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Speaker 1: And Blake Trolley is with us from KFI News to

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Speaker 3: Lake, Yeah, John, So we're learning more about the guy

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Speaker 3: accused of violently stabbing that woman on that metro train yesterday.

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Speaker 2: But we're also learning more about the crime.

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Speaker 3: You know, yesterday, the way they described this attack was unprovokeable.

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Speaker 3: Now it appears that Elliott Nawden, who is homeless, stabbed

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Speaker 3: And if you remember from yesterday, police had said that

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Speaker 2: And he attacked her.

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Speaker 3: She was bleeding, as you said, so profusely that other

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Speaker 3: we are learning that Elliott Nawden does have a criminal pass,

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Speaker 3: specifically with the rail system. In twenty nineteen, he was

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Speaker 2: That was part of his probation. And if he didn't, well,

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Speaker 3: Gonna be there to know whether or not he got

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Speaker 2: One of the ambassadors is gonna stop it, you know.

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Speaker 3: A few weeks after that, he was charged with assault

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Speaker 2: Related to the crime that he was convicted of.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll tell you, John, It's really frustrating, just from

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Speaker 2: Do they No, they do not know.

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Speaker 3: It's very hard to get answers on this stuff. It's

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Speaker 3: So there's been some great reporting on this, but again

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Speaker 2: Now we were.

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Speaker 3: Told that officers, so this is legitimate law enforcement officers

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Speaker 3: We were told yesterday there was not an officer on

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Speaker 2: And I wanted to play this for you. John.

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Speaker 3: We spoke to that high school student yesterday. Do you

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Speaker 4: It's really sad. But I always feel very like scared

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Speaker 4: can't really say I'm surprised. I mean, they have all

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Speaker 4: I mean, I wouldn't have expected that.

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Speaker 3: Though you're saying the communy made about the Metro Ambassadors,

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Speaker 4: No, I've seen Metro ambassadors like talking on the phone

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Speaker 4: I've never seen any intervention by them.

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Speaker 2: It's a fake program. It's a scam program.

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Speaker 1: The ambassadors are probably scrolling or they're playing a game.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and fairness Metro does not try to say that

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Speaker 3: they are an alternative to armed security, But that said,

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Speaker 3: people want to see more of that armed security. Just

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Speaker 1: The problem is people getting stabbed to death or assaulted.

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Speaker 2: That's the problem.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what problem the ambassadors are solving, but

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Speaker 1: just looking through the news stories about this not in character.

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Speaker 1: So he spends four years in prison for assaulting somebody

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Speaker 2: So it's the same.

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Speaker 1: Guy over and over with a whole string of arrests

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the question is, even if he was,

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Speaker 3: Do you remember when we covered that story about them

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Speaker 3: playing the music at that station in MacArthur Park, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: This is a necessity for them to make a living.

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Speaker 3: They have to ride this system. And now we're hearing

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Speaker 2: The fools who run Metro.

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Speaker 1: Their idea of a law enforcement response is have ambassadors

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Speaker 1: scrolling on their phone and playing obnoxious music on the intercom.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's their idea of a crime fighting strategy.

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Speaker 2: That's just terrible.

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, I want to keep on this story

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Speaker 1: and find out who this woman is too. That's just Blake,

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Speaker 1: very good, Thank you for coming on. All right, thanks, John, Well,

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Speaker 1: we'll do we'll do more. Also, we're gonna give away

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Speaker 1: one thousand dollars. And this homeless case before the Supreme

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Speaker 1: Court has put Gavin Newsom and Tom McClintock on the

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Speaker 2: We'll explain coming up.

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Speaker 1: I want to tell you you probably went through this

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Speaker 2: Stop.

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Speaker 1: Stop, stop the thing there. I wanted to get to her.

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Speaker 2: They're treated like.

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Speaker 1: Criminals because they can make crimes all day long, all

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Speaker 1: And by the way, I'm done with with with activists

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Speaker 1: All all the climate change people block and trail all

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Speaker 2: What they need.

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Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI.

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Speaker 1: A sixty Codway is coming up after after four o'clock

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Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you. San Francisco's housing market is

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Speaker 1: Now it's up for sale at three point seventy five million,

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Speaker 8: That is unbelievable.

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Speaker 9: I lived in the Bay Area many many years ago,

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Speaker 8: Frazy it was.

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Speaker 1: And now this is this is fifty to seventy five

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Speaker 8: Yeah, with those views.

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Speaker 1: They put it up on the market for almost thirteen million.

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Speaker 1: You know, this is the time, this seriously, this is

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Speaker 8: Is not sustainable.

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Speaker 9: The city has got to turn around somehow, some way, someday,

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Speaker 2: Are going to be Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you've got to get rid of the leadership

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Speaker 1: Now Here is the Kapper. There is a building on

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Speaker 1: Ninety percent discount from sixty two million to six million

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Speaker 1: He said the current administration is into liberal grand standing

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Speaker 1: this ridiculousness. I don't think it's going to change. They're

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Speaker 1: And that's what's Craig Ackerman says, and he's right, it's

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Speaker 1: all their horrific policies has brought huge amounts of crime,

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Speaker 1: Not to mention the open air insane asylums, the open

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Speaker 2: Go on for blocks and blocks and blocks and thousands

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Speaker 1: Remember when they had in the Tenderloin district, they had

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Speaker 1: But they said no, no, no, we'll attract lots of

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Speaker 9: And they shut down the program, didn't They just have

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Speaker 2: Yes, the one point seven million dollars.

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Speaker 8: So I'm humong his grand opening celebration. It was either

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Speaker 2: They finally had it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because I just read a story a couple of

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Speaker 2: Maybe it was because they were going to open it.

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Speaker 1: Trying to explain why this happened, almost defending it, like

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Speaker 1: like it has to be one point seven million. It's like,

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Speaker 1: seven million, even the condos at sixty percent discount.

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Speaker 1: Devor mentioned the one point seven million dollar toilet which

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Speaker 2: And they did.

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Speaker 1: They did have a ceremony finally debuting the toilet, except

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Speaker 1: It's in the Noah Valley or no Valley neighborhood in

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Speaker 1: The event organizer, Leslie Crawford said, we when everybody laughs

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Speaker 1: at you, you've got to take the power back and

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Speaker 1: laugh at yourself. What they did is they did a

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Speaker 1: deal with a private company that ended up donating a

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Speaker 1: prefabricated bathroom. It's I assume it's like those trailers that

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Speaker 1: you see at public outdoor events, and they're kind of nice.

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Speaker 1: And what there was a prefabricated modular unit, and the

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Speaker 1: donation and the labor brought the costs down to seven

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Speaker 1: hundred and twenty five thousand dollars. Park officials used three

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Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars of grant money to bring it down further,

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Speaker 1: so they ended up spending a few hundred thousand total

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Speaker 1: instead of one point seven million. But that should have

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Speaker 1: been the original idea, is to get those prefabricated modular

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Speaker 1: toilet buildings. There's a why did they go for the

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Speaker 1: one point seven and then and then defend it and

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Speaker 1: come up with a whole bunch of nutty excuses, I mean.

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Speaker 4: And.

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Speaker 1: Then the whole this thing is how come it had

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Speaker 1: to become an international story where everybody is laughing and

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Speaker 1: mocking you.

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Speaker 2: Why? Why isn't it obvious like the first time?

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Speaker 1: Well, first of all, somebody had to type up the

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Speaker 1: one point seven million dollar proposal, right, so just explain

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Speaker 1: to me, like in a private company, nobody would do that.

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Speaker 1: Let's say a private company was building a toilet at

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Speaker 1: one of their locations, one of their properties. If you're

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Speaker 1: the guy who walks in to an executive's office, say I,

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Speaker 1: you know, I got a great design here, I got

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Speaker 1: a great bed. It's gonna be one point seven million

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Speaker 1: dollars for a toilet. That's that's the last time you'll

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Speaker 1: walk into the office. You'll be tossed out on your

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Speaker 1: ass in the street. But then somebody on the other

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Speaker 1: side of the desk said, well, that's pretty good. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: let me send this down down the line, because you know,

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Speaker 1: in government, you've got to have multiple departments and multiple

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Speaker 1: executives signing off, and everybody looks like, yeah, it's reasonable, yeah,

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Speaker 1: one point seven million for toward sure. Absolutely, So it's

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Speaker 1: it's group think. Everybody in the chain of commanded, oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 1: And the only thing that killed it was the publicity

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Speaker 1: with if there is some magical way you could avoid

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Speaker 1: all the publicity would have been built for that price,

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Speaker 1: and nobody questions it. Nobody says not, come on, could

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Speaker 1: we get it down to one point two one point

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Speaker 1: one even now? I mean, we all have toilets in

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Speaker 1: our homes. You might have three or four or five.

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Speaker 1: We don't have people do not have two million dollars

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Speaker 1: worth of Wait a second, it would be ten million

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Speaker 1: dollars worth of toilets in their homes. Yes, right, you

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Speaker 1: had like a four bedroom house and maybe five bathrooms.

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Speaker 1: All those bathrooms are ten million dollars And that's with

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Speaker 1: showers and bathtubs and sinks in the whole bit. Right,

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Speaker 1: that's just crazy. There's one more story. There's a seventy

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Speaker 1: year old uber driver named Peter McNulty. He lives in

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Speaker 1: the Annealope Valley. He comes to La on the weekends

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Speaker 1: because there's a little more writers. And he showed up

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Speaker 1: late Saturday night, about twelve forty five am Sunday actually,

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Speaker 1: and he picks up a guy on Lancersham Boulevard who

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Speaker 1: is adamant about the address he was going to and

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Speaker 1: he had to be there quickly. And when they arrived

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Speaker 1: at the corner of lebre at Hollywood at one in

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Speaker 1: the morning, McNulty told the man, hey, we've reached the stop.

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Speaker 1: And he says, no, no, I have to go to

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Speaker 1: this address. And I said, no, this is where we are,

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Speaker 1: this is the address. And they had a five minute argument,

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Speaker 1: and then he sat there and stared at his phone.

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Speaker 1: So McNulty put his car in park, shut the engine off,

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Speaker 1: left the vehicle to let the passenger out, like open

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Speaker 1: the passenger door, and said you got to get out

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Speaker 1: now it was late and I have someone else.

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Speaker 2: To pick up.

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Speaker 1: And the guy jumped out of the car and started

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Speaker 1: swinging at him, and they ended up on the ground

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Speaker 1: rolling around for about five minutes. So he got that

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Speaker 1: crap beat out of him. There's a photo of him

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Speaker 1: with his face all blighted up and bruised. When I

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Speaker 1: was a kid, I wanted to be a taxi driver.

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Speaker 1: I did, But then I grew up and realized this

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Speaker 1: is what you pick up.

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Speaker 10: How old a kid were you when you wanted to

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Speaker 10: be a cab driver? Twenty seven? Well, I got the

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Speaker 10: memo late.

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Speaker 1: Still a dream, actually, yeah, I think it's genetic. My

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Speaker 1: dad grew up in Poland his dream was to be

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Speaker 1: a bus driver. Really was then World War Two got

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Speaker 1: in away. But when I was a kid, I thought

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Speaker 1: it'd be the greatest thing in I've around all day. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you meet people, Yeah, because I love driving, so I

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Speaker 1: thought i'd get I'd get to see the world through

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Speaker 1: a taxi.

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Speaker 2: Now it's dangerous.

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Speaker 11: No, this is what happens by the way, three D

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Speaker 11: house of low level dreams in your family?

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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, you know immigrant family. Like a dream is

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Speaker 1: the lottery. What did you want to be like?

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Speaker 10: You owned the Lakers his dad it was a show

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Speaker 10: business legend.

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Speaker 11: But I think I think an occupation is a driving

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Speaker 11: a cab.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if a dream. Did you have some?

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Speaker 2: That's a fair point.

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Speaker 11: Did you have a like a weird that'd be a

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Speaker 11: cool job. I wanted to be an inventor. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 11: did you invent anything? Couldn't come up with.

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Speaker 10: An invented ways to screw around?

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Speaker 2: Do you have any desires? I always wanted to be

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Speaker 2: a broadcaster. I really did, from very very early age.

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Speaker 2: I really did. No, I always wanted to be in radio.

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Speaker 2: That's true to me too, since I was seven. That's

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Speaker 2: a dream. Yeah, that was a dream. And then if

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Speaker 2: it didn't work out, it become a taxi drift. Okay,

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Speaker 2: I may still do that. I don't think there's anything

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Speaker 2: wrong with that.

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Speaker 11: I think the freedom of driving taxi or bus is great.

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Speaker 2: You know, make your own hours work as much reality

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Speaker 2: is not as much fun as an eight year old.

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Speaker 11: But the problem with driving taxi or or or a

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Speaker 11: bus nowadays is exactly what you just said. There's too

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Speaker 11: many a holes out there. You're gonna die and you

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Speaker 11: get they get in your car. Yes, you know before

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Speaker 11: you would lock the doors to prevent those people from

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Speaker 11: getting in your car at like stop signs.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's probably a federal civil rights violation. Right if

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Speaker 1: a guy comes in and you think, no, I really

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Speaker 1: don't want to take him, and you drive off.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're gonna get to You're gonna Yeah, your your guy.

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Speaker 11: LA County District Attorney George Gascon is coming.

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Speaker 2: On at four o'clock.

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Speaker 11: Is that right, Well, he's got a press conference at

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Speaker 11: f and you know he's under a lot of pressure

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Speaker 11: to throw the book at this guy that shop cop. Yes,

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Speaker 11: we're gonna look at the multiple death sentences on this guy.

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Speaker 2: And then we also have.

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Speaker 11: The California loses two more property insurance companies, so we're

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Speaker 11: down to I don't know, like three. Nobody wants to

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Speaker 11: insure anything. No, Oh my god, is the price is gone?

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Speaker 2: Mark? Did your insurance go way up because you're in

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Speaker 2: the hills. Try to ensure it.

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Speaker 11: If you can get an eighteen year old brand new

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Speaker 11: driver six grand a year. All right, yeah, six thousand

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Speaker 11: a year, one of those I do, I do, oh yeah,

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Speaker 11: and I and she came very close at Santa Anida

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Speaker 11: to getting full coverage. Maybe next week, all right, Coran Dog,

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Speaker 11: come on, Come on.

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