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Speaker 1: That's the podcast version on the iHeart app today. This

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Speaker 1: Crowd out Gascon. No Gascon, No Jeff Chemerinsky, the MIDI Gascon.

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Speaker 1: We can't have these guys anymore. So we need at

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Speaker 1: And the rest of the candidates, most of them are

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Speaker 1: put together an LA County Crime Victim Forum tomorrow from

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Speaker 2: Lawanda, Good afternoon, John, and thanks for having me on.

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Speaker 1: Well, thank you for coming on. Talk about your organization

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Speaker 1: What is this event that you're a part of tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: Night, Well, Tomorrow night, it's crime victims. It's just not

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Speaker 2: Justice for Murdered Children. It's the numerous groups of crime

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Speaker 2: victim organizations coming together to put on a form and

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Speaker 2: we invited all twelve candidates, but you know, our friends

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Speaker 2: But we know he has taken time out of the

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Speaker 1: Don't you know we really don't care about you.

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Speaker 1: The other DA candidates are coming, or most of.

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Speaker 1: That is the part of his philosophy that I never understood.

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Speaker 1: He says. The reason for his policy is one of

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Speaker 2: You hit it right, on the head, and that's what

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Speaker 2: To take our criminal justice system and make it into

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Speaker 1: What kind of work do you do for Justice for

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Speaker 2: Specifically, Justice for Murdered Children is a nonprofit organization that

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Speaker 2: He violated our rights right then and there with these

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Speaker 1: That I can't believe I harped on this forever, is

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Speaker 1: Do a lot of people on your side of town

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Speaker 2: Oh? Quite a few, Especially every day we're in the

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Speaker 2: He's down there in East La fighting these people Jessica,

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Speaker 2: it is a serious, serious problem because something everyone's concerned.

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Speaker 1: I read that, you know, he's got maybe maybe total

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Speaker 1: Talk about what happened to your son, so people understand

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Speaker 1: the origins of where you're coming from here and why

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Speaker 2: Unfortunately, my only child was murdered in December of nineteen

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't be able to do these things. And the

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Speaker 2: people that sit on my board are magnificent. Not people

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Speaker 2: But I don't want to say they because I might

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Speaker 1: Yes, that's that's what the show is for. So Justice

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Speaker 1: the La County Crimes Crime Victims Forum, which is going

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Speaker 2: Yes, we're at the Budacan at two forty nine South

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Speaker 2: and I'm so thankful that they're going to have us there.

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Speaker 1: And you're going to have a Gascones eleven challengers for

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Speaker 2: You're absolutely right, in at eight pm after the forum

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Speaker 2: Oh, most definitely. We're asking people to get out on

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Speaker 1: All right, Lawanda, thanks for coming on, Thanks.

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Speaker 1: left wing progressive nutshob, Jeff Schamerinsky, both of them, no Gascon,

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Speaker 1: And because Flynn owns many franchises, He's one of the

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Speaker 1: Who would that be? Oh, Newsom's buddy, Newsom's buddy, Greg Flynn.

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Speaker 1: More fast food news. Wendy's is backing off its plan

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well we just did that story yesterday. Now now

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Speaker 1: That story has expired. Yeah, sarge pricing. You think uber right, Yeah,

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Speaker 4: because that's happened to us before. Well then you have

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Speaker 4: Second, the driver never came, but.

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Speaker 1: Who do you call to fight it?

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Speaker 4: There's my husband has figured it out because that's happened

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Speaker 4: he gets the charges reversed.

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Speaker 1: There's a number.

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Speaker 4: It was a lot of googling, right, there was a

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Speaker 1: There. I couldn't get in contact with a single human.

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Speaker 1: So anyway, they call it dynamic pricing. And yesterday the CEO,

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Speaker 1: other words, the price of your cheeseburger would be higher

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Speaker 1: You can't live like that. One of the things about

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Speaker 1: too long, it's cold, berger was overdone. Yeah, the fries

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Speaker 1: Grab got dynamic pricing on lock right now. More coming up.

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Speaker 1: get out of this mess. We had Steve Steve Garvey on.

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Speaker 1: of course Garvey's going to have a poll that promotes

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Speaker 1: the thing Adam Schiff gives you the Biden policy. Now,

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Speaker 1: making this up. Assembly Bill eighteen forty, introduced by Joaquin Armbula,

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Speaker 1: Can you imagine this year how hard it is for

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Speaker 1: So anyway, Garvey's three points behind shift in this poll.

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Speaker 1: That'd be great, obviously an uphill battle in California, but

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Speaker 1: I just think there would be more angry people who

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Speaker 1: run facilities because they want to reduce greenhouse gas emissions,

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Speaker 1: because the global food system accounts for thirty percent of

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Speaker 1: greenhouse gas emissions.

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Speaker 4: Not because it's healthier.

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Speaker 1: No, but because because eating meat warms the planet.

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Speaker 4: All right, Well, I mean I'm not going to argue

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Speaker 4: with the more vegan options, that's for sure.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't say the food tastes better well it's vegan.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure it's I'm sure it's delicious. This

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Speaker 1: will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and food waste and expand

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Speaker 1: healthy food options. This is the geniuses Lindsay Horvath in Hildesolis.

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Speaker 1: This is what they're working on. Huh.

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

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Speaker 1: Six fortyfi AM six forty live everywhere in the iHeartRadio

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Speaker 1: app and then Conway's coming up in minutes and after

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Speaker 1: four o'clock we'll have the John Cobell Show podcast and

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Speaker 1: we have an interview with John McKinny, Deputy DA running

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Speaker 1: against Gascone, and he's one of our two recommendations to

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Speaker 1: vote for to be the new DA, John McKinney and

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Speaker 1: mystery person. Tomorrow we'll have our second recommendation. I know

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Speaker 1: you can only vote for one, but there's a top

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Speaker 1: two to go on to November right to go to

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Speaker 1: the finals. So we want to put the spotlight on

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Speaker 1: two of the best candidates you choose from the two

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Speaker 1: because we want to box out Gascon from the top

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Speaker 1: two and box out Jack Schamerinski two as well, because

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Speaker 1: he's another gascone. So we've got John McKinney. The interview

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Speaker 1: was from two to two thirty. I guess that's our

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Speaker 1: two on the podcast. Listen to that. The tower, the

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Speaker 1: graffiti tower downtown LA I was thinking we should call

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Speaker 1: this the Bass Tower. This is the Karen Bass Tower.

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Speaker 1: This is our representation to the world. The thirty story tower,

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Speaker 1: and twenty seven of the stories have graffiti that took

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Speaker 1: you know, it took a few days covered and massed.

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Speaker 1: It made a big stink about. You know, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: we're gonna provide security here. We're gonna spend four million dollars.

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Speaker 1: But on LAPD well it looks like two people broke

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Speaker 1: into the Bass Graffiti Tower. Anyway, here's ABC seven reporter

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Speaker 1: Mark Coda Wibleyz police.

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Speaker 5: Believe about eight individuals are still inside the building. This morning,

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Speaker 5: we've seen a couple of them roaming around the LAPD

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Speaker 5: helicopter telling those individuals to get out. This past Friday,

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Speaker 5: the city started placing more fencing around the high rise buildings,

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Speaker 5: trying to keep these taggers and trespassers out. But it

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Speaker 5: doesn't appear to be working again. The police think about

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Speaker 5: eight youngsters are still in there right now waiting to

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Speaker 5: sneak out. About twenty LAPD officers. How this surrounded. In fact,

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Speaker 5: these officers have been stationed here outside Ocean Wide Plaza

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Speaker 5: twenty four to seven, I'm told for the past couple

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Speaker 5: of weeks trying to deter this active activity from happening.

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Speaker 5: That's of course a lot of resources that could be

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Speaker 5: responding somewhere else. For now, the LAPD is not sending

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Speaker 5: their officers inside. They're just waiting for those potentially juveniles

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Speaker 5: to come out of the building. If they are located,

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Speaker 5: they would likely be booked, sided and then released to

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Speaker 5: their parents. The message from police go home. It's not

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Speaker 5: worth it at this point, someone is going to get

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Speaker 5: seriously injured, if not worse.

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Speaker 1: So they're still in there. Did they ever come out?

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Speaker 1: You know, they get cited and released to their parents,

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Speaker 1: like the parents care.

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Speaker 6: Conway's here, Hey, now, really bad news in Hollywood today.

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Speaker 6: Richard Lewis passed away. I he he's so funny. Ah,

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Speaker 6: the funniest guy in the world, man, just the greatest.

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Speaker 6: I ran in to him about a year ago at

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Speaker 6: Art's Deli and we had a conversation and I reminded

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Speaker 6: him he's one of only three people that ever walked

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Speaker 6: off our radio show. There's only three, yeah, and he's

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Speaker 6: one of them. I'll tell you that.

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Speaker 1: It's a longer story, but we interviewed him and he

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Speaker 1: didn't walk off right because you didn't do what I

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Speaker 1: him at Art's Delhi and I said, hey, Richard, you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm really sorry for you know, coming on the show.

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Speaker 6: You know, he walked off the show. And his response was,

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Speaker 6: wait minute, you have a radio show, And so I

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Speaker 6: thought he was kidding. And then the guy with me goes,

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Speaker 6: he's he doesn't know who you were. I see, I

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Speaker 6: know what I just told him. I told him of

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Speaker 6: the circumstance. He goes, he still doesn't remember. He doesn't

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Speaker 6: only walked out on you, No, he has no idea.

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Speaker 6: All right, Well, very funny guy Ornie Adams is coming

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Speaker 6: on today. That's a cool guy, very funny comic over

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Speaker 6: there in the comedy world. And then so we'll ask

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Speaker 6: him about about Richard Lewis. I'm sure he knew him.

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Speaker 6: And then Christina Pascucci, who could be the next senator

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Speaker 6: for the state of California.

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Speaker 1: Is coming on to five oh five. Yes, she's running two.

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Speaker 1: That's right, all right. Conway's coming out. A lot of

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Speaker 1: action today. John a dig dog with you, dig Don

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Speaker 1: come on, yeah, and we got Crozier with the news

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Speaker 1: right in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hey, you've

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