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

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Speaker 2: Map twenty two seconds left here in this game the

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Speaker 2: Chick fil A Peach Bowl, Indiana. Hoosier's up fifty six

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Speaker 2: to twenty one. Ooh, Oregon going here for a extra

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Speaker 2: point a kick twenty two seconds. Anything can happen. But

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Speaker 2: when you're deficit is fifty six to twenty two, when

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Speaker 2: you have as many points as the time is left,

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Speaker 2: and the ones that you have to make up are

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Speaker 2: nearly twice a little more than twice, got double your points.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, the math probably doesn't make any sense.

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Speaker 2: I'm Andy Reesmeyer. You can of course reach me if

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Speaker 2: you'd like to on the iHeartRadio app using the talkback function.

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Speaker 2: You just look for that little microphone, leave a message

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Speaker 2: and we'll play it on the show. If you had

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Speaker 2: any thoughts about Fritz, maybe some suggestions for ideas for him,

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Speaker 2: a subjects he might want to cover.

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Speaker 3: It's kind of fun.

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Speaker 2: Also a little bit later, we're gonna open up the

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Speaker 2: phones because we are doing it. It's New Music Friday

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Speaker 2: for people who don't like new music with mister Jack

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Speaker 2: Primavera plus soloing the solo. That's when we play a

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Speaker 2: part of the song just the guitar solo, and we

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Speaker 2: got to ask you to call in and guess what

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Speaker 2: it is. I think it's a good Friday night game

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Speaker 2: to play. I also had another one ronner that I

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Speaker 2: came up with that I wanted to run by you

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Speaker 2: before I just made you do it Meyer, So imagine

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Speaker 2: if you will. It's like finish the lyrics to a

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Speaker 2: pop song, but instead of singing it, we would have

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Speaker 2: news band Mark Ronna read it in the most serious

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Speaker 2: news cadence of.

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Speaker 3: All, like mister Spock or something.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, just like really hit it real hard, you know,

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Speaker 2: really get the implosives.

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Speaker 3: I'm no, I think it'd be great.

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Speaker 2: Can you imagine you doing like a Sabrina I mean

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Speaker 2: it wouldn't be inappropriate, but do like a Sabrina Carpenter

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Speaker 2: song or something in that kind of very like pull up,

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Speaker 2: pull up espresso.

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Speaker 3: Well.

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Speaker 4: I actually used to do a version of this when

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Speaker 4: I was at the Seattle Times and I would do

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Speaker 4: celebrity interviews. I handed Anthony Hopkins the lyrics to Baby

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Speaker 4: Got Back Once Great and he got kind of.

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Speaker 3: Pussy about it. Oh come on.

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Speaker 4: But I did the same thing with Malcolm McDowell sometime later,

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Speaker 4: and he read them amazing, like dramatic reading lyric to

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Speaker 4: this day, I hope somebody has a video of that,

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Speaker 4: because it was astonishing and he was into it.

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Speaker 3: Listen. I think it's a great idea.

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Speaker 2: I think that maybe you know, I would put you

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Speaker 2: in the same category as those greats.

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Speaker 3: I am no, Malcolm MacDell. I'll tell you that.

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Speaker 2: Well, we're all winners tonight here because the final score

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Speaker 2: of fifty six Indiana twenty two Oregon. As they move

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Speaker 2: on here to the finals.

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Speaker 3: Well, they still have to live in Indiana, that's true.

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Speaker 3: But don't you think they need a win? Isn't this

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Speaker 3: like the thing? It's like?

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Speaker 2: Man, after knowing people that and having been there, don't

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Speaker 3: Oh? They desperately do.

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Speaker 4: That's why when they win in Seattle, you know there's

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Speaker 4: not riots because people are fairly happy to be where

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Speaker 4: they are.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, right, right.

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Speaker 4: How do you explain Los Angeles? I'm still working on that.

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Speaker 4: I'm not a native born Angelino, but what I'm like

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Speaker 3: Now?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think once you make it, you become an

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Speaker 2: Angelina We've had this discussion before, so I know this

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Speaker 2: is very debatable. But I think once once it no

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Speaker 4: Oh I like it here. I should have moved here

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Speaker 4: sooner than I did. Oh really, yeah, well I'm glad

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Speaker 2: I was just up in the Bay last week and

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Speaker 2: I had been I've got I've been going on and

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Speaker 2: but I have seen, like many the city go through.

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Speaker 3: A rough spot. You could say.

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Speaker 2: I think it's a place that always has known boom

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Speaker 2: It's just repeated itself over and over and over again,

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Speaker 2: over and over again. Now, I think they are definitely

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Speaker 2: When I tell you I didn't even recognize the city.

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Speaker 2: There are still problem issues. There's still problem areas. Rather,

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Speaker 2: they still have issues downtown, Market Street, the Tenderloin, lot

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Speaker 2: of open air drug usage. But in places like cow Hollow,

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Speaker 2: in places like Golden Gate Park, the Marina, Soma, even

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Speaker 2: the Mission, things are thriving. The streets are clean, people

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Speaker 2: are out walking their dogs. Something is different. A billboard

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Speaker 2: from the airport, has just three words, We're back.

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Speaker 5: Baby, America's most liberal cities. A tough on crime, pro business,

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Speaker 5: moderate democrat has become one of the most popular local

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Speaker 6: Again especially thank you.

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Speaker 3: Elected to clean up his city.

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Speaker 5: San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie's constant presence on social media

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Speaker 5: has turned the forty eight year old political newcomer and

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Speaker 5: aired to the Levi Strauss fortune into an unlikely local celebrity.

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Speaker 7: As I'm watching.

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Speaker 6: All your videos and.

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Speaker 5: As we walked around San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood, it

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Speaker 5: seemed as if everybody wanted to talk to him.

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Speaker 3: See what's interesting about this?

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Speaker 2: Mayor Daniel Lurie, who is obviously a rich guy, is

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Speaker 2: that even though he is an heir to a Levi fortune,

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Speaker 2: which I guess could be billions of dollars, he doesn't

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Speaker 2: have a slickness that a lot of the politicians, or

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Speaker 2: at least a lot of the other rich people in

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Speaker 3: If everybody wanted to talk to him.

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Speaker 6: And see you, thank you. I appreciate bone Jon, Thank

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Speaker 6: you very much. That's business.

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Speaker 8: This is great.

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Speaker 9: You can't complain, you know, with the new administration, you guys,

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Speaker 9: SF is really really got up. You've now been in

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Speaker 9: you've done, and it does seem like there is something

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Speaker 9: of a renaissance going on.

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Speaker 3: In San Francisco. But before we get to.

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Speaker 9: That, what went wrong in this city? I mean, San

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Speaker 9: Francisco had become the symbol of in some ways progressive

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Speaker 3: What happened here?

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Speaker 6: We lost our way as a city.

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Speaker 3: We all know.

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Speaker 6: That we had, uh, you know, career politicians that were

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Speaker 2: Should be a non ideological statement to say, if you're

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Speaker 2: focused on what's best for you, and not what's best

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Speaker 2: for the people, then you shouldn't be in office.

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Speaker 9: And what specifically was it.

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Speaker 6: I think we got away from the basics of government

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Speaker 6: now today, if you come to San Francisco to commit

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Speaker 6: And I think we sort of had a lais a

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Speaker 2: And I think that that also is a lot of

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Speaker 2: the sentiment that people feel in Los Angeles. For a time,

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Speaker 2: I used to go back and forth between this place

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Speaker 2: it's pretty much the same bad There's a lot of crime,

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Speaker 3: But it's no better here or there.

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Speaker 2: And this is the first time I tell you, dear listener,

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Speaker 2: Angeles and downtown San Francisco might as well be on

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Speaker 6: Our progressive value sort of overtook common sense. We had

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Speaker 6: a single year, there's nothing progressive about that. There's nothing

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Speaker 6: progressive about car breakings. This year, this past year, we're

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Speaker 9: I mean, one of the things you'd see in San

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Speaker 3: You still see some of that in the city.

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Speaker 6: We still have our challenges. There's no question. I'm not

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Speaker 2: If you go through basically anywhere in San Francisco in

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Speaker 2: still very obvious that there are a lot of challenges

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Speaker 2: But it's places that are your normal run of the

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Speaker 3: Something is different there. Now. Of course, this doesn't mean.

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Speaker 2: That this is this progress, whatever you want to call it,

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Speaker 2: is not without its attractions.

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Speaker 3: It's issues. It's people who don't like that.

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Speaker 2: We'll get into that on the other side of the break. Plus,

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Speaker 2: I'm covering fraud here in southern California. We will talk

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Speaker 2: to KTLA Samantha Cortese about a story she did today

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Speaker 2: that's coming up. We'll see you on the other side

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

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Speaker 3: I'm Andy Reesmeyer.

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Speaker 2: Feeling good, enjoying it here, as I was talking about

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Speaker 2: with San Francisco. I just went up there last week

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Speaker 2: and it is very different than it was the past

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Speaker 2: couple times I was there. Felt very clean, felt like

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Speaker 2: there was a lot of activity, There's a lot of excitement,

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Speaker 2: and so of course the question becames what happened and

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Speaker 2: why is this legit? Well, many things happened. First, there

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Speaker 2: was a change of leadership, and while the Democrats are

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Speaker 2: still in charge, I think it's a far less progressive

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Speaker 2: group of people who seem to be a little bit

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Speaker 2: more focused on public safety. The new mayor, Daniel Lurie,

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Speaker 2: said he's invested in a lot of money despite the

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Speaker 2: fact that there is a billion dollar deficit in that city,

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Speaker 2: on trying to get people off the streets, into treatment,

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Speaker 2: Coming back here. Locally interesting story that came out today.

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Speaker 10: So the FBI is helping federal and state officials look

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Speaker 10: into these scams. According to investigators, fraudsters would recruit healthy

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Speaker 1: No one is guarding the Henhouse.

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Speaker 10: At a news conference in downtown Los Angeles, US attorney

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Speaker 8: Individuals, so maybe hadn't thought of defraud in the government

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Speaker 10: Oz says his team identified quote explosive fraud. He says

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Speaker 10: a perverse scheme of fraud in hospice and home healthcare,

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Speaker 8: It's not hard to actually go and visit these places

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Speaker 10: Oz says federal investigators believe criminal organizations, including what he

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Speaker 10: He said some patients had only high blood pressure or

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Speaker 8: We believe just in La County, La County, this is

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Speaker 8: Eighteen percent of all of the home healthcare billing in

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Speaker 10: Here totally and estimated three and a half billion dollars

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Speaker 10: Oz says California will pay back the government for any

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Speaker 8: We do have actions we could take at the federal level.

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Speaker 8: We intend to very seriously considered. They are aggressive steps,

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Speaker 10: Attorney Assale cited a ten million dollar hospice fraud conviction

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Speaker 10: He said, what they're seeing now maybe much bigger due

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Speaker 2: We just book at the amount of fraud that's been

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Speaker 3: He is the fraud king. So that's what I've to

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Speaker 10: Governor Gavin Newsom's office has previously rejected claims the state

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Speaker 2: Joining us now on the phone is Kati La Samantha Cortese,

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Speaker 2: who filed that report today. Sam thanks for being with

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Speaker 2: us on this Friday, I want to understand how big

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Speaker 10: Hi Andy. So then the billion number with a B

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Speaker 10: So he was saying that California will have to pay

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Speaker 10: But he also says this is not emergency care. So

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Speaker 10: not emergency care. So that's where the billion dollars comes from.

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Speaker 10: As far as the hospice care, he said the amount

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Speaker 10: particular is sevenfold from before the pandemic. And he is saying,

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Speaker 10: some in some cases, he says, those people would then

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Speaker 10: that should have been a sign to regulators or the

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Speaker 2: Yeah, does that mean that somebody at the state level

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Speaker 10: He says that they are relying on whistleblowers and nurse

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Speaker 2: And you were down there today at the press conference

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Speaker 2: stop this kind of fraud, and you asked, where is

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Speaker 7: Right?

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Speaker 10: The US Attorney was saying, we have support from Attorney

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Speaker 10: General Pam BONDI, we have support from the Trump administration,

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Speaker 10: who's putting someone in charge to specifically look at fraud.

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Speaker 10: And he said he has this full support from the

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Speaker 10: federal government. And I said, and the governor of California, Yes,

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Speaker 10: And that's when the US Attorney said, and what about

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Speaker 10: the governor of California? And then he lifted off all

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Speaker 10: these things that have happened in the state regarding PPP

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Speaker 10: loans or funding for the aforementioned people in the country illegally,

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Speaker 10: and he obviously pointed to the high speed rail which

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Speaker 2: Fascinating stuff. Samantha, thank you so much for Colin. I

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Speaker 2: appreciate you, and I appreciate the reporting. We'll talk to

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Speaker 2: A half an hour, We're going to open the phone

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Speaker 2: Rock, if you will. It's gonna be good. Mark Roon

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Speaker 2: or how you doing tonight? I'm excited for this. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: you can play along to you do some Floyd man?

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, man, the Floyd going foos. Are you ready

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Speaker 2: let's do it? Well, we got to wait thirty minutes.

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Speaker 2: It's just not gonna happen. I just wanted to see

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Speaker 2: if you were like emotionally physically, I can be right

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Speaker 3: This is kind of interesting.

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Speaker 11: A Morristown pawnshop runs a tight ship, but twenty four

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Speaker 7: Will come in the door about eight, probably eight twenty

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Speaker 11: Trade center owner.

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Speaker 2: Now, gentlemen, what do you think happened to this pawn

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Speaker 7: It was a disaster?

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Speaker 3: Either raccoons or zombies? Phush, I'm just gonna say yeah,

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Speaker 11: Trade center owner Loretta Bryant showed up Sunday to a mess.

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Speaker 11: But this wasn't your typical pawn shop problem, and the

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Speaker 7: I went back and I said what is it? And

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Speaker 7: there was a little Chester, the little brown kapoof too

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Speaker 2: The free she already had a name for it. This

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Speaker 7: There was a little Chester, the little brown capoop too

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Speaker 11: The furry culprit made his way in through a doggy

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Speaker 7: There was monkey messes everywhere.

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Speaker 4: Does that mean monkey number two or the monkey scattered

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Speaker 3: No, I think it's the first one. I think I

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Speaker 11: It was a crime of opportunity and a little monkey business.

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Speaker 3: Alright, She's like, yes she wrote that, Just yes.

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Speaker 7: He really hated computer keyboards. There was three computer keyboards

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Speaker 11: Floor in a store full of instruments. It was a

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Speaker 7: There was bags of be tighted two.

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Speaker 2: I have a lot of respect for mmj ors. They

443
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Speaker 2: got to go out there turn a package multimedia journalist.

444
00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:08,280
Speaker 2: They got to shoot the thing, write it, edit it,

445
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Speaker 2: and front it. That's hard, you know, That's like, that's

446
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Speaker 2: a lot of work. Monkey business, monkey business and a

447
00:24:14,359 --> 00:24:18,080
Speaker 2: jam a material. There a jam session that no one

448
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Speaker 2: signed up for in a store.

449
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Speaker 11: Full of instruments. It was a jam session no one

450
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Speaker 11: signed up for.

451
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Speaker 7: There was bags of potato chips busted from our crackers.

452
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Speaker 7: I watched them open a pack of crackers and eat some.

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Speaker 2: Okay, what would we do instead? A jam session? Instead

454
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Speaker 2: of a jam session? No one signed up for a

455
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Speaker 2: jam session. It was a jam session that.

456
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Speaker 3: Any anything? Anybody got anything?

457
00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:50,159
Speaker 4: I'm just trying to picture Rod Serling's just it's not

458
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Speaker 4: working for me.

459
00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:56,160
Speaker 3: Something like going going bananas. Perhaps, don't do it.

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Speaker 11: Don't even the best detectives have to wonder what is

461
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Speaker 11: thinking about?

462
00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:01,760
Speaker 3: I don't know.

463
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Speaker 11: After five decades, something upawn shops never seen in.

464
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Speaker 7: My wildest dream. Could not have dreamed that.

465
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Speaker 11: A smash and grab without the grab. But this hometown

466
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Speaker 11: store is now back to normal.

467
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Speaker 3: It's just a great place to live.

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Speaker 2: Did we miss how they've solved the issue? Did you

469
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Speaker 2: get that at all?

470
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Speaker 3: I didn't.

471
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Speaker 2: I know I was paying attention to maybe the wrong thing,

472
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Speaker 2: but I did not pick up on how they fixed

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Speaker 2: the problem.

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Speaker 4: Everybody likes some monkey. Happy ending, And also like, why does.

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Speaker 3: She know the name of this there was a little

476
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Speaker 3: chester Chester. This woman knows her that she knows her monkey.

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Speaker 3: She's a prime primate.

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Speaker 2: It's IM six forty Andy Reesmeyer here will be with

479
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Speaker 2: you for a little bit, all the way till ten o'clock.

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

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Speaker 2: Yeah, how interesting is that? It's weird because you know,

482
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Speaker 2: doctor Oz obviously is a television star. Now he's in

483
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Speaker 2: a position of power. It's kind of a trend around here.

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Speaker 3: I don't mean me. Also, you could be in his

485
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Speaker 3: cabinet at some point.

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Speaker 2: No, yeah, I don't think you could be. I'm waiting

487
00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:24,879
Speaker 2: for the call. Okay, oh wait, oh wait, they'll see

488
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Speaker 2: I don't know if just remember your friends when you

489
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Speaker 2: when you got that power. Yeah, there's the last thing

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Speaker 2: I want to do is be involved in politics.

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Speaker 4: Well, what position would you take? AHHS has already taken.

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Speaker 2: Is there a thing that I could do that Like

493
00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:45,920
Speaker 2: the level of pain I would cause people would be

494
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Speaker 2: very minimal, Like I would immediately I would say transportation

495
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Speaker 2: secretary because I like planes.

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Speaker 3: But I think that that could be very disastrous.

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Speaker 4: Well, you'd have to elbow that real world guy out

498
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Speaker 4: of the way for transportation.

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Speaker 2: Well yeah yeah, but I'm saying, you know, this is

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Speaker 2: also world where somehow I am asked to do this, right, Maybe.

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Speaker 3: They can make up a new one, like Secretary of

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Speaker 3: Guitars for you.

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Speaker 2: Ooh, okay, yeah, that can do no harm. You know

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Speaker 2: that's a do no harm scenario. Secretary of Guitars, Guitar

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Speaker 2: guitar hero a, guitars are guitars are Would there be

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Speaker 2: a job that you could do in the government where

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Speaker 2: you like break down the trends that are happening in

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Speaker 2: the gen Z Internet world for a general audience.

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Speaker 3: Just just make one up. Okay, nobody's paying attention, right,

510
00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:37,080
Speaker 3: do what you want.

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00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:40,360
Speaker 2: A new super villain has entered the chat, and according

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Speaker 2: to gen Z, she's seated.

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00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:43,040
Speaker 3: Right here at this table.

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00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:46,120
Speaker 2: Oh no, the Zoomer Council has spoken. Karen is out.

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00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:51,879
Speaker 2: A new monster is a millennial named Jessica. Jessica's the

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Speaker 2: new Karen. So Karen's You're free to go buy gold

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Speaker 2: and move to the villages.

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Speaker 3: I guess the idea has been.

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00:27:57,320 --> 00:27:59,960
Speaker 2: Bounced around the Internet for some time, maybe since late

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Speaker 2: late summer, but recently has become more popular in the

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Speaker 2: feeds of older folk. That's why we're doing it on

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Speaker 2: the news. Now, why Jessica, Well, statistically it makes sense.

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00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:11,280
Speaker 2: Jessica was the number one name for girls in America

524
00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:13,280
Speaker 2: for most of the eighties and the nineties, so we

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00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:15,360
Speaker 2: are currently at peak adult Jessica.

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Speaker 10: That's like a double stab to the heart.

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00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:22,640
Speaker 2: It's like your coming, My god, she in her army

528
00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:25,120
Speaker 2: of Ashley is doing a new kind of millennial awful.

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00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:28,760
Speaker 2: It's not outward screaming at a manager at Denny's, but quiet,

530
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Speaker 2: passive shaming.

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Speaker 1: Think per my last email.

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Speaker 2: Any Jessica's in your lives, they've been purged. Oh is

533
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Speaker 2: it because of this information? Is it because they're the

534
00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:43,320
Speaker 2: they're the new Karens Or is it just a coincidence.

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Speaker 4: I just kind of have low thresholds in general, and

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Speaker 4: so any anybody resembling a Jessica out the air lock, would.

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Speaker 3: You say, my new haircut resembles Jessica in a super up.

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Speaker 3: I'm dead. I'm dead, you know, you know I have

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Speaker 3: nothing to say to that.

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Speaker 2: Anything that gen Z finds she's a live left love

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Speaker 2: in the streets. But I'm calling the h os i'

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00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:21,000
Speaker 2: very very heteronormative for you. That's right, Yeah, that's listen,

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00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:23,880
Speaker 2: this is very heteronormative for gen Z. Don't you think

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00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:27,680
Speaker 2: I'm not choosing a male name? How very obvious shaming

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00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:30,120
Speaker 2: olds all well and good, except for one important thing,

546
00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:33,480
Speaker 2: our very own jes gen Z, proving once again gen

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00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:37,040
Speaker 2: Z might have hit the Benjamin one too many times. Jessica,

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00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:39,720
Speaker 2: you guys get that the Benjamin what is that a vape?

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00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:42,880
Speaker 3: Yeah? Like the pen vape pen Benjamin.

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00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:46,959
Speaker 2: Jessica does have that hard k continent we hear in Karen.

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00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:51,479
Speaker 2: Maybe makes it easier to say in a sinister way, Jessica, Karen.

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00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:54,520
Speaker 1: But you know what else? Does Frank.

553
00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:58,960
Speaker 3: Arger no leave me?

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00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:04,360
Speaker 2: They were referring to Mark Chrisky, but I I think

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00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:05,600
Speaker 2: that you know it's the same name.

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00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:06,640
Speaker 3: Oh so.

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Speaker 10: Do we need to go down Frank's history?

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00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:10,560
Speaker 8: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Are we talking about the one?

560
00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:12,600
Speaker 1: The one that we go to?

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00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:16,760
Speaker 2: We were talking about the Gelson's. Then listen, things get

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Speaker 2: all crazy on the TV. I got to tell you, though,

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Speaker 2: I'm so surprised that this story has gone gangbusters because

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Speaker 2: I thought it was kind of a throwaway. I mean,

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00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:26,360
Speaker 2: it was fun to do because Jessica's there, But when

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Speaker 2: we were talking about it, I was like, yeah, okay,

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Speaker 2: I've kind of seen this, but it keeps coming back

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00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:35,320
Speaker 2: up in the feeds. The clip that we pulled and

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Speaker 2: posted on KTLA's Instagram yesterday is sitting now at two

570
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Speaker 2: point nine million views.

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Speaker 3: What I know, which like, that's so much for for this,

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Speaker 3: that's pretty impressive.

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Speaker 2: It's one of the most viewed videos that I've ever made,

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Speaker 2: like ever singular video, well maybe outside of like hot

575
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Speaker 2: wheels stuff, which you would just be depressed how well

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00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:04,880
Speaker 2: toys being played with does on the Internet.

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Speaker 3: I believe that everybody loves hot wheels, like billions of

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Speaker 3: views on that kind of stuff.

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Speaker 4: You show me somebody who hasn't whipped a friend with

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Speaker 4: a Hot Wheels track as a boy, and I'll show

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Speaker 4: you a liar.

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Speaker 3: Orange. Did you have the orange track? Yeah? Isn't that

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Speaker 3: all there was? They have glow in the Dark now

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Speaker 3: as well.

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Speaker 4: Oh that's fancy. No, I never had that. I had

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Speaker 4: the poor white trash orange. Well orange is you know,

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00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:33,440
Speaker 4: democratized for sure?

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00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:34,360
Speaker 3: Safety orange? Yeah?

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Speaker 4: We were you ever in Andrew because I could see

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Speaker 4: that being kind of insufferable.

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Speaker 3: Just answer the question. You mean a young me? Yeah, okay,

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00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:46,720
Speaker 3: what was that like being young?

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Speaker 4: Well, but transitioning from young to old, from Andrew to Andy.

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Speaker 2: Oh so I did it. When I got into into

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Speaker 2: high school. I went from Andrew to Andy because I

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Speaker 2: thought Andrew was too serious, Like what a serious person

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Speaker 2: that sounds like Andrew wants to smell the cork. I

598
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Speaker 2: believe it's corked. I believe it is, just so you know, yeah,

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Speaker 2: Andrew is a very obnoxious. Uh, I'm exactly kind of person.

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Speaker 2: I'm actually, yeah, for sure. But I it's funny though

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Speaker 2: because it started. I don't know if it's funny, but

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Speaker 2: it's interesting to me at least because when I had

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Speaker 2: my first radio show, the Andy Reesmeyer Show on wj

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Speaker 2: e L, which is our high school radio station, fifty

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Speaker 2: thousand watts, the Jay Everett like Career Center in Indianapolis, Indiana. Uh,

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Speaker 2: Andrew Reesmeier was hard to say, and I thought Andy

607
00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:39,920
Speaker 2: Reesmeyer kind of flows.

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Speaker 3: So that's what happened. Andrewesmill.

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Speaker 2: You know, too many rs rare all right, so you

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Speaker 2: know and listen, you know, was I quite then yet

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Speaker 2: going with a photo of myself to haircuts.

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Speaker 3: No, but was it in me already? Yes, it absolutely was.

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Speaker 2: Coming up for the next hour, Jack Brimavera will join us.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna talk about new music Friday for people who

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00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:12,280
Speaker 2: don't like new music. Very excited about that. Plus solo.

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Speaker 2: The solo gonna play an isolated guitar solo. Call us

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Speaker 2: and tell us what song it belongs to, who the

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Speaker 2: guitarist is. You don't want to miss it. It's KFI

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Speaker 2: AM six forty. I'm Andy Reesemeyer. We're live everywhere on

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Speaker 2: the iHeartRadio

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Speaker 1: App, KFI AM six forty on demand