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Speaker 2: that might necessitate immediate focus.

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Speaker 3: Things are constantly necessitated here.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's why we have a necessitating response team.

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Speaker 2: Yes, And among the stories we'll be talking about include

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Speaker 2: the Altadena rebuild. This is kind of a momentous day

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Speaker 2: in the world of the Alta Dina eat and fire.

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Speaker 2: The Altadena homeowner that now is making I think national

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Speaker 2: news with the attempt to evict a five hundred and

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Speaker 2: fifty pounds bear that has taken up residents under the

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Speaker 3: Now it's Hollywood, so you'll allow me.

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Speaker 2: I think if we were going to write this based

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Speaker 2: on a true story, there are two ways we can

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Speaker 2: go with it. One is the family comedy, warm hearted

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Speaker 2: way in which the family discovers the five hundred and

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Speaker 2: fifty pound bear. Just as this family has and they

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Speaker 2: grow attached to the bear, the bear grows attached to them.

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Speaker 2: I'm simplifying a lot of this. Believe me, I could

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Speaker 2: beat these characters out. Give me forty five minutes and

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Speaker 2: I can get this thing going. And the evil authorities,

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Speaker 2: the evil sheriff, whomever they want to what do they

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Speaker 2: want to do. They want to shoot the bear. They

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Speaker 2: want to kill the bear. They want to euthanize the bear.

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Speaker 2: They want to get rid of the bear. The bear

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Speaker 2: is a danger. This is like the mayor in Jaws.

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Speaker 2: We'll have a character like that. You've got to keep

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Speaker 2: quiet about the bear. It could ruin the community. It'll

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Speaker 2: drive down real estate prices. All of these things are

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Speaker 2: working while the family is bonding with the bear, and

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Speaker 2: the little child is growing closer and closer to this

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Speaker 2: five hundred and fifty pound bear that will of course

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Speaker 2: have a name, because once the bear has a name,

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Speaker 2: we grow even closer to it. Maybe we'll call the

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Speaker 2: bear Mario. So Mario and the young child and the

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Speaker 2: family grow closer, while the evil forces associated with authority

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Speaker 2: are determined to euthanize Mario or certainly take him away

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Speaker 2: from this community. And of course the crest of the wave,

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Speaker 2: the final act is one in which the child is

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Speaker 2: and they ultimately prevailed, and of course in a real

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Speaker 2: sad ending, and I think we shoot alternate endings on this,

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Speaker 3: The bear is taken down.

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Speaker 2: And the evil sheriff takes down the bear and the

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Speaker 2: child is weeping over the corpse of Mario. Jesus for Mario. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Justice for Mario. You have protesters come out, and I

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Speaker 2: think you're going to see those protesters throughout. I think

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Speaker 2: there is this drumbeat of save the bear, Save the bear,

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Speaker 2: Save the bear. You get, you get the whole community

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Speaker 2: coming out. And the other way we do it is

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Speaker 2: we do it like Free Willie, where the bear is

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Speaker 2: removed and the save the bear forces of the community prevail.

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Speaker 2: They do save the bear, and the bear goes into

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Speaker 2: a habitat where Mario lives out his life as a

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Speaker 2: think a tear jerker quality. Also, you know, now that's

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Speaker 2: one way you go. The other way you go is

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Speaker 2: you go horror with it.

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Speaker 2: There is a bear under the house that we the

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Speaker 2: Bad Ronald. That is that too deep a cut for most? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: That's the infamous seventies TV movie about a young guy

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Speaker 2: Wow, Wow, look out bad Ronald. That sounds like, yeah,

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Speaker 2: just add of bear. I'm into it. Does cocaine play

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Speaker 2: So these are the two ways I see this springing.

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Speaker 2: Fourth from Hollywood and again based on a true story

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Speaker 3: It's going on right now in Altadena.

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Speaker 2: So all of you arespiring screenwriters, those are the two

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Speaker 2: take either one. You don't have to cut me in.

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Speaker 2: You don't have to wet my beak. Go for it.

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Speaker 2: It's your scene. You can thank me in the credits

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Speaker 2: or not. Believe me if you don't. You're not alone

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Speaker 2: in Hollywood. I've come up with a lot of ideas

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Speaker 2: and I'm constantly forgotten when it comes to credit time.

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Speaker 2: When it comes to cutting a check, no one can

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Speaker 2: remember Mark Thompson. So don't feel bad that you can't either.

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Speaker 2: I wish you the best of luck with it. It's

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

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Speaker 3: Mark Thompson hanging out. Glad you could join us.

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Speaker 2: I've got some real stage people and screen people who

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Speaker 2: are sitting in the studio with me now. Jesse Cordy

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Speaker 2: is the director of a show that has been running

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Speaker 2: seventy nine years. I'm presuming that Jesse hasn't been directing

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Speaker 2: it for seventy nine years.

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Speaker 3: You you're a younger man that it would seem too right.

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Speaker 2: I am but a Christmas Carol, which is a show

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Speaker 2: that we all know. It's a story, we all know,

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Speaker 2: the Dickens story. It comes to life in a Hollywood

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Speaker 2: production that has been running seventy nine years.

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Speaker 3: That's correct.

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Speaker 4: And we have Broadway quality actors. Yeah, exactly, And I'm

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Speaker 4: from Broadway and so is Tim Our Scrooge was here

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Speaker 4: with us, so it is. The venue is fantastic. As

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Speaker 4: a minute you walk in there, Mark, it's eighteen forty three.

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Speaker 4: Place the whole It's an eighteen hundred seat cathedral.

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Speaker 2: It's done in the cathedral in Hutes. It's kind of

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Speaker 2: an incredible special venue. Like you could see a lot

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Speaker 3: And also we stick mark the novel.

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Speaker 4: They have changed it so many ways and so many

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Speaker 2: The First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood is the venue. The

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Speaker 2: first night, opening night is tomorrow. It runs through the twentieth. Yes,

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Speaker 2: and as you mentioned, Tim Farmer is here. He is

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Speaker 2: your Scrooge. Yes, it's a Scrooge d it's a Scrooge

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Speaker 3: Tim. I'm going to try not to scrooge it up.

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Speaker 2: To tell us about you. How did you come to this? Oh,

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Speaker 2: that's a long story. We don't have enough time. So

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Speaker 2: how long When did you come to this? Maybe the

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Speaker 2: first time I did Ebenezer Scrooge was at the Hollywood

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Speaker 2: adaptation by Doris Baisley. So it was an interesting adaptation

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Speaker 2: an Ebenezer Scrooge, it's slightly different, as you know, as

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Speaker 2: the different productions can be. And Jesse's directing, I'm sure

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Speaker 3: You know, Hollywood sort of thing. Did you you have

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Speaker 2: I'm just curious, Tim Farmer, No.

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Speaker 3: No, case audition was that I had seen him. You

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Speaker 2: Yeah, fortunately they had enjoyed my previous performance. That's terrific.

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Speaker 2: And where had you seen him in that production?

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Speaker 4: it was a good production. But this is really a

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Speaker 4: Broadway production when you go see this. And by the way,

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Speaker 4: I want to make sure that everybody knows that you

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Speaker 4: can get your tickets at a Christmas Carolhollywood dot com.

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Speaker 4: You can get your tickets there. We're only doing ten performances,

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Speaker 2: The webcit the website again, please, the website is a

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Speaker 2: Christmas Carolhollywood dot com. A Christmas Carolhollywood dot com. Yes, okay,

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Speaker 2: The interesting thing too, is this is Scrooge speaking right now.

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Speaker 2: Indeed it is is that the set, which I designed

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Speaker 3: It's not a theater.

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Speaker 2: Sure, you don't cathedral, big wings where it's stuff you

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Speaker 2: it's peril sure. So the message comes from that perspective,

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Speaker 2: and it's like nothing you've ever seen before.

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Speaker 3: It is. The acting is so magnificent.

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Speaker 2: This ensemble cast is amazingly good, and we tell the

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Speaker 2: lessons he wanted us to learn. That is what makes

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Speaker 4: And you know, Mark, being from Broadway, you know I

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Speaker 4: was in the original cast of Limis rob and done

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Speaker 4: a ton of stuff. This show for me is somewhat more,

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Speaker 3: And Limis is well, yeah exactly.

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Speaker 4: I mean, but this this experience, and it's really wonderful

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Speaker 4: to direct. And I get the privilege and that I

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Speaker 4: get to direct my daughter, she's also an actress.

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Speaker 3: Isn't that great? Yes?

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Speaker 2: A Christmas Carol Hollywood dot com is where you get tickets.

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Speaker 2: A Christmas Carol Hollywood dot com. The first Presbyterian uh

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Speaker 2: Cathedral of Hollywood is the is the venue when we

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Speaker 2: come back again. It starts tomorrow, go through the twentieth. Yes,

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Speaker 2: we talked to Tim and Jesse some more, and I

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Speaker 2: will reveal something to Jesse. Jesse is about to learn

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Speaker 2: haven't told you this ahead of time, deliberately. Oh, we

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Speaker 2: Jesse Cordy directs a Christmas Carol. Check it out at

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Speaker 2: the First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood. Opening night is tomorrow

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Speaker 5: the place that he calls home. What once stood as

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Speaker 5: ash and debris, and this lot is once again a home.

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Speaker 5: Surrounded by county officials, homeowner and Eating Fire survivor Ted

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Speaker 5: Corner received the first certificate of occupancy issued for a

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Speaker 5: fully rebuilt residence since the Eating Fire.

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Speaker 3: So, Ted, we're here to celebrate you.

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Speaker 1: You go, Truliara Champion.

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Speaker 2: You're a survivor, but more importantly, you are back in

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Speaker 2: your home. Someplace that you were determined to get into

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Speaker 2: by the holidays.

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Speaker 3: And it shall be wow, very very cool.

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Speaker 5: The twenty one hundred square foot house includes three bedrooms,

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Speaker 5: an attached garage, and a patio.

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Speaker 2: I mean, that's pretty amazing that they got it built

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Speaker 2: so fast, I have to say. I mean, you know, really,

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Speaker 2: we're coming up on the one year anniversary and it's.

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Speaker 5: You know, it's very different from the small hotel room

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Speaker 5: Ted had been living in since being displaced by the fire.

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Speaker 6: A lot of friends who kept me saying those first

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Speaker 6: few weeks living in a three hundred square foot hotel

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Speaker 6: room was beyond miserable, and everybody in the hotel was

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Speaker 6: a fire victim, with kids and dogs, and there's just

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Speaker 6: tears and sobbing everywhere in the building.

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Speaker 3: I've redidd.

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Speaker 5: For Ted. His thirteen year old dog, Daisy May was

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Speaker 5: his biggest motivation to get everything he needed in order

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Speaker 5: to rebuild fast.

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Speaker 3: Isn't that right? I just love that.

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Speaker 2: I mean, being an animal guy also, and I know

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Speaker 2: so many of you are as well. You have a

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Speaker 2: connection to your dog, your cat, your bird, your fish,

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Speaker 2: whatever it is. But really to make it the motivating

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Speaker 2: factor to hear that even in the conversation.

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Speaker 3: It warms my heart, you know.

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Speaker 5: For Ted, his thirteen year old dog, Daisy May was

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Speaker 5: his biggest motivation to get everything he needed in order

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Speaker 5: to rebuild fast, and he did it in just a

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Speaker 5: little over four months.

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Speaker 6: Make a decision once and go on to the next decision.

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Speaker 6: First of all, painted all one color, so you can

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Speaker 6: paint it in three days. Spray paint the whole house

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Speaker 6: four times and be done with it. I could live

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Speaker 6: in a tent, and I told the builder, live with

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Speaker 6: a tent, no problem.

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Speaker 3: I don't care.

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Speaker 2: Well, that takes a lot of pressure off the builder,

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Speaker 2: doesn't it. Yeah, the thing, dude, don't sweat it. Like,

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Speaker 2: just finish this thing. Let's got a roof on it,

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Speaker 2: Spray some paint on it, and let me move back

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Speaker 2: in and be.

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Speaker 3: Done with it.

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Speaker 6: I could live in a tent, and I told the builder,

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Speaker 6: I live with a tent, no problem.

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Speaker 3: I don't care. Sixty seven years old. What's the difference.

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Speaker 6: So I wasn't trying to build a mansion. They built

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Speaker 6: me one. They've built me a palace because they've built

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Speaker 6: this house with love.

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Speaker 5: For county leaders. This home represents more than a rebuild.

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Speaker 5: It's a sign of progress, and county officials say today's

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Speaker 5: milestone is just the beginning, with more homes expected to

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Speaker 5: be completed very soon.

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Speaker 2: Well, congratulations to them. I mean, this is really a

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Speaker 2: momentous day. So Ted, you're a place there on East

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Speaker 2: Loma Alta Drive, the first fully rebuilt residents to be

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Speaker 2: completed following the fire.

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Speaker 3: Congratulations.

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Speaker 2: It's really the first sign of what we all hope,

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Speaker 2: but kind of a germination of improvement, rebuilding of a future.

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Speaker 2: I just spent time last weekend out in the Palisades,

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Speaker 2: also in Malibu, and you see how much work is ahead.

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Speaker 2: And Alta Dina a community that is so tight, a

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Speaker 2: community that has such great history. That sign that this

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Speaker 2: first residence completely rebuilt and ready to go, it truly

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Speaker 2: is an important milestone. So congratulations. Mark Thompson Hanging out

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