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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from kf I
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  Speaker 2: Which has been linked to at least fifty one cases
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  Speaker 2: of suspected or confirmed infant botulism in nineteen States.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, really, really tough.
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  Speaker 4: It was a lot of hard issues with those kids,
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  Speaker 4: from buy Heart to No Heart Whole Nutrition Instant Formula.
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  Speaker 4: I know, I know, kids, I know, infants getting batulism
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  Speaker 4: is not that funny.
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  Speaker 1: And now handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen. Here's
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  Speaker 1: Bill Handle. So actually it is that funny. Good morning everybody,
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  Speaker 1: Bill Handle here.
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  Speaker 3: It is a wow.
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  Speaker 4: Thursday already, Thursday, December eighteenth day, I honica, if I'm
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  Speaker 4: not mistaken, I'm lighting the menora every night and we're
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  Speaker 4: gonna wait until. Oh I got a great manora and
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  Speaker 4: it was a gift from you know who.
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  Speaker 3: And it's a little docksund manora which I'm lighting. The
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  Speaker 4: I'm kind of neat and Michelle gave me a minora.
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  Speaker 4: I've told you about that before. My the Minorasaurus Rex.
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  Speaker 3: The Campbell's down the back.
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  Speaker 4: Of by the techs, the Sabrannosaurus Rex.
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  Speaker 3: Anyway, good morning. I handle here. It is a Thursday.
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  Speaker 4: As we move on, no Neil today, no Neil tomorrow
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  Speaker 4: or Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday, and then Neil is in.
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  Speaker 3: All right, good morning Will. I thought i'd start with you,
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  Speaker 3: which I never do. Wow, thank you, yeah, so wow?
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  Speaker 3: What is that on it is?
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  Speaker 1: Hey?
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  Speaker 4: Thank you?
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  Speaker 3: Well said? What is that on your tea?
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  Speaker 4: Shows?
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  Speaker 3: Do hot sauce? Wood? Hot sauce? Good stuff? Who do
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  Speaker 3: hot sauce? I like that? I like that.
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  Speaker 4: I want to make some kind of a joke and
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  Speaker 4: I can't think of anything clean, so it's just not
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  Speaker 4: going to happen.
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  Speaker 3: Cono, good morning, Good morning Bill, happy national roast, suckling pig.
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  Speaker 4: Day, oh Coen and coinciding with Hanika. That's very strong
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  Speaker 4: when you think about it.
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  Speaker 3: Very strong. And there is Amy. Good morning, Amy, good morning. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: what is that on your sweater today?
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  Speaker 5: Not it's Mary Farm?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, not's Mary Farm. That's sacrilegious. You know you're you're
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  Speaker 4: a betrayer. You're a Benedic Arnold, You're a quizzling.
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  Speaker 5: It's just like when you go to Trader Joe's. It's
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  Speaker 5: not a complete betrayal of No, that's.
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  Speaker 4: True because I do shop a trader, Joe's I do.
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  Speaker 4: And then of course the ever lovely ann good morning,
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  Speaker 4: Oh good hey. You know, you know when you're talking
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  Speaker 4: about the Benedict Arnold, the betrayers, those that are duplicit
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  Speaker 4: as stab in the backers. You've heard the Quizzling, haven't you.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not quizzling, okay. Quizzling was the puppet leader of
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  Speaker 4: Norway during World War Two, put in by the Nazis,
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  Speaker 4: and he was hanged after the war. He established basically
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  Speaker 4: a pro Nazi government by force, and.
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  Speaker 3: He was considered he was considered a trader, of course to.
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  Speaker 4: The Norwegian people because he was a Nazi and he
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  Speaker 4: was That's where the word quizzling came from, like Benedicte Arnold, right,
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  Speaker 4: it's it's become a description. And so this is quizzling
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  Speaker 4: now a quick story that I want to share with you.
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  Speaker 4: So I was in Norway, and I was part of
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  Speaker 4: the time I was in Norway, I was broadcasting because
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  Speaker 4: part of my vacation and I still needed a couple
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  Speaker 4: of days to broadcast. So I was allowed to broadcast
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  Speaker 4: from Norway the Morning Show, and I.
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  Speaker 3: Went to Radio House and most.
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  Speaker 4: Europe a lot of Europe, especially the ones that were
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  Speaker 4: involved in broadcasting and somehow involved with Stalin or Germany.
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  Speaker 4: What they had are these huge blocks in Norway. It
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  Speaker 4: was radio radio building, this backy staliness building, and then
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  Speaker 4: they built the television building right next to it, which
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  Speaker 4: looks like the radio building, just these two concrete boxes.
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  Speaker 3: So anyway, I go into the radio building and I go.
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  Speaker 4: Into this huge studio and there was this very competent engineer.
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  Speaker 4: She spoke perfect English, because everybody in the Scannadavian country
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  Speaker 4: speak perfect English. So I'm sitting at this desk and
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  Speaker 4: microphone's in front of me, headsets and she said, do
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  Speaker 4: you know where you're sitting?
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  Speaker 3: And I said, no, You're sitting.
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  Speaker 4: At the exact spot that Quizzling sated to when he
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  Speaker 4: declared the puppet government of Nazi Germany.
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  Speaker 3: The chills when up and down my spine. Quizzling was
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  Speaker 3: right here. Wow. And by the way, I'm not exaggerating.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you know, whenever I you know history and
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  Speaker 4: when I can touch it, when I can feel it.
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  Speaker 4: Yesterday I talked about the right Flyer, the first airplane
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  Speaker 4: powered airplane to fly there. It is in the Smithsonian. Okay, enough,
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  Speaker 4: of that. We should do some news. Oh I've got
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  Speaker 4: one other story. No, we don't have time.
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  Speaker 5: Is it a good one?
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  Speaker 3: It's not bad, Okay.
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  Speaker 4: It's something that all of us can do, okay, And
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  Speaker 4: that is if you ever have a chance to go
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  Speaker 4: to Egypt. It's a bucket list thing for many, many people.
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  Speaker 4: And actually once you get there is fairly inexpensive. You
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  Speaker 4: go to the Cairo Museum where all of Tuton Common's
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  Speaker 4: gold accoutremong is there in the Pharaohs, and it's obviously
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  Speaker 4: the best Egyptian ancient Egyptian museum in the world. Then
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  Speaker 4: you go into the mummy room, and they have a
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  Speaker 4: mummy room and they've unwrapped these mummies and you are
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  Speaker 4: there and it's a glass and closed is the mummy
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  Speaker 4: of Ramsey's, the second Ramsey's the Great, considered the greatest,
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  Speaker 4: greatest pharaoh in the history of Egypt. And you're looking
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  Speaker 4: down on him. He's not a little bit worse for wear.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, the guy is three thousand and somewhat years old.
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  Speaker 4: He looks like a parchment, like just a rough brown
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  Speaker 4: being in the sunway too long kind of thing, a
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  Speaker 4: little wrinkled, has an aged very well but as you
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  Speaker 4: look down, you go, this is the guy who said
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  Speaker 4: no to Moses. This is Ramsey's the Great, and I
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  Speaker 4: mean it's not someone that's made to look like him.
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  Speaker 3: It's not a wax effigy. It's the guy. And that
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  Speaker 3: is That's another one where chills went up and down
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  Speaker 3: my spine.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, this is touching history and it's I got wood.
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  Speaker 3: It was. It was pretty impressive. It really was.
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  Speaker 5: Where was that.
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  Speaker 4: Halfway halfway between the upper body and oh, I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 4: I thought you were asking. Okay, it's at the Cairo Museum. Uh,
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  Speaker 4: it was at the National Yeah, National Museum.
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  Speaker 5: I don't remember seeing you didn't go.
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  Speaker 3: Into the mummy room.
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  Speaker 5: Common.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's tout in Common. Yes they have that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Ramsey's yeah, No, it's all there. And Tuton Common
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  Speaker 4: is there. There's Tuton Common there. He is the real guy.
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  Speaker 5: There's the kid.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, it's Uh, it's really tremendous. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I love that when you can actually touch history as
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  Speaker 4: opposed to just read about it or see fac similes
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  Speaker 4: of it. Oh and Madam Tussau's wax models. This is
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  Speaker 4: the real thing, guys, let's do it. Time for handle
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  Speaker 4: on the news Amy and me and no Neil lead.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry.
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  Speaker 4: Well, last night the President delivered his third speech from
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  Speaker 4: the Oval Office, and it was basically a campaign speech.
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  Speaker 4: I'm the bestest, I'm the mostest, i am the greatest
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  Speaker 4: president that has ever lived. I've done more for the economy.
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  Speaker 4: We are now the greatest country in the world. When
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  Speaker 4: I took office, we were the worst country in the world.
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  Speaker 4: And then there were all kinds of course statements about
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  Speaker 4: numbers that didn't make any sense. But the bottom line
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  Speaker 4: is he looked right at the camera and effectively said,
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  Speaker 4: your prices have gone down.
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  Speaker 3: Under me, prices have gone down.
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  Speaker 4: I've made the best well, I've created the best economy
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  Speaker 4: in the history of the universe. In the meantime, affordability
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  Speaker 4: has gone from it's a democratic hoax to it has
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  Speaker 4: become real. But it is the fault of Joe Biden
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  Speaker 4: and Obama. And you're going to hear that more and more.
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  Speaker 4: I guarantee you Biden's fault, Biden's fault, Biden's fault, because
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  Speaker 4: the economy, in reality, unemployment is up, the economy is
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  Speaker 4: actually inflation has actually done better.
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  Speaker 3: This last month.
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  Speaker 5: Was reported at two point seven, which.
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  Speaker 3: Was yeah, yeah, and that was right.
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  Speaker 4: That was lower what you expense. So inflation is on
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  Speaker 4: is good news, but it bounces up and down. Unemployment
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  Speaker 4: not so good. But consumer confidence is in the toilet.
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  Speaker 4: That's a real problem. Eggs are down, eggs are down.
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  Speaker 4: And except for that's correct. And here's the accusation you have.
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  Speaker 4: By the way, English muffins are up a dollar fifty
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  Speaker 4: at Costco.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, for a four pack of English muffins.
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  Speaker 4: The point is is that you can cherry pick a
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  Speaker 4: couple of areas and then when you look overall, milk
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  Speaker 4: is not down. Meat his way up, but bread is up.
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  Speaker 4: So you know, in general our prices up. Yeah they are, Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: they are. And we're gonna see it's he's going to
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  Speaker 4: be on the defensive.
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  Speaker 3: I mean he is.
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  Speaker 4: He's still keeping the offensive right now, but I think
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  Speaker 4: he's soon going to be on the defensive.
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  Speaker 3: And of course blaming Biden for that.
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  Speaker 2: But can't he blame Biden for that because inflation was
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  Speaker 2: at nine percent.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, except when the day Biden left office, it was
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  Speaker 3: at three.
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  Speaker 2: Percent, right, and that's where that's where it is now.
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  Speaker 2: Right During that two point prices went up.
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  Speaker 4: Oh absolute, yeah, And it was the greatest period, the
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  Speaker 4: worst inflation in the history of the United States except
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  Speaker 4: for nineteen ten, except for nineteen seventy, except for nineteen eighties.
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  Speaker 4: Certainly nineteen seventies, it was far worse. But that's true.
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  Speaker 4: But he didn't inherit the worst mess in the history
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  Speaker 4: of the world. I mean, it just didn't. It didn't happen.
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  Speaker 5: So you're saying that things had gotten back on track.
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  Speaker 3: They had gotten back on track. Now they were already
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  Speaker 3: baked in.
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  Speaker 4: To argue, now that prices are down and are going down,
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  Speaker 4: they're baked in. If no inflation hits over the next
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  Speaker 4: two years, we're still paying prices that are too high,
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  Speaker 4: and that's a zero inflation.
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  Speaker 3: So it's baked in. There's no way around it.
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  Speaker 4: Once prices don't drop unless there is a depression, recession,
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  Speaker 4: or stagflation.
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  Speaker 2: A healthcare plan that probably can't pass. House Republicans have
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  Speaker 2: approved healthcare plan that they say is designed to lower
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  Speaker 2: healthcare costs for some Americans in coming years. The House
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  Speaker 2: GOP package would allow small businesses and self employed people
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  Speaker 2: to ban together across industries to buy coverage through association
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  Speaker 2: health plans to try to lower premiums.
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  Speaker 5: I used to be in one of these pool things.
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  Speaker 3: When you did that, it is basically, yeah, a pulling.
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  Speaker 4: The larger the group, the better negotiation, better ammunition you have. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: but that doesn't mean, you know, it doesn't touch the
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  Speaker 4: problem that we have.
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  Speaker 2: Right And in terms of healthcare, what they passed yesterday
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  Speaker 2: did not address the possibility of extending those subsidies which
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  Speaker 2: were put in place.
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  Speaker 5: During pandemic COVID.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, right, and are supposed to run out at the
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  Speaker 2: end of the year.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And that's what's shut down the government for thirty eight days.
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  Speaker 4: And that is what I think is going to kill
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  Speaker 4: the Republicans, one of the two issues that are going
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  Speaker 4: to be very difficult for the Republicans to overcome, especially
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  Speaker 4: if this keeps on going about through the mid terms.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and even they had the lawmakers signed the discharge petition,
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  Speaker 2: they had four Republicans join in, which is going to
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  Speaker 2: force a House vote on extending the subsidies for three
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  Speaker 2: more years. But then Johnson says, okay, fine, but we're
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  Speaker 2: not doing it till after the end of the till
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  Speaker 2: after the end.
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  Speaker 5: Of the year, and the subsidies run out at the
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  Speaker 5: end of the year.
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  Speaker 4: I don't understand it. I don't get it either. I
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  Speaker 4: don't get it. But you know who understands politics?
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  Speaker 3: Today?
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  Speaker 5: No plea. Nick Reiner made his first appearance in court.
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  Speaker 5: He was wearing.
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  Speaker 2: A suicide prevention smock. He was flanked by his attorney,
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  Speaker 2: Alan Jackson and two other lawyers. And apparently it was
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  Speaker 2: hard to see him because he was behind plexiglass and
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  Speaker 2: he was kind of partially covered by his lawyers and
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  Speaker 2: you couldn't see because of the plexiglass. But anyways, he's
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  Speaker 2: been charged with two counts of murder. He could face
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  Speaker 2: life in prison, possibly the death penalty if Da Hawkman
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  Speaker 2: goes for it. He did not make a plea yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: His lawyer, Alan Jackson got the judge to push that
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  Speaker 2: the arraignment back until January seventh, so he remains in
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  Speaker 2: jail without bail.
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  Speaker 3: Isn't a the what is it? The what he.
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  Speaker 4: Was wearing, the anti suicide smock. Yes, isn't that just
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  Speaker 4: a straight jacket? This dyed blue?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think it is because I heard that it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't have sleeves. He had handcuffs on, but it doesn't
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  Speaker 2: have sleeves or something.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's interesting, Yeah, by the way, I've never seen
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  Speaker 4: an anti suicide outfit warning court before.
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  Speaker 2: You might not be able to buy a new Tesla
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  Speaker 2: in California. California might ban the sale of Tesla's and
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  Speaker 2: here's why. The Department of Motor Vehicles said to Tesla,
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  Speaker 2: you better change the way you're advertising, or we're going
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  Speaker 2: to pull your right to sell cars in the state.
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  Speaker 2: The warning follows years of criticism and also a court
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  Speaker 2: ruling last month that found that the way Tesla advertises
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  Speaker 2: its autopilot feature breaks state law because it's misleading. California
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  Speaker 2: regulators say autopilot and full self driving capability mislead consumers
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  Speaker 2: into thinking that Tesla's really are self driving, but they're
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  Speaker 2: not because you have to be behind the wheel, right audible.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to talk more about that coming up at
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  Speaker 4: seven twenty because there's a lot of there's a lot
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  Speaker 4: of parts to that one. Also, there is a Musk
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  Speaker 4: story that's coming up at eight thirty and how a
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  Speaker 4: Musk is on his way to becoming the world's first trillionaire.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, we joke about being a gazillionaire. That's his
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  Speaker 4: next step after that, All right, moving on.
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  Speaker 5: Still growing no winner. Last night for Powerball.
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  Speaker 2: That means the jackpot goes up again and for Saturday
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  Speaker 2: night will be worth one point five billion dollars if
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  Speaker 2: you want the cash lump sum six hundred and eighty
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  Speaker 2: six million dollars. Haven't had a winner for forty four
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  Speaker 2: straight drawings. That's a new record for power Ball.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and the cash prize of six hundred and seventing
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  Speaker 4: million dollars, you can cut that in half because of taxes,
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  Speaker 4: so you're down to a measly measly three hundred million dollars,
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  Speaker 4: which it's pretty easy to live on.
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  Speaker 5: Got a bit of a Mexican mafia meltdown.
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  Speaker 2: More than a dozen people have been arrested in a
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  Speaker 2: gang sweep in the San Gabriel Valley. Police arrested, local
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  Speaker 2: law enforcement and federal agents teamed up, arresting sixteen members
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  Speaker 2: and associates of a local gang that has been linked
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  Speaker 2: to the Mexican Mafia. Investigators say the gang, based in
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  Speaker 2: La Puente, controls drug dealing in the area and uses
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  Speaker 2: violence to maintain control.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Are they calling the gang twenty thirteen or is just
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  Speaker 4: yeah thirteen?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a twenty thirteen gang.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, interesting new name, all right? And then what happens.
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  Speaker 4: And when these sweeps happen, it's generally state, local, federal
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  Speaker 4: investigators come in and they are insanely expensive.
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  Speaker 3: But you have to do it, you know, I have
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  Speaker 3: no choice.
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  Speaker 2: Well, they see seventy six weapons, a machine gun conversion kit,
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  Speaker 2: body armor, thousands of rounds of a ten pounds of math.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the ten pounds of meth are kind of interesting.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, that is a massive amount of myth.
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  Speaker 4: The rest of it, you know, I mean, obviously is
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  Speaker 4: dangerous stuff, but it doesn't seem like a huge amount
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  Speaker 4: relative to a major sweep.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, here is a story.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, careful who you criticize, No kidding. The Department of
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  Speaker 2: Health and Human Services has terminated seven grants totaling millions
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  Speaker 2: of dollars, to the American Academy of Pediatrics, including for
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  Speaker 2: initiatives to reduce sudden infant death, improve adolescent health, prevent
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  Speaker 2: fetal alcohol syndrome, and identify autism early. The Professional Pediatric
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  Speaker 2: Association has been one of the harshest critics of Health
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  Speaker 2: Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior's changes to federal vaccine policy.
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  Speaker 2: The chief executive and executive vice president of the group
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  Speaker 2: says the sudden withdrawal of these funds will directly impact
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  Speaker 2: and potentially harm infants, children, youth, and the families across
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  Speaker 2: the US.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and if you look at some of the reasons,
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  Speaker 4: the group's use of identity based language, references to racial
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  Speaker 4: disparities and pregnant people. I mean, I don't even know
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  Speaker 4: what that.
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  Speaker 5: Means, pregnant people.
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  Speaker 2: They say that there's only pregnant women, and so people
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  Speaker 2: are saying, oh, there's pregnant.
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  Speaker 3: People, got it?
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  Speaker 4: Okay, So yeah, that's enough to cut funding.
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  Speaker 3: I get it. Several millions of dollars enough.
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  Speaker 4: One of the factors I'll tell you who's kicking himself
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  Speaker 4: in the ass Bill Cassidy, Senator from Louisiana, who vote
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  Speaker 4: He was the vote that took Robert Kennedy over the top.
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  Speaker 4: And he is a physician who was actually head of
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  Speaker 4: several pro vaccine organizations. I mean that he was a
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  Speaker 4: vaccine believer. And he's the one that had the tie.
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  Speaker 4: He broke the tie with RFK Junior becoming the secretary
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  Speaker 4: and man, and he's looking at himself and saying this
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  Speaker 4: was not a good idea. Yeah, So RFK Junior, it's
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  Speaker 4: going to come to the point where anybody, any doctor,
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: who provides vaccines will be guilty of a felony, federal felony.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: You watch.
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: You know, maybe I'm exaggerating my hyperbole here, but I
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: got to tell you, tell me, we're not moving in
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: that direction with RFK Junior. I mean, the guy is nuts,
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: just absolutely nuts.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: Let's throw some more money at the problem. The Los
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: Angeles County Affordable Housing Solutions Agency, known as LASA has
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: approved nearly eleven and a half million dollars in homeless
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: prevention funds. That's the biggest allocation yet for the agency.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: In a unanimous vote, the loss of board of directors
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: signed off on more than seven and a half million
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: in direct rental subsidies and flexible financial assistance to people
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: at risk of homelessness, and then another almost four million
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: dollars in administrative funds to run the programs question.
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  Speaker 4: The ultimate goal here is to remove people from public
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: housing homelessness.
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: Remove people from homelessness.
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: Now you can give them subsidies and pay rent you
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: also have to pay for services to get them out
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: of that situation. And without unbelievable amounts of money. I
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: don't know how you do this. Here, you're throwing a
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: little piece of spaghetti against the wall and hoping that
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: it sticks. And in order to make real inroads, it
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: would almost be to the point where no other budget
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: consideration would be on the table. It would take all
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: of our money. I mean, it is a real problem.
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: And is it fixable? Not in our not the way
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: we run our society.
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: It's not. There's always going to be homeless.
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: You know, you go to Scandinavian countries, there is no
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: homelessness because of their safety net.
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: Well, we don't have that. I don't think we're ever
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: going to have that.
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: What do they do They make sure that, well there's
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: no homeless everybody effectively has a job. The safety net
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: is incredible. We have virtually no safety net for industrialized nations.
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: There they do put homeless and people in subsidized housing,
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: but the housing you can't tell the difference. There aren't
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: inner city ghetto housing. It's just it's a different model.
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: It is a what's a socialist model? Is what it is.
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: You pay very high taxes, although taxes here in this
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: country are quickly approaching that you pay very high taxes
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: or very few, very wealthy people. It's just a system
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: where a whole lot of people pay a whole lot
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: of taxes and they're fine with it. You go to Finland,
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: for example, one of the most revered jobs you can
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: have is being a teacher. They are super paid and
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: they're put on so high a pedestal.
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: Here that doesn't happen, so you know, everybody has seen.
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: Of course, the medical care is phenomenal and no one
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: pays for it except everybody pays for it. So it's
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: you know, it's just a whole different world. And is
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: immigration going to Finland? Now, it's pretty hard to go
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: to Finland. They don't like immigration. It's not a real
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: problem over there.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: The fires did more than destroy homes. Researchers have been
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: studying direct health effects from the fires in January in
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: Altadena and Pacific Palisades, so the residents, according to their
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: new study, didn't really even have to be that close
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: to the fires to have long term health effects. Visits
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: to the er for respiratory illnesses where of twenty four
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: percent after the wildfire starter.
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: Ninety days after.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: The fires, researchers say there was a one hundred and
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: eighteen percent increase in visits for general illness. Heart attacks
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: rose forty six percent during that period. And then scientists
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: say that they also on something that was even more unusual,
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: and that was that abnormal blood test results related to
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: general illness more than doubled in the ninety day period
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: after the fires.
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: No surprise, not with all the toxins flowing through the air,
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: a no.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: Surprise at all.
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: The FCC chief got a grilling Trump supporters.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: Wait, lawmakers grilled the sorry, the chair of the FCC
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: yesterday over his criticism of ABC and Jimmy Kimmel after
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: what Jimmy Kimmel said about Charlie Kirk's assassination, and what
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: he basically said was that Trump supporters were desperately trying
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: to characterize Tyler Robinson, the twenty two year old charged
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: in Kirk's killing, as anything other than one of them.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: So then Brendan Carr, the FCC chair, responded and saying
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: that this is a very very serious issue right now
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: for Disney, and Carr said we can do this the
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: easy way or the hard way, and people saw that
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: as a threat.
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: No, no, he said, the SEC might pull the license
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: of ABC. Have you noticed that now members the Trump
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: administration who are in front of Congress are just. I mean,
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: they do not care. Pam BONDI was in front of
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: Congress and just started railing against the Congressional Committee. Asked
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: about any one of her positions, she goes, it's your fault,
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: it's Biden's fault. She parrots what the president says, and
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: there is no decorum anymore.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: That's gone. That's gone.
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: Used to be people who took Congressional hearings and Senate
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: hearings pretty seriously, not anymore, not anymore. Now it's just
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: screaming right back, deflecting, saying it's your fault. You're the
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: bunch of liars. I mean, this is the witness saying this.
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: I mean, it's well, life has changed, obviously very much.
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: Can't play the game if you don't get to the game.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: MS scheduled flight to Seattle ahead of the Week sixteen
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: matchup with the Seahawks was significantly delayed just minutes before takeoff.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: Apparently there was an issue with the planes equipment, so
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: they were just stuck there for a couple hours, and
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: then ESPN's Adam Schefter said they did find a new
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: flight to Seattle, but they got there a couple hours late.
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: A couple of hours that's a significant delay. I guess
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: in the world of sports, that's a significant delay when
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: you charter your own plane.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: Now Santa's got the team back together again. There were
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: two reindeer seen running loose on the five Freeway in
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: the San Fernando area. They're named Cookie and Noel. They
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: escaped from their transport trailer on Saturday, and then we're
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: spotted walking along the southbound lanes of the freeway near
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: the one eighteen. They did a traffic break to try
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: to slow down cars so they wouldn't get hit, and
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: then they were finally able to corral them. The West
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: Valley Animal Services Center in Chatsworth says they examined the
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: reindeer and cared for them before releasing them to their owner,
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: and then said in a statement Cookie and Nowell are
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: doing well and ready for their important Christmas Eve duties.
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: You love that story, don't.
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: Just's so sweet?
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: Okay, you're gonna love this one. I Trump cannot help himself.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: So in the Presidential Walk of Fame, which is where
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: all the presidents are, pictures are displayed around the White
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: House as part of the President's ongoing effort to customize
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: the White House to his liking. He set his opinions
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: of each former president in stone by adding plaques underneath
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: the portraits, and they have long, detailed descriptions. And here's
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: a couple of things. They said, Former President Biden the
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: worst president in American history, Former President Obama one of
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: the most divisive political figures. And under President Ronald Reagan's portrait,
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: he was a fan.
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: He was a fan of Trump. Very brilliant.
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: You know, it has not been reported what the plaque
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: says under Trump's photograph. We have not yet heard of
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: what the description of Trump is by Trump. Notice that
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: that wasn't carried for some reason, because I'm sure either
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: it's benign and he didn't say much, or it's just okay,
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: that's just another one and it's and it's said that
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: he wrote.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: You know, Carolyn Levitt.
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: Levitt, who is a press secretary of course, said that
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: the president wrote some of his own language in those plaques.
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: It's just fantastic.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: I wonder if he wanders down the halls and just
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: reads them and check out, what's the point. I sound
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: like they're going to stay there after he's gone.
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and he's just i mean, completely redoing the White
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: House as you know, which I find stunning that the
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: president and it just wakes up one morning and goes, okay,
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: let's tear down the east wing of the White House
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: and we'll put him this great, big, beautiful ballroom. Now,
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: presidents do, in fact remodel the residents. They actually redecorate
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: the residence, but they don't tear out walls and redo everything.
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: It's just great story. Okay, here is a story, a
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: little factoid.
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: Johnson when he was president loved taking showers that were
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: like powerful, powerful showers, and he had shower heads from
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: all the walls of his shower hitting it was like
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: fire hoses. And Nixon comes in and the first shower
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: he took, he said that it literally threw him against
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: the wall, and he immediately ordered, we need new showers.
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: That of course, they tore apart the shower and redid it.
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: But that's the kind of redecorating that is done. I mean, yeah,
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: is there any way to find out what Trump said
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: about him? Say, helf in the plaque underneath his photo.
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: I would love to know what how he has described.
• 29:06
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