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You're listening to Bill Handle on demand
from kf I am six forty. Neil

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comes back? What next Wednesday?
So Samy and I looks like right now

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just ourselves for this week. Boy, am I excited? Woo hoo.

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That's exactly it. We're back to
Handle on the news with Amy and me

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and we're excited beyond words. Okay, and now Handle on the news ladies

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and gentlemen. Here's Bill Handle,
and good morning everybody. Bill Handle here.

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Yesterday starting the show was very very
high excitement level. So I'm trying

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to get it up as quickly as
I can right now in terms of my

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excitement level. Kono, is there
a pill for this to get it up

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for a show? Blue? It's
blue, Little kill Blue. No,

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you can't do that because if you're
sitting under a desk, man, the

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pain is just unbelievable. You just
cannot do it. Okay. Amy's already

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shaking her head as is, and
and we're starting. We didn't we what

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two seconds in the show and I've
already gone there. It's going to be

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a day. It's going to be
a day. All right, Hello,

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hey Cono, good morning? What
was up? Was up? Okay?

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What's up? And Amy? Good
morning, good morning, good morning,

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and good morning Hello Bill. Again, a lot going on today. It's

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a Wednesday, it's a day,
July twenty fourth, but the first hour

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is just Amy and Moir because Neil
is coming back next Wednesday. And Amy

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once again the heat spell. Is
it break today? Nope? Okay,

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thank you, No, that was
our weather report was Actually that's why you

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get paid the big bucks around here. Okay, you're ready to do it?

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Yeah, handle on the news.
Me and Amy lead story, Soman

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rolling and President Joe Biden is going
to address the nation from the Oval Office,

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one of those very serious my fellow
Americans, from the Oval Office,

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which is abite as serious as he
gets. And he is explaining why he's

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bailing out. And we all know
why he's bailing out. Now the question

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is what is he Is he going
to go beyond? I have listened to

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my advisors and senior members of the
administration and the party saying I have no

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path to winning the election. Does
he even go there? Uh? He

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certainly won't mention his age that he
won't do. I don't think he will.

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I'm gonna coming up at eight twenty
to do a segment based on what

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he is going to say tonight about
retirement into your seventies and eighties and why

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it is so damn difficult and a
personal story. Not that I'm retiring,

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but I have a very close friend
of mine who has this issue or had

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this issue. So Richard Nixon when
he resigned in nineteen seventy three, he

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did not say it's because I am
about to be charged with a felony and

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I am about to be impeached and
tossed out of office as president. He

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said, I no longer have a
political base in Congress. Okay, Yeah,

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which is a croc everybody knows that. And also keep in mind that

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President Biden's allies, all of them
who have asked him to leave, from

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George Clooney to Nancy Pelosi to Hakim
Jeffries, I don't think once they mentioned

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to him it's because you are old, or it's because you no longer have

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the acuity or the cognitive abilities to
actually run this country. It's because you

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don't have a path to win against
Donald Trump. That's it. So we'll

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see how far he goes tonight.
It's going to be very very interesting to

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see how far he takes it because
well we're talking about it. There's a

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whole thing about people in their seventy
and eighties and how difficult it is to

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retire, just to bail and you
know, unless you're digging ditches or you

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know, pulling wire like my dad
did. He was electrician, and you

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know, he retired and I think
sixty five is as normal. He was

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looking forward to it. So we
had a lot to talk about throughout the

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rest of the show. Okay,
the fighting could cease soon. US and

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Israeli officials are showing increased optimism about
the prospects of a ceasefire and a hostage

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deal being agreed to that would end
or at least pause the war in Gaza.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin n Yahoo is
delivering a high speaks, high stakes

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speech to Congress this afternoon, and
then he's going to meet with Biden and

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Vice President Harris tomorrow and apparently is
going to meet with Trump too down Florida.

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Yeah, because first of all,
the very close allies Biden and Nataenna,

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who don't get a log very well, certainly Trump and Nintaya who does.

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Because Trump is such a firm,
firm believer on the Israeli side.

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And Nao who is you know the
fact he's coming a little bit at the

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table. I'll tell you what he
has to give up. He has to

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give up the premise that Hamas is
going to disappear. That is what's going

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to wipe out Hamas. It will
not happen. It will not. And

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with that you can move backwards.
And does Hamas want a ceasefire? You

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know, I have my doubts.
I think Hamas is willing to have all

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of Gaza become just a pile of
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So we'll see what happens. Tell
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any kind of peace deal, Nittagna, who is out on his ass,

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hands off, says Trump. The
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Federal Election Commission arguing that money raised
for President Biden's reelection campaign can't be transferred

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over to Vice President Kamala Harris's campaign. And of course it's only because they're

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concerned about federal law. It's not
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transferred over to BI to Kamala Harris. Actually, I don't know where they're

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going to go because Harris, she
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same ticket with Biden simply bailing out. I don't think it has changed legally,

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and so we'll see what happens on
that, because the last thing the

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Trump campaign wants is ninety one million
dollars going to Harris, which means if

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that's the case, you're talking almost
two hundred million million dollars going into her

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campaign. And Musk remember the forty
five million dollar per month that he was

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giving. Never mind, I really
didn't mean forty five million. What I

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really meant is forty five dollars.
It wasn't that low. But he did

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back off the forty five million dollars
a month. He said what's being reported

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in the media is simply not true. Yes, it's except that he didn't

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refute it. I'll tell you when
it came out, he didn't immediately refute

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it. So you're saying that now
that Kamala is taking over as the Democratic

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nominee, he's backing off. No, No, I think he is.

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He wakes up in the morning and
what he does a Elon Musk style.

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Musk style is just point a purchase, you know, when you're in the

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checkout line and you see that pack
a gum and all a sudden you wanted

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or that little bag. That's what
he does with multi billion dollar corporations.

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Wakes up, you know, I
think I'll buy Twitter today, won't do

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any analysis, and then finds out
later we paid forty four billion dollars for

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a company that's worth twenty five billion
dollars on its best day. So hey,

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here's forty five billion dollars a month. Oh what did I just say?

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Okay, So I don't know what
it's going to be, but you're

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right, it sure ain't going to
be forty five million dollars a month.

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Score one for the kids. Standardized
test scores in the LA school system have

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shown gains in all tested grade levels
in math and English. Superintendent Alberto Carvallo

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was excited about that part of the
announcement yesterday, but the other part was

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that a majority of students still remain
below the state's grade level standards. Did

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you go to public school? Yeh, by the way, where not in

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southern California? Right up in Oregon? Okay? And public school okay,

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Conell public School of course. Okay. And I went to public school LA

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Unified as a matter of fact,
which is the poster child of the worst

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school district in the country. Was
it always bad? No? No,

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I actually came out and this is
a concept that LA Unified hasn't seen for

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a while. I actually came out
literate and it was a pretty good education.

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And then I went to up the
ladder, all in state schools until

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law school, where I went to
a private law school. And back then

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proficiency was very different than today's level
of proficiency. It has gone down,

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down, down where proficiency is.
Well, let me put it this way.

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Today, if you can get out
of a third grade and sign your

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name beyond just putting an X on
the paper, you're doing better. You're

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much more proficient. It is not
easy. It is to get people.

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And there's a bunch of reasons.
I'm not saying it's LA Unified. It

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has become basically ungovernable. So many
students English is the second language and they

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have to teach at the lower common
denominator or in terms of teaching English and

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you know, teaching math, which
when you have people coming over the border,

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those kids do not have that skill
set. They don't have the schools,

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they don't have that in Mexico like
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I guess that's good news, except
we have to look at it. Well,

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it's even less than the prior pandemic. It's moving up, which is

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good news, but incrementally cracking down
to keep the kids safe. Cend A

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majority leader Chuck Schumer, has announced
that the Senate will vote on the Children's

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Online Privacy Protection Act and the Kids
Online Safety Act. It's supposed to help

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make social media companies take more responsibility
in shielding children from harmful material on social

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media platform Yeah, we're starting to
understand how devastatingly horrible social media can be.

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And that is body shaming and bullying, and it's as rough as it

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was just in school being bullied and
I was bullied by the way because I

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was overweight. It is not fun. And today who is that gal?

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And I remember that case? Remember
when she convinced that kid to jump off

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the building and kill himself. A
few years ago through the internet, they

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were having chats back and forth and
you are useless, No one likes you.

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Everybody wants you dead, over and
over and over again. Well,

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this will theoretically stop it and force
the major platforms to look for it and

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guard against that, which I don't
know how they're going to do, but

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it's a duty of care standard for
social media video platforms, and so it's

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a question of algorithms. And of
course who's against it, well, first

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of all the tech industry, of
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If you want to kill yourself,
you have every right to kill yourself,

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go ahead and jump off buildings.
So that's any interference with first amen rights.

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The ACLU is as crazy as that
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Second Amendment. Just a little over
the top both sides, Okay. The

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two time mayor of LA wants to
become the governor of CA. Former Los

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Angeles Mayor Antonio via Ragosa has announced
his twenty twenty six run for the governor's

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office in California. He's been out
of elected office since he left city hall

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in twenty thirteen. He emphasized his
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while he was the mayor and when
he served as Speaker of the California Assembly,

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and on his record of balancing budgets
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Yeah, well that's the good side. As he's touting there are some other

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aspects on the other side. I'm
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because I think he's got better than
just a good chance. I think he's

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going to make it. And i'll
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am one because while Alex Lane it
at seven o'clock. Okay, time to

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slow your role. In Anaheim,
the city of Anaheim is lowering speed limits

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all over the city. One hundred
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to have their speed limits go down, most of them by five miles per

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hour, some by ten miles per
hour, and one by Disneyland's going down

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fifteen miles per hour from forty to
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reasons they're doing this, according to
the city, is that they did this

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study and they were watching how people
are already driving, and they said that

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about eighty five percent of the people
driving around Anaheim are already driving those lower

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slow speeds. So they say they're
just making it official. Yeah, Now

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here's the irony of this, because
Anaheim is one of those cities you want

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to get through as quickly as possible
because that's Anaheim. And for those of

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you that live in Anaheim. Yes, I am completely insulting you like I

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do. Why would I leave you
out of the mix? Exactly. Yeah,

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Kamala Harris loves Freedom, and obviously
Beyonce loves Kamala Harris. So Vice

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President Harris made her big entrance for
her first official visit to her campaign headquarters

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on Monday evening and she walked out
to Beyonce's Freedom and then her team got

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approval from Beyonce's reps to use Freedom
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Now, I compare this to Donald
Trump using music from Fleetwood Mac and Fleetwood

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Mac went Burr Zirk when Donald Trump
was using their music. So it's just

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a little bit different, to say
the least. I think all of the

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songs that Trump plays that people go
berserk, Yeah they do. And well

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a couple of songs, you know
when they did karaoke versions of songs,

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and the Trump campaign Joe Biden is
a crook. O'biden is complete crap.

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You know, It's just all they
do is change the lyrics. So we'll

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see again. You know what,
music, I'm proud, I'm proud to

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be an American. That's a big
one. For Trump. That is Lee

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Greenwood? Yeah, yeah, Lee
who wrote that? Did Lee Greenwood actually

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write that song? I think he
did. But it's a great song.

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It is a great song and it's
perfect for political rallies, I mean,

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just perfect. LAPD is going to
be packing in Paris. So Los Angeles

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police officers are deployed to the twenty
twenty eight Summer Olympics and it's not a

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ton of them, but we've got
a small group. And the LAPD had

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to convince the French government to temporarily
suspend its law against overseas police officers being

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armed in the country so they can
carry their weapons as they patrol. Well,

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yeah, I think I think the
law is when we can look this

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up, France has pretty heavy control, as of all of Europe does,

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and the only people that are allowed
to carry arms is a police law enforcement

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in the country and LAPD this is
not law enforcement in France now, they

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are not sworn officers in France.
So the government of France, and I

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don't know if it's France, Yeah, I think it's a national law and

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so you'll see the LAPD. Okay, I'm glad they're going to be packing.

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I think that's a good idea.
And by the way, Greenwood did

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write Proud to be in American great
song, great song. Okay, guess

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who's going to be running around France. Snoop's going to be one of the

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final torch bearers of the Olympic Flame
ahead of the opening ceremonies in Paris on

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Friday. Snoop Dog's going to carry
the torch through the neighborhood of Centenese in

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the final stop of the Olympic Flames
journey before it gets to the Eiffel Tower.

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Yeah, that's kind of neat.
I think it's number one. Snoop

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Dog, who is an iconic figure
here in America, and the French who

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understand that he is a great figure. And I don't know if you know

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hip hop is played in France.
I have no idea. I wonder what

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French hip hop is about. Oh, wouldn't that be great to figure that

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one out. But anyway, great
news for Snoop. I love this idea.

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Yeah, and he's also going to
be doing like reports for NBC.

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I know that's crazy. And he
is in negotians and negotiations right now to

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buy Pakistan. You know that,
don't you? He has a chunk of

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money. Yes he does, Yes, he does. All right, Well,

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there's a movie called Cocaine Bear.
Could Cocaine Shark be next? Shark's

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living off the coast of Brazil have
tested positive for cocaine. The sharks are

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in the waters off the city of
Rio dejian Aio. Cocaine was found in

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both their livers and their muscle tesh
tissue. They tested thirteen specimens and they

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picked these particular sharks because they live
in a small area of coastal waters where

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they're exposed to significant contaminant discharges.
Now, I want to bring something to

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the table here, Having been a
coke addict, you know, more than

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a few years ago, and I
even went into drug rehab. So coke

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was my thing, and by the
way, it's been decades. Just want

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to let you know, except sometimes
when I'm excited, but that's besides the

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point. And I have a lot
of energy, so I have, you

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know, some expertise coming to the
table on this story. And the first

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thing that I thought about is how
do you get a shark to snort cocaine?

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I mean, think about that for
a moment, that nostril thing that

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you need is. You know,
that's sort of important. So Amy Ann

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do a little bit of re search. How do sharks snort cocaine? Actually,

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the cocaine gets into the sharks system
from the sewage discharges from humans who

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use the drug and the illegal laboratories
that produce it. Well, let me

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tell you, any sharks that were
around southern California back in the eighties were

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swimming around and pretty excited every time
I went to the bathroom. Okay,

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you can lock up your spot in
sports history. The locker used by Kobe

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Bryant for most of his career while
he played at Staples Centers being auctioned off

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by Sotheby's. It's on the auction
block from now until August second. You

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can go to their website if you're
interested in making a bid for it,

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and sootheby says there's a good chance
it's going to go for more than a

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million dollars. Yeah, just to
give you an idea of sports memorabilia is

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insane. And of course Kobe,
who would have insane memorabilia anyway, After

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he died in that horrible helicopter crash, the value his stuff just exploded,

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So I wouldn't be surprised if it
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if that's not enough for you,
there's also Michael Jordan's shorts from his final

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game, Reggie Jackson's Yankees jacket,
and one of Raphael and Nadal's used rackets

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from the two thousand and six French
Open and Wimbledon. Yeah, all alive

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and still can garner insane amounts of
money, especially Michael jackson shorts. Not

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Jackson, Michael his shorts. Now
we're not talking his underwear shorts, right,

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no talk, it's the shorts he
were in his final game. Oh

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okay, because you know they want
used the jerseys, et cetera. You

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know that, Oh that would be
interesting. Hey, I want to suggest

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real quickly before we go on if
we have the time, and that is

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a documentary that I've seen. I
think it's on Netflix called The Golden Touch

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g O. L d N.
This is the guy who whatever is named

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Golden and he runs a sports memorabilia
company, probably the largest in the world,

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and sell sports memorabilia. To give
you an idea of what that is

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about, that is worth seeing.
It is an extraordinary documentary and it's just

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it's it's just insane. The value
of stuff. Michael Jordan's like the first

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tennis shoes that he wore in some
championship game over two million dollars. I

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mean, it's just it's beyond comprehension. All Right, I think we're done,

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