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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 Tuesday Night, coming up, will

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Speaker 2: talk to Ed Begley Junior's wife, who is writing herd

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Speaker 2: over a film about Ed Begley and Ed Begley Junior

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Speaker 2: has Parkinson's disease. And there's a lot interesting in Ed

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Speaker 2: beg Lee Junior's life because Ed Begley Senior was an

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Speaker 2: award winning actor and Ed grew up in that world

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Speaker 2: and wrote a book about it, wrote a book about

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Speaker 2: his life. It's really interesting and I read it so

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Speaker 2: I can relate a few things to you. But talking

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Speaker 2: to his wife about this challenge with Parkinson's and is

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Speaker 2: also this film that she's working on. I'm looking forward

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Speaker 2: to that and it'll be worth hanging around for. The

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Speaker 2: Palisades fire has really redefined the La Mayor's race, and

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Speaker 2: it's one of the things I can say about this

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Speaker 2: guy who's announcing that he's involved in wanting to be mayor,

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Speaker 2: is that he's suffered at the hands of that fire,

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Speaker 2: as so many Angelinos did.

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Speaker 3: I'm talking about Spencer Pratt.

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Speaker 4: Reality TV star Spencer Pratt has officially joined the race

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Speaker 4: for La Mayor Today, Pratt, in a casual T shirt

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Speaker 4: with his wife's name on it, filed the official paperwork

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Speaker 4: with the city Clerk's office. The Hills Star announced his

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Speaker 4: campaign last month while marking one year since the Palisades

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Speaker 4: final Pratt lost his home in the fire and has

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Speaker 4: been a vocal critic of the city. Incumbent Karen Bass

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Speaker 4: and former LAUSD Superintendent Austin Butener have also said they

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Speaker 4: will run. Billionaire developer Rick Caruso has said he will

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Speaker 4: not run for mayor nor governor.

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Speaker 2: It's interesting to me because something's happened in American political

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Speaker 2: life and maybe you know, you can tell me. Maybe

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Speaker 2: it's been out there longer than I noticed it, but

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Speaker 2: there's been a real rise. I think of those who

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Speaker 2: have name recognition but no experience. So when you look

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Speaker 2: at Spencer Pratt, I've got nothing against Spencer Pratt at all,

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Speaker 2: like the first and that's why I started with the

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Speaker 2: fact that he has real life experience with losing his

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Speaker 2: home in the Pali States fire. I think that brings

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Speaker 2: you into the politics, the resources, the questions that surround

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Speaker 2: the administration around something like that, and that brings you

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Speaker 2: into city politics, and it brings you into city resources

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Speaker 2: and budgets, et cetera. But when it comes to running

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Speaker 2: a city, when it comes to managing and governing a city,

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Speaker 2: and you can extend this to a state or even

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Speaker 2: a country, there is tremendous advantage that someone like Spencer

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Speaker 2: Pratt might have because of name recognition, someone like Donald

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Speaker 2: Trump has because of name recognition, and you can, as

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Speaker 2: you know, leapfrog the rest of the field based on

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Speaker 2: name recognition, and that can oftentimes be enough for you

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Speaker 2: to get momentum politically and end up in the job.

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Speaker 2: Jesse Ventura is another example of that. So my point

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Speaker 2: is simply, I'd love to I have nothing against people

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Speaker 2: who are you know, celebrities or in high profile positions

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Speaker 2: moving into administrative positions in the city. As I say,

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Speaker 2: Spencer Pratt might be a great mayor. I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Sonny Bono was a great mayor in Palm Springs.

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Speaker 3: So was he was?

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Speaker 5: He?

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Speaker 3: Was he the mayor? Wasn't he Sonny Bona the pomp

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Speaker 3: he was mayor?

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Speaker 5: Or?

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Speaker 3: Was it a Senate seat? I'm trying to remember now.

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Speaker 3: I think he was.

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Speaker 2: Uh, I thought he was in Congress. Yeah, I thought

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Speaker 2: it was in Congress too. Even as I said that,

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Speaker 2: I thought, I think he was in Congress. But anyway,

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Speaker 2: the points the same, which is that his name recognition

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Speaker 2: Sonny Bono was associated with his performance as a celebrity

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Speaker 2: and not as an administrator or legislator. But he apparently

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Speaker 2: legislated and administered quite well. So this is not to

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Speaker 2: say it can't happen, but I just hope that there

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Speaker 2: is a rigor, you know, like that there is a

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Speaker 2: a focus on the competence that someone has in these

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Speaker 2: roles as opposed to their name recognition, because I think

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Speaker 2: being a celebrity maybe enough to win the hearts of

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Speaker 2: many voters. But once you have the job, running Los

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Speaker 2: Angeles is a really hard job. You don't have money,

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Speaker 2: you're in the red. You've got a lot of areas

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Speaker 2: of the city that are bleeding out, meaning you've got

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Speaker 2: have a crime issue in certain areas, and you have

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Speaker 2: people paying a lot of money in taxes. And there

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Speaker 2: comes a time and essentially on an annual basis and

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Speaker 2: maybe even on a daily basis, you're having to review

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Speaker 2: where that money goes and where those limited tax dollars

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Speaker 2: go and so it becomes i'd suggest super important to

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Speaker 2: have someone in there who's managed something. I'm not saying

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Speaker 2: you look at Spencer Pratt, he's not managed anything. Now

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Speaker 2: I hope that I meet Spencer Pratt and go, Mark,

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Speaker 2: you're wrong. I've done this, I've done that, and again

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Speaker 2: I hope I am wrong. But based on everything I've read,

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Speaker 2: I don't see what he's done. He's become a reality star.

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Speaker 2: I mean he could buy and sell me with what

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Speaker 2: he's got on him, you know. So I understand his celebrity,

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Speaker 2: I understand his success, and I don't begrudge him any

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Speaker 2: of that. And I'm only using him as an example

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Speaker 2: because he's in the La mayoral race. But it doesn't

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Speaker 2: have to be him. It's a thing that everybody feels

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Speaker 2: like they can do it. I can become mayor, I

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Speaker 2: can do it. So, I mean, at its best, there's

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Speaker 2: a lot more than just the running and winning. You

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Speaker 2: have to administer and manage. And I'd suggest something else,

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Speaker 2: which is that the management of the city of Los

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Speaker 2: Angeles is more difficult, probably than being a senator from California,

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Speaker 2: even I mean, there are daily constituencies that you have

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Speaker 2: to attend to. I think the process of being a

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Speaker 2: US Senator, while an intense process and done well with seriousness,

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Speaker 2: is very demanding. There's also kind of a whitewater flow

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Speaker 2: to it, so you're participating in a lot of stuff

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Speaker 2: that's carrying you along. Again, I don't mean to soft

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Speaker 2: pedal being a US Senator done well, it is an

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Speaker 2: all consuming job. But I'm just saying that running the

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Speaker 2: La is like stepping into and you'll pardon this expression,

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Speaker 2: because of what we've been through, but like Rome burning,

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Speaker 2: because of everything we've been through, with the Palisades fire,

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Speaker 2: with the Eton fire, with the threat of fire in

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Speaker 2: all of our communities being so intense. Now again that's

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Speaker 2: the city of LA. But homelessness continues to run unabated,

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Speaker 2: and plans for these things generally require money. And that's

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Speaker 2: something else you'd like to see, right somebody who tracks

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Speaker 2: down all that money in all of those bond measures,

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Speaker 2: in all of those votes that we've greenlit for homelessness,

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Speaker 2: where is that money? And you hear John Cobelt talking

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Speaker 2: on a lot of stuff that's like that, which is

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Speaker 2: where is the money going? There is a homelessness industrial

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Speaker 2: complex that needs to be busted up. So you need

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Speaker 2: somebody in that job LA mayor who's ready to take

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Speaker 2: on some of these issues. Now, some of these issues, honestly,

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Speaker 2: and some of that money flow comes out of Sacramento,

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Speaker 2: you know, comes out of the leadership in Sacramento. But

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Speaker 2: I'm just making the point that I'd like to see

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Speaker 2: us evaluate leaders who have some experience or at least

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Speaker 2: a plan to surround themselves with others who do have

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Speaker 2: experience in administering and managing in the case of LA

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Speaker 2: a city with big problems, because they're a big city

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Speaker 2: and with big plans to solve those problems. When we

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Speaker 2: come back, let's talk about Ed Begley Junior. His wife

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Speaker 2: joins us, and the movie is For the Love of Ed.

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Speaker 2: We'll continue here on KFI.

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Speaker 1: In a moment you're listening to KFI, am six forty

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Speaker 3: I like it when we're both right.

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Speaker 2: The world is right and I'm right on sunny Bono'd

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Speaker 2: like to leave no stone unturned.

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Speaker 3: Indeed, I was right.

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Speaker 2: He was both mayor of Palm Springs and served in

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Speaker 2: the House of Representatives. So that was an example of

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Speaker 2: a highly competent mayor who did a lot for the

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Speaker 2: city of Palm Springs and also moved on to Congress

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Speaker 2: Sonny Bona. But that was again out of the world

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Speaker 2: of being a celebrity. So again, celebrity and name recognition

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Speaker 2: meets meets competence and a real legislative gift. So now

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Speaker 2: to Ed Begley Junior, who is not slowing down despite

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Speaker 2: the fact that he is Parkinson's disease, and there is

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Speaker 2: a new docu comedy series about Ed Begley Junior called

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Speaker 2: for the Love of Ed Rochelle.

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Speaker 3: His wife is with us now, Hi Rochelle, Hi Mark.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, he can't stop my husband.

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Speaker 3: He's amazing, He truly is. You know.

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Speaker 2: The last time I saw him was I guess now

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Speaker 2: it's been maybe a year and a half ago, and

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Speaker 2: he was cruising through I think it was Studio City,

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Speaker 2: and the time before that had only been a short

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Speaker 2: time before that he released that book. You know, his

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Speaker 2: book is terrific.

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Speaker 5: It is it.

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Speaker 2: Was, what is it like, don't don't stop? Drop me

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Speaker 2: off at the what's it called? It's called.

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Speaker 5: To the Temple of Tranquility and step on it and

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Speaker 5: step on it.

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Speaker 2: And that has to do with him telling a driver

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Speaker 2: of a cab or something, as I recall, well.

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Speaker 5: It wasn't him, it was relayed to him. So it

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Speaker 2: It was just a great title. You know, it gets you.

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Speaker 2: But what a life Ed Begley Junior is having and

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Speaker 2: still having. So he has Parkinson's and somehow you've turned

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Speaker 2: this into a docu comedy series.

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Speaker 5: Well one can only hope. Yes, it's it's in the

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Speaker 5: beginning stages of it. But you know, we've lived out

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Speaker 5: loud since we did a reality show and the you know,

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Speaker 5: the plansing agents. But back in the early two thousand.

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Speaker 3: I watched that show.

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Speaker 2: It was about the was that about the building of

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Speaker 2: live off the grid on the grid like the environmentally

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Speaker 2: sound right.

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Speaker 5: Yes, yes, indeed it was. And you know I didn't

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Speaker 5: compass Hollywood and it had you know, but it was

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Speaker 5: the way my husband's a unique person, what can I say?

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Speaker 5: And so the way we lived, and you know, he

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Speaker 5: was walking the talk. He's always walked the talk with

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Speaker 5: the environment, and so in that after doing that show,

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Speaker 5: we just love mfotainment. It just is impactful. You know,

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Speaker 5: we would get comments for you know, calls and letters

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Speaker 5: and stuff and well know letters who writes letters? But

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Speaker 5: you know, I think text would like I don't remember

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Speaker 5: if someone told us, let's just put it that way

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Speaker 5: that you know, Midwest people who didn't believe in are

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Speaker 5: necessarily in our politics. Although they didn't know our politics,

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Speaker 5: they said, but we like that rain barrel thing you

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Speaker 5: had in the backyard or whatever. We were on Home

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Speaker 5: and Gardens. We appealed to a whole nother market that

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Speaker 5: we don't really get to talk to, you know, Hollywood doesn't.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so that I remember that show. It was It

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Speaker 3: was really good.

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Speaker 2: In fact, the rain barrel thing you're talking about is

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Speaker 2: the collection of a water somehow you're a thing at

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Speaker 2: Remember in our pal check Negron, who passed away was

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Speaker 5: DTS in his twenties, so he had it. It escalated

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Speaker 5: very quickly with him, which was great because he ended

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Speaker 5: up getting sober as a young age and I think

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Speaker 5: that helped him form a lot of the things that

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Speaker 5: he did later on in life.

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Speaker 3: That's really true.

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Speaker 2: It's a weird thing to say, but he did kind

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Speaker 2: of take the ride so early that he was able

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Speaker 2: to clean things up. And most of his life he's

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Speaker 2: been clean.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, he's been clean. And part of you know, being

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Speaker 5: clean is being of service. And so he's really dedicated

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Speaker 5: his life to other things other than acting. Acting he

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Speaker 5: loves and it pays the bills and it enables him.

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Speaker 5: It gives him a platform for which to do the

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Speaker 5: environmental work. And now now it's gone into you know,

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Speaker 5: this medical you know, but it's an environmental story. I mean,

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Speaker 5: no question about it. You know, us living better through

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Speaker 5: chemistry is you know, know, there's consequences and so now

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Speaker 5: you know what can we do to live with disease?

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Speaker 5: And how many people were we I mean everyone's leaving

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Speaker 5: living with something, you know, sure, and more and more.

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Speaker 2: And more and more are going to as a result.

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Speaker 2: As you say, I'm sort of bathing in toxins every day,

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Speaker 2: contract those things that result from that. I'm I'm so

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Speaker 2: uh impressed with your family. You know, I'm a huge

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Speaker 2: fan of ADS and I just think that he I'm

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Speaker 2: personally and professionally he's a remarkable guy. And you and

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Speaker 2: the family having you know, signed on to all the

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Speaker 2: madness and the wild way that you've you've led your

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Speaker 2: life out loud is really something and the sight to behold.

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Speaker 2: I wish you the best in selling the show and

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Speaker 2: getting the show up and running, and please stay in touch,

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Speaker 2: and please invite me to visit the house so someday.

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Speaker 5: I'll actually share anytime.

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Speaker 2: Love me, Oka, Rochelle Begley all the best. Yeah, thanks Chelle,

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Speaker 2: you too really cool to talk to her about the

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Speaker 2: brilliant Ed Begley Junior and his life with her and

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Speaker 2: the family. And if you want to read a wild

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Speaker 2: book about a wild ride, pick up the book written

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Speaker 2: by Ed Bigley Junior about his life. It only came

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Speaker 2: out a couple of years ago, and I promise you

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Speaker 2: what a wild ride this guy took. Growing up the

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Speaker 2: son of an Academy Award winning actor, sort of thinking

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Speaker 2: that you were entitled to a career, like just the

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Speaker 2: kind of thing you'd caution a child from buying into

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Speaker 2: is sort of the way Ed lived his life as

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Speaker 2: a teenager, like okay, well, where's my starring role in whatever?

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Speaker 2: And then reality hit and it was a rough climb

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Speaker 2: and then everything else that followed when he cleaned up

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Speaker 2: his act quickly, I mean as a young man and

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Speaker 2: began this wonderful career. And there are a lot of

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Speaker 2: great stories in that book, so check it out. All right,

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Speaker 2: that's our big celebrity segment for this hour. I feel

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Speaker 2: like my modest celebrity is going to have to carry

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Speaker 2: us for the next fifteen minutes. I know it's it's

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Speaker 2: quite a lot of pressure, so I'm going to need

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Speaker 2: some help. We'll scrape by.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you.

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

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Speaker 3: I guess the guy looking for the.

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Speaker 2: Chuck Negrond interview on my channel, the YouTube channel found

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Speaker 2: it and I mentioned it because he's kind of told

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Speaker 2: me something I didn't know, which is I got it.

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Speaker 3: Mark, Okay, described to your channel. There's a search bar

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Speaker 3: on your channel. I did not know.

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Speaker 5: All you have to do is hit chuck neron.

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Speaker 3: There you go.

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Speaker 2: You are all right, Thank you for that. I like

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Speaker 2: how the listeners are teaching you about I had no

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Speaker 2: idea that there's a search bar on my channel. That's great. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: that's simple, Mark, there's a search bar on your channel.

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Speaker 2: Oh really?

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Speaker 3: Oh cool. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Anyway, great knowledge and great help and thank you. So

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Speaker 2: if you go to YouTube the Mark Thompson and on

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Speaker 2: my channel, apparently there is a there's a search par

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Speaker 2: two hundred million in homeless services cut in LA County.

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Speaker 2: That's to close the budget gap. This is what I

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Speaker 2: was talking about before when we talked about running for mayor.

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Speaker 2: You know, you have to be able to navigate a

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Speaker 2: lot of cuts if you're running for governor, if you're

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Speaker 2: running for any legislative office, you should look ahead to

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Speaker 2: see what you actually are dealing with. LA County approved

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Speaker 2: two hundred million in cuts to homeless services, even though

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Speaker 2: there was voter support for money to go toward homelessness

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Speaker 2: and addressing that crisis. But this is the other thing

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Speaker 2: I was saying before. You know, all bond measures and

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Speaker 2: all that stuff always passes. People are always in situations

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Speaker 2: in which they're given the choice of directing money and

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Speaker 2: some kind of additional modest tax toward the homeless crisis.

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Speaker 2: They vote for it in overwhelming numbers, and yet it

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Speaker 2: falls into some deep hole. That's the problem. There is

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Speaker 2: a you know, the homeless industrial complex in California and elsewhere.

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Speaker 2: It becomes again like defense spending, They spend it and

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Speaker 2: it just never leaves the Beltway. And similarly, you know,

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Speaker 2: we're just not getting banged for our buck when it

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Speaker 2: comes to those monies that are directed toward homelessness. So

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Speaker 2: now they're cutting two hundred million, even as so much

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Speaker 2: of the public wants to see something good happen. Don

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Speaker 2: Lemon recently arrested, recently indicted. He was on Jimmy Kimmel

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Speaker 2: talking about the whole thing.

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Speaker 6: Tonight, independent journalist Don Lemon doing his first post arrest

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Speaker 6: interview on Jimmy Kimmel Live. Federal agents arrested Lemon late

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Speaker 6: last week at a Beverly Hills hotel. The Department of

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Speaker 6: Justice saying his arrest was sparked by his coverage of

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Speaker 6: an anti ice protest during a church service in Minnesota.

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Speaker 6: Lemon said he and his attorney got word and arrest

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Speaker 6: was possibly coming, so Lemon offered to turn himself in.

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Speaker 1: But that is not what happened.

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Speaker 7: You know, I retained an attorney, and the attorney reached

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Speaker 7: out to them and said, basically, I understand that you

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Speaker 7: have an interest because your folks have been talking about it,

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Speaker 7: and so if you are serious about this, then let's

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Speaker 7: do it the right way. He's perfectly willing to self report,

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Speaker 7: which means turn yourself in, and so we don't have

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Speaker 7: to go through this whole rigamar role and never heard

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Speaker 7: back from them.

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Speaker 6: That is customary in a situation like this, that someone

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Speaker 6: would be allowed to turn themselves in.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: People who are who are accused of much worse things

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Speaker 7: than I am accused of doing.

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Speaker 3: Is they are allowed the courtesy.

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Speaker 7: I mean Donald Trump was allowed the courtesy to turn

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Speaker 7: himself in when he was That's right, he did.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, I guess the notion is that you can

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Speaker 2: le that courtesy is not really being afforded to everyone.

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Speaker 2: The official Super Bowl halftime show is going to feature

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Speaker 2: Bad Bunny, the Grammy winner for Album of the Year.

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Speaker 2: He had made a really cool speech, I thought, but

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Speaker 2: not everybody loves Bad Bunny, and those upset by on

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Speaker 2: stage comments from Bad Bunny about the dignity of Latinos

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Speaker 2: and immigrants can turn to a different place and a

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Speaker 2: different form of entertainment. At halftime, a competing Bill If

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Speaker 2: you will, Kid Rock and Gabby Barrett. Kid Rock, the

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Speaker 2: major magahead, is going to perform for the far right

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Speaker 2: activist group Turning Point USA. It's a counter programming event

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Speaker 2: streaming across the conservative media sphere on Super Bowl Sunday.

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Speaker 2: Of course, a Turning Point USA is the activist group

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Speaker 2: founded by the late Charlie Kirk. We plan, this is

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Speaker 2: a quote from Chris Rock. We plan to play great

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Speaker 2: songs for folks who love America. We're approaching this show

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Speaker 2: like David and Goliath. Competing with the pro football machine

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Speaker 2: and a global pop superstar is almost impossible, or is it?

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Speaker 3: He said.

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Speaker 2: He's having a dance party, wearing a dress and singing

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Speaker 2: in Spanish.

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Speaker 1: Cool.

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Speaker 2: We plan to play great songs for folks who love America,

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Speaker 2: said kid Rock Burn. Yeah, I guess he's not going

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Speaker 2: to be coming to the after party that Big Bad

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Speaker 2: Bunny's gonna have. There's always the puppy ball with the

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Speaker 2: kiddie halftime. Yeah, you have another option too. You don't

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Speaker 2: have to go with music at all. Yeah, you can

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Speaker 2: go with the puppy ball exactly. He's kind of moved

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Speaker 2: into this place in the Maga world. Kid Rock has

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Speaker 2: to sort of maximize his career. He's sort of extended

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Speaker 2: his career this way, you know, in fact, here you go.

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Speaker 3: They'd even say that.

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Speaker 2: While right wing politics from Kid Rock have largely eclipsed

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Speaker 2: his musical relevance, he's recently tried to position himself as

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Speaker 2: a powerbroker for mega friendly concerts and also with a

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Speaker 2: more neutral country sound and rock sound. He is touring

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Speaker 2: Rock the Country with Blake Shelton, Jelly Roll, Creed, and

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Speaker 2: Miranda Lambert. Oh, I see, he was going to, but

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Speaker 2: he got mixed from that, lost out to Ludicrous and

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Speaker 2: Morgan Wade. Because of blowback from fans, Chris So, Kid

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Speaker 2: Rock won't be doing the Rock the Country tour apparently. Look,

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Speaker 2: once you've got the super Bowl competing thing, you don't

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Speaker 2: need Rock the Country.

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Speaker 3: He'll be fine. Don't worry about kid Rock.

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Speaker 2: That's the latest though, Kid Rock, Bad Bunny and the

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Speaker 2: Puppy Bowl. You pick. I'm not voting whatever you decide.

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Speaker 2: I'm about the ballgame. I'll check out a little bit

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Speaker 2: of the halftime. But you know, either way, I think

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Speaker 2: the Seahawks win this game. That's what I'm We should

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Speaker 2: have gotten a handicapperon Why didn't we do that, Richie?

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Speaker 2: Why didn't we get a sports handicaperon or somebody from

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Speaker 2: one of the sports should.

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Speaker 3: You know studios to come over here. It's busy. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: you got a lot going on. Yeah. It turned me

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Speaker 3: down a few times.

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Speaker 2: It's kind of the would you say that this time

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Speaker 2: of year is kind of like their Super Bowl?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? See what I did? All right?

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Speaker 2: I know what you're saying, Mark, You're losing steam. No,

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Speaker 2: you'd be wrong'd be I'm actually just steaming up. I

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Speaker 2: have a story next related to gambling that will astound you,

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Speaker 2: and it does involve extending your life. And that is

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Speaker 2: not an exaggeration. This is not a clickbait tease. We

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Speaker 2: will continue Mark Thompson on Tuesday night kf I AM

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Speaker 2: six forty live everywhere, on the iHeartRadio app

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Speaker 1: Kf I AM six forty on demand,