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

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Speaker 2: Monday night in Los Angeles and across the globe. Wherever

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Speaker 2: you are listening, I hope you are well. Mark Thompson's

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Speaker 2: sitting in and we have the talkback feature. We'll check

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Speaker 2: back in with some more talkbacks later. If you're listening

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Speaker 2: on the iHeartRadio app, and the upper right hand part

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Speaker 2: of every screen is a microphone, you can use it

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Speaker 2: express yourself. We were talking about the billionaire tax though

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Speaker 2: in California, the effort to raise money by taxing billionaires,

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Speaker 2: and this did come in as a talkback.

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Speaker 3: The question soon will be how many billionaires were in California.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we were asking how many there are.

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Speaker 2: He's sort of saying, yeah, they're leaving, and there's a

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Speaker 2: good reason they're leaving.

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Speaker 3: Oh they're all gone and there's no money left. So

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Speaker 3: now we have to raise taxes tenfold. Crazy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, there is a considerable school of thought

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Speaker 2: that feels as though you can't lean on billionaires in

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Speaker 2: the state of California because you'll lose something of a

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Speaker 2: tax base that they provide. Now, I mean, I think

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Speaker 2: they're probably decent arguments on both sides. But you'd really

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Speaker 2: have to look at those numbers. And again, you know,

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Speaker 2: a handful of billionaires moving to South Beach in Miami

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Speaker 2: does not an argument make. But I do think that

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Speaker 2: you begin in California and southern California particularly, you begin

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Speaker 2: to make certain decisions that are less friendly toward business

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Speaker 2: and less friendly toward those who have money, and you

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Speaker 2: can trigger an exodus. There's already, as you're well aware,

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Speaker 2: as substantial exodus associated with production in Hollywood. I mean

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Speaker 2: there used to be. You saw that Radford Studios is

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Speaker 2: declaring bankruptcy. It's going into receivership Radford Studios. So they

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Speaker 2: shot Seinfeld and what else they shoot? There? Will and Grace.

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Speaker 4: I filmed there. What did you film?

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Speaker 5: I was?

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Speaker 6: I worked on a couple of Disney productions and I

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Speaker 6: was also on camera a production as a feature background

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Speaker 6: for an Apple TV series.

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Speaker 2: I love it, very cool.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but we fled.

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Speaker 6: We filmed a game show for Disney that was eventually

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Speaker 6: scuppered due to the pandemic.

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Speaker 2: No, yeah, another casualty of the pandemic. I shot a

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Speaker 2: game show for Fox there called A Hole in the Wall,

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Speaker 2: and we've talked about it here. I think before. And

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Speaker 2: we shot on the Radford lot and a huge sound

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Speaker 2: statres six hundred and fifty people in the audience, and

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Speaker 2: it was a big, you know, colorful game show. But

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Speaker 2: there's a you know, that New York street scene that

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Speaker 2: you've seen in so many that it's there on the

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Speaker 2: et cetera. But my point is that was a robust

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Speaker 2: and it was bought by I'm doing this all from memory.

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Speaker 2: It was bought by a guy who's bought a lot

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Speaker 2: of studio and production space around La Hackman Capital Partners. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: thank you, and the one of they are owners and

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Speaker 2: this view that we're going to buy it all up

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Speaker 2: here and then it's going to be an asset that

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Speaker 2: really will only appreciate because there's just so much production

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Speaker 2: in Hollywood that was great until COVID hit, the writers

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Speaker 2: strike hit, the Director's strike hit, and there were all

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Speaker 2: kinds of labor disputes and other incentives then provided by

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Speaker 2: other states, other countries. You began to see really the

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Speaker 2: exporting of production to you know, everywhere from Vancouver, you know,

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Speaker 2: which is sort of one of the go tos, to Australia,

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Speaker 2: which is where they shot all the Lord of the

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Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you. That's a. That's a that's a much

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Speaker 7: Yeah, New Zealand, I think is what you mean for

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Speaker 7: the Lord of the.

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Speaker 4: Country, New Zealand, the Other God's country.

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Speaker 2: The Other God's country. Yeah, pretty pretty great in both places.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, I met in New Zealand. But anyway, the

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Speaker 2: place that birthed cinema Hollywood, although I think France technically

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Speaker 2: birth Cinema. But you know what I'm saying, white split hairs.

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Speaker 2: Here's the thing. Normally I would just say that the

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Speaker 2: he's such, you know, he knows all this stuff. I

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Speaker 2: didn't say anything. No, you don't have to say anything.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm like an abused husband. I Oh you're

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Speaker 2: So I don't know what that is. But I don't

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Speaker 2: know what it is, but I hope it's not some

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Speaker 2: kind of serious warning we're being yanked off the air.

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Speaker 2: Yeah exactly. But more to the point on the billionaire tax,

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Speaker 2: I mean, you can't count on anything, and I think

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Speaker 2: it's it's a scary notion to think that on some

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Speaker 2: level you chase out a big part of the tax

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Speaker 2: base that is California. So big move from West Hollywood today, a.

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Speaker 8: Historic house from West Hollywood has found a new.

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Speaker 9: Home here tonight as a part of the Historic House

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Speaker 9: Relocation project. We just moved this nineteen twenty six house

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Speaker 9: from West Hollywood to Altadena as part of our Fiery

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Speaker 9: Built program.

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Speaker 8: The house was saved from demolition and moved to Altadena

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Speaker 8: in two parts.

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Speaker 9: Removed the first piece on Sunday night, So this piece

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Speaker 9: is going to be backed into place into its final position.

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Speaker 8: You may have spotted the pieces in their trek across town.

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Speaker 8: Cruz made the twenty six mile drive with the final

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Speaker 8: piece just before three this morning.

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Speaker 9: It took us about four hours to get across town,

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Speaker 9: and this putting it in the last position, should take

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Speaker 9: us bout another hour.

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Speaker 8: The Historic House Relocation Project serves a dual purpose, saving

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Speaker 8: historic homes from demolition and replacing ones burned down by

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Speaker 8: the Eton Fire, giving families that lost everything a new

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Speaker 8: space to call their own.

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Speaker 9: So the third house that we've moved as a part

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Speaker 9: of the Historic House Relocation Project, we have six more

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Speaker 9: lined up that we're going to be moving in the

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Speaker 9: next few months, and we have over two hundred people

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Speaker 9: on our interest list.

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Speaker 8: Homeowners should be able to move into their new home

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Speaker 8: in five months.

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Speaker 9: We still have a lot of houses that were waiting

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Speaker 9: for the right person to pair up with each house.

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Speaker 9: So if anyone's interested, please.

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Speaker 8: Reach out to us for more details on the program.

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Speaker 8: Visit ongivening dot com.

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Speaker 2: I love that, I really do, me too. Yeah, that

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Speaker 2: could be very exciting be part of a new community,

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Speaker 2: a new emerging community there in Altadena, but live in

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Speaker 2: a classic home. Yeah. When we come back a special

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Speaker 2: birthday today and next hour, I'll remind you we'll talk

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Speaker 2: to the man who's made a lot of stuff happen

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Speaker 2: in Hollywood. In fact, I'll try to get him to

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Speaker 2: tell the story of doing something again. He's one of

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Speaker 2: these guys who like, when you need something done in Hollywood,

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Speaker 2: many go to him. How he was ordered to get

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Speaker 2: something done for somebody insanely famous. And I will put

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Speaker 2: the squeeze on him to tell that story. As we continue.

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

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Speaker 2: Mark Thompson here on Monday night in Los Angeles. It

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Speaker 2: is a beautiful night, a little bit of a show,

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Speaker 2: gorgeous weekend. Martin Luther King Day wrapping up, and Dolly

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Speaker 2: Parton is eighty years old. I can't believe it. She

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Speaker 2: is someone who's brilliant, of course, incredibly creative, a high

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Speaker 2: of achieving. I mean, think about her. I think she

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Speaker 2: started on the Porter of Wagner's show. That's my recollection

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Speaker 2: and you can check this maybe, Mark, you can, and

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Speaker 2: you know the profile on I think that sounds about correct. Yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 2: And the thing about Dolly Partners I recall again is

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Speaker 2: she started on the show a country Western show, and

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Speaker 2: Porter Wagner was a big country Western star. Obviously that

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Speaker 2: she was prolific as a writer, even as a kid,

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Speaker 2: like a young person show she's singing beautiful voice, and

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Speaker 2: she's you know, cranking these songs out. And I guess,

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Speaker 2: you know, leaving Porter Wagner's show was a big deal

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Speaker 2: because he had a dominant show. But she had to

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Speaker 2: you know, hey, I really think I want to try,

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Speaker 2: And she did then as an actress, and you know,

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Speaker 2: she is a megastar. Then she started her own theme

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Speaker 2: park Dollywood. She gives books to kids. I've never heard

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Speaker 4: She's America sweetheart.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's exactly right. She is the real thing, as

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Speaker 2: you know, as was said, no one's got a you know,

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Speaker 2: saw her at the Hollywood Bowl and she was spectacular

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Speaker 2: and this song sounds great too. I didn't realize she

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Speaker 2: is a rendition of her classic hit Light of a

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Speaker 2: Clear Blue Morning. So this is this is a this

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Speaker 2: It is that what you're saying, is that what I'm

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Speaker 6: Yes, she's re recorded it with a bunch of famous

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Speaker 6: and it was in honor of her birthday.

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Speaker 2: That's terrific. Eighty years old. Wow. Billy Ray Cyrus says,

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Speaker 2: Happy birthday, Dolla. You're a reminder of what music is

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Speaker 2: supposed to do, bring people together, lift spirits, and tell

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Speaker 2: She was Miley's godmother. As Miley's godmother and a guiding

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Speaker 2: light in our lives, your influence goes far beyond the charts.

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Speaker 2: It lives in the lives she's touched and the generations

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Speaker 2: of fans she's inspired. Wow. So she released this new

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Speaker 2: rendition of her song I don't know the song light

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Speaker 2: of a Clear Blue Morning, but you know, you know

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Speaker 2: some stuff. I know some stuff I don't I know,

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Speaker 2: kind of her older stuff. When was this first released,

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Speaker 2: Light of a Clear Blue Morning? Well, somebody google it

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Speaker 2: Light of a Clear Blue Morning. I'll do it.

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Speaker 4: I'm googling.

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Speaker 2: I can't find the Clear Blue Morning.

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Speaker 4: I was nineteen seventy seven.

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Speaker 2: Oh wow. So it's really an old song.

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Speaker 4: I mean older, nearly fifty years old.

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Speaker 2: Man, and she's eighty did.

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Speaker 4: You ever see Elton John in concert?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I did.

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Speaker 4: So who's better live, Dolly or Elton?

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Speaker 2: Oh that's a great that's a really great question. Who

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Speaker 2: has the better wigs? Because I I would say, as

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Speaker 2: when you heard the various songs that are that artist

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Speaker 2: calling card. And here's what I mean. You know that

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Speaker 2: music can be so profoundly moving or it can just

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Speaker 2: but just you know, you go it can it can

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Speaker 2: live through. So what I mean is when you listen

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Speaker 2: wonderful performer, unflappable and immensely talented. Happy birthday, Dolly Parton,

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Speaker 2: Jodine was a real person. I think the way she,

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Speaker 2: Now I don't think I think she I forget what

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Speaker 10: But I like what I've seen a couple of women's reactions,

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Speaker 10: Ah, there you go, right, she was a bitch.

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Speaker 2: The more you know, Uh, I am six forty live

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Speaker 2: everywhere on the iHeartRadio Mark Thompson. Here we mentioned Colombo

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Speaker 2: Oh, that's a lieuten of Colombo. Lieuten Colombo. Who's that?

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Speaker 11: Yes, Mike, it's Captain Midnight down here in Orange County

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Speaker 2: Yes, Colombo's on several times a week.

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Speaker 2: I didn't know his wife was on a couple of episodes.

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Speaker 2: That's really interesting. She was very, very attractive, Peter missus fulk. Yeah,

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Speaker 11: I always listened to KFI when you guys are on together.

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Speaker 1: Hey, I just wanted to balance out the scales and

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Speaker 4: Oh thank you and lived hard or not, they're both

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Speaker 2: that's very cool. I don't know who that person is,

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Speaker 2: but I love also that they sort of hugged the

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Speaker 2: microphone like that, which gives it a shortain intensity, and

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Speaker 2: I liked it like.

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Speaker 7: A little Gary Owen's action. Yeah, is that another deep cut?

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Speaker 2: No, not at all, Gary, Well, I don't know. I'm

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Speaker 2: sure people most people would know.

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Speaker 7: Gary, I think you've got little Gary Owens in your

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Speaker 7: little DNA.

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, it's funny because I met. I have

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Speaker 2: to say, one of the most exciting things that happened

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Speaker 2: in coming to Los Angeles was getting a chance to

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Speaker 2: do voiceover work. And it's really hard to get an agent.

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Speaker 2: You know, there are a lot of guys who have

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Speaker 2: good voices, as you know, a lot of them work

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Speaker 2: at this in this building. But I got an agent

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Speaker 2: and I went there to in the old days, but

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Speaker 2: you didn't have You couldn't audition from home and send

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Speaker 2: it in some audio file. You couldn't do. You had

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Speaker 2: actually go in and wait if someone's like a two

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Speaker 2: hour wait. And I waited in this waiting room at

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Speaker 2: ICEM and their voiceover department with like big stars would

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Speaker 2: walk in like Mark Hamill, Roddy McDowell. Oh boy, I

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Speaker 2: mean it was unreal. Now they didn't have to wait

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Speaker 2: as long as I did to get in for an audition.

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Speaker 2: But the point is, you are hanging out. Mark Hamill

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Speaker 2: was totally cool, like he would he would you know,

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Speaker 2: he would hang out. He was just one of the guys.

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Speaker 2: But somebody who read really came in and he was

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Speaker 2: always wearing a blazer, as I recall, oftentimes a tie.

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Speaker 2: Was Gary Owens. Oh wow. I was so psyched to

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Speaker 2: meet Gary Owens. And the first time I met him,

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Speaker 2: I said, Hi, I'm Mark Tomsy. Hello. Mark. I saw

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Speaker 2: you last night. I watched you on Channel eleven. That's

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Speaker 2: so cool. It was. It was like I was over

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Speaker 2: the moon. Dude over the moon.

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Speaker 7: Now the question is did he did he hold his

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Speaker 7: hand over one ear when he said that.

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Speaker 2: He did tell me a story about meeting share for

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Speaker 2: the first time, and it was like this, he said,

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Speaker 2: I was having lunch. I'll try to do the Gary

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Speaker 2: Owen suppression to day. I was having lunch with Smokey

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Speaker 2: Robinson and we were having it at Hamburger Hamlet on sunset.

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Speaker 2: Are you familiar with that? And of course sure, I know,

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Speaker 2: I know how we harlet. I walk in and there

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Speaker 2: in the corner it is Sonny Bono, who I know,

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Speaker 2: and he waves me over and he has this young

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Speaker 2: girl with him and introduces me, and that was Cher.

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Speaker 2: I had no idea that she would become a huge star.

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Speaker 2: It was. He told me like five stories like that.

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Speaker 2: That's the only one I can remember. But he was

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Speaker 2: such a great personality, great sense of humor. And I

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Speaker 2: went to his memorial service because he was, you know,

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Speaker 2: that kind and his memorial service was filled with huge people,

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Speaker 2: I mean just and of course in the voiceover world

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Speaker 2: and on camera world. And he just had a great

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Speaker 2: sense of humor. You know, he was he was creative.

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Speaker 2: You know, he wasn't just an announcer. So that's incredible.

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Speaker 2: I hope Don Lafontaine read a eulogy at his memorial. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I think done Fontaine sadly had passed already by the time,

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Speaker 2: by the time Gary had died, And then that renders

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Speaker 2: that joke tasteless. How dare you all right? Oh that's

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Speaker 2: the story? Uh, thank you for bringing up Gary Owens

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Speaker 2: though that's a you know, he teaches us a fond

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Speaker 2: memory of that guy. I love that story. Next hour,

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Speaker 2: the Hollywood Fixer joins us.

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

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Speaker 2: There's a story about this ninety year old guy getting evicted.

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Speaker 2: This can't be true, but I think it is.

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Speaker 13: Ninety year old Song Maang has lived here since twenty

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Speaker 13: twenty four, an apartment at Kingsley Manor retirement community in Hollywood.

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Speaker 12: At the end of last year, he received in.

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Speaker 2: A Kingsley Manor. Sounds like a pretty cool place to live.

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Speaker 2: I got to say that with mine, any plays with

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Speaker 2: manner at the end of.

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Speaker 7: It sounds like a high class place to get thrown

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Speaker 7: out of.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I wouldn't think that someone like I have a

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Speaker 2: little respect for an ninety year old man at Kingsley Manor.

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Speaker 13: An apartment at Kingsley Manor Retirement Community in Hollywood at

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Speaker 13: the end of last year.

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Speaker 2: I'd lose retirement community. I would just call it Kingsley

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Speaker 2: Mann I would do. Yeah, it really takes the shimmer

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Speaker 2: off when you add retirement community. And this sounds like

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Speaker 2: a case for Colombo. That's true, that's right. Nice call

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Speaker 2: back there.

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Speaker 13: At Kingsley Manor Retirement Community in Hollywood. At the end

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Speaker 13: of last year, he received an eviction notice for non

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Speaker 13: payment of around fourteen thousand dollars in fees fees. As

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Speaker 13: attorney says he was not aware of.

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Speaker 2: We don't know what it's for.

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Speaker 11: We don't know what it represents, whether it's rants, whether

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Speaker 11: it's fees, whether it's late fees. So we're just trying

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Speaker 11: to get more information.

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Speaker 12: Working through a language barrier.

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Speaker 11: To talk to you today.

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Speaker 2: As your lawyer, Song.

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Speaker 13: The two of them are taking on the case, but

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Speaker 13: it's one Seguda says, mister Mang shouldn't be dealing with.

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Speaker 11: He's ninety. It's an extreme hardship for someone of his

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Speaker 11: a and health condition to be evicted in la.

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Speaker 13: Seguda says, mister Mang has offered to pay the fourteen

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Speaker 13: thousand and stay, but.

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Speaker 11: The overwhelming responses no, we want him out in two weeks.

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Speaker 12: And they want the money too.

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Speaker 13: Those Seguda says they have not provided a breakdown of

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Speaker 13: what the fees are.

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Speaker 2: Come on, man, come on, this is just harassment. I mean,

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Speaker 2: if this story is exactly as they're laying it out,

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Speaker 2: that's outrageous. He's offered to make everything right to cure

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Speaker 2: the situation with fourteen thousand dollars. They're saying, no, we

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Speaker 2: want you out, and we can't even give you a

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Speaker 2: specific list of the fees you owe and why you

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Speaker 2: owe them. Come on, if indeed this story is that

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Speaker 2: it's outrageous.

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Speaker 13: Provided a breakdown of what the fees are and they

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Speaker 13: cannot provide the breakdown of way those says they have

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Speaker 13: not provided a break they're not of what the fees are.

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Speaker 12: Is that unreasonable to know what you're paying for?

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Speaker 11: No, not at all, Especially in a situation where you

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Speaker 11: have an elderly senior citizen who owes in a retirement

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Speaker 11: community like this, he's entitled to have notice of what

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Speaker 11: he owes.

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Speaker 13: Facing eviction at ninety, the case moves to trial at

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Speaker 13: the beginning of February.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, the guy's going to get dragged a trial. Wow,

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Speaker 2: things are ugly at Kingsley manner Man. Just no fun.

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Speaker 2: There's a hidden penalty in the California wealth tax.

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Speaker 14: Is all erupted around a provision of that California billionaire's

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Speaker 14: tax that some say would penalize founders. So the tax,

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Speaker 14: which could appear on the November ballot, would impose a

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Speaker 14: five percent tax on the total wealth of people worth

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Speaker 14: a billion dollars or more. But according to some tech

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Speaker 14: founders and investors, those with super voting shares could actually

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Speaker 14: face a supersize tax. So according to the bill, some

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Speaker 14: say publicly traded shares will be valued at their public price,

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Speaker 14: but non publicly traded assets could be based on the

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Speaker 14: voting shares, which could be far higher. So take Larry

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Speaker 14: Page and Surrogate Brim. They each own around three percent

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Speaker 14: of the shares of Alphabet, but they hold super voting

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Speaker 14: shares that carry ten votes each, giving them a combined

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Speaker 14: majority of the voting shares. Those shares are valued all

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Speaker 14: together in the market at around one hundred and twenty

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Speaker 14: billion dollars, which implies attacks of six billion dollars. But

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Speaker 14: if their super voting shares are considered non public since

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Speaker 14: they don't technically trade as super voting shares, they could face,

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Speaker 14: according to some attacks of sixty billion dollars each. Now

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Speaker 14: Gary Tan, the y Combinator CEO, saying on x that

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Speaker 14: this provision really gone viral. Here it's proof that quote

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Speaker 14: the wealth tax is poorly designed and designed to drive

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Speaker 14: tech innovation out of California.

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Speaker 2: Now, well, the one thing leaving aside all that, because

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Speaker 2: those numbers are really big and they're only going to

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Speaker 2: get bigger, and you're talking about, you know, some of

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Speaker 2: the richest people in the world, the question becomes for

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Speaker 2: wealthy people and for whether or not they should be taxed.

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Speaker 2: The question becomes do you tax them on unrealized gains?

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Speaker 2: What he just described there, all that stock, all the

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Speaker 2: founder stock, all that stuff that is money that has

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Speaker 2: yet to be cashed in. Right, it's stock. It's an

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Speaker 2: unrealized asset. So the way that billionaires live is they

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Speaker 2: borrow against that unrealized asset. So all that stuff you're

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Speaker 2: hearing about that's not income, that's just an asset that

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Speaker 2: he has. He has these founder shares, they have founder

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Speaker 2: shares and all the cases that we're just mentioned. So

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Speaker 2: all of these shares that they have, they represent an

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Speaker 2: asset that they can borrow against and that can support

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Speaker 2: their big bang and lifestyle. So they want to buy

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Speaker 2: a plane, they want to buy a yacht, they want

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Speaker 2: to do whatever they do it with money that they

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Speaker 2: borrow against these assets described. So that's the way billionaires

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Speaker 2: live without paying taxes. They don't have revenue the way

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Speaker 2: you and I do. Ryan Seacrest, who works for this company,

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Speaker 2: makes a lot of money. He should make a lot

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Speaker 2: of money. He's very talented. He also works at Wheel

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Speaker 2: of Fortune all and stuff. But guess what, Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 2: is paid by somebody. Even as much money as Ryan

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Speaker 2: Seacrest makes and deserves to make, he is paid by somebody.

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Speaker 2: As a result, he'll pay taxes on it. Matthew Stafford,

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Speaker 2: he's the quarterback of the Rams. He's paid a lot

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Speaker 2: of money. He deserves to make a lot of money,

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Speaker 2: really good. He pays taxes on that money that he's paid.

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Speaker 2: Billionaires who have founder stock in Google and why Combinator

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Speaker 2: and all of these other huge companies, they don't have revenue,

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Speaker 2: like Ryan Seacrest and Matthew Stafford. They borrow against this

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Speaker 2: stock and that is why they don't pay at tax.

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Speaker 2: So now to the billionaire tax. Are they billionaires? Yeah,

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Speaker 2: they have all this money that they sit on as

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Speaker 2: an unrealized asset and that can essentially fund their lifestyle

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Speaker 2: in any way they want, including other investments. But how

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Speaker 2: to tax them becomes a more complicated matter. I think

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Speaker 2: on one level, that's where things get complicated with a

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Speaker 2: lot of these super rich people. Again, they're not getting

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Speaker 2: paychecks the way you and I are. They're holding huge assets.

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Speaker 2: You have to establish a valuation for those assets, and

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Speaker 2: then what happens if those assets drop in value. So

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Speaker 2: that I think is a little bit of the window

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Speaker 2: into that world. And so that's what complicates the billionaire tax.

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Speaker 2: Next hour, the guy who gets it all done for

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Speaker 2: some people who need stuff done in LA will introduce

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Speaker 2: him to you next or close to next. It'll be

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Speaker 2: next plus fifteen minutes. All right, it happens next hour.

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Speaker 2: Marrik Thompson here on KFI AM six forty. Glad you

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