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Speaker 2: of a new week. Many of you might have had

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Speaker 2: the day off Martin Luther King holiday. There were issues

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Speaker 2: I guess in the march honoring the memory of Martin

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Speaker 2: Luther King. We'll get to those. Also talk about the earthquake.

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Speaker 2: Riverside County. The billionaire tax, the proposal, the backlash, the reproposal,

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Speaker 2: the rebacklash. It's all up tonight and Valentino has passed away.

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Speaker 2: Be honest, did you know Valentino was still alive? Come on, Rudolph, Exactly,

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Speaker 2: this is Valentino Garavani, one of the most enduring fashion

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Speaker 2: designers in all the world I have. I know you

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Speaker 2: wouldn't think if you'll look at the way I dress.

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Speaker 2: But I have a high fashion story for you that

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Speaker 2: Many of these designers, they have their brand taken over

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Speaker 2: and changes have to be made. And one of my

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Speaker 2: they took over a big brand I will share with you,

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Speaker 2: and it's a big, big designer. I'll share that with

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Speaker 2: you later in this hour, in the nine o'clock hour,

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Speaker 2: I have a conversation with one of those Hollywood fixer

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Speaker 2: types who get stuff done. He's going to call in Steffush,

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Speaker 2: do you need anything done? I can always room for improvement. Exactly,

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Speaker 2: take it. You never know. Mark Ronner. You seem like

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Speaker 2: I could use like a Ray Donovan type. Okay to

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Speaker 2: lean on some people. I don't think he's gonna cop

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Speaker 2: the leaning of people. Well, then what good is he?

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Speaker 2: I think he's more of an expedior than he is

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Speaker 2: and Nicky always can help get things expedited.

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Speaker 3: Is the fix is single and handsome?

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Speaker 2: I see well. I love that didn't take long. I

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Speaker 2: love someone who knows what they want exactly. It was

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Speaker 2: the Annual Martin Luther King Day Junior Parade in South

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Speaker 4: La honoring Doctor King with the annual Mlkday Parade and

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Speaker 4: wrapping it up with the Freedom Festival. Fox Leven's Rachel

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Speaker 4: moments ago.

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Speaker 5: Rachel one hundreds people, as you could imagine, as you

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Speaker 5: Valet for the annual parade for MLK Day, and while

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Speaker 5: reflection not just on doctor King's legacy, but also from

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Speaker 5: many people hoping the country it could be more united

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Speaker 5: than divided. Los Angeles joining cities across the country to

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Speaker 5: observe Martin Luther King Junior Day and the civil rights

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Speaker 2: It's a purpose and a plan that he had in

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Speaker 5: While celebrations honored the black American civil rights leader who

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Speaker 5: including protests, a political division, and policies related to immigration enforcement.

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Speaker 2: We needed this.

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Speaker 6: See sometimes just take the press self of brain, your mind,

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Speaker 5: Many parents and grandparents, like Amico Green, brought their grandkids

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Speaker 8: With no school being today, we're going to come out

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Speaker 3: It's the celebration I think is good.

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Speaker 2: It is true when you're a kid, it's sort of

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Speaker 3: She outlived Valentina, she.

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Speaker 2: Which really had been a goal of hers. So it's really, uh,

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Speaker 2: me find it. But she had reminded me that she

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Speaker 2: walked with Martin Luther King, and she walked with him

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Speaker 2: every time she could she said, And when I was

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Speaker 2: I marched in nineteen sixty three and in every March thereafter. Anyway,

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Speaker 8: I think it's good so everybody could like learn about

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Speaker 8: Martin Luther King and why today starts a special.

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Speaker 1: Day despite our differences.

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Speaker 5: Some Angelinos say this federal holiday is a reminder that

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Speaker 5: we are more similar to our neighbors than we may think.

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Speaker 2: Now she's considered somebody else.

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Speaker 6: that on today there'd be free admission an MLK Day

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Speaker 5: That announcement in direct response the announcement from last month

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Speaker 5: Park Service not offering now free admission for both MLK

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Speaker 5: Day and Juneteenth preen Life. I'm Rachel Ericon. I'll send

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Speaker 4: Quite behind you now there, But what a day all right? Meantime,

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Speaker 4: Thank you, Rachel. The nation remembers the life and legacy

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Speaker 4: of doctor Martin Luther King, Junior. From New York City,

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Speaker 4: where it looks really cold, to d C, where it's

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Speaker 4: also probably really cold. Communities nationwide took to the streets

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Speaker 4: to march in honor of the civil rights leader to

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Speaker 4: celebrate his impact on US history. Although doctor King believed

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Speaker 4: some leaders argue the US is still battling some of

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Speaker 4: the same themes of discrimination.

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, we'll always still be battling on some level,

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Speaker 2: It's true, but you could certainly say that we have

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Speaker 2: bachelor considerably. But when you talk about nonviolent resistance, which

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Speaker 2: mean that is super relevant, right, nonviolent resistance. And now

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Speaker 2: Riverside County earthquake, the billionaire tax Valentino, West Hollywood has

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Speaker 2: Dolly Parton celebrating today, not the Martin Luther King Day celebration.

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Speaker 2: COBLT is enjoying my engineer. There was a big quake

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Speaker 2: four to nine hitting Riverside County, the earthquake.

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Speaker 2: Is it because it is just east of Palm Springs

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Speaker 8: not expecting a lot of damage.

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Speaker 2: desolate areas above all, Right, We'll keep you posted if

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Speaker 2: anything more materializes there. The battle for Greenland is on.

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Speaker 2: into my show, The Mark Thompson Show. It's on YouTube

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Speaker 2: live every day. Now. When we come back, I want

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Speaker 2: Mark Thompson here on this Monday night in LA getting

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Speaker 2: a little ch tonight. It's been a great few days, though,

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Speaker 7: Enough to move out of California. It will financially change

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Speaker 2: This guy talks like NICKI does, and.

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Speaker 7: They want reform and I think it may take two

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Speaker 7: move back. So my name is Julian Johnson, originally Australian,

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Speaker 7: but I've been doing luxury real estate in Money, Beach

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Speaker 2: You think it would be fun to do luxury real

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Speaker 2: real estate. Anybody who grew up watching say the Marx

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Speaker 3: With Marx Brothers, you live an old people territory?

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Speaker 7: and I'm sure it will get announced. I think that

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Speaker 7: they've been troubled by California's long term business climate for

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Speaker 7: some time, primarily in Los Angeles, where there's been a

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Speaker 7: lot more change. I think San Francisco and Palo Alto

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Speaker 7: has been had less change, although they've had some economic

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Speaker 7: and some cultural issues there and safety and security. I

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Speaker 7: know that one of my clients moved here because his

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Speaker 7: wife was just getting harassed constantly on the street, and

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Speaker 7: they feel money's a lot safer. And I think that

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Speaker 7: this billionaire tax, it really does. There's a luxury tax

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Speaker 7: for selling homes in California, primarily Los Angeles, but this

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Speaker 7: new billionair tax really hit the Palo Alto group. And

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Speaker 7: I think that they all talked about amongst themselves and said, Okay,

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Speaker 7: let's move. We're talking about the fact that enough of

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Speaker 7: them move, it's actually going to cause change. If I

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Speaker 7: feel the move not so much, but enough of them move.

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Speaker 7: They had the billionaire attacks one time, but they're going

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Speaker 7: to continue to move here because again, they want to

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Speaker 7: be surrounded by their friends. It's a crystal ball question

447
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Speaker 7: and we don't really know where it's going, but Miami's

448
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Speaker 7: had so many jumps in the last ten years. I

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Speaker 7: think it's going to become more culturally interesting with art

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Speaker 7: and food, and I think those big companies are going

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Speaker 7: to push the state to spend more money on just

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Speaker 7: activities and amenities and bring so many people from the

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Speaker 7: around the world that had never been to money Ball before.

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Speaker 7: Because I do think it's a future city for America.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I would agree that Miami is getting a tremendous

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Speaker 2: flow of these billionaires out of California. There's no question

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Speaker 2: about it. I know one billionaire. I know one guy.

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Speaker 2: He's a hotelier and he lives in the Bay Area

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Speaker 2: and he moved to Miami.

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Speaker 3: Do you know how many there are in the state?

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Speaker 2: Though?

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Speaker 3: How many billionaires.

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Speaker 2: Are that's a great question, I'll tell you, don't tell me. Now,

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Speaker 2: hold it. Let's wait for the break. When we come back,

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Speaker 2: we will reveal. No googling. Just think of what your

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Speaker 2: answer would be, how many billionaires are there in California?

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Speaker 2: We will answer the question next.

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

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Speaker 2: And the reality is that Mark's abiding love of old

470
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Speaker 2: time entertainment is is really it's a credit to you.

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Speaker 2: I like it all. I just watched The Bone Temple

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00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:41,440
Speaker 2: last night, and oh, yes, not as is No, that's modern, No,

473
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Speaker 2: that is modern. In fact, that's Ray Fines right. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: he's terrific in it.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And I don't just watch old stuff, you swine. No, no, no,

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Speaker 2: And indeed I don't see you. I was I said,

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Speaker 2: you're abiding knowledge, right, I didn't show that you were

479
00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:56,399
Speaker 2: that you're the only that that's you have exclusive knowledge.

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Speaker 2: And my little defensive was that lashing out? No, I

481
00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:00,400
Speaker 2: think so, I think you have a more I get

482
00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:02,119
Speaker 2: to know you, the more I feel like you may

483
00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:04,400
Speaker 2: have a lot of problems that we have to explore here.

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Speaker 2: So some PTSD, for sure, some of us will enjoy

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Speaker 2: that exploration. Though we got a Well before I get

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Speaker 2: to the the number of billionaires. Just because we're on this,

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Speaker 2: we got a I haven't listened to it yet. I

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Speaker 2: really should. Don't you think I should listen to it? NICKI?

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Speaker 2: Before I put it on, I think the I checked

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Speaker 2: we got on the iHeartRadio app. Because this is KFI

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Speaker 2: AM six forty. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.

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00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:36,200
Speaker 2: And if you go on the iHeart Radio app in

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Speaker 2: the upper right hand part of the app, there's a microphone.

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Speaker 2: You can leave messages like up to thirty seconds in length,

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00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:48,080
Speaker 2: and we'll get those messages. So, I guess somebody said

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Speaker 2: something disparaging about Ronner. I don't believe this, and neither

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Speaker 2: did I and I haven't heard it. I don't think

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Speaker 2: we should play it, all right, Well, if he doesn't

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Speaker 2: want to play it, I'm not going to all right,

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Speaker 2: go ahead. That was quick. Uh, Nicky says it's funny,

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00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:08,440
Speaker 2: didn't you say that? NICKI?

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Speaker 3: I mean I always laugh at this kind of thing.

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Speaker 2: So I don't think you can take if I didn't

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Speaker 2: have thick skin. Yeah, as long as they don't say

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Speaker 2: anything about my stuff, I'll be good. Get rid of

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Speaker 2: lib tard. Mark Ronner sending out the desert palms? Am

507
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Speaker 2: I a lib tard? I don't know. It's your lib

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00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:32,240
Speaker 2: tardyness that I love most? Is actually a palm desert?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 2: Learned something? Yeah? Learned something? Isn't there a movie that

511
00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:39,320
Speaker 2: could teach you something? Why did you sell your mom's

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Speaker 2: house in Seattle?

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Speaker 1: You were so disgusted with that area.

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Speaker 2: I don't know about that. My mom did live in Seattle. Okay, well,

515
00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:52,240
Speaker 2: now he's uh, he's deviated. Uh yeah, yeah, my my mom.

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Speaker 2: I sold my mom's house in Spokane, Washington after she

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Speaker 2: died quite a number of years ago. I see. Okay, gosh,

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Speaker 2: these people have you talk about a deep cut? Even

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00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:04,240
Speaker 2: in the cut, it's a deep cut cut. I have

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Speaker 2: to wonder if that possibly could be a friend trolling

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Speaker 2: me here. That's somebody, you know, I don't know. I

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00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:13,400
Speaker 2: couldn't identify the voice, but one way or the other.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for the input. Yeah, apparently this is someone doesn't

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Speaker 2: like me. Let's hear that what m Thompson. M Thompson's

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Speaker 2: one the night. Yeah, that's awesome. Oh oh that is

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Speaker 2: it's a good one. I like it all right. Well, anyway,

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Speaker 2: that was fun and thank you for that. Thanks for

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Speaker 2: everybody who leaves, who leaves us soon, you know, any

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Speaker 2: kind of back and forth on the iHeartRadio app. Those

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Speaker 2: are the talkbacks so far. So we were talking about

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Speaker 2: the billionaire tax. It's a real thing and it's part

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Speaker 2: of an effort on the part of California to raise money.

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Speaker 2: As you know, we're in the hole in California. And

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Speaker 2: the other thing about the billionaire tax you should know

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Speaker 2: is that it hasn't been super successful in the way

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Speaker 2: that and you make sure, well it has going to

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Speaker 2: really affect you. Well, it's they're aspects of it, and

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Speaker 2: that those aspects are, for example, out of the mansion

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Speaker 2: tax in Los Angeles, so any home over five million

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Speaker 2: dollars of mansion tax on it. So there's a there

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Speaker 2: are ways in which they're trying to raise money by

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Speaker 2: taxing those at the higher end and they're not getting

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Speaker 2: great success from it. And one of the reasons I

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Speaker 2: say that is, in the instance of the billionaire tax,

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Speaker 2: you're seeing a bunch of billionaires leave California and many

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Speaker 2: of them are moving to Miami. And we just did

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Speaker 2: that story before we took a break. But also before

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Speaker 2: we took a break, NICKI was asking how many billionaires

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Speaker 2: do you think there are in California. This is a

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Speaker 2: really good question to ask. Now we have a lot,

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Speaker 2: I would say, because of the tremendous growth of technology

552
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Speaker 2: in Silicon Valley, the tremendous growth of entertainment in southern California.

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Speaker 2: I mean historically, I understand the entertainment businesses hitting some

554
00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:04,360
Speaker 2: pretty heavy headwinds right now, but there's just there's a

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Speaker 2: lot of money in California, and so how many billionaires

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Speaker 2: in the entire state. We were thinking about this, no

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Speaker 2: googling was permitted. Let me ask you, Mark Ronner, how

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Speaker 2: many you think are in the state of California? How

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Speaker 2: many billionaires in California. Let me just remind everybody, a

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Speaker 2: billion dollars is a lot of money. We throw this around.

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Speaker 2: Athletes make big contracts, billion billion, billion, but being a

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Speaker 2: billionaire is a pretty rare thing. Man, I'm barely a thousandaire.

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Speaker 2: It is a big thing. Well, let's say five hundred, okay,

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Speaker 2: five hundred, how about you, Steph, What do you think

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Speaker 2: I'd say one twenty one twenty I was going to

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Speaker 2: say one fifty. I guess I'll stay with one fifty.

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Speaker 2: So five hundred, one fifty one twenty Nikki. How many

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Speaker 2: billionaires are there in the state of California.

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Speaker 3: According to some reports, it's around two hundred.

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Speaker 2: No, all right, not that many. No, not well, not

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Speaker 2: that many. Only two hundred billionaires. Thanks for putting that

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Speaker 2: into perspective. Not that many, or well, that's a lot.

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Speaker 2: I don't know it is the appropriate response there.

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Speaker 3: How many of them are single?

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Speaker 2: Wow?

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Speaker 3: And straight?

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Speaker 2: There you go. Nice to have a goal. I'm telling

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Speaker 2: you there's a single minded Yeah. Well, you know, she

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Speaker 2: knows what she wants and uh, and she wants some money.

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Speaker 6: No.

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Speaker 3: I never go for money. I go for soul and love.

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Speaker 2: Oh that's sweet, that's sweet, But the money is just

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Speaker 2: kind of a nice bonus.

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Speaker 3: I tend to pull pool guys good looking but poor.

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Speaker 2: Well again, how many poor guys are there in California?

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Speaker 2: That's gonna be a bigger number.

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Speaker 3: I think those are my type.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, apparently, well you missed out on one very very

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Speaker 2: wealthy man who was attractive also, and that it's Valentino

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Speaker 2: ga Avani, the jet setting Italian designer.

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Speaker 3: I don't think I'm his type.

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Speaker 2: Now, high glamour gowns his trademark shade of Valentino red

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Speaker 2: fashion show staples for nearly half a century. He's dead,

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Speaker 2: so forget about dating him. He died at his home

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Speaker 2: in Rome, he was ninety three. His body will lie

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Speaker 2: in repose at the headquarters in Rome. Now, repose means

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Speaker 2: that it's open to the public or not. It's not

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Speaker 2: public repose. Isn't that lying in state? I Lying in

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Speaker 2: state is differently. I think when you're lying in repose,

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Speaker 2: you can when you're lying in state, you can also

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Speaker 2: be lying in repose. But I don't think lying in

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Speaker 2: repose necessarily means that you're lying in state. I think

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Speaker 2: the implication here is that there's some sort of public

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Speaker 2: viewing or public memorial or a way that you can

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Speaker 2: go pay respects. Am I right, yeah, I am it?

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Speaker 2: Right Here, the main difference is location. Informality, lying in

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Speaker 2: state's a high honor for government officials, and lying in

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Speaker 2: repose is a similar public viewing for prominent figures or anyone.

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Speaker 2: So there you go. The funeral beheld on Friday in Rome.

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Speaker 2: He was known by his first time, of course, Valentino,

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Speaker 2: and he was well Jackie Kennedy, O NASA's Julia Roberts,

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Speaker 2: the Queen of Jordan. They all wore his stuff almost exclusively.

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Speaker 2: I know what women want, he said once. They want

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Speaker 2: to be beautiful. And he was the king of the

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Speaker 2: red carpet. They say Valentino was for a listers the

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Speaker 2: go to guy. His gowns graced countless Academy Awards. Is

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Speaker 2: noted here. Julie Roberts wore a vintage black and white

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Speaker 2: to accept her Best Actress statue. Kate Blanchette also wore

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Speaker 2: Valentino a one shouldered number in butter yellow silk when

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Speaker 2: she won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. And he

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Speaker 2: was also behind the long sleeved lace dress that Mark

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Speaker 2: Ronner wore when he graduated high school and that I

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Speaker 2: put on weight. One of the great moments. Valentino passes

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Speaker 2: away at ninety three. Mark Thompson here were KFI AM

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Speaker 2: six forty live everywhere on the iHeart radio

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Speaker 1: App KFI AM six forty on demand