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Speaker 1: John and Conn demand. We were just given a heads

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Speaker 1: Saturday night in Monterey Park. This, of course a mass shooting.

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Speaker 1: The death toll is now eleven people. That was also

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Speaker 1: an update in the last couple of hours at eleventh

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Speaker 1: person has passed away. And you talk about out of

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Speaker 1: the profile. A seventy two year old man is the

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Speaker 1: when the news of this first came out right away,

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Speaker 1: wasn't that long before they put out the word that

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Speaker 1: And it's interesting that you guys, you know, you started

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Speaker 1: I mean people ride out of the shoot. We're starting

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Speaker 1: And they don't really know why you'd want to do

430
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Speaker 1: this at night. Look, they think that's because they've hunkered down.

431
00:22:35,359 --> 00:22:37,680
Speaker 1: You can find them. I think otherwise they're wandering during

432
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Speaker 1: the day. I don't know. I don't know, I don't care.

433
00:22:40,920 --> 00:22:44,640
Speaker 1: What's the purpose of it. There's no purpose because well,

434
00:22:44,680 --> 00:22:46,720
Speaker 1: they want to put out a number so they get money.

435
00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:49,800
Speaker 1: They're getting money anyway. They're getting many billions of dollars

436
00:22:49,880 --> 00:22:52,159
Speaker 1: no matter what the number is. But whoever provides the

437
00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:54,040
Speaker 1: money wants to know. What are we dealing with now,

438
00:22:54,080 --> 00:22:56,399
Speaker 1: ten thousand homeless or one hundred thousand homeless? What does

439
00:22:56,440 --> 00:22:59,800
Speaker 1: it matters, because they won't give you the money unless

440
00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:03,880
Speaker 1: you well, that's a stupid rule. Bureaucrats. One, we shouldn't

441
00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:06,280
Speaker 1: give them the money because it doesn't do any good.

442
00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:11,000
Speaker 1: Let's not we it's people like Newsom government. And my

443
00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:13,640
Speaker 1: point is is that whether we give them a little

444
00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:16,280
Speaker 1: money or a lot of money, the homelessness goes up.

445
00:23:16,480 --> 00:23:19,359
Speaker 1: Whether we count it right or wrong or don't count it,

446
00:23:19,480 --> 00:23:22,359
Speaker 1: the homelessness goes up. The amount of money we spend

447
00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:25,480
Speaker 1: and whether we get an accurate count has no bearing

448
00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:28,639
Speaker 1: on the situation in the streets, because people are coming

449
00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:32,960
Speaker 1: from all fifty states here to live, and they're not

450
00:23:33,119 --> 00:23:36,240
Speaker 1: stopped by how much money we give to the system,

451
00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:40,080
Speaker 1: and they're not stopped by whether we're counting properly or not. Yeah.

452
00:23:40,119 --> 00:23:43,280
Speaker 1: Well another another outfit declared last week that that stat

453
00:23:43,359 --> 00:23:44,960
Speaker 1: is wrong, that all the most of the people they

454
00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:48,199
Speaker 1: talked to became homeless in LA. That's that is a

455
00:23:48,280 --> 00:23:50,840
Speaker 1: lie that they're all coming from you. Yeah, I know,

456
00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:53,600
Speaker 1: but you know why they fell into homelessness in LA

457
00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:56,560
Speaker 1: because they realize that the fact that these are out

458
00:23:56,560 --> 00:24:00,560
Speaker 1: of towners builds public hostility to these program rams and

459
00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:04,359
Speaker 1: public hostility to the homeless because if it's really people

460
00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:07,479
Speaker 1: in the neighborhood, you know, normally, that would be something

461
00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:10,600
Speaker 1: the local church would take care of. Right, that's what

462
00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:13,879
Speaker 1: that's in In the old days, when life was normal,

463
00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:16,719
Speaker 1: you had a handful of people who have trouble and

464
00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:20,000
Speaker 1: then and the church handles those things or maybe some

465
00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:23,880
Speaker 1: other you know, private organizations. But now this is just

466
00:24:24,040 --> 00:24:27,920
Speaker 1: wholesale chaos. And it's because they take trains and buses

467
00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:30,880
Speaker 1: and planes here or they drive here and they set

468
00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:34,240
Speaker 1: up set up camp because they know, you know, it's

469
00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:37,280
Speaker 1: it's there's no rules. Well, the other thing about this,

470
00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:39,880
Speaker 1: which we touched on a few months ago, sometimes they're

471
00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:42,960
Speaker 1: dead wrong. Remember that entire tract in Venice that everyone

472
00:24:43,040 --> 00:24:46,119
Speaker 1: knew had a big encampment had a zero on the

473
00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:49,399
Speaker 1: homeless camp, remember that story, I know, And then you know,

474
00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:51,119
Speaker 1: I was like, are you kidding me? And you know

475
00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:53,240
Speaker 1: what that is about. That's bonding and gar City making

476
00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:56,240
Speaker 1: a phone call and they said, make that number disappear

477
00:24:56,320 --> 00:24:58,399
Speaker 1: and then we'll just blame it on some on the

478
00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:01,760
Speaker 1: app being the Fritz. That's what that is. I mean,

479
00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:03,919
Speaker 1: it's basic stuff. When you when you're a politician and

480
00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:07,120
Speaker 1: there's something that's really embarrassing, really bad news, you make

481
00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:10,760
Speaker 1: it go away. You create some nonsense excuse for it,

482
00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:14,560
Speaker 1: and you know, the progressives write your lie in a

483
00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:18,120
Speaker 1: big headlight. That's how apparently the story says it is HUD.

484
00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:21,440
Speaker 1: The US Department of Housing and Urban Development requires account

485
00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:23,920
Speaker 1: be conducted in the last days of January every year,

486
00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:27,080
Speaker 1: but they don't need an accurate account, they just need account. Yo.

487
00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:30,440
Speaker 1: It's not accurate. And it looks like they're way short

488
00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:34,760
Speaker 1: of volunteers because they're in the three thousands. Yeah, and

489
00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:37,840
Speaker 1: I think they wanted seven or eight thousand, oh counters

490
00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:41,480
Speaker 1: counters Yeah, and Nope, why would you volunteer? I mean

491
00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:43,400
Speaker 1: maybe if you and your friends, you know, we're doing

492
00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:48,359
Speaker 1: it as a goof, But I mean, I mean, I

493
00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:50,640
Speaker 1: just can't imagine a bigger waste of time. And this

494
00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:53,200
Speaker 1: is really what's wrong with the stupid government. Wait, instead

495
00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:57,000
Speaker 1: of counting, why don't you just go and force these

496
00:25:57,040 --> 00:26:01,760
Speaker 1: people indoors. Do whatever they did in Venice the other

497
00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:04,760
Speaker 1: day to clear out the crowd near that bridge. Home.

498
00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:07,679
Speaker 1: Do that. If that's a real story and that really worked,

499
00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:11,919
Speaker 1: then keep doing that. Yeah, if that's sticks, If that sticks,

500
00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:14,280
Speaker 1: I'm still safe. You're not dealing with their dysfunctions and

501
00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:16,480
Speaker 1: ain't gonna stick. They're eventually going to say I don't

502
00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:18,480
Speaker 1: want to stay in this hometel room anymore. Well, that's

503
00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:20,840
Speaker 1: what That's what we're gonna track. But the thing is,

504
00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:24,280
Speaker 1: I don't think Bonn and Garsetti were even bothering to

505
00:26:24,359 --> 00:26:28,080
Speaker 1: try to get him off the street, even for a week. Yeah,

506
00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:30,119
Speaker 1: but you were right. They wanted eight thousand people, but

507
00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:32,280
Speaker 1: now they're only going to get three thousand, and their goal,

508
00:26:32,359 --> 00:26:34,560
Speaker 1: their goal is to get five thousand volunteers. So there's

509
00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:36,879
Speaker 1: still time for you to sign up. No, got volunteer,

510
00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:39,600
Speaker 1: stay home, Well, you're just gonna end up getting stabbed.

511
00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:41,640
Speaker 1: You want to get stabbed because you're counting the homeless.

512
00:26:42,359 --> 00:26:44,080
Speaker 1: We got more coming up, John, and Ken Camp. I

513
00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:47,120
Speaker 1: Am six forty Live everywhere the iHeartRadio app. We're gonna

514
00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:50,000
Speaker 1: talk to the mother of a young son who was

515
00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:54,440
Speaker 1: almost mowed down and killed in Venice by a then

516
00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:58,080
Speaker 1: fifteen year old driver who was already on probation because

517
00:26:58,359 --> 00:27:01,960
Speaker 1: he tried to poison a high school girl's drink. This

518
00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:06,040
Speaker 1: was a seriously troubled person. George Gascon gave him very

519
00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:10,520
Speaker 1: light treatment, even though he sideswiped Rachel and she was

520
00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:13,840
Speaker 1: with a stroller and fortunately she didn't get seriously hurt.

521
00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:17,240
Speaker 1: But there is some justice in the universe. He got

522
00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:20,920
Speaker 1: a very little time from Gascon as far as punishment

523
00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:25,200
Speaker 1: when this happened went to basically a summer camp. Well,

524
00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:27,800
Speaker 1: the update is that we now know his name, Christopher Bacca.

525
00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:31,520
Speaker 1: He's now seventeen, and he's dead. He was fatally shot

526
00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:35,840
Speaker 1: on a driveway up in Palmdale. We don't know a

527
00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:38,359
Speaker 1: lot about what happened there, but we'll talk to Rachel,

528
00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:45,240
Speaker 1: who has left Los Angeles after the news at two o'clock. Well,

529
00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:48,800
Speaker 1: we can now say it appears that the fad is

530
00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:51,040
Speaker 1: officially dead. And I want to say, before we even

531
00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:55,119
Speaker 1: get into this story, we are not picking on the vegan.

532
00:27:55,359 --> 00:27:59,480
Speaker 1: She is not a supporter of the fake meat, all right,

533
00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:01,800
Speaker 1: because John goes after her and she has no interest

534
00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:04,439
Speaker 1: in this stuff. But we all know about the Impossible

535
00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:07,920
Speaker 1: Burger and beyond meat, and it looks like a long

536
00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:13,200
Speaker 1: story in Bloomberg. They are absolutely fading away. They think

537
00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:15,840
Speaker 1: they'll be a niche. They was supposed to be a

538
00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:19,680
Speaker 1: game changer in the world of alternatives to people eating meat.

539
00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:22,280
Speaker 1: It was all hype, but that it's all hype, and

540
00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:26,760
Speaker 1: people are moving away from a Their sales, stock prices

541
00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:31,159
Speaker 1: have plunged. Supermarket sales have refrigerated plant based meat a

542
00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:34,160
Speaker 1: plummeted fourteen percent in just the last week. You know why.

543
00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:38,040
Speaker 1: It tastes like garbage, That's why, and I love it.

544
00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:41,000
Speaker 1: It's later on in this story, there's one woman who

545
00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:43,640
Speaker 1: thought she was going to change her health. She goes

546
00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:45,600
Speaker 1: to her doctor. The results don't change, and he looked

547
00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:48,400
Speaker 1: at her and said, well, you're eating processed food. That's

548
00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:50,920
Speaker 1: not good. What I've read, that's what it is. The

549
00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:53,720
Speaker 1: way they put this together, well what I've read with

550
00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:58,200
Speaker 1: these these these fake food substitutes, that's all the rage.

551
00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:02,440
Speaker 1: It's got enormous amounts of butter, and sugar in it

552
00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:05,680
Speaker 1: in order to make it palatable. None of this taste good.

553
00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:09,920
Speaker 1: And I remember when I bought, bought, into, bit into

554
00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:12,640
Speaker 1: one of these fake burgers when we went to Brunos

555
00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:17,920
Speaker 1: for Katarina's club. The first bite, it felt okay, like

556
00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:20,680
Speaker 1: the texture I guess was a good recreation, but then

557
00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:25,120
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, it's terrible aftertaste. Yeah, there's something that, right,

558
00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:28,960
Speaker 1: because as you bite in, the juices were released from

559
00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:31,280
Speaker 1: this and if they grilled it, it's got a grilled taste,

560
00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:33,480
Speaker 1: so that kind of throws you off, right, But when

561
00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:36,680
Speaker 1: you bite into it, as your teeth hit, it releases

562
00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:42,000
Speaker 1: the juices from these fake ingredients, and the juices are disgusting, right,

563
00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:44,520
Speaker 1: because it's all I don't know, pie juice or whatever

564
00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:48,280
Speaker 1: the hell it is, uses mashed piece Yeah, that's right,

565
00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:51,840
Speaker 1: that's soy juice, mashed bee juice. But there's st juice

566
00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:54,160
Speaker 1: in there to make it bloody, right, right, And it's

567
00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:59,360
Speaker 1: all for the texture and the look, but the taste horrific.

568
00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:03,800
Speaker 1: I have an alternative for you, an alternative, seriously, for

569
00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:06,120
Speaker 1: people who don't want to eat the fake meat. When

570
00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:10,080
Speaker 1: I was in Cabo, I actually had a fried avocado

571
00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:15,160
Speaker 1: burger and it was amazing. No, seriously, because can we

572
00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:19,160
Speaker 1: turn her off to deal more with the avocado? But listen,

573
00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:22,800
Speaker 1: it was you're going to turn into one. And it

574
00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:25,760
Speaker 1: was very while you had that lime green florescent pant

575
00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:35,120
Speaker 1: suit because you've become an avocado. Um. So, anyway, my

576
00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:39,000
Speaker 1: favorite part of the story. Impossible was the brainchild of

577
00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:43,680
Speaker 1: a Stanford University biochemist. He realized that he made a

578
00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:48,280
Speaker 1: big breakthrough that a molecule called him him was the

579
00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:52,720
Speaker 1: key to meets meatiness. He made heim with genetically modified yeast,

580
00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:56,800
Speaker 1: patented the use of what the company called the magic ingredients.

581
00:30:56,800 --> 00:31:01,640
Speaker 1: You wonder what the magic ingredient is? Soy leg hemoglobin. Well,

582
00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:04,640
Speaker 1: that's really appealing, isn't it. That's your magic ingredient in

583
00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:09,600
Speaker 1: the Impossible burger. Soy leg hemoglobin. That sounds like some

584
00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:14,240
Speaker 1: component of blood or something. It does like they's horrible.

585
00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:17,320
Speaker 1: They put the blood through a chemical process. I had one.

586
00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:19,280
Speaker 1: I went to Carls and had whatever they were selling.

587
00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:23,160
Speaker 1: I think it was beyond meat and I just I

588
00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:26,520
Speaker 1: ate it once and said average, but there's nothing special

589
00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:33,640
Speaker 1: about it. So they hired Kim Kardashian Beyond the Gates

590
00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:35,880
Speaker 1: was excited about this. Dude, Bill Gates was really worked

591
00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:37,960
Speaker 1: up over this. But Kardashian was going to be the

592
00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:42,000
Speaker 1: chief taste consultant. You could make your own joke for this.

593
00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:45,920
Speaker 1: But then they noticed that she didn't seem to be

594
00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:50,680
Speaker 1: actually eating the burger in a commercial, and so Kardashian

595
00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:54,200
Speaker 1: had to release footage showing that later on she had

596
00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:59,840
Speaker 1: swallowed the food, but on the commercials she did actually

597
00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:04,040
Speaker 1: do that. Because again, all this stuff tastes terrible. But

598
00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:08,440
Speaker 1: I understand from boy, you could make a good amount

599
00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:11,600
Speaker 1: of money for a while. Right, This is a great

600
00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:14,360
Speaker 1: market to get into because there's so many foolish people

601
00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:17,000
Speaker 1: jumping on a trend. You know. Some of them are like, oh,

602
00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:19,800
Speaker 1: I can't kill any more cows, and others just think,

603
00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:21,360
Speaker 1: oh wow, this is the cool thing to do. All

604
00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:23,840
Speaker 1: my friends are doing it. Yeah, let's have impossible burgers

605
00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:26,840
Speaker 1: and beyond beat burgers. And then you try it once, twice,

606
00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:29,600
Speaker 1: three times, it's like, wow, this is foul. This is

607
00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:32,360
Speaker 1: this is you know, it's got the consistency of sewage.

608
00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:38,239
Speaker 1: It's terrible. Yeah. The ingredients was just a mash up

609
00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:41,680
Speaker 1: of a whole bunch of processed foods, things to give

610
00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:43,440
Speaker 1: it color, a thing you don't sort to imitate the

611
00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:46,400
Speaker 1: taste to eat. There is no reason to replace meat.

612
00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:49,840
Speaker 1: People who like meat are gonna buy meat until doomsday.

613
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:52,480
Speaker 1: If you don't like it, then go eat something else.

614
00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:54,480
Speaker 1: You can make a lentil burger if you feel like

615
00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:56,720
Speaker 1: you want a bun and the lettuce and the tomato

616
00:32:56,840 --> 00:33:00,120
Speaker 1: and the onions and the mustard to catch up. Can

617
00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:02,440
Speaker 1: do that. Bang my head against the window. Yes, I

618
00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:04,720
Speaker 1: know you could do that, but that's all taste terrible. No,

619
00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:08,120
Speaker 1: that doesn't taste terrible. It's just lentils. And we shut

620
00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:12,320
Speaker 1: the Megan window like that. Nothing. This cashier is closed stuff.

621
00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:15,840
Speaker 1: She's like those people who ring your guy. I'm trying

622
00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:18,080
Speaker 1: to share. I'm just trying to share what I have found.

623
00:33:18,120 --> 00:33:21,280
Speaker 1: They have religious pamphlets. No, I'm not trying to convert anybody.

624
00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:23,520
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, if you don't want the fake meat,

625
00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:26,280
Speaker 1: that's an alternative. You don't have to do it. The

626
00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:29,000
Speaker 1: skin off my back. And now they were moving towards

627
00:33:29,080 --> 00:33:33,880
Speaker 1: fake sausages. Oh boy, horrible, horrible fat. All right, when

628
00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:35,960
Speaker 1: we come back, our guests will be Rachel. She was

629
00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:39,360
Speaker 1: on our show last year to talk about her ordeal.

630
00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:43,040
Speaker 1: We're a teenage driver. Looked like he was coming right

631
00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:45,760
Speaker 1: after her and her son out for a walk in

632
00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:50,520
Speaker 1: a Venice neighborhood. And after this guy was caught, it

633
00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:53,040
Speaker 1: was like punishment from George Gascon in the La County DA,

634
00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:55,959
Speaker 1: which really got Rachel concerned. He got like time at

635
00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:58,800
Speaker 1: a summer camp. Well, the update, tragically is that he

636
00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:01,040
Speaker 1: has been killed. He's now I was seventeen year old

637
00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:03,600
Speaker 1: and was killed in Palmdale. Johnny Ken caf I Am

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