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Will Paramount Leave California? | FAA Hiring Gamers · The Bill Handel Show

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Speaker 2: AM six forty bill handle here on a Wednesday morning.
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Speaker 3: August twelfth. It is a hump day.
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Speaker 2: Some of the big stories we're looking at good news
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Speaker 2: on inflation. Inflation slowed for the second month in a
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Speaker 2: row to three point four percent in July, and the
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Speaker 2: latest consumer price index showed that prices rose point one
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Speaker 2: percent on a monthly monthly basis, in line with the
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Speaker 2: economist expectations. And you are going to hear a lot
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Speaker 2: with the administration taking credit. I guess some extent it
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Speaker 2: should about how inflation is being cut. The problem is
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Speaker 2: it doesn't. If even inflation is zero and we're told
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Speaker 2: how great it is, go to the supermarket, you're still
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Speaker 2: going to end up with pretty higher. It's already baked
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Speaker 2: in to where prices are just well, they're insanely high.
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Speaker 2: And I don't think people want the stats. Okay, Now,
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Speaker 2: there's a report came out yesterday about the LAPD Los
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Speaker 2: Angeles Police Department, which has been the poster child across
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Speaker 2: the country for years and years about police activities, and
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Speaker 2: what the report did is detail some of the challenges
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Speaker 2: the department faced when it was responding to protests last year,
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Speaker 2: the immigration protests, and the report said that officers performed
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Speaker 2: pretty well when dealing with these large, sometimes violent crowds. Now,
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Speaker 2: what critics of the report didn't address, or they said
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Speaker 2: didn't address, was the use of less lethal weapons and
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Speaker 2: aggressive actions by officers against.
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Speaker 3: Members of the media.
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Speaker 2: Now we've had we had a reporter here at the
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Speaker 2: station that was shot with less un a lethal weapons
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Speaker 2: during covering a protest, and we had a talk show host,
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Speaker 2: a former talk show host that was also shot. And
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Speaker 2: it is from what I understand, it is no fun.
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Speaker 3: Boy.
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Speaker 2: Those hurt those less than lethal weapons and then occasionally
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Speaker 2: someone loses an eye, and oh my god, you got
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Speaker 2: to stop all of that. And so, I mean, there's
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Speaker 2: all kinds of questions asked, but the report said, for
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Speaker 2: the most part, the police did a pretty good job.
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Speaker 2: On top of that, during these protests, the department spent
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Speaker 2: over twelve million dollars just in overtime in the two weeks,
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Speaker 2: and the officers made four hundred and thirty five arrests. Okay,
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Speaker 2: so now the negative stuff. The report blamed poor planning
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Speaker 2: coordination for issues with the department's response to these protests
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Speaker 2: that are erupted on city streets, and it was again
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Speaker 2: inn opposition to the administration's immigration policies. And you don't
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Speaker 2: see many protests now because the administration, even though they're
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Speaker 2: going and certainly they are deporting lots of people and
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Speaker 2: arresting lots of people, they're really doing it in a
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Speaker 2: much more low scale way. You know, you don't have
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Speaker 2: these huge events that are covered by the media and
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Speaker 2: they just making Ice look horrible. Okay, So what the
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Speaker 2: report said, the reason the cops did pretty well is
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Speaker 2: because they were looking at unprecedented unrest that sometimes devolved
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Speaker 2: into violence and vandalism.
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Speaker 3: But that's most protests.
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Speaker 2: There aren't many one peaceful protests out there because there
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Speaker 2: are people there that as an excuse, use these protests
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Speaker 2: and overreact. Now here is what some of the criticism
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Speaker 2: is missing from this report sixty two pages, at least
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Speaker 2: in the view of some long time observers of the LAPD.
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Speaker 2: I think some negative observers that the report didn't talk
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Speaker 2: about the use of less than lethal weapons that left
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Speaker 2: hundreds of people injured and drew strong condemnations from human
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Speaker 2: rights groups, didn't specify as to who was shot, didn't
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Speaker 2: specify as to how many rounds were fired from these
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Speaker 2: less than lethal weapons. Now, the report went further, and
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Speaker 2: I was for the most part a pro LAPD. Report
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Speaker 2: largely blamed the protesters for instigating violence and injuring officers,
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Speaker 2: which for the most part is true, saying that agitators
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Speaker 2: intent on taking advantage made it impossible to avoid using force. Now,
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Speaker 2: usually whenever I hear agitators, that to me is a
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Speaker 2: croc that's used a lot to describe what protests are.
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Speaker 2: In this case, I absolutely buy it. I absolutely buy it.
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Speaker 2: And the report said that the LAPD was not prepared
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Speaker 2: to deal with protective equipment and improvise weaponry. In other words,
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Speaker 2: the protesters had some new protective equipment and quote improvised weaponry,
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Speaker 2: including people with oven mits to pick up those tear
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Speaker 2: gas canisters while they were on the ground and emitting
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Speaker 2: the tear gas, picking them up and throwing them back
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Speaker 2: on the cops. And you see that sort of happening.
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Speaker 2: But those are hot and it's not easy to get them.
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Speaker 2: So what do you do? You use ovenmits? Now, did
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Speaker 2: you ever think of that that they would use of admits?
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Speaker 2: I didn't.
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Speaker 3: You know, it never occurred to me.
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Speaker 2: Also, people lobbied, well, they used leaf blowers to redirect
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Speaker 2: the tear gas going in their direction. Again, who would
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Speaker 2: think of leaf blowers? I mean, they did stuff that
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Speaker 2: the police just didn't think. And do you expect the
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Speaker 2: police to anticipate everything?
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Speaker 3: I don't know, I don't think so.
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Speaker 2: The report said the cops were also targeted with rocks, bottles,
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Speaker 2: commercial grade fireworks, molotov cocktails. We see that all the time.
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Speaker 2: And the report said timely communication was a concern. The
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Speaker 2: department lacked the necessary number of radio waves frequency and
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Speaker 2: when the less than lethal weapons proved ineffective, that's when
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Speaker 2: they deployed tear gas twice. It was the first time
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Speaker 2: the department had used that measure since at least the
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Speaker 2: nineteen seventies. So the bottom line with the report is
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Speaker 2: that I guess they give the cops a B on
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Speaker 2: this one if I had two grade it. The department
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Speaker 2: spent seventeen million dollars in personnel costs in the two weeks,
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Speaker 2: twelve of which was just for overtime. And so how
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Speaker 2: do the cops do well? I you know, I think
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Speaker 2: the cops, for the most part do a good job.
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Speaker 2: But then again, I'm pro cop almost across the board
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Speaker 2: versus the bad guys, even though you know, things fall
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Speaker 2: through the cracks. I mean, nobody's perfect, and when you
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Speaker 2: look at the job the cops have to do, I
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Speaker 2: think it's almost impossible. I once interviewed a police officer
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Speaker 2: and he said, during a shooting, during when someone pulls
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Speaker 2: out a gun, for example, I've got two choices, he said.
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Speaker 2: Either I shoot them and now I'm on trial and
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Speaker 2: i am looking at discipline at best and I'm being
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Speaker 2: sued of course, or I let them shoot me. Those
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Speaker 2: are my choices, just as an aside. As I finish
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Speaker 2: this segment. One hundred and twenty claims for damages have
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Speaker 2: been filed against the city in connection during those police
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Speaker 2: actions during the pro immigration protests. One hundred and twenty
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Speaker 2: already lawsuits already stemming from the twenty twenty process protests
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Speaker 2: over the killing of George Floyd. And this is going
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Speaker 2: to tie up the city for years if it goes
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Speaker 2: to trial. And so here is the other issue. If
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Speaker 2: someone is hurt during those protests, it is an immediate
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Speaker 2: lawsuit against the police for police misconduct, overreaching and physical damages,
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Speaker 2: being hurt almost immediately, no matter whether the police are
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Speaker 2: at faults or not. Even when someone is killed by
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Speaker 2: the police after pulling a gun on the cops, what
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Speaker 2: you hear is lawsuit being filed. The police shouldn't have
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Speaker 2: acted the way they did. And I've heard and talked
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Speaker 2: about story after story when the police shot, usually a
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Speaker 2: young man who had pulled a gun, and then the
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Speaker 2: mother files the lawsuit for wrongfold.
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Speaker 3: That's saying you.
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Speaker 2: Could have wounded him, You could have shot him in
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Speaker 2: the knee or the leg. Really, okay, why don't you
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Speaker 2: get into a situation like that and see what happens?
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Speaker 3: All right, We're done with that.
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Speaker 4: The Hollywood situation continues to get not so great. Here
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Speaker 4: in La this is you know, we have fears of.
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Speaker 5: Detroit.
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Speaker 4: You know, the old saying with Detroit is and the
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Speaker 4: last person leaves turn out the lights because Motown ended
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Speaker 4: up being a ghost town. And we're looking at something
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Speaker 4: similar here when it comes to Hollywood. The very thing
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Speaker 4: that we grew here. Basically what had happened, you know,
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Speaker 4: you had it going on in the East Coast other parts,
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Speaker 4: and they needed a place where the weather was good
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Speaker 4: all year round and they moved everything out here. We
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Speaker 4: know the story of Hollywood Land. Back in the twenties
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Speaker 4: in the hills, it was a housing area. It was
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Speaker 4: a housing area up in the hill now Hollywood called
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Speaker 4: Hollywood Land, and some of the structures are still there.
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Speaker 4: But all of the mystique and all of the lore
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Speaker 4: of Hollywood and the movies is right here. This is
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Speaker 4: where it started. And to think that we're at a
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Speaker 4: point where Paramount right now is maybe calling the bluff
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Speaker 4: of the attorney. Uh, but at this point they're saying
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Speaker 4: they could move out of California as soon as October
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Speaker 4: one if they can't settle this antitrust lawsuit blocking.
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Speaker 3: Neil, Neil, you started the segment without.
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Speaker 5: Me, yes, because how dare you? Well, whatever you were doing.
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Speaker 3: I was peeing and I was making coffee.
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Speaker 2: Uh, and it was and it was a pretty close
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Speaker 2: and I just that just takes me a few minutes.
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Speaker 2: So I don't even know what the hell you said.
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Speaker 2: But because I was peeing and I was making coffee,
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Speaker 2: and I don't have a radio in the bathroom or
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Speaker 2: in the kitchen at.
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Speaker 5: This norm, do you care about the audience? I get
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Speaker 5: hold of that.
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Speaker 3: No, I do care about the audience. I care about
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Speaker 3: the audience.
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Speaker 2: I truly care about the audience, just not as much
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Speaker 2: as I care about peeing or making coffee.
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Speaker 5: Is your colostomy bag full?
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Speaker 2: Wow?
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Speaker 3: Wow? You know what?
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Speaker 2: We were keeping it a secret that both of us
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Speaker 2: have colostomy bags and we like to box.
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Speaker 3: Speed bag. In any case, you just started, so.
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Speaker 2: You know you did and your story and I did
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Speaker 2: hear the last part of it as I ran into
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Speaker 2: the studio, and it is a I think you pointed
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Speaker 2: out correctly while all of this that these politics are
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Speaker 2: going on and the threat to leave in the lawsuit,
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Speaker 2: that Paramount is being hit by by states because they're
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Speaker 2: trying to stop uh this merger.
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Speaker 3: The merger would go on.
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Speaker 2: I mean, the merger is going on income hell or
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Speaker 2: high water, and these states would file lawsuits no matter
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Speaker 2: whether Paramount stays or not.
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Speaker 3: If Paramount were to stay.
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Speaker 2: I think California is still going to join that lawsuit.
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Speaker 2: And the problem is in this I'm defending the movie
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Speaker 2: companies now. It is just too damn expensive. As you
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Speaker 2: pointed out it is. There are so many other places
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Speaker 2: around the world that even in the United States, that
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Speaker 2: are far cheaper, not only in terms of labor and
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Speaker 2: they have good quality or a highly skilled people too.
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Speaker 2: It used to be that Hollywood was it, but other
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Speaker 2: states have created programs and they do stock or they
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Speaker 2: do tax breaks and in some cases actually subsidize the films.
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Speaker 5: When you're using Canada.
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Speaker 4: For Los Angeles, yep, and they're shooting the streets of
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Speaker 4: you know, Ontario or whatever, or Toronto for La that's
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Speaker 4: that's a problem that well it's certainly not movie industry
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Speaker 4: is here.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, that's as far as the back lot is concerned.
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Speaker 2: And using cities for other cities. I mean, that's happened forever.
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Speaker 2: Go to the back lot of Universal or Fox uh and.
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Speaker 3: Or water of that.
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Speaker 4: But when you aren't, when in La studio is using
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Speaker 4: another country for their own city.
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Speaker 3: Exactly, Well, it's the question of costs.
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Speaker 2: First of all, they get away with it because movie
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Speaker 2: making is pretty skilled and people believe it. It's not
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Speaker 2: oh boy, that's Toronto, that's Ontario, that's Croatia. No that
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Speaker 2: you buy it. There's no question. And the point is
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Speaker 2: that these states, these countries realize there's a lot of
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Speaker 2: money to be made when movies come in. They don't
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Speaker 2: have to build infrastructure it's just money coming in and
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Speaker 2: everybody wants a piece of it. And it's not just
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Speaker 2: states Georgia, Tennessee that are sucking sucking movies out of
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Speaker 2: Southern California, but as I said, other countries, Canada being
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Speaker 2: one of them, where labor is well, just the amount
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Speaker 2: of money, just the difference in terms of the currency exchange.
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Speaker 2: It's thirty percent different. So a dollar that A costs
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Speaker 2: here the same to do the same thing is seventy cents.
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Speaker 5: When are we going to become Detroit?
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Speaker 4: Was my question, Exactly at what point do we lose
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Speaker 4: the very industry that this.
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Speaker 3: I don't think.
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Speaker 2: I don't think it's going to be I don't think
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Speaker 2: it's going to be Detroit. But it's already cost Southern California.
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Speaker 2: It cost Hollywood a huge amount of money because you
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Speaker 2: just can't compete. And you've got California with these insane
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Speaker 2: restrictions and laws, and you have other You go to Georgia,
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Speaker 2: for example, go to Atlanta, and not only do they
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Speaker 2: have a part of the city, you have an entire
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Speaker 2: city department that's just just going around and saying, come
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Speaker 2: to us, come to us for movie making. And here's
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Speaker 2: what we will do for you, La. I think what
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Speaker 2: happens is Hollywood is so used to being the center
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Speaker 2: of all movie making that is sort of a given.
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Speaker 2: Now realistically, most of the highly skilled people to make
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Speaker 2: up people, that the sound people are here in Hollywood.
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Speaker 2: I mean, you've got a big choice, and this is
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Speaker 2: the depth of knowledge and experiences here. But you know,
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Speaker 2: the costs override that they really do. You know, as
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Speaker 2: I said in the previous segment, you know Lord of
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Speaker 2: the Rings was all New Zealand, and if you look
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Speaker 2: at Game of Thrones, you can go to Croatia and
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Speaker 2: do Game of Thrones. You can do tours of the
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Speaker 2: Game of Thrones because those buildings that are not town
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Speaker 2: Dubrovnik was used as a big part of it. So
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Speaker 2: Paramount is it going to leave? Who the hell knows?
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Speaker 2: I think it's leaving anyway. And this lawsuit now does
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Speaker 2: this work to stop the move or to stop the
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Speaker 2: merger of these companies. You know, the problem is Paramount
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Speaker 2: is arguing that taking these two massive companies is actually
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Speaker 2: giving me more competition, is actually going to be better
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Speaker 2: for the consumer.
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Speaker 3: Man.
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Speaker 2: This reminds me of Big Pharma when they realistically said
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Speaker 2: this is exactly what they said. Lowering the prices of
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Speaker 2: drugs helps the consumer. It's good for the patient to
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Speaker 2: raise the prices. That lowering the prices hurts. And here's
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Speaker 2: a paramount saying that mergers help, they give you more competition.
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Speaker 2: Come on, give me a break. And I get that right.
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Speaker 2: Lowering the prices hurts, raising the prices help. Yeah, I
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Speaker 2: got that right.
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Speaker 3: Fair enough. Okay, what happened last night?
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Speaker 2: Bunch of primaries happened, and then the big issue was
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Speaker 2: going to be the Democratic Party was really Yet the
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Speaker 2: Republican Party isn't split because the president controls the Republican Party,
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Speaker 2: I mean almost completely. Now the Democrats there is a
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Speaker 2: huge fight afoot and that has to do with the
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Speaker 2: progressives the liberals can't use that word anymore, and moderate Democrats.
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Speaker 3: And the results were mixed.
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Speaker 2: Now what the country is looking at is the Michigan
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Speaker 2: Senate race. That was important, the governor's races. I don't
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Speaker 2: think we're important at all because it doesn't affect us.
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Speaker 2: You know what happens in Wisconsin, what happens in Michigan
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Speaker 2: with the governorship, eh, you know, how does it affect us?
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Speaker 3: Now?
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Speaker 2: The Senate and the House Oh boy, does that affect
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Speaker 2: us big time? Those to me and most people, those
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Speaker 2: are really important races.
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Speaker 3: And they were sort of mixed down the middle.
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Speaker 2: And I don't want to get into specifics as to
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Speaker 2: who won. The names don't really matter, but the issue is, well,
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Speaker 2: one name matters, and that was the victory of the
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Speaker 2: David Crowley, who is a moderate winning and he wasn't
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Speaker 2: supposed to win over state Francisca Hong, who is a socialist,
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Speaker 2: a democratic socialist who is also crazy. I mean she
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Speaker 2: is a fruitcake, and she was way ahead in the polls.
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Speaker 2: And that's what goes to show you how diverse and
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Speaker 2: literally how difficult it is for the Democratic Party right
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Speaker 2: now because they have left wing and I mean crazy
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Speaker 2: left wing and moderates and the Republicans want the crazy
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Speaker 2: left wing to win. Why well, because here we are,
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Speaker 2: the voters, and what are we looking at.
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Speaker 3: I mean a lot of it.
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Speaker 2: A lot of us want super liberals, and you know
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Speaker 2: the super liberals. I mean, I believe what a lot
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Speaker 2: of says universal healthcare. I know a lot of people, Oh,
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Speaker 2: we don't want socialist medicine really because our medical system
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Speaker 2: works so well. Medicare for all why should medicare only
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Speaker 2: be for people over sixty five? Well, maybe because we
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Speaker 2: paid into it all of these years and we pay
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Speaker 2: taxes all these years.
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Speaker 3: That's an argument.
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Speaker 2: And we are seeing, for the first in a very
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Speaker 2: long time, the Democratic Democratic Party is in trouble. And
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Speaker 2: it shouldn't be because people are so pissed off at
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Speaker 2: this administration, at this Republican Party. It should be a
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Speaker 2: cake walk coming in the midterms, and it looks like
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Speaker 2: it's not going to be because you are going to
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Speaker 2: see these socialist Democrats or democratic socialists, super left wing
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Speaker 2: taking big parts and taking big positions. It's do you
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Speaker 2: remember George McGovern when he ran against Richard Nixon, George
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Speaker 2: McGovern being a very very liberal, left wing candidate against
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Speaker 2: Richard Nixon. And Richard Nixon was not a crazy right winger.
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Speaker 2: McGovern was a crazy left winger. How close was it?
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Speaker 2: Forty nine out of fifty states went for Nixon. How's
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Speaker 2: that for a close race. It was the biggest landslide
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Speaker 2: in the history of the United States. Why because the
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Speaker 2: extremists were going on. You know, Donald Trump is not
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Speaker 2: an extremist. I mean he backs the extremist because they
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Speaker 2: elect him. But he doesn't care. You think he really
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Speaker 2: cares about abortion? He doesn't. You know what he cares about?
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Speaker 2: Mail in ballots? Do you think he cares about inflation? Eh?
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Speaker 2: Not really, it's that mail in ballot business that just
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Speaker 2: Do you think he cares how many of us get vaccinated? When,
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Speaker 2: of course not. And those are issues that are important
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Speaker 2: to us, to me at least because melee in ballots.
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Speaker 2: How's going to change? How's that going to change your life?
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Speaker 2: Universal health care that's going to change your life. Retirement
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Speaker 2: funds that's going to change your life, the cost of goods,
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Speaker 2: the cost of living. That's going to change your life,
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Speaker 2: as if it already hasn't happened. So mixed races, huh, well,
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Speaker 2: mixed race also mixed races.
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Speaker 3: See how that works.
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Speaker 2: Okay, this is a bit of news that I thought
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Speaker 2: was kind of fine and I couldn't agree more. And
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Speaker 2: this is the administration, particularly the FAA is hiring about
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Speaker 2: two thousand new air traffic controllers because obviously there is
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Speaker 2: a shortage, big time shortage of air traffic controllers, and
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Speaker 2: in a couple of instances they had to shut down
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Speaker 2: the control tower and not allow planes to land or
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Speaker 2: take off. They had to shut down the airport because
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Speaker 2: there weren't enough people in the control tower. So what
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Speaker 2: the FAA is done is they're hiring the next generation
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Speaker 2: of air traffic controllers and they want to see skills
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Speaker 2: that are already in place, for example and specifically frequent gaming.
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Speaker 2: They want gamers, they want video gamers, and saying that
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Speaker 2: this makes sense because gamers have problem solving skills and
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Speaker 2: multitasking abilities, and what they do is they can do
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Speaker 2: several things at one time when they're shooting down aircraft
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Speaker 2: or moving around and killing people in the video game.
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Speaker 3: And that ability to look at.
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Speaker 2: Different scenarios simultaneously is exactly what air traffic controllers do.
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Speaker 3: And it makes so much sense. Now, are there some downsides?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're very easy to train in terms of the
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Speaker 2: skill set. But can you imagine going into a control
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Speaker 2: tower and having fifteen mainly young people screaming.
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Speaker 3: Yeah I got them. Yeah, look at that.
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Speaker 2: All of them screaming at the same time in the
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Speaker 2: control tower. That is entertainment with a capital E. And
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Speaker 2: this is what the FAA said. I've said this four years.
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Speaker 2: I also think that fighter pilots or at least drones
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Speaker 2: should be controlled by gamers because again, they what they
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Speaker 2: do is they fire drones in the games, and they're
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Speaker 2: very good at it, and they spend hundreds or thousands
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Speaker 2: of hours doing it.
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Speaker 4: They are definitely bringing them into that field as well.
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Speaker 5: What about Pamela.
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Speaker 4: A listener gave a talk back and said, what about
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Speaker 4: Pamela doing this for the FAA?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, she should as a matter of fact, it's a
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Speaker 3: great that's a job.
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Speaker 2: Yeah right now after she got canned from her baking job.
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Speaker 3: And so she got canned from her baking job.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, us their baking job because they no, she
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Speaker 2: was no, she was great and they loved her. Just
24:05
Speaker 2: they lost a couple of accounts and it was a
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Speaker 2: commercial bakery and she was last one hired, and you
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Speaker 2: know it was a heartbreaker. So yeah, the FAA discounts.
24:19
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, but look what. Lego had a brick Factor competition,
24:24
Speaker 2: so builders were invited nationwide to showcase their skills and challenges.
24:29
Speaker 2: Winners were offered roles right at the spot with the
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Speaker 2: company IKEA printed where will you stand? These are instructions
24:37
Speaker 2: directly inside the assembly instructions. Amazon went on Tinder and
24:43
Speaker 2: Amazon placed targeted mobile ads for the Amazon Web services
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Speaker 2: aws for engineering roles directly into user feeds on Tinder.
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Speaker 2: They had a much greater success on Grinder, I must say,
24:57
Speaker 2: but unfortunately the peopleeople who answered on Grinder were way
25:02
Speaker 2: too busy doing other stuff. Here's a couple of fun
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Speaker 2: ones Volkswagen. Volkswagen needed specialized mechanics in Germany, and so
25:12
Speaker 2: the undercarriage of several fleet vehicles needed to be a repair.
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Speaker 3: So they went to.
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Speaker 2: Repair shops rival repair shops, and underneath the cars there
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Speaker 2: were secret job advertisement to move people into Volkswagen.
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Speaker 3: This is Here's where's my favorite one?
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Speaker 2: Here?
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Speaker 3: I thought this was absolutely great Google.
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Speaker 2: When they were looking for people, they displayed and this
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Speaker 2: is on a billboard a web address in the form
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Speaker 2: of a math puzzle. The message read first ten digit
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Speaker 2: prime found in consecutive digits of e dot comie and
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Speaker 2: it was some kind of a you know, scientific scientific sign.
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Speaker 2: No sign of the company's name on the ad at all.
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Speaker 2: If you crack the second puzzle on that web page,
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Speaker 2: it revealed part of a recruiting stunt and got some
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Speaker 2: really high end people. Google, by the way, receives more
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Speaker 2: than three million applications every year, of which point two
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Speaker 2: percent lead to actual hires. So they're trying to get
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Speaker 2: different ways of grabbing people and doing it in very
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Speaker 2: clever ways. And you know, I think one of the
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Speaker 2: most wanted jobs in the world happens to be a
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Speaker 2: professional Lego constructor. And you're working for Lego and they
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Speaker 2: go all over the world and make those Lego stores.
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Speaker 2: They make those huge enormous Lego characters and buildings of
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Speaker 2: iconic monuments, you know, Mal Rushmore, the Eiffel Tower. So
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Speaker 2: it makes a lot of sense to state and they
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Speaker 2: need so much sense. This is where I'm surprised that
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Speaker 2: it hasn't happened before. And this just happened in April
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Speaker 2: and the FAA said this is what we need and
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Speaker 2: so you're going to see gamers. I think it's great,
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Speaker 2: super super clever.
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Speaker 4: You know, there's a story of one of the old
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Speaker 4: managers back when we were Clear Channel, and this was
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Speaker 4: before you know, the the Internet and all of that stuff,
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Speaker 4: and he was hiring someone and he said, well, come
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Speaker 4: meet me at noon or whatever it was. And guy said,
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Speaker 4: what's your address and your office number and all that,
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Speaker 4: and he said, I want someone resourceful.
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Speaker 5: Find out yourself. And that was part of the test.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, and some great questions that are almost unanswerable.
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Speaker 2: I remember I once I got a job in sales
27:48
Speaker 2: and I went for my interview.
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