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Speaker 3: What is that on your sweatshirt?
Speaker 4: Astro?
Speaker 3: Is there such thing as the Astros anymore?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: World champions two times over the last five years, No
Speaker 4: big deal.
Speaker 2: No, but there's still the Houston Astros. Like the Baltimore Colts,
Speaker 2: they don't exist anymore.
Speaker 4: No, they do exist, and they're very good.
Speaker 3: The Baltimore Colts.
Speaker 4: No, the Houston Astros Oh okay, yeah, they're in Texas.
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Speaker 2: to Indians date Americans? Tps uh reservations, any town with
Speaker 2: any town situated within one hundred miles of a reservation.
Speaker 4: It's a college football team.
Speaker 2: And they got that from my cousin Vinnie.
Speaker 4: Uh was about the Chiefs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how about the Chiefs? But they could be CEOs,
Speaker 2: could be in reference to CEOs anyway. Good morning, Anne,
Speaker 2: good morning, Good morning, Neil, Good morning, Willie Wolf and
Speaker 2: then Amy, good morning to you. Okay, Uh, still fighting
Speaker 2: a cold and I, uh it's yeah, still fighting a cold.
Speaker 5: Sounds like it's winning.
Speaker 3: Uh, it's waning.
Speaker 5: It's winning.
Speaker 3: Oh I thought you said it's waning, And the answer
Speaker 3: is no, it is not waning.
Speaker 2: Uh, and it is not well, it's not winning either,
Speaker 2: So it's basically the same. All right, all right, personal
Speaker 2: stuff real quickly before we get to the news.
Speaker 3: CONO. What's new? Excellent? Amy, what's going on in your life?
Speaker 3: Also good?
Speaker 2: And Neil, I would like to share a couple of things, okay,
Speaker 2: not and last one anything got nothing?
Speaker 3: Okay, fair enough. Don't ever argue.
Speaker 2: With me that I don't get personally involved in my
Speaker 2: coworkers' lives, that I don't care, that I am not interested.
Speaker 3: As a matter of fact, I'm probably not.
Speaker 2: All right, let's do it, guys. Oh, you know, we've
Speaker 2: got a lot of time. You know, there are times
Speaker 2: when we talk about what's going on for minutes and
Speaker 2: minutes before we get to our first break. And I'll
Speaker 2: tell you right now, we are going to get through
Speaker 2: all of these way way before the end of the show.
Speaker 2: Just want to let you know, just saying.
Speaker 5: Why not if you keep vain, because we've.
Speaker 2: Got tons of time, that's why. All right, let's do it, guys,
Speaker 2: it's time for handle oooh, mister energy here, it's time
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Speaker 2: Lead story Gene Hackman and his wife found completely dead,
Speaker 2: uh in their Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Speaker 3: Home, with their dog with their dog.
Speaker 2: Now, this is a strange one because all three of
Speaker 2: them and the authorities are saying natural causes. Now, a
Speaker 2: couple of things about that one. I don't know what
Speaker 2: natural cause, are you correcting me?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 6: Sorry, they said no foul play.
Speaker 5: I was about to say that, yeah, but that's not
Speaker 5: necessarily I said.
Speaker 3: It's weird.
Speaker 2: I said weird, and I was just about saying no
Speaker 2: natural causes and uh and say what does that translate
Speaker 2: to no natural causes or with?
Speaker 3: It was? It was not?
Speaker 2: They hold on, let me, I'm a little it was
Speaker 2: there was no foul play. Correct, that's all they said. Okay,
Speaker 2: So with that, what are yeah, natural causes?
Speaker 3: Something else? Okay, thank you for correcting me. Don't do
Speaker 3: it again.
Speaker 2: Okay, no foul play, which means one of several things.
Speaker 2: One it was maybe carbon monoxide poisoning, something going on.
Speaker 2: That's a possibility, yes, maybe, And I don't know if
Speaker 2: they would consider this foul play. But a triple suicide,
Speaker 2: either Hackman did it, his wife did it, or the
Speaker 2: dog did it.
Speaker 3: And killed the three of them, we don't know at
Speaker 3: this point.
Speaker 2: But it's just it's really weird how this has come down,
Speaker 2: because then it's sixty three, yeah, and he was ninety
Speaker 2: five five.
Speaker 5: I'll give him that, but she's sixty three.
Speaker 2: And what's her name, Lindsay Arakawa, No, No, it's Betsy Arakawa.
Speaker 5: Yes, that's goal pianist or something.
Speaker 6: They've been married for like thirty something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and he has kids by a previous marriage
Speaker 2: and the kids are in their eighties or whatever they hell.
Speaker 3: Anyway, we're gonna do more about this at seven o'clock.
Speaker 2: And I want to expand on this because this immediately
Speaker 2: translates itself into what other film stars have died under
Speaker 2: what circumstances through the years.
Speaker 3: That is a handle topic. Okay, So I pay to
Speaker 3: guess right now, guess I say, triple suicide?
Speaker 5: Dog did it?
Speaker 3: What do you think?
Speaker 5: I'm going with carbon monoxide?
Speaker 6: Okay, Amy, I am going to put on my news
Speaker 6: hat and not speculate.
Speaker 3: Fair enough, and.
Speaker 4: I'm going nitrous.
Speaker 3: Oh they were laughing.
Speaker 2: Gas that's very funny. That's very funny. And kono, what
Speaker 2: do you think? So the carbon carbon monoxide?
Speaker 3: Okay, fair enough? All right, let's move on.
Speaker 6: The measles outbreak in Texas has taken a deadly turn.
Speaker 6: There have been about one hundred and twenty five cases
Speaker 6: and a school age child has died, and that's the
Speaker 6: first measles death in the US since twenty fifteen. They're
Speaker 6: saying that the outbreak started in rural West Texas in
Speaker 6: an under vaccinated Mennonite community and has spread. And they're
Speaker 6: saying that most of the people infected were not vaccinated
Speaker 6: or had no known vaccination status.
Speaker 3: Yep. Robert Kennedy at that.
Speaker 2: The cabinet meeting was asked by a reporter about this story,
Speaker 2: and he said, this is nothing unusual. The outbreaks happen
Speaker 2: all the time, so don't make this big a deal.
Speaker 5: About of it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the first out the first death in ten years,
Speaker 3: and measels all the time.
Speaker 2: And measles was eradicated in the United States, I think
Speaker 2: twenty years ago or twenty five years ago, and now
Speaker 2: it's come. But you know, he's never going to admit
Speaker 2: that vaccinations actually save anybody or do anybody any good ever.
Speaker 7: All Right, California legislators are proposing two bills that would
Speaker 7: make changes to the state's film and TV tax credit program.
Speaker 7: You know, we keep going back and forth with this
Speaker 7: in California. God only knows why we lost all of
Speaker 7: this in the first place, but we're attempting to lure
Speaker 7: production back to the Golden State, which has moved to
Speaker 7: Canada and all over the place, but certainly not here.
Speaker 5: In California, where it was birthed.
Speaker 3: It's too expensive here.
Speaker 2: You go to Croatia, for example, or Canada, Go or
Speaker 2: New Zealand you get really high quality people at a
Speaker 2: fraction of the costs that you get here.
Speaker 3: The other way, yates United States. So you make it
Speaker 3: a you know, with.
Speaker 2: The union in for example, South Carolina, to the extent
Speaker 2: that those jobs are unionized certainly or nothing like the
Speaker 2: Hollywood unions in terms of power and in terms of
Speaker 2: benefits and salary. So the only way you get people
Speaker 2: to stay at State gets people this day, you say, okay,
Speaker 2: well subsidize it. Here are the attax craits and in
Speaker 2: any cases the below the line that is not the actors, directors,
Speaker 2: et cetera. Everybody else, the crafts people, the technical people,
Speaker 2: and in some cases they're paid completely by the state.
Speaker 3: The state they' spret trying to bring them over.
Speaker 7: You know Film LA, which is the nonprofit that oversees
Speaker 7: all of these things, and that you know they post
Speaker 7: on your door, Hey we're going to be filming in
Speaker 7: the area, and they control a lot of that stuff.
Speaker 7: I used to see them all the time in my
Speaker 7: neighborhood all the time as a matter of fact, when
Speaker 7: I first moved here in La I woke up one
Speaker 7: Saturday or yeah, one Saturday morning, walked outside, gunshots and
Speaker 7: all kinds of things down on the street. I had
Speaker 7: I had not seen that they were shooting up you know,
Speaker 7: some thriller down there. You know, it used to happen
Speaker 7: all They've used my house for filming before, and they
Speaker 7: pay you for it.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, they pay you pretty well.
Speaker 3: There was on my street.
Speaker 2: There was one main avenue coming into the Persian Palace
Speaker 2: going up in the hills, and there was one house
Speaker 2: on it that was a regular. In other words, it
Speaker 2: was the house that whatever family lived. They are constantly shooting,
Speaker 2: and I mean I mean the cops that were sitting
Speaker 2: there outside and you couldn't go through.
Speaker 3: You had to hold off until the scene was done.
Speaker 3: It's just a pain in the ass.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's Can you imagine a film shoot and the
Speaker 2: president showing up in your neighborhood at the same.
Speaker 5: Time, a film shoot with the president.
Speaker 2: Yeah, or a film shoot and separately the president.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 6: Transgender people are about to get the military boot. The
Speaker 6: Pentagon plans to kick out currently serving transgender service members
Speaker 6: who don't need specific requirements. It says that service members
Speaker 6: who have a history of or exhibit symptoms consistent with
Speaker 6: gender dysphoria will be processed for separation. The Department only
Speaker 6: recognizes two sex is male and female. That's due to
Speaker 6: an executive order signed by President Trump in January.
Speaker 2: Exceptions are interesting, compelling government interests that directly supports war
Speaker 2: fighting capabilities, and if the individual is willing to adhere
Speaker 2: to all standards associated with the applicant sects. I'm assuming
Speaker 2: that also means returning a penis that has been put
Speaker 2: on your body if you are a trans from female
Speaker 2: to male.
Speaker 7: Well, I don't understand why that's a problems.
Speaker 2: Here's it's a morality issue among evangelicals because you're right,
Speaker 2: But it isn't a problem. You know the act that
Speaker 2: Charlotte over there is now Charlie and uh has somehow
Speaker 2: surgically put on a swontse Uh. There's it gets in
Speaker 2: your It gets in the way of your life. It's
Speaker 2: just it's it's crazy. It really is same thing with
Speaker 2: the you know, the anti gay sentiment.
Speaker 3: What why who do you care? What does it do?
Speaker 7: I never I never under that, Yeah I did all
Speaker 7: those years I've gotten better all those years.
Speaker 3: I just don't get it. But it's a question of.
Speaker 2: Establishing a morality issue. I don't even stand the big
Speaker 2: deal about illegal immigration. I understand it's an issue, but
Speaker 2: it's nothing like the terrorists.
Speaker 3: Which are going to affect all of us.
Speaker 2: Uh, it is nothing like policy, which is going to
Speaker 2: affect every one of them.
Speaker 7: Wants to think through these things. There's ways to solve them.
Speaker 7: I just don't how do you solve and how do
Speaker 7: you solve it? Either someone is trans or someone is
Speaker 7: not true?
Speaker 5: No, I was talking.
Speaker 7: I was talking about immigration. I think we should have
Speaker 7: a good neighbor policy.
Speaker 3: That not are you. But I'm saying that is a
Speaker 3: deeper brand.
Speaker 7: Don't you think Republicans that are all about you know,
Speaker 7: patriotism and freedoms and liberties would be like, hell, yeah,
Speaker 7: we have more freedoms here in the United States, and
Speaker 7: people get to be who they are and live how
Speaker 7: they want to live.
Speaker 5: They're not hurting anybody, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: It's it is a philosophy among fundamentalists religious Republicans. Government
Speaker 2: has to stay out of your business except in the bedroom.
Speaker 2: Then it will decide for you what happens in the bedroom.
Speaker 2: And you're right, it's completely contradictory. It makes no sense,
Speaker 2: it's ludicrous on its face. But you have to cow
Speaker 2: tew because look at how powerful the evangelical and evangelicis
Speaker 2: evangelicals have become.
Speaker 3: It's insanity, it really.
Speaker 7: Is, all right, So already moving on, Washington Post owner
Speaker 7: Jeff Bezos just yesterday announced what is referred to as
Speaker 7: a significant shift to the publisher's opinion page. Even David Shipley,
Speaker 7: the paper's editorial page editors, said audios and left the paper.
Speaker 7: As part of the overhaul, the Post will publish daily
Speaker 7: opinion stories on two what they're referring to as two
Speaker 7: editorial pillars, personal liberties and free markets.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm okay with this.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll tell you why.
Speaker 2: It's his paper, and he is telling us the bias
Speaker 2: that he is having. He's saying, this is what I'm
Speaker 2: going to do. He's not pretending that there's no bias.
Speaker 2: He's not pretending that he is an objective news newspaper publisher.
Speaker 2: Well I guess in one sense he is. But he said, hey,
Speaker 2: these two issues, that's what I'm going to concentrate on.
Speaker 2: And everybody knows it. Now, everybody knows it. He's told everybody, Okay,
Speaker 2: now what And.
Speaker 7: It's sort of counterprogramming because he's saying, hey, these are
Speaker 7: things that aren't often focused on.
Speaker 5: We're going to focus on him.
Speaker 3: It's his paper, you know, leave it alone. You know.
Speaker 2: It's Uh, now, here's one that actually does affect people.
Speaker 6: Trump scores a win on this one, at least for now. Uh.
Speaker 6: The Supreme Court has paused a judge's order that requires
Speaker 6: the Trump administration to pay foreign aid contractors. So Trump
Speaker 6: froze those US AID payments, and then a federal judge
Speaker 6: came in and said, nah, you got to pay, and
Speaker 6: you have until this date to do it. And then
Speaker 6: the Trump administration did not pay, and so then the
Speaker 6: judge ordered him again to release and basically unfreeze the
Speaker 6: aid and then the Chief Justice John Roberts and the
Speaker 6: Supreme Court stepped in yesterday and granted the Trump administration's
Speaker 6: emergency request to pause. The other judges ruling cases.
Speaker 2: All these cases are going to boil down to one,
Speaker 2: basically one concept, and that is how powerful is the president?
Speaker 2: See how far can the executive branch go? In determining
Speaker 2: how far the can the executive branch go? I mean
Speaker 2: we have been moving, We as a country have been
Speaker 2: moving more and more in terms of giving more and
Speaker 2: more power to a president. Then that's both sides, by
Speaker 2: the way, Republicans and Democrats, where the presidency is almost
Speaker 2: an imperial presidency. Now and we'll see how far it goes.
Speaker 2: Does the executive have a right to say this is
Speaker 2: under the executive branch? And I'm saying no because I'm
Speaker 2: the president. Yeah, I don't know why not.
Speaker 3: I mean, if George H. Georgia HW.
Speaker 2: Bush can say I'm not eating broccoli because I'm the
Speaker 2: president and I hate broccoli, why not this, By the way,
Speaker 2: that's true if you remember, yes, the broccoli story very strong.
Speaker 5: That's an executive order.
Speaker 3: But for your meal, well that's a big issue properly.
Speaker 7: All right, So back to religion and politics. I suppose
Speaker 7: the portion of the US population identifying as Christian has
Speaker 7: declined significantly over the last two decades, but about five
Speaker 7: years ago or so sort of plateaued or started to
Speaker 7: level off. Study surveyed thirty seven thousand Americans found that
Speaker 7: sixty two percent identify as Christian. By comparison, if you
Speaker 7: go back to the Pew study, similar study back in
Speaker 7: two thousand and seven, seventy eight percent said they were Christian.
Speaker 2: Yeah, organized religion is way way on the decline. Misorganized
Speaker 2: religion is every perfect damn right, non denominational or people
Speaker 2: who aren't religious at all.
Speaker 7: Well, I'll tell you, people are more religious now than
Speaker 7: ever before.
Speaker 5: It just doesn't deal with God. Their religion is now
Speaker 5: their politics.
Speaker 3: And yeah, that makes that makes sense.
Speaker 2: Also part of the story, I don't know if you
Speaker 2: looked at it, is that the decline.
Speaker 3: Of those who.
Speaker 2: Believe in Christianity, it coincides directly with the no I'm
Speaker 2: not gonna go there, all right, that was well, it
Speaker 2: was it was gonna be a you know, obviously, and
Speaker 2: I'll say this for a moment. It's gonna be directly
Speaker 2: with the increase in the number of nails that are
Speaker 2: sold in lumber yards. Okay, So therefore that's pretty offensive
Speaker 2: in and of itself. And uh someone just wrote me,
Speaker 2: uh an email. I got it in one of the
Speaker 2: Instagram posts that all I do is bash Trump and
Speaker 2: bash Christians. And I was so offended by that. Of course,
Speaker 2: I bashed Trump and I bashed Christians. But come on, guys,
Speaker 2: you know there were one or two other religions that
Speaker 2: I enjoyed bashing too. Let's be fair, A lot of
Speaker 2: nails decrease in belief in you got that? See how
Speaker 2: I connected that?
Speaker 7: Why didn't you make a couple of Muhammad jokes? I'd
Speaker 7: like to see how long that I.
Speaker 3: Know, we wouldn't be doing it.
Speaker 2: There's two areas that I sort of leave along withology
Speaker 2: and scientologists. Are scientologists happen to believe in the greatest
Speaker 2: religion in the world. That is, by the way, for
Speaker 2: those scientologists that are thinking of leaving a bomb in
Speaker 2: my mailbox, I love you guys, Okay, I just want
Speaker 2: to let you know that.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 6: Well, AI has given a rather cringe worthy look at
Speaker 6: the future of Gaza. President Trump posted this AI video
Speaker 6: on truth Social and it's him sipping cocktails on the
Speaker 6: beach with Benjamin nettan Yahoo. And there is like all
Speaker 6: these skyscrapers that look kind of like Dubai and this
Speaker 6: golden statue of Trump and Elon Musk with money falling
Speaker 6: from the sky. And yeah, people aren't very happy about it.
Speaker 6: It's very creepy, don't you think.
Speaker 2: Yeah, first to Gaza, Yeah, first to Gaza. How wonderful
Speaker 2: it's going to.
Speaker 6: Be the revere of the Middle East.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The part that's creepy is not so much of people
Speaker 2: did this because you know, people are nuts. I mean,
Speaker 2: if you look at Instagram every day, which I tend
Speaker 2: to do, it's just it's nuts what people do. But
Speaker 2: reposting it, that is the issue a president reposting this
Speaker 2: kind of crapola. But then you know that's I think
Speaker 2: this is why people just love this guy because in
Speaker 2: this sense, he's just like regular people. He finds something
Speaker 2: that he likes or is funny. No matter how offensive
Speaker 2: he put he puts it up.
Speaker 6: This one is offensive, and.
Speaker 2: It is, but the point is people like him for it.
Speaker 2: It's you know, this is why he has such a
Speaker 2: mass following, because you know, he's just this guy who
Speaker 2: just punches back and will put up almost anything.
Speaker 3: It's wow.
Speaker 2: I mean it's completely I find it so offensive that
Speaker 2: it's hilarious. It's like Sharpay's dogs are so ugly they
Speaker 2: become beautiful.
Speaker 6: They are beautiful.
Speaker 3: See there you go.
Speaker 2: That's my that's my case in point. With all that
Speaker 2: loose skin, you know, oh hot tip.
Speaker 5: Don't try and iron them.
Speaker 7: Nine years of the twenty twenty eight Summer Olympics in
Speaker 7: here in the beautiful city of angels say they're on
Speaker 7: track to reach about two billion in secured corporate sponsor
Speaker 7: sponsorships just by the end of this year, and that
Speaker 7: moves them significantly closer to the two point five billion.
Speaker 7: I love that two billion in secured corporate sponsorship, moving
Speaker 7: them significantly closer to the two point five billion. Yes, yes,
Speaker 7: hey interesting, and that will help not pay for everything,
Speaker 7: but will help pay Yeah.
Speaker 2: A couple things about Los Angeles. First of all, the
Speaker 2: venues were all here. I mean basically, you got the coliseum,
Speaker 2: you got so far, you have all the venues, you
Speaker 2: got the Equestrian Center already, you have the velodrome, I mean,
Speaker 2: you have the swimming events, I mean all covered, so
Speaker 2: nothing really has to be built. The other thing is
Speaker 2: that there's only been two Olympics in the history of
Speaker 2: the modern Olympics have made any money nineteen thirty two,
Speaker 2: nineteen eighty four.
Speaker 3: Los Angeles. The only issue is security.
Speaker 2: The cost of security will be so astronomical that if
Speaker 2: the Olympics lose money in twenty twenty eight, it will.
Speaker 3: Be because of security, but.
Speaker 2: Hopefully not'd be great if it turned to profit was
Speaker 2: I think the nineteen eighty four Olympics, by the time
Speaker 2: it was all said and done, turn a profit of
Speaker 2: a couple hundred million dollars.
Speaker 3: It was Peter who let.
Speaker 7: Sweep a lot of things under the rug and get
Speaker 7: rid of a lot of graffiti.
Speaker 2: Yeah, not that much, but that's why I got invented
Speaker 2: sand blasting. You know. The only thing about sand blasting
Speaker 2: is don't get in the middle. Don't get in front
Speaker 2: of one of these things. Although if you have pimples, man,
Speaker 2: what a job they do.
Speaker 6: Will State Farm get the green light? That remains to
Speaker 6: be seen. So California's Insurance Commissioner, Ricardo Lara, and representatives
Speaker 6: from State Farm and Consumer Watchdog, which is a consumer
Speaker 6: advocacy group, had a little sit down yesterday to talk
Speaker 6: about State Farm's rate hike request. State Farm wants to
Speaker 6: hike non tenant homeowner rates twenty two percent, fifteen percent
Speaker 6: for tenants or renters, fifteen percent for tenants of condominiums
Speaker 6: for condominium unit owners, and thirty eight percent for rental dwellings.
Speaker 6: They want that to be effective May first. Lara rejected
Speaker 6: the request on Valentine's Day, but said he would reconsider
Speaker 6: and hopes to have a decision in the next two weeks.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I can't see how he can say no based on
Speaker 2: the cost of the claims that are being made. The
Speaker 2: argument with those people that are saying no, no, you're
Speaker 2: no rate iike, is that there's enough revenues. There are
Speaker 2: enough there are enough reserves to pay all of these claims.
Speaker 2: Assuming there are enough reserves to pay all these claims,
Speaker 2: there're gonna be no reserves left. So do you start
Speaker 2: a new cycle of insurance with no money in the
Speaker 2: reserve pool? So it's I if I had to guess,
Speaker 2: the answer is going to be yes to this rate
Speaker 2: hikes are coming.
Speaker 6: It just seemed, you know, it seems weird though, because,
Speaker 6: like you look at it, it's ten thousand homes right roughly,
Speaker 6: and how many homes are in the state. So we're
Speaker 6: we're going to pay for them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but that's what that's what insurance is about.
Speaker 2: It's a state based pool and it's the risk spread
Speaker 2: across many, many, many people to pay the claims of
Speaker 2: a few. That's sort of the concept level works. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and it's done on a state basis. They could do
Speaker 2: it on a city basis and can you imagine how
Speaker 2: much that would cost?
Speaker 6: You got a point there.
Speaker 7: The Beautiful Seers Building in Santa Monica is being eyed
Speaker 7: as a temporary home of Palisades Charter High School. Of course,
Speaker 7: the high school was damaged pretty severely in the Palisades
Speaker 7: fire early in January, and.
Speaker 5: They're still working on this.
Speaker 7: I don't know that it's completely sealed, but it looks
Speaker 7: like they've got their eyes set on it and hopefully
Speaker 7: a deal will be made.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's quite a building too, so you know, otherwise
Speaker 2: it doesn't do anything. So it's a good idea to
Speaker 2: put this to work for sure.
Speaker 6: Sixty thousand healthcare workers aren't taking care of people today.
Speaker 6: They are striking for a second day. They are use
Speaker 6: the workers, research, technical employees, healthcare employees. They're urging the
Speaker 6: university to address staffing shortages and end what they describe
Speaker 6: as restrictions on employer's ability to raise concerns about workplace conditions.
Speaker 6: It's affecting all ten u SE campuses. And also you
Speaker 6: see medical facilities.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a lot.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of medicine at the UC's UCLA for example.
Speaker 2: I mean these are world class medical centers for example,
Speaker 2: the Jules Steini Institute at UCLA is probably the foremost
Speaker 2: I medical center in the world. Now, if you happen
Speaker 2: to belong to Kaiser like I do, this does not
Speaker 2: affect you. You can still go into Kaiser and they'll
Speaker 2: kill you. So just go ahead and enjoy yourself. By
Speaker 2: the way, this is why I don't do commercials for Kaiser.
Speaker 3: You know that. I once ask, Yeah, you love Kaser.
Speaker 3: I do. Actually, I've been a member since I've been
Speaker 3: five years old. Wow. Yeah, I've been around for a while.
Speaker 2: But I like making fun of them because you know,
Speaker 2: you know, I make fun of the fact they kill people.
Speaker 2: They do, Okay, onwards and upwards to kill people.
Speaker 5: People die. That's why I happened.
Speaker 3: Well, okay, how about this.
Speaker 2: My parents had a friend who's going in for heart surgery,
Speaker 2: and everybody told him, don't go in for heart surgery.
Speaker 2: You're going to die. He goes in for heart surgery.
Speaker 2: He died, proof positive.
Speaker 3: They'll kill you.
Speaker 2: What.
Speaker 3: Okay, let's move on. I know you're gonna attack my logic,
Speaker 3: but that's.
Speaker 5: Impossible to is you have logic? But alrighty.
Speaker 7: So Monica Lewinsky, best known for being Monica Lewinsky.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Uh, you know, she is a modern day anti bullying advocate,
Speaker 7: and good for her because boy, back in the day,
Speaker 7: you push things under the rug.
Speaker 5: That's for sure.
Speaker 3: She was on a poor under the desk.
Speaker 5: Okay, fair enough.
Speaker 2: She was looking for a contact lenses, that's what was happening.
Speaker 5: For a cigar. She h.
Speaker 7: She talked about the right way Bill Clinton, president for
Speaker 7: President Bill Clinton should have handled that situation, and she
Speaker 7: says it was he should have just said, hey, it's
Speaker 7: nobody's business, and that he should have resigned or find
Speaker 7: a way of staying in office that was not lying
Speaker 7: and not throwing a young person was just starting out
Speaker 7: in the world under the bush.
Speaker 5: You couldn't be more right, I mean, to just crush
Speaker 5: a young person like that and to call.
Speaker 3: Her a liar basically yeah.
Speaker 2: And then he comes back and he said, Okay, I
Speaker 2: had an inappropriate relationship.
Speaker 3: And she's absolutely right now about the resigning.
Speaker 2: I don't know, but certainly about just coming out and
Speaker 2: saying yeah, I did it.
Speaker 3: And yep, I feel terrible about it. And that's as
Speaker 3: far as this conversation is going to go.
Speaker 2: The only person I have to talk to about it
Speaker 2: is my wife, and that's the only person I own
Speaker 2: explanation to the next question.
Speaker 5: Then referred to, is that woman you remember?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I did not have sex with that woman.
Speaker 2: With a wagging of the finger, ooh.
Speaker 5: You're dope.
Speaker 6: Better stock up on Star of Today. There is a
Speaker 6: twenty four hour economic blackout happening tomorrow. Several boycops boycotts
Speaker 6: are planned by groups of activists and consumers. And here's
Speaker 6: what they're protesting, corporate greed companies that have rolled back
Speaker 6: their diversity programs. President Trump's efforts to eliminate federal DEI
Speaker 6: programs takease since taking offices. So here's the deal. They say,
Speaker 6: don't spend any money tomorrow anywhere.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's you demonstrating and striking against corporate greed. Okay,
Speaker 2: let's do that for a while and see how far
Speaker 2: that one takes you. And then the DEI program. Just
Speaker 2: don't shop there. I mean, this one day business, what
Speaker 2: the hell does that? Do you think? How successful you
Speaker 2: think is going to be? How many people, for example,
Speaker 2: will stop by a McDonald's before going and boycotting the
Speaker 2: McDonald's down the street.
Speaker 7: They say, if you're gonna shop somewhere, do it with
Speaker 7: a small local business.
Speaker 2: Well, that's sort of a given anyway, in order to
Speaker 2: support small businesses, Neil, you talk about supporting small restaurants,
Speaker 2: mom and pop restaurants.
Speaker 7: All the small businesses. Absolutely, but you know some franchises
Speaker 7: are family owned.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, and real quickly, last one, Neil, and
Speaker 3: we'll end with this.
Speaker 7: Dolphins are coming. The dolphins are coming. A California boat
Speaker 7: captain has captured a rare video of a super pod
Speaker 7: of more than two thousand dolphins breaching off the coast
Speaker 7: of Monterey Bay, including more of these elusive northern right
Speaker 7: whale dolphins that are like super smooth. And they say
Speaker 7: they look like flying eyebrows, not Latina eyebrows.
Speaker 6: They look like flying eyebrows.
Speaker 3: Sure, why not?
Speaker 7: Yeah, but I mean there's much more beautiful than seeing
Speaker 7: a pod of.
Speaker 3: Two thousand ConA. Let me ask you. Let's dose some math.
Speaker 2: Taking two thousand pods to two thousand dolphins over how
Speaker 2: many cans of tuna do you think it works out
Speaker 2: to make a particularly big tuna salad.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go two hundred million.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would think so, because you don't need much
Speaker 2: dolphin inns.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just very small Okay, we're done.
Speaker 2: Guys matter, animal lovers, this was Kono's fault, not mine.
Speaker 7: The Child Administration is looking into their legality and their
Speaker 7: status to see if they're allowed to be in our
Speaker 7: waters and if they came from the Gulf of America.
Speaker 2: Good point, all right, kf I am six forty. You've
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