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Speaker 1: Again, but since the US correspondence with US I Dan

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Speaker 1: Hi Heather Hunter Biden's guilty.

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Speaker 2: Well, he is.

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Speaker 3: And I think the person this is going to hurt

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Speaker 3: more than Hunter Biden is going to be Donald Trump

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Speaker 3: in some ways. I mean, this was a big blow

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Speaker 3: and this was a big talking point for him. So

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Speaker 3: I think this is also going to be a boost

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Speaker 3: to President Biden's case that he respects, you know, the

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Speaker 3: rule of law, and that's what he said he would

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Speaker 3: do if his son was found guilty of a crime

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Speaker 3: that he wasn't going to interfere with that.

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Speaker 4: Is it possible that he ends up in the slamma

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Speaker 4: because of this?

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Speaker 2: Oh boy, you know, that's hard to say.

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Speaker 3: There was one juror that spoke to the media over

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Speaker 3: here who felt that this was all a big waste

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Speaker 3: of time of the public, taxpayers money because basically he

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Speaker 3: should have just gotten a big fine and that should

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Speaker 3: have been the end of it. Now, like you said,

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Speaker 3: in the world wise, he could get twenty five years

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Speaker 3: in prison and up to seven hundred and fifty thousand

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Speaker 3: dollars during sentencing. That'll probably happen sometime in October, so

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Speaker 3: before election day over here. But I would suspect. He

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Speaker 3: will get a fine, he could spend some time. There

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Speaker 3: could be house arrest, could be parole more.

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Speaker 2: Likely than not. That would be my best guess right now.

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Speaker 4: And what does this do to his father's presidential rice?

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Speaker 4: Does it help or not?

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Speaker 3: It depends on who you ask, really, I mean, it

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Speaker 3: is like split down the middle right now. You're seeing

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Speaker 3: people that are saying, well, the fact that he was

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Speaker 3: found guilty shows that he's not manipulating the justice system,

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Speaker 3: as so many Republicans have said. On the other side

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Speaker 3: of the coin, you've got people that have said, Okay,

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Speaker 3: well he's guilty of this. What else don't we know

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Speaker 3: about his family or what else could pop up? So,

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Speaker 3: I mean you've got here, you've got two people who

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Speaker 3: are either going to trial, and you know Republicans Donald

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Speaker 3: Trump or has a family member's that's been in the

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Speaker 3: courtroom as well. So it's been a I mean, it's

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Speaker 3: the first of its kind that I can remember.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, timely, Dan, what's going wrong for California's cannabis economy?

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Speaker 3: People are not spoken enough weed. I mean that's kind

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Speaker 3: of what it boils down.

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Speaker 4: Why are they not smoking enough weed?

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Speaker 3: Well, I would say, I mean it might have been COVID,

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Speaker 3: it might be inflation. Right now, I mean, we're number

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Speaker 3: one in I say we California always has been number

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Speaker 3: one when it comes to pot sales here. In fact,

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Speaker 3: we're number one in the world. But times have changed,

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Speaker 3: and so the number of legal cannabis growers and brands

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Speaker 3: have dropped more than seventy percent since legalization went to

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Speaker 3: effect here. And right now they're finding that pot companies

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Speaker 3: owe the state seven hundred and thirty million dollars in

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Speaker 3: back taxes, and you know that's never going to be collected.

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Speaker 2: And all of this really is messing.

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Speaker 3: With the state's economy, which it depended on a lot

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Speaker 3: of this money to fund various programs. And now, as

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Speaker 3: it turns out, you have to head east to Michigan.

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Speaker 3: They sell more cannabis and pot products per month than

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Speaker 3: we do out here, which is, you know, like I say,

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Speaker 3: unheard of.

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Speaker 1: Is it possible that the kind of there was like

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Speaker 1: a flurry of excitement about the pot and then everybody

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Speaker 1: just calmed down and realize it's not that great.

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Speaker 2: I think you hit the head. I think the nailed

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Speaker 2: around on the head right there, because.

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Speaker 3: I think everybody thought that well, you know, people are

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Speaker 3: going to be great. We can legalize pot here, we

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Speaker 3: can buy it here legally for medicinal purposes. But you know,

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Speaker 3: all the money is really in the black market over here,

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Speaker 3: and it's the places that you can't get pot legally.

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Speaker 3: So those are the people that are still going to

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Speaker 3: be making the money, not the places that paid for

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Speaker 3: their taxes and permits.

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Speaker 1: Now, what happened to the guy who was the hot

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Speaker 1: dog eating champion? Right? He was the reigning hot dog

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Speaker 1: eating champion, But he can't be involved in the next competition?

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Speaker 2: Why no, no?

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Speaker 3: And I know it sounds like one of these goofy

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Speaker 3: what we call kicker stories of the business. But this guy,

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Speaker 3: Joey Chestnut, is a sixteen time hot dog eating contest

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Speaker 3: champ here in the US.

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Speaker 2: He's known around the world because of his food eating videos. Too.

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Speaker 3: He's been banned from competing at this year's event because

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Speaker 3: he made a deal with Impossible Foods that's the rival

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Speaker 3: of the other hot dog company. So basically, he's promoting

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Speaker 3: a vegan hot dog for a company that had been

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Speaker 3: supporting him for ages on this and these professional eaters

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Speaker 3: like this guy here make big money. Was recently offered

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Speaker 3: a contract worth over a million or a million and

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Speaker 3: a half dollars and hot dogs if you're eating hot dogs, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I mean we'll get seventy six dogs and buns.

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Speaker 2: I mean that's a world record.

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Speaker 3: He ate sixty two last year, so I mean that

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Speaker 3: was kind of slacking off, but he still was able

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Speaker 3: to defend his title and hed a ten minutes.

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Speaker 4: Is he a big boy, Dan?

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Speaker 2: Uh No, that's the surprising thing. He's not.

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Speaker 3: You would think he would be massive, but he's average size.

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Speaker 3: I mean maybe he's maybe he's got a dad's body,

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Speaker 3: but you know, nothing more, nothing less.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So what's the problem. Is the problem the fact

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Speaker 1: that he has just signed with any company? Or is

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Speaker 1: it the fact that he has signed with the impossible

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Speaker 1: company which is planted by.

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Speaker 3: Would be impossible company right now? So One, that's a

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Speaker 3: big rival. Two, you don't want to when you're when

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Speaker 3: you're trying to promote a meat product, you want to

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Speaker 3: don't want to go across the island and say, hey,

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Speaker 3: I'm all for Vegan right here. Yeah, I'm now their spokesperson.

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Speaker 4: Dan, thank you again. In a couple of duys. Dan

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Speaker 4: Witch is a US correspondent.

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