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Speaker 2: Scott Wiener from San Francisco. He has the most intrusive,

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Speaker 2: destructive set of issues, and it's about controlling our lives.

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Speaker 2: I mean truly communist in terms of a crushing government

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Speaker 2: He has some hatred and obsession with people driving cars.

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Speaker 2: And there's now a long series of bill bills to

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Speaker 2: Jay Bieber, and let's get him on the air because

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Speaker 2: he's been an advocate for drivers and open roads for

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Speaker 2: a long time. He's the executive director of the National

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Speaker 2: Motorists Association Executive director of Policy, Jay Welcome again, How

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Speaker 2: are you good?

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Speaker 3: Thanks for having me out again.

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Speaker 1: All right, so, I know there's a lot of things.

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Speaker 2: We're not going to get to all of it, but

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Speaker 2: let's start with the speed limitter bill from Wiener because

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Speaker 2: it's going to be heard in the Senate Transportation Committee

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Speaker 2: on April ninth.

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Speaker 1: So let's start with that one.

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Speaker 2: What is a speed limitter and what's this legislation going

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Speaker 3: So the speed limitter is technology which will restrict the

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Speaker 3: speed limits in California because of other bills, have been

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Speaker 3: arbitrarily lowered. So we're talking about restricting you going maybe

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Speaker 3: And it would cause a whole bunch of problems. Obviously,

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Speaker 3: in terms of all sorts of things, that technology is

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Speaker 3: not perfect. So I'll just give you one quick example.

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Speaker 3: We can talk about all of them, but the first

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Speaker 3: quick example that I can think of your You're on

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Speaker 3: I mean, this is dangerous, crazy stuff.

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Speaker 2: Sure, And because this would be this probably would be

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Speaker 3: Right right, it would have to be able to have

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Speaker 2: I'll give you an example to back up your point.

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Speaker 2: If I'm driven north or south in the four or five,

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Speaker 3: That is correct, and even if it and obviously there's

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Speaker 3: And you think about if you're trying to flee a

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Speaker 2: Here, right, to make driving so irritating that we all

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Speaker 3: The the s inner thinks everybody should live how he

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Speaker 2: There was a case, maybe I mentioned this to you before,

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Speaker 1: She had to hit she had to speed in order

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Speaker 2: She also once got chased by someone I think was

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Speaker 3: Because Scott Waider doesn't think you need to. That's that's

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Speaker 3: same thing just happened to me. You told the story

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Speaker 3: Somebody got mad at me for something something that I

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Speaker 3: But even if it is. There are times when you

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Speaker 2: Does Scott Wiener have a lot of allies in Sacramento

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Speaker 3: You know, I don't know how many people are really

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Speaker 3: If you're listening to this and you're and you know

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Speaker 2: We are talking with j Bieber from the National Motorists

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Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am

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Speaker 5: six forty.

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Speaker 2: We're talking with Jay Bieber from the National Motors Association.

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Speaker 2: He's the executive director of Policy. He's been with us

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Speaker 2: many times over the years, warning us about really stupid

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Speaker 2: mobilize against, and we certainly do, because that's about about

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Speaker 3: And again, just to think about it, it's just about

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Speaker 2: Okay, people should go to the National Motorist Association website.

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Speaker 2: is no other legislator. I'm gonna make a sweeping statement here.

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Speaker 2: I can't think of another legislator. Legislator that makes me

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Speaker 1: He's sociopathic.

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Speaker 2: He's not sensitive to other people's needs, to the way

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Speaker 2: this climate fanaticism. And we've had so much on that. Today.

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Speaker 2: How do you balance the budget by eliminating two thousand

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Speaker 2: Last I looked they'd only relocated a few hundred people

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Speaker 2: A quarter of a billion, because it's it says another

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Speaker 1: And you know who they quote in these articles is

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Speaker 2: This is the el Segunda times they always go to

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Speaker 2: That's not a term, such as police overtime, police staffing.

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Speaker 1: Why can't you do both?

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Speaker 2: Why don't you spend on the police and fix the

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Speaker 2: working so we can walk on the sidewalk? Well, you

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Speaker 2: don't enforce the law, and all the criminals stole all

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Speaker 2: the copper wire for the lights. That's why the lights

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Speaker 2: are out, because you don't throw criminals in prison. Is

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Speaker 2: it the sidewalk not broken for our elders aren't tripping

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Speaker 2: and falling? Is there no light because trees haven't been

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Speaker 2: trimmed in seventeen years?

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Speaker 1: Seventeen years? Is that right? Wow?

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Speaker 2: What a broken, busted city. And all they do is

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Speaker 2: in it. All they do is talk to the socialists.

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Speaker 2: There used to be normal people in the city council.

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Speaker 2: I remember when we moved here, there was normal people

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Speaker 2: and the city ran. Well, this is just this is

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Speaker 2: a disaster.

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Speaker 1: But I don't know. Maybe somebody could explain to me.

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Speaker 2: If the jobs are vacant, we're not paying any money,

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Speaker 2: so how are we saving money?

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Speaker 1: More coming up?

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Speaker 5: You're listening to John Kobels on demand from KFI am sixty.

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Speaker 1: Well, I got a lot of this story. This just

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Speaker 1: broke about a half hour ago.

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Speaker 2: Else Gundo Times says that sho Heotani has been ripped

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Speaker 2: off for a lot of money by his interpreter. Uh.

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Speaker 2: Four writers on the case representatives of Shoeo Tani. They're

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Speaker 2: accusing as an interpreter of engaging in a massive theft

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Speaker 2: of Otani's money and using it to place bets.

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Speaker 4: You're gonna laugh when I tell you this, John, But

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Speaker 4: the ESPN story is much more detailed than the Elsa

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Speaker 4: Gunda Time story.

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Speaker 2: Is that right? Yes, well then I probably should go there,

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Speaker 2: silly me.

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Speaker 1: I bet so.

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Speaker 2: The writers just read the ESPN story and rewrote it here.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I just I just finished reading the ESPN story,

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Speaker 4: and wow, I mean the the interpreter maintains that shoh

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Speaker 4: had no knowledge of the gambling stuff and he wasn't

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Speaker 4: and show he had no bets placed or anything.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, he's stole four and a half million dollars. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: ESPN saw copies of two wire transfers of five hundred

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Speaker 4: thousand dollars each that have show his name on it

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Speaker 4: to this gambling company or offshore gambling ring.

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Speaker 2: Uh. Do united say. This guy's name epey Epe Misuhara.

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Speaker 2: He's been u Otani's interpreter ever since he came here,

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Speaker 2: since he was in Japan. Yeah, I mean he's the

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Speaker 2: guy you always see Otani with.

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Speaker 4: He was in the dugout this morning for the game,

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Speaker 4: and then after the game he addressed the team saying

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Speaker 4: a story was coming out he's addicted to gambling and

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Speaker 4: that it was all his fault and show he had

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Speaker 4: really nothing to do with it except saving him and

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Speaker 4: paying the money.

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Speaker 2: So it's a book making operation that the FEDS have

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Speaker 2: been investigating. And uh, it's four and a half million

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Speaker 2: dollars that he transferred to cover uh Misihara's debt. And

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Speaker 2: misihara is spoke with ESPN for a ninety minute interview.

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Speaker 1: But then backtracked that interview today.

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Speaker 2: Oh is that right? But he's he's pulling back all

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Speaker 2: his statements.

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Speaker 4: Well, it was at the direction I think of some

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Speaker 4: lawyers and stuff.

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Speaker 2: Wow, and who's this guy that he was paying the

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Speaker 2: money to a bookmaker in Orange County? Yeah, what's this

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Speaker 2: guy's name? Bowyer?

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Speaker 1: Bowyer? I'm guessing, uh.

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Speaker 2: Bow ye r Matthew Bowyer. They all the wire transfer

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Speaker 2: payments were sent from Otani's account to an associate of Bower.

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Speaker 4: And ESPN asked uh Misihara why show Hey didn't just

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Speaker 4: give him the money and why show he paid the

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Speaker 4: guy directly? And Misihara answered, show Hey didn't trust me

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Speaker 4: with the money. He thought I was going to bet

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Speaker 4: it all away.

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Speaker 2: So how did he convince show Hey to send that.

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Speaker 1: That amount of money.

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Speaker 4: They have a very very close relationship, So show he

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Speaker 4: just trusted him well or just once wanted to get

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Speaker 4: him out of the trouble, but he didn't trust him

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Speaker 4: enough to give him the money directly.

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Speaker 1: He showed he paid the guy directly. Did show Hey

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Speaker 1: know he was paying off a gambling debt? I think

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Speaker 1: he had to admit that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but he didn't know that show or that the

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Speaker 4: interpreter was gambling the entire time. In the ESPN story

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Speaker 4: states that no bets were placed on baseball. It was

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Speaker 4: all soccer and other sports, right.

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Speaker 2: Uh Mishra told the ESPN he asked up tany last

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Speaker 2: year to pay off his gambling debt, which was at

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Speaker 2: least four and a half million dollars. Okay, so Atani

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Speaker 2: knew he was paying off miss Are, how did he

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Speaker 2: say his name, Misuhara's gambling debt. But he didn't place

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Speaker 2: any bets himself. That's crazy. And the Dodgers just fired him. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I bet bad omen for the season here, don't get

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Speaker 2: me started, Johnny.

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Speaker 4: Things that happened to open day, well, and this all happened.

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Speaker 4: We'll show he was a member of the Angels. And

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Speaker 4: of course now the Dodgers get the brunt of all

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Speaker 4: the backlash. Oh yeah, right, yeah, I blame Marty Moreno,

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Speaker 4: all right.

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Speaker 2: More coming up on that conways here, that's a big

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Speaker 2: story that that's something else.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's wild. I never did that, all right.

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Speaker 6: An la Man is suing fifty women over bad reviews

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Speaker 6: on a viral Facebook group. Fifty women gave him bad reviews,

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Speaker 6: bad reviews on I gotta listen to the show, john Oh,

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Speaker 6: I say, good one. But I don't think I've ever

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Speaker 6: I don't think I've met fifty women.

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Speaker 1: In my life. You would, you would probably get mostly

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Speaker 1: bad reviews, though, I probably You imagine if your dating

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Speaker 1: life was reviewed. Oh what they do? Now? Yeah, what

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Speaker 1: a stupid world? Even want to date? And some crazy

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Speaker 1: woman puts it online as a review.

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Speaker 6: You know, what's a really horrible thing about the human

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Speaker 6: species is that when you're young, you're seventeen, eighteen nineteen,

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Speaker 6: your testosterone is through the roof. Yeah, I mean you'll

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Speaker 6: walk behind a girl because she's wearing a skirt for

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Speaker 6: like nine miles, right, hoping that she turns around and

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Speaker 6: notice you, and she doesn't. But then when you're older,

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Speaker 6: in your fifties, you got some money toilet nothing.

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Speaker 1: When you have the money, right, when you have the money,

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Speaker 1: you don't have the desire any that's right. That's right.

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Speaker 1: You had the desire, you had no money, that's right.

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Speaker 1: They give you one of the other one of the

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Speaker 1: other man. That's no good. Also, the Mega Millions.

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Speaker 6: Nobody won the Mega millions, so that's going up again.

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Speaker 6: The power balls it's seven hundred million. So it's a

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Speaker 6: lot of action going on. And then we have a

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Speaker 6: missing swimmer that was unfortunately found dead, and we'll have

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Speaker 6: a warning about that. That was a big, tragic store, horrible,

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Speaker 6: horrible story. But that did not end. The Dodgers in Korea.

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Speaker 1: Hey Toddy, yeah, mess Keig dog with you. You know

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Speaker 1: you got to give me you know, it takes me

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Speaker 1: about Ashley Johnson. Yeah, I need it takes me like

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Speaker 1: a month to get new names.

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Speaker 6: Ashley, don't believe that it took him five years to

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Speaker 6: get Shannon's deck. Sometimes I'm missed up too, Like when

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Speaker 6: you know, when we had another anchor here, Yeah, forget

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Speaker 6: his name, but but I would look in there, I

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Speaker 6: would stare right at his eyes, and I would like,

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Speaker 6: once a week, I couldn't come up with his name.

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Speaker 1: It happens to me all the time.

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Speaker 6: And your anchor is the same. One name is your wife.

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Speaker 6: That's helped, yeah, a little bit. I just have to

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Speaker 6: say Deborah in any situation. That's right, that's are I'm

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Speaker 6: cool than you go, all right. Ashley Johnson has the

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Speaker 6: news live in the KFI twenty four newsroom. Hey, you've

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Speaker 6: been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You can

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