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Speaker 2: All right? Well in any case, moving on, and it's
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Speaker 2: gonna be a little bit more serious this topic. And
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Speaker 2: this has to do with the fight that Donald Trump
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Speaker 2: is having with academia, and academia read gavenuwssom in this
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Speaker 2: uh regard is fighting right back. So what the White
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Speaker 2: House has done has asked nine universities to adopt Trump's
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Speaker 2: political priorities in exchange for priority access to federal grants. Now,
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Speaker 2: this isn't Harvard or Columbia, in which the Trump administration
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Speaker 2: said straight out we're going to stop funding period. You're
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Speaker 2: done unless you acquiesce to our position on DEI and
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Speaker 2: admissions and academic priorities and what we want you to
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Speaker 2: teach and how we want you to report to US,
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Speaker 2: et cetera. That was and that's going to court, as
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Speaker 2: you know, and the lower court said you can't do that.
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Speaker 2: Well they've switched a little bit. This one is the
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Speaker 2: White House asking nine different universities, mainly in California, but
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Speaker 2: including the University of Arizona, that you have to accept
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Speaker 2: political priorities, the Trump political priorities, and if you do,
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Speaker 2: you will get priority access to federal grants. It's not
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Speaker 2: that we're going to stop federal grants to other places.
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Speaker 2: It's just you're gonna be You're gonna be able to
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Speaker 2: cut in line if you adopt our position. Well, Newsom
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Speaker 2: swings right back. Now it's going to be a fight.
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Speaker 2: It's one of these things where Newsom isn't caving. I
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Speaker 2: mean he is become the poster child of the let's
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Speaker 2: fight Donald Trump on a political level guy out there.
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Speaker 2: And so what he does is say, Okay, if you
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Speaker 2: do acquiesce this is to these universities within the state,
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Speaker 2: we're going to cut state funding to you. Now, these
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Speaker 2: goals get a lot of state funding. Newsom threatened to
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Speaker 2: cut billions of dollars in state funding to USC any
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Speaker 2: California campus that agrees to this administration with they're calling
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Speaker 2: a compact agreement to enact these very sweeping and well
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Speaker 2: conservative campus policies. If any California university signs this radical agreement,
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Speaker 2: this is Newsome, they'll lose billions in state funding, including
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Speaker 2: CAL grants. California will not bankroll schools that sell out
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Speaker 2: their students, professors, researchers, and surrender academic freedom. Now, this
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Speaker 2: is a day after the White House asked USC and
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Speaker 2: the other major universities to switch to the right follow
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Speaker 2: the administration's view on gender identity, on admissions, a diversity
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Speaker 2: on free speech in exchange for more favorable access to
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Speaker 2: those federal grants, mainly research grants CAL grants, which of
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Speaker 2: course is California. At this point, SC is the only
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Speaker 2: California university to be sent the proposal itself. White House
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Speaker 2: said that universities are given the agreement. This was the
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Speaker 2: first round of these demands that are being made. All USC,
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Speaker 2: all CSU campuses in addition to Stanford are under federal
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Speaker 2: civil rights investigations right now. The Feds are investigating all
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Speaker 2: of them for civil rights violations, arguing that admission standards,
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Speaker 2: DEI programs, any kind of affirmative action programs, which by
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Speaker 2: the way, are illegal, anything along those lines right now,
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Speaker 2: an investigation that the schools are violating the laws, the
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Speaker 2: anti discrimination laws. So the universities are being asked to
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Speaker 2: sign quote a Compact for Academic Excellence and Higher Education,
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Speaker 2: which means adopting the White House's for America's campuses, and
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Speaker 2: the letter suggests that colleges should align with Trump's views
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Speaker 2: on student discipline, on college affordability, the importance of hard
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Speaker 2: sciences over liberal arts. I mean, the bottom line is
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Speaker 2: the administration wants control over what's todd at the university level.
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Speaker 2: It's that simple. You teach what we want you to teach.
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Speaker 2: Otherwise you're not going to get money, and we're going
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Speaker 2: to do everything we can investigate you. We're going to
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Speaker 2: make sure that money is withheld. That's pretty I got
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Speaker 2: to tell you I don't mind a political fight, but
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Speaker 2: we're talking about withholding money for cancer research for example.
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Speaker 2: That's what's being done right now. So the Trump administration
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Speaker 2: find UCLA one point two million dollars one toy two
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Speaker 2: billion for a civil rights violation, and Newsom said uc
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Speaker 2: should should sue right back and not bend the knee.
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Speaker 2: No lawsuit has been filed, by the way, so at
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Speaker 2: this point this is such a match, a pissing match
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Speaker 2: between them. The other thing that a federal compact does
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Speaker 2: is going to restrict international student enrollment to fifteen percent
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Speaker 2: of a college undergraduate student body. No more than five
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Speaker 2: percent can come from any single country. Who's going to
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Speaker 2: get hit really hard. Sc is going to get nailed
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Speaker 2: because twenty six percent of the twenty twenty five freshman
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Speaker 2: class is international. More than half of the students come
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Speaker 2: from either China or India. Why are international students so
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Speaker 2: important to a university or a college here in the
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Speaker 2: United States Because they pay full retail. They pay rack rates,
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Speaker 2: the most expensive tuition, and there are no benefits. There
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Speaker 2: are no scholarship programs available to international students. They just
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Speaker 2: pay the tuition, which means if you're taking if you're
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Speaker 2: going to law school at sc or going to medical
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Speaker 2: school at UCLA, that's fifty six thousand dollars a year intuition.
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Speaker 2: You cut all of that out, or you cut out
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Speaker 2: a big chunk of that and not replace the money.
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Speaker 2: By the way, we're not talking about replacing the money.
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Speaker 2: We're simply saying the money is not going to come in.
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Speaker 2: Or that's what the Trump administration is arguing. It's it's
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Speaker 2: a huge fight. Which way is it going to go?
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Speaker 2: You know, I don't know at this point because obviously
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Speaker 2: the power that the administration has, the power that the
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Speaker 2: presidency has is extraordinary, almost unlimited. But if anybody can
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Speaker 2: bring that fight to the table, it's Newsome. And is
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Speaker 2: it because of Newsom and his personality? I guess, to
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Speaker 2: a smaller extent, it's because Newsom is California, and California
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Speaker 2: is no joke. I mean, this is not Arkansas, this
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Speaker 2: is not Rhode Island. This is California, the juggernaut of
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Speaker 2: what the United States is about. And so Newsome, I
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Speaker 2: think on a political level, I mean, he's obviously running
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Speaker 2: for president. I mean there's no question about that. The
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Speaker 2: more he says, oh, I don't know, I want to
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Speaker 2: stay governor, Please give me a break. He is going
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Speaker 2: around the country at the various political rallies, which just
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Speaker 2: make a lot of sense as far as someone's running
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Speaker 2: for office, and he has become the anti Trump spokesperson.
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Speaker 2: That's not to say that Trump is going to run again.
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Speaker 2: Although that meeting that was held this past week with
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Speaker 2: the leadership of Congress and the Senate in the Oval Office,
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Speaker 2: I don't know if you saw pictures of it, but
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Speaker 2: Donald Trump had red hats that said Trump twenty twenty
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Speaker 2: eight on his desk. What do you do with that?
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Speaker 2: What do you do with that? I don't even know,
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Speaker 2: you laugh, He's trolling them. I don't even know what
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Speaker 2: you do with that? Isn't just forget it. Let's say
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Speaker 2: he's gonna be able to pull it off. How old
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Speaker 2: is he going to be in twenty twenty eight. He's
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Speaker 2: not going to pull it off. Yeah, of course not.
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Speaker 2: But I'm just of course not but old. Let's just
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Speaker 2: talk about age for a minute. How old would he
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Speaker 2: be in twenty twenty eight? Eighty three, right, yeah, sevy
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Speaker 2: eighty seven? Yeah. Well. Robert Mugabi, who ran Rhodesia which
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Speaker 2: became a Zimbabwe was ninety two and ninety three and
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Speaker 2: still running the country into the ground, I might add,
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Speaker 2: so this is all this part is entertainment. You know,
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Speaker 2: the Maga hat twenty twenty eight. How about how about
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Speaker 2: Trump twenty thirty two. I should make one of those?
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Speaker 2: Are Let's let's make one of those and start selling those.
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Speaker 2: You think we'd get some sales. That's actually a pretty
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Speaker 2: good idea.
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Speaker 1: He's gonna want to freeze himself so that he can
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Speaker 1: run again a thousand years from now.
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Speaker 2: All right, back, no kidding, all right? Have you noticed
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Speaker 2: that there are no helicopters that you can take in
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Speaker 2: southern California going from place to place? They just don't
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Speaker 2: have too many commercial helicopters out there. How many wealthy
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Speaker 2: people do you think live in southern California who could
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Speaker 2: afford helicopters to beat the traffic? Because one of the
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Speaker 2: things about I don't care how rich you are, you're
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Speaker 2: still stuck in traffic.
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Speaker 1: Other than tourism, which I have done before, the only
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Speaker 1: time I've been in a helicopter for a meeting to
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Speaker 1: go to a meeting was with you, Yes.
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Speaker 2: And those it's almost impossible. You can't get landing rights
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Speaker 2: on helicopters. When you talk about all of these rooftop
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Speaker 2: you know the high rise buildings have those helipads. It's
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Speaker 2: only for the purposes of rescuing people in a fire,
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Speaker 2: that's what that's about. So it used to be you
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Speaker 2: could fly helicopters, but it's done. It would be so crowded,
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Speaker 2: to be so crazy out there. So what's the next step. Well,
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Speaker 2: air taxis right, you know, air taxis are coming and
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Speaker 2: by the way, they're here. Air taxis are now here.
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Speaker 2: And the trick is where are they going to land?
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Speaker 2: That is the problem. The technology of air taxis has
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Speaker 2: basically arrived. The problem is, let's get some landing spaces
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Speaker 2: and we're talking about congested areas. Are they going to
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Speaker 2: go to using rooftop rooftop heli helipads, Well, they're already there.
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Speaker 2: You ever see what you've all seen movies New York
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Speaker 2: where you'd have the pan Am airways and they had
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Speaker 2: that helicopter would land on top of a building and
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Speaker 2: then people would walk down the stairs and he'd be
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Speaker 2: wealthy people. They didn't want to deal with the subway
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Speaker 2: or the traffic in New York, And at one time
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Speaker 2: you know, they used to go to Disneyland. When I
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Speaker 2: was a kid, you could tell you a helicopter to
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Speaker 2: Disneyland from Fanny's Airport. They actually had a helicopter service
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Speaker 2: and I think one or two of them went down
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Speaker 2: and that was the end of that. So the air
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Speaker 2: taxis have arrived and they're going to be up and
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Speaker 2: running by the Olympics. They say, here's the problem. The
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Speaker 2: problem is is that they're not the jets and kind
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Speaker 2: of air traffic or helicopters. They're the kind that need pilots,
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Speaker 2: and it's going to effectively be uber in the air.
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Speaker 2: That is, that's not scalable, that doesn't work. There just
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Speaker 2: aren't that many helicopter pilots out there. It's hard to
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Speaker 2: fly a helicopter, although today with the eight rotors like drones,
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Speaker 2: it's probably a lot easier to fly those, but it's
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Speaker 2: not going to work with pilots. It's going to have
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Speaker 2: to be autonomous. I mean, there's no way around it.
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Speaker 2: With autonomous much like we've been talking about autonomous driving
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Speaker 2: vehicles the way mos that are out there, the only
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Speaker 2: way for them to work is to be driverless, and
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Speaker 2: the same thing is going to happen with air taxis,
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Speaker 2: they're going to be pilot less and with that, now
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Speaker 2: this thing is going to explode. And the technology is there.
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Speaker 2: I mean, can you imagine thousands of these flying around
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Speaker 2: the skies. There'll be collisions. No, the technology is there,
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Speaker 2: with the sensors and the radar and the light r
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Speaker 2: and the routar or whatever the hell they call that,
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Speaker 2: the Rudolphs. It's going to help them guide there a
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Speaker 2: little that's that red blinking light you know at the
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Speaker 2: front of it, you know, the Rudolphs. It's the technology
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Speaker 2: is there to keep these things flying. Much like we've
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Speaker 2: talked about, as soon as fully autonomous vehicles kick in
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Speaker 2: and people are not going to be allowed to drive,
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Speaker 2: gridlock is gone. There will be no more gridlock ever,
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Speaker 2: because cars will be able to drive at speed and
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Speaker 2: the technology will be able to keep them two inches apart,
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Speaker 2: and no one's going to speed up or slow down,
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Speaker 2: or if they are. It's all going to be all
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Speaker 2: of these vehicles talking to each other and it's going
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Speaker 2: to run very smoothly, the same things that happened with
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Speaker 2: their it shillies.
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Speaker 1: There was a TV show I can't remember a class
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Speaker 1: of ninety seven or something like that about modern this
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Speaker 1: futuristic CIA or something, and it was that exact scenario.
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Speaker 1: And if you had your hands in the wheel and
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Speaker 1: were driving, cops could pull you over and ask you
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Speaker 1: why it wasn't in automatic mode, and you know, and
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Speaker 1: the drivers like, ah, you know, I just felt like
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Speaker 1: driving tonight or being controlled. Okay, well it's safer for
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Speaker 1: you to put it into eighties, you know, And it is.
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Speaker 2: I mean the people that are the truck drivers, for example,
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Speaker 2: of the unions, right, the teamsters always tremendously unsafe. You
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Speaker 2: don't want autonomous trucks driving around. You want teamsters. You
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Speaker 2: want guys who are men, real men, flannel shirts, big boots,
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Speaker 2: with the left arm having a tremendous tan on it.
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Speaker 2: That is who you want driving trucks. Forget about the
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Speaker 2: fact that they are swallowing uppers like skittles to keep
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Speaker 2: themselves up and going. Or see radio is even around anymore?
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Speaker 2: Roger Roger over and now yeah, I mean.
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Speaker 1: They use each other cell phones, but yeah they still
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Speaker 1: they still do CV. You can I can hear it
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Speaker 1: sometimes when I'm monitoring the airwaves in my shop.
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Speaker 2: How cool is that? What was that? Song that the
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Speaker 2: CB Radio song con don't remember in any case, one joy. Oh,
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Speaker 2: that's right. What you're going to see, uh, is these
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Speaker 2: air taxis will be around. And the problem is right now,
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Speaker 2: as I've said, finding the secure landing sites because there's
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Speaker 2: going to be a lot of traffic. I mean, can
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Speaker 2: you imagine you basically, let's say you're building and it's
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Speaker 2: going to be a helipad where hundreds of people, maybe
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Speaker 2: thousands of people are going to be flying around, and
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Speaker 2: that is the airport the center of these places, and
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Speaker 2: it's going to be an urban centers. I mean, you're
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Speaker 2: not going to see outlying areas. It's not going to
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Speaker 2: be lax out by the ocean, and you're not going
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Speaker 2: to see Paul Dale out by Palmdale or John Wayne,
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Speaker 2: which is its own place. No, you're going to see
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Speaker 2: him right in the middle of the city. So what's
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Speaker 2: the big company. There's one big company that's out there
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Speaker 2: looking for these spaces right now, and this is they're
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Speaker 2: looking at the Greater La Area, San Francisco, New York City,
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Speaker 2: and by the end of the year they're going to
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Speaker 2: start securing these places. Huh, all right, so much for that.
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Speaker 2: That's gonna be fine. We're going to see the Jetsons
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Speaker 2: all over again. Now, let me tell you what's going on.
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Speaker 2: Saudi Arabia is getting into the sports business in a
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Speaker 2: huge way in terms of Formula One racing and the
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Speaker 2: the golf tournament's now gone against up against the PGA.
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Speaker 2: I think they've merged, if I'm not mistaken at this point. Well,
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Speaker 2: they're moving in a different direction now. It's comedy and
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Speaker 2: it is now the Rhea Comedy Festival. It's inaugural and
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Speaker 2: it runs started twenty sixth September and it goes until
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Speaker 2: the ninth of October, so it's right in the middle
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Speaker 2: of it. And it features well some of the biggest
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Speaker 2: names in US comedy Dave Chappelle, Lewis c K, Bill Burke,
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Speaker 2: Kevin Hart, Whitney Cummings, Pete Davidson, Isis I'm sorry, I mean,
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Speaker 2: he goes on and on and on. And what makes
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Speaker 2: it interesting on this one is, first of all, the
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Speaker 2: amount of money. Saudi Arabia has unlimited amount of money.
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Speaker 2: And with the golfers, how dare you members of the PGA,
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Speaker 2: they were threatened to be tossed out of the PGA,
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Speaker 2: and they said you know what, We'll take our eight
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Speaker 2: million dollars in play a game of golf if that's okay.
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Speaker 2: And enough of them want to where riadd Saudi Arabia won. Well,
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Speaker 2: it seems to be the same thing going on. But
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Speaker 2: here's the difference. You've got comedians who are fanatical First
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Speaker 2: Amendment people, and you have a country that shuts down
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Speaker 2: First Amendment rights, probably as much or more so than
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Speaker 2: almost any country in the world. You don't speak against
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Speaker 2: the government, you don't speak against the royal family. You
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Speaker 2: just don't do that. And so they're getting a lot
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Speaker 2: of hits, these comedians, and some have said no, thank you,
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Speaker 2: some have said thank you, and still rip into Saudi Arabia,
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Speaker 2: continue going, and they've been taking off the schedule to
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Speaker 2: say the least, they're no longer on the card. But
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Speaker 2: Human Rights Watch argued in news release that the Saudi
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Speaker 2: regime is really trying to whitewash its notorious abuses. That's
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Speaker 2: what this is about. It's just not getting into a
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Speaker 2: new franchise taking over sports. No, this is a way
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Speaker 2: for them to sort of, as Human Rights Watch says,
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Speaker 2: whitewash their problems. For example, the murder of Kashogi, who
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Speaker 2: is the journalist. The fact that women are not treated
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Speaker 2: very well as if at they certainly don't vote, they
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Speaker 2: can't drive. So what are the committeeans saying? Well, it
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Speaker 2: breaks down into, as I said, three different camps. Those
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Speaker 2: who say don't want any part of it, those who say, okay,
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Speaker 2: we'll have part of it and still don't stop their acts,
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Speaker 2: and we'll attack Saudi Arabia, and those who are just
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Speaker 2: for the money and say there's just enough money here
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Speaker 2: where we're not going to say no. All right, so
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Speaker 2: they killed Koshogi. Everybody's entitled to a mistake. Okay, women
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Speaker 2: shouldn't drive, now, well, women shouldn't drive. You ever went
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Speaker 2: on the streets of the United States? You don't want
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Speaker 2: women drivers? Are those such thing as really First Amendment?
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Speaker 2: And it's just a question of money. I don't know
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Speaker 2: if I would do it, you know, Neil, I mean,
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Speaker 2: would you for enough money, would you hang up your morals? Well?
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Speaker 2: I get paid to do this show. Yeah, I understand.
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Speaker 2: But let's see, let's say they asked you.
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Speaker 1: I would think I wouldn't unless I could genuinely articulate
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Speaker 1: why why it was beneficial beyond the money.
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Speaker 2: But okay, then you okay, then you wouldn't do it?
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Speaker 2: Uh So, Amy, would you change your broadcast? And let's
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Speaker 2: say the corporation wanted you to broadcast something that you
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Speaker 2: knew was not true or against your basic philosophy? Would
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Speaker 2: you take the money against Well, I'm a newsperson, so
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Speaker 2: I don't take a no. But I understand you know,
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Speaker 2: But I'm just saying, would you you're objective about the news.
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Speaker 2: What if the corporation didn't want you to be objective?
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Speaker 2: I would have a I would have a real problem
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Speaker 2: with that. I would do it for five cents, all right?
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Speaker 2: That is that's the whole point. You wanted to set
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Speaker 2: a moral ground with Amy and me so that you
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Speaker 2: can go you're all, You're all.
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Speaker 1: You're going to get a flotilla and go to uh Gaza.
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Speaker 2: Right? Yes, I am I. And one of the things
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Speaker 2: that I've said this about iHeart which and before I
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Speaker 2: heart it was Cox that owned our station, is that
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Speaker 2: never once I have I or any of us been
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Speaker 2: told what to say and what not to say in
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Speaker 2: terms of content.
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Speaker 1: Now, now you and I have both turned down money
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Speaker 1: for products or things that we don't use or wouldn't use.
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Speaker 1: That's the same.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, those days are gone. We're it's it's a whole
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Speaker 2: new world now. Yes, I use those tampons on a
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Speaker 2: regular basis, Yes, I yes, I think they're great.
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Speaker 1: You know, some days I just don't feel fresh, Bill.
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Speaker 2: It's very funny stuff where it is. And look at
21:41
Speaker 2: the legacy of comedians. Lenny Bruce, who out of Los Angeles,
21:46
Speaker 2: he was Southern California. I mean the guy was, he
21:51
Speaker 2: broke through. He he is the poster child First Amendment.
21:55
Speaker 2: George Carlin in many ways, also Southern California. We really
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Speaker 2: have promulgated. We have created a lot of these extraordinary comedians.
22:06
Speaker 2: Lenny Bruce would roll over in his grave right now now. Personally,
22:12
Speaker 2: as I said, iHeart has never once said here's what
22:16
Speaker 2: you should or should not talk about, or here's a
22:18
Speaker 2: position you should take. Now they will tell me, Bill,
22:22
Speaker 2: you shouldn't say those words, or you can't make fun
22:26
Speaker 2: of certain ethnic groups. And I get that virtually every day.
22:31
Speaker 2: That's not such a good idea, But in terms of content,
22:33
Speaker 2: never even to the point where I call them up
22:38
Speaker 2: and say, would you consider paying me more money if
22:41
Speaker 2: I absolutely went the way you wanted me to do.
22:45
Speaker 2: I'm willing to sell myself. I am willing tohore myself out,
22:50
Speaker 2: and this corporation will not let it happen. Just wanted
22:56
Speaker 2: to point that out. Okay, why don't we move over
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Speaker 2: in a different direction. There is a technological segment I
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Speaker 2: want to do with you up. This is in my wheelhouse.
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Speaker 2: And as you know, I was involved in reproduction, third
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Speaker 2: party reproduction, technological third party reproduction for many years. That
23:15
Speaker 2: was my specialty as I practice law, and as you
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Speaker 2: know that, and let's talk about in vitul fertilization. In
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Speaker 2: viutul fertilization of which helped create my children is pretty
23:28
Speaker 2: complicated stuff. And it goes back to well, the first
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Speaker 2: IVF baby ever born was nineteen seventy eight. I wrote
23:36
Speaker 2: my first surrogacy contract in nineteen eighty. My first IVF
23:40
Speaker 2: baby born of surrogacy was in the early eighties, so
23:43
Speaker 2: early days, and we were just waiting for the technology.
23:48
Speaker 2: We knew it was coming. Well, let me tell you
23:52
Speaker 2: where it's gotten to. It's now become robotic and this
23:56
Speaker 2: is where AI is kicking in again. We have no
23:58
Speaker 2: idea where it's going. But I'll BETCHO didn't know that
24:03
Speaker 2: the system of which an egg embryo is created, that
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Speaker 2: it is implanted into a woman is about two hundred
24:13
Speaker 2: manual steps, and it takes extraordinarily well trained embryologists who
24:19
Speaker 2: have these eyes that you can see, I mean the
24:23
Speaker 2: eagle eyes, because they're looking for these tiny little eggs
24:27
Speaker 2: and they're looking for this sperm, looking at sperm which
24:30
Speaker 2: has to be determined, whether the morphology is good, are
24:33
Speaker 2: they swimming in the right direction? Are they too many
24:35
Speaker 2: of them spinning around? Too many of them going back
24:37
Speaker 2: on themselves. It's a lot of skill. Well, robotics has
24:41
Speaker 2: straightened all of that out, and this is huge, huge
24:48
Speaker 2: news for a bunch of different reasons. I don't know
24:51
Speaker 2: if you've ever well, I'm sure a lot of a
24:54
Speaker 2: lot of us. I can't tell you how many kids
24:56
Speaker 2: have been born of IVF. I mean millions of children.
25:01
Speaker 2: Next time you talk to anybody who've had twins, for example,
25:05
Speaker 2: fraternal twins, Hey, what happened with your how your kids
25:09
Speaker 2: born IVF? I know dozens of people who had had children.
25:15
Speaker 2: Of course, you know, through my practice, I did idea,
25:19
Speaker 2: but this changes everything. Right now, it's about a sixty
25:25
Speaker 2: percent success rate. When I first started doing this, the
25:30
Speaker 2: success rate was under five percent. Three percent success rate.
25:35
Speaker 2: Now it is a sixty percent success rate, which is
25:39
Speaker 2: far more than natural conception. People don't have a sixty
25:45
Speaker 2: percent success rate when it comes to natural conception. Natural
25:49
Speaker 2: conception means stooping. Let me explain the technology of stooping.
25:56
Speaker 2: You you probably know what it is. Let me to
26:00
Speaker 2: explain it to you. First, Well, no, you don't have to,
26:03
Speaker 2: because I made my living off this, and not in
26:05
Speaker 2: that sense, but in another sense. So up to this point,
26:10
Speaker 2: even with the technology of IVF, it has been for
26:14
Speaker 2: the most part, a manual process, and that's on several
26:18
Speaker 2: different levels. By the way, when we're talking about a
26:20
Speaker 2: manual process, this takes away all of that. Well, certain
26:26
Speaker 2: stuff is still around, you know, there's the National Fluffer
26:30
Speaker 2: Corporation that helps out, and they have machinery, certain gizmos
26:35
Speaker 2: that help, but it's not the same here. The point
26:39
Speaker 2: is that the success rate where it's going to fall.
26:43
Speaker 2: Where success rate is not going to be as continue
26:48
Speaker 2: to be to the point of it's unsuccessful, is the implantation.
26:53
Speaker 2: They haven't figured that out yet. You take an embryo
26:56
Speaker 2: and it has to be implanted into the uterus. The
26:59
Speaker 2: uterine wall and that they haven't gotten around yet everything
27:04
Speaker 2: else they have, technology has been able to take over
27:07
Speaker 2: and it's getting more and more. Now a cycle of
27:10
Speaker 2: IVF can cost up to thirty thousand dollars and couples
27:14
Speaker 2: do it more than once. Now the thirty thousand dollars
27:19
Speaker 2: involves egg retrieval, egg freezing. Also the IVF part the embryologists,
27:25
Speaker 2: so that's the whole package and you can do it
27:28
Speaker 2: for less. But at this point, this is where technology
27:35
Speaker 2: is going to be brought to the forefront and made
27:37
Speaker 2: so much cheaper, and you're going to see an entire
27:42
Speaker 2: group of people basically been put that are taken out
27:46
Speaker 2: of the workforce. Ask someone with who used to be
27:51
Speaker 2: a laboratory technologist. You know those were licensed at one
27:54
Speaker 2: point lab techs. My mother was a lab tech which
27:58
Speaker 2: came to the United States. And what she would do
28:01
Speaker 2: in order to count bacteria, for example, count the bacteria
28:08
Speaker 2: in that when someone is sick. She worked in a
28:11
Speaker 2: TB hospital, which is all of you medical center. She
28:15
Speaker 2: would look under her microscope and she would in these
28:19
Speaker 2: grids literally count the cells with a clicker. Well, all
28:26
Speaker 2: those jobs are gone because machines were developed very early
28:30
Speaker 2: on that all of that analysis is done with one
28:34
Speaker 2: slide with a drop of blood and they can do
28:37
Speaker 2: three hundred tests. You won't see a lab tech, a
28:41
Speaker 2: licensed lab tech anymore. I think you may have to
28:43
Speaker 2: have one in a lab. I don't even know if
28:46
Speaker 2: that's the case. But you're going to see the same
28:48
Speaker 2: thing with embryologists. You're going to see the same thing
28:51
Speaker 2: with dealing with IVF, which means it's going to be cheaper,
28:54
Speaker 2: far cheaper, and on top of that, it's going to
28:58
Speaker 2: be more effective. And why is that? Because robotics. When
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Speaker 2: robotics come into play, everything becomes cheaper. Life is changing
29:08
Speaker 2: and a lot of people are being put out of work.
29:11
Speaker 2: I mean, i'll tell you what else is. And we've
29:12
Speaker 2: talked about this before. Entry level computer people are going
29:16
Speaker 2: to be gone. You can't get a job as an
29:19
Speaker 2: entry level computer. You go to school, there you are
29:21
Speaker 2: with your skill set. You're looking at a basically a
29:26
Speaker 2: trainee entry level starting in a major corporation Amazon, Google,
29:30
Speaker 2: there are no jobs. AI has taken over the whole thing.
29:35
Speaker 2: I mean, we're in some big, big, big changes as
29:38
Speaker 2: a matter of fact. And are we putting together the
29:42
Speaker 2: show that we're going to do the segment that we're
29:44
Speaker 2: going to do with me and Ai chat GPT. We're
29:49
Speaker 2: going to do that next week, right, Yeah, let's do
29:53
Speaker 2: that because we've been talking about that this week. So
29:56
Speaker 2: I want a news segment of Amy's using chat GPT
30:01
Speaker 2: where we're going to hear Amy, who's not going to
30:03
Speaker 2: be there. I want maybe a food segment from Neil
30:08
Speaker 2: and maybe from me. We'll do some kind of general topic.
30:12
Speaker 2: We'll talk about this. You sound drunk right now. Hey, Hey,
30:15
Speaker 2: hey guys, Hey guys. You know I'm just thinking it through.
30:18
Speaker 2: I'm thinking it through. And you dressed up like a
30:22
Speaker 2: show girl. No, stop it, stop it. I'm going to
30:24
Speaker 2: get through. I'm putting We did this with Amy and Will.
30:28
Speaker 2: We did it once, and I'm we did do it,
30:31
Speaker 2: and it was months ago. And my argument why I
30:34
Speaker 2: want to do it again is to see how far
30:37
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it was horrible the first time, but I
30:39
Speaker 2: want to see how far Ai has taken us even
30:43
Speaker 2: in the last several months, because this thing is advancing
30:47
Speaker 2: by the day, and that's what I want to do.
30:50
Speaker 2: And maybe you're just talking about car chases. Oh, we
30:54
Speaker 2: could do that. We could do a car Chase.
30:55
Speaker 3: An Ai car Chase with Tim Tim Conway with an
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Speaker 3: Ai Tim Cuss.
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Speaker 2: Yes, let's do see. This is why I'm sounding drunk,
31:03
Speaker 2: because we're putting together segments for those of you out
31:06
Speaker 2: in radio land that are listening to this. This is
31:08
Speaker 2: what we do to put together this show.
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Speaker 1: I wonder if Dean Sharp needs a second banana.
31:16
Speaker 2: I'll go laugh on his show. Why not? Why don't
31:20
Speaker 2: we come back and Neil, why don't you join me
31:22
Speaker 2: with Foody Friday? And I'll try not to sound drunk.
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Speaker 3: Reel me or Ai Me AIU because AIU is far
31:29
Speaker 3: more entertaining and more funny and has.
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Speaker 2: More of a depth of knowledge that you don't have.
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Speaker 2: We'll be back with that. This is kf I AM
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