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Speaker 2: This is well, I don't know what this is. It's

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Speaker 2: nine o'clock. I'm Michael Monks from KFI News with you.

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Speaker 2: We are now live. I do hope that you enjoyed

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Speaker 2: our two hour fire special that preceded this hour. If

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Speaker 2: you missed any part of it, you can find it

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Speaker 2: Saturday night from six to eight pm. That will be

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Speaker 2: in lieu of my regular Saturday night show, Michael Monks reports.

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Speaker 2: So it has been one year since those devastating wildfires

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Speaker 2: tour through Los Angeles County, basically erasing Pacific Palisades and

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Speaker 2: Alta Dina as we knew it, and one year later,

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Speaker 2: not a whole lot to show for it in the

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Speaker 2: form of recovery. And if you know anything about Los Angeles,

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Speaker 2: it's very difficult to build anything here anyway. But when

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Speaker 2: you think about the massive losses incurred all at the

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Speaker 2: same time, and the rush and the need to rebuild

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Speaker 2: so much at the same time, it's going to take

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Speaker 2: a very very long time to get this city. These

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Speaker 2: areas back to any semblance of normal. The processes here

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Speaker 2: are already bogged down annoyingly long, and this fire has

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Speaker 2: only exposed that further. There will be so much more

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Speaker 2: to talk about this year, as year two of the

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Speaker 2: recovery gets underway. But for now, we recognize the one

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Speaker 2: year anniversary of the Palisades Fire, the Eaten Fires, the

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Speaker 2: other fires that tour through southern California on that January

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Speaker 2: day one year ago.

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Speaker 3: Today, exactly one year ago, unstoppable wildfires consuming entire neighborhoods.

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Speaker 3: When the smoke cleared, the Palace and Altadena fires had

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Speaker 3: destroyed more than thirteen thousand structures and killed thirty one people. Today,

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Speaker 3: a community led demonstration called they Let Us Burn, angry

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Speaker 3: at the city's response to the fires, and much of

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Speaker 3: the anger aimed at the mayor of Los Angeles, who

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Speaker 3: was out of the country at the time.

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Speaker 2: I still haven't been home. My family hasn't been home.

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Speaker 4: Although our house is standing, we got left contamination, so

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Speaker 4: we don't feel safe going back.

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Speaker 5: I ran out of unemployment money, and you know, it's

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Speaker 5: kind of hard trying to just stay afloat. I'm back

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Speaker 5: at work, but it's nowhere near the capacity that I

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Speaker 5: was before the fire. I never thought that I'd be

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Speaker 5: standing here saying that my house is no longer standing.

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Speaker 2: I've lived it out to all of my life.

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Speaker 6: The numbers are staggering here. Nearly twenty four thousand acres

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Speaker 6: burned here in the Palisades fire alone, nearly seven thousand structures,

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Speaker 6: most of them homes. We're back here on Hartzell Street

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Speaker 6: where we were standing just one year ago, and you

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Speaker 6: can home after home wiped from the earth. For the

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Speaker 6: families who live here along this street, the last year

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Speaker 6: has been a struggle deciding how to rebuild here.

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Speaker 3: One year later, fewer than a dozen homes have been

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Speaker 3: rebuilt here in Altadena, dozens of empty lots lined the neighborhood.

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Speaker 7: Oh, we have been paying this entire time the mortgage.

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Speaker 3: The Lombardi family say their property tested for high level

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Speaker 3: toxins like lead. As they go back and forth with

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Speaker 3: their insurance company, their homes still looking exactly as they

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Speaker 2: We're just asking our insurance companies for what's right and

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Speaker 3: Us struggling to find permanent housing.

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Speaker 8: One year after they eat and fire devastated Altadena. Rebuilding

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Speaker 8: is beginning, but many lots remain bare. Victims who lost

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Speaker 8: or stay and fight to rebuild. Kim Jones family made

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Speaker 8: the tough decision to sell. An LLC bought their land.

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Speaker 5: It's perfect timing for people to come over and so bad.

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Speaker 8: Some victims claim a gold rush is underway by developer

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Speaker 9: Everybody lives on the street have some type of feeling

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Speaker 8: Home Alex Stone, ABC News, Alta, Dina, California.

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Speaker 2: And those are just some of the questions that remain.

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Speaker 2: Will outsiders come in and buy up these lots? Will

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Speaker 2: they sit on them for a while because they're well capitalized,

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Speaker 2: slowing the progress and putting that neighborhood back together? Many,

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Speaker 2: many questions remain. One question that does not remain after

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Speaker 2: an event today is will there be another candidate in

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Speaker 2: the race for Los Angeles mayor. There was a rally

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Speaker 2: work done by the City of Los Angeles leading up

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Speaker 2: to the fires, the work done during the fires, and

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Speaker 2: been louder about this than former reality television star Spencer Pratt.

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Speaker 2: He's grown quite a profile on social media since the

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Speaker 2: Palisades fire claimed his home, and he's been platformed by

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Speaker 2: a lot of conservative activists and politicians Online. He's gotten

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Speaker 2: a lot of traction. Today, he announced that he is

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Speaker 2: going to seek the city's highest office. Here are some

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Speaker 2: of his remarks at the They Let Us Burn rally

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Speaker 2: in Pacific Palisades today.

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Speaker 7: Oh my gosh, I got more water coming out of

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Speaker 7: my eyes in LADWP out in both our reservoirs. I'm

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Speaker 7: here today to come commemorate the one year anniversary of

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Speaker 7: the worst day of my life. On January seventh, twenty

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Speaker 7: twenty five, Heidi and I lost our home. We lost

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Speaker 7: every material possession we owned. My parents lost their home too,

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Speaker 7: and with it decades of memories made inside those walls.

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Speaker 2: I grew up in the Palisades.

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Speaker 7: I moved through these streets thinking my two boys would

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Speaker 7: grow up here just like I did, with that same

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Speaker 7: envisioned from my family burned to the ground. Standing here

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Speaker 7: one year later, I have to tell you the most

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Speaker 7: heartbreaking part of the past year wasn't being displaced or

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Speaker 7: losing everything I own. It was the realization that all

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Speaker 7: of this was preventable. We are standing here amongst the

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Speaker 7: ashes of our once beautiful town because the state and

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Speaker 7: local leaders let us burn. Gavin Newsom and the State

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Speaker 7: of California let brush grow wild into Penga State Park

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Speaker 7: for fifty years with no prescribed burns and no wildfire maintenance.

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Speaker 7: Gavin Newsom and the State of California created an ensuranurance

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Speaker 7: markets so hostile that every major carrier stopped writing policies

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Speaker 7: and dropped our families and our neighbors just before the

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Speaker 7: sparks flew here in the Palisades, NGOs, nonprofits and unions

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Speaker 7: are running this town. Why do you think one hundred

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Speaker 7: million in fire aid money is missing? The system in

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Speaker 7: Los Angeles isn't struggling, It's fundamentally broken. It is a

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Speaker 7: machine designed to protect the people at the top and

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Speaker 7: the friends they exchanged favors with, while the rest of

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Speaker 7: us drown in toxic smoke and ash. Business as usual

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Speaker 7: is a death sentence for Los Angeles and I'm done

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Speaker 7: waiting for someone to take real action. That's why I

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Speaker 7: am running for mayor and let and let me be clear,

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Speaker 7: this just isn't a campaign.

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Speaker 10: This is a mission, and we are going to expose

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Speaker 10: the system. We are going into every dark corner of

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Speaker 10: LA politics and disinfecting this city with our light. And

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Speaker 10: when we are done, La is going to be camera

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Speaker 10: ready again.

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Speaker 2: That was reality TV star Spencer Pratt speaking at the

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Speaker 2: They Let Us Burn rally in Pacific Palisades. He lost

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Speaker 2: his home in the Palisades fire, has been a vocal

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Speaker 2: critic of the state and local government since then, and

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Speaker 2: has now announced his candidacy for mayor of Los Angeles.

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Speaker 2: He's serious about it. He posted a photo on Instagram

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Speaker 2: after this announcement showing that he has formally signed the

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Speaker 2: papers to enter the race. Elliemhor Karen Bass is running

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Speaker 2: for reelection. She so far faces a challenge from former

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Speaker 2: LAUSD superintendent Austin Buner, who seems to be running a

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Speaker 2: pretty professional campaign, but there are other challengers. Ray Huang,

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Speaker 2: a Democratic Socialist housing advocacy executive. There's also a Porter

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Speaker 2: Ranch neighborhood counselor assad Al Najar who ran for city

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Speaker 2: who's a musician here in town. Spencer Pratt now joining

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Speaker 2: that field for the June primary. We're still waiting to

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Speaker 2: Possibly e La County Supervisor Lindsay Horvath also speculated as

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Speaker 2: someone to watch as a potential candidate. Up next. Nick Reiner,

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Speaker 2: accused of killing his parents, actor director Rob Reiner and

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Speaker 2: his own mother inside their home in Brentwood. He was

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Speaker 2: in court today and now he has a public defender,

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Speaker 2: as his high profile attorney says he's off the case.

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

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Speaker 2: Nick Reiner, the thirty two year old man accused of

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Speaker 2: killing his parents inside their home home in Brentwood, was

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Speaker 2: in court today. His parents, of course, actor director Rob

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Speaker 2: Reiner and his wife Michelle, murdered before Christmas. Nick Reiner

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Speaker 2: was to be arraigned today, but something significant happened. After

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Speaker 2: his arrest. He appeared with high profile defense attorney Alan Jackson,

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Speaker 2: who said to the media and the public, give this

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Speaker 2: some time, let all of the facts come out. There

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Speaker 2: is much to this story. But now Alan Jackson is

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Speaker 2: not Nick Reiner's attorney anymore.

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Speaker 8: Alan Jackson withdrawing from the case. Now under a protective order.

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Speaker 8: He can't speak about it. We don't know the reasoning

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Speaker 8: behind it. That is all sealed. But he is no

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Speaker 8: longer Nick Reiner's attorney. Everything has been put on hold

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Speaker 8: She's known as Miss Green is her name, and that

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Speaker 8: That is all sealed.

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Speaker 2: That's ABC's Alex Stone reporting today from the court room.

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Speaker 2: Now Nick Reiner's previous attorney, Alan Jackson, told the judge

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Speaker 2: we have no choice at this juncture. You'll hear from

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Speaker 2: Alan Jackson in just a moment. This announcement came shortly after,

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Speaker 2: Kimberly Green, the public defender appointed to defend Nick Reiners,

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Speaker 2: you heard reported by Alex Stone there, spoke briefly in

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Speaker 2: the public defender Green asked for this arraignment to be

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Speaker 2: delayed one last time. It was previous delayed because Alan

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Speaker 2: Jackson requested a delay. Say, we need some time to

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Speaker 2: figure some things out. Now, Alan did speak, Excuse me,

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Speaker 2: Alan Jackson did speak with reporters. We didn't learn a

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Speaker 2: whole lot, but here's what he said. We're not just convinced.

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Speaker 11: We know that the legal process will reveal the true

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Speaker 11: facts of the circumstances surrounding this case. Next case, we

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Speaker 11: expect the public defender to step in. They've already been

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Speaker 11: appointed and very capably protect Nick Reiner's interests. But be clear,

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Speaker 11: be very very clear about this. My team and I

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Speaker 11: remain deeply, deeply committed to Nick Reiner and to his

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Speaker 11: best interests. And you can take this to the bank.

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Speaker 11: Is that pursue it to the laws of this state.

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Speaker 11: Pursue it to the law in California. Nick Reiner is

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Speaker 11: not guilty of murder. Print that print that circumstances beyond

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Speaker 11: our control, but more importantly, circumstances beyond Nick's control have

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Speaker 11: dictated that. Sadly, it's made it impossible for us to

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Speaker 11: continue our representation of Nick.

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Speaker 2: That's defense attorney Alan Jackson, saying that he will no

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Speaker 2: longer be representing Nick Reiner, but obviously giving a passionate

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Speaker 2: defense for him anyway, at least as it relates to

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Speaker 2: the specific charge of murder. He says that the evidence

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Speaker 2: was charged for the December sixteenth killing of his seventy

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Speaker 2: who were found dead excuse me on December fourteenth, that

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Speaker 12: Most attorney withdrawls boil down to one of two things.

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Speaker 2: There was a deadly shooting in Minneapolis today involving an

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Speaker 2: There is a manhunt on the way in Salt Lake

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Speaker 2: in Minneapolis, Minnesota, a day of much unrest and Immigration

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Speaker 16: The President defending the officers, saying we need to stand

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Speaker 13: There's an effort underway to get all the video involved,

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Speaker 15: Doing is causing chaos and distrust. They're ripping families apart,

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Speaker 15: Having them there was only causing more chaos. Having them

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Speaker 2: You can surmise what the mayor said there. That's the

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Speaker 2: The LAPD says it's investigating this New Year's Eve shooting

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Speaker 2: why don't you scare me? I'm sitting here, and then

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Speaker 18: Yes, the Lord would like to inform you that the

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Speaker 2: there's any opportunity to protest. People do they show up here?

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Speaker 2: They just do. Oh, there's no doubt. I would be

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Speaker 2: shocked if there wasn't a protest here tomorrow. And what

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Speaker 2: you're seeing is other cities experiencing that turmoil of the

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Speaker 2: arrival of these federal agents, something that LA got first.

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Speaker 2: This was really the first city that the immigration enforcement

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Speaker 2: efforts really ramps up in. And you did hear local

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Speaker 2: officials saying, we're the test kitchen. We are the place

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Speaker 2: that this activity is going to be starting, and then

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Speaker 2: it's going elsewhere. It's kind of slower here lately, but

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Speaker 2: it's a new year, and you can expect that any

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Speaker 2: call for some of these protesters in Los Angeles will

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Speaker 2: show up for this. But a very dangerous situation a

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Speaker 2: disputed one. Let's be clear, there are obviously two sides

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Speaker 2: to both of these accounts, the thing that happened in

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Speaker 2: Northridge and the thing that happened in Minneapolis. And what

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Speaker 2: we should hope for is a fair investigation of the

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Speaker 2: facts so that we can learn what really went down

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Speaker 2: and what the consequences, if any, should be up next.

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Speaker 2: Big big, big changes possibly on the horizon here in Hollywood.

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Speaker 2: But one thing stays the same. Warner Brothers doesn't want

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Speaker 2: Paramount to be It's daddy, and it's said so again.

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Speaker 2: Even if you don't care about Hollywood business, to pay

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Speaker 2: attention to this big, big thing because it could change

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Speaker 2: the entire landscape of Los Angeles' signature industry. We'll get

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Speaker 2: into that next.

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

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Speaker 2: I'm Michael Monks from KFI News wrapping things up with

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Speaker 2: you on this Wednesday night in southern California and coming

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Speaker 2: up next coast to coast with George Norri who joins

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Speaker 2: us now Live. Good evening to you. George, Hello, Michael,

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Speaker 2: how are you? I am well. I think today is

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Speaker 2: the last day where we can officially say Happy New Year.

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Speaker 2: Without being you know, complete duphasis. So happy New Year

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Speaker 2: to you.

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Speaker 12: We'll be saying happy twenty seven pretty soon.

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Speaker 2: It goes by too fast and does Indeed, Hey, what's

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Speaker 2: on the show tonight?

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Speaker 14: Tonight we're going to talk about protecting our power grid.

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Speaker 2: Then later on we're going to go into this strange

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Speaker 2: and unusual on coast to coast. Can't wait for that. George,

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Speaker 2: always great to talk to. You, have a good one.

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Speaker 14: Thank you, Michael.

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Speaker 2: Warner Brothers. Discovery's board of directors for the second time

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Speaker 2: has voted unanimously to reject Paramount's latest offer to buy them,

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Speaker 2: and the company reiterated its recommendation and supported the Netflix

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Speaker 2: offer of eighty two point seven billion dollars.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: Warner Brothers rejected this thing previously. And the reason you

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Speaker 2: need to pay attention to this is this could completely

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Speaker 2: reshape Hollywood. And these aren't just companies that put out

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Speaker 2: big movies or television shows. They own news operations as well,

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Speaker 2: and so as you consolidate, you are combining more editorial

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Speaker 2: interest into one entity, and there is less diversity of

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Speaker 2: viewpoint and news gathering and all of that can be

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Speaker 2: really dangerous, but specifically to Los Angeles. This could cost jobs,

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Speaker 2: This could change the way content is created. We're already

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Speaker 2: struggling here as a Hollywood industry in terms of production numbers.

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Speaker 2: This is one to watch now. Federal regulators will have

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Speaker 2: to approve Netflix's overtures to acquire Warner Brothers Discovery. But

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Speaker 2: Paramount doesn't seem ready to walk away from this yet.

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Speaker 2: So they've come back with this sweeter deal. Want to

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Speaker 2: see if they come back with I don't know, an

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Speaker 2: even sweeter deal. The business side of it is difficult

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Speaker 2: to understand. They're offering this much for shares and this

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Speaker 2: many billions for the company overall. They want the streaming,

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Speaker 2: they don't want the all. That's very difficult. But it's

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Speaker 2: important to pay attention to if you are a consumer

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Speaker 2: of content, if you watch movies, if you watch television shows,

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Speaker 2: if you watch or read the news. That's the really

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Speaker 2: important part, and specifically for those of us in southern California,

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Speaker 2: this could impact your neighbors and the job market and

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Speaker 2: all of the many many jobs that are supported by

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Speaker 2: the Hollywood industry. Pay attention to that one. AVC Entertainment

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Speaker 2: News we heard tale of a party.

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Speaker 4: The nominations for the Actor Awards are now out. The

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Speaker 4: casts of one Battle after another and Sinners saw nominations

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Speaker 4: in multiple film categories.

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Speaker 2: A record great studio.

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Speaker 4: Well the TV side was all about the seth Rogan

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Speaker 4: comedy The Studio Harrison Ford, meanwhile, is set to receive

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Speaker 4: the SAG After a Life Achievement Award. The ceremony airs

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Speaker 4: live on Netflix on March first. Sus low Down has

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Speaker 4: been renewed for season two on FX. Production on the

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Speaker 4: Ethan Hawk series starts up again this spring, and the

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Speaker 4: Fee Fighters will be down a member for a few

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Speaker 4: upcoming shows. Guitarist Pat Smear, according to an Instagram post

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Speaker 4: from the band, suffered a bizarre gardening accident. An apparent

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Speaker 4: reference to this is final Tap. Jason Faulkner, who's played

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Speaker 4: for Beck and Saint Vincent, will fill in this month

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Speaker 4: for three shows in Mexico, Los Angeles, and Texas.

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Speaker 2: Mike Debuski, ABC News. You heard Mike Debuski there reference

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Speaker 2: the Actor Awards. The nominations are out previously known as

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Speaker 2: these SAG Awards, and we as broadcasters are part of

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Speaker 2: this union. We are of course the after of SAG

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Speaker 2: After at the American Federation of Television and radio artist,

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Speaker 2: and I think Mark Runner, we get to vote in this,

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Speaker 2: don't we?

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Speaker 18: We do when we certainly pay plenty of dues. Oh

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Speaker 18: my god, titleist to vote no kidding and get the screeners.

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Speaker 18: Have you ever voted no comment? But I have enjoyed

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Speaker 18: the screeners?

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Speaker 2: Okay, I the past couple of times I've been a member,

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Speaker 2: and I get they don't send screeners anymore, by the way, right,

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Speaker 2: they don't send hard they.

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Speaker 18: Do, but they also have an app now that you

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Speaker 18: can watch on whatever streaming device you use, which that's

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Speaker 18: what I've seen, very inconvenient. And I don't like to

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Speaker 18: vote on anything unless i've seen absolute everything, and it's

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Speaker 18: hard to find time to do that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you are a movie guy, and I'm looking at

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Speaker 2: this listen. I'm completely out of touch with things that

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Speaker 2: are happening in the world.

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Speaker 18: But I feel so left out, Like I'm you guys

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Speaker 18: are like at the cool table.

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't call it that. We don't get out much.

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Speaker 2: Do you want to be brought in fush?

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Speaker 18: I mean I want to get screeners. Oh, you gotta

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Speaker 18: get in the union. Well, I don't think you're in

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Speaker 18: sag after are you?

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Speaker 2: Fish?

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Speaker 18: You don't have to do that because you're a technical

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Speaker 18: director board op yea. But the people who are on

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Speaker 18: the air have to. It's it's the price we pay

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Speaker 18: for the honor and privilege of working.

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Speaker 2: It's true. But but and fush, we can't even give

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Speaker 2: you the screeners like literally, they will arrest us.

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Speaker 18: We don't want to get busted by this screener police.

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Speaker 18: I feel like I'm I'm like you guys are like

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Speaker 18: the cool table. Now you might be able to come

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Speaker 18: over and watch watch it, but I don't even know

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Speaker 18: if that's allowed. W I think the law prevents us

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Speaker 18: from being friends.

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Speaker 2: Stuff.

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Speaker 18: Yeah, Fushi can't come over. I'm sorry, damn it, stay away.

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Speaker 18: I'm sorry, buddy. I know we're running out of time.

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Speaker 18: But Mark, you are a movie guy. I've heard you write,

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Speaker 18: I read your writing on the air. You always have

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Speaker 18: great observations of what's happening in the cinemas, one battle

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Speaker 18: after another.

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Speaker 2: I've loved Leonardo DiCaprio since The Beach in the nineties.

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Speaker 2: Is this as good as everyone's saying? Is this?

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Speaker 18: Well? It's a little bit polarizing, but I really liked it.

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Speaker 18: And if you like movies, you have to at least

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Speaker 18: see it. Well, what about tim O Tay and Marty Supreme?

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Speaker 18: Have you seen that one?

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Speaker 2: I haven't gotten to that one yet. I Ping Pong Films.

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Speaker 18: I may not be my Bailey genre, but the word

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Speaker 18: on it is really good and it sounds like another

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Speaker 18: one of these that you just have to see one

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Speaker 18: way or the other. Well, downt Nabbey three was snubbed, robbed, completely,

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Speaker 18: rob robbed by anti Anglo files. My goodness, hey, great

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Speaker 18: to spend a little bit of time with you two fellas,

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Speaker 18: My union brother and the misfit there at the board

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Speaker 18: still find to do.

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Speaker 2: I'd love to do it again sometime and again. If

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Speaker 2: you missed our fire special that we deduced here at

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Speaker 2: KFI News, it ran seven to nine to nine. It's

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Speaker 2: online at KFIAM six forty dot com and you can

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Speaker 2: the Year since the January twenty twenty five wildfires here

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Speaker 2: in La County And Michael Monks from KFI News hope

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Speaker 2: to talk to you again soon right here on kf

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