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Speaker 1: Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. It's Friday,

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Speaker 1: the Friday, last Friday for a lot of people. A

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Speaker 1: lot of people will be going home today today after

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Speaker 1: work and this will be your last day until after Christmas.

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Speaker 1: It's true, it's not mine, but there are a lot

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Speaker 1: of people who are taking three weeks off, three whole

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Speaker 1: weeks off. What does they handle? I don't know. Does

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Speaker 1: he take three weeks off? He is, oh, boboo, No,

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Speaker 1: I'm taking you know, a little time, but three weeks

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Speaker 1: that's a lot. It's almost a month.

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Speaker 2: Come on.

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Speaker 1: You know Tim Kats, who is the producer for the

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Speaker 1: Petros Money Show. He when he takes vacation, he's asked

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Speaker 1: to still book the guests, do the rundown, and so

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Speaker 1: when he's in Hawaii with his wife and his kids,

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Speaker 1: he's working. Nope. Yeah, that's what he does. Nope and unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: It's because he says, yes, well, the computer is also crashed,

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Speaker 1: so it'll give me some time to read some emails.

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Speaker 1: We've got emails, yes, yes, yes, yes yes. The one

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Speaker 1: big email from this week is I gotta ask Belly

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Speaker 1: if I can read it on the air. Belly was

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Speaker 1: working from home today. Is it saucy? It's not saucy,

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Speaker 1: But I think I can read it on the air.

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Speaker 1: I think I can read it on the air. But

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Speaker 1: it has well, I don't know. Let me ask. Let

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Speaker 1: me ask, Belly. Oh before I get in trouble here, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I can I read the email from And then I

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Speaker 1: got to push she says yes. Oh, she said yes. No,

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Speaker 1: I'm just encouraging you to read it. Okay, all right,

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Speaker 1: But it was a very nice email sent by by

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Speaker 1: like a very like a well known person, and so

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Speaker 1: I just want to see if I can and it's

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Speaker 1: and it's and it's really complimentary. So I think I

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Speaker 1: can read it on the air. No, I don't think so,

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Speaker 1: it's her response. Okay, all right, but I can read

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Speaker 1: everything around it and it and it all has to

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Speaker 1: do with the remote that we did on what was

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Speaker 1: it Tuesday? It was Tuesday, m But man, I'm every

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Speaker 1: single person at this station very complimentary about that remote

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Speaker 1: that we did at Cadillac Pasadena. And they loved it.

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Speaker 1: Everybody in this building loved it. Everybody at the Cadillac

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Speaker 1: dealership loved it. Jay Leno had a great time. Everybody

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Speaker 1: that showed up had a really great time. Oscar was

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Speaker 1: out there from what is his title here? Oscar's title Okay,

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Speaker 1: system program director. He loved it. He was out there.

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Speaker 1: I'm also Brian Long was out there. He loved it.

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Speaker 1: He thought it was great. I can't tell you how

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Speaker 1: many compliments we got from Paul Corvino. Yeah, Corveno, man, man,

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Speaker 1: he thought it was fantastic. So bonus is all around. Ah, yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: I hope so. But everybody, everybody enjoyed it. Everybody thought

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Speaker 1: management uh in New York, and they thought it was

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Speaker 1: an They thought it was like the best remote we've

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Speaker 1: ever done. So wow, it was. It was great and

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Speaker 1: hopefully we'll do uh you know, many many more of

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Speaker 1: them in the future. Yeah, it was. It was really

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Speaker 1: a cool deal. Bellio knocked it out. And look, these

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Speaker 1: these thanks are usually towards the end of the show,

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Speaker 1: but I think that's you know, that's uh like throwaways

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Speaker 1: But Bellio was there and she put together I mean,

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Speaker 1: television shows in Hollywood, and people would think that she

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Speaker 1: was doing that her whole life. That's how organized she is.

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Speaker 1: She has that skill to be organized like nobody else.

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Speaker 1: And you're either encouraging her to leave her. Look if

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Speaker 1: but a world class producer and was you know, got

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Speaker 1: It was a big deal and man, it was just

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Speaker 1: the perfect night. So we got to thank Sharon Bellio

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Speaker 1: for that. And then Angel Martinez popped out there too.

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Speaker 1: Angel Martinez took the night off, took a vacation day

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Speaker 1: to come out and hang with us. Is that true?

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Speaker 1: Angel Short of Okay, yeah, I know, Waite, but you

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Speaker 1: didn't do traffic out there, No I didn't. So did

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Speaker 3: Yeah, somebody filled in for me, and they did that

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Speaker 3: so that I could just come out and support your show.

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Speaker 1: It was fantastic. I asked Bellio, I said, hey, how

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Speaker 1: the day. She did all a lot of the social media,

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Speaker 1: Who knows, all right, Angel Martinez? This is Friday, before

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Speaker 1: the last weekend. For a lot of people, this will

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Speaker 1: be their last day of work until after the new year.

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Speaker 1: You know, richiees and people with private jets and you know,

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Speaker 1: What is the traffic, Like I thought I noticed in

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Speaker 1: But I think you're right busy. It's very busy today.

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Speaker 3: I mean, don't get me wrong, but we are seeing

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Speaker 3: patchy and slow all the way to the fifteen. But

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Speaker 3: another tough spot I would say is the four oh five.

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Speaker 1: Working. Sorry, Angel, your mic was down that whole time.

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Speaker 1: Can you do it again?

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Speaker 2: Are you kidding?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm just kidding. Oh my gosh, you got me.

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Speaker 1: If she could have swore like this FCC was a said,

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Speaker 1: you know, no holes barred, she would have blasted away

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Speaker 1: with a couple of as what the f Yeah, all

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Speaker 4: Gonna bring up by the way all this week on

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Speaker 4: like Angel said, the fifteen from Burbank here horrible really all.

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Speaker 1: This week every night? Is that right? Yes, Oh that's horrible.

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Speaker 3: Like it's all it's slowing down out of Arcadia all

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Speaker 1: It's Weirdah that is well, look this is you know,

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Speaker 1: stuff like that. But I still can't believe. I went

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Speaker 1: doing some Christmas shopping. I found a few things, and

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Speaker 1: then I get I get this announcement at six o'clock.

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Speaker 1: Our store closes in ten minutes, so could you kindly

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Speaker 1: bring up your purchases and we'll take care of you

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Speaker 1: have to register. And I thought, this is six o'clock

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Speaker 1: on a Sunday in a mall, two weeks, three weeks

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Speaker 1: I see that all the time. You know, places closing

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Speaker 1: at eight o'clock or seven o'clock. Everything should be on

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Speaker 1: lows and home depot hours. Those are my favorite hours

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Speaker 1: in the world. It's six am until ten pm Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,

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Speaker 1: Friday and Saturday, and then they close early on Sunday

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Speaker 1: at eight. Those are fantastic hours. Every business should be

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Speaker 1: forced to stay open atll ten o'clock for guys like me.

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Speaker 1: Guys like me, I'm a night guy. I want to

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Speaker 1: are closing, and I'm called That's what I use my

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Speaker 1: times a day. Here's what I do with the Siri,

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Speaker 1: let me shut this off. Here's what I do. Here's

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Speaker 1: what I do. I turn on the phone. Hi, what

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Speaker 1: time does Low's in Burbank close tonight? And I get oh, here,

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Speaker 1: I'll get this one. I got directions. What time does

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Speaker 1: home Depot close tonight in Burbank? And then they'll come

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Speaker 1: on and they'll say ten pm. That's fantastic, ten pm.

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Speaker 1: It's working now, so we'll come back. We'll start the

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Speaker 1: the big holiday starts. It's gonna be next week, the

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Speaker 1: week after, and then the weekend when we got then

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Speaker 1: we got Christmas. What's the day today? Is this the

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Speaker 1: on the what's the day today? The twelfth? Okay, so

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Speaker 1: we have twelve days before Christmas Eve? Do you understand

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Speaker 1: that twelve days before Christmas Eve? Christmas Eve is around

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Speaker 1: the corner. It is a week from next Wednesday. It's

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Speaker 1: a week from next Wednesday. Christmas Eve is one week

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Speaker 1: from next Wednesday. Christmas is one week two weeks from yesterday.

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Speaker 1: Is Christmas two weeks from yesterday. You don't even have

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Speaker 1: two weeks left to get out there. So let's get

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Speaker 1: on out there. We'll keep you here all seven o'clock.

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Speaker 5: You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI

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Speaker 5: AM six forty.

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Speaker 1: We are joined by Michael J. Monks, So good to

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Speaker 1: be with you. Is that the middle initial? It's A,

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Speaker 1: but it's oh Michael, all right, Michael A Monks. What

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Speaker 1: does the A stand for? Take a guest, It's Adam

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Speaker 1: Catholic name Antonio close English version of that. Oh, okay,

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Speaker 1: Anthony Anthony. Wow, look at you, BA Michael Anthony, Michael

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Speaker 1: Michael Anthony is a great name, not a bad name.

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Speaker 1: That's a great mob name. Yeah, do you want to

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Speaker 1: make me?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: What would your what would your mob nickname be? Uh?

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Speaker 6: Probably the snitch Mickey Monks, Monks, the snitch Monks.

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Speaker 1: That's the basis name for Van Haley. Is it the snitch?

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Speaker 1: The snitch? Snitches get stitches though they do?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so you can't do that. No, all right, But buddy,

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Speaker 1: you have a very popular show before we get into

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Speaker 1: why you're here on Saturday from seven to nine pm.

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Speaker 6: It wildly popular Saturday night program here on KFI, and

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Speaker 6: you've been doing it really since the fires since a

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Speaker 6: Well, he is back, but he's not following procedures in

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Speaker 1: Michael Monks joins us aies on every Saturday from seven

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Speaker 6: Jim McDonald was sitting there saying things that may be correct.

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Speaker 1: When you say you can't rip that money away without

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Speaker 6: That's what was being proposed today, not to take money

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Speaker 6: I wasn't your covering that, but there would have been

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Speaker 6: Again, all of this may be factual what he's saying

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Speaker 1: I'd have to look this number up, but I think

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Speaker 6: I think the way that Jim McDonald framed it at

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Speaker 1: And please come back and and I have a follow up, angel,

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Speaker 6: The follow up, Angel is how much in lawsuit settlements

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna a twelve, twenty, whatever it is.

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Speaker 6: I'm talking to the leader of an organization that just

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Speaker 6: put out a report that called LA the judicial hellhole

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Speaker 6: except of America, the number one judicial hellhole. That's the

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Speaker 6: official That's great because of how exorbitant these these settlements are,

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Speaker 6: not just in the government but also the private sector.

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Speaker 6: The juries here are just throwing money out to everybody

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Speaker 6: in this very religious society.

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Speaker 1: Here, my wife ran into a pothole. This must have

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Speaker 1: been I don't know, twenty years ago, and she just

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Speaker 1: wrote a note saying, I hit a pothole and it

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Speaker 1: cost one hundred and fifty eight dollars on my car.

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Speaker 1: Can you take care of it? And like three weeks

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Speaker 1: later she got a check. Nobody ever called to investigate

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Speaker 1: or anything. And I think she was lying. Oh you

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Speaker 1: think she did something else?

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think she hit a tree. Was she thrown

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Speaker 1: back a couple of No, I don't think so. She

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Speaker 1: doesn't drink and drive, but I think she would be

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Speaker 1: better a better driver if she did.

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Speaker 3: Hey, you wanted to know Childsworth's Is that pedro?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Fifty three mile? Wow?

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Speaker 1: Is that right? It's a huge city.

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Speaker 6: It's not just difficult to police in the few years

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Speaker 6: that I've been covering, that's this stuff. It's difficult to govern,

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Speaker 6: difficult for a lot of stuff. It's just took a crazy,

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Speaker 6: crazy place. I know you were on street lights for

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Speaker 6: a while.

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Speaker 1: I drove from the Odyssey, which is where the five

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Speaker 1: of the four or five meet, and I haven't been

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Speaker 1: in that part of the valley for ten years or so,

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Speaker 1: so I want to take side streets home just to

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Speaker 1: see that part of the valley grew up around there,

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Speaker 1: and I didn't see a street light that was one,

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Speaker 1: not a single one. It's so depressing. It all, this

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Speaker 1: is all, this is what we're talking about today.

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Speaker 6: The city has no money, They cannot do basic services,

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Speaker 6: and they had to make some very tough decisions. But

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Speaker 6: keep in mind they kept all of those positions. Those

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Speaker 6: sixteen hundred jobs are on the chopping block that they

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Speaker 6: were still paying for. And this budget hasn't gotten any better.

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Speaker 6: So when we come to next spring and they start

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Speaker 6: talking about the budget again, you think there might be

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Speaker 6: layoffs proposed answers. Of course, Secondarily, and more importantly, they

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Speaker 6: approved the expansion or the convention that convention center, and

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Speaker 6: that is going to be tens and tens of millions,

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Speaker 6: possibly two hundred million dollars a year that had no

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Speaker 6: way to Hey, hey, they have to find it in

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Speaker 6: this exact budget. Wow, these four million dollars that was

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Speaker 6: asked for by the LAPD, that's just a fund the recruiting.

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Speaker 1: Then these folks draw the salaries.

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Speaker 6: It will at least be twenty four million dollars a

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Speaker 6: year for what they're asking for.

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Speaker 1: Wow, Monks, I don't know what the endgame is here,

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Speaker 1: but I'm glad you keep an eye on them. Michael Monks,

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Speaker 1: Michael Anthony Monks, Saturday, seven to nine pm. Always a

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Speaker 1: pleasure to see. Above.

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Speaker 5: You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI

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Speaker 5: AM six.

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Speaker 1: Forty and next December December twenty third or twenty second.

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Speaker 1: I think it's twenty third of twenty twenty six, will

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Speaker 1: be the thirtieth year in radio, thirty years, and yet

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Speaker 1: I forgot to turn the mic on. So there you go.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes they have a brain fart in life. The Dodgers

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Speaker 1: are introducing the next superhero in Dodger Blue. His name

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Speaker 1: is Edwin Diaz and he is going to be playing

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Speaker 1: for the Los Angeles Dodgers, and he's going to be

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Speaker 1: the premiere closer. He's gonna come in in the sixth, seventh, eighth,

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Speaker 1: ninth inning and throw bebies that these Padres and Giants

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Speaker 1: and you know whoever A's Mets, whoever it is, cannot hit,

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Speaker 1: and we'll close out a lot of games. When Edwin

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Speaker 1: Diaz comes in the game. The next song you're gonna

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Speaker 1: hear is I love LA A lot of the time.

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Speaker 1: He'll come in, bang bang bang bang bang, rolling down

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Speaker 1: Pierre Highway, big nasty ran out of my side. That's

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Speaker 1: you're gonna hear next. This guy at the end of

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Speaker 1: the game. At the end of the game, after he pitches,

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Speaker 1: he'll raise his arms up. Dodgers win. Dodgers win because

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Speaker 1: of this guy, Edwin Diaz. Let's meet this guy. Dodgers

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Speaker 1: introduced him today.

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Speaker 2: President of Baseball Operations Andrew Friedman calls it the perfect fit.

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Speaker 2: The acquisition of Edwin Dia is announced by the club

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Speaker 2: today and he met the media for the first time.

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Speaker 1: This is like an all star team. The Dodgers are

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Speaker 1: an all star team, and I love it. And people say, oh,

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Speaker 1: it's not great for baseball. I could care less. I

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Speaker 1: could care less. I'm I'm not a baseball fan. I'm

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Speaker 1: a Dodger fan. I don't watch baseball. I don't watch

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Speaker 1: you know, Atlanta play Cleveland? Who cares? Not a baseball fan,

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Speaker 1: I'm a Dodger fan. So I say, all the power

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Speaker 1: to him. Let's make the Dodgers an All Star team

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Speaker 1: every year and win twenty or thirty World Series in

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Speaker 1: a row. That would be great.

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Speaker 2: Daz In selecting to come here to Los Angeles had

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Speaker 2: some first hand intel from his brother Alexis, who was

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Speaker 2: a member of the club for a part of last season.

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Speaker 2: DS says he's here because he wants to win. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and the Dodgers, despite going with a closer by committee

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Speaker 2: over the course of the last few seasons, are not

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Speaker 2: shot about the fact that the team's closer will be

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Speaker 2: the man they call Sugar.

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Speaker 7: To name someone the closer, you have to be one

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Speaker 7: of the best. You have to be elite and dominant

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Speaker 7: at what you do. Sugar is that and I think

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Speaker 7: just so many boxes were checked in our mind. But again,

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Speaker 7: just a very high bar to say this person is

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Speaker 7: our closer, and Sugar checks all those boxes.

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Speaker 1: I love that they call him by his nickname sugar.

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Speaker 1: You know what a sweet nickname. Sorry, but that's a

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Speaker 1: beautiful nickname for a guy that's going to be mowing

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Speaker 1: down these Padres. Man, if you're a Padre or you're

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Speaker 1: a Padres fan, you've got to just be, you know,

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Speaker 1: suicidal with what's going on in La. Even if you're

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Speaker 1: an Angels fan, you know, you had Otani for four

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Speaker 1: or five years, I think five years, then got nothing

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Speaker 1: for him. He left Anaheim, Angels went to the Dodgers,

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Speaker 1: and Anaheim got nothing for the greatest athlete in the world,

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Speaker 1: the greatest maybe the greatest baseball player in the world.

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Speaker 1: And the Dodgers picked him up for nothing. They had

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Speaker 1: to give the Angels nothing, not a player, not a bat,

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Speaker 1: not a ball, not a hot dog or even a

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Speaker 1: colonel of popcorn. Nothing.

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Speaker 8: He's a big reponsality because what is in your hand

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Speaker 8: the last three out of the game, and I think

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Speaker 8: they are the toughest three hours in the game. Personal,

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Speaker 8: I take it nice and easy my pitches. You know,

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Speaker 8: at the end of the day, if I get my

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Speaker 8: job done, they think would be in a good position.

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Speaker 1: Oh what a great accent. I can warm him up

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Speaker 1: to that accent, very very easily, very quickly. Personal.

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Speaker 8: I take it nice and easy. My pitches. You know,

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Speaker 8: at the end of the day, if I get my

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Speaker 8: job done, they think would been able position.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, here we go, gentlemen, Edwin.

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Speaker 2: It's the most electric walkout in Major League Baseball.

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Speaker 1: Edwin, we got him out to Narco. Hey, we got him, everybody,

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Speaker 1: we got him. He's on the Dodgers.

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Speaker 2: By Timmy up and rest assured Dodger fans. Das says

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Speaker 2: that he's bringing the walk up music here to Dodger Stadium.

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Speaker 2: I can't wait to ring it here for all of

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Speaker 2: the fans. Now. You may have seen him wearing uniform

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Speaker 2: number three. That's because the number thirty nine that he's

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Speaker 2: normally accustomed to being seen and is retired here by

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Speaker 2: the Dodgers for the late Roy Campanella so ds scene.

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Speaker 1: Oh, they should unretire it for him, you know, dig

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Speaker 1: up Roy, take it off his body and throw it

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Speaker 1: on Diaz. Man, what have seen that would be? I

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Speaker 1: think that old jersey off Roy.

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Speaker 6: You've been calling this for years, by the way, yeah

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Speaker 6: with DZ.

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Speaker 1: Well, Oh yeah, buddy, look this guy. That's the greatest

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Speaker 1: walkout ever. Yeah, you know, coming out there, it's so perfect.

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Speaker 1: It's so perfect, Fu, I mean, you've been talking about

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Speaker 1: this for a couple of years. Yeah, it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: so loud and echoing through Dodger Stadium when they pound

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Speaker 1: that that music out, and they'll be you'll be great

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Speaker 1: as to turn all the lights off and put a

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Speaker 1: spotlight on him when he comes out and play that

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Speaker 1: and play that song, so all the lights go out.

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Speaker 1: You got Timmy trumpet there and ladies and gentlemen, Edwin dear, yes, sir,

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Speaker 1: what is it? This is from the Padres. The Padres

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Speaker 1: they're not playing this year. They said they quit, sir,

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Speaker 1: They're not going to play this year? Is that right?

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Speaker 1: They already long. Yeah, it's on there, it's on look,

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Speaker 1: it's on their stationary, it's on their letterhead. So Padres

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Speaker 1: are not going to play baseball this year. They said

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Speaker 1: it's not worth it. It's like America in the World Cup.

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Speaker 1: We're already lost. That's right, all right. We're live on

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Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty Conway Show on demand on the

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Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app. Now you can always hear us live on

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