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Speaker 1: and it's flopping tremendously. Would you guys like to hear it? Sure? Yeah, Okay,

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Speaker 1: isn't this year flying by? Isn't this year flying You

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Speaker 1: This year's going fast. These two were slow on the uptake,

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Speaker 1: Does that make it more clear? Apparently Mayor Karen Bass

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Speaker 1: going on. ABC seven reporter Josh Haskell cud eleven this

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Speaker 1: last week at one of the largest homeless encampments that's

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass was joined by Councilwoman Tracy

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Speaker 1: Jody Briskin exercises at Gold's gym next to the encampment.

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Speaker 1: It's unsafe for anybody to watch. Briskin says everything has

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Speaker 1: That's no life. But I Witness News spoke with Lee Scott,

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Speaker 1: her all right, soul and ed welcome, How are you hi?

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Speaker 1: that's why you know, we don't. We don't honor victory

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Speaker 1: not even investing the things that Californians are demanding. I mean,

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Speaker 1: look at right now with the worms. It's put our

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Speaker 1: water infrastructure and our water policy is front and center.

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Speaker 1: So you would think that in the middle of a drought,

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Speaker 1: we have all this water that's now materializing. You would think, Okay,

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Speaker 1: is our water system working? Absolutely not, and we're not

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Speaker 1: storing that water. So you would think that the governor

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Speaker 1: would invest at least some money into water infrastructure. Can

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Speaker 1: you can you explain why this is? Because we've been

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Speaker 1: out here in California a long time now, we've seen

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Speaker 1: a lot of the cycles of drought and monsoons and

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Speaker 1: drought and monsoons, and you only, you know, an eight

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Speaker 1: year old could figure out that when it's raining hard

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Speaker 1: for a season or two, you have to collect that,

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Speaker 1: you have to store it. You have to collect the

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Speaker 1: water and store it. And this has been going on

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Speaker 1: decade after decade, and they refuse to do it. Why

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Speaker 1: did they refuse to do it? The governor has behold

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Speaker 1: in his extreme leftist allies that won't allow any new

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Speaker 1: water infrastructure to be built. I mean, we're asking the

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Speaker 1: governor to do two things, two fundamental things when it

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Speaker 1: comes to water policy. One, pump more water right now,

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Speaker 1: take as much excess water we have at this very

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Speaker 1: moment flowing into our water system and move it to

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Speaker 1: communities throughout California that needed. That's I mean. If you

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Speaker 1: can't agree with that right now, I don't know what

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Speaker 1: you're going to do. And then to invest in the

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Speaker 1: water storage projects, the water conveyance facilities that will allow

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Speaker 1: us to store more water and to move more water

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Speaker 1: across the state. Imagine that we had sites reservoir built,

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Speaker 1: Imagine that we had fixed the fry and current Canal

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Speaker 1: and the Mendota Canal and upgraded the aqueduct and raised

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Speaker 1: Shasta Dam. If we had if we had those facilities

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Speaker 1: done right now, we would be storing so much water

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Speaker 1: to use in future months. But we haven't. The governor

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Speaker 1: has not exercised any political will to do that, so

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Speaker 1: now we don't have the facilities to store the water

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Speaker 1: that we need. All right, Vince, thank you very much

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Speaker 1: for coming on once again, and we'll have you on

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Speaker 1: as this budget thing goes through. It's going to be

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Speaker 1: more intense, so we'll keep keep posted. We'll keep you posted.

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Speaker 1: Republican Vince Fong from the Central Valley, Vice Chair of

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Speaker 1: the Budget Committee. More coming up, John and Ken KFIAM

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Speaker 1: six forty live everywhere the iHeart Radio app. Yeah, we're

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Speaker 1: sixty dot com for the podcast. There got a funny

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Speaker 1: email this morning from a woman that was kind of

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Speaker 1: panicky and was sending at her Google pool picks, which

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Speaker 1: was weird because she said, well, um, Lisa Marie Presley died,

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Speaker 1: so somebody probably scored there, I gonna get my picks in.

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Speaker 1: I was just very strange. I had to write it

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Speaker 1: back and say, you have missed the deadline by a week,

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Speaker 1: and the answer is zero. Nobody. Nobody picked her. Nobody

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Speaker 1: picked Lisa Murrie Presley and the Google pool for twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty three. So at fifty four, that would have been

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Speaker 1: a valuable pick as far as the numbers go. So

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Speaker 1: and nobody picked out him Rich either who was the

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Speaker 1: eight of eight is enough kid that also died in

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Speaker 1: his fifties. Anybody picked Jeff Beck I don't know. I

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Speaker 1: didn't check on that one. He's seventy eight, so that

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Speaker 1: wouldn't score as many points. But there's still something we'll

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Speaker 1: look at that we slow start. Despite a lot of

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Speaker 1: deaths in in their heyday, all three of them were

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Speaker 1: very recognizable. And this is what happens. You live too

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Speaker 1: long and you you die unknown. Well, there are so

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Speaker 1: many billions of people on the planet. I mean, who

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Speaker 1: you're gonna pick? Right, it's kind of funny. Oh for three?

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Speaker 1: The entire audience went oh for three this week. All right, Well,

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Speaker 1: here's a big story locally today. If you've been driving

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Speaker 1: on the roads and places like Echo Park, Pasadena at

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Speaker 1: Border Village. Now I'm seeing a story out of West Hollywood.

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Speaker 1: You may have seen the crazy road rage guy driving

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Speaker 1: a dark gray Tesla with really a buzz buzz haircut,

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Speaker 1: a mask, and he's wielding a metal pipe. People are

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Speaker 1: coming out all today because this story has been getting

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Speaker 1: a lot of play when it was first run by

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Speaker 1: television station, and now other people are calling into the

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Speaker 1: stations and saying, Hey, I had an encounter with that guy.

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Speaker 1: So let's get the lowdown from ABC seven reporter Christianne Cordero.

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Speaker 1: In the past twenty four hours, since airing this video

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Speaker 1: of a man swinging at a driver's vehicle on the

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Speaker 1: two Freeway, ABC seven has heard from several others who

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Speaker 1: say the same thing happened to them by the same person.

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Speaker 1: It was just so random. Who does that? Who is that?

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Speaker 1: Is the question? The HP and other police departments are

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Speaker 1: now tasked with answering. The two women we spoke with

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Speaker 1: today do not want to be identified. I don't feel safe,

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Speaker 1: you know, to even post anything or even go anywhere.

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Speaker 1: She went to a storage facility in Atwater Village two

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Speaker 1: months ago and said when she turned a corner, the

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Speaker 1: man got out of his car unprovoked and harassed her,

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Speaker 1: so she started recording, better go outside of Cali, where

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Speaker 1: you came from? You don't even know where I'm from.

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Speaker 1: I'm born and raised in La. After the video, she

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Speaker 1: told us she reported him to the storage facility management

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Speaker 1: and then tried to move on with her day. I

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Speaker 1: ended up leaving and at the red light he comes

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Speaker 1: after me. He literally comes after me and follows me

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Speaker 1: out still as you're driving, as I'm driving, which has

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Speaker 1: been the more typical encounter, from reaching out of his

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Speaker 1: vehicle towards another on side streets in Pasadena to this

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Speaker 1: one and Echo Park showing who appears to be the

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Speaker 1: same person getting out of the same charcoal tesla with

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Speaker 1: no plates on the freeway. What in an atwater village

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Speaker 1: just yesterday, the man who recorded his fate with road

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Speaker 1: rage was following the driver after noticing he had just

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Speaker 1: hit someone else. All I did was because he was

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Speaker 1: taken forever it to merge and I do honk layla?

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Speaker 1: Is that someone else? You can see her swerve to

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Speaker 1: exit in this video before he jumps out of his

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Speaker 1: car and runs towards her. I honestly that feel like

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Speaker 1: he was gonna either break my windows and pull me out.

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Speaker 1: She described the same metal pipe that hit her car.

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Speaker 1: The dent is only part of the damage. I took

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Speaker 1: a long time to buy a new car, and two

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Speaker 1: years ago a round a new car that was economical

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Speaker 1: from you, and I don't know what I'm gonna do. Scary.

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Speaker 1: The drivers in each of those videos that you saw,

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Speaker 1: including the two women we spoke with, have filed police reports,

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Speaker 1: but so far, there is no indication that officers have

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Speaker 1: found or arrested at suspects. There is lots of video

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Speaker 1: of this guy. I don't know. If you watch these

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Speaker 1: reports on ABC seven, they will find him. He's very recognizable,

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Speaker 1: even though he's wearing a mask, the little buzz haircut,

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Speaker 1: the face, bug eye. He literally stops his car in

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Speaker 1: front of her in a freeway. Lady just pounces right

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Speaker 1: out with the metal pipe in his hand, just starts

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Speaker 1: pounding on the side of the car. This is one

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Speaker 1: crazy person. Of course, a tesla's maybe stolen. I wonder

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Speaker 1: if there's no plates on it. They look blacked out

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Speaker 1: or something. I wonder if he is jacked up on meth,

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Speaker 1: because meth will make you hyper aggressive and violent. I

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Speaker 1: think there has to be some sort of thing like

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Speaker 1: that going on, because it seems like this is all

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Speaker 1: he wants to do is drive around, look at somebody's

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Speaker 1: for somebody's car to pound. One of the photos I

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Speaker 1: saw his eyes were bugging out. Yea which which? Which

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Speaker 1: is another sign? And well he got honked at. It's

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Speaker 1: road rage. You know you lose control, right, yeah, oh man,

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Speaker 1: that is I tell my wife constantly, don't honk, do

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Speaker 1: not honk. It doesn't matter what anybody does. Because what

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Speaker 1: was that story the other day? We had forty percent

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Speaker 1: of people are carrying a gun. Oh yes, carrying some

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Speaker 1: sort of weapon, right, or then you got this guy

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Speaker 1: swinging the pipe. It's like just take it, just eat it.

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Speaker 1: What do they did? And just he's looking for a fight.

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Speaker 1: There's some people that lose it in the moment, but

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Speaker 1: this guy is out there driving around. They're looking to

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Speaker 1: smash somebody's car. He hasn't hit anybody yet. Yeah, he's

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Speaker 1: he's he's got he's mentally ill. He's a refugee from

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Speaker 1: somewhere and he fell into drugs and now the drugs

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Speaker 1: are short circuiting his brain and he's running around banging

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Speaker 1: people with a pipe and that's that old Karen line.

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Speaker 1: You're not from Cali, are you. Apparently we hear him

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Speaker 1: in one of those pieces of audio and you actually

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Speaker 1: answer back to too. I don't don't argue with him,

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Speaker 1: which with you. People feel they need to defend themselves

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Speaker 1: all the time. Time I am too, It's like, no, no,

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Speaker 1: shut up and run. It's gonna hang over the head

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Speaker 1: with that thing. Based on what you said. You know

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Speaker 1: what can happen? He starts pounding on a guy's car.

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Speaker 1: The guy that's got that gun in the the dashboarder

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Speaker 1: where the glove compartment may pull it out and shoot him.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna die this guy. Yeah, you can't just do this. Oh,

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Speaker 1: I think, you know what. I think that this could

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Speaker 1: be considered a threat. That could smash the car, he

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Speaker 1: could smash you. I think the age of vigilanteism is coming.

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Speaker 1: You do. That's that's the sense I have. You can't

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Speaker 1: even look at somebody. They get annoyed. I mean really,

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Speaker 1: I'm terrified when I'm driving for the most part. And

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Speaker 1: I saw a Tesla today in front of me with

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Speaker 1: no license plates and it was gray, and I was

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Speaker 1: pretty nervous. Oh, I stayed away. You should have honked

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Speaker 1: at him? No, yeah, I bet you. You're a honker,

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Speaker 1: aren't you. Um. I do honk on occasion. I've honked.

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Speaker 1: I mean we all honk, we all do. No, I've

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Speaker 1: I've cut it out of my system. The other one

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Speaker 1: that gets honked at anyway, I can he only pay

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Speaker 1: any attention. I get honked at, yes, but I don't

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Speaker 1: honk at other people. No. I I assume that everybody,

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Speaker 1: everybody out there is capable of killing me, so I don't.

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Speaker 1: It's reasonable, Yeah, I don't. I don't want to agitate anybody.

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Speaker 1: We got more coming up. Johnny ken caf I AM

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