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

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Speaker 2: I'm Chris Merrill on demand anytime in the iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 2: Kayla just asked me producer, Kayla, do we have a

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Speaker 2: talkback question for today? Crap? And then she came up

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Speaker 2: with another brilliant idea. So if you're unfamiliar, there's gonna

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Speaker 2: be a new show. Our lineup is changing on Tuesday.

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Speaker 2: We've got John Cobolt is going back to Afternoon Drive

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Speaker 2: that he made famous. In fact, I think John and

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Speaker 2: Ken if I read this correctly years ago, I read

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Speaker 2: this that they were the first radio show to have

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Speaker 2: a million listeners. First local radio should have a million listeners'

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Speaker 2: that's wild. Tim Conway Junior goes back to Evenings, which

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Speaker 2: is what he wanted, and people are like, oh, I

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Speaker 2: can't believe you're putting Conway back to evening. Conway wanted that.

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Speaker 2: In fact, he wanted it because of costco. He said

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Speaker 2: the things he loves. He loves going to the track,

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Speaker 2: he loves listening to Petres and Money, but they were

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Speaker 2: on at the same time. They're on the AM station

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Speaker 2: there at five seventy. And then he also said that

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Speaker 2: he loves going to Costco, but Costco was closed when

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Speaker 2: he was getting out of work at ten o'clock, so

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Speaker 2: he couldn't go to Costco. And so basically the whole

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Speaker 2: reason Tim wanted to go back to evenings was for Costco.

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Speaker 2: And I think I love that about him. I think

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Speaker 2: I absolutely adore that about him. Had I had the clip,

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Speaker 2: I can't find it. I lost it. Yeah, I thought

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Speaker 2: I had it in there anyway. So Cayle says, what

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Speaker 2: do you want to do for the talk back tonight?

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Speaker 2: And I think a great idea of Kayla. She said,

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Speaker 2: why don't you ask people what they want to hear?

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Speaker 2: On the news show which starts at noon on Tuesday.

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Speaker 2: And the reason everybody else is being pushed around it's

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Speaker 2: the new Monks and Meryl show. So Michael Monks, who

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Speaker 2: you hear doing the news all the time, thank you, Calen,

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Speaker 2: thank you, and myself. We're starting this new program Monks

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Speaker 2: and Meryl. And so Kayla says, why don't you just

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Speaker 2: ask what people want to hear? And I think that's

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Speaker 2: a great idea. Our plan though I don't think I've

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Speaker 2: even talked to you about this, Kiala. Our plan is

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Speaker 2: that we want to dive a little bit deeper into

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Speaker 2: all the different stories. So there's a few things, For instance,

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Speaker 2: this happening we'll talk about the street lights in La right,

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Speaker 2: and you've got a bunch of copper thieves that are

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Speaker 2: stealing copper and that's leaving the streetlights dark and the

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Speaker 2: city's taking a year to fix them and it's an

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Speaker 2: absolute mess. So while normally we might cover that and

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Speaker 2: say can you believe that this is happening, Michael and

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Speaker 2: I will take a look at this and we'll go

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Speaker 2: why who's doing this? What is the organized ring? Where

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Speaker 2: are they selling it? You know, we're going to try

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Speaker 2: to dive a little bit deeper into these into all

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Speaker 2: these Why does it take a year? Not just can

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Speaker 2: you believe it takes them a year? But why what's

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Speaker 2: the red tape? How do we improve upon that? Like,

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Speaker 2: our goal is to keep diving deeper and deeper and

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Speaker 2: deeper and keep healing back the onion on all these

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Speaker 2: issues rather than just a quick drive by, oh look

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Speaker 2: the street lights are out, the city's not fixing it,

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Speaker 2: or damn the city, But okay, why aren't they fixing it?

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Speaker 3: So it's like radio hosts, great radio hosts meets great investigators.

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Speaker 3: It's going to be like kind of deeper crime type show,

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Speaker 3: kind of Steve Gregor result show a little bit.

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Speaker 2: Where were you just try to just go yeah yeah.

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Speaker 2: And then obviously there's gonna be some other things too

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Speaker 2: that that that we want to get into. Whether it's

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Speaker 2: a housing affordability, which I don't know if you saw

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Speaker 2: there's another study that came out here that said new

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Speaker 2: study shows that l A is unaffordable. Thankst thing Ever, meanwhile,

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Speaker 2: I got I got a sinus headache. I don't know

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Speaker 2: if anybody else gets this, but when the low pressure

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Speaker 2: systems come in, and that's what we've got going on

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Speaker 2: right now, all of a sudden, I just get these

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Speaker 2: sinus headaches.

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Speaker 4: Sounds like you have a migraine, and those can be

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Speaker 4: brought on by the change in barometric pressure. I know

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Speaker 4: because I used to get them.

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Speaker 5: I lean.

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Speaker 2: Did we talk about this at one point? I think

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Speaker 2: we did too. I think I think that's what it is.

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Speaker 2: I think it's I think it would probably be classified.

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Speaker 6: The migraine if it's one. I one of your head Yeah,

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Speaker 6: you probably have my green. Did you take anything for it?

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Speaker 2: I just took some a leave when I got to work.

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Speaker 2: You know what I find works really well is if

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Speaker 2: the Keile scolded me for drinking caffeine.

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Speaker 6: No, you need it right now.

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Speaker 7: That's what type of drink he's drinking.

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Speaker 6: Are you drinking that poisonous drink?

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Speaker 7: Drink tea or a coffee?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, me to make your green tea?

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Speaker 3: You need offer He's like, no, no, I'm going to

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Speaker 3: drink this bottle of poison cut fine.

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Speaker 2: Important question.

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Speaker 6: You know you watch out.

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Speaker 2: The British aren't good for much. But I will tell

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Speaker 2: you this.

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Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 2: They introduced me to adding cream to tea, and look out,

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Speaker 2: I love it. Why do you add milk or it

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Speaker 2: just creams it up? Do you ever do this? You

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Speaker 2: ever add the cream to your teeth?

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Speaker 7: I look at people like like, I'm telling you it's fair.

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Speaker 6: Judge was just intolerant. That would be Oh yeah, I.

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Speaker 2: Use the almond creamer. Oh I love almond creamer.

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Speaker 6: Kayla, is there still a ti tee from yesterday?

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Speaker 7: I took everything home, but oh wait no, they might

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Speaker 7: be some of their frames. There's one of the free

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Speaker 7: actually for those in the fridge, go for it.

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Speaker 2: Go hit that. Add a little almond creamer to it.

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Speaker 2: In the meantime, the uh, my headache is at least

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Speaker 2: of your worries because it sounds like tomorrow if you

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Speaker 2: have to go to work. I know it's President's Day.

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Speaker 2: If you have to go to work, it could be

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Speaker 2: a real bear. And uh, I got to commit. We're

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Speaker 2: doing the Handle show tomorrow at eight thirty, so I'll

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Speaker 2: be on the roads as they are soaking wet. This

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Speaker 8: Winter Storm watches, flood watches all come in our way.

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Speaker 8: I also want to mention some breezy conditions too. We

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Speaker 8: place winter storm watches. These kick into effect tomorrow mornings.

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Speaker 8: So or higher elevations, you are expecting to see quite

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Speaker 8: good news for our skiers and snowboarders, but definitely gonna

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's also good news because we need the snowpack

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Speaker 8: Not only that higher elevations aside for us here closer

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Speaker 8: to sea level, flood watches in place. For most of us,

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Speaker 8: we were talking about flash flooding possible, especially our burned

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Speaker 8: rock and MinC I can't seeence radio good mind.

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Speaker 9: Slides will be a concern. Debris flow as well.

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Speaker 8: We're expecting most spots to see anywhere from one to

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Speaker 9: To seem much more. And here's why.

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Speaker 8: Right now we've got this low pressure system we saw

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Speaker 2: You're gonna crap up my patio. I got to bring in.

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Speaker 2: This is the important stuff we worry about. I know,

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Speaker 2: scar snowboarders, that's great. I got crap on my patio

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Speaker 2: and a headache. But ultimately, what are we really worried about?

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Speaker 2: Mud slides wiping out your house? But I got stuff

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Speaker 2: on my patty. I'm gonna worry about important stuff here. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 2: if you are near one of the burn scar is,

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Speaker 10: The City of La issuing an evacuation warning for several

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Speaker 10: burn scar areas ahead of the storm. It goes into

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Speaker 10: effect tomorrow night at nine pm.

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Speaker 2: And last that's tonight. This is from yesterday CBSLA.

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Speaker 10: Through Tuesday at nine am. It includes parts of the Palisades.

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Speaker 10: Hearst and s said, burn scars.

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Speaker 9: We have a full map on CBSLA.

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Speaker 2: Duck all right, very good, Not crazy about that? Not

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Speaker 2: crazy about at all. The studio monitor here. The NBA

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Speaker 2: All Star Game is going on, but it's also not

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Speaker 2: what we've ever seen before. It is happening as we

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Speaker 2: and if you are like me, I'm just a casual fan,

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Speaker 2: it is confusing as hell. How the quadruple header is

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Speaker 2: playing out. Is next Chris Merril I AM six forty.

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

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Speaker 2: The new show Monks and Merril starts Tuesday at noon.

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Speaker 2: You'll join us. Gary and Shannon still start at nine am.

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Speaker 2: Their show wraps up at noon, however, and then Monks

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Speaker 2: and Merrill, that's Michael Monks and myself. We start to

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Speaker 2: and we do the show from noon to three. John

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Speaker 2: Coleblet goes back to his original day part that made

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Speaker 2: He's on now from six o'clock until ten. And Tim's

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Speaker 2: excited because he can now go to Costco. He said,

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Speaker 2: I just absolutely love that he's doing it. So we

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Speaker 2: asked what is it you'd like to see us dive into.

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Speaker 2: Because the idea with with Monks and Merrill's that we're

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Speaker 2: gonna go a little bit deeper into the topics, that

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Speaker 2: we're gonna we're gonna stay on a topic a little longer,

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Speaker 2: We'll dive a little bit deeper, try to uncover some

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Speaker 2: of the whys behind the way that the things are operating.

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Speaker 2: Because one of the things that I think we tend

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Speaker 2: not this is not a condemnation of you. It's it's

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Speaker 2: perfectly natural. But we go I can't believe the idiots

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Speaker 2: we elect new idiots, and I just I can't help

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Speaker 2: but to believe that not everyone who gets elected is

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Speaker 2: Right now, organized crime rings are popping up all over

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

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Speaker 2: Chris Merril, thank you so much for joining me. I

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Speaker 13: Hey JP from OC, I'm looking forward.

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Speaker 13: There's got to be a politician out there who's not

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Speaker 2: to like it, and you're going to give us the

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Speaker 2: contract because if you don't, boy, sure would hate for

436
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Speaker 2: that sex tape your kid did in college to come

437
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Speaker 2: out on the internet. You know what I mean? That

438
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Speaker 2: kind of thing. I wonder how much of that goes on?

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Speaker 2: All right? From the talkbacks?

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Speaker 1: Hey, Chris, Hey.

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Speaker 6: This is Carla and Santa Anna.

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Speaker 7: Carla and I can hardly wait for Tuesday for your

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Speaker 7: debut show. Thank you so excited.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I hope that you both include talkback in each

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Speaker 4: of these three hours that you're on because to us

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Speaker 4: listeners out here, it is very important and it makes

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Speaker 4: us a part of your show.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Thank you, Carl, appreciate you. That

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Speaker 2: is the plan. Incidentally, that is one thing we have

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Speaker 2: discussed is yeah, you're doing some talkbacks. Everyone can do it,

451
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Speaker 2: the lawmakers, the law breakers, the times that there ought

452
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Speaker 2: to be a law. Say, I don't have a fade button, now, Jesse,

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Speaker 2: can you fit it? That's good. See when I have

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Speaker 2: my home studio, when I do it remotely, I got

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Speaker 2: my fade I had no fade button. I didn't even

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Speaker 2: have a volume button on the computer.

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Speaker 7: We like to keep you on your toes here in.

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Speaker 2: I gotta get that fixed. Gotta get that fixed. All right,

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Speaker 2: Let's start with the thing everybody wants to steal. Now,

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Speaker 2: who knew is Pokemon? These criminals from CBSLA.

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Speaker 14: These criminals smashing display cases aren't targeting jewelry, fine art,

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Speaker 14: or even cash. They're after one of the most valuable

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Speaker 14: and most expensive collectibles of the moment, Pokemon cards.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, my mind is blown. I'm going through the same

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Speaker 2: moment with people in the Pokemon value that I'm sure

466
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Speaker 2: my parents went through when all of a sudden baseball

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Speaker 2: cards spiked and Dad went I threw away all my

468
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Speaker 2: baseball cards back in the nineteen sixties. Yeah, well dad,

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Speaker 2: Now they're worth you know, one hundred bucks apiece for

470
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Speaker 2: common cards, and they're worth you know, tens of thousands

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Speaker 2: if you had a Mickey Mantle or whatever. Yeah.

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Speaker 14: The old trading card game from the nineties, and this

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Speaker 14: type of brazen card shop that has taken the collectible

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Speaker 14: community right here in LA and around the world by storm.

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Speaker 15: And unfortunately, collectibles have become so valuable and so popular

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Speaker 15: that they've now joined the ranks of a watch store

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Speaker 15: or a jewelry store. That makes itself a target and

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Speaker 15: you have to protect yourself against that.

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Speaker 2: The thing is, it's really easy to damage those cards.

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Speaker 2: The cards have to be in a certain condition, and

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Speaker 2: if you're doing a smash and grab, you better grab delicately.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure they're probably in their own individual card cases.

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Speaker 14: Ken Golden owns Golden, an online auction house for trading cards, collectibles,

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Speaker 14: and memorabilia. He also stars in his own Netflix series

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Speaker 14: called King of Collectibles The Golden Touch. Right now, people

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Speaker 14: are bidding millions of dollars through Pokemon cards on his website.

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Speaker 2: It's put up for auction by.

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Speaker 14: Influencers with tens of millions of followers, like WWE wrestler

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Speaker 14: Logan Paul.

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Speaker 15: We are all kids, young adults who are playing the game,

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Speaker 15: treating it as a game in the late nineties, early

492
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Speaker 15: two thousands, and they're now in their thirties and forties.

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Speaker 15: A lot of them have much more disposable income, and

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Speaker 15: they're spending it on something they love.

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Speaker 2: Man nostalgia sells. But now all of a sudden, you've

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Speaker 2: got you've got a crime ring that's stealing Pokemon again.

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Speaker 2: It's difficult for me to understand other than to try

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Speaker 2: to create some sort of an analogous association, like baseball

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Speaker 2: cards back in the day, or I don't know, you know,

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Speaker 2: I've seen people collect like Wheaty's boxes from the from

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Speaker 2: the seventies or eighties, whatever those are. I used to

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Speaker 2: have a lot of the Michael Jordan ones. I used

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Speaker 2: to collect those. They came with a free poster.

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Speaker 7: So you had you got money from them?

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Speaker 2: No, no, no, I just when I was a kid,

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Speaker 2: I wanted to go get it. I wanted to get

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Speaker 2: Wheaties again because I had. I had all four of

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Speaker 2: the Michael Jordan posters that came free with the wheedles.

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Speaker 7: That's pretty cool.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I remember the Mary lou At in Wheaty's Box,

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Speaker 2: and I remember those things.

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Speaker 7: I love Bruce Jenner one.

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Speaker 2: I don't remember the Bruce Jenner one. I think that

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Speaker 2: was a little bit before me.

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Speaker 7: Oh so it's ancient ancient.

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Speaker 2: When was When was Jenner in the Olympics? Wasn't what

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Speaker 2: she called you?

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Speaker 7: A dinosaur?

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Speaker 2: I am?

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Speaker 3: But I will say my this is like really hurt

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Speaker 3: of my feelings is my Pokemon obsession was deep, and

522
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Speaker 3: my car collection was even deeper. And I could be

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Speaker 3: rich right now and not here the Pokemon I love.

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Speaker 3: I had a game boy, I had all the cards.

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Speaker 3: I was a poke Mon. Pikachu was my guy. You know,

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Speaker 3: I could be rich right now, but I threw them

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Speaker 3: away and grew up.

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Speaker 7: Fortunate.

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Speaker 2: How'd that work out for you?

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Speaker 7: So I'm here on a Sunday. But uh, I mean

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Speaker 7: Chris Bruce, what do you call him?

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Speaker 5: Now?

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Speaker 7: What do you call him?

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Speaker 2: And Jenner?

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Speaker 7: She was in the Olympics in nineteen seventy six.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I was gonna say it was a little before me. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: a little before my time.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 16: Uh.

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Speaker 2: There is something else though, that Cayle there there is

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Speaker 2: an opportunity for you to still be employed. There's another

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Speaker 2: crime ring out there.

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Speaker 7: Oh tell me.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a sprawling network of brothels and venture in

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Speaker 2: La County.

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Speaker 17: The people hot that the how much they not kidding?

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Speaker 17: I'm kidding, Yeah, you're not. No, I guess they just

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Speaker 17: busted them, which is good.

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Speaker 2: Uh So, southern California brothel ring busted by authorities, leading

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Speaker 2: to arrest detectives from the Ventura County Sheriff's Office Special

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Speaker 2: Crimes Unit conducting a year long investigation into a brothel

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Speaker 2: ring a year long.

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Speaker 3: Good lord, they were obviously doing as much research as

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Speaker 3: they should do.

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Speaker 2: Did you need to gather?

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Speaker 7: How much money did you need to gather to pay

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Speaker 7: for it?

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Speaker 16: Yet?

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Speaker 2: A man? Anyway, Owners and operators of a sex services

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Speaker 2: website were arrested. Detectives on more than thirty residential and

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Speaker 2: hotel brothels throughout California. More than sixty female sex workers

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Speaker 2: were also found on the website. So when you see

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Speaker 2: those unemployment numbers come out, you're gonna know shut him down.

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Speaker 2: That's what happens again, more women trying to get.

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

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Speaker 2: Chris Merrill new show Monks and Merrill starts on Tuesday,

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Speaker 2: will be on from noon to three. The lineup of

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Speaker 2: shifts just a little bit. Garian Shannon on at nine

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Speaker 2: o'clock just as they are now their show wraps up

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Speaker 2: however at noon, and then Michael and I will be

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Speaker 2: doing a three hour show until three o'clock and then

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Speaker 2: the Legend John Cobalt from three o'clock until six and

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Speaker 2: your Drive home and it's Timmy Time starting at six.

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Speaker 2: Tim Conway Junior goes back to the evenings so he

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Speaker 2: can do his Costco shopping. He went to the boss

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Speaker 2: and he said he wanted to go to Costco more

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Speaker 2: and can he go back to the evenings. So that happened.

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Speaker 2: From the talk bag, what would you like to hear

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Speaker 2: on the new show starting two Tuesday at noon curious

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Speaker 2: about what it is you're after.

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Speaker 5: Hey, Chris, I really like your show business segment. I

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Speaker 5: also like it when you talk about the economy and

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Speaker 5: business and finance.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I do something else.

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Speaker 5: You can maybe dive deeper into is AI and the

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Speaker 5: you know, bad companies that are maybe using it for

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Speaker 5: you know, sleazy, scummy things, and also the positive companies

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Speaker 5: as well.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely interesting. I love all of those topics. Incidentally, there

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Speaker 2: are some topics that you cover because you have to write.

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Speaker 2: You're doing news, you have to cover it. But what

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Speaker 2: you just mentioned, those are the things I like to

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Speaker 2: get into. I like to get into the economy, the jobs,

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Speaker 2: the housing, you know, real estate, whatever workforce stuff is

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Speaker 2: going on. I think that's I think those are the

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Speaker 2: sorts of things that we talk about around the kitchen

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Speaker 2: table or that we talk about when we're doing a

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Speaker 2: barbecue or something, you know, with the neighbors and we

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Speaker 2: get together, like how's the job going? Well, it stinks,

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Speaker 2: But in this economy, I can't go anywhere, you know

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Speaker 2: what I mean. That's the kind of stuf we kind

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Speaker 2: of kip it's about. And then the AI. I do

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Speaker 2: love getting into the AI. I do love it from

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Speaker 2: the talkbacks.

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Speaker 12: Hey, Chris, I can't wait until you start your new

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Speaker 12: show on Tuesday. Thank you every time you feel in

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Speaker 12: for John Colepell. You're always doing a good job of it.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 12: I think it's gonna be fine. I'm looking forward to

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Speaker 12: your show.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, is he being dragged by a horse?

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Speaker 7: He's research in the brothels?

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Speaker 5: Is that.

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Speaker 2: Very good as a call back in the last segment,

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Speaker 2: it was very good.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, keep waiting, go wait to come over all right?

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Speaker 12: Browl from Burbank, California, NI.

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Speaker 2: Buddy, thank you so much. I appreciate that. It's very good.

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Speaker 2: Good luck. I'm getting dragged down the street there. I

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Speaker 2: don't know what was going on.

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Speaker 16: Hi, Chris, this is Lindy from Lockunata.

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Speaker 2: Well, hello, Lindy.

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Speaker 16: And I just want to tell you that I have

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Speaker 16: loved you and have been following you for you and

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Speaker 16: you have nothing to fear. You are going to be

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Speaker 16: wonderful and Michael will be taking half the burden, so

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Speaker 16: you can really a little bit and realize that you're

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Speaker 16: a wonderful, great, fantastic guy, and you're funny as heck

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Speaker 16: and you're cute too.

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Speaker 2: Oh my, and I just just let's hang on here,

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Speaker 2: let's uh, let's go back to this part. And you're

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Speaker 2: cute too.

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Speaker 6: Boom.

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Speaker 3: That's really interesting that she says that because before I,

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Speaker 3: you know, saw you more in person. I was like, wow,

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Speaker 3: you know, Chris is interesting because photogenically, your cuteness doesn't translate.

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Speaker 3: I don't know where she's getting this information because it

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Speaker 3: really only.

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Speaker 7: Comes off in person.

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Speaker 2: I don't take good pictures to.

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Speaker 3: No, but in person you are. You are handsome. But

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Speaker 3: it's like a dating show. If you don't like somebody

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Speaker 3: pop the balloon. I wouldn't pop mine in person, but

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Speaker 3: if I just saw you on the internet, I will

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Speaker 3: pop away. So it's very interesting that she sees that

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Speaker 3: even though she hasn't seen you in person. I think

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Speaker 3: Linday's a beautiful heart.

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Speaker 2: I just yeah, send this to my wife.

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Speaker 7: She's a lucky lady.

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Speaker 11: Man.

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Speaker 2: Guess what I got. I got Lindy who's waiting for me?

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Speaker 2: If you want to just run now, don't think I

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Speaker 2: don't have options. I got options.

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Speaker 7: Your wife is hot, I was. I would say, where

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Speaker 7: you are?

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Speaker 2: She got so many more options than I do.

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Speaker 7: She really does. When when I met her, I was like, wow.

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Speaker 2: You're with that guy, don't let her out. You shouldn't,

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Speaker 2: I don't, I wouldn't. No, there's a the door's locked

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Speaker 2: from the inside of my house. Uh LA has got

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Speaker 2: an issue with the street lights. They're not on because

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Speaker 2: people keep stealing the guts of the lights.

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Speaker 18: Parts of LA's West Side neighborhoods plunged into darkness, broken

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Speaker 18: street lights from copper thefts, with power poles going unrepaired

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Speaker 18: for months. Residents and business owners are fed up.

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Speaker 7: This is about something very simple and very human.

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Speaker 5: People feeling safe walking home, taking an evening stroll.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, kids riding their bikes to a friend's house.

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Speaker 18: La City Council leaders now trying to cut through the

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Speaker 18: red tape with the numerous repair backlogs posing an immediate

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Speaker 18: safety risk.

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Speaker 17: This is an issue that is not unique just to

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Speaker 17: mar Vista or Venice or to Palms.

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Speaker 7: This is a city wide issue.

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Speaker 18: Councilwoman Tracy Park and Katie Arosovski are introducing a motion

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Speaker 18: to use discretionary funds to create a specialized team task

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Speaker 18: with expediting these long overdue repairs.

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Speaker 2: We're setting up a streetlight task Force. God, I love government,

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Speaker 2: don't you Well, We've got a problem. Oh, yeah, yep.

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Speaker 2: What should we do about our problem? How about a

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Speaker 2: task force?

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Speaker 1: I love it.

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Speaker 2: Then we can tell people we're doing something about the

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Speaker 2: problem without actually spending money to do anything about the problem.

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Speaker 2: Task force. It is mating adjourned, Let's get burritos.

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Speaker 18: Copper wire thefts have reportedly caused nearly half of the

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Speaker 18: current street light outages all across LA.

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Speaker 2: What caused the other half? Routine maintenance is always a challenge,

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Speaker 2: but when that problem doubles because of organized theft, it

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Speaker 2: drives up the cost dramatically. This is on the lighting district,

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Speaker 2: which a lot of members care about.

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Speaker 18: With the ongoing citywide budget constraints, Council leaders are also

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Speaker 18: exploring other concrete solutions, she said, concrete. Hre also exploring

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Speaker 18: other concrete hmm.

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Speaker 2: That's kind of like when you hear somebody say cement, right, cement?

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Speaker 7: How do you say it?

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Speaker 2: Cement? She says, concrete.

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Speaker 7: I say cement, You sayment. I do say cement, East Coast.

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Speaker 2: That's what the Beverly hillbilly says, pond.

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Speaker 7: I think cement sounds more hill.

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Speaker 2: Semen, that sounds dirty.

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Speaker 18: Other concrete concrete solutions, like the installation of solar street lights,

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Speaker 18: since thieves will continuously target the same neighborhoods even after

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Speaker 18: a pole is repaired.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's how they all basically look. Yeah, I mean

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Speaker 2: as soon as they fix it, then the thieves are

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Speaker 2: like cool the lights back on. That tells us there's

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Speaker 2: more copper in there we can steal. You are literally

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Speaker 2: sending out a bat signal for steal this copper.

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Speaker 18: Block after block vandalized utility poles.

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Speaker 7: It's dark, It's really dark.

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Speaker 2: It's got a lot of dark spots.

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Speaker 12: And look how long the street is.

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Speaker 7: And people should be able to walk here without fear.

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Speaker 9: She says.

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Speaker 18: Parts of this neighborhood are totally dark at night. She

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Speaker 18: refuses to walk alone. The other side of the street

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Speaker 18: a bit safer since crews installed these solar street lights,

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Speaker 18: she says, that's a more viable solution to the thefts

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Speaker 18: and vandalism that keeps occurring.

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Speaker 2: That's right, The solar powered street lights are the way

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Speaker 2: to go. Don't we do it well? A solar powered

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Speaker 2: how dare you do that? That sounds like some sort

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Speaker 2: of a progressive liberal green New Deal solution. We don't

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Speaker 2: want that in our America. No baloney, solar power street

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Speaker 2: lights make a lot of sense. I don't even care

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Speaker 2: if they're a little more expensive. I don't even know

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Speaker 2: what the cost is at the onset, But the solar

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Speaker 2: power streetlights makes so much more sense because one, you're

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Speaker 2: not taxing the grid too, You're not giving thieves something

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Speaker 2: to steal. They don't want to steal your solar cells.

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Speaker 2: They're not gonna shimmy up the poles so they can

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Speaker 2: grab that. What are they gonna do with it? Put

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Speaker 2: it on their electric scooters? By the way, why are

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Speaker 2: thieves all driving around e bikes?

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Speaker 5: Now?

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Speaker 2: If I see somebody in an e bike, I'm pretty

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Speaker 2: sure they're a criminal. Oh is that the Have you

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Speaker 2: seen anybody riding an e bike that looks like they're

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Speaker 2: headed to do a white collar job? Like I don't

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Speaker 2: see I don't see the CEO going I'm getting on

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Speaker 2: my e bike.

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Speaker 6: You have, yeah, Vista, Do you drive an e bike?

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Speaker 7: Aileen?

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Speaker 6: I don't, but I want one.

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Speaker 2: That's why I kind of do too. But I just

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Speaker 2: everybody's gonna look at me and be like, oh, you

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Speaker 2: guys are criminals.

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Speaker 7: That's why you want one.

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Speaker 2: I had one and it got stolen, So maybe that's

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Speaker 2: why they're all criminals is because they've stolen them all.

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Speaker 2: That's entirely possible. I hadn't considered that.

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Speaker 6: Maybe that's what I need to do to get one

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Speaker 6: go stealing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's smart. I hear there's a CEO in mar

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Speaker 2: Vista that you can google stealing from. It's probably a

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Speaker 2: nice one too, all right. You watch the Nancy Guthrie

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Speaker 2: case drag on for two weeks now, and every time

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Speaker 2: we get a little nugget of hope, your feelings get dashed.

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Speaker 2: So what in the world are the authorities even doing.

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Speaker 2: The investigators are focusing on something right now. We'll find

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