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Speaker 2: to date on the news. If you've noticed that it's

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Speaker 2: Jo Vajva Dova, Jova Jova that is causing these conditions,

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Speaker 1: So it's kind of a strange East Coast feel. I

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Speaker 1: got a lot to come on the show.

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Speaker 2: As I mentioned, Todd Spitzeraldy with me next hour to

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Speaker 2: talk about how the Orange County District Arny's office it's

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Speaker 2: going to handle these smash and grab robbers. We're also

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Speaker 2: from Friday from Blake Trolley CAFI News. They have arrested

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Speaker 2: someone another stabbing at a Metro station. We begin this

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Speaker 2: hour with the border. Todd Benzman is with the Center

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Speaker 2: for Immigration Studies, a senior fellow. Todd's been on our

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Speaker 2: show a number of times before. He does great reporting

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Speaker 2: on what's really going on at the US Mexico border,

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Speaker 2: particularly at ground zero, which is the state of Texas.

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Speaker 2: It's a tremendously large border with the country of Mexico.

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Speaker 2: Todd is in Austin now, but of course he has

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Speaker 2: been monitoring the border and doing stories about what's going on,

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Speaker 2: particularly with the smuggling operations of the cartels. Todd, Welcome

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Speaker 3: Good to be here. Thanks.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So tell.

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Speaker 2: Us your latest investigations apparently have something to do with

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Speaker 2: these sophisticated infrastructure that the cartels have to collect payments

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Speaker 2: from families. And one thing I just wanted to ask you,

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Speaker 2: this is still big business smuggling operations because the more

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Speaker 2: we hear about people coming in quote that apply for

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Speaker 2: to be in the US, and there's still a lot

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Speaker 3: Well, just a few years ago, the ICE Intelligence was

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Speaker 3: testifying before Congress that maybe they were earning about half

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Speaker 3: So a big booming industry, the human smuggling business. With

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Speaker 3: I was down in the fontan Roma area, if anybody

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Speaker 2: Do they know this by the time they get them?

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Speaker 3: Well, the thing is hon Duran's and Guatemalans are so

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Speaker 3: In a variety of ways. The cartels have representatives in

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Speaker 1: There is a cartel. There is a cartel rep in

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Speaker 2: Is it interest free or the payment that they quote

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Speaker 2: is just all that they want to collect or do

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, there's there's interest. Yeah, it takes a long time.

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Speaker 3: They're having to pay more. A lot of them were

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Speaker 3: the rest of that stuff later. But you know, they

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well they're family right back in the village.

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Speaker 3: Right, that's right? Or maybe do something beat them up

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Speaker 2: Yeah, these guys don't get around. I mean, they got

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Speaker 3: It's not like you can file a lawsuit for unpaid

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Speaker 1: Right, that's right.

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Speaker 2: You can declare bankruptcy and go to court. No, no, no,

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Speaker 2: they're going to get their money. One way or another

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Speaker 2: going to squeeze it out of you or your family

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Speaker 2: that they're coming now from all over the world, that

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Speaker 3: We Well, they're they're about forty percent of everybody that

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Speaker 3: countries other than Central America and Mexico. So they're coming

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Speaker 3: from about one hundred and sixty other places. I've met

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Speaker 3: him from everywhere. I've met Dagastani's, kri Kastani's, Uzbka, Stanis, Afghans, Syrians,

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Speaker 3: I've met him. They're like Burkina Faso Yep, I've met

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Speaker 2: You would call them, right, do you think that? And

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Speaker 2: you mentioned this too as you were introducing this report,

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Speaker 2: that what there was a call a word really does

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Speaker 2: go out around the world that do you have a

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Speaker 3: Well, you know, remember they campaigned hard and loud and

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Speaker 3: So that's pretty much what happened. If you let people in,

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Speaker 1: If you ship, word gets out exactly right, that's right,

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Speaker 1: that's right. Word gets out to other people around.

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Speaker 2: I mean, there's a network that does communicates these things

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Speaker 2: because a lot of people are desperate to get to

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Speaker 3: Well, I've had a lot of immigrants that that claim

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Speaker 3: you know, pointing just down the street, that cartel's right

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Speaker 3: You're bringing your family in, You're you're you're going to

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Speaker 3: most immigrants just have a fine time, they pay, They

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Speaker 3: of it. That's mostly what happens, all.

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Speaker 2: Right, Todd, thank you very much for joining me today.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate it him. Good reporting as usual from the border.

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Speaker 3: Sure, thanks for having me. I appreciate it all right.

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Speaker 2: That's the Center for Immigration Study Senior fellow Todd Benzman.

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Speaker 2: He's in Austin, Texas, but he has been back and

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Speaker 2: forth to the border with firsthand reports, and this one

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Speaker 2: collecting from people trying to cross the border. It's not

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Speaker 2: so much getting them to the border from their home countries,

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Speaker 2: as Todd said, when they get near the border, they're

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Speaker 2: told you're not crossing until you make an agreement to

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Speaker 2: pay US thousands and thousands of dollars. Johnny Ken's show

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Speaker 2: Coming up after two point thirty, I'll be talking to

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Speaker 2: Blake Trolley KFI News about the arrest of another attack

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Speaker 5: Well, no, sometimes I don't have to walk up and

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Speaker 2: exciting news this afternoon, Deborah, the US has approved the

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Speaker 1: Here's my prediction. Nobody I'm getting it.

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Speaker 2: So one person, Well, you're getting it with the flu

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Speaker 5: I can't believe that you don't get it every year.

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Speaker 2: So you believe all this hype about twid demis tipple edemics.

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Speaker 5: Because nobody wants to wear them.

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Speaker 2: That's not gonna happen. Aware the go ahead and wear them.

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Speaker 2: You want to wear a mask, took like an oxygen

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Speaker 5: I didn't wear a mask, Ken. I probably should have,

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Speaker 5: but I stayed away from everybody. But they their workers

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Speaker 1: You even bothering I did DMV workers.

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Speaker 1: Friday.

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Speaker 2: Thursday afternoon, there was another attack board the metro system

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Ken Well, police have found the killer, as you say,

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Speaker 7: Well, I spoke to one rider.

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Speaker 7: You know, we talked to one person last.

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Speaker 8: You know, I've never seen security.

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Speaker 8: That type of stuff happens.

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Speaker 7: No, how many like fights or things like that do

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Speaker 8: I've seen a couple of fights, but not like crazy.

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Speaker 8: Well? I take the train to Union station, Communion station.

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Speaker 6: was well, I'd take it when other people take it.

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Speaker 6: In fact, one woman I was doing those interviews in

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Speaker 6: the middle of the day on Friday, and one woman

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Speaker 6: basically said, you should probably get out of here. You know,

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Speaker 6: it's probably not safe that you down here. And it

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Speaker 6: was a little sketchy down there. Like I said, I

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Speaker 6: heard somebody threaten to hit somebody in the back with

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Speaker 6: a machete. There was just a lot of sketchiness, a

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Speaker 6: lot of shadiness around that train station. I mean, I

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Speaker 6: did feel uncomfortable. I can't lie about that. And it

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Speaker 6: really made me wonder about the level of security. I

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Speaker 6: did see two armed security guards down on the platform.

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Speaker 6: But when we hear about this guy walking up randomly

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Speaker 6: to another passenger on the train and stabbing him, or

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Speaker 6: at least stabbing him without provocation, I shouldn't say randomly.

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Speaker 6: We don't know that yet, it still makes you wonder

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Speaker 6: if there was even an officer on that train.

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Speaker 2: What do we know about Randy Nash, any criminal background,

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Speaker 2: gang membership.

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Speaker 1: Could this have been that kind of thing.

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Speaker 6: I am looking into Randy Nash, whether he was a

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Speaker 6: gang member or whether or not he was homeless.

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Speaker 7: Those are still inquiries that I have.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I forgot about the homeless angle. Right with all this,

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Speaker 2: I forgot about the homeless angle on the trains too,

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Speaker 2: because nobody says that there was words exchanged or anything.

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Speaker 1: Huh.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it says he walked up without warning, no provocation,

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Speaker 6: and stabbed him. But earlier reports we got said that

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Speaker 6: there was some sort of arguments, So we're trying to

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Speaker 6: get clear on that. I've reached out to the LAPD.

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Speaker 6: I'm hoping a detective gives me a call and we

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Speaker 6: can get clear on that. But yeah, nonetheless, I mean,

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Speaker 6: this is another high profile incident on the metro system

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Speaker 6: and August, two guys got into a fight. We recapped

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Speaker 6: this last week. But two guys got into a fight.

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Speaker 6: One guy stabbed the other guy, the other guy got shot.

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Speaker 6: The guy who was stabbed was killed. And just a

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Speaker 6: week before this stabbing at the Pershing Square or on

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Speaker 6: a train at the Pershing Square station, there was a

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Speaker 6: stabbing on a train where the guy stumbled out of

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Speaker 6: the train car in Highland Park. He was stabbed in

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Speaker 6: the back and the neck, and the guy who stabbed.

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Speaker 7: Him took off.

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Speaker 6: So, you know, a few high profile incidents and in

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Speaker 6: less than two months, two of those deadly. And we're

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Speaker 6: just trying to get an idea now of you know,

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Speaker 6: what the law enforcement or what the security level is

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Speaker 6: like on these trains right now.

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Speaker 2: So Blake was at your way of saying, maybe the

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Speaker 2: CAFI assignment desk should not send you to these Metro stories.

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Speaker 2: I feel like a little uncomfortable yourself covering them and

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Speaker 2: people are telling you to get out of there.

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Speaker 6: I mean, it was, you know, it was a little interesting.

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Speaker 6: I was thinking about the ice raek head on at

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Speaker 6: Pershing Square, and I thought, how do they get people

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Speaker 6: to come.

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Speaker 1: Off the ice right exactly?

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Speaker 6: He starts skating around and noticing their surroundings.

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Speaker 7: It's probably hard to get people to come off because this.

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Speaker 1: Happened at five twenty in the afternoon.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I would ever want to be in a

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Speaker 2: Metro trainer or a bus at three in the morning,

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Speaker 2: but five twenty in the afternoon that makes it a

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Speaker 2: little really uncomfortable.

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Speaker 1: That's when commiss is there.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's rush hour. There are plenty of commuters on

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Speaker 6: the train. This is what a lot of people are

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Speaker 6: starting to head home, and this jammed up a lot

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Speaker 6: of these riders.

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Speaker 7: I spoke with.

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Speaker 6: Riders said they had to go to Union Station at

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Speaker 6: you know, the Pershing Square station was inaccessible during that time.

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Speaker 6: And when you think about it, it's probably not just

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Speaker 6: affecting people who need to get off at Pershing Square.

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Speaker 6: I would imagine it was a real effect on people

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Speaker 6: who have to get on at Pershing Square. That's in

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Speaker 6: the center of LA's downtown, of the business community there.

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Speaker 6: So I'm sure there were a lot of commuters who

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Speaker 6: had to figure out other means of transportation to get

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Speaker 6: on out of there.

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Speaker 1: All right, Blake, thank you so much for that update.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate it, all right, Thanks Keed Blake.

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Speaker 2: Trolley on the arrest of a man in the stabbing

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Speaker 2: death of another man, we now understand it was actually

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Speaker 2: on a train.

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Speaker 1: Inside the train.

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Speaker 2: This is the downtown Los Angeles and the metro system

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Speaker 2: from the subway system there. And again Mayor Bascone wants

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Speaker 2: you to know that this is going to be your

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Speaker 2: first choice for transportation in the near future, the entire

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Speaker 2: metro system of La County where continue to see people

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Speaker 2: robbed or worse killed. In this case, Johnny Ken KFI

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Speaker 2: Coming up after three o'clock, my guest will be the

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Speaker 2: Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer, to talk about how

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Speaker 2: he handles these robberies, smash and grabs all that stuff

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Speaker 2: versus other das who might be thinking of yeah, George

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Speaker 1: He'll be my guest after the news at three o'clock.

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Speaker 2: Also, we'll give you the results of a poll that

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Speaker 2: that was taken of Californians and their opinion on giving

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Speaker 2: cash money as slave reparations. This started back in twenty

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Speaker 2: of cash reparations, and I'll give you the results of

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Speaker 2: that poll all across the board. Well, I think Democrats

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Speaker 2: by race and background said no, not going to do that.

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Speaker 2: Don't do that, And the reason why will be interesting.

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Speaker 2: talking to Todd Spitzer after three o'clock about all these robberies,

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Speaker 2: whether they be they're mostly of the smashing crab nature

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Speaker 2: I had mentioned Back in twenty twenty, when this started

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Speaker 2: into twenty one and twenty two, it seemed to be

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Speaker 2: people being robbed on the street of their watches or

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Speaker 2: their phones, but now it's mobs, probably organized on social media,

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Speaker 2: that make their way into malls and stores. It was

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Speaker 2: actually one not far from me. I mean, I live

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Speaker 2: in an area in the South Bay where there's not

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Speaker 2: a lot of this. But there's a jewelry store in

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Speaker 2: downtown Manhattan Beach that has been smashed and grabbed twice.

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Speaker 2: That's really I guess it's the only one, and it's

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Speaker 2: near the pier. It's in a very public area, but

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Speaker 2: twice people a mob went in there and smashed the

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Speaker 2: glass cases and took stuff out and took off. The

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Speaker 2: robbery that occurred yesterday was at the Northridge Fashion Center

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Speaker 2: and it wasn't jewelry smicks. Six smash and grab robbers

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Speaker 2: stole what's supposed to be twenty thousand dollars worth of perfume.

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Speaker 1: Hammers.

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Speaker 2: And of course they wear the black hooded sweaters, so

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Speaker 2: you can't really tell what they look like or possibly

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Speaker 2: even their race or anything about them. Five or six

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Speaker 2: men made their way into this Macy's at the north

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Speaker 2: Ridge Fashion Center and I guess smashed the cases open

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Speaker 2: and took the perfume. Now, normally what happens is they

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Speaker 2: quickly find somebody who will take the perfume off their

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Speaker 2: hands at a price, and then those people quickly go

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Speaker 2: I mean, we told you that story a couple weeks

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Speaker 2: ago that one of these task forces that LA has

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Speaker 2: organized did break up some sort of an operation. I

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Speaker 2: think it was near downtown LA where they'd take it

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Speaker 2: over a storefront and they were selling all this stolen

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Speaker 2: merchandise stuff that looked like it was target stuff.

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Speaker 1: What was it underwear? I think it was in socks

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Speaker 1: and stuff like.

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Speaker 8: That, wasn't it.

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Speaker 5: I think, yeah, it was just a bunch of stuff

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Speaker 5: like that. Yeah, it wasn't anything real high end.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't know that that's where this would go.

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Speaker 1: The perfume.

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Speaker 2: They may have a different way of peddling it rather quickly.

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Speaker 2: These guys then got into a black car believed to

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Speaker 2: be in Infinity with oh when you know it, no

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Speaker 2: license plates and fled the scene. But Deborah Mark can

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Speaker 2: tell you this stuff can be high end costly. I mean,

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Speaker 2: twenty thousand dollars worth of perfume how many bottles would

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Speaker 2: that be?

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Speaker 1: You think that the.

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Speaker 5: Top brand ranges. I mean, yeah, the top brands, you

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Speaker 5: can spend one hundred and fifty three hundred and fifty

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Speaker 5: four hundred. I mean I looked online once and some

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Speaker 5: of them, I mean perfume could be one thousand dollars.

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Speaker 2: I mean, just how much used to would you get

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Speaker 2: out of one hundred and fifty dollars worth of bottle

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Speaker 2: worth of perfume?

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Speaker 1: Would it last year? A year or not even.

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Speaker 5: Well, perfume lasts a long time for me, But it

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Speaker 5: depends on how much you use it, and if you

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Speaker 5: use it every day, and if you pretty much shower

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Speaker 5: in it or you just you know, do a few

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Speaker 5: a few sprays.

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Speaker 8: I have a bottle of cologne that an ex girlfriend

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Speaker 8: gave me probably seven years.

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Speaker 5: You need to throw it out.

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Speaker 1: No, I still use it. Yeah, yeah, it's very nice.

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Speaker 1: He's turning it on the ladies, Deborah.

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Speaker 2: It's working, okay, Well, doesn't matter if it's seven years old.

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Speaker 5: I want to smell it. Put it on tomorrow. I

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Speaker 5: want to see if it's smells.

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Speaker 2: You used to have a yeah, she used to have

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Speaker 2: a perfume that everyone liked. I forget the name of it.

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Speaker 5: Organza by yes, because people still can to this day.

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Speaker 5: And I actually haven't been wearing it that often. I'm

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Speaker 5: wearing two other different kinds. But I still love that organza.

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Speaker 5: I get so many compliments on that.

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Speaker 1: And that is expensive.

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Speaker 5: No, the Organza one is not. That one is not

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Speaker 5: that expensive.

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Speaker 1: You think it was named because it's awful close to

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Speaker 1: another word.

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, maybe certain people when they smell it, they

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Speaker 5: have an orgasm.

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Speaker 7: I don't know, or you probably like mine, Debortt's chanel.

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Speaker 1: Oh all right, we'll try it on for tomorrow. All right,

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Speaker 1: I'll bring it in it, walk around her and see

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Speaker 1: what happens.

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Speaker 5: Don't put too much because then it'll gag me.

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Speaker 2: Coming up next, Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitch will

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Speaker 2: be my guest. Johnny ketchup KFI AM six forty live

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