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Global Economy: America is in a Decent Place | Online Predator Crackdown · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM 640, the Bill Handel Show
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  Speaker 1: on demand on the iHeartRadio app. KFI AM 640, Bill Handel.
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  Speaker 1: It's a Thursday morning, September 17th. And as always, it's
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  Speaker 1: another big news day. Let me start talking about what's
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  Speaker 1: happened yesterday. As you know, Warsh, the head of the Fed,
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  Speaker 1: new head of the Federal Reserve Bank, as nominated by
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  Speaker 1: President Trump, went ahead, the entire Fed board, all 12 members,
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  Speaker 1: voted for an increase of a quarter of a percent
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  Speaker 1: of interest rates. And it's probably going to go higher.
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  Speaker 1: Warsh left that one open. So we've been nailed, right?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, look at the economy. Actually, we're in very
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  Speaker 1: good shape relative to the rest of the world. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: as crazy as it sounds, oh, inflation is killing us.
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  Speaker 1: Look at the problems we have. Let me tell you
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  Speaker 1: what is going on around the world. Right now, as
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  Speaker 1: bad as it is globally, it's going to get worse.
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  Speaker 1: The global economy so far has been beating the odds. Now,
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  Speaker 1: look what happened with the Israeli attacks, the American-Israeli attacks
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  Speaker 1: on Gaza or on Iran. And that set off the
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  Speaker 1: largest disruption of worldwide energy flows in history. Jumps in
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  Speaker 1: oil prices, of course, all over the world, because oil
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  Speaker 1: is a commodity. It's a world market. It costs the
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  Speaker 1: same here as it does over there. And so you've
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  Speaker 1: got the widening and conflict in the Middle East, fuel shortages,
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  Speaker 1: inflation pressures. There was going to be a crash. Never came.
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  Speaker 1: Never came. Why is that? Well, because there are a
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  Speaker 1: few things that came together to sort of kind of
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  Speaker 1: hold off this inevitable crash or what a lot of
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  Speaker 1: economists think may happen. However, the wiggle room between that
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  Speaker 1: and what's happening doesn't look too good. Look what just
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  Speaker 1: happened in the last few days. Attacks from the Houthis
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  Speaker 1: forced Saudi Arabia to shut down a vital pipeline. Houthi
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  Speaker 1: militia seized a Red Sea island, strategic for oil, a
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  Speaker 1: port city in Saudi Arabia where oil was being transported.
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  Speaker 1: Keep in mind the Strait of Hormuz is shut down.
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  Speaker 1: So what you had is a port on the other
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  Speaker 1: side of Saudi Arabia, the east-west pipeline supplied, and that
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  Speaker 1: was sending out oil throughout the Middle East. That's just
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  Speaker 1: been shut down. And so you have negotiations between the
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  Speaker 1: Gulf nations. That fell apart. And we're looking at oil
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  Speaker 1: at over $ 100 a barrel, which, as you know, it
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  Speaker 1: should be about $ 65, $ 70. That seems to be the
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  Speaker 1: sweet spot. So what's been happening? Rolling blackouts, rationing, protests
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  Speaker 1: from Asia to Latin America. In the Philippines, fishermen just
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  Speaker 1: docked their boats. They couldn't go out in the water
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  Speaker 1: because they can't afford the fuel. In Bangladesh, power outages
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  Speaker 1: cause work stoppages at factories across the country. Guatemala protests,
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  Speaker 1: burning tires and cars. And so you talk to the experts,
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  Speaker 1: and one in particular who was quoted and was looked
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  Speaker 1: at by the New York Times, says the number one
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  Speaker 1: reason why crude oil prices and product prices have not
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  Speaker 1: been higher than they are is, let's look at China.
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  Speaker 1: That's a big player. Now, why does China have such
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  Speaker 1: an outside influence? Well, China is the largest importer of
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  Speaker 1: crude in the world. And what they've done is they've
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  Speaker 1: stopped stockpiling oil and relied on their own inventories. So
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  Speaker 1: instead of buying, they're going in their own inventories. And
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  Speaker 1: that eases pressure on the global oil market because the biggest—
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  Speaker 1: importer of oil in the world is not buying, it's
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  Speaker 1: relying on itself. It has reduced or withheld exports of
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  Speaker 1: products made from oil, like jet fuel, so it needs
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  Speaker 1: less crude because it is not shipping out its exports
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  Speaker 1: based on oil. And you have the US, Japan, countries
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  Speaker 1: across Europe also dipping into their own reserves to keep
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  Speaker 1: prices as low as possible. But I got to tell you,
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  Speaker 1: you can only go into your reserves For so long,
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  Speaker 1: the U.S., our petroleum oil reserves, the lowest it has
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  Speaker 1: been in decades. So what is going on? Well, according
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  Speaker 1: to one of the big economists, we're going to be
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  Speaker 1: dealing with prices in the 80 or 100 dollars a
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  Speaker 1: barrel level at least through 2027. Now, that is an
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  Speaker 1: interesting situation because the president has promised that as soon
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  Speaker 1: as the midterms are over, things will be great. Prices
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  Speaker 1: will drop, even though no oil expert is saying that.
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  Speaker 1: Inflation is going to go down. Prices are going to plummet.
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  Speaker 1: Just make sure Republicans are kept in power because that's
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  Speaker 1: what's going to do it. Just wait till after the
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  Speaker 1: election and this will all happen. And then the question is, well,
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  Speaker 1: why not now? It's going to happen after the election. Now,
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  Speaker 1: here's a couple of stats that are crazy. We're talking
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  Speaker 1: about inflation in the 3.5% to 4% range here in
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  Speaker 1: the United States. The Fed wants to keep it at 2%.
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  Speaker 1: That is that sweet spot in terms of inflation. The
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  Speaker 1: Asian Development Bank projects inflation this year in Asia will
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  Speaker 1: be 5.2% from 3% last year. I mean, that is astronomical.
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  Speaker 1: That would be inflation that is just a killer. In Europe,
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  Speaker 1: Britain and the United States, we're looking at inflation, as
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  Speaker 1: I said, 3.5% to 4% until at least the middle
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  Speaker 1: of next year. And so what happens? Prices, worries over
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  Speaker 1: these prices, putting pressure on central banks to raise the
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  Speaker 1: rates like we just did. That makes borrowing more expensive.
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  Speaker 1: That slows down economies. And Germany is already teetering on
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  Speaker 1: the edge of a recession. Ukrainian attacks on Russian refineries
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  Speaker 1: have contributed to the squeeze. Russia has extended its ban
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  Speaker 1: on diesel exports. No more diesel coming out of Russia,
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  Speaker 1: even to the point where President Trump asked Ukraine not
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  Speaker 1: to target Russian refining facilities. Don't hit the Russian facilities
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  Speaker 1: because it affects the world markets. Qatar. Qatar. which is
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  Speaker 1: a leading exporter of liquefied natural gas, expected to see
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  Speaker 1: its economy shrink by 8.6% this year. Now, you want
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  Speaker 1: an economy to grow by 2%, by 3%. 5% is
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  Speaker 1: considered astronomical growth. China, in its heyday, at the top
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  Speaker 1: of its growth factor, was in the 7% to 8%. Well,
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  Speaker 1: the economy in Qatar is going to shrink by 8.6%.
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  Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia, the economy shrank by 4.8% in the second quarter.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it is getting tough. Add to that tariffs
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  Speaker 1: that are raising costs for consumers and manufacturers. Don't for
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  Speaker 1: a moment believe that. that the countries that are being
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  Speaker 1: tariffed by the United States are paying the tariffs. We are.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why people keep on believing that. And
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  Speaker 1: let's talk about El Nino. The World Food Program has
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  Speaker 1: warned that El Nino weather conditions could push 50 million
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  Speaker 1: people into acute hunger this year, notwithstanding any other problems.
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  Speaker 1: I could go on for a long time, but we
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  Speaker 1: are on the verge. And politically, I think it's going
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  Speaker 1: to well, we're going to see what happens. It's getting
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  Speaker 1: worse for Republicans. We'll see if we're ready for a
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  Speaker 1: change unless the electorate believes the president that just wait
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  Speaker 1: until after the elections and everything will be great. Just
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  Speaker 1: make sure we keep the Republicans in power and everything
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  Speaker 1: will be great. Prices will fall. Oil will fall. Inflation
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  Speaker 1: goes down. It's going to be a great country. It
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  Speaker 1: will be America great again. Okay, now I want to
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  Speaker 1: spend a minute or two talking about LAUSD, LA Unified
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  Speaker 1: School District, where I went to school throughout my entire career,
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  Speaker 1: kindergarten right through high school. And as I've told you
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  Speaker 1: many times before, I believe I actually received a pretty
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  Speaker 1: good education. I came out of high school literate. Today,
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  Speaker 1: anybody coming out of LAUSD generally signs their name with
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  Speaker 1: an X. It is very difficult, I think, to get
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  Speaker 1: a good, good education. Now, there are some exceptions. There
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  Speaker 1: are magnet schools, which are superb. And there are schools,
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  Speaker 1: particularly elementary schools, that are within certain neighborhoods where the
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  Speaker 1: parents get involved. They're just really good schools. But it's
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  Speaker 1: tough with the school district because there are a vast
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  Speaker 1: majority of kids who come in that don't speak English.
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  Speaker 1: And they have to be taught English as a second language.
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  Speaker 1: And it's just gotten much rougher. And I don't particularly
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  Speaker 1: blame the school district. I think it's ungovernable. So here's
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  Speaker 1: the problem that's going on now. And that is you
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  Speaker 1: have teachers that can't be fired. You have employees that
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  Speaker 1: can't be fired. You have schools. that have to stay
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  Speaker 1: open because the neighborhood wants to. And the enrollment has declined.
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  Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, it is collapsing. And now
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  Speaker 1: what does the school district do? What do we do
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  Speaker 1: with these buildings? And we're spending a bucket of money
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  Speaker 1: trying to upgrade the buildings because, frankly, we haven't. And LAUSD,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we're talking, what is it, $ 18 billion is
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  Speaker 1: the budget. And they're now talking about spending another $ 2
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  Speaker 1: billion just in upgrading the school buildings, the schools, which
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  Speaker 1: may very well be shut down. That's a mess that's
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  Speaker 1: going on. Kids are not being born. It is that simple.
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  Speaker 1: And that means school districts have to curtail or basically
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  Speaker 1: they have to shrink their footprint. Fewer and fewer schools.
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  Speaker 1: And you would think that's an easy one. Okay, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you have a corporation, for example, that looks at a
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  Speaker 1: factory and goes, we don't have enough people to work there.
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  Speaker 1: We're not producing enough goods. Let's shut it down. Restaurants,
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  Speaker 1: fast food places. Okay, that restaurant isn't doing very well.
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  Speaker 1: Let's shut it down. Well, it's pretty difficult to do
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  Speaker 1: when you are a school system and there are people
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  Speaker 1: in the neighborhood that want to send their kids to
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  Speaker 1: that school as opposed to the one five miles away
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  Speaker 1: instead of a mile away because that school is going
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  Speaker 1: to be shut down because there aren't enough kids. And
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  Speaker 1: that is what is going on. And what's really weird
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  Speaker 1: is on the books, It is not spending the money,
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  Speaker 1: which has already been assigned to schools that really aren't
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  Speaker 1: going to benefit because that student body is dropping. And
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  Speaker 1: there are plenty of schools that need retrofitting. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: LAUSD has been around forever. When I went to elementary school,
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  Speaker 1: my elementary school was in bad shape then, right? And
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about a whole lot of years ago, and
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  Speaker 1: I can't even imagine what it looks like now. And
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  Speaker 1: if it looks good, keep in mind this was a
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  Speaker 1: building that was built in the, what, 40s, 50s maybe,
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  Speaker 1: or maybe even the 30s. And would it cost to
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  Speaker 1: retrofit a building? And imagine that across an entire school board.
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  Speaker 1: So here's what they have to deal with. They are
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  Speaker 1: dealing with many fewer students, budgets going up. Let me
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  Speaker 1: give you a stat. In 2003, 720,000 K through 12
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  Speaker 1: students at L.A. It has lost about 2.3 percent every year,
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  Speaker 1: except even more during the pandemic and start of the
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  Speaker 1: second Trump administration. So we've gone from 720,000 down to
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  Speaker 1: a little over 400,000 students and still spending more money
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  Speaker 1: than ever. It's man, I wouldn't want to be on
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  Speaker 1: a school board. I don't even know how you can
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  Speaker 1: fix that. I really don't. other than just breaking it
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  Speaker 1: up and just saying it's just too big and too ungovernable.
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  Speaker 1: New York is the largest school system in the country,
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  Speaker 1: but it doesn't have the same problems that we do.
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  Speaker 1: It really doesn't. And the number of kids who don't
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  Speaker 1: graduate high school, well, keep in mind, we've got a
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  Speaker 1: huge Hispanic population. A lot of them are undocumented, illegal.
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  Speaker 1: You can't ask. And every kid in America has to
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  Speaker 1: be given a free high school education through high school.
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  Speaker 1: And so when you have this many kids that are
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  Speaker 1: coming from over the border, both legally and not, and
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  Speaker 1: keep in mind, people that come over the border, these
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  Speaker 1: are not people that are highly skilled and well-educated. Otherwise,
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  Speaker 1: they're not sneaking over the border. These are people that
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  Speaker 1: are coming to the United States illegally. first generation, second
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  Speaker 1: generation that are here for opportunities, but they don't bring
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  Speaker 1: a lot of skill set with them. And that is
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  Speaker 1: a huge problem. Okay, there is a story I want
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  Speaker 1: to share with you. Now, we do these stories occasionally
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  Speaker 1: about how horrific these online predators are. One of the
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  Speaker 1: things about the Internet, of course, all the great things,
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  Speaker 1: how it is totally transforming mankind, but there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of negatives to it. And one of the negatives are
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  Speaker 1: predators using the Internet. And so as bad as those
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  Speaker 1: stories are, when I looked at this, I went, oh,
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  Speaker 1: come on. Have we reached this level of predation? Looks
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  Speaker 1: that way. So last year, FBI agents break down the
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  Speaker 1: door of a two story townhome in the San Fernando Valley.
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  Speaker 1: And their target was a 28-year-old guy that was linked,
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  Speaker 1: they say, to an online network of predators that targets
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  Speaker 1: young girls across the globe. Okay. I mean, that's not news.
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  Speaker 1: We knew about that. The guy's name was Jose Henry Ayala.
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  Speaker 1: Casimiro called him Ayala. And as the agents are swarming
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  Speaker 1: over the house, he goes, I'm right here. What's going on?
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  Speaker 1: The house he shares with his parents and younger brother.
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  Speaker 1: They handcuff him, search the house, and grab his desktop,
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  Speaker 1: gaming consoles, phone, anything that they grabbed onto devices that
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  Speaker 1: they suspected he may have used to communicate with his victims.
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  Speaker 1: Ayala's parents knew nothing about this. They just watched in
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  Speaker 1: stunned silence. They didn't know what the hell was going on.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't know what their kid was doing. Well, a
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  Speaker 1: teenage victim says, And this is why the cops arrested him,
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  Speaker 1: accused him of committing extreme acts of cruelty. Now, here's
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  Speaker 1: where it gets really sick and horrific. She reported that
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  Speaker 1: he made young girls he met online throw up on
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  Speaker 1: camera and then lick up the vomit. He pushed others
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  Speaker 1: to put cigarette butts out on their skin. He had
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  Speaker 1: others carve his name onto their bodies. You go, what
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  Speaker 1: the hell's doing this? How does that work? Well, he
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  Speaker 1: is in a loose, alleged, in a loose online network
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  Speaker 1: known as 764, where the members coerce kids into performing
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  Speaker 1: self-harm and sexual acts on camera. And why do they
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  Speaker 1: do this? Not only because they're a perverted depraved a-holes,
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  Speaker 1: but it also gains status with other members of the network.
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  Speaker 1: Look how far I can go. to impress you as
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  Speaker 1: well as assuage or fulfill my sexual crazy desires. And
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  Speaker 1: there is a growing online subculture here, nihilistic violent extremism,
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  Speaker 1: it's known, and it weaponizes digital platforms. The FBI has
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  Speaker 1: 500 investigations going with this, 500. Over the last 18 months,
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of them are right here in Southern California.
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  Speaker 1: This seems to be where most of it is happening.
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  Speaker 1: Just like Chatsworth was the center of porno, literally around
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  Speaker 1: the country, which no longer is because it's all free online.
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  Speaker 1: But L.A. County and the San Fernando Valley seems to
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  Speaker 1: be where this happens. And you go, how is it possible?
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  Speaker 1: By the way, we're talking about underage girls typically between
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  Speaker 1: the ages of 10 and 17 years old are victims.
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  Speaker 1: And a couple of things are happening here. Mental illness
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  Speaker 1: is across the board, not only with the minors themselves
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  Speaker 1: struggling with mental illness and boy, they're being exploited, but
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  Speaker 1: these guys themselves. And one thing is sort of a commonality.
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  Speaker 1: They live at home. Their parents know nothing about this.
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  Speaker 1: They're in their room hunched over their computer for hours
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  Speaker 1: at a time. They have mental illnesses. Ayala, for example,
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  Speaker 1: tried to commit suicide eight times and he's been in
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  Speaker 1: and out of bouts of medication and depression. And they
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  Speaker 1: get more and more obsessed. I mean, this is really
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  Speaker 1: crazy stuff. And it was it's one of those things
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  Speaker 1: that this is this is happening. And I want to
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  Speaker 1: report it to you. And I don't even know why
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  Speaker 1: I do that. It's not to depress you, although it
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  Speaker 1: is depressing. And it's not to depress me. I'm kind
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  Speaker 1: of it is depressing. I just wanted to share with
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  Speaker 1: you some horrible stories. OK. A little bit about where
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  Speaker 1: we are in America. All right. And as you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not a big fan of the Trump administration. And
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  Speaker 1: there are a lot of people who are. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people. And I have no problem with
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  Speaker 1: any administration touting its benefits and its wins. Absolutely none. However,
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  Speaker 1: excuse me. I do have a problem with you peeing
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  Speaker 1: down the back of my leg and saying it's raining.
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  Speaker 1: That one I'm not thrilled about. I apologize about that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Yeah. The midterm convention in Dallas last week,
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  Speaker 1: VP Vance said, I'm going to quote, Two years ago,
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  Speaker 1: we have to remember our nation, ladies and gentlemen, was tired.
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  Speaker 1: We were tired of seeing our factories close. We were
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  Speaker 1: tired of our neighbors dying of drug overdoses. We were
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  Speaker 1: tired of not being able to afford anything. We were
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  Speaker 1: tired of seeing the cartels and criminals given free reign
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  Speaker 1: over our great country. We were tired of being called
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  Speaker 1: racists for noticing that our country was becoming dirtier and poorer.
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  Speaker 1: and less safe and less prosperous. To whatever extent you
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  Speaker 1: believe that's true, and there's always truth in virtually everything
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  Speaker 1: it's said unless you're completely nuts, I will give that
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  Speaker 1: some credence. Now, who is responsible for all of that?
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  Speaker 1: Who is singularly responsible for that? Who did it? All
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  Speaker 1: of it. Why, the Democrats and, of course, Biden. Okay? Okay.
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  Speaker 1: They bankrupted our country. They left us poor. They left
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  Speaker 1: our country weaker. They left our border wide open and
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  Speaker 1: our communities left safe. Okay. Our air and water are cleaner,
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  Speaker 1: are dirtier because of that. Well, let's look at some
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  Speaker 1: environmental policies, right, of the president. Not a big fan
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  Speaker 1: of environmental protections at all. How about health care? Remember
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  Speaker 1: after Obama, the president, Obamacare came in, the Republicans and
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  Speaker 1: the President Trump said, this is horrible. This is terrible.
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  Speaker 1: It's the worst thing that could ever happen to Americans.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm going to produce a much better health care system. OK,
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  Speaker 1: where is it? Republicans have been saying that for since
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  Speaker 1: the day that Obamacare passed. Tariffs, tax policies, inflation, all
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  Speaker 1: of that is, of course, Biden's fault. The EPA has
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  Speaker 1: basically been dismantled. I just argued, talked about that the
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  Speaker 1: new EPA is eliminating any pollution controls on power plants
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  Speaker 1: because it makes the air cleaner when you remove pollution controls,
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  Speaker 1: or at least it makes us have more opportunities and
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  Speaker 1: more choice. I'll tell you the one I really love.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you the one I love the best is
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  Speaker 1: that And by the way, I don't have a problem
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  Speaker 1: with Trump thinking that drill, baby, drill is the way
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  Speaker 1: to go, where he is in favor of fossil fuel producers.
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  Speaker 1: No problem with that. I get it. I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: agree with it, but he says this is what I think.
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  Speaker 1: I think the energy industry should have more rain, should
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  Speaker 1: make it easier. I get that. What I don't get
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  Speaker 1: is at the same time, let's kill green energy. Let's
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  Speaker 1: kill alternative energy. And why? All kinds of political reasons,
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  Speaker 1: because Democrats are usually in favor of alternative energy and
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: Republicans go towards industry. OK, fine. But I here's the
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  Speaker 1: one that just floored me on this. This is where
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  Speaker 1: don't pee down the back of my leg and tell
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  Speaker 1: me it's raining. And that is eliminating alternative energy. Getting
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  Speaker 1: rid of it completely gives us more choices. Take away
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  Speaker 1: 30 percent. of the amount of energy that California takes,
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  Speaker 1: we have more choices then. That's the problem with this.
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  Speaker 1: And that is, it drives me completely insane. Because there's
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  Speaker 1: no reality to this anymore. There really isn't. You know,
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: the reflecting pool, it wasn't a guy with a box cutter.
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  Speaker 1: that slid it open and destroyed the new paint. It wasn't.
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  Speaker 1: It was the manufacturer of the process that admitted we
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  Speaker 1: screwed up. Now, does that mean that the argument is
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: still out there? They've never taken it back. Of course
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: it was vandals. Okay. I mean, a little bit of reality, please,
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: just a little bit of reality. Inflation is Biden's fault.
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  Speaker 1: The war in Iran... That is over. Why? Because, number one,
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: here's a quote. We want it hour one. Four to
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  Speaker 1: six weeks, it's over. Right? The Strait of Hormuz is open.
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  Speaker 1: It is controlled by the U.S. How many Republicans actually
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: believe that, by the way? Certainly every MAGA member of
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: MAGA believes it. You know, life is not so good.
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  Speaker 1: Life is nigh. We are in a poor position in
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: many ways than we were. The rich have gone better.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: The rich have done much better with the tax cuts. But,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: you know, I'd like a little bit of reality and
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: we're not going to get it. We're not going to
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: get it. I'll tell you something else. And this is
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: a prognostication. OK, calendar this one. September 17th, 2006. Handel
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: on a Thursday said. The bigger, if assuming this is true,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: by the way, I don't know if it's true or not,
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: but assuming this is true, that the bigger the Democratic
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: win in the midterms, the more you're going to hear
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: that the election was rigged. I guarantee you, you're going
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: to hear that. Promise. Hey, is that rain? Oh, you're
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: peeing down the back of my leg. All right, coming up, Amazon,
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: what they're going to do and how Amazon is reshaping
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: how America shops. And when Amazon sneezes, we all catch
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: a cold. I'll share that with you when we come back.
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