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  Speaker 2: the law I have. Yeah, I have to, I have
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  Speaker 2: no choice. But when it comes to best friends, it's
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  Speaker 2: Neil and Savill. What makes this relationship, our relationship so
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  Speaker 2: special as I never see any one of them, either
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  Speaker 2: one of them ever, So that works out for me.
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  Speaker 2: But the study showed, and they were talking to psychologists
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  Speaker 2: and sociologists experts, that that actually changes over the years.
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  Speaker 2: My social life when my kids were in school was
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  Speaker 2: very full. I was with other people, classmates, doing events,
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  Speaker 2: so my kids were at birthday parties, I met other
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  Speaker 2: parents and then realized my kids are out of school.
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  Speaker 2: I hated every single one of those people and I
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  Speaker 2: stopped seeing them instantly. So it depends on how old
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  Speaker 2: you are. The older you get the fewer best friends
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  Speaker 2: because you don't have time for it. You just don't
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  Speaker 2: want to deal with it anymore. And that makes sense.
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  Speaker 2: And two to five, by the way, will you were
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  Speaker 2: right on it's high in our youth, get smaller the
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  Speaker 2: further we get into adulthood and then moving on and
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  Speaker 2: a busy midlife can be the hardest time to keep
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  Speaker 2: close friends.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I think if.
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  Speaker 2: I had to really sit down and analyze this, what
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  Speaker 2: would I say about close friends? Waste of time? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and just get in the way of everything you do. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: go out to dinner. Well, sometimes you got to. You
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  Speaker 2: have to pay. You don't want to do anything, That's
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  Speaker 2: absolutely true. Do you know I have my job I
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  Speaker 2: go to. I was talking to my trainer the other
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  Speaker 2: day and I was killing myself because I walk in me.
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  Speaker 2: I know, it's hard to believe that I'm training, because
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  Speaker 2: I truly am at that point where I don't want
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  Speaker 2: to fall apart, even though I am falling apart. So
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  Speaker 2: I talk to my trainer and I finish up at noon,
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  Speaker 2: especially cardio day, which absolutely kills me. And I'm sweating
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  Speaker 2: and I'm huffing and I'm puffing, puffing, and I say, okay,
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  Speaker 2: I have to go to my afternoon job now. And
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  Speaker 2: he said, your afternoon job sitting on the couch and
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  Speaker 2: watching TV. Yep, that's my afternoon job, damn straight, And
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  Speaker 2: I don't want anybody around me when I watch TV.
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  Speaker 2: That's by myself. Pick my nose, fling the boogers, you know,
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  Speaker 2: belch and do all the things that guys do.
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  Speaker 1: Easy.
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  Speaker 4: You're turning on the audience, you sexy dog.
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  Speaker 2: Now there is Oh, there's Lindsay getting really excited.
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  Speaker 1: You're giving everybody a limp.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, excellent, We're done with that.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: There's a story in the La Times, and this has
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  Speaker 2: to do with radio also, but it was about TV,
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  Speaker 2: longtime local TV anchors, and this story is about KTLA
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  Speaker 2: specifically because of recent layoffs at KTLA, the station that
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  Speaker 2: rich to Burrough works at, and they have let go
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  Speaker 2: of some long time people that are on the air
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  Speaker 2: and sort of blindsided some of them. And why Well,
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  Speaker 2: because number one, there is no longer the market that
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  Speaker 2: there was before. They don't have enough viewers, and not
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  Speaker 2: the fault of the anchors, simply the fault of the Internet.
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  Speaker 2: And we've talked about that before, and the long time anchors,
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  Speaker 2: people have been there the longest, get the most money.
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  Speaker 2: For example, for those of you that have been listening
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  Speaker 2: to this show, and I've been on for thirty three
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  Speaker 2: years now, Morning Driver, it will be I get paid
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  Speaker 2: forty two million dollars a year. I don't, but I
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  Speaker 2: just wanted to make you feel bad. Okay for those
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  Speaker 2: of you that are sitting in your dumpster and eating
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  Speaker 2: cat food.
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  Speaker 1: I just wanted to point that out.
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  Speaker 2: The point is is that I'm a dinosaur, even though
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  Speaker 2: I have and this is legitimate, taking a thirty percent
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  Speaker 2: pay cut in the last few years because people don't listen.
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  Speaker 1: Any more like they used to. And why is that?
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  Speaker 3: Because of streaming, because of podcasts, because of the way
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  Speaker 3: people get their news, get their programming, get their entertainment.
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  Speaker 2: And it is a very very different world. And so
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  Speaker 2: how do these major companies. Oh and that's the other thing.
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  Speaker 2: You've got very few mom and pop radio or television
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  Speaker 2: stations left. I can't think of a couple of them,
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  Speaker 2: not even on one hand. And so they're all they've
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  Speaker 2: all been bought up by these major corporations. And what
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  Speaker 2: major corporations do when money is not flowing in a
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  Speaker 2: massive amounts, they consolidate. One company buys another company, They
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  Speaker 2: merge for massive savings. And what does that mean, Well,
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  Speaker 2: that means there's a manager. For example, Let's say you
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  Speaker 2: have and there's a hypothetical. You have two program directors,
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  Speaker 2: either in TV or in radio, and now the companies
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  Speaker 2: have merged, so you can do it with one. Middle
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  Speaker 2: managers you can do it with one. And so the
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  Speaker 2: whole way of doing business is gone. Consolidations, layoffs, shrinking ratings.
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  Speaker 2: And again, this is a TV story, even though it
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  Speaker 2: affects radio. Same thing of radio. Look at the shows
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  Speaker 2: that have now been taken off the air. Well, Steve Colbert,
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  Speaker 2: you know about that, but you also have the Kelly
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  Speaker 2: Jackson program or Kelly Clarkson program, Sherry Shepherd.
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  Speaker 1: Steve Wilco. They're done this season, and let's take a break.
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  Speaker 2: I want to come back and spend a couple of
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  Speaker 2: minutes talking about the change in the environment and more
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  Speaker 2: what's happening.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm trying to.
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  Speaker 2: I'll try to localize this segment because we're right in
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  Speaker 2: the middle of it here at KI we are experiencing
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  Speaker 2: exactly what's happening, so we can speak from experience. Right there,
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  Speaker 2: we're flowing into this one. We're jumping into that river,
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  Speaker 2: all right. We're going to come back, finish that one up,
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  Speaker 2: and then, boy, do I have a story for you. Crazy, crazy,
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  Speaker 2: crazy and I'm talking about a legislator, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: a congresswoman, and that's all coming up.
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  Speaker 3: In the meantime, this is kf I am six p forty.
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