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  Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM 640, the Bill Handel Show
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  Speaker 1: on demand on the iHeartRadio.
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  Speaker 2: App.
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  Speaker 3: And now, Handel on the News. Ladies and gentlemen, here's
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  Speaker 3: Bill Handel.
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  Speaker 2: And good morning, everybody. Handle in the morning crew.
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  Speaker 4: Wednesday, October 21, and I've got a stitch. Oh, man,
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  Speaker 4: on my side.
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  Speaker 2: It's like a cramp.
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  Speaker 4: Ooh.
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  Speaker 2: What time is it?
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  Speaker 4: It's 6.05, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. So it's a stitch in time.
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  Speaker 5: Gives nine or makes nine?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. No, I just... Ooh.
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  Speaker 6: Ooh.
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  Speaker 4: You all right, pal? Yeah, no, I'll be fine. It
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  Speaker 4: just goes away. But it's just, ooh, this cramp just
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  Speaker 4: drives me nuts sometimes. Is she hitting you?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, oh, yeah. Yeah, hit me in the eye. That's
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  Speaker 2: my stye.
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  Speaker 6: How is your stye today?
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  Speaker 2: My stye is better. It looks better. No, it's not.
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  Speaker 2: I went to the doctor yesterday, and.
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  Speaker 6: Did he tell you to put a teabag on it?
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  Speaker 2: No, she didn't. It was a nurse practitioner.
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  Speaker 4: And I went to— even though I'm a member of Kaiser,
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to spend five hours in the urgent
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  Speaker 4: care or emergency room. So there's a Hoag urgent care
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  Speaker 4: just down the street. You know how I love Hoag.
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  Speaker 4: And I just pay for it. So I go down
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  Speaker 4: to Hoag, and she prescribes— this eye drop thing. And
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  Speaker 4: she says, it's a retromycin. And she goes, are you
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  Speaker 4: allergic to anything? Yeah, a retromycin. That's the only thing
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  Speaker 4: I'm allergic to. And so, but it was 60 years
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  Speaker 4: ago was the last time I participated in a retromycin.
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  Speaker 4: And And I had hives, et cetera, et cetera. And
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  Speaker 4: she goes, well, it's been a while, but let's be safe.
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  Speaker 4: So I'll give you a tube of this, just an
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  Speaker 4: antibiotic tube. So I take it down to Costco where
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  Speaker 4: I buy my medicine that I don't get from Kaiser.
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  Speaker 2: And they call.
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  Speaker 4: Me and say, are you aware this is $ 275?
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  Speaker 2: And I went $ 275 for an antibiotic little drop.
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  Speaker 4: So I call her back up and she gives me
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  Speaker 4: something else.
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  Speaker 2: And it was $ 11.
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  Speaker 4: So, um, Anyway, not that anybody cares. I thought I'd
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  Speaker 4: share that story with you.
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  Speaker 5: You are so weird about the things you're cheap on
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  Speaker 5: and the things you spend unholy gobs of money about.
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  Speaker 4: It's the weirdest thing.
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  Speaker 5: You're super cheap in one area, and then, you know,
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  Speaker 5: money's flying out of your pocket in the other.
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  Speaker 4: Well, all right.
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  Speaker 2: Well, what can I tell you?
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  Speaker 5: It's medicine, dude.
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  Speaker 4: We have to look at you. That's true, but, you know,
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  Speaker 4: $ 270 for a tube of, you know, you can do
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  Speaker 4: it for $ 11, all right?
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  Speaker 2: And it's just as good.
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  Speaker 5: You're negotiating on your health.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: She did say I will have some scrotal problems with
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  Speaker 4: my new antibiotic, but she said, why are you shaking
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  Speaker 4: your head, Amy?
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  Speaker 6: She said that?
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  Speaker 2: Well, not really.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Because you've been using it as a bath mat when
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  Speaker 4: you get out of the shower well no what happens
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  Speaker 4: is uh you know i put it in my eye
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  Speaker 4: last night and all of a sudden i started your
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  Speaker 4: scrotum yeah i started no no in my eye but
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  Speaker 4: it really started itching uh and uh it turns never
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  Speaker 4: mind uh i was going to do a crab joke
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  Speaker 4: but i'm not going to uh okay that's enough of
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  Speaker 4: that let me say hello will good morning Good morning, Bill.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I have to go there. What time is it?
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  Speaker 2: I'm already in the toilet with that. Okay, Mario, good morning.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, everybody. And there's Amy.
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  Speaker 6: Hi there.
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  Speaker 2: What are you wearing? Is that a Disneyland something?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, it's finally cool enough that I can wear my
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  Speaker 6: Halloween spirit jerseys.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't. Oh, there you go. Oh, there you go.
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  Speaker 4: Oogie boogie bash. Oogie boogie bash. I can't see much
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  Speaker 4: because of the sty in my eye. That's another thing.
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  Speaker 4: And the stitch.
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  Speaker 2: And a stitch. I got a stitch. I got a sty.
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  Speaker 2: And the scrote. I got a scrote issue.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I have a scrote. There's a lot of gravity
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  Speaker 4: involved now with it. I share with you the story
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  Speaker 4: of my father. My father wore boxer shorts, and gravity
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  Speaker 4: really hit him. So even below the level of the
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  Speaker 4: bottom of the boxer shorts, there were the bell ringers.
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  Speaker 2: Ann, good morning to you. Hi, good morning.
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  Speaker 6: She just shakes her head and thinks about all this
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  Speaker 6: hard work that I put into the show today.
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  Speaker 2: And Will, good morning to you. Good morning again.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, I forgot that I said good morning. That's the
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  Speaker 4: other thing. A little bit dementia hit also.
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  Speaker 6: Is that the eye drops?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I hope. I hope.
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  Speaker 4: All right, guys, a fair amount going on today. As always,
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  Speaker 4: news cycles are 24 hours a day now. So let's
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  Speaker 4: do it. We'll start with the news this morning. with Amy, Neil,
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  Speaker 4: and me.
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  Speaker 2: Lead story. Fly me to the moon. Now, there seems
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  Speaker 2: to be a big discrepancy here.
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  Speaker 4: First of all, the Ukrainian folks, Zelensky, said that the Starlink,
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  Speaker 4: that they use a satellite system that they use connected
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  Speaker 4: to Starlink, is what they use for defense. In other words,
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  Speaker 4: figuring out, that's part of figuring out where the ballistic
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  Speaker 4: missiles from Russia are coming in, And Zelensky said that
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  Speaker 4: was shut down or diminished for a period of time.
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  Speaker 4: Marco Rubio said the State Department said that's just not true.
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  Speaker 4: The Wall Street Journal reported that it is true. Zelensky
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  Speaker 4: then said, OK, it's now back on a few days
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  Speaker 4: later and we don't know exactly what it is. I
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  Speaker 4: would believe the Wall Street Journal way before I would
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  Speaker 4: believe Marco Rubio. who is Secretary of State, because they
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  Speaker 4: corroborate everything. And then the issue becomes Elon Musk. Did
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  Speaker 4: he make that order because he controls Starlink? And nobody knows,
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  Speaker 4: but it goes to show you the vulnerability because Starlink
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  Speaker 4: is quickly on its way of being the communications method.
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  Speaker 2: Around the world. And one guy controls it.
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  Speaker 5: I thought the whole story was that Elon Musk did.
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  Speaker 2: We don't know.
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  Speaker 4: We don't know at this point. I got to tell you,
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  Speaker 4: the guy is a genius. I don't throw that word
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  Speaker 4: around very often.
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  Speaker 5: The reality is he does great things when it has
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  Speaker 5: nothing to do with politics. When it has to do
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  Speaker 5: with politics, it just gets muddy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And he's very close to, he's back again close to
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  Speaker 4: Donald Trump. And they had a meeting, which they do
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  Speaker 4: on a regular basis just before this happens. Now, the
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  Speaker 4: good news is that is said and done. So all
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  Speaker 4: we're doing is looking at as to what happened for
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  Speaker 4: several days. The other thing that's happening is the United
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  Speaker 4: States is not sending Patriot.
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  Speaker 2: Missiles, interceptor missiles to Ukraine. And they're about out.
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  Speaker 4: And they're the only things that can defend against the
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  Speaker 4: missiles that Russia is sending.
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  Speaker 2: It's a mess.
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  Speaker 4: And then, as you know, at this point, our president
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  Speaker 4: is blaming Zelensky for the diesel fuel shortage.
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  Speaker 2: It's Zelensky's fault.
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  Speaker 4: And Zelensky refuses to negotiate negotiations.
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  Speaker 2: The end of the war. And it's Zelensky.
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  Speaker 4: Putin wants the war to end. Zelensky does not. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: it's all just topsy turvy.
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  Speaker 2: It is completely.
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  Speaker 6: Do you think Zelensky doesn't want the war to end?
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  Speaker 2: Of course he wants the war to end.
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  Speaker 4: This is Trump saying he doesn't want the war to end.
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  Speaker 4: Trump said he doesn't want the war to end and
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  Speaker 4: went further and said he never wanted the war to end.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, okay.
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  Speaker 4: And out of the three of them, who is the
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  Speaker 4: most hands-on for their people? Zelensky. Yeah, I would think so. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: because then you have Putin, of course, is a complete dictator,
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  Speaker 4: controls Russia. And he doesn't touch a thing.
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  Speaker 2: No, and what do you mean he doesn't touch a thing?
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  Speaker 5: He's not hands-on on anything.
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  Speaker 4: I know, but he controls it. Yeah, but you know
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  Speaker 4: what I'm saying? He's not hands-on. People do his dirty work. Oh, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: that's true. But the same thing with Donald Trump, too.
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  Speaker 4: That's what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 5: Out of the three of them, there's one that is
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  Speaker 5: defending and fighting for their people.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that is Zelensky. And at this point, he's getting
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  Speaker 2: the blame for it.
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  Speaker 4: Putin originally said it's his fault, and our president has
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  Speaker 4: jumped on that scenario. Yes. I agree with Putin. It
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  Speaker 4: is Zelensky's fault. And we're going to see what happens.
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  Speaker 4: The midterms, it's not doing well for the Republicans. The
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  Speaker 4: president's approval rating is dropping.
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  Speaker 6: By the Yeah, it's like at 33 percent.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is not good.
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  Speaker 4: And now you have Republicans that like, for example, in
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  Speaker 4: I think it was New Hampshire or Maine running for
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  Speaker 4: Senate saying Republican saying, I.
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  Speaker 2: Don't mean I've never met the guy.
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  Speaker 4: I disagree with him effectively saying that I have nothing
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  Speaker 4: to do with Donald Trump. And so I think you're
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  Speaker 4: going to see more and more of that. Let's do
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  Speaker 4: one more and then we'll take our first break.
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  Speaker 6: Here's another where at least a small break from President Trump.
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  Speaker 6: Of course, Trump endorsed on Truth Social the reelection of
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  Speaker 6: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He said he's been a great warrior,
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  Speaker 6: prime minister, and even a greater partner for peace in
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  Speaker 6: combating the Islamic Republic in Iran. And then J.D. Vance
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  Speaker 6: was asked about it on Monday, and he said, I
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  Speaker 6: endorse American candidates. That's where I'm focused on. Or what
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  Speaker 6: I'm focused on is the midterms, so I'm not getting
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  Speaker 6: involved in Israeli elections. He says I'm not anti endorsing him.
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  Speaker 6: I'm not pro endorsing him. I'm not getting involved in
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  Speaker 6: Israeli politics.
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  Speaker 4: Now, that is interesting that this is Vance effectively telling
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  Speaker 4: the president to go stuff it when it comes to
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  Speaker 4: the endorsement of Netanyahu, because Donald Trump wants people to
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  Speaker 4: be in lockstep with him. And that means you promote
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  Speaker 4: Netanyahu because he loves Netanyahu and Netanyahu certainly loves him.
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  Speaker 1: And J.D.
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  Speaker 2: Vance will not follow that track.
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  Speaker 4: And I wonder if there if there's going to be
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  Speaker 4: any fallout.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't know the answer to that. All right.
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  Speaker 4: Let's go ahead and take that first break and then
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  Speaker 4: we'll go through these stories. Oh, the Stitch is doing better,
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  Speaker 4: by the way. No, it's doing better.
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  Speaker 5: You're killing me, man. I want to come over there
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  Speaker 5: and massage you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, let's not talk about that.
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  Speaker 4: Sorry, Will.
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  Speaker 2: We've done that before, and it's... How do you think
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  Speaker 2: I got this job? Exactly. All right, let's take a break.
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  Speaker 4: Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Handel.
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  Speaker 3: You're listening to Bill Handel, On Demand from KFI AM640.
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  Speaker 4: All right. Let's return to more handle on the news
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  Speaker 4: with Amy, Neil and me. All right.
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  Speaker 5: Former Los Angeles mayoral candidate Rick Caruso. He declined, declined
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  Speaker 5: again to endorse either incumbent Mayor Karen Bass or challenger
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  Speaker 5: Nithya Raman. And but he did express that he said
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  Speaker 5: that he had some extreme concern about Raman's plans to
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  Speaker 5: remove police chief Jim McDonald. He also gave some small
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  Speaker 5: compliments to Bass and saying that she's done her work
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  Speaker 5: and she's worked with the team. And I compliment this,
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  Speaker 5: but he's not coming out overly for one or the other, but. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: you can see that he doesn't want Nithya Raman any more.
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  Speaker 2: Than anybody's saying.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but who do you vote for?
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  Speaker 2: It's either worse or worse with either one.
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  Speaker 5: The devil you know, and you trust that she's learned
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  Speaker 5: from some mistakes. But if you write in a candidate
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  Speaker 5: or do anything like that, it's going to be Nithya Raman,
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  Speaker 5: and that's a problem.
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  Speaker 2: All of it. All of it.
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  Speaker 4: I still don't understand what the problem is with McDonald.
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  Speaker 4: I think he's a he was a great sheriff and
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  Speaker 4: he's a good, good police chief.
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  Speaker 2: And it's easy. You know, Raman, Raman says balanced. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But Raman says that he's too close to ice. And, uh,
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  Speaker 2: all right.
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  Speaker 4: So anyway, she wants, uh, to be, uh, as anti
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  Speaker 4: ice as possible, almost arrest. I state, uh, ice agent
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  Speaker 4: as they come along, which in some cases should.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Weird.
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  Speaker 4: Cause she likes margaritas a lot. Oh, there you are.
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  Speaker 2: But on the rocks.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: Well, like her campaign, let's hope.
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  Speaker 6: Not a cheap fix. Caltrans has secured $ 4 million in
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  Speaker 6: emergency funding to fix a large crack that has developed
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  Speaker 6: in a slope below PCH near Laguna Beach. The right
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  Speaker 6: lane of the southbound Pacific Coast Highway closest to the
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  Speaker 6: slope is now closed from Reef Point Drive to Irvine
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  Speaker 6: Cove Drive.
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  Speaker 2: And there's some other.
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  Speaker 6: closures along PCH because they're trying to shore up this
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  Speaker 6: shoreline as more storms are headed this direction.
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  Speaker 4: I have lived here in Southern California for basically my
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  Speaker 4: entire life. I do not remember when there was not
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  Speaker 4: a problem with PCH. When either rocks, I mean, the
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  Speaker 4: size of cars were falling down on the roadway or
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  Speaker 4: landslides and they have to hold up the hill.
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  Speaker 2: It's Uh, what do you do?
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  Speaker 4: But it's so iconic, uh, that, uh, what do you do?
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  Speaker 4: Get rid of PCH. And then of course, uh, then those, uh,
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  Speaker 4: houses along the water. How do they, how do people
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  Speaker 4: get to them? Well, you don't have to worry about that.
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  Speaker 4: I'll tell you how they're going to get to them.
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  Speaker 4: They're going to have to take a boat. As Celine
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  Speaker 4: Dion so famously said, they can take a kayak.
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  Speaker 5: They could take a kayak.
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  Speaker 4: One of my favorite drops.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, yep.
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  Speaker 5: Uh, United Nations. Uh, Hey America. Uh, Your poop stinks,
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  Speaker 5: and it's causing global warming. So countries are not doing
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  Speaker 5: enough to cut emissions, but basically they said United States
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  Speaker 5: is the biggest problem.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, not in terms of real numbers. Real numbers, China
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  Speaker 4: beats us in terms of pollution. Well, yes, but they're
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  Speaker 4: four times bigger. But it's per capita. And the United
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  Speaker 4: States is effectively at the bottom of the heap in
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  Speaker 4: terms of controlling emissions.
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  Speaker 6: A big payout. For tipsters, President Trump has announced a
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  Speaker 6: plan to offer people who help expose government fraud up
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  Speaker 6: to $ 30, 000. It's a new $ 25 million program administered by
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  Speaker 6: the Justice Department. Tips can be submitted through a government website.
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  Speaker 6: And again, individuals can get up to $ 30, 000 if a
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  Speaker 6: tip leads to a conviction. This was all sparked by
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  Speaker 6: the fraud crackdown at the White House that really kind
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  Speaker 6: of started with that big scandal in Minnesota in which
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  Speaker 6: lots of state residents of Somali descent were accused by
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  Speaker 6: federal prosecutors of bilking taxpayers by setting up scam social services.
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  Speaker 2: Here's my question. OK, here is $ 25, 000 available to you.
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  Speaker 4: How many tips do you think are going to flood
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  Speaker 4: that website or that telephone site?
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  Speaker 6: Well, it has to lead to some sort of action.
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  Speaker 2: No, I'm not arguing. No, no, I'm not arguing that.
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  Speaker 4: You're right. It has to lead to a conviction, which
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  Speaker 4: is almost never going to happen because there's really no
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  Speaker 4: such thing.
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  Speaker 2: As widespread fraud. I mean, there's some.
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  Speaker 4: But how many tips do you think are going to
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  Speaker 4: come in where you're talking about your neighbors, where you're
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  Speaker 4: talking about, oh, look at that person over there. And
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  Speaker 4: the racism that we experience. It's going to be very interesting.
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  Speaker 4: This thing is going to fall apart under its own weight.
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  Speaker 4: There will be millions of tips poured in that will
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  Speaker 4: be called in.
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  Speaker 5: I hope that doesn't cut into our $ 5, 000 that we're
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  Speaker 5: supposed to be getting. Or the $ 1, 000 for the kids.
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  Speaker 5: They're actually getting that.
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  Speaker 2: They are getting that?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Is that program already in place so every kid
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  Speaker 4: in the U.S. has already gotten.
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  Speaker 1: $ 1, 000?
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  Speaker 6: And a share of SpaceX?
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  Speaker 2: My kids are going to be rich. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Can you find out whether that program, and I don't know, Amy,
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  Speaker 4: whether that program of that $ 1, 000 per kid, that fund.
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  Speaker 2: That is set up, which is a great idea, by
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  Speaker 2: the way. I don't have a problem with that.
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  Speaker 4: The problem is because that is a sort of form
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  Speaker 4: of socialism to get people kickstarted. which I like, but
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if the program is in place yet.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, it's in effect.
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  Speaker 2: It's in effect. How many thousand dollar accounts have been
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  Speaker 2: set up?
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  Speaker 6: Automatic enrollment for nearly 70 million eligible children under 18
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  Speaker 6: that have a social security number.
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  Speaker 4: And the thousand dollars has been transferred into those accounts.
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  Speaker 6: How to claim parents' legal guard. They need, well, you
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  Speaker 6: have to download the official app.
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  Speaker 4: I'm just curious because that is a, you know, I
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: don't disagree with that. This is where I think government,
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: I have no problem with government helping people get started,
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: especially in this day and age. But what is 70
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: million times a thousand? You know, we have a million thousand.
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: Seventy million bazillion gazillion. And I it's you know, we
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: don't pay attention to these numbers. You know, we're going
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: to be two trillion dollars deficit this year. Two trillion
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: dollars are going to be spent more than comes into
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: the government.
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: I mean, that's just those damn social programs.
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah. It's just driving me crazy. OK, let's go ahead
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: and take a break and then we will come back.
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: You're listening to Bill Handel on demand from KFI AM 640.
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: Next week, I'll be doing my voter guide and explaining
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: why I am voting the way I am voting. Not
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: that it particularly interests you, but hey, this show is
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: all about, well, what do they call the show?
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: Oh, the Bill Handel show.
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: So, okay, I'm tired by talking about me. Neil, why
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: don't you start talking about me?
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: Well, sir, you're both handsome and strong.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: Well, there you go.
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: And this is why Neil is going to be here
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: tomorrow morning and he will be on the show.
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: OK, back we go. More Handle on the News with Amy,
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: Neil and me.
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: While many companies are firing, Amazon is hiring, launching their
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: major holiday hiring drive, plans to bring more than 300,000
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: workers for its U.S. operations this holiday season. Of course,
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: as much as we hate corporations and big business, we
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: love business. simplicity, convenience, more than anything else.
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: That's a lot of people.
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: This is seasonal because of course everybody ships things like
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: crazy over there. That's a lot of people.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: 20 bucks starts at 20 bucks an hour and goes
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: up to, I think 24. And I think benefits, I
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: don't know if benefits accrue when you're a seasonal worker,
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: but that does not include benefits. Although I know someone
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: who has worked in one of those fulfillment centers at
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: Amazon and And she said it was just brutal.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: I mean, brutal.
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: I can only imagine. The speed at which they want
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: you to work. And you're on your feet for eight
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: hours a day. And man, you're running, I mean, those boxes,
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: it's a tough go.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: It really is.
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: That's why robots will do it soon. It's hard because
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: at this point, robot, you know, the boxes are all
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: different sizes. And I think that's- They'll figure it out.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Of course they'll figure it out.
• 19:43
  Speaker 6: Well, your info is still out there, but there's a
• 19:46
  Speaker 6: settlement that's been reached with the state of California, Chrome
• 19:48
  Speaker 6: Holding Company, which used to be 23andMe, is set to
• 19:52
  Speaker 6: pay six million dollars to the state of California to
• 19:54
  Speaker 6: settle allegations. that the company failed to protect consumers' genetic
• 19:59
  Speaker 6: data and also sold the data without the consent of
• 20:03
  Speaker 6: the people who were using the service.
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: Have you ever– have you done 23andMe to figure out–
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: Hell no.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: I haven't either.
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: I'm not interested in who my grandparents or great-grandparents are.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I hate my family now.
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: I thought it's a good idea to give your DNA
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: to someone like that and that you don't know where
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: it's going to be used.
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: I never understood that.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, I've spent– never mind. I was going
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: to make that up.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: No, no.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: I know. I know where your DNA goes. That's different. Okay.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: That is very different.
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: All right. Moving on. All right.
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: Mayor Bass in the news again released a statement just
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: yesterday announcing plans for some major changes in bringing temporary
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: relief to L.A. Department of Water and Power customers. We've
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: been hearing big time about these changes. massive skyrocketing utility
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: bills because of the, you know, multiple back-to-back heat waves
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: we've been having. And people are pissed. So they're calling
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: for investigations, all these things.
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: That she's looking to get relief for.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: Many of these people.
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: There was a problem before with LEDWP, but it had
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: to do with the computer problem.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: It was a glitch in the building.
• 21:20
  Speaker 6: Wasn't that when they were switching over to a.
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: New billing system? Yeah, and then there was just, but
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: that was a computer glitch. This one, they're trying to
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: figure out how do people's energy bills triple, even though
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: it is hot or hotter than, let's say, previous summer.
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: It's not triple. I mean, that's kind of crazy. So,
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: and of course, the poster child of this one is
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: Cantor's Deli on Fairfax. Been around for a million years.
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: $ 35, 000 bill they just got hit with. And it's, and
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: DWP is the least expensive utility in California. If you're
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: in Edison land, it's twice as much. And where I live,
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: it is the most expensive utility in the country.
• 21:59
  Speaker 6: Good.
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: That's why everybody around here has a solar system. Because,
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: I mean, you can't afford to pay. San Diego Gas
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: and Electric is... in Orange County controls a lot of
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: Orange County. So they're going to try to have to
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: figure out something and we don't even know what it is.
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: And so she's saying, we're going to have, we're going
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: to give people help. Well, you know, where do you
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: get help out of the budget? And how do you
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: get more money out of the budget?
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: What do you think? You have to raise taxes. It's
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: a lot of fun.
• 22:26
  Speaker 6: Ooh la la. A travel warning. The U.S. Embassy in
• 22:29
  Speaker 6: France has warned Americans to steer clear of the protests
• 22:34
  Speaker 6: that have erupted around France. The riot's fueled by several things,
• 22:38
  Speaker 6: education funding, rising cost of living, mass migration. They've been
• 22:44
  Speaker 6: reported across France. Now they have curfews in place. So
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: apparently it was quieter last night because they've got curfews,
• 22:51
  Speaker 6: but they're planning some massive protests this weekend.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they tend to do massive student protests.
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: If you go on YouTube and look up 1968 Paris
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: protests or French protests and demonstrations, students. And literally, well,
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: I came. Did they bring down the government? Came very
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: close to bringing down the government. to establish a new government,
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: not a new way of government, but the government itself.
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: It's a parliamentary system. So we'll see what happens. At
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: this point, Macron, who is not very popular, how he's
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: dealing with these people. But I think how many people
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: have been arrested in the thousands have been arrested so far.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: All right, let's go ahead and take a break.
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: And we will come back and finish up Handel on
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: the news on this Wednesday morning.
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: You're listening to Bill Handel on demand from KFI AM 640.
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: Okay. Let's finish up handle on news on this Wednesday with, uh, Amy,
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: Neil and me. All right.
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: The Tulare County elections office. That's where my dad was
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: born in central Valley was the elections office.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: It was really weird, but you know, that's a weird
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: place to be born.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: No, in Tulare it's, uh, that's picking country there for Mex, Mexicanos.
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: Uh, all right.
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: So, uh, The Central Valley there, it was suddenly getting
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: peppered with a bunch of questions. A lot of voters
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: there are curious as to what's going on because residents
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: are getting. like multiple duplicate vote by mail ballots. Oh,
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: in a particularly Latino area. Interesting. No voter fraud. However,
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: there's a reason for it, Neil. Would you like to
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: share the reason? Much to the, yeah. So it's agricultural
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: area there. They're surrounded by walnut, almond orchards, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: They received extra ballots because of an error by the
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: private printing vendor. So the county registrar of voters noted
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: the there's safeguards that are in place to keep the
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: extra ballots from being counted.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: So, yeah. And the printer said it's our fault. We
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: screwed up. Now, I have a question.
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: How much do you think this incident is going to
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: lend to the argument that there's fraudulent voting going on?
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: I'm saying quite a bit because that's just another nail
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: in the coffin or another nail in the argument that
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: fraud is happening. But see, that's a normal... Well, it's
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: not that normal, but what I'm saying is... That is
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: a normal possibility of problems.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: Of course.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: Of course it is. All I'm doing is.
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: Those people that are saying that there is widespread fraud
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: in the mail-in ballots, and this is mail-in, incidentally, are going.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: To say, see, proof positive. There are two ballots going out.
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: Look at this.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: Look at the fraud.
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: It doesn't help that it happens to be in an
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: area where illegal immigration is probably.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: No kidding. And California. And, and, and.
• 25:53
  Speaker 6: Holding parents accountable for the kids, the 13-year-old boy.
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: Who died after he lost control of a speeding electric
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: motorcycle and crashed it in Garden Grove. His parents have
• 26:07
  Speaker 6: now been charged in connection with his death. Prosecutors say
• 26:10
  Speaker 6: the parents had been repeatedly warned about the teen's reckless riding.
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: He had been injured before, including breaking his leg just
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: six months before the crash that killed him.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: Jeez.
• 26:21
  Speaker 6: Facing a felony count of child endangerment and misdemeanor count
• 26:25
  Speaker 6: of contributing to the delinquency.
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: At what point do you say, okay, you're done with
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: the e-bike and you yank the e-bike.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: Finished. When something like this happens. Yeah.
• 26:37
  Speaker 6: He was going 43 miles an hour.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, which is certainly enough. Yes.
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: Holy smokes.
• 26:42
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's sad.
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: All right. Bay Area woman making history.
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: Roughly 900 miles swim. As she went the length of
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: California and she navigated hurricanes, tropical storms, and it took months.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there you go.
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: Super, she said, grueling and magical.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: Magical.
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: For 33 years old. Good for her.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: Endurance swimmer. The only thing that would be better is
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: if her last hundred yards she had been eaten by
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: a shark. You know, some people are just pushed. That
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: would be entertaining. I've always wondered about why people do this,
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: stuff like this. Because I guess these sports people will,
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: you know, I don't understand free climbing, too. I mean,
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: people go up thousands of feet without ropes or anything,
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: just with their fingers.
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: They're pushing themselves. They wonder why you're falling asleep in
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: the afternoon on your couch while watching TV.
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, that's a job.
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: Endurance couch potato. Yes, yes, absolutely. That is my volunteer job.
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: I get paid in the morning, and then I do
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: my volunteer work in the afternoon. What a giver.
• 27:53
  Speaker 6: Don't inject that. Dozens of vials of a compounded GLP-1
• 27:57
  Speaker 6: injection have been recalled. Apparently, they're not sure that they're sterile.
• 28:04
  Speaker 6: Apothecary Pharma. It's a compounding pharmacy. It's voluntarily recalled 22
• 28:10
  Speaker 6: vials of terzepatide injections last month due to a lack
• 28:14
  Speaker 6: of assurance of sterility. And apparently exposure to the product
• 28:19
  Speaker 6: could cause temporary or medically reversible adverse health consequences, even
• 28:24
  Speaker 6: though they say those are rather low. It doesn't seem
• 28:27
  Speaker 6: like a very big recall.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it doesn't.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: 22 of them.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: Okay, let's finish up with this one, Neil.
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: Sure. This is a story that really got some international
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: attention because it's so weird.
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: I got to tell you, man, I'm sick of illegal
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: aliens coming and committing crimes here in the U.S. You
• 28:44
  Speaker 5: got a Canadian man convicted of animal cruelty charges on
• 28:49
  Speaker 5: Monday for snatching a flamingo named Peachy from its enclosure
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: at a Las Vegas hotel. Just sad. These people come
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: over here.
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: I know.
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: Their lily white stupidity and their culture.
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: They grabbed the flamingo, put it in the hotel room.
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: What a wingnut.
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: Ontario, Canada is where he's from.
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: That's right.
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: Lake of America. And since Ann puts these stories together, Ann,
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: we're done. No more stories of flamingos being stolen from hotels.
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: Got to back off on them. That's enough of these.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: Okay. I liked it. I know.
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: It's a great story. It is.
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: It just shows about the horror stories of our immigration system.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: Those Canadians stealing flamingos. OK, we're done, guys. Coming up, beaches,
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: a little bit of climate change. And guess what's happening
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: to our beaches? I know we see them. disappearing before
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: our very eyes. Oh, it's going to get far worse
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: than that.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: So if you.
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: Happen to be thinking about buying a house on the beach,
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: it's going to be cheap. And if you own a
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: house on the water, you're done. We'll be right back
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: with that. KFI AM 640.
• 30:05
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• 30:11
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