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Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.

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Speaker 2: All right, tomorrow on the program, you're gonna hear about

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Speaker 2: one super chef to the stars who's no longer cooking

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Speaker 2: it up in Waco.

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Why do I care about Waco? Well, you'll have to

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Speaker 2: listen and find out. That's tomorrow on the program. Looking

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Speaker 2: forward to uh talking to you. Then it should be

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Speaker 2: a grand old time. I'm Chris Merrill. You can listen

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Speaker 2: to anytime on demand in the iHeart radio app. We've

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Speaker 2: finally got it after millennia. We've got peace in the

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Speaker 2: Middle East, thank God.

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Speaker 4: Who Yes, all right, so I'm happy.

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Speaker 2: I am too ridiculous. I hate seeing everything the way

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Speaker 2: that it's gone.

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Speaker 4: I've got family over there.

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Speaker 3: All right, Okay, which team are they on?

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Speaker 4: I'm Israel High, you're Israel? Yes, all right, very good.

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Speaker 3: I was talking with friends about this.

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Speaker 2: Are you Jewish or somebody just somebody else in your

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Speaker 2: family is Jewish or just not Jewish but living in Israel.

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Speaker 4: I'm one hundred percent Red Sea pedestrian.

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Speaker 3: Oh okay, very good. Yeah. Uh.

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Speaker 2: By the way, I've never heard that used outside of

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Speaker 2: a Monty Python film.

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Speaker 4: I am a walking Monty Python. No that was was

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Speaker 4: that not mel Brooks?

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Speaker 3: No, it's my Python same.

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Speaker 2: I mean I can quote that, but the FCC doesn't approve.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, uh where it was Life of Brian by

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Speaker 2: the way, Uh where we we see?

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, so we've.

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Speaker 2: Got a ceasefire. The question, of course, is how long

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Speaker 2: is it going to last? Will it hold? This is

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Speaker 2: the This is really the big question. CNN's been kind

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Speaker 2: of covering this is it's unfolded.

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Speaker 5: There has just been an extraordinary atmosphere here in Austine Square.

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Speaker 5: You can probably hear the music behind.

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Speaker 3: Me, that's all I can hear.

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Speaker 2: I realized just how much of an old man I

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Speaker 2: am whenever I hear a news story and then I

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Speaker 2: hear the music, I'm like, turn that music down, turned

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Speaker 2: into my grandmother.

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Speaker 3: Oh it's so loud.

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Speaker 2: And I never understood how it is that you can

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Speaker 2: age I am the.

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Speaker 5: Concert taking place here as people are really reveling in

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Speaker 5: a moment that they have been waiting for two years

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Speaker 5: now to arrive. And it is important to note that

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Speaker 5: for two years, Israelis have come right here to a

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Speaker 5: hostage square to protest Saturday night after Saturday night, in

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Speaker 5: extraordinary numbers, demanding that the Israeli governments reach the very

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Speaker 5: kind of deal that is about to become a reality.

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Speaker 5: And to your question of why it has taken so long,

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Speaker 5: that is indeed a question that I have heard from

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Speaker 5: many people here today who had hoped that this deal

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Speaker 2: Sooner, Nicky, out of curiosity with family that's there, Have

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Speaker 2: you felt like this is dragged on longer than needed to.

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Speaker 4: Oh, totally, I think it's terrible.

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Speaker 2: No one wants no no, I agree, I agree. I

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Speaker 5: Yeah, quite clear from the vantage point here that President

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Speaker 1: A worse than the X fact.

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Speaker 5: For the kind of pressure that they brought the bear

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Speaker 3: I kind of want to hang out of the concert now.

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Speaker 3: It sounds like a banger, sounds like fun.

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Speaker 2: I am overjoyed for the people of Israel, the people

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Speaker 2: I've witnessed, as you have, all of the different horrors

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Speaker 2: That's my advantage point sticking to it. But here's what

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Speaker 2: I think is really interesting. We are sending troops under

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Speaker 2: going into Gaza, but we're observing and monitoring, which we've

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Speaker 2: done before in other scenarios. We've also done observation of

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Speaker 2: There are also others that are going to be there,

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Speaker 2: does include Israeli troop withdrawals from parts of Gaza and

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Speaker 2: the release of all the hostages that have been held

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Speaker 2: since the Hamas attacks almost exactly two years ago, two

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Speaker 2: The US is supposed to be there as part of

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Speaker 2: a peacekeeping mission. Here's my worry. I don't know how

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Speaker 2: obviously their infrastructure has been wrecked, but what's to say

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Speaker 2: go again. What's to stop Israel from saying now that

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Speaker 2: we have our hostages back. We have all the control

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Speaker 2: and Hamas has no leverage, and we are going to

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Speaker 3: What's to stop them from doing that other than.

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Speaker 2: Signing out of the dotted line and saying, okay, we're

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Speaker 3: Do you have any doubt because I don't.

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Speaker 2: Do you have any doubt that this will not be

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Speaker 2: the last time we've got a battle in that region.

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Speaker 4: This isn't the end.

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Speaker 2: This is not the end. It's been going on for

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Speaker 2: thousands of years. No way is this the end. There

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Speaker 2: will be some diplomatic fights about this. There's gonna be

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Speaker 3: That's going to continue on.

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Speaker 2: But inevitably there will be more bloodshed in that region

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Speaker 3: It's just what happens.

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Speaker 2: And I wish I had more faith in humanity that

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Speaker 2: no more fighting. But I also understand human nature.

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Speaker 3: And we do war. War is as old as.

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Speaker 2: Humanity itself, and that's not going to change. So the

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Speaker 2: I hope I hope it's a good fifty sixty hundred,

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Speaker 2: two hundred years. That'd be fantastic, But hope doesn't really

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Speaker 3: We consider to be a victory on this. What would

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Speaker 3: we how long, Nikki?

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Speaker 2: How long?

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Speaker 3: And Mark you can get in here too.

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Speaker 2: I didn't want to drag you into anything that would

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Speaker 2: put you on a spot of having to compromise your

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Speaker 6: Well, it's such a fraud situation that almost anything you

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, yeah, of course it is.

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Speaker 2: But I mean, what do we say, Look, if this

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Speaker 2: fifteen years, do we say twenty years?

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Speaker 3: Twenty years? Okay, twenty years we go?

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Speaker 2: We got we have peace in that region until twenty

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Speaker 2: forty five. We go, Hey, we did a pretty good

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Speaker 3: We would say, we'd say that success. Do you think? Okay?

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Speaker 2: I mean I'd love to be completely wrong on this.

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Speaker 2: Nothing would make me happier than it'd be completely wrong

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Speaker 6: Well, the thing is all we can do, right, now

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Speaker 6: is wait and see, because the president who apparently is

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Speaker 6: brokering this deal just a short time ago, said that

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Speaker 3: Right, Yes, yeah, I think he was. I think he

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Speaker 2: But also there's there been other times that I thought

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Speaker 2: he was trolling and then he followed through on it.

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Speaker 2: There's been That's the one thing about Trump that is

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Speaker 2: really hard to read. There's times where you go, Okay,

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Speaker 2: was he saying, let's build a let's build a resort.

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Speaker 2: It's going to be a beautiful resort area.

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Speaker 7: Was he saying that he wanted to build like Trump

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Speaker 4: Yes, yes, that's that's a troll.

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Speaker 2: Was that done strategically to try to get to put

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Speaker 2: pressure on Hamas to sign a deal because otherwise we're

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Speaker 2: Trump Tower or was that.

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Speaker 6: Well he was talking about moving all the Palestinians completely

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Speaker 6: the definition of ethnic cleansing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's off the table though, right right, That's okay.

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Speaker 6: So that's why I'm suggesting that about the most we

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Speaker 6: because we just don't know how things are gonna pan out.

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Speaker 2: We can't possibly can't. And then what happens when there's

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Speaker 2: a different leader in Israel? What happens when we have

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Speaker 2: on in Yahoo?

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Speaker 3: Well, right, there's a lot of variables.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, then in Yahoo factor is another major reason that

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Speaker 6: it's apparently dragged on this farm because of him wanting

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Speaker 6: to stay in power.

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Speaker 2: Yes, because he's facing troubles of his own exactly. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I agree. So anyway, Nicky, out with you. If this

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Speaker 2: last forty five years, we're gonna say, hey, that was

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Speaker 2: pretty good.

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Speaker 3: Twenty I'm sorry twenty years either.

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Speaker 4: I'd be happy with the piece for twenty years would

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Speaker 4: be great.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm kind of with you all right now.

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Speaker 2: We thought he was trolling before and when he said

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Speaker 2: I'm going to lock up all of my enemies. You

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Speaker 2: messed the wrong guy, and now I'm gonna have to

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Speaker 2: use the full power of the DOJ to come and

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Speaker 2: get you.

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Speaker 3: And we thought, okay, is he trolling.

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Speaker 1: Nope, you're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.

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Speaker 2: I got to tell you, we heard that it was happening.

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Speaker 2: I thought it was just basic run of the mill harassment,

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Speaker 8: By Eastern District of Virginia against Letitia James. We don't

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Speaker 1: It was there.

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Speaker 2: She said Trump committed wrong, She prosecuted him, She tried

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Speaker 2: Well, now this are they both? This one's in virgin

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Speaker 3: Can't hurt anything, all right, thoughts and prayers Sendy McCain.

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Speaker 2: So if I if I say something you think of stupid,

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Speaker 3: I quit. We're done, totally.

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Speaker 2: it's the millennials that are squeezed the hardest. Not Gen Z,

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Speaker 2: the chase. Gens Ze and Boomers a little over one

443
00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:06,080
Speaker 2: in ten, so a little over one and ten. They're

444
00:21:06,080 --> 00:21:08,280
Speaker 2: both at twelve percent, the Zoomers and the Boomers both

445
00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:10,560
Speaker 2: at the twelve percent that have given up. And Gen

446
00:21:10,720 --> 00:21:12,119
Speaker 2: X is like, yeah, I guess we're just right here

447
00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:17,159
Speaker 2: in the middle. But here it's actually a little bit

448
00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:21,080
Speaker 2: worse for the millennials. And when you think about this,

449
00:21:22,080 --> 00:21:25,080
Speaker 2: the millennials are being hit hard because they are in

450
00:21:25,160 --> 00:21:28,399
Speaker 2: their buying years. The average age that somebody is a

451
00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:30,920
Speaker 2: first time home buyer now is thirty eight.

452
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Speaker 3: Did you know that, Mark? Have you owned a home?

453
00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:36,360
Speaker 3: Are you? I don't even know your personally, No, not here.

454
00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:38,080
Speaker 3: Have you owned one in the past.

455
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Speaker 6: Well, when my mother died, I had her home, but

456
00:21:41,560 --> 00:21:44,119
Speaker 6: I wasn't going to live in Spokane, Washington, so I

457
00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:44,960
Speaker 6: sold it right away.

458
00:21:45,280 --> 00:21:48,280
Speaker 3: Oh that's Spok's beautiful. No, it isn't. Did you grow

459
00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:48,600
Speaker 3: up there?

460
00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:51,440
Speaker 2: Part of the dispute here.

461
00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:54,280
Speaker 6: But you can describe spoke Spokane a lot of ways,

462
00:21:54,280 --> 00:21:55,920
Speaker 6: but beautiful, beautiful is not one of them.

463
00:21:55,960 --> 00:21:57,080
Speaker 2: No, I've never been.

464
00:21:57,080 --> 00:21:58,600
Speaker 3: I've always wanted to go, and I always thought it

465
00:21:58,600 --> 00:21:59,080
Speaker 3: was beautiful.

466
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Speaker 6: That whole area sipping Northwest is is nice in general? Spoken, yeah, spoken,

467
00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:08,240
Speaker 6: Oh not so much. Huh okay, oh okay. Well I

468
00:22:08,320 --> 00:22:11,000
Speaker 6: stand corrected that image away for a reason. Oh I

469
00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:12,160
Speaker 6: get it, I get it.

470
00:22:13,280 --> 00:22:15,000
Speaker 2: I like La, but I'll never be able to afford

471
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Speaker 2: a house here.

472
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Speaker 3: I know.

473
00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:20,399
Speaker 2: That's the kicker. Millennials are the worst. Millennials. Wages have

474
00:22:20,440 --> 00:22:23,440
Speaker 2: not kept pace with the region's runaway housing costs. We've

475
00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:26,880
Speaker 2: got boomerang kids into their thirties living with their parents

476
00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:30,320
Speaker 2: now in La County, San Diego County, Orange County, obviously,

477
00:22:30,359 --> 00:22:32,920
Speaker 2: all the southern California. So that's happening all over the place.

478
00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:36,600
Speaker 2: Millennials are being squeezed. So millennials are in the buying age.

479
00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:41,560
Speaker 2: They are in the age where you've got what expanding families.

480
00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:48,120
Speaker 2: I just remember, from a from a budgetary standpoint, as

481
00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:49,760
Speaker 2: you're trying to take care of the kids and you're

482
00:22:49,880 --> 00:22:52,280
Speaker 2: expanding your career, your career hasn't really taken off, it

483
00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:54,000
Speaker 2: isn't paying you a bunch, but your kids are getting

484
00:22:54,040 --> 00:22:55,840
Speaker 2: to that age where everything starts to cost more money.

485
00:22:56,280 --> 00:22:58,159
Speaker 2: That was the tough part for us, the soccer moon,

486
00:22:58,280 --> 00:22:59,520
Speaker 2: let's call it the soccer mom years.

487
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Speaker 3: Right.

488
00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:03,280
Speaker 2: I gotta have a van to haul all three kids,

489
00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:05,080
Speaker 2: and I got to have a house to house all

490
00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:06,480
Speaker 2: three kids. And I got to have a yard in

491
00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:08,159
Speaker 2: order to get the kids, you know, someplace for the

492
00:23:08,280 --> 00:23:09,800
Speaker 2: everything's for the kids, and I gotta be in a

493
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Speaker 2: neighborhood with a decent.

494
00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:14,080
Speaker 3: School for the kids. Kids rowing everything, And they wrote

495
00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:16,320
Speaker 3: them even more here because it's too freaking expensive.

496
00:23:17,119 --> 00:23:20,399
Speaker 2: So then, yeah, millennials are being squeezed the hardest, so

497
00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:23,040
Speaker 2: they've just given up, totally given up on even buying.

498
00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:24,440
Speaker 3: They say that.

499
00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:35,200
Speaker 2: Home ownership is still tied to the California dream.

500
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Speaker 3: Isn't that fun?

501
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Speaker 2: Fun fact? I do not care for the mamas and papas.

502
00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:46,639
Speaker 2: Oh please don't say that out loud. I'm gonna call

503
00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:48,919
Speaker 2: the boss's office. But you can't say you don't like

504
00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:51,159
Speaker 2: the mamas and papas. Yes I can. Well, anybody with

505
00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:53,360
Speaker 2: the real problem with that is probably dead.

506
00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:57,639
Speaker 3: Now, right kinda. I just all felt too busy to

507
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Speaker 3: me too.

508
00:23:58,200 --> 00:24:02,560
Speaker 2: Noisy felt like a felt like a pet band that

509
00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:03,880
Speaker 2: skipped practice.

510
00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:05,760
Speaker 6: Don't you think it's a little little bit of a

511
00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:07,920
Speaker 6: cheap shot to punch down on Mama Cass.

512
00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:09,480
Speaker 3: I didn't punch down on Mama.

513
00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:10,879
Speaker 2: You brought her up. I just said I didn't like

514
00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:13,159
Speaker 2: their music, all right, you're the one that brought up

515
00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:13,920
Speaker 2: the ham sandwich.

516
00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:15,280
Speaker 3: I'll put this up nice.

517
00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:17,000
Speaker 2: No, no, no, I didn't say.

518
00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:17,960
Speaker 3: And that's about that.

519
00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:20,120
Speaker 6: That is a myth. The ham sandwich thing is a myth,

520
00:24:20,359 --> 00:24:22,119
Speaker 6: I know. But you're the one that's perpetuating it. And

521
00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:23,119
Speaker 6: I expect better from you.

522
00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:29,200
Speaker 2: Mark someone whose credibility is his currency, I expect better

523
00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:29,800
Speaker 2: of you.

524
00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:30,359
Speaker 3: You.

525
00:24:30,359 --> 00:24:33,000
Speaker 6: You should look for a ham sandwich related suit. You're

526
00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:37,680
Speaker 6: going to be served with the suit, not the sandwich.

527
00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:39,440
Speaker 6: I made mention of it here a few moments ago.

528
00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:44,200
Speaker 6: And that is how few people can afford a home.

529
00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:47,520
Speaker 6: And so what they're doing is a boomerang. Let's call

530
00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:51,879
Speaker 6: it delayed adulting. And I gotta tell you, I know

531
00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:55,520
Speaker 6: somebody that's dealing with this right now. The what used

532
00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:58,199
Speaker 6: to be a punchline and a holiday in commercial is

533
00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:00,920
Speaker 6: now a reality for way more people than you thought.

534
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Speaker 3: That's next. I'm Chris Meryl.

535
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Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six on demand.

536
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Speaker 2: Talking with Tony and Nikki off the air here about

537
00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:13,440
Speaker 2: the houses, uh, and the cost of you know, having

538
00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:16,000
Speaker 2: a house and owning a house of course in southern California.

539
00:25:16,119 --> 00:25:17,920
Speaker 2: And Tony, you've been in one for like a quarter

540
00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:21,400
Speaker 2: century now, right, pretty cool place. Since two thousand.

541
00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:23,160
Speaker 3: You have, You've been in the same hall.

542
00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:26,080
Speaker 2: I got into radio January of two thousands when I

543
00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:29,760
Speaker 2: got hired my first radio gig ninety seven for me. Yeah,

544
00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:32,080
Speaker 2: yere yeah, because well you and I are pretty close

545
00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:35,560
Speaker 2: to the same age r. So yeah, my first radio gig,

546
00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:38,360
Speaker 2: I got hired as a studio engineer, uh in two

547
00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:42,080
Speaker 2: thousand run basketball games and for the for the local

548
00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:45,359
Speaker 2: radio station my tiny hometown. And uh, you know, just

549
00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:51,000
Speaker 2: I've been slowly climbing the ladder ever since then. And uh,

550
00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:52,560
Speaker 2: there was one time I was here at the station.

551
00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:55,080
Speaker 2: Side note, was here at the station, and I was

552
00:25:55,080 --> 00:25:58,119
Speaker 2: doing a special project and I just kind of paused

553
00:25:58,160 --> 00:26:00,200
Speaker 2: for a moment, and the program director at the time,

554
00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:02,480
Speaker 2: for whom I have a tremendous amount of respect and

555
00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:06,320
Speaker 2: would not have a career without her. She came in

556
00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:07,800
Speaker 2: and she's like, what are you thinking? And I said,

557
00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:10,040
Speaker 2: I said, I'm just taking it in. I said, I

558
00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:12,879
Speaker 2: started in a farm town. I mean, we had a

559
00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:15,720
Speaker 2: tiny radio station where you know, we were lucky if

560
00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:18,240
Speaker 2: we had a couple hundred people listening. And now I'm

561
00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:21,440
Speaker 2: doing work in Los Angeles. This is it's it's kind

562
00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:23,639
Speaker 2: of a lot for me to take in. She goes, Okay,

563
00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:29,120
Speaker 2: that's cool, let's move on. She always kept it real.

564
00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:31,159
Speaker 2: I loved here for that. I loved it. She's like,

565
00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:35,280
Speaker 2: that's cool, soak it in. Let's move on. So, yeah,

566
00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:37,399
Speaker 2: I've been you know, I've been climbing the ladder you are.

567
00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:40,000
Speaker 2: You were already here, man, you made it. You were

568
00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:43,360
Speaker 2: living my dream.

569
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Speaker 3: Working here off on the weekends, doesn't matter, KFI. Are

570
00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:46,840
Speaker 3: you kidding?

571
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Speaker 2: This is one of the most legendary stations in the nation,

572
00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:51,200
Speaker 2: and you've been a part of it for a quarter

573
00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:53,920
Speaker 2: century and it just kind of stumbled into it here. Well,

574
00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:57,600
Speaker 2: then you stumbled the right way. It's incredible just to

575
00:26:57,720 --> 00:26:59,919
Speaker 2: God bless you for it. So we're talking about to

576
00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:02,280
Speaker 2: buying houses, how they're too expensive, and how we've got

577
00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:05,360
Speaker 2: about thirty percent of Southern Californians who wanted to buy

578
00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:08,160
Speaker 2: a home have just completely given up. The average age

579
00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:09,480
Speaker 2: of a first time home buyer and I was up

580
00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:12,600
Speaker 2: to thirty eight years old, and that's nationwide, that's the

581
00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:15,880
Speaker 2: median first time buyer age, I said. Averages median first

582
00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:19,800
Speaker 2: time buyer ages thirty eight. One and a half million

583
00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:22,320
Speaker 2: more adults under the age of thirty five now lived

584
00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:26,920
Speaker 2: with their parents than a decade ago. Rents have gone

585
00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:31,159
Speaker 2: up about four percent a year, wages growing annually about

586
00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:34,480
Speaker 2: zero point six percent a year over the course of

587
00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:37,399
Speaker 2: the last decade. So if you were into a home

588
00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:43,280
Speaker 2: ten years ago, it was expensive. I mean I was

589
00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:46,040
Speaker 2: shopping for homes in twenty sixteen and the prices were

590
00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:48,119
Speaker 2: starting to climb back up. I mean when I came here,

591
00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:49,639
Speaker 2: it was twenty twelve. That was right after we had

592
00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:52,520
Speaker 2: that little mini recession in twenty eleven, and I remember

593
00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:55,520
Speaker 2: having the sticker shock. I was in a decent place

594
00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:59,000
Speaker 2: in San Diego and the house I think Zillah was

595
00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:01,280
Speaker 2: saying it was worth about I don't know, five hundred

596
00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:04,119
Speaker 2: and fifty thousand dollars, and I had just sold a

597
00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:07,680
Speaker 2: house that was about a third larger with a massive yard.

598
00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:10,800
Speaker 2: That backed up into some woods, you know in Kansas, though,

599
00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:12,920
Speaker 2: So I just sold that house for about two to

600
00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:15,399
Speaker 2: eighty five. I come here and I'm looking and and

601
00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:18,240
Speaker 2: I'm renting a house that's worth about double and I'm going,

602
00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:20,760
Speaker 2: no way, is this worth that much. I just looked

603
00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:22,800
Speaker 2: on Zillow a couple of weeks ago on it's like

604
00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:25,360
Speaker 2: two point one. Now, had I been able to get

605
00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:27,000
Speaker 2: in on that and made an offer to the landlord

606
00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:30,119
Speaker 2: at the time, I would have quadrupled my investment. But

607
00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:32,720
Speaker 2: at the time I thought it's too expensive. So if

608
00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:35,159
Speaker 2: you were in ten years ago, good for you. It

609
00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:38,080
Speaker 2: has actually gotten to the point where the cost of

610
00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:40,760
Speaker 2: buying a home is so expensive that, in order to

611
00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:43,880
Speaker 2: cut costs, some people I'm gonna call them kids, but

612
00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:47,280
Speaker 2: that's only because they are biologically their children. By by

613
00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:52,680
Speaker 2: all standards of age, they're not. They are living with

614
00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:56,960
Speaker 2: their parents. Fewer adults are living independently. It is hurting

615
00:28:57,040 --> 00:29:00,920
Speaker 2: long term labor mobility as well, and it may actually

616
00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:06,560
Speaker 2: deepen more of the stresses nationwide. Nikki, you got into

617
00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:07,400
Speaker 2: a place, are you?

618
00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:09,720
Speaker 3: Are you? You got a good mortgage? Are you in it?

619
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Speaker 2: One of those lower mortgage rates?

620
00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:15,360
Speaker 7: I bought in twenty sixteen in LA I got a

621
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Speaker 7: great deal on the mortgag place. See, I got a

622
00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:22,640
Speaker 7: condo in an amazing part of town close to me.

623
00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:25,720
Speaker 2: But even then it was expensive, right, I mean, I'm

624
00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:27,600
Speaker 2: pain on that. I'm paying on that almost ten years

625
00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:28,840
Speaker 2: and it's still bites.

626
00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:29,200
Speaker 6: Yeah.

627
00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:31,320
Speaker 7: I know, I got a good deal and it's it's

628
00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:34,440
Speaker 7: increased in value, but it's just the hard part is

629
00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:35,320
Speaker 7: trying to hold.

630
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Speaker 4: Onto it now. Man, oh man, my place is awesome to.

631
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Speaker 2: You're trying to hold on to it, But imagine if

632
00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:43,080
Speaker 2: you were trying to get into.

633
00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:43,320
Speaker 1: It right now.

634
00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:44,840
Speaker 4: I'm blessed that I'm in it.

635
00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:46,640
Speaker 3: No way you could come close.

636
00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:48,120
Speaker 4: No way I wouldn't.

637
00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:51,120
Speaker 7: I wouldn't be able to afford the place I live

638
00:29:51,120 --> 00:29:52,800
Speaker 7: in now of what was up for sale now.

639
00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:56,280
Speaker 2: And that's what's happening to so many people in Greater

640
00:29:56,320 --> 00:30:00,520
Speaker 2: Los Angeles area. It's about twenty percent of young adults

641
00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:04,320
Speaker 2: are now living with their parents, moving back home, and

642
00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:08,080
Speaker 2: most experts are saying this, it's not failure. It is

643
00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:12,600
Speaker 2: survival and God bless you parents for doing this. I

644
00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:14,479
Speaker 2: got In fact, I can hear him out there right

645
00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:17,320
Speaker 2: now because the show's coming from my home studio. I

646
00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:19,640
Speaker 2: can hear my son out there. He's twenty six. He's

647
00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:23,000
Speaker 2: living with me. By twenty six, I was I already

648
00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:25,360
Speaker 2: had a home, but that was a long time ago.

649
00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:27,320
Speaker 2: Let me tell you the secret. You guys want to

650
00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:28,480
Speaker 2: know the secret of this.

651
00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:29,360
Speaker 3: This is a secret.

652
00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:31,640
Speaker 2: Yes, a lot of people, a lot of people don't

653
00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:34,400
Speaker 2: know this. But here is how you get into a place.

654
00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:39,960
Speaker 2: Find yourself. An old lady desperate to have someone help

655
00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:44,000
Speaker 2: raise her kids if she owns a home. Boom Marrier.

656
00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:47,880
Speaker 2: Twenty one years later, I've had like four or five homes.

657
00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:50,960
Speaker 2: It's been great, nice work. I'm moving in with Tony.

658
00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:54,480
Speaker 2: That's a good idea. He's got a lot of video games,

659
00:30:54,520 --> 00:30:59,600
Speaker 2: and unlike a conventional relationship, Tony might put out he

660
00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:02,440
Speaker 2: might yeah, I mean that was that was the trade off.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I've got I'm a homeowner, but I'm married,

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Speaker 2: so you know how that goes.

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Speaker 7: I got a spare room with its own bathroom near

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Speaker 7: the beach.

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Speaker 4: If you on a room there, you go.

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Speaker 2: Mark, you could just do that. So many choices all

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Speaker 2: of a sudden, So yeah, she'll rent it to you. Also,

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Speaker 2: fun fact, my son can hear me talking about my

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Speaker 2: sexual escapades with his mother. While he's doing the dishes

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Speaker 2: out in the kitchen. I can hear him out there,

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Speaker 2: so that's fun. Well, what's he gonna do, though, I'm

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Speaker 2: gonna well, yeah, what's he gonna do?

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Speaker 3: Move out? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: No, I'm gonna go have an awkward conversation. M Hopefully

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Speaker 2: he's got like earbuds in or something. We'll find out.

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