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

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Speaker 2: Chris Merril I AM six forty more stimulating talking on

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Speaker 3: When you're on that app, you hit that talkback button.

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Speaker 2: Let us know questions, com at quip squads, criticisms and

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Speaker 2: compliments and our talkback question this evening, which I will

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Speaker 2: of course repeat endlessly throughout the night in hopes of

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Speaker 2: having interaction with you. Virginia passed a law that restricts

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Speaker 2: kids to one hour a day per social media app.

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Speaker 2: We'll discuss this coming up in the five o'clock hour.

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Speaker 2: Should California do the same? Would love to hear if

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Speaker 2: you've heard about this, and if you think we should

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Speaker 2: follow suit, I'm gonna tell you, yeah, I don't want

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Speaker 2: to privee you too much. I don't want you too

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Speaker 2: far ahead of this. But there's some upsides. And then

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Speaker 2: there's course, you know, kids are smarter than adults when

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Speaker 2: it comes to many of these things, so well, we'll

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Speaker 2: dive deeper into that a little bit later on. But

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Speaker 2: Virginia passes a lot restricts kids to one hour a

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Speaker 2: day per social media app. It's supposed to be one

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Speaker 2: hour day on social media, but they can't get all

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Speaker 2: the apps to work together, so it's just going to

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Speaker 2: be one hour a day per social media app. And

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Speaker 2: you'll find out how they're going about doing that and

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Speaker 2: trying to police it anyway, should California do the same

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Speaker 2: thing In the meantime still to come, we we're gonna

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Speaker 2: see fewer names on the ballot coming up this fall.

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Speaker 2: And I think it's the first time anyone used the phrase,

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Speaker 2: and if not, my apologies, but I'm really excited to

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Speaker 2: be able to say you've been rock blocked. That is

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Speaker 2: still to come this hour. First, let's start with the fires.

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Speaker 2: We the things about these fires.

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Speaker 3: Man.

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Speaker 2: Here we are a year removed from the most devastating

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Speaker 2: fires that, of course we've had in southern California, and

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Speaker 2: you could argue in all of California. But when the

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Speaker 2: Palisades Fire and the Eaton Fire go up at the

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Speaker 2: same time, it was Mayhem last year, you remember, So

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Speaker 2: here we are a year removed, And it didn't take

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Speaker 2: long for us to figure out that the Eton fire

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Speaker 2: was caused by the power lines, right, it was like, oh,

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Speaker 2: that's so Caladison. So many of our fires are caused

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Speaker 2: by the power companies, whether it's Pgenie up North so Cal,

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Speaker 2: Edison here, SDG, and E in San Diego County, the

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Speaker 2: power companies have been responsible for some of the biggest fires,

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Speaker 2: the most devastating fires, the most expensive fires, as well

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Speaker 2: as some of the most costly in terms of human

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Speaker 2: life in the history of the state. Power companies Behind that,

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Speaker 2: it didn't take very long for there to be video

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Speaker 2: that came out that showed somebody that was showing, you know,

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Speaker 2: the transmission line and the fire sparking next to the

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Speaker 2: transmission line, and we went, okay, well, that's it, right,

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Speaker 2: I mean, look, I've seen the evidence there it is.

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Speaker 2: That's not AI generated, that's a real video boo. That's

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Speaker 2: the evidence done. And if you'll recall immediately SDG and

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Speaker 2: he went, wow, no, couldn't have been us. No, those

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Speaker 2: lines were de energized. And everyone went, yeah, no they weren't.

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Speaker 2: Look there's a fire, but the line is gotten and

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Speaker 2: then the fires and there's smoke and there's the fire

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Speaker 2: and it's your power boom gone and there couldn't have

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Speaker 2: been us de energized. And then eventually they went got

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Speaker 2: it and maybe it was us, And in the end,

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Speaker 2: the head of so Calaitison was like, yeah, that was us. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: we did that, and we feel really bad about it.

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Speaker 2: Are bad, really bad. So sorry, probably gonna raise your rates.

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Speaker 2: That's that's how these all boil out, right, same thing

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Speaker 2: happened years ago with the campfire. Pgenie was like, Wow,

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Speaker 2: couldn't have been us. Oh maybe it was us. Oh, man,

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Speaker 2: can't believe eighty some odd people died. We burned down

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Speaker 2: an entire city and that really stinks. But yeah, we're

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Speaker 2: too big to fail, So I guess we're gonna claim

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Speaker 2: bankruptcy and get some federal dollars recover from that, and

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Speaker 2: then we're gonna have a fund setup that you're gonna

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Speaker 2: pay for and we're gonna raise our raids. And that's

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Speaker 2: exactly what happened. So Edison is kind of I don't

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Speaker 2: even call this like step three or step four in

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Speaker 2: that process, but they're back to doing.

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Speaker 4: The whole.

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Speaker 2: Not our fault, which is a bit odd, little little peculiar.

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Speaker 2: After they already said yeah, it was our fault, they're

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Speaker 2: back to going, wasn't all our fault? And this matters

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Speaker 2: because you're talking about civil court, all right, And so

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Speaker 2: they want to be able to share some of the

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Speaker 2: They've decided that they are going to sue La County

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Speaker 5: Than a year's past since the Eaton fire tore through

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Speaker 5: Alta Dina, killing nineteen people, and just yeah, I kind

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Speaker 5: of talked about that destroying more than nine thousand homes

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Speaker 5: in businesses. Today, people who live and work in the

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Speaker 5: fire zone say they're still fighting to rebuild our backyard.

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Speaker 3: Back fence is three hundred yards from the Edison tower

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Speaker 3: that caught fire.

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Speaker 2: In December southern California.

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Speaker 5: Edison CEO said the company's equipment likely caused the Eaton

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Speaker 5: fire to break out.

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Speaker 2: I mean it only took a year, right or eleven months.

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Speaker 2: It only took me eleven months for them to finally say, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: we started that.

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Speaker 5: The utility has been sued by La County and thousands

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Speaker 5: of affected people seeking damages tonight.

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Speaker 2: Sokel Edison is sitting back.

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Speaker 6: Everybody's been suing them saying your transmission lines caused the fire,

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Speaker 6: when they want the public to know it really isn't

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Speaker 6: their fault so much, it's other people.

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Speaker 5: So cal Edison has filed a new lawsuit against a

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Speaker 5: dozen local government entities and companies, including La County and

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Speaker 5: the City of Pasadena. In the lawsuit, Edison what did

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Speaker 5: they do and says they contributed to the damage caused

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Speaker 5: by the Eton fire?

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Speaker 3: Oh, did they have.

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Speaker 2: Power lines that were not de energized and whipping around

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Speaker 2: in high winds during a high wind weather event? Was

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Speaker 2: that La County? Was that Pasadena doing that? But what

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Speaker 2: did they do?

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Speaker 5: Including by failure to issue timely evacuation alerts?

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Speaker 7: Oh?

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Speaker 2: I see people died because La County didn't say get

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Speaker 5: Lack of water, overgrown brushed throughout publicly owned land, and

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Speaker 5: failure to properly allocate resources to fire suppression.

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Speaker 2: There's okay, So they're they're they're fighting out of a

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Speaker 2: paper bag at this point. They're just they're they're wrapped

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Speaker 2: up in there, and they're like, whatever we can do

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Speaker 2: to disperse some of the blames so we don't have

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Speaker 2: to pay for all of it.

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Speaker 6: Suing a gas company saying you didn't turn off the

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Speaker 6: gas and that caused fire. They're suing the La County

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Speaker 6: and the firefolks saying you didn't evacuate properly or ran

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Speaker 6: out of water.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: If there's one thing I think we all remember from

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Speaker 2: a year ago, it's that as these fires were raging,

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Speaker 2: we were all like, oh, these firefighters, those turkeys, they

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Speaker 2: are responsible for all of this.

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Speaker 3: Oh wait, no, no, we didn't.

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Speaker 6: No.

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Speaker 2: In fact, we were like, thank god, the firefighters are here,

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Speaker 2: thank god, the firefighters are working extra time. Thank god,

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Speaker 2: firefighters have come in with mutual aid from out of

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Speaker 2: state and upstate and everywhere else. Thank God for the firefighters.

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Speaker 2: But now we come to find out that it's actually

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Speaker 2: their fault. According to Edison, I mean, look, from a

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Speaker 2: pr position, this does not look good for them, but honestly,

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Speaker 2: they don't care. They've weighed the pros and cons. They go, Okay,

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Speaker 2: if we were an actual company that had to compete

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Speaker 2: against other companies, we might care about what the public

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Speaker 2: thought of us. But since we're a public monopoly, who

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Speaker 2: cares what people think? They can think we're total dirt

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Speaker 2: bags going after the heroes because they still have to

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Speaker 2: buy power from us.

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Speaker 5: In a statement, so cal Edison tells us these actions

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Speaker 5: are a standard legal process that allows the court to

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Speaker 5: fully examine all potential contributing factors and responsible parties.

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Speaker 2: Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Our standard procedure

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Speaker 2: for these are the people nobody wants to show up

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Speaker 2: at Thanksgiving when they invite the family, Like, do we

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Speaker 2: have to invite Uncle Billy? He works for so Cal

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Speaker 2: Edison as a lawyer, And everybody's like, yes, he's in

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Speaker 2: the family. They uh, he sucks so bad.

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Speaker 5: Though Southern California Edison remains committed to the communities impacted

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Speaker 5: by the January fires.

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Speaker 2: Sounds like it, and to supporting their recovery. Yeah, it

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Speaker 2: totally sounds like it. Yeah, and also committed to raising

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Speaker 2: our rates first chance they get.

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Speaker 5: In Altadena today, Congresswoman Judy Chu echoed concerns about damage

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Speaker 5: that was done during the fire because of a lack

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Speaker 5: of proper warnings.

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Speaker 7: Nineteen people lost their lives, and we know that at

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Speaker 7: least eighteen of them were losses of life due to

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Speaker 7: a less inadequate evacuation notice system.

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Speaker 2: Okay, look, we're doing the finger pointing stuff, which, of

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Speaker 2: course you knew the finger pointing was happening as the

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Speaker 2: fires were raging, that was going on, but it wasn't

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Speaker 2: that long Ago. I remember getting out was nearly impossible.

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Speaker 2: That fire whipped up so fast, as did the Palis

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Speaker 2: I don't know how they're going to say, oh, they

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Speaker 2: didn't have a good evacuation plan for the disabled people

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Speaker 2: to get out of their homes when seventy mile an

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Speaker 3: I just don't know how they're going to do that.

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Speaker 5: Those who survived the Eating fire saying they'll keep pushing

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Speaker 5: for accountability. We are still displaced, we are still fighting

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Speaker 5: with insurance.

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Speaker 2: Oh that's the stuff that just sucks.

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Speaker 7: We're just doing our best right now to fight our

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Speaker 2: Yeah, God bless you for it too. Because now you've

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Speaker 2: got Edison. It's like it wasn't us. It was the county,

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Speaker 2: it was the city of Pasadena, it was the gas company,

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Speaker 2: And you got insurance companies that are saying, wasn't us,

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Speaker 2: We shouldn't have to pay you. Edison started the fire,

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Speaker 2: and maybe Pasadena. And so now all of a sudden,

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Speaker 2: you've got the usual suspects, the people who are consistently

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Speaker 2: at the bottom of our favorability rankings, power companies, insurance

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Speaker 2: companies that are not paying out, they're not making people whole.

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Speaker 2: People that did write you did right, you had insurance,

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Speaker 2: you did right, you paid your power bill, you did right,

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Speaker 2: You kept your yard clean, you did right.

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Speaker 3: And you're the ones suffering.

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Speaker 2: Is I gonna tell you the fat cats and the

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Speaker 2: c suites at the insurance companies and at the power companies.

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Speaker 3: But where's their pain? They have no pain?

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Speaker 2: None. And even if we were to able to even

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Speaker 2: if we were to able to excuse me, even if

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Speaker 2: we were able to find criminal liability, and this happens

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Speaker 2: all the time where and it happened with PG And

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Speaker 2: this happens when you find criminal liability and you're like, wow,

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Speaker 2: that power company was so negligent. It was criminal. Criminal.

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Speaker 2: Do you know what happens if you and I get

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Speaker 2: charged with a criminal crime, We face jail time. Power

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Speaker 2: companies they get rate increases. It is a laughable flaw

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Speaker 2: in our system. Laughable and not funny haha either funny

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Speaker 2: Mark that you can write that down. It's funny. The

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Speaker 2: whole thing talk about. Question to heay. Virginia passed the

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Speaker 2: law restricting kids to one hour a day per social

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Speaker 2: Was reviewing the talkbacks in there, and many of you

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Speaker 6: Yeah, everybody forgets that PGN. He blew up sand Bruno.

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Speaker 9: It really is a catch twenty two for the consumer. Okay,

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Speaker 9: Then you know, you can say, well what about if

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Speaker 2: Meanwhile, uh, I got that. Many of you have said, oh,

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Speaker 11: We know that Rick Caruso was exploring possible runs for

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Speaker 4: You think that.

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Speaker 2: I could be way off on this, but do you

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Speaker 2: Don't you think almost a billionaire with nearly unlimited resources

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Speaker 2: Thanks for coming to my ted talk.

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Speaker 11: After many reflection and heartfelt conversations with.

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Speaker 2: My I think that's the first time I've ever said that.

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Speaker 3: Did I get it right?

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Speaker 11: Oh absolutely, okay, period, I've decided not to pursue elected

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Speaker 2: We're showing you video right now of Yeah, you can't

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Speaker 11: Uh myself not too long ago, interviewing Rick Caruso at

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Speaker 2: Ooh, the shadow campaign. That sounds nefarious, doesn't it, Like

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Speaker 11: And for the mayor's race, we know that the deadline

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Speaker 11: But I'm told that he will stay involved in politics

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Speaker 2: Of course he has yeah, bye, pushing money and grabbing microphones,

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Speaker 11: His foundation it's been helping fire victims in Altadena and

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Speaker 2: But okay, so the question is why now let's uh, oh,

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Speaker 2: There's no exception to that rule. When you hear the

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Speaker 1: It is next Chris Meryl, you're listening to KFI on demand.

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Speaker 3: As always, pleasure being with you. I like it nice

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Speaker 2: Okay, I was talking to Rick Crusoe has decided he's

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Speaker 3: And I think that's a big one. I really think

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Speaker 2: Leverage than the mayor, for instance, or even the governor

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Speaker 3: I mean, Caruso's tried just.

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Speaker 2: About everything to get it. Look, he was a Republican twice,

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Speaker 2: liberal in one area conservative and another not unusual, but

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Speaker 2: he's tried. He's tried a ton of stuff, and at

437
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Speaker 2: some point you stop throwing good money after bad and

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Speaker 2: I really think that probably has more to do with

439
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Speaker 2: it than anything else where. He goes, I don't need

440
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Speaker 2: to be throwing a bunch of good money after bad

441
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Speaker 2: do I really want to do the daily grind if

442
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Speaker 2: I do win and if I don't win, that makes

443
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Speaker 2: me what a two time loser or more? And he

444
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Speaker 2: doesn't want to deal with it. Look, Tom Steyer's running

445
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Speaker 2: for governor again. I mean time a sty are going

446
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Speaker 2: to lose, right Like? You don't want to be in

447
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Speaker 2: that bucket. And I think again, you can have a

448
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Speaker 2: lot of influence from the outside looking in. By the way,

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Speaker 2: speaking of a Styer, he's not doing very well in

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Speaker 2: the predictive markets. Uh, Swallwell Calshi has Swallwell with a

451
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Speaker 2: massive lead on the predictive markets. This is where you

452
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Speaker 2: can not bet wink wink on outcomes. They just call

453
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Speaker 2: it a speculative market, which is exactly what gambling is.

454
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Speaker 2: You're speculating at who the winner will be.

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Speaker 3: But whatever, so.

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Speaker 2: Calshi can still operate. So who's gonna be the next

457
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Speaker 2: governor of California? Swallwell, fifty chance. And then you've got

458
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Speaker 2: the of the ulso Rans that are in there. So

459
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Speaker 2: that's the latest from there. In the meantime, how about

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Speaker 2: the lawmakers the law breakers of the times that there

461
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Speaker 2: ought to be a law How about that it's a

462
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Speaker 2: weekend show with high production value. You just don't get

463
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Speaker 2: that very often, do you. I go all in almostly

464
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Speaker 2: because I don't have a life. On Sundays, I was

465
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Speaker 2: cruising through my instace, my.

466
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Speaker 3: Reels.

467
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Speaker 2: I think it's real. I can't keep him straight. So anyway,

468
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Speaker 2: I was cruising through and I saw Conway's real and

469
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Speaker 2: it was this dude. It was just a news report

470
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Speaker 2: of this dude that was just randomly. It looked like

471
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Speaker 2: he was picked up like a tire iron or something

472
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Speaker 2: and just started whailing on some dude in the streets.

473
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Speaker 2: This one guy just starts beating the hell out of

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Speaker 2: this other guy in the street, and then flash forward

475
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Speaker 2: went back to his car and drove over the person

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Speaker 2: that had just been beaten. Come to find out that

477
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Speaker 2: was going down Beverly Hills. ABC seven had the news on.

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Speaker 4: That video posted to social media shows this white car

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Speaker 4: driving the rock. You can't see it because radio hung

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Speaker 4: way on Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills.

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Speaker 3: Oh well, there you go. I mean he had driving

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Speaker 3: the wrong way in a one way in Beverly Hills.

483
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Speaker 2: Is in East LA. You can't get away with that

484
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Speaker 2: kind of crap. Yeah, we got there's some decency here people.

485
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Speaker 4: Before running over a man then taking off. How did

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Speaker 4: you become aware that there was a commotion happening.

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Speaker 12: Well, I'm in an office here in this building, and

488
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Speaker 12: so I heard argument, loud argument here, and my window.

489
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Speaker 2: Overlooks the street.

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Speaker 3: So I saw the.

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Speaker 12: I saw the guy's fighting here.

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Speaker 2: That happened to me at a radio station one time.

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Speaker 2: Looked out the window. There's like a bum fight going

494
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Speaker 2: on downstairs. Started taking bets, I mean, predictive markets on

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Speaker 2: who would win this.

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Speaker 4: Anonymous witness says a fight broke out in the middle

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Speaker 4: of the street around twelve forty five Friday afternoon before

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Speaker 4: turning deadly.

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Speaker 2: Who goes murdering at twelve forty five, that's lunchtime. This

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Speaker 2: is the kind of thing that tweakers usually do after dark.

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Speaker 12: Attacker was hitting him with some sort of something in

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Speaker 12: his hand. Looked like a stick or a pipe or something.

503
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Speaker 12: I looked like he was maybe even trying to kill him.

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Speaker 2: But Beverly Hills, Oh, it looked like he was trying

505
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Speaker 2: to kill him. I mean, he was wailing on this dude.

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Speaker 4: Police say it was a car that the suspect used

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Speaker 4: as a deadly weapon.

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Speaker 12: Guy who was down on the ground was trying to

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Speaker 12: get up, and then suddenly this white car comes from

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Speaker 12: Woolfshire Boulevard, going straight up the street and hits the

511
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Speaker 12: guy on the ground, drags him for probably one hundred

512
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Speaker 12: two hundred feet. So it looked like whoever was driving

513
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Speaker 12: that white car was trying to kill him.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and ABC had the footage of the white car

515
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Speaker 2: that they're talking about, and it had late blood splatter

516
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Speaker 2: on the front bumper. Super gross.

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Speaker 4: Another witness that was sitting in her parked car next

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Speaker 4: to the crime scene says, that's when she looked away.

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Speaker 13: I could see that there was a man under the car.

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Speaker 2: I personally did not want to witness this person being

521
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Speaker 2: dragged under the car, so I personally did not either.

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Speaker 2: But here we are because video, and I mean half

523
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Speaker 2: of our news is now dictated by what gets more clicks.

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Speaker 13: I put my head down, but I was in the

525
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Speaker 13: car and had felt this person's head likely hit the back.

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Speaker 6: Of my top.

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Speaker 3: Oh my god. Oh, cops grab some guy. They think that.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it seemed to be that this was the

529
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Speaker 2: dude that did it, who has a history of domestic

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Speaker 2: violence and the like. So hopefully that guy's off the

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Speaker 2: street because oh, let me just reiterate. Oh, nobody got

532
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Speaker 2: time for that. So moral of the story, Beverly Hill

533
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Speaker 2: is a dangerous place to be. So you know, let's

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Speaker 2: stay in the nice neighborhoods. Stay out of Beverly Hills. Okay,

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Speaker 2: bad stuff happens there during the daylight hours. That's how

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Speaker 2: brazen they get there, So just just stay out. Our

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Speaker 2: talk back today, hit us up on the iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 2: Just saitt that talk back button. It opens up a

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Speaker 2: little microphone. You just click that and you've got thirty

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Speaker 2: seconds to record something.

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Speaker 3: Our question.

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Speaker 2: Virginia passed a law that restricts kids to one hour

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Speaker 2: per day per social media app. Should California do? The

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Speaker 2: same story is coming up in the next hour, and

545
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Speaker 2: when it comes to this app, maybe you just get

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Speaker 2: your kids off of it all together.

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Speaker 3: But don't worry, says the creator.

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Speaker 2: It's totally safe now as long as you're in a

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Speaker 2: safe zone, not like Beverly Hills Billionaires AI toy crossing

550
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Speaker 2: a line that you would agree goes too far. The

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Speaker 2: guardrail is still not good enough that global AI liability. Next,

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Speaker 2: Chris Merrill, you're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.

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Speaker 1: Coming up on the next Gary and Shannon Show.

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Speaker 13: Gary is back from Fantasy Baseball Camp. Did he bring

555
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Speaker 13: home all the trophies?

556
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Speaker 2: We'll find out.

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Speaker 13: Show starts tomorrow at nine.

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Speaker 3: This is where you get to go live out your

559
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Speaker 3: fantasy because that it is it is.

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Speaker 14: Yeah, my friend's fiance is a pro ballplayer and he helps.

561
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Speaker 14: He does some of these They coach. So you go

562
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Speaker 14: to a camp, you're with actual players and coaches and

563
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Speaker 14: they train you like they train the players, really intense.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's gotta be the worst for the pro players

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00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:05,040
Speaker 2: that they got to be able to just a bunch

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Speaker 2: of schmucks who don't know what they're doing.

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Speaker 3: But have enough money. Yeah.

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Speaker 14: Well, I mean they play each other, they're not playing

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Speaker 14: the pros. They're being coached by the pros or being

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Speaker 14: you know they they Yeah, but that feels like.

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Speaker 3: Make a wish for Gary. That's terrible.

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Speaker 14: It's actually they get really into it. They really bond

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Speaker 14: and grow from it. It's a really good experience. Yeah

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Speaker 14: the players.

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Speaker 9: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Is it a tournament as well?

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Speaker 13: Yeah, it's a tournament.

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Speaker 3: Wow.

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Speaker 2: I was just afraid it was gonna be like I

580
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Speaker 2: go to fantasy football every August. It's just me and

581
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Speaker 2: a bunch of other fat guys my age that sit

582
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Speaker 2: around and pick players that we're gonna watch all year,

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Speaker 2: and you have the screen.

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Speaker 3: So I thought maybe Gary was going to one of those.

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Speaker 13: Maybe it's a different one.

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Speaker 3: Maybe they could get into the Dodgers camp.

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Speaker 2: So we just ended up with like Frank in Ted's

588
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Speaker 2: Fantasy Baseball League camp.

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Speaker 13: That might be something to start that doesn't exist.

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Speaker 2: This is a good idea.

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Speaker 3: Oh, this is not a bad idea.

592
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Speaker 2: We could get with the guys over at Fox Sports,

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Speaker 2: because they've got a bunch of the fantasy dudes, right,

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Speaker 2: and we could get you know, like Terry Bradshaw show

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Speaker 2: up one day and be like you're all nerds, but

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Speaker 2: here's who I would pick.

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Speaker 3: Like that would be fun. Let do it? Who's that for?

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Speaker 3: For the fantasy camp. Who are we sending there? Or

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Speaker 3: who's who's on first? Oh for for baseball?

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Speaker 6: Uh?

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean I'm volunteering because I'm tall and fat

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Speaker 2: and slow and uh and I can hit the ball

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Speaker 2: a long way. So that's usually how you put at

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Speaker 2: first base. Let's see, you gotta you have suggestions. I'm

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Speaker 2: trying to think. Now, a lot of us are really bad,

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Speaker 2: would you? Uh, right field? We just stick him as

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Speaker 2: far away as possible. Who's the sportiest.

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Speaker 13: Shannon?

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Speaker 3: Shannon is pretty sporty.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Here's the thing is, I've coached a lot of

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Speaker 2: co ed softball, and you always take your bolly. It's

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Speaker 2: a real benefit if you've got a girl with an arm,

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Speaker 2: you put her at third base, because then you get

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Speaker 2: you can put your your star dude at shortstop. You

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Speaker 2: know who's really good at baseball is John. I know

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Speaker 2: he's he's getting up there, but you know John's been

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Speaker 2: John's been doing the baseball thing for decades.

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Speaker 13: And I love that Gary's at the fantasy baseball camp,

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Speaker 13: but he's not come up yet.

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Speaker 3: No, I'm trying to think of where I put Gary.

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Speaker 13: Uh, we picked Shannon before Gary.

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Speaker 2: Probably, I'm thinking Gary and Shannon are gonna be at

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Speaker 2: second and third, or or we put John at third,

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Speaker 2: Cobold at third, and put h Gary at short, Shannon

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Speaker 2: at second. I had a buddy who a really good

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Speaker 2: friend of mine, and I had a short stop for

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Speaker 2: a long time, and I had another guy joined the

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Speaker 2: team who was just had a better arm, faster release,

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Speaker 2: and I put my friend at second. He was so

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Speaker 2: mad about it, but I was like, dude, this is

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Speaker 2: the best second basement in the league. You're just beard league,

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Speaker 2: of course, but he was like he was really upset

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Speaker 2: about that. But I was like, dude, we're the only

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Speaker 2: team that can turn a double play because you can

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Speaker 2: do it. So you got man Conway center field, handle

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Speaker 2: right field. M I don't know. I've played left field

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Speaker 2: a lot too, but I haven't played in years. So

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Speaker 2: bad idea, Eileen, where are you going?

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Speaker 13: I'm I'm staying on the bench.

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Speaker 3: You're not sporty.

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Speaker 13: I'm so not sporty.

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Speaker 14: Okay, right, I can like I can shoot baskets, but

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Speaker 14: I can't play basketball. And I can throw a baseball

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Speaker 14: of all, but I can't hit it. And I just

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Speaker 14: a team sports.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, that's cool.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so you're good at horse but not much run

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Speaker 3: in the trink. Yeah, I love this. That'd be fun

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Speaker 3: to do that for like a charity or something. Just

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Speaker 3: a KFI horse tournament is.

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Speaker 13: Their second great idea than you in five minutes? Look

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Speaker 13: at that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm on a role today speaking of great ideas.

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Speaker 2: At first I thought Virginia e morons, But then the

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Speaker 2: more I thought about it, I thought, you know what,

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Speaker 2: something's better than nothing. So Virginia passed a law that

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Speaker 2: restricts kids to one hour a day per social media app.

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Speaker 2: And my question for the talkback today, should California do

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Speaker 2: the same thing. If you're on the IHEARTRADIOPP, go ahead

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Speaker 2: and hit that to hit that talk by button talk

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Speaker 2: back button and let me know if California needs to

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Speaker 2: step in and pass a law that starts to restrict

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Speaker 2: kids social media access. In the meantime, speaking of socials,

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Speaker 2: Elon Musk says, whoa, whoa, whoa. Really sorry about groc

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Speaker 2: undressing your kids, but we are going to fix it

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Speaker 2: where we have to.

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Speaker 10: Multiple regulators, including the state of California, along with the

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Speaker 10: UK and EU, say they're investigating the social media platform

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Speaker 10: X over potential violations of online safety laws by its

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Speaker 10: AI chatbot, GROC. The investigations follow global backlash over thousands

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Speaker 10: of sexualized images of women and even show said to

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Speaker 10: have been created by the AI chatbot.

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Speaker 3: Who could have ever seen that coming? This statement?

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Speaker 10: Elon Musk's company Xai says, quote, we have implemented technological

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Speaker 10: measures to prevent the grock account from allowing the editing

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Speaker 10: of images of real people in revealing clothing such as bikinis,

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Speaker 10: underwear and other revealing attire, adding, the rule applies to

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Speaker 10: all users.

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Speaker 1: Will joining me now?

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Speaker 3: Is okay?

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Speaker 2: The rule applies to all users helmutid losers. However, reporting

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Speaker 2: I see from the New York Times, Now that's from ABC.

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Speaker 2: The New York Times is saying u x is going

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Speaker 2: to restrict users from generating explicit images of real people

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Speaker 2: in jurisdictions where such content is illegal. Why don't you

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Speaker 2: just do it everywhere? Some countries have banned the application

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Speaker 2: altogether as a result. Investigators here said that they were

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Speaker 2: examining whether Grod violated state laws. Britain's independent online safety

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Speaker 2: watch dog Offcome Oliver, what is it Ofcome?

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Speaker 3: You don't even know?

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Speaker 2: Do you?

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Speaker 3: You don't know what? Britain's independent online safety watch dog.

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Speaker 2: Is I'm gonna say, okay, yuh. They open an inquiry

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Speaker 2: or an inquiry into GROC earlier this week. So Grok says,

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Speaker 2: don't worry. We are gonna GEO block to restrict GROC

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Speaker 2: from fulfilling requests for such imagery and jurisdictions where such

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Speaker 2: content is illegal. So what happens then if somebody uses

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Speaker 2: GROC in a jurisdiction where it is legal, I assume

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Speaker 2: Taiwan or Bangkok, Thailand.

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Speaker 6: Uh.

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Speaker 2: So suppose that they do it in Thailand and then

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Speaker 2: they share the picture. Is that no longer illegal?

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Speaker 3: Well was it?

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Speaker 2: We didn't generate it in California, so you can't do anything.

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Speaker 2: So suppose that there's a photograph of Mayor Bass and

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Speaker 2: somebody in Bangkok, newdifies Mayor Bass and then reposts it

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Speaker 2: under the photo the original photo. Is that now suddenly legal?

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's still nobody wants to see that anyway,

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Speaker 2: But no, See, this is where we have to have guardrails.

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Speaker 2: And honestly, as the world continues to shrink, we are

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Speaker 2: going to need some international rules. We're going to the

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Speaker 2: idea that we're gonna have a mish mash of laws

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Speaker 2: that regulate who you can newtify from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.

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Speaker 2: And you've got somebody who has no moral compass other

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Speaker 2: than where he makes money, you have to you have

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Speaker 2: to step in and regulate this. Otherwise, what does.

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Speaker 3: Elon Musk care? He's like, wow.

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Speaker 2: Remember initially Elon Musk said, yeah, we are gonna stop

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Speaker 2: this from happening with our free users, but if you're

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Speaker 2: paying for air subscription, you're still good to newdify whomever

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Speaker 2: you want. That was the initial reaction. They initially thought

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Speaker 2: this is terrible, we should be making.

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Speaker 3: Money on it.

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Speaker 2: And now they're saying, oh no, we're gonna get sued

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Speaker 2: so anywhere that it's illegal, we're not going to do it.

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Speaker 2: But if it is legal, then who are we to

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Speaker 2: say you can't newify somebody else's kids.

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Speaker 3: I don't know, maybe just ethics.

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Speaker 2: Aside from very recently and maybe as a punchline in

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Speaker 2: twenty seventeen, when was the last time you thought about

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Speaker 2: Greenland Middle School? Maybe when you were doing a semester

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Speaker 2: in European geography or the Vikings running into North America

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Speaker 2: a thousand years ago. Actually, come to think of it,

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Speaker 2: that was my favorite who doesn't love a good Eric

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Speaker 2: the leaf ericson Bedtime Story. I love those. Well, now

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Speaker 2: you can stop hearing about Greenland. Can't stop hearing about Greenland.

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Speaker 2: I wrote this the President's Ledasalvo is still not sitting

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Speaker 2: well with other NATO leaders. What each side says they're

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Speaker 2: going to do is next time.

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Speaker 1: Chris merrild KFI AM sixty on demand