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Europe Pressures Israel | LA Parents Hiring ‘House Managers’ · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handel on demand from KFI AM 640.
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  Speaker 1: KFI AM 640. Bill Handel.
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  Speaker 2: It is a Monday morning, September 14th. And the morning
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  Speaker 2: crew is going to be pretty good weather this week,
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  Speaker 2: which is kind of nice because we had that horrific
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  Speaker 2: heat spell, the Schvitz spell. Some of the big stories
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  Speaker 2: we're looking at, if you try to get gasoline today,
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I want to talk a little bit about some
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  Speaker 2: international stuff. This is my wheelhouse. And if you've been
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  Speaker 2: listening to this show, you know what a staunch, staunch
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  Speaker 2: supporter of Israel I have been, which most of us have. Well,
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  Speaker 2: that changed 2023, October 7th. So it'll be three years
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  Speaker 2: in a couple of weeks that October 7th happened. And
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  Speaker 2: even then, the world was on the side of Israel
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  Speaker 2: for the most part. The attack killed 1,200 Israelis and
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  Speaker 2: Israel retaliated and started bombing Gaza and kept on bombing Gaza.
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  Speaker 2: and sending in troops to the point where now 80%
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  Speaker 2: of the infrastructure in Gaza doesn't exist anymore. And we're
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  Speaker 2: talking about housing, we're talking about water, sewer, and there
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  Speaker 2: was a point in which Israel wouldn't even let in
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  Speaker 2: a humanitarian aid, where famine was very close to happening.
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  Speaker 1: So the world's turned.
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  Speaker 2: And as a matter of fact, Britain has recognized a
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  Speaker 2: Palestinian state, also France, And this is something that has
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  Speaker 2: not happened. The United States still remains a staunch ally.
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  Speaker 2: And Netanyahu and the Israeli people are thanking their stars
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  Speaker 2: that the president is in office. We'll see what happens
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  Speaker 2: later on. If Biden had won, it wouldn't be anywhere
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  Speaker 2: close to the kind of support Israel would have from
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  Speaker 2: the United States. I'll tell you what else is going on.
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  Speaker 2: Because even attacking on Gaza, I mean, there's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of humanitarian issues happening. Israel controls effectively over half of Gaza. And,
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  Speaker 2: of course, no building is taking place. Still destroys buildings.
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  Speaker 2: And it calls Hamas centers, Hamas control, command and control
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  Speaker 2: centers and missile areas. And, you know, I believe that's true.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, Hamas says that's absolutely not true. All you're
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  Speaker 2: doing is killing civilians. We really don't have any missile
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  Speaker 2: launching sites or Hamas.
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  Speaker 1: We're not doing anything except defending.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: And, you know, anti-Hamas, which controls Gaza. everybody realizes they're
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  Speaker 2: a true terrorist group. They are there to destroy Israel.
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  Speaker 2: So Israel, okay, fair enough. You know, Israel has some argument. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you the big issue that's happening are settlements.
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  Speaker 2: What are settlements? This are Israelis and a lot of Americans,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, who move to the West Bank. And
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  Speaker 2: the West Bank is internationally recognized as not being part
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  Speaker 2: of Israel. that it should be independent, should be a
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  Speaker 2: country of Palestine. And Israel, in defiance of that concept,
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  Speaker 2: and we're talking about internationally, Israel is considered illegally occupying
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  Speaker 2: the West Bank. Those settlements keep on growing and growing.
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  Speaker 2: There's now half a million people that live in the
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  Speaker 2: West Bank in these settlements. And that's where the break
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  Speaker 2: is coming.
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  Speaker 1: At this point.
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  Speaker 2: If you add what Israel has done to Gaza, and
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  Speaker 2: you can argue justified, I think there's some argument. I
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  Speaker 2: think they've gone way over the top. I don't think
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  Speaker 2: that the destruction of three quarters of Gaza was appropriate,
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  Speaker 2: although Hamas never backed down. Hamas to this day is utterly,
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  Speaker 2: they're defending their attacks on, any attack on Israel, any
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  Speaker 2: terrorist blowing himself or herself and is defending its position
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  Speaker 2: that Israel should not exist. Okay, so there's the defense.
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  Speaker 2: But this settlement business, and Israel has not annexed.
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  Speaker 1: The West Bank.
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  Speaker 2: It will not say that that is just simply part
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  Speaker 2: of Israel, although de facto it is. And this was
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  Speaker 2: where the breach happens big time. And once a new
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  Speaker 2: government comes into place in the United States, especially if
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  Speaker 2: it's a Democratic president and the Democratic Party is swinging
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  Speaker 2: pretty far left, Israel is going to be between a
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  Speaker 2: rock and a hard place. And Netanyahu, who is totally
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  Speaker 2: in favor of those settlements, And then there's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of politics within Israel, the cabinet and what keeps Netanyahu
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  Speaker 2: in place. And that would take half an hour at
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  Speaker 2: least or an hour of discussion. But pay attention. It's
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  Speaker 2: the settlements that are going to be the flashpoint here.
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  Speaker 1: OK.
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  Speaker 2: OK.
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  Speaker 1: A CDC report just came out and it is sobering.
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  Speaker 2: 71% of adults in the U.S. say they have experienced
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  Speaker 2: fatigue on multiple days over the past three months. And
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  Speaker 2: women and younger adults are most likely to report frequent fatigue,
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  Speaker 2: meaning most days or every day, than men are. The
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  Speaker 2: report says fatigue is one of the most frequently reported
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  Speaker 2: health concerns in primary care visits. This is the first
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  Speaker 2: study about general fatigue from the CDC. They surveyed 27,000
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  Speaker 2: adults 18 years of age or older in 2024. Now,
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  Speaker 2: let's define fatigue for a moment. This is an ordinary sleepiness.
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  Speaker 2: It is described as a physical or mental tiredness or
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  Speaker 2: exhaustion that does not improve with additional sleep or rest. Usually,
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  Speaker 2: I'm tired, I need a good night's sleep. Yeah, that
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  Speaker 2: doesn't help with fatigue. And it is connected to a
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  Speaker 2: ton of other health problems. Difficulty concentrating, limited social activities. Wow,
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  Speaker 2: I wonder who that is. People with symptoms of fatigue,
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  Speaker 2: frequent fatigue, were more likely to experience co-occurring functioning difficulties.
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  Speaker 2: Cognitive difficulties, depression, anxiety. Wow, I wonder who fits that category.
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  Speaker 2: And adults who experienced frequent fatigue were more than three
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  Speaker 2: times as likely to have symptoms of depression, twice as
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  Speaker 2: likely to report cognitive difficulties or symptoms of anxiety compared
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  Speaker 2: to those who don't have fatigue, the study found.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, I wonder who they're talking about.
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  Speaker 2: Hmm, this is one of those let's look in the
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  Speaker 2: mirror topics. Okay, so let me go a little bit
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  Speaker 2: deeper into the actual report. Three in four adults felt
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  Speaker 2: very tired or exhausted at least some days in the
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  Speaker 2: past three months. One in six experienced frequent fatigue as
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  Speaker 2: defined feeling very tired, very exhausted, most days or every day,
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  Speaker 2: notwithstanding a good night's sleep because that just doesn't do it.
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  Speaker 2: And women are more likely than men to report frequent fatigue.
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  Speaker 2: Just a quick sideline before I get into one of
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  Speaker 2: the reasons. American Indian, Native Alaskan adults have the highest
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  Speaker 2: rate of fatigue. Frequent fatigue, 25%. Followed by white adults, 18%.
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  Speaker 2: Black adults don't seem to have as much fatigue. Hispanic
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  Speaker 2: adults are next. And Asian adults... having the lowest rate
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  Speaker 2: of frequent fatigue.
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  Speaker 3: So you're saying that white women are complaining?
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  Speaker 2: Yep. No, white women, not only are they complaining, the
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  Speaker 2: science seems to be, this is beyond just complaining because
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  Speaker 2: we're talking 27,000 people. Yeah, white women are complaining more
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  Speaker 2: so than any other group of people.
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  Speaker 1: Yep. And they're trying to figure this out.
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  Speaker 2: And here is what the CDC, the doctors at the CDC,
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  Speaker 2: the experts who are looking at.
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  Speaker 1: This seem to say that.
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  Speaker 2: Chronic health issues like autoimmune disease often include fatigue as
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  Speaker 2: a symptom and affect women in greater numbers. Why?
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Hormonal fluctuations during menstruation.
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  Speaker 3: That's one.
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  Speaker 2: Pregnancy seems to affect fatigue, make women more fatigued. Postpartum blues,
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  Speaker 2: for example. I have a lot to do with it.
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  Speaker 2: Men don't have postpartum blues.
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  Speaker 1: Perimenopause. Menopause.
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  Speaker 3: That's different than just complete. Those are actual things.
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  Speaker 2: But they don't necessarily cause fatigue, which is very different. Well,
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  Speaker 2: that's one of the reasons they're saying. And by the way,
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  Speaker 2: that's for women. That's for women.
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  Speaker 3: Hispanic women don't get postpartum or.
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  Speaker 2: Not as much as white women do. That's the point.
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  Speaker 2: And they're trying to figure out why.
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  Speaker 1: Now, with men.
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  Speaker 2: who don't experience any of this, the symptoms of fatigue
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  Speaker 2: and the reasons are limited to just being married. That
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  Speaker 2: seems to affect more men in terms of depression and fatigue,
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  Speaker 2: and I clearly understand that. So here are the three
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  Speaker 2: big pillars that are talked about. Number one, mental health, lifestyle,
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  Speaker 2: physical health are the three big pillars that can trigger
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  Speaker 2: fatigue and heart disease and sleep apnea and anemia. anemia.
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  Speaker 2: So the question is, are you getting enough sleep? Are
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  Speaker 2: you eating well? Are you exercising?
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  Speaker 1: Are you on your screen all day?
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  Speaker 2: And that seems to be the start of a lot
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  Speaker 2: of problems. And that's just starting to be studied. People
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  Speaker 2: that are looking at screens all day. And that has
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  Speaker 2: to do with eyesight. And that has to do with isolation.
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  Speaker 1: We've talked about that. And so all of that.
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  Speaker 2: But as I said, and we're going to do a
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  Speaker 2: little quiz here, what's the number one reason men are
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  Speaker 2: fatigued and have medical problems, Amy?
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  Speaker 1: Are you listening?
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  Speaker 3: They don't get enough sleep.
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  Speaker 1: No, you don't get enough sleep because they are fatigued.
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  Speaker 1: Because they're taking care of their lovely wife. No, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking science here. What is the number one issue? Women?
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  Speaker 2: Marriage.
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  Speaker 1: Marriage.
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  Speaker 2: Marriage ruins people's lives.
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  Speaker 1: Just letting you know that this is a medical fact, gentlemen.
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  Speaker 3: It's the best thing that ever happened to me, sir.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, please give me a break. So there are, you
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  Speaker 1: know what? There are aberrational cases out there. Neil being
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  Speaker 1: one of them.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Before we go into what is a house manager, Neil,
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  Speaker 1: Yes, you are. Absolutely. talking to someone here on the
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  Speaker 1: other side of... Boy, who could it be? The dog? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: who just walked in the door. Just walked in the door. Morning, Linz.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Linz, I've been told to say to you.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, now.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, I want to give you a scenario which a
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  Speaker 2: whole lot of people are experiencing. You are a dual-income family,
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  Speaker 2: a dink. And life gets a little tough.
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  Speaker 1: You have kids.
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  Speaker 2: And so taking care of the house is completely insane.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, not only do you have kids that you
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  Speaker 2: are taking to soccer practice and making lunches and just
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  Speaker 2: dealing with running a household, there's a whole lot to it.
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  Speaker 2: And people are really stressed because of it. And this
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  Speaker 2: is primarily women who handle all of those tasks. Men
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  Speaker 2: tend not to. Now, we talked about the issue of
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  Speaker 2: child care, which is basically out of the question for
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  Speaker 2: most people, especially if you have little ones that have
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  Speaker 2: to be taken care of. You just can't do it.
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  Speaker 2: And the price is so high that there are many,
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  Speaker 2: many couples that simply say one of us will stay
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  Speaker 2: home because the money we earn dies.
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  Speaker 1: Is less than the cost of childcare.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So with that, you now are dealing with the kids
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  Speaker 2: and you're dealing with the household and you're paying all
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  Speaker 2: the bills. And there are lots and lots of things
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  Speaker 2: to do and you're working. And how do you put
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  Speaker 2: it all together? Man, it is not easy. So you
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  Speaker 2: probably have a cleaning person that comes in at some
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  Speaker 2: point that does deep cleaning. However, How do you handle
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  Speaker 2: the rest of it? Because your time, and I'm talking
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  Speaker 2: to ladies here, your time is effectively used up by
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  Speaker 2: all of that. Between work and taking care of the household,
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  Speaker 2: there is no time left. So what are LA parents doing?
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  Speaker 2: Southern California parents doing? Hiring house managers. House managers, not daycare.
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  Speaker 2: House managers to come in and basically run the operations
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  Speaker 2: of the house. And now we're not talking about full time,
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  Speaker 2: anywhere from four to eight hours a week. The pay
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  Speaker 2: is $ 25 to.
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  Speaker 1: $ 45 an hour.
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  Speaker 2: And we're not talking, now wealthy people have house managers.
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  Speaker 2: Wealthy people have managers that do the errands, that take
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  Speaker 2: the dry cleaning to the dry cleaners, that handle appointments,
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  Speaker 2: that deal with the PTA, although parents tend to do that.
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  Speaker 2: And so this is basically making life a little easier. Now,
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  Speaker 2: it's gone from people who are, frankly, pretty wealthy, who
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  Speaker 2: can afford someone who manages their lives, their home lives.
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  Speaker 2: There's not a nanny, mind you. This is an operations person.
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  Speaker 2: And that has come down now to.
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  Speaker 1: Regular folks. Now, obviously not the lower middle class or
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  Speaker 1: middle class.
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  Speaker 2: That's kind of difficult if you're paying 20 bucks an
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  Speaker 2: hour or let's say $ 40 an hour for 20 hours
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  Speaker 2: a week, that's 800 bucks a week.
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  Speaker 1: So that's a chunk of money.
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  Speaker 2: So a lot of people can't afford it, but more
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  Speaker 2: and more couples are realizing that the time lost for
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  Speaker 2: doing these things.
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  Speaker 1: Is so great.
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  Speaker 2: And it interferes with a lifestyle or what is you'd
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  Speaker 2: like to have a lifestyle that that you're willing to
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  Speaker 2: pay it. Now, another thing I want to point out,
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  Speaker 2: which is why women do this, is that men are
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  Speaker 2: inherently lazy. And I see laughing in the background because
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  Speaker 2: I'm now describing my household. And my household, which is
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  Speaker 2: fairly complicated, I must tell you, and I used to
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  Speaker 2: have people sort of handle a lot of that for me.
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  Speaker 2: I now have one person who has become my operations manager.
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  Speaker 2: And is not appreciative of it. However, I must also
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  Speaker 2: tell you the pay isn't bad because she gets half
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  Speaker 2: of what I earn. And if I could get away
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  Speaker 2: with paying her $ 25 an hour for four hours a week,
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  Speaker 2: I would be thrilled. But the point I'm making is
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  Speaker 2: life is so complicated for most of us and getting
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  Speaker 2: more complicated. And having time to spare, having time for yourself,
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  Speaker 2: we're not even talking about making it more manageable. It's just,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm talking to primarily moms, also dads, what time
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  Speaker 2: do you have?
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  Speaker 1: You don't. You don't.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you don't even have time to have a
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  Speaker 2: good relationship with your spouse. Not that you need it,
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  Speaker 2: because frankly, I'm not a big fan of that. It's
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  Speaker 2: a question of just having a better lifestyle. So that's
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  Speaker 2: a new thing.
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  Speaker 1: It's a thing now. House managers. Boy, is the world changing. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, tonight, if you're interested in the Emmys at all,
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  Speaker 2: 5 p.m. tonight on NBC and on Peacock. Personally, I
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  Speaker 2: don't care about the Emmys, but I just wanted to
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  Speaker 2: share with you if you're a big fan. And we've
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  Speaker 2: got some issues with A.I., And one of the fears
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  Speaker 2: about AI is that it's going to destroy humanity. But
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  Speaker 2: at the same time, China is going full board on this.
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  Speaker 2: And that's getting in the work, getting, messing up the works.
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  Speaker 2: So let me talk about China and AI.
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  Speaker 1: China and AI have joined forces.
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  Speaker 2: There's a story in the LA Times about a guy
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  Speaker 2: named Chen Yilong.
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  Speaker 1: He's an actor.
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  Speaker 2: He's been doing two decades of acting. And his work
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  Speaker 2: is getting scarcer and scarcer. And he signed a contract
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  Speaker 2: last month to license the image of his face to
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  Speaker 2: a Chinese production studio.
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  Speaker 1: And his philosophy is he's losing so much work. You
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  Speaker 1: know what? If you can't fight him, you join them.
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  Speaker 2: So his role now is to sit in front of
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  Speaker 2: a video camera and make facial expressions, a neutral stare,
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  Speaker 2: an angry glare, a look of surprise.
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  Speaker 1: Using AI the.
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  Speaker 2: Studio then uses images of his face to generate an
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  Speaker 2: avatar and it's going to star in an AI generated
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  Speaker 2: movie Now the way we think of movies is very
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  Speaker 2: different with the wave of the future These are typically
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  Speaker 2: just a minute or two in length and they're to
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  Speaker 2: be seen on your devices and and the videos are
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  Speaker 2: being devoured by the Chinese. They're micro-dramas, they're fleeting, and
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  Speaker 2: they don't demand the same top-notch acting and high-quality resolution
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  Speaker 2: as movies or TV does, because they're seen on your smartphone,
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  Speaker 2: and they're only a couple of minutes long. And that's
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  Speaker 2: perfect for AI-generated content. And can you imagine the cost
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  Speaker 2: of producing them which is nothing relative.
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  Speaker 1: To another production.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, usually if you're making a movie or a
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  Speaker 2: TV show and you've got car crashes or you're in
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  Speaker 2: the jungle, you need sets, that costs real money.
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  Speaker 1: Well, to do these costs almost nothing.
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  Speaker 2: And the fear here is that these AI powered video
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  Speaker 2: generation and its software are now moving into Hollywood. And
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  Speaker 2: as writers are scared of AI, starting to write scripts
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  Speaker 2: and actors are big issue with actors licenses or actors
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  Speaker 2: faces being used. And there's all kinds of problems with that.
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  Speaker 2: This is a new wave. The small, tiny, little one,
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  Speaker 2: two-minute snippets. It's also like TikTok videos, but generated by
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  Speaker 2: real companies that are producing real content. China's Hollywood is
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  Speaker 2: Hengading Studios, World Studios. And they have sets and they
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  Speaker 2: have backdrops and they have backlots.
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  Speaker 1: Are they being used? Absolutely not.
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  Speaker 2: They basically become tourist attractions. They basically become Universal Studios
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  Speaker 2: without the film production.
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  Speaker 1: So they're theme parks.
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  Speaker 2: And that is causing just a huge issue, not only
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  Speaker 2: because of the cost, it's because of how popular these
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  Speaker 2: have become. People's attention span because of smartphones and because
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  Speaker 2: of technology are now... basically as, uh, the quality of, uh,
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  Speaker 2: or as fast as, uh, the attention span of goldfish.
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  Speaker 2: People do not spend a lot of time. They want quick,
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  Speaker 2: they want dirty, they want right now. And can you imagine, well,
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  Speaker 2: that's exactly what's happening in China. We'll take that concept of, uh,
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: of what you want, of what you want to look at,
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: what you will look at, and explode that concept into
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: a whole new generation of filmmaking. And let me tell
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: you how advanced this is. There is a company called
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: Fexyang University to produce these films.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: The owner has a team of about 30.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: People creators, fluent AI tools, prompting a screenwriter, a director, advertising,
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: film editing, and post-production professionals, all for doing one and
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: two minute videos, which has completely exploded. And of course,
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: because of AI, any language can be inserted. It takes
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: a minute to put any language out there, so it
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: becomes an international entertainment force. And so with AI, her
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: team could put together a 90-minute AI film suitable for release,
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: by the way. They have the opportunity to do this.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: They have the technology. They can put together a 90-minute
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: film for $ 500, 000, which in today's age, if you can imagine,
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: that's free.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: That's absolutely free.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: And so there's concept design. They sit down and work
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: out all of it with a team of 30 people.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: And it's done as well as anything, just not the
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: same quality done with AI. And people just accept it because,
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: you know, you don't have sound coming out of your
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: phone that's of any quality. You're looking at a four-inch,
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: five-inch screen. So you're not seeing much minutia. You're not saying, oh, wow,
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: I can see everything. That just doesn't work. I have
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: a new TV I just bought. And, man, it is
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: so bright, and I can see every little pimple on
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: people's faces. That doesn't work in the world of smartphones.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: So welcome to the new Hollywood. Chinese style. All right,
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: we're done, guys. Coming up, Gary and Shannon. We're back
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: again tomorrow. We start all over again. Wake up call
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: with Amy and Will. Neil and I, right up until now,
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: starting at six. And then you've got Will and no, no,
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: we got, I always get confused because frankly, you know,
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know how long I've been doing this,
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: but I get confused as to who does what around here.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: I know Kono makes fun of me, and there's Ann
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: who disappears around this time, and she's off and running.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: Okay, fine. I'll figure this out by tomorrow. This is KFI.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: She's still here, Bill. She's still here. Well, she's not.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: I understand she's there, but when I talk about she disappears,
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: she's not on the screen.
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: She's not on your beck and call.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: She's not. Well, that's a problem for starters.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: Okay, the beck and call business. That I have to
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: work on. You've been listening to The Bill Handel Show.
• 24:23
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• 24:26
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