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You're listening to k I Am six
forty the Bill Handles show on demand on

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the iHeartRadio app. Ladies and gentlemen, here's Wayne Resnick. All right,

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everybody, it's time for the July
fifth tradition. Look at your hands,

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Heather Brooker. Yes, how many
fingers including thumbs do you have today on

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July fifth? So far I got
all ten? Oh fantastic. Now let

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us go to producer and Hi,
good morning, I made. Did you

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retain all your digits? Yeah,
they're all intact, very well. Oh

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my god, that's fantastic. And
running the bar this morning, Robin Barreto

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made. I don't know how many. Here's the thing I've never I have

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not had opportunity to meet you.
So it's possible before yesterday you didn't have

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all ten fingers and thumbs. But
assuming you did, do you still have

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ten? I promise I still have
ten? Okay, Oh, you promise.

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It's not You're not in trouble.
I don't know if you don't.

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This brings up a very interesting thing
because the hiring of Robin here is so

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excellent running the board has created a
problem in the building. Are you aware

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of this? Yes, I'm aware. Of this. You know what I'm

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talking about, Heather, I do. You have, of course, the

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same first name as our boss,
Robin Bertolucci, the program director. So

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now sometimes people will go, oh, here, oh, Robin's coming,

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not just the first name, but
Robin B. They both have the yeah,

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makes it even worse. Although people
don't usually say Robin be is coming.

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Well, I mean, if you're
like typing in an email, that's

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oh, okay, table that just
for a second, okay, because that's

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a separate problem. And I'm not
trying. We love you, Robin BM.

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But sometimes now people will go,
oh, something Robin. And of

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course, and this is nothing against
Robin Bertolucci. This is against just having

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a boss across the board in general. And also, let's be honest.

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You want to be honest for a
second, and working in an industry where

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people disappear, do you know what
I'm saying? Radio is an industry where

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you can be here and doing great
and be gone five seconds later. That's

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just a nature. It's the nature
of the business. So it's kind of

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like a dictatorship in that regard where
people just get disappeared. So anytime you

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hear Robin, right, we think
boss and even though I Robin Berdolucci,

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boss means clenching in areas of the
body. So do you, Robin,

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do you notice sometimes when you walk
into a room that the people who are

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already in the room breathe a sigh
of relief that it's you. I think

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so, but so far Conway and
Mo call me little Robin. Oh see,

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they're already tying you, yep to
the boss in this way. Now.

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The other thing, Heather, you
brought up having someone whose first name

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is Robin and the beginning of their
last name is a bee. You're right

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when you go to type an email, what is your fear? I'm afraid

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I'm gonna send something inappropriate or send
something maybe accidentally to the boss that was

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intended for the other Robin. And
I work with Robin a lot on the

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board operator Robin a lot on the
weekends, So I have to pause and

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double check because I'm sure Robin Bertolucci
does not want to get all of my

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emails that I send with updates and
you know, pre records and all that.

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She doesn't want to say it.
Yeah, I had to watch that

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yesterday, the first time I've had
to email Robin this Robin Robin for this

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morning, because I don't think Robin
Bertolucci, the PD of the station,

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really cares that there's a sounder for
the seven to fifty segment now luckily.

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So the main thing is this,
So the main detriment to you, Robin,

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is that people will not send you
dirty memes or salacious gossip or like

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bitchin and moaning about whatever's happening,
for fear they will accidentally send it to

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our boss. So you are missing
out on some Have you gotten any emails

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that were accidentally intended for the program
director? Yeah? I figured you had.

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Yeah, of course I have.
Yeah, give us the dirt you

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heard. What are people complaining about? It's just mostly like stuff that has

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nothing to do with me. It
has to do with like a boss kind

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of thing. And I'm like,
why do I get this? And I'm

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like, yeah, it's probably not
for me meeting. The meeting at ten

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has been moved to ten thirty,
that kind of stuff. Yeah, all

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right, Well, anyway, good
morning, everybody. Let us start today's

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handle on the News with Heather Brooker
and me and our lead story. Biden

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says, Oh, the ease into
it. That's nice, that's all right,

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a little dramatic pause before the before
the sleepy time music. I say

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sleepy time music. Because President Joe
Biden did have a meeting with some governors

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at the White House Democratic Governors,
and he said he's got a plan,

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you know, to be more vigorous
on the campaign trail and try to make

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up for his debate performance, and
that is he will stop scheduling events after

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eight pm so he can get more
sleep. Same Biden, Same, Yeah.

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I'm like, dude, you're staying
up later than me. What is

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happening here? Anyway? That's now. This is you know, there was

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no official White House press release about
this. This is some people were at

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the meeting and he said that apparently, and they all ran to the press

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to say, oh my, hey
said he's gonna stop doing stuff at eight.

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Here's the thing I get, Like
George W. Bush went to bed

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at nine, and Barack Obama,
if I remember correctly, there were several

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times where they would do like a
day in the Life of a whatever,

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and he would stop working and make
dinner at like six thirty. So if

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Joe Biden has in fact been working
after eight all the time, it's not

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I think unreasonable that he should cool
it a little bit. Yeah, because

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he is. He is eighty one. And by the way, at seven

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thirty, we're going to get into
why we know politicians are old. We

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know that all you got to do
is look at them. Turn on c

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SPAN, look at a session of
Congress and you can see that politicians are

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overwhelmingly old. But why at seven
thirty you will get the answer to that

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conundrum. And anyway, Biden's got
a bedtime, Ugh, lucky, all

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right. White House now says also
that President Biden was seen by his doctor

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in the days after the debate.
But the discrepancy here is that they initially

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said that he had just like a
brief check. Are they saying that he

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was a brie checked, not a
physical. When people were pressing the White

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House spokeswoman, they were asking her
if he'd had any other medical exams and

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she said no. So the initial
reply was that no, he hasn't been

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seen by a doctor. And now
they're sort of walking it back and going,

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well, actually, yes, he
was seen by a doctor in a

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brief check, but it wasn't a
full physical. It was just them checking

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on his cold. They should all
just be even if somebody asked a direct

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question about did he have a neurological
exam? They should just be replying with

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his accomplishments and his plans. You
don't think they should respond to any questions

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about his health at all. No, it's ridiculous, just like it was.

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It was similarly ridiculous. Remember when
Donald Trump got COVID and you had

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the same thing going on, which
is, we weren't getting the kind of

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information that we wanted, and we
wanted to know every minute, who's he

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seeing, what are the doctors saying, how that is it? Is he

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on a ventilator? Kenny walk?
Can he talk? And they were not

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constantly updating us with that kind of
granular information either. So this isn't a

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partisan thing. This is more like, ultimately, our concern is who do

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we want to be our president?
So I need to hear things that help

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me decide who I want to be
our president. Don't you feel like though

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knowing his state of his cognitive abilities
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about no wouldn't at all? No, Because what's really what you get here

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is with a president, you elect
a philosophy and you are electing a series

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of policies, and if that person
then the day of inauguration, like right

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at twelve oh two pm, falls
over and dies. Then you have a

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vice president who takes over and you
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That's what I'm saying. The person
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philosophies and policies. We need that
to be. That's just what people should

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be thinking of, and that I
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world, one is going to be
a better choice than the other, for

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sure. That is a beautiful reminder
that I think everybody on both sides,

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all sides of the aisle, need
to remember. You're voting for the whole

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person, the whole You're voting for
the ideas. You're not voting for the

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body. You're not voting for the
flesh sack, You're voting for the ideas.

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Yes. Well, look, if
either of the campaigns want to hire

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me at a lucrative rate, I'll
be happy to advise them. You're listening

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to Bill Handle on demand from KFI
AM six forty. Let's continue Handle on

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the news with me and Heather Brooker
and an update on Herhurricane burrel Oh that's

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my update to do about that.
I thought I was tossing. Well,

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it continues its path of destruction,
making landfall on the Yukatan Peninsula in Mexico.

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It is down from a high of
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which is still very dangerous. So
the beaches are closed. They have

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thousands of troops there to help as
the storm hits, and as what usually

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happens, it'll be a day,
day and a half before you get an

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update on how much damage there is
in a place where the hurricane passed through.

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Nobody's ready five minutes later to tell
you how many buildings have been destroyed,

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and that kind of thing. So
time Burl is dying down slowly and

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stubbornly. All right, So big
news over in the UK. After fourteen

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years of Conservative rule, the Labor
Party is now looks like the Labor Party

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is now going to be in control
in the UK. Prime Minister Rishi sunak

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As conceded to defeat. He was
beat by Labor Party leader Kir Starmer,

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and I guess now they also the
Labor Party has four hundred and ten seats

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and the Conservative drop to one thirty
one. And Sue next said in his

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concession speech, the British people have
delivered a sobering verdict tonight. There is

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much to learn and reflect on and
I take responsibility for the loss, all

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right. They won't learn anything because
if you get your hat handed to you

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like this. The Conservative Party was
in power for fourteen years, we have

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this snap election, which would have
had to have happened in the next few

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months no matter what. It was
just done a little bit early, and

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the balance of power tips to the
other philosophy and tips pretty I mean,

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this is an exit poll that you
cited about Labor ending up with four hundred

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and ten seats, But any way
you slice it, it's a big shift.

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So he said, he's going to
learn. Well, what you would

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learn is maybe you should moderate your
positions, just like if you had a

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very left or liberal government in power
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a massive shift, same thing.
Maybe you guys should moderate your positions.

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And of course if politicians and parties
learned from these swings, what would happen

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is the parties would be closer together
than they are farther apart. In there

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there'd be smaller differences kind of like
it used to be. We had a

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period in this country where the two
parties were not like we're way the f

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over here, well where totally way
over here where you can't even see us.

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It wasn't like that. It was
more like, hey, we're over

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here. Well, we're over here, we're close to guess what, We're

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close enough we can talk to each
other. Now it's like we're so far

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over here we can't even hear you. Was that like the eighties and nineties,

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because I don't. Sometimes I reminisce
about what a great time that was,

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But I don't know if I have
this idyllic view of it in my

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mind because that's when I grew up, was in the eighties and nineties.

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But it certainly didn't feel quite so
like every day was a catastrophic like we're

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heading towards the end of our country
feeling. We've always had the high.

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The high rhetoric with name call,
I mean name calling and personal with tax

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goes back all the way to the
beginning of the country in politics. But

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there's there's a difference between we should
structure these tax cuts in this way,

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No, we should struck sure them
in this way. That's a little bit

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different. Then we should kill women
for having abortions. No, we should

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pay for every woman to have an
abortion, even if they don't want one.

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Like you can be yelling about something, but you're still not that far

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apart anyway. So no, he's
not. They're not gonna learn any And

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you know what, man, if
we're still here doing this in five years,

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it will be it'll be a story
about how there was a bit a

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snap election and the Conservatives took back
all the seats. Yeah. Hesbilah launched

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a big rocket and drone attack against
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intercepting most of those incomings and scrambling
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there were sonic booms going on over
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your apartment in bay Rude having coffee, you know you got a rude awakening

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from the sonic booms. At least
now as of right now, Israel is

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saying no injuries, and they're also
they're they're not saying anything about whether there's

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been like property damage. They are
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So this is the way it tends
to go over there where Hezbollah launches

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a bunch of stuff and then most
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But this is not I mean,
we don't. Who needs this now?

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Yeah? That was some by the
way, Heather, We are definitely gonna

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win a Marconi Award and a Peabody
Award for this broadcast because and and and

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I don't mean to sound arrogant.
You will be riding my coattails when we

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get this award, because this award
will be based on the absolutely razor sharp

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analysis that I just gave. I
E. Who needs this now? I

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look forward to that. Yeah,
start writing your acceptance speech. Wheo.

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Oh wait, you know what,
I may not be able to do the

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rest of the show. My phone
is already ringing. I see here on

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the caller ID the Rand Corporations calling
me. I suspect I'm going to be

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hit up by the Brookings Institution and
a bunch of other think tanks after that

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brilliant insight of mine. Well remember
us, little people, please, I

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bought by their rival Sachs Fifth Avenue,

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along with along with another company which
we will just will save the reveal on

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that point. It's actually the parent
company of Sacks Fifth Avenue, which is

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called HBC. It's a two point
sixty five billion dollar deal and it's gonna

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result in the creation of a new
company called SAX Global. And the head

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honcho over there at HBC, Richard
Baker, said, and this seems interesting

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to me. So SAX is gonna
buy Niman Marcus, and he says they

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will not close any stores or online
businesses, they will not reduce services in

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any way, even though you know, you've got cities where you've got a

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SAX and then down the road you've
got a Neiman Marcus, and it kind

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of seems like why would you keep
both of them open? No layoffs,

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is what he's talking about. Like
nobody's no harm, no foul. He's

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probably saying that partly because he knows
the FTC is going to take a look

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at this deal to see whether they
think it's kosher or not. Now you

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want, you want to do the
big reveal for the other the other company

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that's part of this deal that's gonna
take over a minority stake in SAX Global.

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Do you want to say it?
Amazon? Amazon? Man, They

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have endless tentacles Amazon does. If
they're gonna be a part owner, they

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will provide technology and logistical expertise,
which means I'm guessing there'll be a big

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push to increase online commerce, which
I love online commerce. I love it.

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It's your favorite thing. I don't
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but it's it's if I was,
you know, rewriting the sound of music

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and rewriting that song, my favorite
things, it'd be in there. Yes,

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So I'm not against online commerce,
but I do think when you get

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to this level of retail Sacks and
Nemen and burg dor Burgdorf, Bloomingdale's,

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Bloomies. If you're in the know, you know, if you're a regular,

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you call it Bloomies. I think
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experience that you go in there,
and how nice it is and how nice

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everybody there is. I'm just curious
to know what is going to change with

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the customer experience, like what you're
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stores like your Burgdorfs, your Neema
Marcus. Those are high end stores where

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people are dropping thousands of dollars on
designer clothes. If you're adding an Amazon

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element in there, it suddenly loses
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know, and people maybe you know, I'm curious to see if they're going

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to maintain that luxury standard for those
high end stores. I know. I

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don't know that the Amazon influence is
gonna be visible in the stores. I

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think Amazon's gonna be behind. Well, you think you're gonna day go into

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Neman Marcus and you can just grab
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will have all those cameras set up
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Oh gosh, Hey, which of
these four is the fanciest of the

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stores in your opinion? Neiman Marcus
Sacks, Fifth Avenue, Bergdorf Bloomingdale's.

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I would say, for me,
Bergdorf has a feel of like there's just

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for the brand name alone, and
what I know, I don't shop at

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any of the stores. I'm a
J. C. Pennigal Like that's my

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jam Walmart hit me up, I
would say to me, just in terms

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of like brand recognition and what feels
more like luxury is Burgdorf Goodman for me,

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Like I've never been in a Burgdorf
and I feel like I could not

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buy anything in there. I bought
some towels once at a Bloomingdale's. That's

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my that's my that's my luxury retail
story. Is I splurged out of Bloomingdale's.

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But I'll tell you what it is. Wow, because first of all,

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they're not as crowded obviously because they're
self selecting. So I had this

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woman was like my my towel,
valet for the whole transaction, your towel,

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all my questions, showing me different
things, explaining everything. This is

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Egyptian ringspun cotton. Its absorbent properties
are slightly less than this, but it's

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more it's softer over here. These
these are designed in Portugal. Wow,

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Like there's a job. There is
a job for a person. Their entire

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job is to know everything about luxury
bathtouse. That's what I'm saying. We'll

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see how that luxury high end service
changes are speaking of, like new things.

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Japan's getting some stuff. Yeah,
So the US military is now sending

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dozens of its du As fighter jets
over to Japan. It's part of a

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ten billion dollar upgrade of its forces
in the country. And I've read through,

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you know, some of this information, and I don't fully understand why

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they're doing that. Other than just
I guess more military power because they can

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do we need more stuff in Japan. Are we just to be prepared?

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I don't know. Well, you
know that not too far away from Japan.

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You got that North Korea. Yes, yeah, and you got North

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Korea being nice, nice with Russia. That's the only thing I can think

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of is why they would want to
beef up that presence in Japan. God,

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I don't think we're necessarily going here
Japan. Here are all these planes.

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Do what you want with them.
This is part of a joint This

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is part of our joint relationship with
Japan. And what I think what we're

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really doing is staging these fighters over
there. Yes, hey, Japan,

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would you like to why don't you
have these on your vacant lots and kate?

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Because if we need to really go
crazy, it's better if they're already

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over there, because you know,
we have I mean, we consider their

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military bases to be it's not that
we consider them to be our military basis,

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but they kind of are. It's
like this, Let's say you have

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a house that you own and I'm
a renter, right, I have a

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key. I can come in there
right anytime, I'm allowed to walk around,

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do stuff, use the kitchen.
It's kind of like that, or

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maybe it's not. Somebody from the
Defense Department can give us an email and

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tell me I have no understanding of
the relationship in Japan and our military.

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Get Oh, we'll save this story. Oh boy, all right, oh

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boy, more Olympic doping controversy.
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from

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KFI AM six forty. We got
a doping scandal, everybody. It's the

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Chinese swimmers. Apparently, right before
the last Olympics in Tokyo, twenty three

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Chinese swimmers tested positive for a banned
substance. Yet we're allowed to compete anyway.

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What happened is they tested for this
it's a heart medication that you're not

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supposed to take because I guess if
you're healthy and you take it, it

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gives you some kind of advantage.
And then the Chinese official said, oh,

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probably the food got contaminated. Okay, how interesting that the food got

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contaminated just for these twenty three swimmers
with a specific drug that is known to

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be misused. Okay, but guess
what the World Anti Doping Agency said?

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Oh all right, well then fine, someone was paid off. Yeah,

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so here's what happened. Do you
know that in the United States we have

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a law that allows us to investigate
doping conspiracies even if they didn't happen in

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the United States? Really? Yes? And using that law, A House

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committee asked the Justice Department back in
May to look into this, and now

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apparently they have subpoena the head of
the international body that governs swimming, World

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Aquatics and their top administrator, Brent
Nowicki, has been subpoena to testify.

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What ultimately will this mean though for
this upcoming Olympics? Do we know it

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might put some pressure on the Anti
doping agency in the Olympic officials to not

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have such a casual attitude if athletes
aren't test positive. Maybe I don't really

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honestly. You know, I walk
out my door and I look at the

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world and I go, all right, what are all the problems that we

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have? And the fact that some
athletes might be able to participate in the

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Olympics even though they broke the doping
rules is so far down on that list.

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Yeah, but that's what's going on. Probably it's also a way you

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can distract people. I guess it's
like, look, look at what we're

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doing. We're doing this thing about
doping, and then you start thinking about

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doping and should athletes be allowed to
dope. There's a whole school of thought

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that says there shouldn't be any restrictions
on performance enhancing drugs. I how much

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I want to take them? Take
them? I want how much money this

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committee that researches doping allegations around the
world, how much are we spending on

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that that could be used for oh, the World Anti Doping Agency? Yeah,

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I don't know. You know what, let me ask you a question

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now now, and it's they have
successfully distracted us, because now we're talking

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about whether athletes should be actually just
be allowed to use whatever they want.

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If you take certain substances, the
idea is you're getting an unfair advantage.

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Of course, you're only getting an
unfair advantage because it's against the rules,

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and most athletes follow the rules.
Okay, what if you practice more that

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gives you an unfair advantage over an
athlete who practices less. What if you

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have a better coach, What if
you have better access to things like physical

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therapy and MRIs? How equal are
we gonna make it I mean, it's

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ever going to be perfectly equal because
of all the factors that you just mentioned,

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you know, coaches, time for
training, just people's own physical limitations

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or abilities. So you're never going
to have a completely equal playing field,

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which is what makes the Olympics so
exciting because everybody's coming in at varying degrees

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of training and Olympic ability, and
then you get to see who, at

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that moment in time was the best
of the best. Yeah. See,

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now maybe you do you remember this
because I only have the vegus of detail

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of it, But there was somebody
was proposing a separate sports league to have

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Olympic style games where there were no
doping rules. This was actually proposed for

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somebody just like let them go crazy
with us. Just whatever you want to

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do, and then you guys all
compete with each other, just a bunch

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of coked up like shot putters.
You're welcome for that image, America.

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All right, I want to get
to the story, Waine. I'm very

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excited about this. I don't know
why. I've never heard of anything like

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this before. Former Acre at K
COW and KCBS has fired filed a five

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million dollar lawsuit claiming he was fired
because he was white. Jeff Vaughn is

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he's with the conservative group American Legal
First. He says that he's suing them

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for anti white demon's discrimination. He
worked there for eight years and says he

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was never given a reason for his
firing, but believes it was obvious because

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he was fired because he is an
older, white, heterosexual male four protected

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statusies. Yeah, right, age, race, sexual orientation, sex.

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Well, all right, I mean, listen, there have been successful lawsuits

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like this, and we don't know
the details of how he came to not

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work there anymore. You will have
to see how it works out. I'm

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sure will be getting updates since it's
local. Yeah, I mean, really,

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I've never heard anything like this happening
in LA. But I do believe

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that things like this do happen in
LA. As someone who has worked in

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many television stations here in Los Angeles, I do believe that there might be

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some validity to his claim. Well, we will have to see. Give

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me one second, because we can
do one more story and all right,

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this is random and fun and is
not going to upset anybody. Heather,

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if you would go to story fourteen, all right, in which you will

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tell us now about an amazing discovery
regarding the hippopotamus. You guys, hippopotamuses,

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hippopotami, hippos. I don't know
why I said that they can fly,

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they can get airborne. Okay,
wait, not fly get airborne.

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Let me clarify. There is apparently
a new study that shows are some new

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research has found they have been able
to lift all four limbs off the ground

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when they move quickly, so when
they're running super fast, they're actually kind

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of getting airborne a little bit in
mid stride, in between I guess,

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in between steps, yeah, whatever
we want to call them. Yeah,

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like when you see a lion running
and or like you know those kinds of

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animals. They you see them kind
of lift their all four legs off the

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ground. And I guess people never
think that hippos can do that, but

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I guess they can. Good for
them. Yeah, all right, that

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is on the news. Now,
Well, we got more animal news coming

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up later in the show with heavy
petting, including uh, which animal groups

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are run by the ladies? You
know, we think of men running the

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world, right, but what about
the lady animals? But before we do

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that, we're gonna get some news
from Heather Brooker. And then when we

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come back, I'm going to proposition
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