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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
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  Speaker 1: six forty.
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  Speaker 2: I look in the mirror and I look at my mother.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going wow, I'm basically sort of a fat Jewish
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  Speaker 3: guy with no hair. I could have been a thin,
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  Speaker 3: good looking Italian guy, olive skin with a big hairdoo
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  Speaker 3: passing gorgeous women going baby, baby, baby baby, and.
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  Speaker 1: Now handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen. Here's Bill Handle, Good.
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  Speaker 2: Morning, everybody.
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  Speaker 3: Handle here on a Wednesday morning, June twenty fourth hump Day.
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  Speaker 3: That promo, by the way, was in reference to my dad,
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  Speaker 3: right after World War Two, living in Italy, fell in
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  Speaker 3: love with and she fell in love with him, a gorgeous,
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  Speaker 3: knockout Sophia Loren looking woman who wanted to marry him,
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  Speaker 3: and he said no, So he ends up burying my mother.
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  Speaker 2: Dowdy overweight now.
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  Speaker 3: Particularly bright, oh well, genetically lacking and passing down here.
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  Speaker 2: Did he have low self esteem? Why did you do that?
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  Speaker 2: I you know, I don't think so. I don't think so.
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  Speaker 3: No, you Yeah, he fell in love and I had
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  Speaker 3: to do with His parents had just died in the Holocaust,
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  Speaker 3: and he was not going to marry a Catholic woman
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  Speaker 3: under any circumstances. That's basically why which you know, I
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  Speaker 3: guess that's that's legit.
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  Speaker 2: That's legit. Okay, well young today, let me say hello
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  Speaker 2: to everybody. First of all, O'Neil is not here.
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  Speaker 3: It's probably gonna be gone all week, I would think,
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  Speaker 3: don't you, Ann Yeah, I think so.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Neil having not complications but not coming back as quickly
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  Speaker 3: as he wanted to from.
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  Speaker 2: His bariatric surgery.
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  Speaker 3: So the doctors have said take a few days, relax
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  Speaker 3: and don eat. All right, So there's Ann Good morning Anne,
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  Speaker 3: Good morning Bill, Good morning. Cono is here morning Cono? Uh?
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  Speaker 2: And there is Amy Good morning Amy?
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  Speaker 4: Hello Bill?
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  Speaker 2: Hi?
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  Speaker 3: And Will cole Schreiber is having breakfast this morning someplace
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  Speaker 3: for the play. Yeah, for having breakfast for the second
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  Speaker 3: or third time? H what what.
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  Speaker 2: You know? Will is going to have to break down.
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  Speaker 3: He's by the time this show is over, by the
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  Speaker 3: time his sojourn on this show, he's either going to
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  Speaker 3: one of two or three things.
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  Speaker 2: Number one, undergo bariatric surgery that Neil did, like, I.
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  Speaker 4: Need bariatric surgery.
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  Speaker 3: Please please did I tell you when I went under
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  Speaker 3: the knife bariatric surgery, and the doctor who did it
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  Speaker 3: really good doctor I name of Jeremy Corman. He looked
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  Speaker 3: like a sixteen year old when I came in there,
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  Speaker 3: and I said, you're sixteen years old? Does your mother
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  Speaker 3: drive you here? Because you don't have a driver's license
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  Speaker 3: even you're not that old. And he looked at me
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  Speaker 3: and said, I'm forty two. And he was the youngest
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  Speaker 3: forty two I've ever seen in my entire life. I
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  Speaker 3: actually had him shown as driver's license before I go forward.
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  Speaker 2: I did in any case.
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  Speaker 3: So I was having the bariatric surgery, and there was
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  Speaker 3: the antithesiologists and the nurse and the tech and all
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  Speaker 3: of them weighed over three hundred pounds. And I looked
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  Speaker 3: at Jeremy and I said, I think I'm the wrong
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  Speaker 3: person on this gurney here. They should be here anyway,
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  Speaker 3: it was They did a great job.
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  Speaker 2: I might add too.
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  Speaker 3: All right, let me see what else is going on today.
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  Speaker 3: We've got medical news. Doctor Jim Keiney is joining us
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  Speaker 3: fair amount to cover. Of course, we have national news.
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  Speaker 2: But the.
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  Speaker 3: Quickly approaching is the two one hundred and fiftieth birthday,
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  Speaker 3: the semi sess quintennial.
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  Speaker 2: What is the term this use, aimy, Oh, it's a lot.
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  Speaker 4: Hold on, I got it. It's hard to remember.
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  Speaker 3: The semisuite cess centennial. All right, we're looking it up.
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  Speaker 4: It's the semi quinn centennial.
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  Speaker 2: It's a semi quinn centennial.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, so it's not quite a full sesquin tennial.
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  Speaker 3: It's a semi right, Okay, fair enough. Are you guys
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  Speaker 3: ready to go? Yep, it is time. Let's do it.
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  Speaker 3: Time for handle on the news with Amy and me
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  Speaker 3: lead story. Well, the Senate for the first time approved
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  Speaker 3: that War Powers resolution and it seeks to block US
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  Speaker 3: military action against Iran without congressional approval. The President has,
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  Speaker 3: of course moved on. He does not believe in that
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  Speaker 3: pesky constitution in which Congress has to declare war. And
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  Speaker 3: they passed the War Powers Act. I think it was
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  Speaker 3: nineteen seventy three. And prior to now, what ended up happening, Well,
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  Speaker 3: first of all, people and the Senate getting a little
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  Speaker 3: end of the House getting a little tired of this
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  Speaker 3: war and the deal that was cut by the President.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of people are saying and not so good.
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  Speaker 3: Iran's going to win this one. And then you have
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  Speaker 3: a couple of senators that were primaried out because of
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  Speaker 3: President Trump, who has that much power in the primaries.
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  Speaker 3: And now I mean talking about senators have been there
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  Speaker 3: for decades. We're primaried out. They've got nothing to lose.
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  Speaker 3: They're out the door, so they don't have to cowtow
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  Speaker 3: to the president at all. Now there's an argument, is
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  Speaker 3: it going to happen. It could be symbolic. It could
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  Speaker 3: in fact a hold have the force of law.
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  Speaker 4: Would you have to sign it?
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  Speaker 3: No, there's one provision that he doesn't have to sign
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  Speaker 3: it under the War Powers Act. If it passes a
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  Speaker 3: provision of it. If it passes, he does not have
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  Speaker 3: to sign it. It goes into effect. That is going
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  Speaker 3: to be the issue, whether the forcing of the signing
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  Speaker 3: or if he just ignores it and you needed two thirds.
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  Speaker 3: If he vetos it, of course, then it's over.
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  Speaker 2: So it's made.
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  Speaker 3: It could be a symbolic measure, but I think it
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  Speaker 3: says a lot by which way the general election is
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  Speaker 3: going to go. Because the president's approval rating is in
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  Speaker 3: the toilet right now. He is not very popular, I think,
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  Speaker 3: primarily because of this war, primarily because of inflation, also
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  Speaker 3: because he's spending his time talking about or dealing with
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  Speaker 3: the reflecting pool and the White House, the changing of
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  Speaker 3: the facade with the ballroom, and just I mean all
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  Speaker 3: of it. A lot of people think think, hey, we
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  Speaker 3: got bigger fish to fry here than what you're spending
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  Speaker 3: time with.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, good news here.
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  Speaker 4: Let's call it, ah make America affordable again? How about that?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 4: Actually yeah, okay. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle
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  Speaker 4: have passed done a final vote in the House to
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  Speaker 4: pass the largest piece of housing legislation in decades. The
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  Speaker 4: bill passed three hundred and fifty eight to thirty two.
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  Speaker 4: It's called the twenty first Century Road to Housing Act.
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  Speaker 4: That was in the House. The Senate also approved it
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  Speaker 4: on Monday with a similarly overwhelming bipartisan support, and now
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  Speaker 4: heads to President Trump's desk for his signature.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I can't imagine he wouldn't sign it. And this is
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  Speaker 3: not a lot of money that the Feds are putting out.
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  Speaker 3: It's not as if the government is pumping money into
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  Speaker 3: the housing market. It's making it easier to obtain housing,
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  Speaker 3: getting rid of procedural aspects of the building, the construction
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  Speaker 3: part of it, trying to deal with interest rates, which
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  Speaker 3: it can't because that's the FED and it has to
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  Speaker 3: do with housing is becoming more and more dear, more expensive,
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  Speaker 3: and a shortfall of housing is becoming greater than ever.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, but this guy won't be back at Disneyland
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  Speaker 4: anytime soon. A thirteen year old climbed out of a
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  Speaker 4: moving ride, Tiana's By You Adventure, that's the log ride
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  Speaker 4: that used to be Splash Mountain. Climbed out of the
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  Speaker 4: ride and then slid down the fifty two foot drop.
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  Speaker 4: Disney officials say it happened on Sunday on Byou Adventure,
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  Speaker 4: shortly before the Long Flumes route sends guests down a
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  Speaker 4: roughly five story drop, So he did it without a vehicle.
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  Speaker 4: He was reportedly taken to a hospital. He was evaluated
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  Speaker 4: and later released.
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  Speaker 3: He also received a Federal Honorable mention for singing Zippity
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  Speaker 3: doo dah all the way down right.
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  Speaker 4: They don't sing zippity dooda anymore.
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  Speaker 2: That's the point. Brayer Rabbit, Nope.
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  Speaker 4: Beer Rabbit has been canceled. That's correct, Getting back to basics.
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  Speaker 4: LAUSD is banning classroom screen time before second grade and
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  Speaker 4: is also limiting use for older students. It's under a
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  Speaker 4: new policy approved by the school board just yesterday. It's
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  Speaker 4: reflecting a growing backlash from parents and educators who are
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  Speaker 4: worried that kids are spending just too much time on
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  Speaker 4: the screens, relying on computers and technology too much.
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  Speaker 2: So I will, oh, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 4: I'm just going to say it starts in August, so
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  Speaker 4: screen trime will be restricted to twenty minutes, including homework
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  Speaker 4: in second and third grade, thirty minutes, and fourth and
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  Speaker 4: fifth grades, and then it goes up incrementally, but before
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  Speaker 4: second grade, no screen trime at all.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to do that story. That's where I was
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  Speaker 3: going to interrupt you. Sorry about that. Seven thirty this morning.
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  Speaker 3: I'm doing that story, and I'm going to dive a
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  Speaker 3: little bit deeper into that, and.
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  Speaker 4: I'll be listening. Fascinating stuff. Keeping Ice out of court,
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  Speaker 4: a federal judge in California is issue to ruling that
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  Speaker 4: bans immigration and Customs enforcement agents for making arrests inside
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  Speaker 4: immigration courts across the country. It's been one of the
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  Speaker 4: Trump administration's strategies for carrying out mass deportations.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 4: When the Trump administration first began its crackdown on illegal
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  Speaker 4: immigration last year, just about a year ago. Now, ICE
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  Speaker 4: reversed its previous policy against making arrests in or near
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  Speaker 4: immigration courthouses.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, this is really problematic because you have people that
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  Speaker 3: are attempting to follow the rules going to court, asylum hearings,
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  Speaker 3: that sort of thing, and ICE is picking them up
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  Speaker 3: at the courthouse. And that got a lot of people upset.
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  Speaker 3: So a federal judge said, you can't do that. This
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  Speaker 3: is across the country. There was a previous judge that
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  Speaker 3: limited to a couple of just a couple of jurisdictions.
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  Speaker 3: In any case, who's that judge that helped some undocumented
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  Speaker 3: people sneak out the back?
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  Speaker 2: And she was I think arrested.
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  Speaker 4: I think that was Minnesota.
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  Speaker 3: And I think she was disbarred if I'm not mistaken,
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  Speaker 3: she was tossed off the bench. Yeah, this story keeps ongoing,
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  Speaker 3: that's for sure.
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  Speaker 4: The power of Mom Donnie New York City mayors or
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  Speaker 4: on Mom Donnie saw all three of the candidates that
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  Speaker 4: he backed win big in primary elections. Last night. Brad
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  Speaker 4: Lander beat incumbent Representative Dan Goldman in the tenth Congressional
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  Speaker 4: district like two to one. Then State assembly Woman Claire
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  Speaker 4: Valdez was the winner in New York's seventh congressional district.
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  Speaker 4: And then a third Mom Donnie back to candidate is
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  Speaker 4: Daria Liza Avila Chevalier. She also beat a five term
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  Speaker 4: incumbent for New York's thirteenth congressional district.
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  Speaker 3: So Mam Donnie has become a kingmaker. And look at
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  Speaker 3: where the pendulum is going, because you now have a
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  Speaker 3: good chunk of the Democratic Party moving into super progressivism.
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  Speaker 3: This reminds me of George McGovern when he ran against
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  Speaker 3: When he ran against Richard Dixon in nineteen seventy two,
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  Speaker 3: it was the biggest landslide in the history of US elections.
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  Speaker 3: Forty nine out of fifty states went to Richard Dixon.
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  Speaker 3: And so you're going to see, I think you're going
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  Speaker 3: to see a much harder swing left.
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  Speaker 2: Is so where we are going.
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  Speaker 3: I think people are so upset at what's happening on
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  Speaker 3: the right that they're moving towards not just the democratic side,
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  Speaker 3: but really democratic Mom Bond, he calls himself a democratic socialist.
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  Speaker 3: Can you imagine the word socialists appearing in a definition
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  Speaker 3: of a candidate calling himself a socialist or herself a
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  Speaker 3: socialist ever in the last that you can here recently,
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  Speaker 3: I don't.
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  Speaker 2: So we have two kingmakers here.
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  Speaker 3: The president of course, makes a decision on the other
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  Speaker 3: hand for the Republicans, and now you have a mom
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  Speaker 3: Donnie the mayor. And he's young too, isn't he like
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  Speaker 3: seventeen or something, and just win the election. I mean
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  Speaker 3: he barely has a beard's portn a.
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  Speaker 4: Pretty good beard.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, not bad, But that's mainly because where's he come from.
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  Speaker 3: What is his ethnic background, do you know?
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  Speaker 2: I don't.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's a Middle Eastern background of some kind.
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  Speaker 3: His family comes from the Middle East. I know you're
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  Speaker 3: looking because I'm kind of interested in that.
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  Speaker 4: He's Uganda, Oh from Uganda, born in Uganda.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's not Middle East. That's very African.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, they sport, they sport beers very early
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  Speaker 3: in Uganda, particularly the women. So it's easy to see
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  Speaker 3: why he seventeen and has a beard. I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: leave that one alone because it's going down a rabbit
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  Speaker 3: hole here that I don't want to go down.
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  Speaker 4: Six and a half billion dollars in fraud. The Justice
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  Speaker 4: Department has unveiled charges against four hundred and fifty five
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  Speaker 4: people for their alleged participation in healthcare fraud and opioid
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  Speaker 4: abuse schemes. That includes five people arrested in ali in
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  Speaker 4: Orange County and ten people charged, one of them from Wittiard,
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  Speaker 4: accused of two hundred and seventy million dollars in medical fraud.
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  Speaker 4: It includes ninety doctors and other healthcare professionals, adding up
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  Speaker 4: to six point five billion dollars worth of fraud and
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  Speaker 4: false claims resulting in significant harm to patients, according to
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  Speaker 4: the Justice Department.
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  Speaker 3: Notice how much fraud there is out there, and how
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  Speaker 3: many people are getting tagged, and how easy it is
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  Speaker 3: to defraud the medical system, the medicare system.
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  Speaker 2: Shout that, and how much does it cost to fix
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  Speaker 2: it too? I mean, it doesn't seem to be front
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  Speaker 2: burner front burner, and it should.
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  Speaker 3: Be because this is These are massive amounts of money.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, this isn't a single person not working in
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  Speaker 3: declaring that he or she is looking for work and
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  Speaker 3: getting workers comp or getting unemployment. I mean, this is
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  Speaker 3: insanely massive stuff. And it's a few people doing this.
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  Speaker 3: How many are not getting caught?
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  Speaker 2: Real smart ones.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it's in the jury's hands now. Jurors will begin
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  Speaker 4: to liberations on whether the thirty year old former Uber driver,
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  Speaker 4: in an act of revenge, intentionally set the fire that
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  Speaker 4: led to last year's Palisades fire, or whether prosecutors badly
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  Speaker 4: misrepresented the evidence in what may merely have been an
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  Speaker 4: accidental tragedy sparked by New Year's Eve fireworks. That's the
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  Speaker 4: different sides of the story. Attorneys both presented their closing
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  Speaker 4: arguments yesterday, after nearly two weeks of arguments regarding Jonathan
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  Speaker 4: rinder Kinesh.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a lot of evidence against him. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: one of the things the defense is pointing to is
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  Speaker 3: the prosecution's argument, look at what he said and did
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  Speaker 3: against wealthy people, And the defense said, hey, a lot
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  Speaker 3: of people hate wealthy people, that's not atypical. But they've
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  Speaker 3: got video of where he was and what he was doing.
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  Speaker 3: So if I had to guess, I think he's going down.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see. How about restitution six and a half billion dollar?
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure he can pay it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: A study is finally finally surfacing. It's a study on
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  Speaker 4: COVID nineteen vaccine effectiveness. It has been published after it
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  Speaker 4: was blocked from a government health journal. The vaccine was
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  Speaker 4: found to be about fifty five percent effective against COVID
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  Speaker 4: nineteen associated hospitalizations, and it also reduced COVID nineteen related
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  Speaker 4: trips to emergency rooms and urgent cares by about fifty percent.
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  Speaker 4: And the study has been published in the JAMA Network Open.
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  Speaker 4: So what's the big deal. Well, the paper got a
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  Speaker 4: lot of attention after the Trump administration decided not to
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  Speaker 4: run it in a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention publication.
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  Speaker 4: They said the studies design was too vulnerable to false
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  Speaker 4: assumptions that could produce flawed results.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, now, look at the way they're attacking these The
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  Speaker 3: testing isn't wide enough, it's not sophisticated enough. There's too
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  Speaker 3: many flaws in the testing. They did the same thing
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  Speaker 3: with MEPhI pristone. The abortion drug is not that inherently.
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  Speaker 3: The issue is not abortion is terrible. What it is
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  Speaker 3: is the testing wasn't solid enough. There wasn't enough evidence,
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  Speaker 3: even though there have been fifty or sixty million doses
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  Speaker 3: of it. So this is the attack. Would aspirin today
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  Speaker 3: couldn't be sold if the administration was against it because
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  Speaker 3: there's not enough testing that shows that side effects of
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  Speaker 3: aspirin aren't really understood. So and this is just that.
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  Speaker 3: This is ourfk endeavor, this is what he does, and
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  Speaker 3: this is what they're doing anything that they're against. We're
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  Speaker 3: talking about climate change too. We've been doing the stories.
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  Speaker 3: Look with what's happening in Europe, and you were talking
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  Speaker 3: about it because you were over there and the heat
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  Speaker 3: didn't even really hit you like it is now. I
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  Speaker 3: mean people are dying like crazy in Europe breaking heat. Nope,
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  Speaker 3: climate change isn't true. None of it is true. And
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  Speaker 3: that's what we're seeing a lot of I know that's
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  Speaker 3: a jump from one to the other, but I think
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  Speaker 3: it's a philosity. I'm talking about Okay taxes.
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  Speaker 4: So the question is are La voters okay to pay
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  Speaker 4: more if it's for firefighters. The city council voted fourteen
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  Speaker 4: to nothing to put a half cent sales tax proposal
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  Speaker 4: on the November third ballot. Supporters say the additional money,
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  Speaker 4: about three hundred and forty five million dollars a year,
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  Speaker 4: would go directly to firefighters. It would pay for new
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  Speaker 4: fire stations and new equipment, fire trucks, helicopters, that kind
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  Speaker 4: of thing.
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  Speaker 3: Here's the question I think, and that is no one
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  Speaker 3: is against giving more money to firefighters for firefighting. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: no one at all is against it. It's just here's
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  Speaker 3: another half cent tax hike. Where is the limit? At
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  Speaker 3: what point do the voters simply say, we can't take
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  Speaker 3: it anymore, just can't do it anymore. Already, Southern California
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  Speaker 3: we're the highest. I think we're the highest sales tax
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  Speaker 3: in the country, and we're just keeps on moving ahead.
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  Speaker 3: I mean that's maybe this time around. We do like taxes,
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  Speaker 3: There's no question about it. We enjoy taxing ourselves. We're
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: spending more money on services in almost any other state
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  Speaker 3: or county or city, and yet look at the services
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  Speaker 3: we do get, not very much, not very much of it.
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  Speaker 4: Well, the question, too, is with all the money that
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: we have, shouldn't we reallocate it and make more money.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, this should be what our taxes are already
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  Speaker 4: paying for.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're just not enough because cut something else. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: what do you cut?
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  Speaker 4: What do you cut that?
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: I'm of course, well, there's enough that there are enough
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: programs out there that I remember what program that they
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: just spent a lot of money on, and I think
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: it was an arts program teaching people how to paint.
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  Speaker 3: For folks that have no arms or legs, and that
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  Speaker 3: was a real big program. And do you cut that.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, they really don't have that program, by
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: the way, I was just pointing something out.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe the biggest backhanded compliment ever. UFC fighter Josh Hockett
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: participated in the UFC Freedom to fifty event on June
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: fourteenth at the White House Lawn and afterwards, apparently he
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: said he was talking about the fight and he said
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: Michelle Obama is a man. He said he didn't intend
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: that to be an insult. In fact, he claims it
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: was meant to be a compliment. So when he was
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: asked about it on the Aerial Hellawani Show, he said,
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: it's like, you know, she knows how to deal with adversity.
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: She knows how to work hard like a man when
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: times get tough. And that's why he said, Michelle Obama
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: is a man.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and then he went on, I thought it was
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: the perfect opportunity to show the world how great this
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: country is with freedom of speech.
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  Speaker 2: That's what he was thinking of freedom of speech when
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: he said that. Right now, you can compliment her.
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  Speaker 3: I've heard many people talk about Michelle Obama as a
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: hard body. In other words, an extraordinarily good shape. Is
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: that some kind of a sexist thing to say, no,
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: not particularly, but she's a man. Yeah, that's a little problematic,
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: don't you think. Also the misogyny anyway that you work
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: hard like a man when times get tough, as if
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: women don't work hard, you lazy amy, you just just
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: laze yourself through this thing and calls it in lazy
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: as hell to work like a man.
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah. The US is easing up on Iran with the
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: soccer team anyway. The Department of Homeland Security is changing
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: guidelines for Iran's national soccer team ahead of its World
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: Cup match on Friday in Seattle. So the team is
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: now going to be allowed to travel to Seattle two
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: days before its game, so apparently they'll head up there today.
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: That allows an extra day beyond the twenty four hour
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: window it was given for its first two matches, but
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: they'll still be asked to leave for their home base
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: in Tijuana, Mexico after the match is over, instead of
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: being given time to decompress like other teams get. The
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: Iranian Soccer Federation says it plans to lodge an official
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: complaint with FIFA, which is the governing body for World
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: Cup over its treatment in the US so far.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree with that.
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: I do too.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: I mean, if the Iruni team is going to play
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: in the United States, they have to treat the Iranian
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: team the same way as everybody else, although one of
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: the rules a running soccer team has to follow is
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: a dress code no vests for example.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: Moving on, it's a.
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: Sad day for Elon Musk. He's no longer a trillionaire.
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: The richest person in the world has lost trillionaire status
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: because of the global stock sell off yesterday for Tesla
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: and SpaceX shares. He's now only worth nine hundred and
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: fifty seven billion dollars according to Bloomberg.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a tough one. Does he even own a home?
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: I think he owns about one hundred homes.
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: No, I don't think he does. I heard that he
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: doesn't even own a home. Really, he does not live
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: the big life. He is not Jeff Bezos or Larry
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: Ellison or Bill Gates living the big, big life. That
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: billionaire's trillionaire's own.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: He said back on May twenty first of twenty twenty,
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: I will own no house. It's part of a plan
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: to sell almost all physical possessions. He sold most of
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: his California homes for about one hundred thirty million dollars.
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: Oh and it says he still had one in bel Air.
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: Don't know if he still does.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: Hmm, interesting guy, Well, money is not a big deal
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: for him. You said that. You can see that he
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: is not.
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: You don't hear about him building five hundred million dollar
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: yachts like Bezos and one hundred million dollar home compounds
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: like Bill Gates.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: Okay, I think we have time for one more.
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: All right, now it's personal. Former La Fire chief Kristen
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: Crowley is suing Mayor Karen Bass personally. She claims that
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: while Bass was campaigning for reelection, she'd be defamed Crowley.
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: So Crowley sued the city back in February because she
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: said that she was blamed for the response to the wildfire,
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: the Palisades fire and kind of scapegoated and fired. But
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: now she says in her new lawsuit that Bass personally
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: defamed her and wants Bass to pay damages out of
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: her own pocket.
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: All right, we'll see what happens with that one. A
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: little bad blood between those two, don't you think. And
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: then this was Bass trying to move blame over to Crowley.
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: Bass trying to spin a story that I think is unspinnable,
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: her not being around her, blaming everybody else.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: That's not Bass's.
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: It's absolutely not Bass's fault under any circumstances, not setting
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: the fire, but certainly not being here knowing the chance
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: of the fire was coming.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: Having that information of.
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: What she said she never got because Crowley never gave
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: it to her. Coming up, Congress passes the largest house
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: affordability built in decades, and it could be that Congress
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: is now hitting reality instead of this partisan politics. Crappole.
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