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

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Speaker 2: Boy, the uh the footage of the helicopter, the crashing

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Speaker 2: hunting the beach was wild. Just you know, laying in

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Speaker 2: bed like a slog yesterday, just you know, uh, doom

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Speaker 2: is that is that?

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Speaker 3: Is that? Is that new? A couple of things crossed

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Speaker 3: my mind.

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Speaker 2: I saw this helicopter spinning out of control and then

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Speaker 2: crashing into the trees, and it was it was horrifying.

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Speaker 3: And I thought, Okay, first, is that new? Right?

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Speaker 2: Because sometimes you see people they'll use old footage online

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Speaker 2: to get some clicks.

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Speaker 3: And then the other thing I thought was is it real? Now?

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Speaker 2: That's the sad reality of the world that we're in,

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Speaker 2: but you have to question everything.

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Speaker 3: Now, is it did it? Did it really happen? Right?

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Speaker 2: So then I start seeing legitimate reports and I start seeing, yeah,

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Speaker 2: it did happen. Holy cow, was it horrifying. I Mean,

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Speaker 2: we've I've seen movies, but there's you know, you've seen

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Speaker 2: a lot of things in movies, but then when you

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Speaker 3: And I feel the same way.

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Speaker 2: As we advance in technology and we've got fake videos,

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Speaker 2: and we've got fake radio hosts, and we've got fake

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Speaker 2: news anchors, and we've got fake everything else. There's something

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Speaker 2: about knowing that you're looking at something real. Talking to

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Speaker 2: my son about this yesterday, and he says, if I

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Speaker 2: see something, he's a gen z, so he's constantly on YouTube,

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Speaker 2: and he as he's scrolling through things, he says, even

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Speaker 2: if it's something I want to watch, it was an

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Speaker 2: AI generated voice or an AI host that's trying to

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Speaker 2: give me the story. He goes, I skip over it.

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Speaker 2: I don't want that. It's completely unrelatable. So as I'm

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Speaker 2: watching that yesterday and going, oh my god, that's horrific.

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Speaker 2: Is it real? Before I get all worked up about it,

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Speaker 2: is it real? And it was, and it was terrifying.

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Speaker 2: We know that from ABC seven. Oh come on, you booger, go,

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Speaker 2: come on, stupid computer.

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Speaker 4: We know that two people were pulled from inside the

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Speaker 4: helicopter and three others on the ground also suffered injuries.

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Speaker 4: All five were taken to a hospital this morning. We're

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Speaker 4: working to learn more about their condition, and according to

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Speaker 4: the OC Register, a family member of the pilot told

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Speaker 4: them his son in law suffered broken ribs, a crushed vertebrae,

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Speaker 4: and several bruises. According to CHP, the crash happened just

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Speaker 4: after two pm Saturday. The helicopter it chemes.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was still in bed like a slug. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I was. I got up yesterday and then I took

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Speaker 2: just doom scrolled for like two hours. That was my Saturday, don't.

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Speaker 4: Judge spinning down on the pedestrian bridge and the beach

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Speaker 4: parking lot between Twin to Dolphins Boulevard and Beach Boulevard,

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Speaker 4: the startling scene unfolding as so many families were enjoying

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Speaker 3: I was actually videotape in the whole thing, because.

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Speaker 2: Also, can we bring back the phrase videotaping. We all

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Speaker 2: know what it means. I say videotaping and my kids

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Speaker 2: go videotaping.

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Speaker 3: Will you go to tape in there?

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Speaker 2: You know what I'm with you, innocent bystander. You were videotaping,

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Speaker 3: That because I like airplanes. I heard the pop pop

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Speaker 3: and going down, Oh no, really fast. I've been in

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Speaker 5: Sounds it just looked like a general crash. There was

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Speaker 5: There's leaking some fuel, but no uh, no fire, thankfully.

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Speaker 5: I'd say maybe a minute tops. There is lifeguards and

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a pretty packed area.

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Speaker 2: There had to been people around there, I mean beach

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Speaker 2: Plus it was for the Cars and Copters event, so

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 4: ABC seven has learned the helicopter was associated with the

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Speaker 3: I just said that.

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Speaker 4: Had to take place today here at Huntington Beach. At

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Speaker 4: last check, that event, to which benefits the Huntington Beach

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Speaker 4: Police and Community Foundation, is still set to go on.

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Speaker 4: If you take a look back out here live, you

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Speaker 4: can see some of the food trucks there. They've already

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Speaker 3: They're ready to go.

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Speaker 4: The event gets underway at ten o'clock this morning, and

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Speaker 4: just right next to it, you could see that helicopters

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Speaker 4: still hear the NTSB so far that we've seen not

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Speaker 3: Oh, this is my favorite part of the whole story.

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Speaker 3: Are you ready for this? Oh? This is the best.

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Speaker 2: The NTSB and the FAA are allegedly investigating, okay, and

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Speaker 4: Now, we did reach out to these agencies for common

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Speaker 4: and they told us that due to the federal government

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Speaker 3: Us on believe top of this.

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Speaker 4: But of course, those five people injured and we're still

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Speaker 4: hoping to learn more about the rest of their conditions

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Speaker 3: All right, So the question you and I of course

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Speaker 2: We want to know what happened, okay, and we know

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Speaker 2: that you've got the FAA answer the NTSB that are

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Speaker 2: if they are, they say, well, you know, we basically.

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Speaker 3: Get an answering machine. That's it.

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Speaker 2: We're sorry, due to the federal shutdown, we will not

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Speaker 2: be responding to request for information.

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Speaker 3: Does it mean that it's simply their communications.

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Speaker 2: Department that's furloughed or have we cut back on the

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Speaker 2: number of investigators available for looking into horrific helicopter crashes

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Speaker 2: in a major metro And that's my question. Anyway, that's

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Speaker 2: what I have, That's what I am going through my mind.

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Speaker 2: The helicopter last I saw was still like wedged in

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Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know if they got it out.

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Speaker 3: I don't know how they get it out.

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Speaker 2: No idea. I haven't seen since. But I'm I think

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Speaker 2: everything else. I was shocked that there that people survived it.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I thought, whoever's in the helicopter is gone.

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Speaker 2: And I know broken ribs, crushed, vertebra, heavy bruising, all that, right,

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Speaker 2: the road to recovery if you have something like this,

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Speaker 2: I happen to know a guy who was in a

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Speaker 2: hard for it. But he talked about that and then

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Speaker 2: on it. And his road to recovery was incredible. I mean,

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Speaker 2: going down. He he woke up in a hospital in Germany,

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Speaker 3: I mean, just horrific.

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Speaker 2: And then all of a sudden they fly his wife

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Speaker 2: although based on what I know, it's a long road.

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Speaker 2: So if you're a thoughts in prayers kind of person,

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Speaker 2: that would be a good one maybe directed toward them.

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Speaker 3: Kayla, did you bring snacks?

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Speaker 7: Did I bring snacks?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Did you bring snacks?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 3: Okay, who's in charge of sall.

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Speaker 7: Is in charge of snacks. There's a snack drawer.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, but it doesn't have like you don't have

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Speaker 8: any I don't have any.

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Speaker 2: Now I noticed that sometimes Michelle falls behind on refilling

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Speaker 2: the snack drawer. Yeah, and I think it is imperative

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Speaker 8: Oh yeah, sure, so a raise. You're giving me a

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Speaker 8: raise in order to keep snacks for you. I'm going

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Speaker 8: to charge you extra for that, you understand, Yes, I.

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Speaker 2: Think I will have to try to see if we

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Speaker 2: can expense it because I can't afford candy now.

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Speaker 3: Yet me either, I can't afford it.

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Speaker 2: WHOA did you see that candy's up twenty percent since

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Speaker 2: the middle of the pandemic?

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Speaker 7: Should be illegal?

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Speaker 3: Who should be illegal?

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Speaker 2: Halloween is coming up, so our talkback question today if

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Speaker 2: you're listening on the iHeartRadio app, just hit that talkback button.

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Speaker 2: With Halloween candy so expensive, now, are you cutting back

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Speaker 2: or just grumbling and getting on with it? Halloween candy

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Speaker 2: on that too. That's coming up a little bit later

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Speaker 2: on it now as well. All right, you think your

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Speaker 2: that gear is just collecting dust.

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Speaker 3: All well, your neighborhood burns. That is next. I'm Chris Merril.

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

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Speaker 2: We'll talk Halloween candy here in just a few moments.

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Speaker 2: I do appreciate talkback from anybody that saw the helicopter

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Speaker 2: crash or the remnants afterward.

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Speaker 3: Hitting us up on the iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 1: Hi.

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Speaker 9: It's Stacy from Honey to be stret.

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Speaker 3: Hey, Stacy, Stacy seems nice.

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Speaker 9: You're talking about the helicopter that crashed, and I just

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Speaker 9: went by there a couple hours ago and took pictures.

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Speaker 9: It's still wedged into the trees and the walkway.

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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh.

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Speaker 9: Yeah that because of the government shutdown that they can't

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Speaker 9: get out anybody to investigate.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, great government.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, great guy, A great gay right on, Stacey. I'm

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Speaker 2: with you, Thank you so much. Stacy is nice. I

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Speaker 2: like it when people sound nice and they are nice. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I love this though. I'm with Stacy in great government,

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Speaker 2: great government. Yeah great, I'm with you. Here's what we

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Speaker 2: don't know if the investigation is being uh stalled because

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Speaker 2: of the shutdown or if it's simply the communication to

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Speaker 3: So I just want to be fair. So that's I

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Speaker 3: don't know. I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I'm I sure hope that it's just that they're not communicating.

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Speaker 3: With us, but I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Halloween candy's up twenty percent from three years ago in

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Speaker 2: the middle of the pandemic. So the question we're hitting

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Speaker 2: you on the talkback, are you cutting back? I have

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Speaker 3: So there's a long.

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Speaker 10: Ordering him to remain in custody pending trial. He's charged

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Speaker 10: He relocated to Florida about five months ago, moving in

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Speaker 10: But life in his new home apparently wasn't peaceful. No

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Speaker 10: His backstory may hold clues. He's known by alternate names

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Speaker 10: Us, but for Mallin.

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Speaker 3: Render NeXT's arrest isn't the end of the story.

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Speaker 7: It's a beginning.

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Speaker 11: One person in handcuffs doesn't change anything, right, This doesn't

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Speaker 11: The tragedy here isn't one person did a horrible thing

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the tragedy here is the systemic failure.

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Speaker 11: Of all the people, agencies and institutions. Uh huh that

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Speaker 3: Oh, such dramatic music. Indeed, now you've got.

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Speaker 2: This whistleblower, the firefighter that says that leadership in the

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Speaker 2: But the thermal cameras can help them do that. They've

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Speaker 2: massive shortcoming by the LA Fire Department. It does not, however,

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Speaker 2: well it was the La you know, the LA Fire

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Speaker 2: a better job. But this kid is the one that

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Speaker 3: But absolutely, it falls on this kid there.

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Speaker 2: I'm pretty firm in no, one not really bending on it.

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Speaker 2: I know that he's going to use the defense like, oh,

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Speaker 3: He just started a brush fire and walked away. No no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

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Speaker 2: Not how it works, which is a nice segue into

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Speaker 2: the lawmakers, the law breakers, and the times that there

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Speaker 2: ought to be a law. LA law is next time,

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Speaker 2: Chris Merrill.

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

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Speaker 3: I talk about question.

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Speaker 2: Halloween candy's up twenty percent from the middle of the pandemic.

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Speaker 2: Are you cutting back or maybe just buying cheaper candy?

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Speaker 2: Because That's what I'm gonna do. There's gonna be cheap

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Speaker 2: candy everywhere unless I can get Klea to buy me candy.

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Speaker 2: Trying to make her believe that it's part of her

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Speaker 2: producer duties to keep the host well sugared, but so

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Speaker 2: far she seems to be trying to throw it back

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Speaker 2: at me. I need a dumber producer. I need somebody

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Speaker 2: that doesn't catch on when I'm trying to get him

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Speaker 2: to pay for my stuff.

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Speaker 3: Anyway. If you are on the iHeartRadio, I just hit

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Speaker 12: Let me know, hey, Chris Cliff and Las Vegas. He's

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Speaker 12: entertaining considering all the chaos and craziness going on.

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Speaker 3: Over at iHeart right now.

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Speaker 12: It's great that your show's still on because it actually

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Speaker 12: is a good show. It's one of the fewer shows

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Speaker 2: It's just high profile. Iheart's big. Every company. I mean,

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Speaker 2: have you seen in numbers? Every company is, Every company

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Speaker 12: As far as chocolate goes. Yeah, I'm still buying it.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 12: It's the small pleasures in life.

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Speaker 3: I just pay for it. Whatever. Okay, you gotta do it.

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Speaker 3: I hear you, man, I hear you. I got you.

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Speaker 2: Thanks, Cliff, appreciate it. Always good to hear from you. Uh, yeah,

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Speaker 2: you got unless you can get kilttle by it, which

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Speaker 2: is again the way to go. Every week we tell

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Speaker 2: that there ought to be along. Let's start with the

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Speaker 2: burglars in Burbank has a little ring to it.

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Speaker 13: Let me say, a recent residential burglary in Burbank has

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Speaker 13: ties to a Southern American theft group. Search of an

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Speaker 13: apologing June found evidence connected to several residential burglaries in Burbank,

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Speaker 13: Monterey Park, and Shino Hills. Officers recovered a large amount

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Speaker 13: Six people were resting, all with ties to that theft group.

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Speaker 3: Okay, cool, great, I'm glad you got them.

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Speaker 2: Why look, this is where I get so frustrated when

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Speaker 2: we see all the all the the headlines about immigration

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Speaker 2: I mean, honestly, is ICE going after the bad guys?

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Speaker 3: Or is ICE going after the easy captures? Right?

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Speaker 2: You keep getting all these stories about oh beloved neighborhood

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Speaker 2: the easy ones to nab.

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Speaker 1: Oh.

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Speaker 2: Look, we're taking our black SUVs to the home depot

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Speaker 2: did the union send you what? But then we get oh,

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Speaker 2: the South American crime ran continues to flourish across southern California.

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Speaker 3: What just put more effort into that. But now I

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Speaker 2: We have to have the headlines that we're cleaning America

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Speaker 3: All American blah blah blah.

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Speaker 2: Meanwhile that the worst of the worst are still operating

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Speaker 2: with Carblanc Tayla Carblaubo. It's my French. I can teach

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Speaker 2: you later if you like.

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Speaker 3: If you were.

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Speaker 2: On your cell phone this week and you were talking

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Speaker 2: to somebody and you found yourself saying can you hear me? Now,

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Speaker 6: In a statement, a spokesperson for Verizon says earlier this morning,

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Speaker 3: That was Friday morning.

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Speaker 6: These dangerous acts not only impact family, students, and businesses,

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Speaker 12: Today's in a day where I have multiple events going

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Speaker 6: Even for Verizon customers who weren't affected by the outage,

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Speaker 7: It makes me mad.

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Speaker 14: Last time it happened, I happened to be in northern California.

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Speaker 14: It was about a month ago and I couldn't get

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Speaker 14: any service and nothing. I didn't know about it that

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Speaker 14: it was out and I was trying, and I even

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Speaker 14: took it to the store to try to see.

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Speaker 7: If I could fix it.

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Speaker 3: It was going on.

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Speaker 14: There's like a long line and they said no, that's

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Speaker 14: what happened.

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Speaker 2: So the issue, in my humblest of opinion, is not

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Speaker 2: necessarily that you had criminals doing criminal things, because sadly,

452
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Speaker 2: that's been going on since the beginning of humankind will

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Speaker 2: go on until the end of humankind. My concern is

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Speaker 2: how easy it was to wipe out communication across the

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Speaker 2: entire area. It would seem to me that this that

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Speaker 2: this inconvenience, which cost people money on Friday morning, should

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Speaker 2: be an eye opener of a vulnerability.

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Speaker 3: We have.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure you've probably had discussions before about how reliant

460
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Speaker 2: we are on the internet. If the Internet goes down,

461
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Speaker 2: we don't know what to do. Nobody knows how to

462
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Speaker 2: read a map any longer. You can't run a credit card.

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Speaker 2: Nobody's got the old chunk chunk machines. I don't even

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Speaker 2: know what they're called, but you know what I'm talking about.

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Speaker 2: When I say the chunk chunk machines, it's we know

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Speaker 2: it is. It is the is the entire stability of

467
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Speaker 2: the nation is easy to cut off as just somebody

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Speaker 2: with a pair of bolt cutters on a big telecommunications wire.

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Speaker 2: Because that frightens me, That worries me greatly. I'm not

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Speaker 2: the only one seeing this. Our enemies are also noticing,

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Speaker 2: so they're going, oh, look they're vulnerable. And then finally,

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Speaker 2: one more in our early law today, it looks like

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Speaker 2: California finally has decided we're going.

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Speaker 3: To teach kids how to read.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Gavin knew some signing a bill on Thursday that

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Speaker 2: is going to encourage schools to turn away from unsupported

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Speaker 2: teaching methods and turn to the Mississippi method. Oh oh

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Speaker 2: ah ah, hang on, I guess Mississippi has actually really

479
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Speaker 2: turned around their reading Mississippi, which has long had reputations

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Speaker 2: from Washington Post for sitting at the bottom of the

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Speaker 2: national education rankings.

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Speaker 3: So state officials a.

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Speaker 2: Little over decade ago decided to enforce adoption of the

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Speaker 2: old school instruction method that has often returned to it

485
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Speaker 2: referred to as the science of reading. So basically fanatics,

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Speaker 2: which that's how I learned to read. I didn't know

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Speaker 2: there was another way. Taylor, you're an East Coaster. Did

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Speaker 2: they teach you?

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Speaker 9: Yeah?

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Speaker 7: I learned as well.

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Speaker 3: Yeah right, yeah, A makes the and a sound B

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Speaker 3: makes the booth sound right, all that stuff.

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Speaker 2: I guess in California, that's not how they were doing it.

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Speaker 2: They were they were teaching whole language systems emphasized teaching

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Speaker 2: kids to guess the meaning of words based on their context,

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Speaker 2: also known as queuing. When everyone heard of this, but

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Speaker 2: I guess people that learned that way, they that's how

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Speaker 2: they want to do it. Only thirty one percent of

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Speaker 2: the state's fourth graders were proficient or advanced readers last year.

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Speaker 2: Did you have the letter people when you were grown up.

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Speaker 7: The letter people.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, did you have letter people like.

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Speaker 8: Adam the A or Bury the B kinda yeah, Charlie

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Speaker 8: the C.

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Speaker 7: No, yeah, just normal letters.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 2: So we would have like, uh, A is for it

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Speaker 2: would be like an object. I don't even remember what

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Speaker 2: was The one I do remember was D. D is

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Speaker 2: for donut, and my mother had to make a stuffed animal.

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Speaker 2: She had to so a stuffed animal and it had

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Speaker 2: to be in the shape of a D. And then

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Speaker 2: I had to bring that in and that was that

514
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Speaker 2: was my assignment. Let you keep it clean, all you know, Yes,

515
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Speaker 2: just keep it clean. There's plenty of show left. It's

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Speaker 2: not use up all of our best material. Yet D

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Speaker 2: is for donut.

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Speaker 3: I hadn't.

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Speaker 2: I had the donut man, and then uh, you know,

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Speaker 2: B is for for bubbles, and then somebody would have

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Speaker 2: to make a bubble out of the letter B or

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Speaker 2: something like that. Right, That's how we did it. I

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Speaker 2: don't know California ne did it differently. Is that what

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Speaker 2: led to the California accent? Is that what it was

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Speaker 2: that we didn't teach kids what the different sounds of

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Speaker 2: all the letters were, and now they all talk like this.

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Speaker 3: I'm jessing with it all right.

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Speaker 2: You wanted affordable how housing Sacramento is giving you a

529
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Speaker 2: shoe box on a bus stop and calling it progress.

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Speaker 2: We'll stack him hind and pack him in next Chris Merril.

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

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Speaker 2: Halloween candy up twenty percent from the middle of the pandemic. Question,

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Speaker 2: are you cutting back? I have every intention of giving

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Speaker 2: the cheapest, crappiest. Now I'm lying, you know what, I

535
00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:27,879
Speaker 2: have to be a whole I have to be completely honest.

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Speaker 2: So I live in a dumpy apartment and it's all

537
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Speaker 2: trying to save money because I can't afford to live

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Speaker 2: in a real place. So I live in a dumpy apartment.

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Speaker 2: And I thought, I've never lived in an apartment complex before.

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Speaker 2: And I thought last year, I thought, you know what,

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Speaker 2: we're gonna have a ton of kids because there's all

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Speaker 2: these families, and so I'm gonna have a bunch of candy.

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Speaker 3: And I got.

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Speaker 2: Absolute, bought a ton of candy, and nobody came. Not

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Speaker 2: a single kid came by. And I didn't. I didn't like.

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Speaker 2: Everybody got talked to. You said, oh no, they're gonna Oh, no, apartments,

547
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Speaker 2: nobody ever goes in, And I said, are you kidding?

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Speaker 2: Apartments is where I like growing up. We would go

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Speaker 2: to the apartments because you can hit a lot of

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Speaker 2: places really fast.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 2: Nope, nobody came by. So I had a ton of

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Speaker 2: candy and then I had to eat it all. So

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna do the same thing this year, and I

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Speaker 2: will in my mind think I have to be prepared

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Speaker 2: for the children, but in reality it's me. Can I

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Speaker 2: write off Halloween candy?

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Speaker 3: Oh? Good question? Is it a business expense? Uh? It is? Now.

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Speaker 2: I don't think the irs is gonna be knocking on

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Speaker 2: my door. I think they've all been furloughed. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: I'm writing off my Halloween candy this year. That's how

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna that's how. That's how I'm gonna bring it back.

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Speaker 2: You want to put tariffs on my candy, I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: stop paying taxes.

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Speaker 3: On the on it.

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Speaker 2: Breathing about that in the world, I think that's exactly

567
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Speaker 2: what we should do. I want to see everybody right

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Speaker 2: off their Halloween candy this year. Call it a business expense.

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Speaker 2: It's marketing. Marketing, you know, if you bring a little

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Speaker 2: bit to work, like five ten percent of your candy

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Speaker 2: that you purchase.

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Speaker 3: Yes, just you can write the whole thing off. Uh yeah,

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Speaker 3: I'm in Okay.

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Speaker 7: So bring us candy, is what Alie's saying.

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Speaker 2: Wait a minute, exactly. We started the show with me

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Speaker 2: trying to get you to bring the candy.

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Speaker 8: Well, you're the one that's saving it on your taxes,

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Speaker 8: so I think that you're the one that should be giving.

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Speaker 3: Us Are you not filing taxes?

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Speaker 8: I can't really talk about what I do outside of

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Speaker 8: this place, but what I can talk about is you're.

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Speaker 7: Applying me with some candy. Yeah, we'll talk, we'll talk.

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Speaker 2: We'll talk, we'll talk. If they I arst is shut down,

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Speaker 2: I'm not paying taxes. By the way, the government is

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Speaker 2: shut down, So what am I what? Why am I

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Speaker 2: paying federal taxes right now? What are they going toward?

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Speaker 7: I don't have your answers.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, oh well no, it's for all the things that

589
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Speaker 2: are open, right, But what about the things I need

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Speaker 2: to be open that aren't.

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Speaker 3: I don't want to be paying for those. So if

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Speaker 3: twenty percent.

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Speaker 2: Of the government to shut down is non essential, I'd

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Speaker 2: like to have twenty percent of my taxes back right now.

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Speaker 3: That's that's how I think this should work.

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Speaker 2: You're not picking up trash at Joshua Tree. Why am

597
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Speaker 2: I paying for trash pick up at Joshua Tree.

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Speaker 7: That's my kind of math.

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Speaker 3: That's that's this should be basic math.

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Speaker 7: We shouldn't pay for anything ever. Honestly, now, well I

601
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Speaker 7: lost you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I mean I like your sentiment. I

603
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Speaker 2: can't the logic isn't there, but I like the sentiment. See,

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Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom did sign that bill here this week that

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Speaker 2: is gonna allow for building more housing density up to

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Speaker 2: nine stories near transit hubs. And now locals are all mad,

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Speaker 2: and they're not necessarily mad that there's gonna be more density,

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Speaker 2: although some people are saying, oh, you're turning La into Manhattan,

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Speaker 2: and it's like, have you seen we have like a

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Speaker 2: gajillion people living here.

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Speaker 3: In Traffic sucks already.

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Speaker 2: It's not like having more density near a transit hub

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Speaker 2: is gonna make it worse.

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Speaker 3: It's just gonna allow some how.

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Speaker 2: But I do think they have a They do have

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Speaker 2: a point, and Ilia is looking at suing the state

617
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Speaker 2: right now because the bill that the governor signed says,

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Speaker 2: don't even worry about what the local zoning is it's

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Speaker 2: this is this is the way it's gonna be. So

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Speaker 2: it overrides local zoning, and the local municipalities are mad

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Speaker 2: and they go, what you can't tell us that we

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Speaker 2: can't decide what's in the best interests of our city.

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Speaker 2: And I wholeheartedly agree with them. So now you've got

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Speaker 2: Now you've got Democrat on Democrat battles happening right now,

625
00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:36,200
Speaker 2: which will split the party. And if Republicans are smart,

626
00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:38,880
Speaker 2: they just sit back and they just watch it play out.

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Speaker 2: I don't know that they will, because everybody wants to

628
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Speaker 2: have their voice heard. But honestly, if the other party

629
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Speaker 2: is fighting amongst themselves, don't inject yourself unless you're just

630
00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:52,080
Speaker 2: trying to amp them up a little more, that's fine,

631
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Speaker 2: but don't pick a side. Just let themselves destruct. Kind

632
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Speaker 2: of like Katie Porter. You've heard of bouncebacks in politics.

633
00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:05,440
Speaker 2: Katie Porter's week looks more like a belly flop. And

634
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Speaker 2: you're gonna find out who is still supporting this Tasmanian

635
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Speaker 2: devil of a candidate.

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Speaker 3: That's next. I'm Chris Merril Kfi A M six forty

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Speaker 3: on demand