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  Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM 640, the Bill Handel Show
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  Speaker 1: on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
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  Speaker 2: It's the news! It's the news!
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  Speaker 3: Shohei Otani, God love him, has not really been performing.
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  Speaker 3: As you can see, he's struggling. Why not just sit
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  Speaker 3: him out?
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  Speaker 4: Well, as the analysts are trying to figure out what's
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  Speaker 4: going on, it looks like the story is going to
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  Speaker 4: turn out to be.
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  Speaker 2: Just bad sushi.
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  Speaker 5: You are so talented at taking a non-racist story and
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  Speaker 5: making it racist.
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  Speaker 2: Good for you, buddy.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate that. I thought you were going.
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  Speaker 5: To go towards how expensive that seat is.
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  Speaker 2: I take all of that as a compliment, by the way.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much. I appreciate it. And now, Handle
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  Speaker 2: on the News. Ladies and gentlemen, here's Bill Handle.
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  Speaker 6: All right.
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  Speaker 4: It is a Wednesday morning hump day right here on KFI.
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  Speaker 2: Actually, every place. It is October 24th.
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  Speaker 4: Now, less than three weeks before the election and things
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  Speaker 4: are heating up.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, man. The Republicans scrambling.
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  Speaker 4: And President Trump issuing edict after edict. Now, he said,
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  Speaker 4: we're going to open up the biggest, greatest mineral extraction
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  Speaker 4: out of Greenland you've ever seen right after the election.
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  Speaker 4: So make sure you vote my way. It's getting really interesting,
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  Speaker 4: to say the least. So it's not going well for
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  Speaker 4: the Republicans, as we assumed. But anyway, before we get
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  Speaker 4: into that, oh, and.
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  Speaker 2: A quick one here. The Papal Nodule has left the building.
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  Speaker 2: What is with popes and lungs, man? I don't know. Wow, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Francis had the lung.
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  Speaker 4: Gary Hoffman did that song, which is probably still one
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  Speaker 4: of the funniest songs I've ever heard about Francis.
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  Speaker 2: Homespun, one lung, I went nuts. That is one of the....
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  Speaker 5: One of those classic lines that will go up there,
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  Speaker 5: like the Cabeza lines.
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  Speaker 4: Yep, yep, it was brilliant. And it still is brilliant. Okay,
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  Speaker 4: so with that being said, oh, how unusual. Both Amy
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  Speaker 4: and Wario and... Wow, Will, too, are wearing Dodger garb.
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  Speaker 2: It's a three-teeth. Okay, Neil, you do t-shirts. Yes, but
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  Speaker 2: mine says Spirit Halloween. I know, I know, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: But I want you to create a few t-shirts that
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  Speaker 4: these three will wear, and we can give them out.
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  Speaker 4: And we wear them December 7th, and it says, Happy
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  Speaker 4: Pearl Harbor Day, in honor of Shohei Otani.
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  Speaker 2: Shohei Otani? Yeah, him, too. Both those guys.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 6: What?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm not involved. I don't think you're
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  Speaker 2: going to be here.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to pass on that one.
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  Speaker 4: By the way, did you know that those Japanese pilots
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  Speaker 4: who flew into and attacked Pearl Harbor.
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  Speaker 2: Were actually Jewish? Did you know that? No. Because you
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  Speaker 2: know what the code word was that a successful attack
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  Speaker 2: had been made? Torah, Torah, Torah. Torah, Torah, Torah. That
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  Speaker 2: is correct. And what do Jews study? The Torah, Torah, Torah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was spelled differently.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no H. Spelling doesn't matter. The concept is the same.
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  Speaker 2: You understand?
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  Speaker 4: And the other thing about Japanese men, they're the least,
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  Speaker 4: they are the last people on earth that would want
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  Speaker 4: to be circumcised.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, dear. Okay. Off to a great start, Bob. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Right into the jokes. How long did it take to
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  Speaker 4: get into the penis jokes? One and a half minutes.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. So anyway, good morning, Dodger Blue. Amy, very exciting.
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  Speaker 4: And Shohei is going to be in the game. He's
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  Speaker 4: gone through this slump extraordinaire and now he has to unslump. Mario,
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  Speaker 4: I didn't know you were a huge Dodgers fan.
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  Speaker 2: I sure am.
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  Speaker 3: You can stay.
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  Speaker 4: By the way, Mario, I had no idea, but looking
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  Speaker 4: at you with this tight-fitting Dodgers sweatshirt, boy, there's a
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  Speaker 4: lot of.
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  Speaker 2: Mario to Mario, isn't there? There we go.
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  Speaker 3: Will, you should be happy.
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  Speaker 2: Don't accept it, Mario. Yeah, there you go, a roller boy.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody on this show is going to go on GLP-1s
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  Speaker 3: because they're going to get complexes about this.
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  Speaker 2: That's true. And Will, talking about GLP-1s, I may want
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  Speaker 2: to talk to you after the show. Got any? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It's street dealers on the corner. Hey, I'll give you
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  Speaker 2: the first one is free. We should get sponsored. We
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  Speaker 2: should get sponsored. That's a good idea. And we all
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  Speaker 2: do it together. Yeah, we should.
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  Speaker 4: The other thing about GLP-1, and by the way, I
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  Speaker 4: have also, let's say I have tasted GLP-1s myself, much
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  Speaker 4: like my drug addiction.
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  Speaker 2: And it works.
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  Speaker 4: I had 15 pounds that I could not lose. The
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  Speaker 4: last 15, I went on GLP-1 and off it came.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, they're magical. Yeah. You need to stop losing weight, bub. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm 165 pounds. No, you need a sandwich. Can you imagine?
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  Speaker 2: No one has ever said to me, you need to
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  Speaker 2: stop losing weight. You need a large sandwich.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: How big were you at your biggest?
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  Speaker 2: 310. I knew him then. He's fatty.
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  Speaker 4: Woo!
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  Speaker 3: That's a whole person, Bill.
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  Speaker 2: It is. 145 pounds. Difference. Big, big difference.
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  Speaker 4: And then there's Ann, who is wearing not Dodger blue.
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  Speaker 4: I'm wearing my Brewer's underwear.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. Pictures or it didn't happen. And I can't say
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  Speaker 2: anything about that because, you know, that's, I guess, some
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  Speaker 2: kind of harassment today.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we just did our sexual harassment training.
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  Speaker 2: I still need to do mine.
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  Speaker 3: I still need to do mine.
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  Speaker 2: Are they saying it's bad?
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  Speaker 3: It's two and a half hours.
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  Speaker 2: Seriously. It's easy for me. Easy. I don't even bother.
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  Speaker 4: I take the questions and I go one way knowing
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  Speaker 4: the answer is.
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  Speaker 2: The other way. It's just that simple.
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  Speaker 3: This one makes you redo it if you get it wrong.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my God.
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  Speaker 3: It's more interactive. Like you have to keep going until
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  Speaker 3: you get it right.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like these are every six months now. That's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: And do they ask the question, hey, what are you wearing? No,
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  Speaker 2: it's not that interactive. Okay, and Neil, and we just
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  Speaker 2: introduced the entire crowd. Fair enough. What a way to start.
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  Speaker 2: I absolutely love this. Okay, guys, it's Wednesday. It is
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  Speaker 2: a hump day, and we're going to have— You can't
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  Speaker 2: say hump day. We just took our sexual harassment. Oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you can't say hump day.
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  Speaker 5: And you certainly can't say it's a dry hump day
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  Speaker 5: because there's no rain.
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  Speaker 2: That's actually very good. And it is going to be,
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  Speaker 2: and it is a draw.
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  Speaker 4: Matter of fact, we're looking at Santa Ana's coming in,
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  Speaker 4: but we'll do that story a little bit later. In
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  Speaker 4: the meantime, let's do it. It's time for a handle
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  Speaker 4: on the news. On a Wednesday morning, October 14th.
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  Speaker 2: Lead story.
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  Speaker 4: Well, Karen Bass and Council Member Nithya Ramanoodles, last night
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  Speaker 4: was their debate about And, of course, they went and.
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  Speaker 2: Debated each other.
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  Speaker 4: Interestingly enough, it wasn't about policy because they both have
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  Speaker 4: much the same politics. It was personal. It was you're
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  Speaker 4: not fit to be mayor. And look what you're going
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  Speaker 4: to doing. Are you going to get rid of Jim McDonald,
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  Speaker 4: our police chief? And you were not there when the
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  Speaker 4: Palisades fire. And you were it was just personal back
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  Speaker 4: and forth. And I'll talk more about that. Coming up
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  Speaker 4: at seven o'clock.
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  Speaker 2: What's the argument against Jim McDonald? You know, I don't
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: I think he seems to be a wonderful chief.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he was. He was a great sheriff.
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  Speaker 4: And I think the argument is I think the biggest
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  Speaker 4: hit is that the LAPD is too much in cahoots
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  Speaker 4: and is complicit in helping ICE escape.
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  Speaker 2: Pick up the alleged illegals. We don't have enough cops
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  Speaker 2: to help ICE.
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  Speaker 4: No, but that's true. But to the extent that they
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  Speaker 4: do help, that's the attack. And that is one of
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  Speaker 4: the major attacks.
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  Speaker 2: Is that true or not? I don't think so because
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  Speaker 2: I don't see the LAPD helping ICE round up purported
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  Speaker 2: illegal aliens undocumented. Okay. Papal Nodule news.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the Pope has lung cancer. But the good news
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  Speaker 3: is they've operated, and hopefully they got it. He had
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  Speaker 3: surgery yesterday in Rome to remove a cancerous growth from
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  Speaker 3: his lung. They took out the lower lobe of the
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  Speaker 3: Pope's right lung. He had adenocarcinoma. It's the most common
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  Speaker 3: form of lung cancer in the U.S. The surgery lasted
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  Speaker 3: about 90 minutes. And they say that this is it
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  Speaker 3: is a little surprising because the pope is pretty young.
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  Speaker 3: He's 71 and very active. He works out weekly, including
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  Speaker 3: regular tennis matches with his personal secretary and enjoys riding horses.
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  Speaker 5: You know what's funny in this story? It says Leo
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  Speaker 5: has not been known to smoke.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Not been known. So maybe it's a little sneaky, sneaky
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  Speaker 3: behind closed doors.
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  Speaker 4: And how about the story about the Vatican engaged right
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  Speaker 4: now in negotiations with cigarette companies for an endorsement?
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  Speaker 7: No.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe they should stop using the smoke to tell us
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  Speaker 5: that one has been chosen.
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  Speaker 2: That's true.
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  Speaker 4: Or how about this? You put a smoke detector at
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  Speaker 4: that chimney. So as soon as the smoke goes up.
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  Speaker 3: What's that noise?
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  Speaker 7: What?
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  Speaker 4: Smoke detector going off near the chimney when the white
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  Speaker 4: smoke comes up, indicating that a pope has been chosen.
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  Speaker 2: You have an old Jewish man as your smoke detector?
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 5: Kimberly Guilfoyle resigns after she's asked... but to add insult
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  Speaker 5: to injury, you know, Guilfoyle dated Guilfoyle donald trump jr
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  Speaker 5: apparently they were engaged.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah they were engaged yeah for four years i think
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  Speaker 2: they were engaged.
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  Speaker 6: But donald donald trump what a way to go you're
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  Speaker 6: on your way out you know you're asking for money
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  Speaker 6: uh from somebody the bad way to go and he
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  Speaker 6: says he says she wasn't a member of my family
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  Speaker 6: he told reporters She, I guess, dated my son a
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  Speaker 6: long time ago.
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  Speaker 2: That's funny. And they were engaged.
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  Speaker 4: Also, that was the first appearance of Katie Zacharias in
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  Speaker 4: which she said Kimberly Guilfoyle has been asked to resign
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  Speaker 4: because of Guilfoyle's machinations and the various stupid things that
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  Speaker 4: she did. And possibly criminal in terms of hustling money
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  Speaker 4: and saying, I'll get you in on the end.
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  Speaker 2: With the president. Now.
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  Speaker 4: I wish we could do a story. I think we
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  Speaker 4: will on Katie Zacharias. What a piece of work. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: there are some smart blondes in this world. She's not
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  Speaker 4: one of them. No matter what you think of Carolyn Leavitt,
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  Speaker 4: you know, whether that she is nuts, Carolyn Leavitt is
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  Speaker 4: smart as a whip and a great communicator and really
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  Speaker 4: quick on her feet. This one is, I mean, come on.
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  Speaker 4: So one of the questions a reporter asked about Kimberly
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  Speaker 4: Guilfoyle when Zacharias took questions is why did Guilfoyle resign?
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  Speaker 4: And Zacharias said, I don't know who Guilfoyle is. And
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  Speaker 4: then later on asked, what's a Greece?
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  Speaker 2: I loved grease as a kid. I even liked grease too. Yeah. Michelle.
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  Speaker 2: She is. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: She is not, it's not smart. It, she's being nailed.
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  Speaker 4: The Instagram, the posts are just going crazy.
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  Speaker 5: It's a hard job, but it doesn't make it any
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  Speaker 5: easier when the press is asking you for pillows and
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  Speaker 5: a coffee and a refill of your soda.
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  Speaker 2: It's just, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And so the, the press core is going nuts and the, the,
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  Speaker 4: The posts, the various posts are going completely crazy.
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  Speaker 2: She is not going to last long. She is not
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  Speaker 2: doing Trump a favor.
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  Speaker 4: Levitt was. Levitt was a very good choice as far
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  Speaker 4: as press secretary. This one, give me a break. Anyway,
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  Speaker 4: so Guilfoyle is out. She thought she would be able
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  Speaker 4: to save her job. As soon as the story broke
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  Speaker 4: about that ask for $ 100, 000 from a Trump donor to
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  Speaker 4: help pay her American Express bill, she was in trouble.
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  Speaker 4: And she immediately started scrambling with insiders who were on
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  Speaker 4: her side, who were friends of hers in the administration, saying,
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  Speaker 4: how do I save my job? How do I save
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  Speaker 4: my job? And she thought she wasn't going to be
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  Speaker 4: fired at one point, huh? Well, that didn't work. All right,
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  Speaker 4: let's take a break.
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  Speaker 2: We'll come back. And, of course, we have plenty of
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  Speaker 2: Handel on the news yet to come.
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  Speaker 7: You're listening to Bill Handel On Demand from KFI AM640.
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  Speaker 2: A couple of things.
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  Speaker 4: You can go to the Instagram, our Instagram page at
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  Speaker 4: Bill Handel show and continuing with yet more pictures of
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  Speaker 4: my very close relationship with Eddie, the giraffe that I
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  Speaker 4: became very close to. And if you look very carefully,
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  Speaker 4: you will see a ladder in the distance of which
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  Speaker 4: I use to, let's just say, culminate my relationship with Eddie.
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  Speaker 2: No. They have like 18 inch tongues. They do. And
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  Speaker 2: they're black. They are black, black tongues. Calm down, Ann. Geez. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I know. Really clever.
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  Speaker 4: Also, oh, you know, I look at the New York
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  Speaker 4: Times and the LA Times and the Wall Street Journal
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  Speaker 4: and CNN every day on the computer between the breaks
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  Speaker 4: and before I start. And there was a headline, Joni
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  Speaker 4: Mitchell is now an American after 60 years of living
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  Speaker 4: in the U.S. Joni Mitchell, who was this sort of
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  Speaker 4: rock country music person.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, she's a folk person. Yeah, folk rock.
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  Speaker 4: That makes more sense. So anyways, the picture of her, man,
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  Speaker 4: she has not aged well. This is a tough one.
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  Speaker 2: But a lovely voice. Yeah, I wasn't a big fan
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  Speaker 2: of Joni Mitchell's at all. But, yeah, this is– Where
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  Speaker 2: is she from? I think– was she from England? Oh,
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  Speaker 2: maybe Canada. I don't know. What's Canada? Yeah, exactly. Just ask.
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  Speaker 2: You know what you can do? I'll tell you who
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  Speaker 2: we know is Katie Zacharias. No, she wouldn't. Oh, you
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  Speaker 2: mean America's hat. Yeah. Canadian. Canadian. Okay, let's do it, guys.
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  Speaker 2: More Handle on the News, Amy, Neil, and me.
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  Speaker 3: Turn out the lights. The party's over at Cornell University.
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  Speaker 3: Cornell has suspended all parties at frats until next year.
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  Speaker 3: They announced yesterday the suspension of all parties and social
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  Speaker 3: events at interfraternity council houses, fraternity houses. through the end
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  Speaker 3: of the 2026-27 academic year and also a new zero
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  Speaker 3: tolerance policy that would suspend chapters immediately for any violations.
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  Speaker 3: There are more than 20 fraternities at Cornell.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and some of them, I'm assuming, are very benign organizations,
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  Speaker 4: fraternities that don't act out, don't have wild parties, and
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  Speaker 4: they're all being punished, too.
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  Speaker 3: Most of them have wild parties. At least they used to.
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  Speaker 2: Not Lambda, Lambda, Lambda.
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  Speaker 3: They had the best parties of all. Hmm.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. How about Marie Callender pie?
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 2: OK, that was so stupid. It was funny. OK, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't get alpha beta pi. Yeah. All righty. So
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  Speaker 2: Bank of America and laundromat.
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  Speaker 5: Apparently regulators find the B of A more than one
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  Speaker 5: point two billion on Tuesday over widespread failures in the
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  Speaker 5: baking giant safeguards against money laundering. and other illicit financial activity,
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  Speaker 5: you'd think that would be right at the top of
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  Speaker 5: your banking services.
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  Speaker 3: So they're not doing it, but they're not catching it.
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  Speaker 3: Is that right?
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  Speaker 2: They haven't been catching it.
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  Speaker 4: And it's hard for a bank to not deal with
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  Speaker 4: someone coming in with $ 100, 000 in single bills, $ 100 bills.
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  Speaker 4: They have to say, oh, no, we can't take that.
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  Speaker 4: That's illicit money. They all do, or a lot of
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  Speaker 4: them do. And- They take a huge percentage of the
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  Speaker 4: money that comes in. And so, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: What do they charge more if they think it's laundering? Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, God, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You launder money through them, you're paying a very hefty percentage.
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  Speaker 2: At least I did when I was laundering money through
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  Speaker 2: Bank of America. That tracks. There you go.
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  Speaker 3: Show me Shohei.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 3: Down two to nothing. Dodgers manager Dave Roberts faced his
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  Speaker 3: toughest managerial decision yet. The possibility of benching Shohei Ohtani.
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  Speaker 3: in Game 3 of the National League Championship Series. After
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  Speaker 3: much deliberation, though, Otani will be in the starting lineup
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  Speaker 3: for Game 3 tonight. Apparently, Otani was very adamant that
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  Speaker 3: he was healthy enough to contribute to the team and
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  Speaker 3: wasn't blaming his injuries as the reasons he couldn't get
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  Speaker 3: any action at the plate.
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  Speaker 4: Who was he blaming that he was almost benched?
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  Speaker 3: No, he wasn't blaming his injuries.
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  Speaker 2: So why was he having such a miserable, horrible slump?
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  Speaker 3: He's just going through a slump.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: But there has been a lot of talk that he
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  Speaker 3: is injured because he had some problems, arm, shoulder, something
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  Speaker 3: like that, and one of his legs. So everybody's trying
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  Speaker 3: to figure out why he's not doing better, and they're
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  Speaker 3: saying he may be playing injured. He says he's not
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: blaming injuries on his slump.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, we'll see what happens in game three.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, we will.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: Yes, we will. Everybody has that. And you and Mario
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: and Will all wearing Dodger garb today. I'm assuming in solidarity.
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  Speaker 2: All right. And Anne, of course, still wearing Padre's garb
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  Speaker 2: because that's her thing.
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  Speaker 3: I think she's wearing black in mourning.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, she's in mourning. Yeah. Okay, let's take a break.
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  Speaker 2: We'll come back and we got some Okinawa news upon
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  Speaker 2: our return.
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  Speaker 7: You're listening to Bill Handel on demand from KFI AM 640.
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  Speaker 4: We're less than three weeks away from the midterms and
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: the Republicans are losing ground by the day. And the
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: president is scrambling to try to save some Republican candidates.
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  Speaker 2: OK, back we go. More Handel on the news with
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: Amy Neal and me.
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  Speaker 5: This is a horribly sad story, man, that our troops
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  Speaker 5: can't behave themselves. Officials are reviewing the off-base code of
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  Speaker 5: conduct for the U.S.
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  Speaker 2: Troops in Japan.
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  Speaker 5: This is all following the killing of an Okinawan woman,
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  Speaker 5: allegedly by a U.S.
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  Speaker 2: Marine.
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  Speaker 5: And you've got the Japanese foreign minister coming out and
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  Speaker 5: just yesterday saying um some of these crimes include rapes
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  Speaker 5: assaults hit and runs and drunk driving by the u.s
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  Speaker 5: military personnel and they've triggered protests there in the southern
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  Speaker 5: part of uh that japanese island that i just spoke
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  Speaker 5: about okinawa and uh And they are continuing to talk
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  Speaker 5: about this and discuss it and figure out what to
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  Speaker 5: do with it.
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  Speaker 2: But what a poor ambassador. There's a history of this.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Ever since World War Two, it's been problem after problem.
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  Speaker 4: And here is one of the big problems is that
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  Speaker 4: since it's military, the military soldiers who are committing this crime,
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  Speaker 4: they're not or they weren't tried by civilian authorities in Japan.
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  Speaker 4: They were tried by military courts in the United States
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  Speaker 4: or American military courts in And as far as the
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  Speaker 4: Okinawans were concerned, given a slap on the wrist. And
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: that's one of the big issues. Also, Okinawa, one of
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: the great battles of World War II, and it would be–
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: remember the invasion of Japan was going to happen prior
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  Speaker 4: to the dropping of the atomic bomb? It was Okinawa from–
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: that would be the American-held military. part of Japan, the
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  Speaker 4: farthest island out. A lot of history with Okinawa. And
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  Speaker 4: the Japanese rightly are not very happy. And the Okinawans,
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  Speaker 4: in many cases, regard themselves not as Japanese, although Okinawa
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  Speaker 4: is Japan because they consider themselves Okinawans.
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  Speaker 2: Just islanders? Yeah, Okinawa, a separate country. That's the great
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: musical out of that. Okinawa with... No, no.
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  Speaker 7: No?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: I always get those confused.
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  Speaker 3: How's this for a terrifying end? Cobb County police have
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  Speaker 3: identified the man who fell out of, was ejected from
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  Speaker 3: the Goliath roller coaster at Six Flags, Georgia. It's Hassan
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: Jihad Ibn Karim, 42 years old. And I, it's not
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  Speaker 3: saying it in this context. But I heard that he
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: was on the roller coaster with his son.
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  Speaker 2: At the time. Yeah, that's what we hear next to him.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: He got ejected from the ride. He hit other patrons.
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  Speaker 3: They were talking to witnesses. One person said he fell
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  Speaker 3: and hit the car three different times before falling. And
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  Speaker 3: then we mentioned this yesterday that the souvenir photo. I'm
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  Speaker 3: wondering if it's those, you know, the photos they take
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  Speaker 3: while you're on the ride shows him falling.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I heard, too, which is horrific. And this
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  Speaker 2: was a defective ride, it looks like, where that restraint
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  Speaker 2: just was defective and opened up. And he was ejected.
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  Speaker 2: There's real issues.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to talk more about that at 8 o'clock
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  Speaker 4: because there's a world to that. Safety, inspections, manufacturing, and
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: what happened to him.
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  Speaker 3: And while they're doing those safeties and inspections and all that,
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: Six Flags has closed the Goliath roller coaster at Magic
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  Speaker 3: Mountain and at nine other parks.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, all the other parks.
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  Speaker 4: They're Goliaths, even though I'm willing to bet this was
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  Speaker 4: just this particular ride, this particular restraint that went south.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: And they're just... You know, should they.
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  Speaker 4: Have closed down all of the other rides? I don't know,
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  Speaker 4: but certainly in terms of optics.
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  Speaker 2: You kind of have to. You have to just, you know,
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: take a look at everything.
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  Speaker 4: But I'm also going to talk about the safety features
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: of this, because this really went south in a very
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: weird way. So a lot of things had to go wrong.
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: For example, when an airplane goes down, planes don't fall
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: out of the sky. And it's usually not just one issue.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: It's one follows another, a failure following a failure following
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: a failure. Because there's so many redundancies. That's also the
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: case here.
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  Speaker 4: So this investigation is obviously going to open up a
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: lot of questions or there are a lot of questions anyway.
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: And he was an educator. He was a teacher and
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: absolutely loved at the school he was teaching at. This
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: is one horrible story after another. OK, let's I think
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: we have time for one more before we continue.
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: Okay, an engineer at OpenAI has been charged with secretly
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: installing a recording device inside the conference room. Apparently, some
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: sort of effort to capture, you know, sensitive conversations, find
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: out about the company's technology. The employee identified as a
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: 35-year-old Saudi national. Interestingly enough, apparently they used AI to
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: figure out what the device was and who put it there.
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: It says that they used their models to understand the device,
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: where it came from, and it identified the specific employee
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: who planted it there a few days earlier.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: Now, do I have this right?
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: AI creating an AI listening device by an AI employee
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: at an AI company in the boardroom that was considering
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: AI issues.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's right. Oh, no. I think that is right.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if AI created the device. No, it's– well, it's–
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: They found it.
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: They found it, but I think it is– Analyzed it. Maybe, yeah,
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: maybe I'm adding one little thing to that.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: I wish we had some eye around you.
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: It's a lot of the ankle bones connected to the
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: thigh bone, which it's not. Thigh bone connected to the.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: If your ankle bone is connected to your thigh bone,
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: you've got problems, shorty. Yeah, you do, actually. You look
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: like Toulouse-Lautrec. I understand that.
• 25:14
  Speaker 7: You're listening to Bill Handel, On Demand, from KFI AM640.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: Let's finish it up. Handel on the news with Amy, Neil,
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: and me.
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: No more horsing around in New York City. Mayor Zoran
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: Mamdani and the leader of the city council, they have
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: 51 people on their city council, have agreed on legislation
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: that would eliminate the use of horse-drawn carriages through Central Park,
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  Speaker 3: a goal of animal rights activists for more than 150 years.
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: The legislation would ban carriages by June of 2028. They
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: do need a final vote. The pressure to ban the
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: rides escalated this past summer. when an 18-year-old from India
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: who was riding in a carriage with his family fell
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: from it and died.
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  Speaker 2: That is a shame. However, I ask you this.
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  Speaker 4: This has been going on for 150 years, and they're
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: trying to stop those carriages in Central Park.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if you've ever been on one. I have.
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  Speaker 2: Ridiculously overpriced, by the way. It's very romantic. Sort of.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: And they would stop it. Why?
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  Speaker 4: Because animal cruelty issues. Those horses aren't particularly treated badly.
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: And if they are, the law should get involved and
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: charge those people who, in fact, treat horses badly.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: And you have inspections. And that's a shame. I think
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: this is the animal people going a little bit nuts.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: Why would you stop that?
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: For example, is L.A. trying to stop those horses at Disneyland?
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: Anne's daughter takes care of the Disneyland horses, right? What
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: would she do or what would you do.
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  Speaker 2: If they stopped it? I doubt that those horses are
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: being treated like the Disneyland horses.
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  Speaker 3: These are individuals that are making money off this.
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  Speaker 2: The horses are very limited. They're only out there for
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: a couple hours a day. They're rotated. It's a whole
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: different thing. Guns kill people. Horses don't kill people. People
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: kill people. And do you think that it's rough on
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: those horses in New York? Yes. Gotcha. But that's the
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: way they're treated, right? I trust her input. She's been
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: around this stuff.
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: But let me ask you, wouldn't the answer be to
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: mandate that horses be treated better?
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: And rotate them out? Maybe so.
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: But she's right. Have you seen the people leading those
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: things around?
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: They're a little sketchy too. I say we get the homeless.
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  Speaker 2: And why do you need to ride around the park
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: in a carriage? Because it is something that's historical. Why
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: do you need a horse? There's a lot of historical
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: things that aren't right. Why do you need a horse?
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: That's why we make changes. Why do you need a
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: horse pulling a trolley?
• 27:52
  Speaker 7: Why what?
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: Why would you need a horse pulling a trolley?
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: They're treated completely differently.
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  Speaker 4: Again, I go back to, isn't the answer treating those
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: animals and just enforcing the law?
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: That's all.
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: And- So anyway, horse-drawn carriages are going to be out
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  Speaker 4: by 2028.
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: Well, why don't you get someone in costume to do it?
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: That way two people get a job. There you go.
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: And maybe forcing those carriage drivers to learn English. Maybe
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: that is the answer.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: And bathe. Yeah, that's the other one. I got to
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: tell you, they smell worse than the horses.
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and then those poop devices where the horses, they
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: crap into those container things, those canvas things. The people
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: need them more. The drivers need them more than the
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: horses do. Okay, let's move on.
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  Speaker 2: Neil? Yeah, I was just taking all that in. A
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: lot of genius.
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: All right, so the Santa Ana winds are hitting today,
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: I believe, and going through tomorrow, bringing a massive risk,
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: of course, of fire. You know, we're still pretty dry
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: around here, even though we had a tiny bit of rain.
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: So between Thursday afternoon and Friday afternoon, you're going to
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: get these big areas of Southern California. You're going to
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: see sustained winds of 20 to 40 miles per hour,
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: gusts from 40 to 60 miles per hour. And with
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: that comes drier brush. And with that comes the possibility
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: of fire.
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but it's not the same as a Palisades fire,
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: which was unique in the terms of its ferocity.
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: I'm talking about the winds. Santa Ana winds.
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: You would think that the Santa Ana winds was named
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: after Santa Ana, the Mexican general who led the charge
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: against the Albuquerque.
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: It was not.
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: And you know who, what the Santa Ana wins were
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: named after? Do you have any idea, Neil?
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: No, but I feel like I want to learn. I
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: have absolutely no idea, but thank you for that. All right.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: A very gassy saint.
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: Yes. Very high, windy saint. Okay. We're done, guys. That's it.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: Last night, the debate.
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: Between Karen Bass, playing the big drum, and Raman, Ramanoodle,
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: Nithya Ramanoodle. And it was an interesting debate.
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: And the mayor is in trouble.
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: Usually it's a shoe-in for the mayor, second time out.
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: Not this time around. And I'll talk about that coming up.
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