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Speaker 1: Can if I am six forty. You're listening to the

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Speaker 1: John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Several things going

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Speaker 1: on all at once, and the biggest today is what's

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Speaker 1: been going on in West la in the Holmby Hills neighborhood.

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Speaker 1: We're calling him Ditty, I understand because he has so

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Speaker 1: many names. The rap star record executive music producer Diddy,

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Speaker 1: formerly known as p Diddy, formerly known as Puff Daddy,

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Speaker 1: formerly known as Sean Combs. Anyway, massive investigation and raid

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Speaker 1: Homeland Security and other agencies over perhaps sex trafficking. Steve

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Speaker 1: Gregory got the tip last week. He whispered it to

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Speaker 1: me in secret. He knew there was a big raid coming,

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Speaker 1: didn't know who it was, and he got the first

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Speaker 1: call and he had the exclusive news story that he

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Speaker 1: broke for the whole world earlier this afternoon on our show,

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Speaker 1: and Steve is now back. Steve a lot of people

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Speaker 1: tuning in for the first time, Explain what this is about.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, sure, Well, first of all, apologies, just so you

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Speaker 2: just kind of paint the picture here. We're in the

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Speaker 2: two hundred block of Mapleton Drive in what's known as

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Speaker 2: Michael Jackson's former home was, and earlier this afternoon, around

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Speaker 2: one o'clock, major major swat vehicles that have federal agents

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Speaker 2: front of Combs's house and immediately agents decked out in

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Speaker 2: And inside the home were a number of young men

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Speaker 2: but they were handcuffed as a precaution. That's standard protocol

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Speaker 2: going on, simultaneously, there was a raid going on at

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Speaker 2: Combs's compound in Miami. In fact, agents rolled up in

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Speaker 2: and they were doing the same thing there that agents

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Speaker 2: possibly multiple lawsuits alleging that Combs has involved in some

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Speaker 2: underage kids. Now, Combs has denied all these allegations because

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Speaker 2: this is not the first time this allegations have popped up.

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Speaker 2: But this is certainly being exacerbated, if you will, by

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Speaker 2: escalated to Homeland Security Investigations, which is known as the

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Speaker 2: agency that investigates all of these sex trafficking and human

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Speaker 2: trafficking operations. So that's the latest right now, it's kind

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Speaker 2: We're kind of in a little tiny canyon and all

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Speaker 2: It reminds me of the day Michael Jackson died and

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Speaker 1: Well, there's no question he's one of the biggest stars

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Speaker 2: Knowing the allegations, and now he says, now it all

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Speaker 1: Is there any word what specific criminal charges could be

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean, this is kind of a long way

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Speaker 2: So again, those are all allegations alleged in lawsuits. But

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Speaker 1: Do you know if they have, if they have Combs

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Speaker 2: There was some confusion about that in the beginning, because

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Speaker 2: And now let's go back when I first tipped you

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Speaker 2: But sometime over the weekend he got on a private

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Speaker 2: be New Jersey. But he was not in Miami, where

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Speaker 1: So we don't know if he fled back east because

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Speaker 2: Well, I inquired the very same thing, and they said, no,

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Speaker 2: I mean, when it comes to the FEDS, I mean,

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Speaker 2: and then we realized it was Sean Combs. So that's

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Speaker 2: how close to the vest they keep all of this stuff.

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Speaker 2: But it's the FEDS. They don't talk, and so go ahead,

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Speaker 1: No, if Combs was in the La Mansion where you're

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Speaker 1: at right now. They would have detained him, maybe handcuffed him,

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Speaker 1: but not necessarily charged him today because they're still gathering evidence.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly that, So they're in If they're in the

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Speaker 2: evidence gathering phase, that means they're building a case. And

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Speaker 2: them anyway. That is standard procedure. Anybody that's in the

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Speaker 2: ahead and put them in handcuffs outside. It doesn't mean

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Speaker 2: they can determine who these individuals are and what role,

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Speaker 1: So his two sons, Justin and King being handcuffed does

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Speaker 1: not mean that they're being charged or being suspected.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely not, No, absolutely not. And like I said, they're

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Speaker 2: we may not hear anything about this for another year.

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Speaker 2: I mean, that's how the Feds always play it in

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Speaker 2: A federal case very seldom ever loses in court because

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Speaker 1: Side, all right, So this is not the end of

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Speaker 1: the investigation. This could be in the early stages.

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Speaker 2: Still, this is in the very early stages because presumably

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Speaker 2: for these charges.

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, looks like the circus is back in town. Steve.

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Speaker 1: It's been a while since we had one of them

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Speaker 1: to show you exactly.

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Speaker 2: You're always just thinking about it. Today, all all the

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Speaker 2: veterans around here were all laughing. We were literally laughing, going, boy,

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Speaker 2: the death of Michael Jackson, and then Michael Jackson's doctor's trial,

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Speaker 2: and then we're trying to think about the last time

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Speaker 2: the circus isn't And it's definitely a circus.

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Speaker 1: All right, Steve, if you get anything else before four o'clock,

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Speaker 1: let us know. Put you right on.

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Speaker 2: You got John take care of it, all right, Steve.

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Speaker 1: Gregory cay if I do is And he did have

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Speaker 1: the worldwide exclusive on this about Diddy Sean Colmes massive

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Speaker 1: raid at not only his La mansion in Holby Hills

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Speaker 1: either New York or New Jersey, and here in La Steve.

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Speaker 1: Steve was at the scene from from early on. He

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Speaker 1: got it. He got a tip last week and he

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Speaker 1: had said to me that he had gotten a tip

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Speaker 1: and it was some indicated some kind of big celebrity

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Speaker 1: was going to get raided, and it turned out to

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Speaker 1: be true and it could be major sex trafficking charges

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Speaker 1: among other things. So we'll have more when Steve tells us.

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Speaker 1: And now they have a system where caseworkers decide much

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Speaker 1: It's been a jam packed afternoon. I mean Steve Gregory

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Speaker 1: So I am hoping.

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Speaker 5: Because we do not need to build any major stadiums

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Speaker 1: Right, Because you wouldn't do it just to make the

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Speaker 1: If they're so dysfunctional when they're forty four years old

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Speaker 1: that they can spend the day walking around, but they

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Speaker 1: don't ever quite walk into a job. There's nothing you

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Speaker 1: can do. And why are we obligated to endlessly try

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Speaker 1: to support them, endlessly try to find a way? Why? Why?

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Speaker 1: And then pay for it? I don't understand. All right,

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Speaker 1: got more coming up.

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Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM

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Speaker 3: six forty.

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Speaker 1: Conway's coming up in minutes, Jim Conway and he will

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Speaker 1: give you the latest on Well. Big stories of the

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Speaker 1: day are are this this Diddy raid? The rap star

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Speaker 1: record producer executive Diddy formerly known as p Diddy Puff Daddy,

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Speaker 1: real name Sean Combe's massive homeland security federal investigation. A

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Speaker 1: big raid at his house in Holmby Hills, just down

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Speaker 1: the block from Michael Jackson and Hugh Heffner and other

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Speaker 1: all those other fine citizens. And they the place was

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Speaker 1: crawling with agents and they were dressed in like tactical

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Speaker 1: gear like this was a wartime invasion. It was. It

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Speaker 1: was really crazy. Bear cat that's parked in the street,

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Speaker 1: these big tank like vehicles. I don't know what they

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Speaker 1: were expecting. Were they expecting return fire anyway, did it

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Speaker 1: in Miami, and they did it in New York as

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Speaker 1: well to other properties of his and he's supposed to

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Speaker 1: be back east. So that show hey Otani claiming he

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Speaker 1: knew nothing. Trump getting a break all that to come.

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Speaker 1: Listen to Conway. Another big story today is heads rolled

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Speaker 1: at Boeing big time. The CEO he'll be gone at

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Speaker 1: the end of the year, maybe sooner. The head of

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Speaker 1: the division that makes commercial airplanes for airlines stand deal,

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Speaker 1: He's gone immediately. The chairman of the board, Larry Kellner,

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Speaker 1: he's going to stand down. And they've already elected a

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Speaker 1: new chairman, Steve Mollinkoff. He used to run Qualcomm, and

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Speaker 1: they're going to look for a new CEO. The chairman

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Speaker 1: of the board, the CEO, and the head of the

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Speaker 1: division that makes commercial planes all gone. Wow. And the

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Speaker 1: thing is the old CEO, Dennis Buhlenberg. He was forced

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Speaker 1: to resign back in January of twenty twenty after the

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Speaker 1: Max eight crashes twenty eighteen and twenty nineteen. So two

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Speaker 1: now CEO's in a row getting booted or resigning because

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Speaker 1: their planes either crashed or parts blew out of them

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Speaker 1: like that door plug, and they found so many problems,

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Speaker 1: so many problems in the production line. Now, what I

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Speaker 1: think happened is because the CEOs from all these airlines

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Speaker 1: that buy Boeing planes, they demanded a meeting with the

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Speaker 1: Board of Directors, and they must have demanded head's roll

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Speaker 1: or they're not going to buy any more planes because

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Speaker 1: that just happened a few days ago, and they didn't

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Speaker 1: want to meet with the CEO, so they definitely wanted

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Speaker 1: to Dave Calhoun out of there, and in effect, Boeing's

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Speaker 1: customers have fired all these executives. And United is in

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Speaker 1: trouble too because so many of the Boeing planes involved

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Speaker 1: in these incidents actually may not have been necessarily Boeing,

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Speaker 1: but it's United and they're sloppy maintenance. And the FAA

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Speaker 1: is doing an investigation of United, a formal evaluation to

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Speaker 1: make sure they're complying with safety regulations and identifying hazards

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Speaker 1: and mitigating risk, and future projects may be delayed depending

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Speaker 1: on what they find out. Future projects like new routes,

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Speaker 1: new planes. They're not going to let anybody fly on

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Speaker 1: new planes for United or go on new routes until

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Speaker 1: the United cleans up its all its problems. So the

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Speaker 1: airline industry is a mess right now. And this because

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Speaker 1: you know, when tires go flying off planes, that's not

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Speaker 1: necessarily Boeing, that's that's whoever was supposed to screw in

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Speaker 1: the tire at the airport for United. So this was

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Speaker 1: a big dang many fronts and oh, I lie, I

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Speaker 1: thought Conway was coming in.

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Speaker 6: I thought so too. Apparently they've just put up the

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Speaker 6: bat beam and I got over here.

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Speaker 1: Unless you have a Mark Thompson mask on and you're

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Speaker 1: knowing your Mark Thompson impression, well.

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Speaker 6: This is quite the day to get on. I have

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Speaker 6: to say that, as you say, there's a lot going on?

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Speaker 1: Is there is?

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Speaker 6: So we're going to do the drill down on two

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Speaker 6: huge stories at minimum. The Sean Diddy Combs thing. Yeah,

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Speaker 6: I mean, ever got at one of his parties. Sounds

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Speaker 6: like there's a lot going on at those parties. It

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Speaker 6: sounds like you could serve a fist full of warrants

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Speaker 6: at that party.

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Speaker 1: What a neighborhood that is.

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Speaker 6: Man, I guess everybody was kind of hiped to it too.

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Speaker 6: They started, no this is yeah.

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Speaker 1: There's always girls, scantily clad women.

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Speaker 6: I heard apparently it's it's a pretty good deal till.

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Speaker 1: It's not right, you know.

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Speaker 6: And then so no warrants at your house today, No,

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Speaker 6: not at my house. Sadly, we are getting farther and

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Speaker 6: farther away from warrance in my house. If we're going

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Speaker 6: the wrong direction. They're days and fearing warms my days

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Speaker 6: of Yeah, exactly, really really sad. But so we'll talk

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Speaker 6: about the p Did you think they're not only hitting

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Speaker 6: his home here, they're hitting his home as you know

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Speaker 6: in Florida, And you know, it's really this is a

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Speaker 6: pretty serious investigation. The FEDS are involved. And then the uh,

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Speaker 6: the Shoyotani thing is fascinating to me because he said

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Speaker 6: today what he needed to get said. But I this

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Speaker 6: is one big question. Yeah, I have at least one

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Speaker 6: big question.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I said, if somebody took four and a half

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Speaker 1: million dollars from thank you massive account, what you'd notice, right,

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Speaker 1: exactly bank statement.

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Speaker 6: They went for the cleanest explanation, which is it was stolen.

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Speaker 6: That way, you're completely free of the right, there's no

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Speaker 6: stink on you. The problem with it is what you

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Speaker 6: just said, right, which is, how did that happen?

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Speaker 1: Not just show hate, but all the management he has

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Speaker 1: and accountants, managers, right, lawyers, a lot of people. That's

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Speaker 1: a he's a big corporation.

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Speaker 6: I don't know much, and I don't mean to suggest that,

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Speaker 6: you know, but I do know that that story is

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Speaker 6: a hard one to swallow. But I look, the guys

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Speaker 6: the greatest thing for baseball. Obviously, I hope it all

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Speaker 6: works out.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but I just I just want to know the

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Speaker 1: answer exactly. I'm in a fog bunch of the time,

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Speaker 1: but I've noticed four and a half billion missing.

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Speaker 6: Well, this, this is the truth. We will find out.

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Speaker 1: I mean I checked my credit card bill every month.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 6: Well, you know, Debra is busy, oh all the time.

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Speaker 6: No way that would happen with her, Yeah, she would.

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Speaker 6: She watches on top of things, that's true.

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Speaker 1: I get I get my pockets shaken down every time

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Speaker 1: I come home. That's what show show needs. Little Debra. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: maybe that new wife will straighten things out there. You go,

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Speaker 1: All right, Mark, I'm sitting for Conway next. Let's do it.

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