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Speaker 2: council member, Monica rod Rigaz.

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Speaker 2: She is trying to get city council support to reverse

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Speaker 2: The cou Council will been coming up after three o'clock.

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Speaker 2: Now we've got wow, egg prices up fifteen percent in

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Speaker 2: the last couple of weeks. It's a race between the

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Speaker 2: gas prices going up and the egg price is going up.

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Speaker 2: If you need gas and you like eating eggs, this

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Speaker 2: is this is a tough month. Alex No, Alex Stone,

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Speaker 2: right is It's Michael and Alex Stone. Okay, anyway, what

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Speaker 2: do you got ABC News and your egg correspondent?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right. And cattle prices are going up as well.

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Speaker 2: So if you like steak and eggs and you want

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Speaker 2: to drive to get the steak and eggs, well then

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Speaker 2: you're out of luck. Turned someone vegan, you know, and

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Speaker 2: that's right. Well, I wonder if we know anybody around here. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: she doesn't have to worry about meat and egg don't care.

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Speaker 3: About egg prices or meat not at all.

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Speaker 1: She's happy with this. Do you drive an electric car too?

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Speaker 4: I do not.

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Speaker 1: Well, see then I don't.

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Speaker 3: Like the gas prices.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, kind of like with oil prices and gas prices,

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Speaker 2: where when oil goes up, then gas prices slowly go

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Speaker 2: up afterwards. That today, wholesale egg prices they've gone over

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Speaker 2: eight bucks a dozen and ninety six percent higher than

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Speaker 2: So that indicates that the wholesale price, kind of like

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Speaker 2: because that's what stores are paying or the middleman is

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Speaker 2: paying to then sell to the stores, and then that

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Speaker 2: we may be paying more in the next couple weeks.

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Speaker 2: But stores do said their own prices for eggs. A

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Speaker 2: lot of them use them as lost leaders to get

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Speaker 2: you to come in, knowing that many people are buying eggs,

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Speaker 2: and they come in and then they buy other things.

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Speaker 2: But the average price right now, what we're paying, the

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Speaker 2: ninety five a dozen as of today, but rising to

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Speaker 2: be more in line with that eight dollars. So this

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Speaker 2: woman blown away by what she had to go on

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Speaker 5: Literally shocked to see the dozen of eggs at nine

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Speaker 5: to twenty six, and Costco had him about twenty four

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Speaker 2: So twenty six point eight million birds have been lost

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Speaker 2: in this outbreak of bird flow. Now nine states have

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Speaker 2: confirmed out breaks and the egg price impact is nationwide.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't everywhere before, was more regional, nowadays everywhere. This guy,

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Speaker 2: Dwayne Jones runs chicken farm, and Georgia's chickens are healthy.

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Speaker 2: But he used to sell to retailers into farmers' markets.

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Speaker 2: He says he can't do that anymore because he's so

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Speaker 6: I was already doing a good business but I used

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Speaker 6: to have enough surplus eggs to sell to retailers who

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Speaker 6: resold them at farmers, markers and stuff like that. But

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Speaker 6: I have been selling out every day, and I've had

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Speaker 6: shortage started, So I haven't had any extra to sell

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Speaker 2: So John and Dever, so far prices for chicken and

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Speaker 2: the grocery stores hasn't gone up substantially.

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Speaker 1: The thinking is that it may same reason is the eggs.

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Speaker 2: And then now you add on the cattle farmers that

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Speaker 2: they say beef prices are jumping not because of bird flu,

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Speaker 2: they're seeing those prices go up. They're all peel livestock

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Speaker 7: Cattle prices or record levels that's working its way up

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Speaker 2: Just like the wholesale the retail, he says, that will

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Speaker 2: eventually come up again, supplying demand less available cattle, a

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Speaker 2: then on the bird flu, the Trump administration is expected demphasize.

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Speaker 2: Kind of interesting here vaccinations for birds and the tighter

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Speaker 1: Vaccinations for the bird for the birds.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so it may have been the members of the

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Speaker 2: Trump administration may have been against vaccinations for other things,

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Speaker 2: but for birds, it seems like that is what the White.

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Speaker 1: House is going to put you.

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Speaker 2: The birds have the right to opt out if they

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Speaker 2: sign a document. Yeah, so forced vaccinations don't. I'm guessing

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Speaker 2: that there's going to be some pushback to that of

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Speaker 2: eating eggs and birds that have the vaccinations. But that

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Speaker 2: seems like the only answer to this, as so many

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Speaker 2: all of their birds or their birds just die very quickly,

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Speaker 2: and it's been spreading out a bait.

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Speaker 1: Tough day to be a bird is another.

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Speaker 5: Answer, exactly. And there are many egg replacements don't.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and they're actually restaurants now that are going to

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Speaker 2: the vegetable replacement for eggs because it's cheaper than getting

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Speaker 2: real egg.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure that tastes really good.

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Speaker 2: I didn't know that the wholesale cost can be three

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Speaker 1: Know the stores take it as as a loss leader. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Well, but also over time it will come up that

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Speaker 2: they pay the wholesale price. It takes a while for

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Speaker 2: us to pay that in retail, and that for a

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Speaker 2: lot of them, it's like the chicken at Costco, the

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Speaker 2: rotisserie chicken, that it'll be a lost leader. But they

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Speaker 2: get you to go through the entire store to the

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Speaker 2: back to buy that rotistri chicken, and you pass by

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Speaker 1: I do need that.

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Speaker 2: I do not deal in impulse by ever. All right, Alex,

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Speaker 2: thank you very much. I actually think egg beaters tastes

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Speaker 2: pretty good.

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Speaker 1: What about you?

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Speaker 5: You know, I don't like any fake anything, So I

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Speaker 2: She doesn't eat She's just like eighty two pounds, she

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Speaker 2: Wouldn't like going to take whites. I think, right exactly,

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Speaker 2: it's gotta be like that. What's the thing the bottles.

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Speaker 3: Of Uh yeah, I know what you're talking about is

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Speaker 3: the problem.

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Speaker 1: With eating eggs that that doesn't.

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Speaker 5: I don't want to eat any animal products, John.

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Speaker 1: But it's you're not killing I didn't say you were.

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Speaker 3: That's just one of one of the things. You know

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Speaker 3: what I don't.

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Speaker 5: I don't need to eat eggs or any kind of

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Speaker 5: egg replacement.

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Speaker 1: I don't.

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Speaker 3: I don't need that.

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Speaker 1: Okay. Alex lomeloaded the Marriotte.

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Speaker 3: It's thank you, you enjoy it's.

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Speaker 1: A brick wall out. Bye guys. All right. Alex Stone

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Speaker 1: from ABC News cuckoo.

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Speaker 3: Uh, don't be talking about yourself like that.

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Speaker 1: John, That's just I don't get that. I don't like

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Speaker 1: I don't.

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Speaker 3: Know animal products.

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Speaker 5: It makes it look I have said a million times

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Speaker 5: before people start emailing me.

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Speaker 1: I am email.

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Speaker 5: I am the critical vegan. I wear leather, but I'm

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Speaker 5: trying to phase out of that. I don't want to

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Speaker 5: eat any amazing. I'm not telling people not, I'm just

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Speaker 5: saying there are alternatives.

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Speaker 1: All right.

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Speaker 3: What does that mean?

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Speaker 1: I'm phasing out leather.

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Speaker 3: I'm trying not to buy so much.

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Speaker 1: Every much thing.

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Speaker 3: Is everything is leather.

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Speaker 1: Everything you like is leather.

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Speaker 3: Well I do wear pleth yes at times?

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Speaker 1: At times, yes you do, and all kinds of interesting colors. Yes.

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Speaker 2: When we come back, I want to play now, the

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Speaker 2: leaked phone call of Karen Bass defending your trip to Ghana.

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Speaker 2: This is before the fires broke out, and she's trying

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Speaker 2: to explain to an anonymous person who's who's leaked this

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Speaker 2: to James O'Keeffe's operation, UH, that she's not going to

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Speaker 2: She also talks about MacArthur Park as well, because she's

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Speaker 2: A lot of audio came out over the weekend from

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Speaker 2: James O'Keefe. He is that crusading undercover journalist has been

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Speaker 2: So I don't know what she thinks she was elected

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Speaker 2: when you're mayor of Los Angeles twenty four to seven job,

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Speaker 2: and it's about Los Angeles, it's not about your your

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Speaker 4: If the situation is very dangerous and I would never

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Speaker 3: Tell you this, but.

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Speaker 4: And you've got me on the street, and you're.

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Speaker 9: And if President Biden extends me an invitation, I took it.

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Speaker 2: If President Biden sends me an invitation, I take it.

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Speaker 2: Council people feel like Alexander Boz does, Oh, there's nothing

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Speaker 2: top of it because we can't. It's obviously an extreme

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Speaker 2: there is no infrastructure to respond. There was no infrastructure

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Speaker 2: this massive earthquake, Well, you know what if the criminals.

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Speaker 2: about Elon Musk turning everything upside down with one memo

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Speaker 1: It said it to me, That's all he asked.

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Speaker 3: Gosh, I don't know what I would write down.

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Speaker 1: Well, you don't know what you're no.

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Speaker 3: I thought about that. I've been thinking about. I mean,

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Speaker 3: that's okay. So I do the news. That's okay. That's

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Speaker 3: what I did, right, That's it.

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Speaker 1: That's not five things.

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Speaker 3: That's one thing I did.

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Speaker 1: The news, your newscasts. You looked at the stock market numbers,

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Speaker 3: That's what I do every single That's part of your

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Speaker 3: is that simple.

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Speaker 1: Yes, that's all they're asking is like what you Okay,

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Speaker 1: I I feel like I have to Oh, you're complicating this.

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Speaker 3: That's what it is. Okay, So you've dumbed it down, okay, because.

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Speaker 1: It's just I didn't expect this.

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Speaker 3: Read the news, it seems so that just seems so simple.

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Speaker 2: You write some of the news, you read the news,

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Speaker 5: I just I felt that there was a trick question

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Speaker 3: Just seems that just seemed too simple to me. Okay, Okay, well,

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Speaker 3: thank you for clarifying.

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Speaker 5: I would have gotten fired John, and you'd have to

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Speaker 1: How do you blow that question?

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Speaker 4: All?

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Speaker 8: More coming up, you're listening to John Cobels on demand

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Speaker 8: from KFI AM six forty.

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Speaker 2: Coming up after three o'clock, we're going to have a councilor,

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Speaker 2: Woman Monica Rodriguez from the seventh District. She is trying

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Speaker 1: They can do that.

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Speaker 2: The city council gets two thirds in line to support Crowley,

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Speaker 1: Didn't know that, but it's true.

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Speaker 2: There's fifteen council members, so if there's a ten to

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Speaker 2: up after three o'clock. Elon Musk. This is so amusing,

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Speaker 2: you know, I notice, yeah, I usually refer to them

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Speaker 2: that is, seventy seven thousand civil servants. Seventy seven thousand

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Speaker 2: We're requiring that all federal government employees will have to

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Speaker 2: what you accomplished last week.

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Speaker 3: Stop staring at me like I'm ding dong.

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Speaker 7: Well, you were baffled by that because it just seems

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Speaker 3: How would I answer that? That is an awful Why.

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Speaker 2: I would just say I did Monday show, Tuesday show,

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Speaker 5: Okay, Well, somebody ever asks me that question, I'll know

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Speaker 1: Say, I read the news on Monday, on Tuesday, on Wednesday, I.

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Speaker 3: Did the same thing over and over and over again.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, most jobs are like that.

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Speaker 2: You only it told employees not to send any classified

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Speaker 2: He also said that a lack of response will be

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Speaker 2: That that is a huge And I saw Jamie Diamond,

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Speaker 1: The executives are beside themselves. Don't you shut up and

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Speaker 2: it was a failure. You don't think these companies would

442
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Speaker 2: love for it to work on all cylinders and not

443
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Speaker 2: have to pay for all the buildings that they're renting,

444
00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:54,560
Speaker 2: all the real estate that they own. Man, if they

445
00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:57,360
Speaker 2: could sell off all their real estate and get all

446
00:23:57,440 --> 00:24:01,000
Speaker 2: that rent off the books and keep that as profit,

447
00:24:01,119 --> 00:24:03,040
Speaker 2: you know how that they would boost their stock price.

448
00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:06,960
Speaker 2: You know, financially, it's a much better deal if they

449
00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:10,439
Speaker 2: don't have to employ thousands and thousands of people in

450
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Speaker 2: expensive real estate buildings and you know, pay for all

451
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Speaker 2: all the furniture and pay for all the amenities that

452
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Speaker 2: that people want at work. Of course they would rather

453
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Speaker 2: you work from home if that proved to be a

454
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Speaker 2: successful plan, which it's not.

455
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Speaker 1: I don't understand this.

456
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Speaker 2: Somehow during COVID everyone became a toddler. I don't know

457
00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:38,760
Speaker 2: what happened. It's like everyone just seems that they and

458
00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:43,520
Speaker 2: the way I told you that basses employees that were

459
00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:49,359
Speaker 2: secretly taped to come across like immature teenagers juveniles. It

460
00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:52,719
Speaker 2: seems the way middle aged adults and older adults are

461
00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:55,679
Speaker 2: acting now, if they're being forced to show up for work,

462
00:24:56,240 --> 00:25:00,000
Speaker 2: they're just very petulant and whiny. And I don't understand.

463
00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:03,680
Speaker 2: I don't recognize the country anymore. I really don't well.

464
00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:09,760
Speaker 5: And so many bosses worked and continue to work from home, so.

465
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Speaker 3: It's not.

466
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Speaker 1: I know, it's not just the employees, not just the employees.

467
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Speaker 5: It's COVID changed so much and people just are not

468
00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:28,040
Speaker 5: they're not jumping back into going back to reality before

469
00:25:28,119 --> 00:25:28,840
Speaker 5: there was COVID.

470
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Speaker 1: I don't, I don't. I just don't get it.

471
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Speaker 2: I mean, we certainly all worked for decades driving into

472
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Speaker 2: work and driving home, and I know it can be

473
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Speaker 2: a pain in the ass because of the traffic and all,

474
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Speaker 2: but that's where you decide.

475
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Speaker 1: Somewhere along the line.

476
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Speaker 2: It's like maybe I've got to move, maybe I've got

477
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Speaker 2: to take a different job. Maybe I've got to move

478
00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:51,360
Speaker 2: to another city. Maybe I've got to do something else

479
00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:53,720
Speaker 2: for my family. But you just you make those decisions

480
00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:56,320
Speaker 2: because life isn't perfect and the world isn't set up

481
00:25:56,359 --> 00:25:59,320
Speaker 2: for you. So you have to decide whether you like

482
00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:01,360
Speaker 2: the job or you like to pay. And that's more

483
00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:03,960
Speaker 2: important than wasting so much time in traffic.

484
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Speaker 5: And I think that if the job requires you to

485
00:26:07,119 --> 00:26:09,560
Speaker 5: be there in person, that's the job. So then you

486
00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:12,480
Speaker 5: just have to find another job where maybe maybe if

487
00:26:12,520 --> 00:26:15,040
Speaker 5: if working from home is so important to you, because

488
00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:17,600
Speaker 5: there are plenty of jobs that still allow people to

489
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Speaker 5: work from home, then go there.

490
00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:23,199
Speaker 2: That's the thing people don't seem to grasp. It's like,

491
00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:25,679
Speaker 2: you don't have to take the job, you don't have

492
00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:28,600
Speaker 2: to stay at the job. Like seventy seven thousand people

493
00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:31,040
Speaker 2: in Washington, d c. Said, you know what, give me

494
00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:33,159
Speaker 2: the eight month severance. I'll take the buy out. I

495
00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:35,960
Speaker 2: don't want to do this for whatever reason. Maybe some

496
00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:37,840
Speaker 2: of it had to do with showing up at work,

497
00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:40,760
Speaker 2: or they realized they had one of these empty loaf jobs,

498
00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:45,439
Speaker 2: and yeah, you should have to justify your job I

499
00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:48,520
Speaker 2: mean to protest that you don't have five bullet points

500
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Speaker 2: to explain what you do.

501
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Speaker 5: Want it again, I said, I mean, look, I'm the

502
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Speaker 5: first to admit I wasn't baffled.

503
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Speaker 3: I just thought that I was missing something.

504
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Speaker 1: This is going to hunt for a while. I know

505
00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:01,040
Speaker 1: it is.

506
00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:03,840
Speaker 3: I know, but I.

507
00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:07,000
Speaker 5: Mean, Okay, so you justify your job. I mean, but

508
00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:09,080
Speaker 5: shouldn't your boss know what.

509
00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:09,840
Speaker 3: Your job is?

510
00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:11,760
Speaker 2: Uh?

511
00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:15,359
Speaker 1: You would think, but I think a lot of them don't.

512
00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:17,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you're right.

513
00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:20,400
Speaker 2: I mean, if you're I really do, especially these nebulous

514
00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:23,639
Speaker 2: government jobs where everybody's at a computer terminal and sitting

515
00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:27,320
Speaker 2: at a workstation and it's all about moving data around.

516
00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:30,159
Speaker 2: I don't know what everybody does. I don't know a

517
00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:31,160
Speaker 2: lot of people do here.

518
00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:31,880
Speaker 3: No, it's true.

519
00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:34,440
Speaker 5: I think with us it's obvious right on the air.

520
00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:37,480
Speaker 5: I'm your news anchor, you're the talk show hosts.

521
00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:39,280
Speaker 3: I mean, it's obvious, right, but.

522
00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:41,439
Speaker 1: Not to you.

523
00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:44,359
Speaker 3: But that was too obvious.

524
00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:48,000
Speaker 5: I have to justify my Okay, Yes, so I'm a

525
00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:50,680
Speaker 5: news anchor Monday through Friday, and I'm on these shows

526
00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:53,200
Speaker 5: and I do this, this and this. Yeah, I guess

527
00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:56,240
Speaker 5: I was just I was overthinking, which I do a lot.

528
00:27:56,359 --> 00:27:59,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know. I know when we come back, you'll

529
00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:01,760
Speaker 1: like this. Have you ever heard about the ick Factor?

530
00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:02,120
Speaker 4: Yes?

531
00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:05,960
Speaker 1: Oh you I have. So you watch these reality TV

532
00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:06,880
Speaker 1: dating shows?

533
00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:07,960
Speaker 3: Well, no, I don't.

534
00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:09,119
Speaker 1: Watch this story over the weekend.

535
00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:11,160
Speaker 3: No I didn't, but I know I know all about it,

536
00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:12,360
Speaker 3: and there was a show.

537
00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:15,480
Speaker 7: Not a reality show, that talked about Okay, it's a

538
00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:19,440
Speaker 7: feeling of disgust with somebody that you're you're dating when

539
00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:23,879
Speaker 7: you realize I can't possibly date this person anymore or

540
00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:28,440
Speaker 7: live with this person because they just did something that's unforgivable.

541
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Speaker 2: And I saw a list of things here, and there's

542
00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:33,840
Speaker 2: one of them that really stood.

543
00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:33,919
Speaker 1: Out to me.

544
00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:35,520
Speaker 3: Oh, really, do you do it?

545
00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:36,240
Speaker 1: No?

546
00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:40,680
Speaker 2: I don't, And I know exactly why the women would

547
00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:42,800
Speaker 2: find it icky and why they would reject the man.

548
00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:45,120
Speaker 1: Oh why can't we do more?

549
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Speaker 8: Coming up, you're listening to John Cobbels on demand from

550
00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:51,360
Speaker 8: KFI Am sixty.

551
00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:54,760
Speaker 2: Right after three o'clock and Debra's News, We're going to

552
00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:58,760
Speaker 2: talk with LA Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez from the seventh district.

553
00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:02,440
Speaker 2: She's trying to get other council people together to reinstate

554
00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:05,640
Speaker 2: Kristin Crowley as fire chief. They can do it if

555
00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:07,680
Speaker 2: they get a two thirds vote in favor of Crowley.

556
00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:12,080
Speaker 2: That would be ten out of fifteen council people. We'll

557
00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:16,800
Speaker 2: talk with Monica Rodriguez coming up in minutes, and also

558
00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:18,880
Speaker 2: we're going to go through some of the some of

559
00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:25,160
Speaker 2: the latest on Bass. Her staff has been sarptitiously recorded

560
00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:29,080
Speaker 2: and real cavalier by these people don't give an f

561
00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:33,000
Speaker 2: They really don't. The people who the civil servants who

562
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Speaker 2: work in LA government.

563
00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:35,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a.

564
00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:37,880
Speaker 2: Reason nobody responded very well to the fire and the

565
00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:40,719
Speaker 2: aftermath because at heart, they don't care. I don't care

566
00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:45,520
Speaker 2: what happens to you. I'll talk more about that later. Okay.

567
00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:50,280
Speaker 2: The ick factor. There was a show reality show some

568
00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:54,600
Speaker 2: years back called Love Island, and I'd swear this whole

569
00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:59,640
Speaker 2: concept was popularized, the idea that if you're dating somebody

570
00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:03,360
Speaker 2: and they do one it could be just one thing

571
00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:06,920
Speaker 2: in one moment, it makes you go ick and you

572
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:09,840
Speaker 2: decide there is no way I'm dating this guy, let

573
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Speaker 2: alone marrying him.

574
00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:11,080
Speaker 1: Right.

575
00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:14,840
Speaker 2: Apparently women are bothered by the ick factor way more

576
00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:18,240
Speaker 2: than men. Men will put up with almost anything.

577
00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:22,120
Speaker 3: I think you guys do yes, but because men.

578
00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:25,280
Speaker 2: Are just looking ultimately for the sex. So as long

579
00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:32,400
Speaker 2: as you meet the minimum sexual attraction, well there is

580
00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:37,320
Speaker 2: no such thing. Okay, yeah, unless the woman brings us

581
00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:38,160
Speaker 2: forget it.

582
00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:39,200
Speaker 3: Forget I forget it.

583
00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:43,800
Speaker 1: You don't want to get my imagination. Okay.

584
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Speaker 2: So here are some of the big turn offs, and

585
00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:50,080
Speaker 2: I'll start with the one of the biggies. And I

586
00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:52,239
Speaker 2: knew this, and we've actually had a debate about this.

587
00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:57,280
Speaker 2: It is it is is walking around with a reusable

588
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Speaker 2: grocery bag.

589
00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:02,400
Speaker 1: That's not an for a lot of women. It is.

590
00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:04,040
Speaker 1: It's one of the top x.

591
00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:06,480
Speaker 3: Because it doesn't bother me.

592
00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:09,880
Speaker 2: It looks it looks effeminate. That's what I've always told you.

593
00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:11,920
Speaker 2: That's why I don't want to do it. I feel effeminate.

594
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:14,760
Speaker 3: So you don't use the Leopard reusable bag that I

595
00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:15,040
Speaker 3: got you.

596
00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:21,760
Speaker 2: My wife she actually she uses it a lot. Yeah,

597
00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:26,960
Speaker 2: so yeah, reusable bags. If you if you talk about astrology,

598
00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:30,880
Speaker 2: see that's another effeminate thing. Women don't want to marry

599
00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:32,520
Speaker 2: a guy's babbling about astrology.

600
00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:34,920
Speaker 3: Okay, I mean I haven't.

601
00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:36,480
Speaker 1: Guys will put up with that.

602
00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:39,600
Speaker 5: Yeah, I haven't had that experience of talking to a

603
00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:40,640
Speaker 5: guy about astrog right.

604
00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:44,520
Speaker 1: Because there are zero guys into astrology.

605
00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:46,880
Speaker 3: I wouldn't say that. I'm sure there are some.

606
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:51,440
Speaker 2: If you have a guy who drives at exactly the

607
00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:52,960
Speaker 2: right speed all the time.

608
00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:56,240
Speaker 3: I've had an experience with that either, But.

609
00:31:56,200 --> 00:32:01,040
Speaker 2: That's a turnoff for a lot of women's.

610
00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:01,880
Speaker 3: Issues or something. I don't know.

611
00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:06,840
Speaker 1: Somebody who licks their finger before turning the page.

612
00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:11,200
Speaker 5: Oh I have experienced that grosses me up.

613
00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:12,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't like that.

614
00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:18,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, somebody who said who says things like perfecto.

615
00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:23,200
Speaker 5: Means means it means I don't have experience with that,

616
00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:25,080
Speaker 5: and I don't know if that would really be an

617
00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:25,760
Speaker 5: ick for me.

618
00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:26,920
Speaker 1: Yeah.

619
00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:30,080
Speaker 2: I think that's kind of like like a goofy stupid

620
00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:33,840
Speaker 2: person has expressions like that. See it says women are

621
00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:37,000
Speaker 2: more likely than men to experience the ick because they

622
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:41,800
Speaker 2: have a rapid rejection mechanism, uh when they see low

623
00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:46,320
Speaker 2: mate quality being indicated. Because as much as we like

624
00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:49,600
Speaker 2: to think we're modern and enlightened, we are all programmed

625
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:52,760
Speaker 2: to look for mates. Even if we don't want to

626
00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:55,720
Speaker 2: get married. Our systems are still looking for mates, and

627
00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:59,440
Speaker 2: we look at each other subconsciously as to whether always

628
00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:03,520
Speaker 2: is the somebody, Uh like like like. Women apparently either

629
00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:07,640
Speaker 2: unconsciously or consciously look at a man's health because if

630
00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:11,240
Speaker 2: a man is healthy, then more likely to produce healthy children.

631
00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:12,440
Speaker 1: Right, good genetics.

632
00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:15,120
Speaker 2: Right, So if he's healthy and strong, you love healthy,

633
00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:18,239
Speaker 2: strong kids, and women subconsciously look for that, even if

634
00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:23,800
Speaker 2: they wish they didn't. Okay, it's an evolutionary thing. According

635
00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:26,920
Speaker 2: to one researcher, is the zoos specific. So the ick

636
00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:31,720
Speaker 2: factor allows people to disengage from partners who display traits

637
00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:38,400
Speaker 2: associated with relationship risk. Other examples, if if a guy

638
00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:42,479
Speaker 2: awkwardly chases a ping pong ball, if he looks dorky

639
00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:43,440
Speaker 2: when he runs.

640
00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:44,400
Speaker 3: Who came up with these?

641
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:47,120
Speaker 1: This is a good test. It's like, you know these

642
00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:49,600
Speaker 1: are well you toss a ping pong ball and watch

643
00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:50,520
Speaker 1: the guy run after it.

644
00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:52,240
Speaker 3: I'm going to try that with my husband.

645
00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:55,240
Speaker 1: It's too late. Now I'm gonna say.

646
00:33:55,280 --> 00:33:56,320
Speaker 3: What happens when you're married?

647
00:33:56,480 --> 00:33:56,680
Speaker 1: Yeah?

648
00:33:56,720 --> 00:34:04,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, licking the page it can trigger disproportionate discussed and uh.

649
00:34:04,080 --> 00:34:05,480
Speaker 1: For men, there's not a whole lot.

650
00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:09,680
Speaker 2: It's mostly physical appearance, things like wearing too much makeup.

651
00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:13,399
Speaker 2: Oh you know what's another rejection sign that women don't

652
00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:16,000
Speaker 2: like if a guy. If a guy is looking at

653
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:17,040
Speaker 2: his phone too much.

654
00:34:17,520 --> 00:34:20,080
Speaker 3: Well, all you guys do that, I mean.

655
00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:24,759
Speaker 1: Not as much as women. No, no, no, no, it's

656
00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:25,480
Speaker 1: not even closed.

657
00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:26,840
Speaker 3: I don't know about that.

658
00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:29,520
Speaker 2: Well you say that it's not a good mate material

659
00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:31,920
Speaker 2: he's if he's not looking, if he'd not engaged, if

660
00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:35,240
Speaker 2: he'd rather look at the screen than you. And depends

661
00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:36,960
Speaker 2: what's on the screen too, that's a that's a thing.

662
00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:44,239
Speaker 2: A guy who's overly trendy, like his clothes are like Mike,

663
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Speaker 2: all right, you see the avenue some the other day.

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Speaker 3: But that silly jacket he was wearing, right, Yeah, that

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Speaker 3: doesn't bother me.

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Speaker 1: Well, you're easy.

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Speaker 3: On this list.

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Speaker 1: I would have thought a lot of things.

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Speaker 3: You need to come up with a better list.

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Speaker 1: Huh. I'm surprised.

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Speaker 5: The licking of the fingers because I'm a germaphoe, right,

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Speaker 5: so that that really is the only right.

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Speaker 1: If a guy's sucking on his finger.

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Speaker 3: All day, Yeah, that's gross and touching, all.

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Speaker 2: Right, you see, so you have stuff, Yeah, but it's

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Speaker 2: just not your list. All right, when we come back,

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Speaker 2: I'll tell you my list. Some other times, Karen Bass

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Speaker 2: is misrepresenting the facts on Kristin Crowley's firing, so says

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Speaker 2: Monica Rodrigaz, the councilwoman, and she went on Channel five

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Speaker 2: and says Crowley's getting scapegoaded and she's trying to get

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Speaker 2: a super majority of council members to save Crowley's job.

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Speaker 2: We'll have Kristen, We'll we'll have Rodriguez on next. Debra

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