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Handel on the News · 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: And now, Handel on the News. Ladies and gentlemen, here's
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  Speaker 1: Bill Handel.
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  Speaker 2: Hi, it's Thursday, September 3rd. 2026 and there's a neil
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  Speaker 2: dancing in his chair i wish uh at times we
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  Speaker 2: had a television going or television camera going that would
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  Speaker 2: uh have you share with us uh the crazy.
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  Speaker 3: Stuff that's my uh caddyshack uh.
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  Speaker 2: Gopher dance very strong okay uh everybody is oh me
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  Speaker 2: too everybody is here uh morning neil Morning, Amy. Will
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  Speaker 2: Kohlschreiber also dancing in his chair.
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  Speaker 4: We're all doing the Caddyshack dance.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a joy to see Will doing that. Kono,
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  Speaker 2: really dressed up today. You really dressed up. Look at
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  Speaker 2: that shirt. The same one as yesterday.
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  Speaker 4: It looks exactly the same except it's green instead of blue.
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  Speaker 2: It is not the same one as yesterday. No, no,
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  Speaker 2: it's some kind of interesting... Is it Tony Bahama? No, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think it is. I think it's Tony Bahama. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's a really interesting fabric. I like it. Here we go.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like Mr. Blackwell. Okay, there's Amy. I just
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  Speaker 2: said hello.
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  Speaker 4: Hi.
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  Speaker 2: And Anne, good morning. Hey, a quick... I was listening
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  Speaker 2: to you do the promo talk about just before the show,
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  Speaker 2: and you and Neil are going over the edge. And
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  Speaker 2: here we generally define over the edge in a very
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  Speaker 2: different way on this show. But it's a cherry thing
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  Speaker 2: where you're at Universal Studios.
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  Speaker 4: Yep, at the Universal City Hilton.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, and you rappel down the side of the mountain,
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  Speaker 2: side of the building all the way down?
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  Speaker 4: Yep, 26 stories.
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  Speaker 2: And do you actually rappel?
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  Speaker 4: You kind of repel. I mean, you lower yourself. You're
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  Speaker 4: not bouncing off like you would see rock climbers bouncing
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  Speaker 4: off because you can't do that on the building. But yeah,
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  Speaker 4: you're repelling down the side of the building.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so you're now... All right, so you're asking people
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  Speaker 2: to subsidize it or donate, I guess, in your name? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Because I don't know how that was connected. I can
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  Speaker 2: think of a lot of things that pay for, like walks...
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  Speaker 2: you know, runs for cancer kind of thing, but jumping
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  Speaker 2: off a building. I mean, who came up with that?
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  Speaker 3: Well, the union rescue mission, and it's just like walking
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  Speaker 3: or running, although.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's, but it's jumping off a building, you know,
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  Speaker 2: raising money, uh, for, with issues like that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: doing stuff like that, I think is kind of dumb.
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  Speaker 2: And I'll tell you why, uh, because, uh, Big deal.
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  Speaker 2: You're in a strap and you go down a building.
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  Speaker 4: Have you ever done it?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, no. You want to do it?
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  Speaker 4: You want to do it?
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  Speaker 2: I'll do it. Uh, okay. But hold on a minute. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: I've got a much better idea. If you really want
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  Speaker 2: to raise some money and I would pop plenty of
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  Speaker 2: money into this is the two of you, uh, run
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  Speaker 2: across the freeway and then we do a football pool.
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  Speaker 2: Now that would be serious, uh, money gathering.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, uh, uh, Why did the talk show hosts run
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  Speaker 3: across the freeway?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I just, of course, I lost my train
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  Speaker 2: of thought. That would be a serious endeavor. That would
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  Speaker 2: raise a lot more money because then we do a
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  Speaker 2: football pool. Then people actually gamble, okay, to see who
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  Speaker 2: gets hit first.
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  Speaker 4: Well, we can do that on CalShe right now.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, yeah, I was just going to prediction. Uh, that's right.
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  Speaker 3: I bet on myself and just stand in the middle.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, yeah, except you can't do that. Okay. That, that
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  Speaker 2: one is not allowed. Uh, you can't bet on yourself
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  Speaker 2: at all.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, and you can't just found that out.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, yeah, you find that out, but you can't use
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  Speaker 2: an insider trading, but I would get serious about donating
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  Speaker 2: money if that were to happen. I mean, things where
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  Speaker 2: you really, really do some dangerous things.
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  Speaker 3: You're going over the edge this year. You're going over
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  Speaker 3: the edge this year.
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  Speaker 2: No, I think you're strapped in. I think you have
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  Speaker 2: the people there. Oh, you're so going down. I think
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  Speaker 2: you are.
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  Speaker 4: You gotta go.
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  Speaker 2: You can't mouth off like that and not participate.
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  Speaker 4: That's talking a lot of smack.
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  Speaker 2: We'll set it up. When are you doing it?
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  Speaker 4: September 25th.
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  Speaker 2: What day of the week is that?
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  Speaker 4: It's a Friday.
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  Speaker 3: Friday.
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  Speaker 2: You are in town.
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  Speaker 1: Hang on.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, no. I am in town, strangely enough. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: because I'm taking several months off at the end of
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  Speaker 2: the year and beginning of next.
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  Speaker 4: It's right before you leave on vacation.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I'm trying to think, is it a weekday?
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  Speaker 4: Well, Friday is traditionally a weekday.
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  Speaker 2: Friday, that's a weekday. So how are we going to
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  Speaker 2: do this? I mean, are you doing this.
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  Speaker 4: During the course of- Well, you're going to make a
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  Speaker 4: big donation.
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  Speaker 2: I make a donation anyway, because anytime you've asked for money,
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  Speaker 2: I generally donate money because you sort of have to.
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  Speaker 2: If you're asking for on this show, what are you
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  Speaker 2: going to do? And I give money. So give me
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  Speaker 2: the timeline on this. All right. Is it during the
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  Speaker 2: course of the show, right in the middle of the show? No.
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  Speaker 4: We'll go over in the afternoon.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Why? Okay. Let me ask you this. Why don't
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  Speaker 2: we broadcast it? Why wouldn't we do it live on
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  Speaker 2: the air?
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  Speaker 4: Because they don't start the event probably until later in
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  Speaker 4: the day.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so this is an event. It's not just for you.
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  Speaker 2: It's a lot of people jumping off the building.
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  Speaker 4: This is literally, this is the Union Rescue Mission's largest
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  Speaker 4: fundraiser of the year. And a couple hundred people do it.
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  Speaker 4: And basically, if you raise enough money or if you
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  Speaker 4: want to do it yourself and you donate $ 1, 000, you
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  Speaker 4: too can go over the edge. It's really a bucket
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  Speaker 4: list thing for a lot of people. It's terrifying, but
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  Speaker 4: also kind of fun in a weird way. It's cool.
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  Speaker 2: It's like getting married. Well, I was there when you
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  Speaker 2: got buried. It's not so much the back end. It's
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  Speaker 2: not so much the fun part. I'll tell you if
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  Speaker 2: your face looks the same. Wow. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: It is pretty crazy.
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  Speaker 2: So, okay. And it's in the afternoon on Friday and
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  Speaker 2: people come out. And so do we invite people to
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  Speaker 2: come out? And where do they hang out? And do
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  Speaker 2: they hang out?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. All right.
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  Speaker 4: Universal City Hilton.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, and let me ask you something. Are there enough
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  Speaker 2: people that donate $ 1, 000 that it takes a while to
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  Speaker 2: do this?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, they do it over a period of two days.
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  Speaker 4: And they have a pretty constant stream of people.
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  Speaker 2: Going over the edge. You would know when you were going.
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  Speaker 4: You don't just show up. I mean, you go and
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  Speaker 4: you get safety classes and everything.
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  Speaker 2: See, that's what makes it not so much fun.
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  Speaker 4: The safety classes take 15 minutes. It's not a big deal.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 4: And as Mark Hood, the CEO, said to me this morning,
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  Speaker 4: they've never had a miss.
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad to hear that. But they're due. They're due
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  Speaker 2: for one. All right. Let's do it. We've got a
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  Speaker 2: fair amount to talk about this morning. And it is
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  Speaker 2: now time for Handle on the News with Neil and
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  Speaker 2: Amy and me and the rest of the crowd. Lead story.
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  Speaker 2: No music. technical difficulties. Of technical difficulties. Yeah, let's do
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  Speaker 2: a fun happy days are here. No, this is not
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  Speaker 2: one of those songs. This is Gloria Steinem, who died
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  Speaker 2: at 92. We just got that news, I think, this
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  Speaker 2: morning or yesterday. What a life. Yeah, I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: do an obit on her coming up at 720. Very,
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  Speaker 2: very interesting lady. I heard her speak a couple of times. Just...
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  Speaker 2: What a character in a positive sense of the word
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  Speaker 2: and in just life changing. I mean, change the way
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  Speaker 2: America thinks of itself and its past and its future.
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  Speaker 2: So I'll do more of that coming up. Also, a
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  Speaker 2: quick bit of news with the Clippers, Steve Ballmer, who
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  Speaker 2: owns the Clippers. He was with a co-founder of Microsoft
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  Speaker 2: and he owns the team. He owns the L.A. Clippers team.
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  Speaker 2: And he has just been banished for a year. Gone, finished.
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  Speaker 2: He has nothing to do with the Clippers for a
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  Speaker 2: year because they had a ballplayer, NBA final MVP, Kawhi Leonard.
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  Speaker 2: Is that right? Kawhi Leonard? Kawhi? All right. Good for you, Bill. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: there is a salary cap in the NBA. And what
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  Speaker 2: Ballmer did and the hierarchy there is subvert the salary
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  Speaker 2: cap by arranging all kinds of speaking engagements and contracts
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  Speaker 2: with companies that dealt with the Clippers that Leonard got
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  Speaker 2: tons and tons of money. And they're saying and he
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  Speaker 2: didn't show up at these events, by the way. He
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  Speaker 2: just got the money. And so what ended up happening
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  Speaker 2: is the NBA said no. So he got hit with
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  Speaker 2: a $ 700, 000 penalty. The Clippers got hit with a $ 30
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  Speaker 2: million fine and had to forfeit five first round draft picks.
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  Speaker 2: That's a big deal. Now, since I'm not a big
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  Speaker 2: fan of basketball, ask me if I care.
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  Speaker 3: Do you care?
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  Speaker 2: No. No. I do not. I've been asked to go
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  Speaker 2: to some pretty big games. I will not go to
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  Speaker 2: a basketball game.
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  Speaker 4: Why?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I've actually, I have actually been asked, and this
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  Speaker 2: was when the, a year, years ago when the Lakers
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  Speaker 2: and the Celtics were playing for a championship. And a
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  Speaker 2: friend of mine, who had courtside seats called me and said, hey,
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  Speaker 2: do you want to join me right next to Jack
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  Speaker 2: Nicholson on the court? And I said, no, I'm not interested.
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  Speaker 2: Why is that? And I said, I'll tell you why.
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  Speaker 2: Because the thought of guys that are 6'8, sweating and
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  Speaker 2: i get hit with their sweat and i realize these
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  Speaker 2: guys make 15 20 million dollars and they sign their
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  Speaker 2: name with an x do you know uh i don't
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  Speaker 2: want to be part of that.
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  Speaker 3: That's why okay now you know how we all feel well.
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  Speaker 2: There you are oh yeah i do not sign my
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  Speaker 2: name with an x i use two x's.
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  Speaker 4: Uh president trump foiled again a federal judge has blocked
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  Speaker 4: the administration from enforcing a new executive order to limit
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  Speaker 4: the number of people eligible for birthright citizenship. Of course,
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  Speaker 4: this new executive order was issued after the Supreme Court
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  Speaker 4: rejected his previous effort. On June 30th, the high court
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  Speaker 4: rejected an initial effort to end birthright citizenship for kids
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  Speaker 4: whose parents were not American citizens or legal permanent residents,
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  Speaker 4: saying it violated the 14th Amendment of the Constitution. The
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  Speaker 4: new order says that took particular aim at birth tourism
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  Speaker 4: is the one that was blocked yesterday. That's where women
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  Speaker 4: travel to the U.S. to give birth so their kids
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  Speaker 4: can automatically become U.S. citizens.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and the basic premise I agree with. Birth tourism
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  Speaker 2: should not allow the birth of children to be U.S. citizens.
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  Speaker 2: I completely agree with that. The problem is the Constitution
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  Speaker 2: says otherwise. That's the issue. It is in the Constitution,
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  Speaker 2: and that's hard to unravel unless there is a constitutional amendment.
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  Speaker 3: But you could stop people from coming into the U.S.
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  Speaker 3: when they're pregnant.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you could stop people from coming into the U.S., period.
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  Speaker 2: You could, but how do you know if someone's pregnant
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  Speaker 2: or not? You know, what if someone walks in, they're pregnant?
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  Speaker 2: I've got a 25-pound tumor. What are they going to do?
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  Speaker 2: They're going to put it here, go to the x-ray
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  Speaker 2: machine over here.
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  Speaker 3: I can't visit a country with a, you know, passport
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  Speaker 3: that has less than six months on it.
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  Speaker 2: That's true. And that's by the way, that's the United
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  Speaker 2: States too. They won't let anybody in. That's one way
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  Speaker 2: of doing it. But the constitution is, It's there. There's
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  Speaker 2: the language. And the court said in a 6-3 ruling,
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  Speaker 2: which I didn't understand, they said the 14th Amendment applies here.
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  Speaker 2: And I just don't get it. Even though the intent
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  Speaker 2: of the 14th Amendment had to do with slavery, it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't matter what the intent is. It is in the language.
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  Speaker 2: It's clear. Intent is when there is some doubt where
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  Speaker 2: you sort of look at what an interpretation. There's no
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  Speaker 2: interpretation here. This is what it is. And so the
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  Speaker 2: other thing about this is when the court rules against
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  Speaker 2: the administration, they figure out a way to go around
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  Speaker 2: that and try another tactic to get to the same place.
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  Speaker 2: That's what lawyers do. That's correct. This is what lawyers do.
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  Speaker 2: But this administration is doing it more so than any other.
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  Speaker 3: A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers, they're pressing the army
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  Speaker 3: to explain why it told a unit based in Europe
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  Speaker 3: to stop specializing in drone warfare. So, you know, the
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  Speaker 3: battlefields everywhere across the planet are evolving into these military
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  Speaker 3: tactics that are, you know, uncrewed systems, you know, these
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  Speaker 3: drones that are out there. And the 173rd Airborne Brigade
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  Speaker 3: was building its own drones and practicing, you know, the
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  Speaker 3: very same kind of warfare that we're seeing that Ukraine
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  Speaker 3: has used very successfully. to fight against Russia.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And they were told to stop.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we don't know why. It's just, I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: do a story later on at 7.30 about what Hegseth
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  Speaker 2: is doing in terms of the decisions that don't make
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  Speaker 2: any sense. I can see it makes sense on this
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  Speaker 2: one because the brigade was putting dresses on these drones
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  Speaker 2: and that's pretty woke. So we're going to stop that.
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  Speaker 2: Did I read that wrong?
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  Speaker 3: You read that right.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, okay. Got it.
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  Speaker 3: Weirdo.
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  Speaker 4: AI is not a okay in LA.
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  Speaker 2: Ooh. Okay. Now you spent a lot of time thinking
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  Speaker 2: that one up. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Lots of letters. LA unified is adopted a moratorium on
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  Speaker 4: the student use of generative artificial intelligence for this school year.
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  Speaker 4: It's part of the school district's decision to limit computer
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  Speaker 4: use in classrooms because parents are concerned. Their kids are
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  Speaker 4: just sucked into these devices and aren't, uh, doing real
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  Speaker 4: world stuff. So in June, the school district voted to
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  Speaker 4: limit student screen time under the policy. Students have no
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  Speaker 4: access to screens until the second grade, and then they
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  Speaker 4: start increasing it as the students get older.
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  Speaker 2: And this one's not, they're not making a big deal
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  Speaker 2: about this. I mean, the decision may be a big deal,
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  Speaker 2: but In terms of their announcement, it's sort of kind
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  Speaker 2: of quiet. New York has made a huge deal of
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  Speaker 2: its decision to ban generative AI in terms of school kids.
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  Speaker 2: No school kids will be able to use AI or
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  Speaker 2: school kids will be able to not use AI. What
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  Speaker 2: would be.
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  Speaker 3: The use case anyway? Why would you need AI in school?
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  Speaker 2: To write essays.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 4: But they want the kids to do the writing themselves.
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  Speaker 2: Right. They to write. You can't do just any kind
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  Speaker 2: of asking for thinking critical thinking. Why did something happen?
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  Speaker 2: So you go to cloud or you go to a
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  Speaker 2: chat GP and it gives you the reasons why something
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  Speaker 2: is done. What were the issues in the Civil War,
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  Speaker 2: for example? Was it just slavery? Well, these are the
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  Speaker 2: other issues also involved. That you can do with AI,
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  Speaker 2: and it'll help. Yeah, it makes you think less. It does.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to do a story on what AI is
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  Speaker 2: doing at 8 o'clock, and then we're going to replay
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  Speaker 2: the segment that we did when AI did one of
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  Speaker 2: these segments and how good a job it did of
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  Speaker 2: hosting this show And we're going to replay that because
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  Speaker 2: we've only done it once. And we replay as much
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  Speaker 2: as we possibly can because it is hard.
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  Speaker 1: Lazy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. No, it's easy to be lazy. We'll do that
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  Speaker 2: at 8 o'clock.
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  Speaker 3: You remember back in January, I think it was, where
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  Speaker 3: ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods calling the country of Venezuela uninvestable.
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  Speaker 3: at a White House meeting there. And you had other U.S.
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  Speaker 3: oil companies that are very hesitant to get involved. But
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  Speaker 3: now Chevron is saying they're going to expand into Venezuela.
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  Speaker 3: This is just days after the Venezuela strike, U.S. and
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  Speaker 3: Venezuela strike that oil deal. So they just came out
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  Speaker 3: yesterday and said they're expanding their existing operations into Venezuela.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, they're a Houston based company here.
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  Speaker 2: And they're the only major company that is still in Venezuela.
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  Speaker 2: All the other companies have left. And you know why
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  Speaker 2: they're so hesitant to do this? It's because Venezuela has
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  Speaker 2: twice nationalized the oil industry. You have American or British
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  Speaker 2: companies in Venezuela, and the government of Venezuela just says,
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  Speaker 2: you know what? That's all ours. We're taking over. We
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  Speaker 2: now own the infrastructure. which happened in Mexico. Yeah, it
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  Speaker 2: is rough. And so we're going to go for a
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  Speaker 2: third time is what these companies are saying. And then
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  Speaker 2: that U.S. having access, actually controlling 65 billion barrels of
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  Speaker 2: oil out of Venezuela, which has the world's largest oil reserves, incidentally,
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  Speaker 2: in that country. But you're going to hear a big,
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  Speaker 2: big deal made out of this. The problem is we
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  Speaker 2: won't see the effects of this oil and the transformation
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  Speaker 2: of it into gasoline and fuel, for example, for years.
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  Speaker 2: Because it takes that long to build the infrastructure. Because
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  Speaker 2: infrastructure in Venezuela has collapsed because of the Maduro government.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: And prior to that, the Chavez government that just didn't
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: put any money into infrastructure. Just didn't.
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: Spending cuts. Pacific Gas and Electric Company, PG & E,
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: says it's going to defer $ 2 billion to in connection
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: to renewable energy projects and housing developments after the California
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: legislature failed to get to a deal over limiting what
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: utilities would be forced to pay if they start wildfires.
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: The CEO of PG & E says that the cuts
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: make up about 15% of the utility's planned investments, and
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: she says it'll reduce the amount of money the company
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: has to borrow Preventing potential higher costs for taxpayers.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: Either way the taxpayers get hit. Doesn't matter how or what.
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: So it's not spending the improvement projects because there are
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: no caps on the wildfire reparations at this point.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: At this point. So what they're saying, so we can
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: go the other way. You can cap it and you
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: pay for it one way or you don't cap it
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: and pay for it another way. The consumer is going
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: to get tasked with this no matter what.
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: All right, so Uber's got some layoffs. About 10% of
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: its workforce, this is the largest cut they've had since
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: COVID time around 2020. They're laying off about 3,300 employees. Yeah,
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: they're supposed to be at about 34,000 workers across 70 countries.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: And this will bring their headcount to under 30,000.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: Because it's a lot of competition. You've got Waymo that's
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: coming in, Lyft.
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: There's tons of stuff.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: You've got DoorDash. Yeah, it's really getting crazy as far
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: as competition. It's not fun. But you know what I
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: found fascinating about this? I thought that Uber would have
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: a few thousand people working for it. It's basically just
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: a software company. That's it. All they do is create
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: software where they put drivers together. 34,000 employees in 70 countries?
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: That one surprised me. I mean, that's a lot of people.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: And I just, I never would have guessed. But anyway, 10%.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: That's not even the drivers.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: No, it's not the drivers at all.
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: That's just infrastructure.
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: Ambush in Minneapolis. Two people have been killed. Six others,
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: including three police officers, are hurt in a shooting at
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: a downtown Minneapolis apartment building. Happened yesterday afternoon. The suspect,
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: Exchanged gunfire with officers. Apparently officers were approaching the building.
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: Shots rang out. They returned fire. Turns out that, again,
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: the two people killed, six others were hurt. The guy
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: was apparently known to police and he was also found dead.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah. What a I always have the same question.
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: Why?
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: And there was another shooting that was reported yesterday, too.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: And it was in a school, an active shooter in
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: a school. Why those two stories opposed to the other
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: dozen stories that happened yesterday with shootings? There are so
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: many of them. I don't even understand why they make
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: news anymore. I've said this over and over again. And
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: who chooses which story, which ones have legs and which
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: ones don't? Involving kids, maybe involving who knows. And then
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: there's the the allegation of racism where black or Hispanic kids.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: that are being killed are not as important as white kids.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: I mean, there's a whole lot of controversy across the
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: whole thing. But, you know, okay, as horrible as it is, hey,
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: welcome to America. It's the cost of doing business. Oh,
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: a negative story about Costco.
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: A Costco story, and I am disappointed I never used
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: this service because I never knew it existed. Costco has
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: shut down its Costco Next service. online marketplace. So I
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: guess Costco members could order discounted products and services directly
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: from several dozen companies. So companies like anchor electronics, they
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: do a lot of, um, power, you know, portable power,
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: priority bicycles, Viking culinary, um, and it's gone.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah. It was third party stuff. I never even knew
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: it existed. Uh, yeah, I didn't either because I always
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: thought third party vendors, are there as you exit a Costco.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: They're the people that do window coverings and remodelings of
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: kitchens and air conditioning systems, that sort of thing. And
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: those are third-party. Obviously, Costco doesn't do those. But, yeah,
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: I didn't know that that existed. Never used it.
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: Oh, it's gone.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gone because I don't think anybody used it.
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: A bit of a scare in the air. A Coast
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: Guard plane was carrying Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: and more than a dozen others. had to make an
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: emergency landing because of an engine failure. The pilot radioed
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: in saying, we just lost our right engine and would
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: like to declare an emergency and an immediate landing at DCA,
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: which is Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: They did.
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: Everybody is safe. And after the landing, Mullen said, the U.S.
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: Coast Guard pilots made the single engine landing feel routine.
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: No panic, just straight professionalism.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: They should. because they're trained to do that, and these
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: planes can fly on a single engine. I think they
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: even can take off on a single engine, if I'm
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: not mistaken.
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: Well, I'd buy that for a dollar. New $ 1 coins
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: featuring President Donald Trump, sort of, doesn't look much like
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: him except the hair, appeared to be out of stock
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: yesterday afternoon. So, Hours after they went on sale, this
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: is from the U.S.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: Mint.
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: They went on sale at noon. This is for the
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: 250th birthday anniversary of America here. And it has liberty
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: on the front. It has, in God we trust, it
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: has a thinner, more square-jawed version of the president. And
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: then the eagle on the back. I'm told they're in
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: circulation or will be in circulation. So you may come
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: at them by way of the wild, but they are
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: selling rolls of 25 coins and a bag of 100
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: Trump coins.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: Well, hang on a minute. Dollar coins, 25 of them
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: for 61 bucks? Yeah. Gee, that's a dollar. 100 of
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: them for $ 154? Yeah. There's a dollar. And these are actual,
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: this is real currency, isn't it?
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: I thought they were commemorative.
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: But why would anyone spend them? Because they cost more
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: than they can.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: That's correct. And obviously they're commemorative, but it's, you know,
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: Trump coins. Why not? And I'm thinking, you know, the
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: five dollar bill. I don't know if you've seen the
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: prototype of the five dollar bill with Donald Trump in
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: a beard with him, you know, in relief. But it's
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: going to look pretty good. All the currency we have.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: And it sells out. I don't get it. It sells out.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: This stuff sells out. How do you do with the
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: Trump steaks? I don't think the Trump steaks did all
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: that well. The Trump sneakers I know did very well.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: By the way, I'm not exaggerating here. Trump ties, those
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: didn't do too badly. Certainly Trump hats do pretty well.
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: Made in China, by the way. Yeah.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: I wonder when they start selling Trump Speedos, I'd buy
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: one of those. Okay. Moving on. You'd probably fit.
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: AI is not okay in the Big Apple either. We
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: just talked about how LAUSD is cutting screen time for
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: kids and banning artificial intelligence. And now New York City's
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: public schools have put a one-year moratorium on students using
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: generative AI. In elementary and middle schools.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's coming up. That story is at the top
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: of the hour. I'm going to expand on that, take
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: a deeper dive. All right.
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: There's a lot of unnecessary killing in the world.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: This one, verdict's out.
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: You had a Texas man shooting and killing his cousin
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: over an argument. You want to know what the argument was?
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: Who cooked spicier enchiladas?
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: Now, at first glance, I nicely said, at first glance,
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: it may seem like a stupid killing over the cooking
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: of spicy enchiladas. Let's take another look at this. How
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: important are enchiladas for real? I think they're very important.
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: I love enchiladas.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: Exactly. That's my point. So don't dismiss this shooting out
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: of hand, Neil. No, I put this in a different category.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: So he's in police custody now. I wonder if the
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: cops were like, taste them. Yeah. I'd want to know.
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: But that's, yeah, like 22 years old and 25. Yeah,
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: there they go. And they're arguing over whose.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: Enchiladas were spicier.
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: Apparently they had been drinking, according to police reports.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: No, no. Wow. Really? Okay.
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: Sure.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: Oh, Betty Crocker news.
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: Betty's got a whole new bag.
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: Betty Crocker has come out with a line of handbags.
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: They're called the Betty Eight Collection. They're $ 89, and the
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: handbags are shaped like cake slices.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: That's pretty dumb, don't you think?
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: They're cute as hell, but I would be disappointed it's
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: not real cake. I like cake. Cake is delicious.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: And then a story, Neil, we sort of touched on
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: this yesterday.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: L.A.
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: Zoo breeds a rare species of threatened rattlesnake. So they
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: announced on Tuesday the historic birth. Two litters of a
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: very threatened rattlesnake as part of a recovery program for
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: the threatened species. It's a litter of five New Mexico
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: ridge-nosed rattlesnakes. And they were born on August 18th.
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: Hmm.
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: We need more rattlesnakes here in California.
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: With all the bites.
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: I don't think we do.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, this is kind of a weird one.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: And I understand they tried to interview the keepers, but
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: they were both dead. So it was more difficult than not. Okay. See,
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: let me explain that.
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: Oh, here he goes explaining jokes again.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: Rattlesnakes, you see, they're both dead, and the connection is
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: therefore they were bit by the rattlesnake, and they didn't
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: survive for the interview. Yep. Okay.
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: Maybe they're looking to replace those folks. You should go
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: see if they're hiring.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And I think that's it, guys. We are done. Finished, finished, finished.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: All right, coming up. The story of Gloria Steinem, who
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: is an extraordinary American. And I'm going to jump into
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: that one as to who she was and how she
• 30:04
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