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Chatbots are doing the work of Congress · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 2: for the next insert the future here, whatever day you want.
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  Speaker 2: And one of the things about AI chatbots, which you've
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  Speaker 2: been hearing for a long time now, people use chatbots
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  Speaker 2: like crazy, But did you know that the laws that
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  Speaker 2: govern you, and I'm talking about laws passed by Congress
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  Speaker 2: use well, those amendments use chatbots. And for example, this summer,
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  Speaker 2: hundreds of amendments were filed. One was to an annual
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  Speaker 2: defense bill, and the representative and Apauline Luna's office sent
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  Speaker 2: a summary of what the Defense bill amendment would be.
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  Speaker 2: And here is the line that started it all increasing examples,
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  Speaker 2: specific factors identical to HR one hundred parentheses one hundred
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  Speaker 2: and eighteenth Congress eleven twenty five am question mark, question marks,
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  Speaker 2: question mark.
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  Speaker 1: What is that?
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  Speaker 2: Well, no one knows, of course it was. What it
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  Speaker 2: was was Ai coming up with one of his hallucinations.
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  Speaker 2: And the problem is one of her staffers copied that answer,
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  Speaker 2: timestamp and all and put it into the public record
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  Speaker 2: of the National Defense Authorization Act. And she defended it.
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  Speaker 2: She goes, not a shocker, most of my staff use
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  Speaker 2: it chat bots, and she went further, A lot of
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  Speaker 2: my staff will use chat GPT Claude Grock. Now I
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  Speaker 2: like Grock better, but my staff prefers Claude, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: not going to knock him for that. There's nothing illegal
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  Speaker 2: about him doing a summary. There is nothing illegal about
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  Speaker 2: this chatbot writing the amendment, writing the law. Now, the
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  Speaker 2: reality is is legislators don't write their own laws. Staffers do.
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  Speaker 2: When I was involved in writing the first surrogacy laws
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  Speaker 2: in California many years ago, through matter of fact, the
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  Speaker 2: mid eighties, I had the asemblymen who I met with
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  Speaker 2: him once or twice, and then it was with the
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  Speaker 2: staffers for months to write the bill. Today, you can
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  Speaker 2: write that bill in two seconds with AI. The problem
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  Speaker 2: is relying on AI to do this is not such
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  Speaker 2: a good idea. Now, initial drafts maybe, and people do
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  Speaker 2: use that. And there's a couple of ways of using
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  Speaker 2: AI that Congress people have. And I'll give you two examples,
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  Speaker 2: one of which makes a lot of sense and the
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  Speaker 2: other one is completely crazy. Okay, let's start with crazy.
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  Speaker 2: A gopaid in one of the Republican offices says he
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  Speaker 2: uses co pilot to write appropriation's amendments. He actually uses
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  Speaker 2: this chatbot to write the amendments to create laws. Wow.
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  Speaker 2: And then there's one which I'm fine with. This congress
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  Speaker 2: person Republican aid actually exported all of his phone contacts
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  Speaker 2: and text messages, years of conversations into a personal clought
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  Speaker 2: account and It told him to build the database of
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  Speaker 2: every reporter he has ever dealt with, what he pitched
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  Speaker 2: to the reporters, which ones they accepted, which extensions, exchanges
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  Speaker 2: went badly, and it auto updated self the chatbot with
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  Speaker 2: each new conversation. I'm okay with that. I'm okay with
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  Speaker 2: doing all of these administrative tasks that is not that
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  Speaker 2: is not inappropriate, and that's using AI in an area
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  Speaker 2: that okay, I would do that too. But the bottom
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  Speaker 2: line is when they're when when you have AI actually
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  Speaker 2: writing the bills and then producing them, considering their hallucinations,
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  Speaker 2: considering that the previous uh well, let's say, uh uh
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  Speaker 2: previous acts that people will do the bad actors, and
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  Speaker 2: you're trying to undo that or create a law that
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  Speaker 2: is going to change people's behavior, and you're not doing it,
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  Speaker 2: and the oversight is minimal. By the way, that is
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  Speaker 2: perfectly legal to do that. I don't know if you
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  Speaker 2: knew that is that Congress. Congress people can just say
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  Speaker 2: I want a claude, I want a law that limits
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  Speaker 2: the size of dogs that a household can have. Boom,
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  Speaker 2: you have an amendment that comes up, or you have
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  Speaker 2: this long, lengthy explanation because usually there are notes that
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  Speaker 2: are dyning and the courts look at that. People don't
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  Speaker 2: realize that when Congress or any legislative entity writes up
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  Speaker 2: a bill, there are notes that come with it, and
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  Speaker 2: there's sometimes they look to that when there are ambiguities. Well,
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  Speaker 2: there are no notes when it comes to AI, Hey,
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  Speaker 2: give me a bill, give me a bee, give me
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  Speaker 2: an I, give me an L, give me another L
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  Speaker 2: yay bill. They probably don't say that, do they? Raw
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  Speaker 2: raw ree kick them in the knee raw raw rass? Okay,
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  Speaker 2: coming up that pilot program that is partnering the lap
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  Speaker 2: D and l A A s LA. What's the stand
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  Speaker 2: for animal Well, I guess the Animal Protective folks. Anyways,
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  Speaker 2: it has been finalized. A partnership has been finalized to
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  Speaker 2: combat animal cruelty on skid row and that seems to
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  Speaker 2: be a huge problem. And we've seen homeless people. I
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  Speaker 2: see them all the time on the side of the
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  Speaker 2: road when they're begging for food, will work for food,
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  Speaker 2: and the trickers to hand them cans of dog food
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  Speaker 2: and they eat that. Anyway, the homeless people. Okay, we'll
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  Speaker 2: be back.
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  Speaker 2: As usual, a lot of news going on. It turned
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  Speaker 2: out that that Ruse, the flight in which the President
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  Speaker 2: sneaked off the old Air Force one went onto a
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  Speaker 2: catering truck, inside the truck and then was driven to
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  Speaker 2: another airplane, was in many cases or being argued that
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  Speaker 2: it was basically too much, way too much, because the
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  Speaker 2: threat that was reported really wasn't much of a threat.
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  Speaker 2: It was Raelis that brought the information to Secret Service,
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  Speaker 2: and in abundant abundance of caution, the Service and had
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  Speaker 2: to do so went ahead and did that created that
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  Speaker 2: RUSE and the CIA were finding out, gave it not
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  Speaker 2: much credence, low confidentiality, that it was for low confidence
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  Speaker 2: that the threat was real. Okay, now you've gone past
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  Speaker 2: homeless people of course, the freeways, and how many times
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  Speaker 2: do you see these guys with their dogs and women
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  Speaker 2: with their dogs hanging loose and they sit there and
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  Speaker 2: that's kind of terrible, and I feel, of course, you
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  Speaker 2: feel sorry for the dog much more than the person. Well,
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  Speaker 2: that's been going on for a long time, obviously, Well
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  Speaker 2: you only see the tip of the nose of that dog. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: not bad. What's been happening is on skid row. A
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  Speaker 2: lot of these dogs are dying, they're sick. These animals
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  Speaker 2: are dying and sick because well it's homeless people on
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  Speaker 2: skid row. They can't take care of themselves much less
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  Speaker 2: much less they're pets. So the LAPD and LA Animal
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  Speaker 2: Services now have a permanent partnership. There was a pilot
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  Speaker 2: program that was successful according to Karen Bass, la Mayor,
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  Speaker 2: and this finalizes that program that provides animal cruelty investigation
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  Speaker 2: training to cops. So you have cops not only trained
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  Speaker 2: to de escalate when they're dealing with human beings, but
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  Speaker 2: also deal with animal cruelty or animal neglect. And monthly
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  Speaker 2: clinics will be available on skid Row to provide pet
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  Speaker 2: owners the opportunity to spay new to their pets, vaccinate them,
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  Speaker 2: microchip them. And what Bass said, we're bringing regular spay
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  Speaker 2: and neuter services skid Row and building strong partnerships with
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  Speaker 2: nonprofits to deliver real solution. And so you're going to
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  Speaker 2: see much like the talk. Much like when police go
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  Speaker 2: out on a mental health call, the argument is you
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  Speaker 2: bring a mental health practitioner an expert with the cop
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  Speaker 2: to deal with that situation. Of course, if you're talking
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  Speaker 2: about a violent situation, then the cop or cops go
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  Speaker 2: by themselves. Maybe not, maybe they go with a mental
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  Speaker 2: health practitioner or an expert. Well, the same thing is
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  Speaker 2: happening here with the animal cruelty folks, and this is
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  Speaker 2: going to well hopefully protect the animals as they should be.
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  Speaker 2: There is a volunteer with un group starts with one
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  Speaker 2: Today is the name of the group, and he's a
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  Speaker 2: volunteer and says, I mean, it's crazy, We're coming out here,
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  Speaker 2: risking our lives to help these dogs no support from
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  Speaker 2: the government because heretofore pets were just being ignored. And
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  Speaker 2: that's a lot of why homeless people won't go to shelters,
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  Speaker 2: because they're not going to leave their animals. And that
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  Speaker 2: is a real problem for sure. I mean, when you
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  Speaker 2: look at homeless shelters temporary shelters as the end all
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  Speaker 2: be all, the panacea, you know you've got, first of all,
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  Speaker 2: you have a good number of mentally ill people that
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  Speaker 2: just won't go, and then you have pet owners that
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  Speaker 2: are not going to give up their pets. And I
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  Speaker 2: can see that. And the group says that regular receives
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  Speaker 2: calls from people reporting dogs being sold for drugs or
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  Speaker 2: animals dying on the street. I mean, that is a heartbreaker.
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  Speaker 2: And so one of the things about animals, well also kids,
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  Speaker 2: is they've got no place to go. There are no alternatives.
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  Speaker 2: How weird is that that they won't go into shelter
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  Speaker 2: because they don't want to give up their dog, but
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  Speaker 2: they'll give them up for drugs. And they'll like, well,
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  Speaker 2: it's not the same it's not the same person. It's
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  Speaker 2: clearly not the working person. But it is just a
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  Speaker 2: horrible situation. The whole issue of homelessness is a horrible situation.
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  Speaker 2: And I've told that story about my brother's ex fiance
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  Speaker 2: many years ago, and we found her on the street,
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  Speaker 2: found her on the street, she was living on the street,
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  Speaker 2: and immediately put her up at a motel until she
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  Speaker 2: could get housing, which was available. She didn't even have
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  Speaker 2: the wherewithal to figure out how she got housing, so
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  Speaker 2: she ended up in a program. And the point of
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  Speaker 2: the story is she then invited other homeless people, buddies
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  Speaker 2: of hers, to sleep on the floor of her apartment.
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  Speaker 2: It was a little studio apartment. I mean, at least
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  Speaker 2: it was warm, there was a carpet that they'd sleep
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  Speaker 2: on and they left. Several of them just didn't stay
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  Speaker 2: there because they felt more comfortable out on the street.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's mental illness to a very high level.
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  Speaker 2: And when and when that kind of mental illness translates
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  Speaker 2: into dogs and cats, particularly dogs, then something has to
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  Speaker 2: be done. And I have to give La in this case,
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  Speaker 2: Karen Bass, some kudos for doing that, incorporating animal control
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  Speaker 2: people with the police when a report of animal cruelty
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  Speaker 2: or neglect is made. Okay, oh, you've heard of this one.
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  Speaker 2: Wealthy Californians. More and more of them are saying I'm
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  Speaker 2: out of here. Well not necessarily I'm out of here,
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  Speaker 2: but they want residency and they want citizenship of other
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  Speaker 2: countries to give them some options. And I know someone
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  Speaker 2: who is doing that right now. Someone is pretty close
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  Speaker 2: to me, by the way. It's me, and I'll share
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  Speaker 2: that story with you. Oh God, that was good, wasn't it.
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  Speaker 2: Look how I did that? See, that's drama. Okay, this
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  Speaker 2: is why this is why we do so well. It's
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  Speaker 2: me and that's you. So why don't we come back
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  Speaker 2: to us and go all right? That didn't work either.
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  Speaker 2: Verizon has announced twenty five thousand dollars reward for information
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  Speaker 2: leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for
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  Speaker 2: cutting its fiber optic cables. I mean, that was a story,
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  Speaker 2: a big story over the weekend. And Nick Reiner, the
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  Speaker 2: son of Rob Reiner and Michelle Reiner, who has been
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  Speaker 2: arrested for murdering his parents. He's on trial or we'll
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  Speaker 2: be on trial now, has been charged with lying in
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  Speaker 2: wait in addition to the murder charges. That's special circumstances.
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  Speaker 2: That's death penalty time. And he is he's either life
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  Speaker 2: in prison without possibility parole if convicted of lying in
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  Speaker 2: wait and murdering someone, and or the death penalty. And
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  Speaker 2: they're gonna They're not gonna go for the death penalty,
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  Speaker 2: nor should they because there's enough crazy in him. And
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  Speaker 2: also death penalty is way, way, way too costly for citizens,
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  Speaker 2: for those of us in California. Now, Golden visas, and
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  Speaker 2: what are those about, Well, putting a pile of money
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  Speaker 2: into another country, either investing in business or just bringing
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  Speaker 2: the money in so you can get a visa to
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  Speaker 2: live there. Basically a green card allowing someone to live
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  Speaker 2: in another country. And basically going for citizenship too. The
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  Speaker 2: United States now allows dual citizenship, so that gets easy.
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  Speaker 2: Getn't used to. When my parents came to the United
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  Speaker 2: States in the fifties and we became US cityens, my
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  Speaker 2: folks had to give up their Brazilian citizenship. The United
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  Speaker 2: States did not allow foreign citizenship, and so today it's
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  Speaker 2: a different animal. Today anybody can be a citizen of
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  Speaker 2: anything of any country, assuming the country lets you. And
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  Speaker 2: therein lies a real problem because immigration is tough all
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  Speaker 2: over the world. So what a lot of these countries
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  Speaker 2: are doing is sure, you can come in, but you
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  Speaker 2: got to bring in a pile of money. These are
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  Speaker 2: the golden visas. We have one ourselves that the President
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  Speaker 2: established and it's called, of course, the Trump Visa. How unusual,
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  Speaker 2: and someone brings in a pile of money and gets
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  Speaker 2: a visa with Trump's picture on it. No, those are
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  Speaker 2: the new passports that we have that have President Trump's
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  Speaker 2: picture on it. So more and more of these people
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  Speaker 2: are getting these visas. And why because of the political fallout.
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  Speaker 2: Now you would think, and this is my group of
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  Speaker 2: people that I know, and particularly friends of Lynz because
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  Speaker 2: Lens is you know, pretty liberal who despise Trump, and
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  Speaker 2: it's because of Trump they're leaving. But let me tell you,
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  Speaker 2: almost as many people are the other side too. There
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  Speaker 2: are people that are so afraid of another Biden administration
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  Speaker 2: or another Biden like administration, they're establishing themselves in other countries,
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  Speaker 2: not that they're moving, but that they're going to be there,
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  Speaker 2: either part time or as a hedge right, as an alternative.
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  Speaker 2: If things go south the way we anticipate, one way
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  Speaker 2: or the other, doesn't matter what political side of the
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  Speaker 2: spectrum you are, then you gets you go to a
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  Speaker 2: place to live. And so, as I said, is it
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  Speaker 2: happening to me? You bet? Now? Part of my plan
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  Speaker 2: is to live in especially more lindsay, is to live
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  Speaker 2: in Italy part of the year when I'm done and
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  Speaker 2: finished with morning drive, which'll god, I've been doing this
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  Speaker 2: for so along, I don't even know what it's like,
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  Speaker 2: not waking up and you know, coming to my studio.
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  Speaker 2: And so I am applying for Polish citizenship. Why uh,
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  Speaker 2: because it does track Because I want to be the
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  Speaker 2: butt of a Polish jokes. I'm tired of just telling
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  Speaker 2: people Polish jokes. I now want to be the recipient.
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  Speaker 2: How many Brazilian Americans is a take to screw in
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  Speaker 2: a light bulb. Who becomes poles? Who become poles? Very interesting? Uh?
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  Speaker 2: And and because I'm going to be Polish, Lindsay is
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  Speaker 2: and uh, by the way, she's a hell of a dancer,
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  Speaker 2: so she'll be doing pole dancing. That was terrible. You know,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Uh. The point is,
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  Speaker 2: why would I be doing that because I want to
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  Speaker 2: move now. I'm not particularly upset. I mean, I'm not
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  Speaker 2: happy with what's going on, but not enough to up
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  Speaker 2: and leave the country. For me, it's because I just
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  Speaker 2: like the idea of walking into any European country. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm basically a citizen because Italy is one of the
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  Speaker 2: or Poland is part of the European Union, and so
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  Speaker 2: that means I don't stand in line. I can buy,
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  Speaker 2: I can work, I can do whatever. And it just
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  Speaker 2: gives me a nice alternative. So I will have three
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  Speaker 2: citizenships and people can have many more than that never
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  Speaker 2: used to happen. I am Brazilian, as you know, born
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  Speaker 2: in Brazil, which makes me automatically a Brazilian citizen. I
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  Speaker 2: am an American because my parents had the wherewithal to
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  Speaker 2: come to the United States and give them. I'm ever
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  Speaker 2: grateful for having become an American citizen because I'm so
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  Speaker 2: proud of being an American. So to me, technically I'm
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  Speaker 2: Brazilian because I was born there, and technically I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to be Polish so I can hang out in Europe
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  Speaker 2: at at my leisure and not have to worry about it.
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  Speaker 2: But more and more people are doing it, and there
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  Speaker 2: are companies that do this. Eric Major is head of
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  Speaker 2: one company, Latitude, and he says eighty five percent of
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  Speaker 2: his clients are now American. It used to be the
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  Speaker 2: vast majority were not. And here is what he said.
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  Speaker 2: His firm grew from roughly three clients a year from Americans,
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  Speaker 2: the vast majority were overseas, from three clients a year
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  Speaker 2: to more than one hundred clients a year Americans that
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  Speaker 2: are buying into going to other countries, buying these golden visas.
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  Speaker 2: And it's for wealthy people, because how many people have
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  Speaker 2: five hundred thousand dollars in cash to go to another
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  Speaker 2: country and some a million dollars in cash indeed, But
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  Speaker 2: you know, for wealthy, wealthy people, there a few things
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  Speaker 2: that wealthy people have that we will never have to
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  Speaker 2: that extent. One of them is money. Wealthy people have
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  Speaker 2: a tendency of having more money, more opportunities, a lot
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  Speaker 2: more things and places of experts and employees and are
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  Speaker 2: available to the rest of society. And one of them,
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  Speaker 2: one of them is, you know what, why don't you
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  Speaker 2: become a resident or a citizen of some other country
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  Speaker 2: just in case, just in case the world has turned
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  Speaker 2: and trump Ism has taken over the world, or just
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  Speaker 2: in case somehow we go back to the Biden area
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  Speaker 2: era in the United States becomes biden Esque either way,
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  Speaker 2: not necessarily leaving, but just using it as an alternative
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  Speaker 2: and a hedge and just having a place to hang
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  Speaker 2: and not having to worry about being a tourist. All right,
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  Speaker 2: coming up, talking about Europe, man, are you ready for this?
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  Speaker 2: The fifth heat wave of twenty twenty six and Europeans
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  Speaker 2: are struggling? Oh, my goodness are they? And I'll share
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  Speaker 2: that with you when we come back.
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  Speaker 3: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
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  Speaker 3: six forty.
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  Speaker 2: Some of the big story we are looking at. What
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  Speaker 2: a shocker. Democrat zeevory Bsera is holding a big lead
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  Speaker 2: fifty five to thirty seven percent over Republican Steve Hilton
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  Speaker 2: in the gubernatorial race. Wow, a governor, a Democratic governor
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  Speaker 2: is set to win in California. Okay, hey, we talk
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  Speaker 2: about heat here. Man, it's nothing compared to what's going
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  Speaker 2: on in Europe. I mean it is crazy. They're now
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  Speaker 2: bracing for the fifth heat wave of twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 2: Do you remember the movie The Graduate when Dustin Hoffman
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  Speaker 2: is he's sitting around in the pool and one of
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  Speaker 2: his dad's buddies and because Hoffman doesn't know what he's
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  Speaker 2: going to do with his living for a living, and
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  Speaker 2: the buddy, Dad's buddy looks at him and goes, I
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  Speaker 2: got one word for you, plastic plastics go to Europe
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  Speaker 2: right now. I've got one word for you. HVAC actually
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  Speaker 2: has four words, HVAC air conditioning. Good time to be
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  Speaker 2: in the air conditioning business, man. It is the highest
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  Speaker 2: temperature on record in Europe and this is their fifth
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  Speaker 2: go round, and so what are well? The only thing
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  Speaker 2: that the governments can do is establish drought measures, like
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  Speaker 2: you can't water your lawn, not that they have lawns,
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  Speaker 2: but you can't wash your car, not that they wash
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  Speaker 2: their cars. But do you remember when the drought was
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  Speaker 2: here years ago, and we couldn't water our lawn, we
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  Speaker 2: couldn't wash our cars, we couldn't flush our toilets after peeing. Seriously,
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  Speaker 2: that was Governor Brown, the old governor. No, that was
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  Speaker 2: Governor Jerry Brown. Literally the phrase was, and it's hilarious.
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  Speaker 2: I tell people this and they're completely disgusted. Here was
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  Speaker 2: the official phrase from the government. If it's yellow, let
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  Speaker 2: it mellow. If it's brown, flush it down. And we did. Now,
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  Speaker 2: our houses were disgusting, but we did exactly that, and
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  Speaker 2: we saved ourselves a ton of water, far more than
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  Speaker 2: was anticipated. Now, what's going to happen in Europe, we
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  Speaker 2: don't know. What we do know is droughts like have
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  Speaker 2: never been felt before are going across the continent. For example, Serbia,
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  Speaker 2: the Danube. You go on the Danube and you can
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  Speaker 2: actually see ships from Nazi fleets that were sunk at
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  Speaker 2: the end of World War Two. You can walk across
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  Speaker 2: rivers that are no longer rivers, across the river beds
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  Speaker 2: and you've got hail, just the violent rainstorms like what
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  Speaker 2: we have here. I mean, watching the news every night,
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  Speaker 2: it's a weather story. I mean every night as I
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  Speaker 2: look at the news and you see what's going on
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  Speaker 2: in the Midwest, in the South at a certain times,
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  Speaker 2: certainly in the Northeast, where it's just crazy one hundred
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  Speaker 2: mile an hour winds, a hurricane level wind not hurricanes,
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  Speaker 2: mind you, hurricane level winds, and the flooding that's out
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  Speaker 2: of control. We've been very, very lucky. I don't think
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  Speaker 2: we have had record heat. I think we're right along
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  Speaker 2: in hot water, in hot water, in hot temperatures. Amy,
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  Speaker 2: you follow this more than I do. But weather in
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  Speaker 2: southern California has not been record breaking for the most part.
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  Speaker 2: We've had a pretty mild up to this point weather,
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  Speaker 2: haven't we We've had temperatures above normal, but it's not
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  Speaker 2: record breaking per se this summer. Yeah, No, it's actually
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  Speaker 2: been pretty good. I mean always there's temperatures above or
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  Speaker 2: below normal. For us, it's been pretty good. Europe, good God.
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  Speaker 2: And they're not used to it. Oh that's the other thing.
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you what they don't have. They don't have
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  Speaker 2: air conditioning. It's just not something Europe does. They didn't
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  Speaker 2: have automatic transmissions and cars for the longest time, certainly
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  Speaker 2: not air conditioning in cars, and not even power windows
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  Speaker 2: can you imagine buying a car where you're still crank windows. Well,
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't too long ago where that's exactly what happens
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  Speaker 2: in many European cars. Different world, totally different world. So
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  Speaker 2: go to Europe and die of heat. Nothing has seen
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  Speaker 2: like I'd been seen like it before. Coming up, Caroline
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  Speaker 2: Lovett leaves the White House as Press Secretary. I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to cover that. I tell you a little bit about background,
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  Speaker 2: and she's been unusual and she has done an extraordinary
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  Speaker 2: job considering what the President has asked her to do,
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  Speaker 2: and she's done it a little bit differently, a lot differently,
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  Speaker 2: And I'll share that with you when we come back.
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