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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt to step down · The Bill Handel Show

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Speaker 4: Okay.
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Speaker 3: Now in the same orbit, White House Press Secretary Caroline
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Speaker 3: Levitt is leaving.
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Speaker 4: She's stepping down.
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Speaker 3: And this is not one of those issues where the
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Speaker 3: president is unhappy with someone and fire someone. This was
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Speaker 3: someone who is truly on his side, who he respected
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Speaker 3: and loved having close to him. And she is bailing
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Speaker 3: because she says, Number one, I have to spend more
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Speaker 3: time with my family. Number Two, I didn't take maternity
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Speaker 3: the first time out two years ago, and I took
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Speaker 3: some out here.
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Speaker 4: And I just don't want to do this anymore.
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Speaker 3: And in listening to Fox and CNN, in MS NOW,
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Speaker 3: et cetera, virtually everybody says that she's not blowing smoke.
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Speaker 3: This is absolutely case. This job is impossible to do.
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Speaker 3: It's twenty four to seven, particularly when you're dealing with
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Speaker 3: this president. Because he turns on a dime. There'll be
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Speaker 3: a message at ten o'clock and then the message changes
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Speaker 3: at three o'clock, and she has to deal with it.
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Speaker 4: And she has done.
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Speaker 3: When I see her, she does a very good job
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Speaker 3: of expanding espousing Trump's policies, even when with a straight
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Speaker 3: face she looks at us and says, prices are down,
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Speaker 3: you're paying less than you did during the Biden years,
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Speaker 3: your healthcare is better now that Obamacare is gone for
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Speaker 3: many of you, straight face. And the other thing, and that,
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Speaker 3: by the way, earlier we talked about other press secretaries spinning,
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Speaker 3: which they do. There's no question, I just don't think
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Speaker 3: to this extent, that's my take on it.
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Speaker 4: Now, by the way, I'm not alone on this one.
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Speaker 3: And so she's also taken to and was when asked
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Speaker 3: a tough, tough question about a president's actions or philosophy
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Speaker 3: or statement, she's very good at deflecting. Why are you
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Speaker 3: saying that? What's your motivation for asking that question? Are
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Speaker 3: you really trying to attack the president? Well, we just
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Speaker 3: want an answer. Why are you coming up with that question?
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Speaker 3: So she would quite often throw the question back. She's
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Speaker 3: very good at that. And even though I'm not a
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Speaker 3: big fan, as you know where I sit politically on this,
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Speaker 3: I think she did a great job in doing exactly
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Speaker 3: what the Trump administration and President Trump wanted her to do.
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Speaker 3: And she was also part of And this gets interesting
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Speaker 3: because this has never happened before. When you look at
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Speaker 3: the press dealing with the White House Press, the reporters
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Speaker 3: that were assigned the White House traditionally organized by the
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Speaker 3: White House Correspondence Association. Well, in twenty twenty five February,
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Speaker 3: the White House to control of all of that. First
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Speaker 3: of all, adding new media to the rotation. Read bloggers
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Speaker 3: who are let's say, very pro Trump, and all of
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Speaker 3: a sudden they've become journalists. And boy, that was up
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Speaker 3: in the air, and she said outright, the White House
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Speaker 3: Press team in this administration will determine who gets to
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Speaker 3: enjoy the very privileged and limited access in spaces such
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Speaker 3: as Air Force one and the Oval Office. And heretofore
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Speaker 3: it was left to the press itself to determine who
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Speaker 3: the reporters the correspondents were going to be. And that
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Speaker 3: changed completely, which is simply taking what is tradition and
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Speaker 3: throwing it out the way. Now, does the White House
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Speaker 3: have the ability to do that? Yeah, I think so.
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Speaker 3: It hasn't because this tradition. For example, in the case
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Speaker 3: of the Department of Justice, does the White House have
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Speaker 3: the ability to remove all independence from the Department of
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Speaker 3: Justice or the FBI where there used to be a firewall.
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Speaker 3: There's nothing illegal about tearing down that firewall. The government
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Speaker 3: has the ability to do that and does so. And
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Speaker 3: it's just a different kind of presidency.
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Speaker 4: Now. The question is who is going to replace her?
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Speaker 3: Because she has been an adamant supporter of everything that
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Speaker 3: the president does, says, and is as any press secretary
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Speaker 3: has to be. That's that's the job, and it is
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Speaker 3: a tough one. It's a twenty four to seven job,
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Speaker 3: particularly in this presidency, and so she is out based
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Speaker 3: on she just wants to have a life, all right.
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Speaker 4: Coming up? What are we gonna do? Coming up? Let mean, okay,
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Speaker 4: let me see where we're gonna go.
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you know what, Let's do La County and
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Speaker 3: the ADU construction. I've got some pretty good news on
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Speaker 3: that one, and that's coming up after our break.
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Speaker 5: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
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Speaker 5: six forty.
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Speaker 4: Some of the bigger stories we are looking at.
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Speaker 3: More than five hundred people have lost their jobs in
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Speaker 3: the latest round of layoffs. Not very many, but it
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Speaker 3: just it's unemployment is increasing. The only thing that is
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Speaker 3: doing really well is the stock market and that is
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Speaker 3: a lot of that is AI driven, and profits from
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Speaker 3: corporations are doing absolutely phenomenal, and jobs not so much.
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Speaker 4: And of course inflation not so much. Inflation.
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Speaker 3: Actually numbers are pretty good relative to what they have been,
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Speaker 3: but it's still it still costs a lot of money
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Speaker 3: to go to.
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Speaker 4: The grocery store, for sure.
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Speaker 3: Now what's going on with southern California and housing, Boy,
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Speaker 3: have we been talking about that for a long time,
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Speaker 3: because we probably have the biggest shortage of housing in
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Speaker 3: southern California. For a whole bunch of reasons. People just
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Speaker 3: like to live in southern California. It's not that complicated.
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Speaker 3: Our weather is great. Look what's happening in the rest
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Speaker 3: of the country. The opportunities here are pretty damn good,
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Speaker 3: to say the least. And even with all the craziness
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Speaker 3: in California, there was a period for two seconds in
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Speaker 3: which the population of California was either flat or going
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Speaker 3: down a touch. It's increasing again. I mean, California is
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Speaker 3: just people like coming to Southern California. They love the smog,
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Speaker 3: which is coming back. They love the traffic which is
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Speaker 3: always here. The homeless are terrific out on bridges underneath
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Speaker 3: you know, near your house. But the reality is the
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Speaker 3: weather is good, the benefits are good because we're a
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Speaker 3: very liberal state. Okay, So with that housing shortage, like crazy,
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Speaker 3: housing is both there in enough of it, and to
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Speaker 3: what extent there is is just so expensive. It's very
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Speaker 3: difficult for people to survive. So one of the things
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Speaker 3: that the state did is change or force cities to
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Speaker 3: change their building codes. If you have a single family
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Speaker 3: home like I have had most of my life, you
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Speaker 3: certainly have been here in southern California, but I bought
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Speaker 3: early on. Guys, that's the only way you really can't
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Speaker 3: afford a good home anymore is you have to have
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Speaker 3: bought years and years ago and then just moved up
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Speaker 3: the ladder selling buying, selling buying, and just reaching to
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Speaker 3: the next level and stretching but getting there. Then what
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Speaker 3: happens is you almost can't. You can't afford a home.
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Speaker 3: It's very, very difficult. So what the state did is say, Okay,
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Speaker 3: we're going to make it easy for people who live
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Speaker 3: live in single family homes on single family lots, and
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Speaker 3: you can build an adu, which is a little you know,
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Speaker 3: you can build a guesthouse, guest room out there my
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Speaker 3: daughter who is moving to Scotland on Saturday. She lives
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Speaker 3: in a converted garage which became an ADU, which used
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Speaker 3: to be illegal. You couldn't do that, but hey, there
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Speaker 3: it was a little kitchenette, a bathroom, a little tiny
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Speaker 3: bedroom and it was all within I think two hundred
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Speaker 3: square feet or three hundred square feet. Small, but it
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Speaker 3: was in a place at a house where Heretofore it
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Speaker 3: was illegal. You couldn't do it. Now no one can
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Speaker 3: stop you from doing it. And let me tell you
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Speaker 3: how much fun that is when you're buying a piece
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Speaker 3: of property for the purpose of having a single house
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Speaker 3: on a piece of property and the guy next door
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Speaker 3: builds even worse than that. With the new laws coming in,
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Speaker 3: the guy next door builds four unit apartment building or
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Speaker 3: eight units on his property. Yeah, that gets to be fun.
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Speaker 4: So what is Let me give you.
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Speaker 3: A stat There was thirty seven percent of new housing.
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Speaker 3: Guess what that thirty seven percent was when the news
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Speaker 3: housing completed in La County last year. It was ADUs
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Speaker 3: accessory dwelling units. Over a third of all the housing
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Speaker 3: built were these ADUs. And a researcher saying, boy, this
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Speaker 3: is a boom more than a boom let. This is
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Speaker 3: a boom nowhere near close enough to close the housing gap.
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Speaker 3: It's just not the same. We need a whole lot more.
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Speaker 3: And this is one of those issues where you've got
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Speaker 3: to put this on.
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Speaker 4: How do we deal with this?
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Speaker 3: And we want to dealt with now, and the only
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Speaker 3: way it's going to be done is incrementally. Housing It's
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Speaker 3: going to be built incrementally is when we're going to
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Speaker 3: finally deal with it.
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Speaker 4: Will we ever have enough housing? Yeah?
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Speaker 3: Decades from now maybe homelessness. Will we ever be able
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Speaker 3: to really put a dent in homelessness? Yeah, over the
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Speaker 3: next decades. And this is what we do. I mean,
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Speaker 3: there are certain things unless you are willing to, unless
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Speaker 3: we are willing to spend insane amounts of money immediately
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Speaker 3: to the detriment of all the other programs, put this
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Speaker 3: on the front burner. It's going to be incremental. It's
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Speaker 3: going to have to be bits by bits by bits.
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Speaker 3: And let me give you two examples. Catalytic converters. Remember
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Speaker 3: when they came into being because of smog and the
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Speaker 3: emissions that cars created. Wellbody, every car now has a
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Speaker 3: catalytic commercial converter that's sold in California. That's basically driven
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Speaker 3: in California. But it took a generation to get there.
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Speaker 3: It started, well, new cars, Well, that still means ninety
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Speaker 3: nine percent of cars on the road don't have them.
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Speaker 4: Well they will.
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Speaker 3: And then the one since I was in the construction
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Speaker 3: business and I dealt with this a zillion years ago,
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Speaker 3: is California.
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Speaker 4: Made woodn't shake roofs illegal.
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Speaker 3: You could not replace the roof with wood shakes, which
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Speaker 3: traditionally that's what southern California homes were about. Why because
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Speaker 3: wood shakes are made out of oh, I don't know, wood,
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Speaker 3: and what seems to do really well when there's a
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Speaker 3: fire going on. Wood does better than tile does certainly
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Speaker 3: better in terms of being ignited and going up in
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Speaker 3: flames than concrete.
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Speaker 4: So here's what happened.
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Speaker 3: It became illegal to replace roofs or build with new
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Speaker 3: housing with these shake roofs. How long did it take
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Speaker 3: thirty years? Why did it take that long? Well, because
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Speaker 3: it took thirty years to basically go through the cycle.
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Speaker 3: Roofs last thirty years, so it was every year it
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Speaker 3: was better and better and better, and that took a
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Speaker 3: full generation. I think the same thing is going to
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Speaker 3: happen here. Will we have housing?
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Speaker 2: Uh?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, the population.
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Speaker 3: Doesn't increase dramatically, which it doesn't look like it's exploding
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Speaker 3: or anything. We're gonna be at about forty million people
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Speaker 3: give we take in California and we are really short
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Speaker 3: of housing. Will be Will we have enough housing?
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Speaker 4: Yeah?
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Speaker 3: How long you think it's gonna take? I'm saying a generation.
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Speaker 3: Same goes for the waymos oh. I saw my first
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Speaker 3: Weymo a couple of days ago. I had not seen waimo,
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Speaker 3: and I saw two of them when I was driving.
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Speaker 3: That was kind of neat with the neighborhood.
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Speaker 4: No, they're not. I haven't seen him in my neighborhood.
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Speaker 4: You know.
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Speaker 3: I saw him in West LA near the Petersonata Museum
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Speaker 3: when I went there a couple of days ago.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they buzz all over our neighborhood.
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Speaker 3: Hunt. Yeah, I think though, Boy, those are neat, you know,
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Speaker 3: the little twirly things. They look like they have tops
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Speaker 3: all over them, and as they were spinning.
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Speaker 1: Around day and all night, up and down our street.
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Speaker 4: I think they're great. But anyway, are we going to
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Speaker 4: be there? Yeah?
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Speaker 3: At some point the road's gonna jammed with those. But
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Speaker 3: it's going to take time. Okay, coming up, this is
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Speaker 3: a fun one.
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Speaker 4: A name.
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Speaker 3: What do you name your kid when you get married?
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Speaker 3: What does your spouse name himself or herself? Who takes
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Speaker 3: the name? Do you do a hyphenated name?
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Speaker 4: Yeah?
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Speaker 3: In my case, hyphenated names seem to work out, even
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Speaker 3: though I'm not a big fan. And then naming kids. Oh,
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Speaker 3: I love that story too. We'll be back with that.
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Speaker 3: Some of the stories we are looking at Nick Reiner,
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Speaker 3: the son of Rob Reiner and Michelle Reiner, when he
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Speaker 3: is accused of stabbing them to death. He has just
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Speaker 3: been charged again a superseding indictment of lying in weight
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Speaker 3: and then killing his parents. So are lying in weight
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Speaker 3: and committing a murder brings it to another level, that
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Speaker 3: is special circumstances, which makes him eligible if convicted, for
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Speaker 3: either life imprisonment without possibility parole, which is probably going
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Speaker 3: to happen, or the death penalty, even which unfortunately we
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Speaker 3: can't do anymore because it's just too damn expensive and
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Speaker 3: no one gets killed anyway, and it's just too long
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Speaker 3: a time and we have to pay for we the
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Speaker 3: taxpayers have to pay for all.
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Speaker 4: Of the appeals.
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Speaker 3: Okay, Now, it's a fun topic that I want to
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Speaker 3: share with you, and that is the fight over names.
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Speaker 4: And it's the story in the Wall Street.
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Speaker 3: Journal about this man where they had a wedding, he
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Speaker 3: and his wife, and what he did is say, we're
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Speaker 3: going to have a family Olympics, and we're going to
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Speaker 3: give one grand prize away at a child coming. The
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Speaker 3: winning family will determine the name of our future children.
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Speaker 3: The name of our future child children is going to
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Speaker 3: be given to someone who wins a lottery. Well, this
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Speaker 3: whole issue and that got me going on names and
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Speaker 3: what do you name your kid?
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Speaker 4: What do you name? What do couples do? First?
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Speaker 3: Let's start with when you get married, usually to someone
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Speaker 3: of the opposite sex, what happens to the name? Well,
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Speaker 3: usually the wife takes her husband's name. Why is that?
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Speaker 3: That goes back to English common law actually, where by
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Speaker 3: law the wife had to take her husband's name because frankly,
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Speaker 3: she was property in terms of their relationship. And so
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Speaker 3: a wife assumed her husband's surname because their legal identity
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Speaker 3: was now subsumed by her husband.
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Speaker 4: He was the Haunt show.
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Speaker 3: Now in the US, it's never been legally required, but
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Speaker 3: in a study done in twenty twenty three by Pew
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Speaker 3: Research shows that nearly eighty percent of women in opposite
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Speaker 3: sex marriages take on their spouse's last name when they
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Speaker 3: get married, and particularly with kids, if they have children.
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Speaker 3: Most kids are named after the father or use the
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Speaker 3: father's last name, and women who heretofore use their own name,
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Speaker 3: they want to share the name with their child last names,
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Speaker 3: and so they take on the name.
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Speaker 4: So that part is pretty well done.
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Speaker 3: My personal situation is I have a wife who has
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Speaker 3: a hyphenated name, and I said, don't do it. You
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Speaker 3: have your own name, you know, Lindsey. Nope, she wanted
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Speaker 3: a hyphenated name, and she does. She legally changed her name,
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Speaker 3: and I therefore had to change my name to build
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Speaker 3: no hyphen handle. That actually is my legal name. I
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Speaker 3: want to point that out. That's absolutely not true. But
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Speaker 3: it makes for a bad story in any case. That's
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Speaker 3: one issue. The other issue, which is allows a little
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Speaker 3: bit of history. Another issue, which is a lot more fun,
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Speaker 3: is what people name their kids.
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Speaker 4: Now.
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Speaker 3: On a personal note to this station, Neil, you your
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Speaker 3: name and you are named.
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Speaker 6: After Neil Armstrong, and buzz Edwin aldrin I was born
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Speaker 6: in July of sixty nine, so it was named after
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Speaker 6: the astronauts that landing on the moon.
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Speaker 2: Yep.
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Speaker 3: People name their kids after either themselves or family members
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Speaker 3: or historical historical issues, historical times. Happens all the time. Now, Oh,
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Speaker 3: I'm going to have fun with this. People's names, and
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Speaker 3: especially girls' names, particularly boys' names changed dramatically, and every
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Speaker 3: year outcomes a I don't know who does the survey,
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Speaker 3: but what are the most popular names that are that
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Speaker 3: come out? And for example, in July of nineteen sixty nine,
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Speaker 3: for the year nineteen sixty nine, Neil was a huge name.
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Speaker 3: John was a huge name after JFK was elected. One
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Speaker 3: of my favorite George Foreman, who named his five boys
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Speaker 3: George Foreman. All of them are George Foreman. And the
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Speaker 3: way you differentiate between all five, it's George Foreman Junior, one, two, three, four,
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Speaker 3: and five. Hey, how's that for a little bit of hubris.
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Speaker 3: Not only do I want my kid named after me
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Speaker 3: as a junior, but I want all of them named
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Speaker 3: after me.
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Speaker 4: Okay, not bad.
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Speaker 6: My son is named after a murderous robot from the
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Speaker 6: movie Black Hole. Oh, Okay, his name is Maximilian.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, no, let me ask you a question before
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Speaker 3: we take a break, because I want to keep on
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Speaker 3: going with this. What is Max's name based on?
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Speaker 4: It? Is?
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Speaker 1: It is on a murderous robot.
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Speaker 6: The movie was The black Hole, put out by Disney
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Speaker 6: some time after Star Wars when all the studios were
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Speaker 6: trying to replicate that. Not a great film, but the
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Speaker 6: robot always stood out to me. He happens to be
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Speaker 6: the protagonist or the antagonist rather and murderous. But I liked,
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Speaker 6: you know, get smart and Max will smart and all that.
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Speaker 6: But yeah, that's cool what he was named after.
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Speaker 4: Why didn't you name Max black Hole?
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Speaker 1: Because because he hadn't been to prison yet. Okay, that's
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Speaker 1: a rough name to go.
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Speaker 6: Although his middle name was almost Danger because we thought
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Speaker 6: Max Danger was It's funny. But we honored Tracy's father
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Speaker 6: with his middle name, which is Oh.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: That's another thing I want to tell you about my kids.
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Speaker 3: I want to share with you a couple of names
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Speaker 3: and then some some personalities out there that you just
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Speaker 3: shake your head, You go, really, how do you do
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Speaker 3: that to a kid?
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Speaker 4: We'll be back and we'll finish that up.
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Speaker 5: You're listening to Bill Handle on Demand from KFI AM
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Speaker 5: six forty.
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Speaker 3: Finish the last segment of the show. And this is
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Speaker 3: kind of a fun one because we're talking about names.
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Speaker 3: First of all, last names, whether names should be or
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Speaker 3: are hyphenated, usually by the wife in a normal male
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Speaker 3: female spousal marriage, and very few husbands take on the wives' names,
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Speaker 3: although there are some I haven't heard this recently where
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Speaker 3: they both take on both names via al Gosse For example,
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Speaker 3: former mayor, he had two names. I think his name
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Speaker 3: was Valar and his wife's name was whatever the last
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Speaker 3: part of that is.
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Speaker 6: And so he took on his wife's dad's name.
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Speaker 1: That's what he did.
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Speaker 4: I think he did.
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Speaker 1: Yeah name name, that's a night's name.
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Speaker 6: He took on another man's name, is what he did.
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Speaker 3: Well, I don't know, Ragosa, I have no idea, and
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Speaker 3: I don't even know if those were the actual words
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Speaker 3: that he took on.
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Speaker 1: The last name was.
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Speaker 3: His name was Villar, his name was Valar, and her
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Speaker 3: name was not Vlar. But the point I'm making is
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Speaker 3: that's very unusual to combine last names, and in the
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Speaker 3: case of naming kids, that one is just terrific. So
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Speaker 3: For example, my daughters, we talked about Neil being named
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Speaker 3: after Neil Armstrong because he was born in July nineteen
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Speaker 3: sixty nine. My daughters were, well, my daughter's middle names
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Speaker 3: one Barbara, one Pamela. Barbara named after Marjorie's mom, Barbara,
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Speaker 3: and so that one's easy, and then Pamela. We were
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Speaker 3: trying to figure out a middle name, and it became Joel.
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Speaker 3: Now we're trying to figure out middle name for Barbara,
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Speaker 3: and we ended up naming her after my grandmother. Matter
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Speaker 3: of fact, it wasn't even my call. Marjorie suggested that,
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Speaker 3: and I said, why would we name her after my grandmother?
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Speaker 3: Her name was Leah, and Marjorie said, because that would
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Speaker 3: be an honorable thing to do. And I said, wait
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Speaker 3: a minute, we're naming her after my psycho bitch grandmother
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Speaker 3: who left my mother when she was eleven years old
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Speaker 3: and treated her like utter crap.
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Speaker 4: Actually she didn't leave her my mom.
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Speaker 3: Her father left my mom, but treated to the point where,
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Speaker 3: let me tell you how crazy my grand my grandmother was.
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Speaker 3: There was a maid that everybody had maids in Brazil
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Speaker 3: in those days, stole all of her jewelry and she
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Speaker 3: insisted that my mom didn't call the police and try
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Speaker 3: to have my mother arrested. This is her own daughter,
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Speaker 3: and we're naming my.
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Speaker 4: Daughter after her. Go figure that one out.
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Speaker 3: And so that's just an assault. I thought I would
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Speaker 3: share that. But names of that I love. Elon Musk
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Speaker 3: is really terrific. Kai is one of them. Saxon is
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Speaker 3: another name. X Ae dash Roman numeral twelve. That's fun.
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Speaker 3: Nevada that's another one.
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Speaker 4: I like that. Nevada is a big name. Madison's a
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Speaker 4: big name.
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Speaker 3: Dakota remember that that name was around for a while,
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Speaker 3: either North or South. New Hampshire was a big name.
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Speaker 3: Baja for Baja California. That was a big name. You
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Speaker 3: just don't know that. And then you have names Lulu
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Speaker 3: if your kid's gonna be a stripper, Candy. Remember that
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Speaker 3: great iconic porn actor tool O'tool. That really wasn't his name,
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Speaker 3: that was his nickname. That's the other thing that people
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Speaker 3: don't do anymore is take on stage names. John Wayne
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Speaker 3: not his real name, Douglas, but Michael Marion h Kirk
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Speaker 3: Douglas whatever they hell, Abramowitz was his name. And so
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Speaker 3: today when you have people in the media, they usually
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Speaker 3: are real names, and so what is oh and the
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Speaker 3: other ones? Okay, so when Elon Musk, he's got like
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Speaker 3: a dozen kids. One of them is Strider. H Then
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Speaker 3: there's azure A, z u.
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Speaker 4: R e x e x A. I mean those are
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Speaker 4: then there's some real fun ones.
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Speaker 3: Frank Zappa, remember Frank Zappa, the big rock and roll star.
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Speaker 3: One of his he has two kids. One is moon Unit,
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Speaker 3: that's his daughter. His son is Dweezle. Nice going through
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Speaker 3: life with that.
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Speaker 4: Huh.
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Speaker 3: Names are great, and even Pamela and Barbara, my daughter's names,
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Speaker 3: very old school, very old school. I mean when the
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Speaker 3: last time you saw a kid named Barbara? I mean
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Speaker 3: they just people don't name their kids that anymore. What
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Speaker 3: kind of names are out there that are really popular
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Speaker 3: this year? Because it goes in cycles. Boys' names, Joseph, Jacob,
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Speaker 3: you know, those are the names.
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Speaker 4: That are used a lot.
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Speaker 3: Okay, we're done, guys, we are finished. Tomorrow morning all
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Speaker 3: over again. On a Friday, we have a fun Friday.
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Speaker 3: It's a foody Friday. And it'll be Amy and Will
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Speaker 3: even with his Costco shirt on probably, and that starts
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Speaker 3: at five am.
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Speaker 4: Neil, I come aboard at six.
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