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Speaker 1: Which, by the way, I had somebody, uh somebody was

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Speaker 1: saying very mean things about me earlier today, very mean things.

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Speaker 2: They were calling for me to be fired.

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Speaker 1: What Yeah, they said, I was, I was a grouch

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Speaker 2: Therapy, behavioral like a shock collar.

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Speaker 1: What theraps?

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Speaker 2: They said?

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Speaker 3: Who said that was your parents?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 1: No, no, I mean that's that was the obvious joke too.

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Speaker 3: What are they doing with their life trolling?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, But it doesn't matter because you know me,

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Speaker 1: I read comments online and I just assume they're probably right.

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Speaker 1: You know, what actually makes me feel better? And this

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Speaker 1: this sound like a dig, but I don't mean it

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Speaker 1: I mean, Handle's been around for how long, and he's legendary,

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Speaker 1: you know what, if he can, if he can have

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Speaker 2: I'm just the one part of this job that is well.

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Speaker 1: That and of course the the evolving media and how

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Speaker 3: Are you a Pisces or a cancel?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 2: Stop, okay, no, we're not doing that stuff. Get that.

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Speaker 1: Try to imagine how blinded. Try to imagine Chris, how

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Speaker 2: Go with it.

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Speaker 1: So I'm honest about it. But no, it's there. You're

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Speaker 1: vadly Chris. I support you. Oh thanks, guys, I appreciate that.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate he would say that he's a cappricorn.

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Speaker 1: All right, all right, let's bring back hangings in the

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Speaker 1: public square, says the president.

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Speaker 4: Tonight. President Trump criticized by members of both parties after

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Speaker 4: In the video, the lawmakers reminding members of the military

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Speaker 1: Laws are clear.

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Speaker 6: You can refuse illegal orders.

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Speaker 4: You can refuse illegal orders.

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Speaker 7: You must refuse illegal orders.

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Speaker 4: No, one has to carry out orders that violate the

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Speaker 4: must be set. The president then writing seditious behavior punishable

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Speaker 4: that said, hey them, George Washington, would democrats accusing the president?

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Speaker 1: Did George Washington hang anyone? Just checking this out here?

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Speaker 1: don't believe the situation is very equivalent, do you hm?

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Speaker 1: There might be one or two minor subtle differences. Is

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Speaker 1: what ordered hangings? During the Revolutionary War, notably the execution

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Speaker 1: Huh? You get all that off of bing? Yeah, co pilot? Yeah, Okay.

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Speaker 1: Hickey was a member of Washington's personal guard, convicted of mutiny, sedition,

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Speaker 1: I mean the guy was literally planning to assassinate Washington

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Speaker 2: Okay, back to the story from ABC.

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Speaker 4: News of inciting violence.

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Speaker 5: This puts all of our lives in jeopardy, right, What

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Speaker 5: are we all doing right now? Democrats from Congress are

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Speaker 5: a lot of unhinged supporters out there.

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Speaker 1: Okay, he dies, but I mean I don't the Charlie

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Speaker 2: Let's just be honest about that.

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Speaker 4: Republicans clearly uncomfortable. Did the words that the President shows

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Speaker 1: Okay, Obviously I don't think that this is some these

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Speaker 4: Republican Senator Ran Paul was blunt.

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Speaker 1: So Mike Johnson says it's not punishable by death, I

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Speaker 1: rope Johnson, you're going to keep saying that kind of nonsense.

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Speaker 1: Disagree with the president. That's that's sedition, death or any

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Speaker 4: Republican Senator Ran Paul was blunt.

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Speaker 7: That kind of rhetoric isn't credit and stirs up people

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Speaker 4: I don't think.

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Speaker 7: Maybe I'll just take matters into my own hands, which

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Speaker 4: At the White House.

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Speaker 2: Kept hearing it.

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Speaker 1: Tone down the rhetoric, Tone down the rhetoric, Tone down

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Speaker 1: the rhetoric. But we really don't. No, we say things

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Speaker 4: At the White House Press Secretary Kroenline Levitt was asked

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Speaker 4: what the president is responding to Levit's saying, the six

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Speaker 4: Democrats are the ones inciting violence?

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Speaker 1: Wait, god, okay, no, you are no, you are no,

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Speaker 1: you are no, you are okay? How are they inciting violence?

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Speaker 1: When they say you don't have to carry out illegal orders?

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Speaker 4: They are literally saying to one point three million active

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Speaker 4: I spoke with Congressman Jason Crowder, who was in that video.

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Speaker 4: What would your message to the president be, I don't

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Speaker 2: Well, and I'm not going to stop. Okay, all right?

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Speaker 1: So there is there is an obvious question here what

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Speaker 1: is the difference between sedition and free speech? And if

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Speaker 2: Sedition?

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Speaker 1: I mean, if you are someone who agrees with the

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Speaker 1: think this probably has to do with what's going on

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Speaker 2: I think that's probably what spark this.

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Speaker 1: If you're on the President's side, you don't like what

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Speaker 2: Is it sedition? Right? Is it sedition?

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Speaker 1: And I think we have to be very careful that

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Speaker 1: as he called Marjorie Taylor Green a trader? Is that sedition?

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Speaker 1: Is it treason us? Is it punishable by death? And

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Speaker 1: And most rational Americans would know that President Trump is

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Speaker 1: stealing the headlines. He's trolling. It's what he does. He's

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Speaker 1: I know I don't think. So this is going to

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Speaker 1: We'll be done talking about this by next week.

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Speaker 2: That's it.

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Speaker 1: This is this is for the weekend news cycle. We're

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Speaker 1: over it by Monday. So more palace intrigue. Past presidency

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Speaker 1: is this would have been a controversy. This would have

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Speaker 1: been you know, this would have been what we talk

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Speaker 1: you believe he did that and is he unhinged? And

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Speaker 1: is he is he there? Blah blah blah. But with Trump, no,

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Speaker 1: it's just is Trump and Trump. And either you support

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Speaker 1: him and this doesn't bother you, or you can't stand

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Speaker 1: the guy and you put this on the pile of

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Speaker 1: the things that he's done that just piss you off.

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Speaker 2: But this is, this is what we voted for.

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Speaker 1: And uh and I don't think anybody's really actually surprised

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Speaker 1: by it. So don't get don't don't don't be surprised

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Speaker 1: when President Trump acts like President Trump.

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Speaker 2: It's just what happens, all right.

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Speaker 1: Somebody has got all of your money and they are

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Speaker 1: not willing to share. Is there anything you can do

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Speaker 1: about it? Well, you can hope that they die. That's next.

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Speaker 7: Chris.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I think you're doing a great job.

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Speaker 2: Oh, thank you. I appreciate it.

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Speaker 7: I've love hated you since your San Diego days.

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Speaker 1: Oh, we could be THEFFS, I think, Thanks pal.

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Speaker 7: Americans earning six figure incomes in twenty twenty five are

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Speaker 7: Rather than enjoying the financial comfort traditionally associated with such salaries.

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Speaker 1: I have been in that situation before and was paycheck

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Speaker 1: was I was living paycheck to paycheck. And then I

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Speaker 1: got another job in Phoenix and still felt like I

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Speaker 1: was living paycheck to paycheck even though I was making

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Speaker 1: good money. And then I lost that job. And it's

441
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Speaker 1: a lot harder to make up for lost income when

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Speaker 1: you make a lot. I had a friend asked me,

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Speaker 1: They said, do you think that feeling stressed about income

444
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Speaker 1: is different for somebody that makes one hundred thousand dollars

445
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Speaker 1: versus somebody that makes thirty thousand dollars.

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Speaker 2: They said, I think it's totally different.

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Speaker 1: And my logic is this, if you make thirty thousand dollars,

448
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Speaker 1: and again adjusted for California, so you know whatever I said,

449
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Speaker 1: If you make thirty thousand dollars, that's the kind of

450
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Speaker 1: job that you can lose and you go now I

451
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Speaker 1: have nothing. However, because you were only making thirty thousand dollars,

452
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Speaker 1: your lifestyle was also one that wasn't extravagant. You can

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Speaker 1: also make up for a thirty thousand dollars job by

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Speaker 1: getting another thirty thousand dollar job. Those are easier to

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Speaker 1: find than another high paying job. If you're making one

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Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars, you're a little bit higher on the

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Speaker 1: ladder or one hundred and fifty or two hundred thousand

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Speaker 1: or whatever else.

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Speaker 2: It is a going to adjust for location.

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Speaker 1: And if you are paycheck to paycheck and you're making

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Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty thousand dollars and all of a

462
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Speaker 1: sudden it's gone, it won it's tough to go find

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Speaker 1: another one hundred and fifty thousand dollars job real fast.

464
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Speaker 1: And two chances are that your lifestyle and your bills

465
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Speaker 1: are a whole lot more than they are for the

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Speaker 1: person who's thirty thousand dollars.

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Speaker 2: Hold on it makes thirty thousand dollars.

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Speaker 1: It's one of those things where I've done this before

469
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Speaker 1: on the air, where I asked people, have you ever

470
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Speaker 1: quit a job and taken a lower paying job and

471
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Speaker 1: how did that work out? And I was amazed. I

472
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Speaker 1: did this years ago. I was doing a music morning show,

473
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Speaker 1: and I was amazed. Everyone that called said that they

474
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Speaker 1: were happier, every single one of them. They said that

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Speaker 1: the higher paying job that they had and the reason

476
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Speaker 1: that they quit was that it was very stressful, and

477
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Speaker 1: that they took the lower paying job and they adjusted

478
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Speaker 1: their lifestyles obviously because they weren't making as much and

479
00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:04,159
Speaker 1: they were much much happier. So what's that? What's that

480
00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:08,359
Speaker 1: old adage, MO money more problems, MO money more problems.

481
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Speaker 1: In the meantime, it's getting to the point where you

482
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Speaker 1: have to be the upper crust if you want to

483
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Speaker 1: eat at McDonald's. Yeah, the latest from McDonald's is crazy.

484
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Speaker 1: McDonald's telling investors that visits from low income households fell

485
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Speaker 1: by double digits, while visits from higher income consumers rose

486
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Speaker 1: nearly as much forty percent. McDonald's average menu prices increased

487
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Speaker 1: from twenty nineteen to twenty twenty four. A big part

488
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Speaker 1: of the value menu erosion, they say, is why so

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Speaker 1: McDonald's is going up forty percent in the last five years.

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Speaker 2: And we noticed that.

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Speaker 1: And the thing is is that the people who continue

492
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Speaker 1: to eat there, the people that aren't worried about about

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Speaker 1: the dollar. And I can tell you this, my wife

494
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Speaker 1: and I both do Okay, all right, nobody's getting rich.

495
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Speaker 1: I don't make handle money, but my wife is a professional.

496
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Speaker 1: I am very in fact, I would say I'm a

497
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Speaker 1: complete pro. That's one for me, zero for Ronner tonight.

498
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Speaker 1: By the way, I'm a complete pro. She is a

499
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Speaker 1: she's a professional. We do fine, bills are covered. Like

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Speaker 1: I told you, I'm not paycheck to paycheck, but I'm

501
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Speaker 1: every other paycheck, every other paycheck. She's the one that saves.

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Speaker 1: I'm the one that spends. Okay, that said, we also

503
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Speaker 1: don't waste our money. So when we go through the

504
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Speaker 1: last time we went out to eat through a fast

505
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Speaker 1: food place, we couldn't believe it. We got out there

506
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Speaker 1: and and for the two of us. It was twenty

507
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Speaker 1: five twenty. No, it was more than that. It was

508
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Speaker 1: that it was like thirty two dollars or something like

509
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Speaker 1: that at McDonald's and she I can't remember which fast

510
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Speaker 1: food place it was, but I just remember, plus I

511
00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:47,560
Speaker 1: always get like a little side, little little snacky, you know,

512
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Speaker 1: I always get the little extra thing. And and we went, well,

513
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Speaker 1: we're not doing that again. We're just we're just not

514
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Speaker 1: We'll go to the grocery store and buy sandwich, meet

515
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Speaker 1: and make our own sandwiches from now on. If we're

516
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Speaker 1: on the road, just forget about that. We're not paying

517
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Speaker 1: that much for two people to eat to eat lunch. Yeah,

518
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Speaker 1: I mean, if you're buying a if you're buying a

519
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Speaker 1: value meal and it's fifteen bucks, times too, you're at

520
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Speaker 1: thirty plus tax, right, So forget that. Forget it. And

521
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Speaker 1: if you're low income, you can't. You can't do it

522
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Speaker 1: at all. The people that are doing it and the

523
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Speaker 1: people that go I don't care. The people that don't

524
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Speaker 1: pay attention to price because they are they are, you know,

525
00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:28,760
Speaker 1: they're doing okay, and they don't worry about how much

526
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Speaker 1: money they're spending when it's you know, relatively small mouse. Granted,

527
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Speaker 1: they're probably not going out and blowing a grand here

528
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Speaker 1: in a grand there, but yeah, they're not going to

529
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Speaker 1: worry about the how much of the cost of their

530
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Speaker 1: lunch is. Those are the people still leading McDonald's. It's

531
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Speaker 1: not the people that are worried about paying fifteen dollars

532
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Speaker 1: for it.

533
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Speaker 2: It's just not.

534
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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, the crunch that we're having that I'm talking about

535
00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:53,879
Speaker 1: right now is creating another bit of a crisis. The

536
00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:57,280
Speaker 1: American Ponzi scheme is falling apart. You'll find out why next.

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541
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547
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548
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552
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Speaker 1: week to kids in even southern California. Your generosity, of course,

555
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Speaker 1: is what makes that happen. And the live broadcast the

556
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Speaker 1: Big One, The Big One is going on on Tuesday

557
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Speaker 1: from five until eight pm. Anaheim White House, Anaheim Boulevard. Hey, Mark,

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Speaker 1: are you gonna be there at the at the Big One?

559
00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:10,280
Speaker 1: I will be here in the news booth that camp.

560
00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:14,920
Speaker 1: I got word today that I am working that night here,

561
00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:18,200
Speaker 1: So it's you and me after all the fun is over.

562
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Speaker 1: We got this. Yeah, boy, you talk about it, come down.

563
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Speaker 1: It means we don't get any food either. No, we're

564
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Speaker 1: not gonna get squat and everybody's gonna be like it

565
00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:28,040
Speaker 1: was so exciting, What a great job they did. Look

566
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Speaker 1: they raised like a million and a half dollars. Look

567
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Speaker 1: at it's an amazing thing, and it's like, then back

568
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Speaker 1: to the studio. Well, maybe we'll get a talk back

569
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Speaker 1: from somebody who's on the indica. I got another talkback

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Speaker 1: from a guy who is he doesn't like me at all.

571
00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:47,640
Speaker 1: He also sounds like I don't think he's all there either.

572
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Speaker 1: He's mad at us.

573
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Speaker 4: Now.

574
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Speaker 5: The only reason they got you out of your parents

575
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Speaker 5: trailer and nodding, Missige is because kfis I and I.

576
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Speaker 1: Draw. I do handle insults better when it sounds like

577
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Speaker 1: whoever is giving me the insult is on a.

578
00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:20,840
Speaker 2: Record that is slowly, slowly dying. I'm okay with that.

579
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Speaker 1: It's a forty five turned down to thirty three. That's right.

580
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Speaker 1: I was actually okay with that one. I'm fine with that.

581
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Speaker 1: What's happening? Oh yes, So I think I've told you before.

582
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Speaker 1: I got three kids. They are all of child child

583
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Speaker 1: rearing age thirty twenty eight, twenty six. You know how

584
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Speaker 1: many grandkids? I have zero, which is wonderful for a

585
00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:48,560
Speaker 1: couple of reasons. One on buy more Christmas presents. Two

586
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Speaker 1: my sister in law has grandkids and I get to

587
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Speaker 1: call her old. And three I can't think of a

588
00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:58,360
Speaker 1: third one, although, to be perfectly honest, there is a

589
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Speaker 1: little part of me that does want to do the

590
00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:04,080
Speaker 1: whole grandpa thing. I'm not fifty yet though, so I

591
00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:06,720
Speaker 1: feel like I'm not ready for it, but there is

592
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Speaker 1: a part of me that wants to do the grandpa thing.

593
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Speaker 1: And I realized that my neighbors have a little boy

594
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Speaker 1: who when we moved in, he was like, I think

595
00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:16,920
Speaker 1: he was five or six. Now he's I don't know,

596
00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:19,080
Speaker 1: eight nine. I have no idea. It could be thirty.

597
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Speaker 2: I don't know. Anyway, I just love this kid.

598
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Speaker 1: He's the funniest He's the funniest guy, full of energy.

599
00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:29,320
Speaker 1: And then his parents like, he'll talk to me about

600
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Speaker 1: whatever happened at school, you know, over the fence. It's

601
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Speaker 1: very like, leave it to beaver, right, it's over the fence.

602
00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:36,560
Speaker 1: We did this is school, and my friend did this

603
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Speaker 1: and I did that, And I just love the excitement

604
00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:40,720
Speaker 1: and that his parents go it's time to eat. He's like, Okay,

605
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Speaker 1: I got to go. I'll talk to you later, and

606
00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:44,280
Speaker 1: then he leaves. And then the sweetest thing he came

607
00:30:44,320 --> 00:30:46,320
Speaker 1: over knocked on the door one day and he gave

608
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Speaker 1: me an invitation of his birthday party.

609
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Speaker 2: Isn't that great? Watch out?

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Speaker 1: You could be like mister Wilson to Dennis de Menace kinda.

611
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Speaker 1: I could, and I have been the grumpy old man

612
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Speaker 1: keep your guard up.

613
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Speaker 2: I could do it.

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Speaker 1: So there is a little.

615
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Speaker 2: I did.

616
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Speaker 1: I did, although it was gonna be a bunch of kids.

617
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Speaker 1: So what I did is I went. I went before

618
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Speaker 1: and I went and I got him a president. I

619
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Speaker 1: got like a massive NERF gun, and I took that

620
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Speaker 1: over beforehand, and I said, I want you to have

621
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Speaker 1: fun at your party, but I want to make sure

622
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Speaker 1: I got your present. He was really excited. Okay, nerf

623
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Speaker 1: guns are cool. I have a NERF gun. Yeah, totally.

624
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Speaker 3: Oh if I'm a drum kit.

625
00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:27,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, Remember he lives next door.

626
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Speaker 1: I know. Yeah, he doesn't live far enough away for

627
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Speaker 1: me to be gifting him a drum kit. Anyway, we

628
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Speaker 1: are saying a declining birth rate, and according to a

629
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Speaker 1: lending Tree study, the annual cost of raising a child

630
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Speaker 1: in California right now is over thirty thousand dollars a year.

631
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Speaker 1: So if you apply that annually over seventeen years, that

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Speaker 1: means conservatively, if you have a kid today, it's gonna

633
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Speaker 1: cost you half a million dollars to get him too

634
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Speaker 1: their senior year of high school.

635
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Speaker 2: Stick with cats. Whoo baby.

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Speaker 1: That's why I'm kind of glad I'm not a grandparent

637
00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:03,880
Speaker 1: because my kids couldn't pull it off. They couldn't do it. Now,

638
00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:07,200
Speaker 1: we all look, having kids is never a value proposition.

639
00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:11,239
Speaker 1: I think we all know that. But that is a

640
00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:14,200
Speaker 1: lot no wonder. Nobody wants to have multiple kids. I mean,

641
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Speaker 1: if you got two of them, you're at a million

642
00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:18,920
Speaker 1: dollars right there for Pete's sake. So then what are

643
00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:22,600
Speaker 1: you cutting back on. Imagine you're twenty four years old,

644
00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:26,400
Speaker 1: twenty five years old, right, it's about the age my

645
00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:29,040
Speaker 1: parents were when they had me. But today you've got

646
00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:31,480
Speaker 1: student loans that are more than they've ever been, You've

647
00:32:31,520 --> 00:32:33,600
Speaker 1: got housing costs that are higher than they've ever been,

648
00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:36,920
Speaker 1: you got wages that haven't kept up with all of

649
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Speaker 1: these other issues.

650
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Speaker 2: So why are you dropping out more?

651
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Speaker 1: There's no way people are gonna have a big fanis

652
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Speaker 1: the idea of a big family now that's gone. You

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Speaker 1: just can't. You can't do it. And people are concerned

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Speaker 1: about the declining birth right. It's not about people not

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Speaker 1: getting it on. It's about knowing what the consequences are,

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Speaker 1: and easy access to contraception too. But I'm telling you

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Speaker 1: that people we've got, we've got politicians worried about declining

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Speaker 1: birth rate.

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Speaker 2: I think the writing is on the wall.

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Speaker 1: We gotta we have to address the other systemic issues

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Speaker 1: if you want that birth rate to come back up

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Speaker 1: it's there. Or incentivize them all with nerf guns. You

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Speaker 1: thought binge watching and late night shows were safe. You

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Speaker 1: thought wrong. Between Hollywood job blood letting and a TV

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Speaker 1: war that was sparked by the White House, your screen

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Speaker 1: is getting uglier, and we have some really sad news

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Speaker 1: for a classic Southern California entertainer that is next. I'm

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Speaker 1: Chris Merril KFI AM six forty live everywhere in the

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Speaker 1: iHeartRadio

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