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

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Speaker 2: Mark Thompson sitting in on this Wednesday night the Dodgers

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Speaker 2: Game three to one Toronto. So far they're in the

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Speaker 2: seventh Toronto up, which means they are in the top

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Speaker 2: of the seventh because they're playing at Dodger Stadium. One

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Speaker 2: out and there is a man on second. So that's

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Speaker 2: the kind of detail and insight that you can look

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Speaker 2: forward to here tonight. I was at Dodger Stadium last night.

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Speaker 2: You can imagine being a marginal celebrity as I am.

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Speaker 2: The way I always stopped for autographs and selfies. I

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Speaker 2: could barely make it to my seat. I did see

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Speaker 2: Metaworld Peace on the way out of the game, Tony,

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Speaker 2: which is kind of cool. And Mark. It's Mark and

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Speaker 2: Tony and Matt All on the show tonight. So when

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Speaker 2: you hear me mention these names, I don't want you

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Speaker 2: to think I'm just kind of like it's a beautiful

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Speaker 2: mind thing where I am just making up people and

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Speaker 2: I think I see them and they're not here, and

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Speaker 2: I start mentioning people's names. These are people who are

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Speaker 2: actually in the constellation of those working on the show.

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Speaker 2: I'm real, yeah, exactly, but sometimes my conversational style will

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Speaker 2: just mention them by name, and that's what I just did.

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Speaker 2: So anyway, I was walking to the car, and you know,

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Speaker 2: I always with celebrities have that thing. I don't want

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Speaker 3: So I'm walking out of the game.

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Speaker 2: Dodgers have lost, and there's meadow world peace and a

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Speaker 2: guy's just finished taking a selfie with him and I

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Speaker 2: looked like he was with his young kid, and I said,

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Speaker 2: and I said, hey, mana, how are you doing. Good

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Speaker 2: to see you, you know, blah blah blah. We exchanged

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Speaker 2: then I'm at the moment of truth. I'm at the

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Speaker 2: let's grab a quick pic. That would be a good

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Speaker 2: thing to say. I did not say that. I just

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Speaker 2: you later. Sometimes you gotta just be cool about this stuff,

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Speaker 2: you know. You don't want to be that person all

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Speaker 2: the time that says, hey, let's do something for the

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Speaker 2: gram or ig or whatever the kids say. So I

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Speaker 2: just kind of waved him and left him into the

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Speaker 2: darkness into the night. Then I went over to my

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Speaker 2: car and I waited an hour and a half to

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Speaker 2: get out of Dodger Stadium. That is a brutal stadium

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Speaker 2: to leave, but most stadiums are pretty brutal to leave.

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Speaker 2: I've never been to Sofi, so Fi takes a while

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Speaker 2: to get out, also, doesn't it, I'm not. My general

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Speaker 2: sense of stadium's ingress and egress is as follows, And

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Speaker 2: we'll talk more about this in about an hour and

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Speaker 2: a half because people will be leaving Dodger Stadium and

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Speaker 2: we'll have them call in, but maybe not even an

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Speaker 2: hour and a half is moving at quite a pace.

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Speaker 2: But when people arrive to a stadium, they are arriving

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Speaker 2: at roughly the same time, but not exactly the same time,

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Speaker 2: And there's a huge distinction between the two things. When

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Speaker 2: sense of a lot of traffic. There's a big volume

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Speaker 3: When you're leaving a stadium.

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Speaker 2: Everybody's on the road at one time, and it's just

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Speaker 2: a much more complicated and a much more intense experience.

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Speaker 2: You just have to kick it and allow it to happen.

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Speaker 2: But it was not horrible. It really wasn't. And I

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Speaker 2: would tell you that I had a great time even

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Speaker 2: though the Dodgers lost, and I would have liked to

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Speaker 2: the community of people I know and that I really enjoy,

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Speaker 2: are so invested in the Dodgers. But the reality is

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Speaker 2: that I mean, and this I learned in my conversation

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Speaker 2: with Metaworld Peace that that you know, losing is part

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's been that long. The lights go on

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Speaker 2: I mean literally that now you have all these sound

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Speaker 3: I don't know. I so enjoyed it.

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Speaker 2: And I look, it's the World Series, so you're in

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Speaker 2: a situation where everybody's jacked up feeling good. But I'm

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Speaker 2: to be. Just because I'm talking about the ballpark, I'll

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Speaker 2: mention that the tickets insanely expensive. I mean, it's no

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Speaker 2: seven hundred dollars would get you into the park. And

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Speaker 2: it's fascinating to read accounts of what people paid. How

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Speaker 2: who's been a lifelong Dodgers fan? I paid like sixteen

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Speaker 2: I paid for last night's game. I had to buy

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Speaker 2: But to me, it's a piece of history, you know,

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Speaker 2: to see shoey Otani pitching and hitting, to see this

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Speaker 2: and just to be there in Dodgers Stadium. I was

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Speaker 2: really excited about it. And look, when was the last

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Speaker 2: Mark or Tony or Matt? Ask me a movie question. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I'm over too with you anyway, it's a very expensive ticket.

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Speaker 2: It was a piece of history. I really enjoyed it,

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Speaker 2: and sadly right now it looks like the Dodgers are

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Speaker 2: with runners on first and third, runners up the corner,

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Speaker 2: This is a big moment with Guerrero Junior up because

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Speaker 2: he is a well he's the guy who spoiled the

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Speaker 2: party last night. So when we come back, major layoffs

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Speaker 2: will recognize as the layoff contagion, Hits Communications and beyond.

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Speaker 2: We'll talk about that when we come back.

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

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Speaker 2: Mar Hoompson just sitting in for this one night on

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Speaker 2: a Wednesday night, so nice to be with you.

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Speaker 3: I know, the Dodgers.

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Speaker 2: Game maybe where a lot of people are maybe having

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Speaker 2: I'll keep you updated and I'll let you know that

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Speaker 2: there was just as I had said, there might be

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Speaker 2: Was the representative tonight who could really destroy the Dodger

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Speaker 3: They called it a pass ball, but the ball was wild.

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Speaker 2: It was all the way over in the other batter's box,

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Speaker 2: And that's what the situations have been as relievers come

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Speaker 2: little bit later, like how they became the first Major

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Speaker 2: The company was taken over by David Ellison. That's the

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Speaker 2: the founders of Oracle and Ellison. Again, the Sun announced

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Speaker 2: I always imagine opening that email and getting that awful news. Anyway, well,

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Speaker 2: layoffs are aimed at quote, building a strong foundation to

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Speaker 2: the future. So they've cut about five percent of the

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Speaker 2: decisions are never made lightly, especially given their effect on

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Speaker 2: And this is again a layoff knife that is going

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Speaker 2: to cut right through parts of the Paramount that you

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Speaker 2: know well. Staff at CBS, MTV, BET, Comedy Central, TV

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Speaker 2: production of course will be affected. The Melrose Avenue film

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Speaker 2: they'll have ten percent of the Paramount workforce completely cut.

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Speaker 2: When all is said and done. At CBS News, about

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Speaker 2: Redbird Capital pairing and partnership that pledged to eliminate more

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Speaker 3: Joey Tuccio. Welcome to KAO Fisher.

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Speaker 4: Hey, Mark, thank you so much for having me.

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Speaker 2: Tell everybody give them a snapshot of what's happening on

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Speaker 5: Sure, I mean picture drugs plus lawlessness plus dogs and

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Speaker 5: We just rescued a dog that was running around skid Row.

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Speaker 2: These people are allowed to have these animals. How do

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean it's a lot of times dogs that

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Speaker 5: We rescue dogs that have been without food and water

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Speaker 4: So it very much is.

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Speaker 2: At least one starts with one today is the name

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Speaker 5: Yeah, a lot of it is we go down and

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Speaker 5: And it is literal lawlessness. So I would say every

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's usually dming us on Instagram somehow my number.

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Speaker 2: Today, Yeah, starts with one today on Instagram the stories

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Speaker 4: It's very sad.

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Speaker 5: I mean, there was a dog we rescue. Dude, Well,

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Speaker 5: Sometimes we unfortunately it's the pain is so far gone

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Speaker 2: That's just terrific too, that you're I mean, it's I've

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Speaker 2: Starts with one Today is the organization. You can find

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Speaker 2: Starts with one today and that Joey Tuccio, Congratulations on

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Speaker 2: the work you do. Please come talk to us again.

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Speaker 2: We'll reach out to you again, and we want to

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Speaker 2: get the word out. But I just love the work

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Speaker 2: you do and you should be very proud.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank you so much.

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Speaker 5: And I appreciate anybody who would like to get the

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Speaker 5: I really appreciate it. Mark, thank you so much.

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Speaker 2: Right on, Talk soon, Joey Tuccio from starts with one

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Speaker 2: one night, Wednesday night, trying to light it up. And

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Speaker 2: there is a major situation I want to make you

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Speaker 2: aware of, and it's Santa Ana wins that are expected.

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Speaker 2: We'll talk to Robbie one row right now, the National

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Speaker 2: Weather Service. Robbie, when are they expected?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, actually we just wrapped up the worst part

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Speaker 4: of the Santa Anti conditions the last couple of days

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Speaker 4: where we saw we had red flag warnings and place

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Speaker 4: as well as heat advisory. Fortunately, we're allowed to have

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Speaker 4: those ends this evening and with weekend Santa Ana conditions

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Speaker 4: as we head into Thursday.

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Speaker 3: Oh that's terrific.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it was hot today and I thought it

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Speaker 2: might be, you know, sort of an offshore wind. Didn't

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Speaker 2: realize that there was a Santa Ana kicking up. So

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Speaker 2: what woud the peak win gus today?

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Speaker 4: Hell, we saw peekling gus in the thirties and fifty

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Speaker 4: mile per hour range across the region, strongest across those

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Speaker 4: mountain foothill communities.

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Speaker 2: And if you look at the extended what do you

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Speaker 2: see anything in the way of another Santa An event

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Speaker 2: re emerging?

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Speaker 3: Or is this it for a while?

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Speaker 4: It looks like we're relatively safe through at least early

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Speaker 4: next week. Later the later next week could get interesting,

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Speaker 4: but it's a little far off to get any real

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Speaker 4: certainty there.

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Speaker 2: Right, Okay, well then we will. We'll chill for now.

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Speaker 2: Robbie Monroe, thank you National Weather Service. Appreciate the work

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Speaker 2: you do. By the way, Robbie, with the government shutdown,

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Speaker 2: are you getting paid or how does that work?

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Speaker 4: You can't really comment on that of it this time,

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Speaker 4: but I appreciate you ask you.

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Speaker 3: Okay, good luck?

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Speaker 2: And I hope the whole thing ends soon and you

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Speaker 2: get back to business fully compensated for the work you do.

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Speaker 3: Appreciate you, Matt, thank you.

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Speaker 4: I appreciate you having us on today.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Robbie Monroe, National Weather Service. The Louver heist, what's

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Speaker 2: the update. Two suspects have partially admitted involvement. I mean,

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Speaker 2: it was a Sunday morning, went in around nine thirty

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Speaker 2: in the morning to the most visited museum in the world.

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Speaker 3: They are the.

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Speaker 2: Two suspects who used that mechanized furniture elevator that was

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Speaker 2: attached to a truck, and that's how they reached the

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Speaker 2: second floor balcony. They went in through the window that

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Speaker 2: they smashed in, and they went into the Apollo Gallery

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Speaker 2: as it's called. They seized diamond gem and pearl encrusted tiaras,

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Speaker 2: earrings and necklaces, all which I mean, the whole mess

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Speaker 2: was once worn by royalty along the way, you know,

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Speaker 2: handed down. Napoleon gave this one to his first wife

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Speaker 2: then you know, I mean, everything's got that pedigree, right,

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Speaker 2: the high end royal pedigree, and authorities of course worry

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Speaker 2: that they take the jewels out of.

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Speaker 3: These tras et cetera. And then they melt the melt

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Speaker 3: everything down.

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Speaker 2: Everything's so recognizable you can't sell it as is right anyway,

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Speaker 2: DNA led investigators to these two suspects. One of them

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Speaker 2: is a thirty four year old Algerian. He was detained

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Speaker 2: at Charles de Gaull Airport trying to leave the country

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Speaker 2: with a one way ticket to Algeria. I might have,

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Speaker 2: you know, hung out for a while before I hit

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Speaker 2: the airport, but he wanted to get out of dodge.

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Speaker 2: The second a thirty nine year old French citizen, detained

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Speaker 2: at his home after investigators found his DNA unbroken glass.

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Speaker 3: That isn't you know, left behind in the museum.

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Speaker 2: And obviously if they're DNAs in the system, then both

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Speaker 2: of them are criminals on record, right, so they both

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Speaker 2: have criminal records, and that's exactly right.

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Speaker 3: Also, a one way ticket on an airplane's always are

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Speaker 3: read last.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, they're looking more closely at anybody with a

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Speaker 2: one way ticket. The total the stolen items and estimated

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Speaker 2: one hundred and two million dollars or as they say

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Speaker 2: in France, dallis. They're not privately insured and they're scrambled

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Speaker 2: to get away the thieves dropped and damaged. I'll remind

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Speaker 2: you the Empress j Hennie a crown. She had a crown.

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Speaker 2: It was the she was the consort of Napoleon the

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Speaker 2: third and that crown. I mean, it's funny that they

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Speaker 2: just they just tossed it like it was just too

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Speaker 2: heavy or unwieldy to bring the whole thing start to finish.

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Speaker 3: Seven minutes so two in custody.

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Speaker 2: But they think that more are out there, and they

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Speaker 2: still haven't recovered any of that which I just mentioned.

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Speaker 2: And by the way, this high end jewelry store is

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Speaker 2: a contagion that extended to New York. Cops are searching

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Speaker 2: for a group of suspects who broke into a home

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Speaker 2: in Queens and they stole three million dollars in jewelry.

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Speaker 2: They dressed up as construction workers, the same way the

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Speaker 2: Louver guys did. They got in by forcibly opening a

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Speaker 2: rear door, and then they got a safe out that

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Speaker 2: had jewelry worth over three million dollars. They say, three

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Speaker 2: point two million dollars. That, my friends, has to be

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Speaker 2: an inside job. Otherwise how would they know there's a

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Speaker 2: safe there with that kind of I mean, you could

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Speaker 2: go door to door in Queens and how do you

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Speaker 2: you know you're not going to hit anybody who's got jewelry.

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Speaker 2: That's a million dollars, all right, or one hundred thousand

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Speaker 2: dollars three point two million. Somebody knew something to go

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Speaker 2: to that house. Investigators are working on that. Mark Thompson

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Speaker 2: here on KFI. It's a Wednesday night and a grim

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Speaker 2: story at Dodgers Stadium in the ninth it is six

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Speaker 2: to one Toronto. Dodgers have one more shot at it.

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