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Speaker 2: We're very excited.

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Speaker 3: I am very excited. We win in the end, we

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Speaker 3: always do. Let's now talk with Jamie Page. Jamie Page,

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Speaker 3: we've had her on a number of times. She's written

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Speaker 3: some good stuff west Side Current and now for Now

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Speaker 3: for the California Post, and she knows she's written a

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Speaker 3: lot of stories about Cnythia Ramen when people weren't paying

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Speaker 3: attention to Nythia Ramen. Ramen is far left progressive running

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Speaker 3: for mayor against Karen Bass, who she just endorsed a

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Speaker 3: public positions and votes are really atrocious.

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Speaker 2: So I'm warning you.

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Speaker 3: I always warn everybody, you know, six months a year

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Speaker 3: in advance, and bad things happen. It's like, hey, don't

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Speaker 3: look at me. I told you. Let's get JB Page on.

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Speaker 2: Jamie. How are you?

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Speaker 1: I'm good? How are you? John?

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Speaker 3: I'm all right. As you've written a few stories of

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Speaker 3: Nythia Ramen over the years, haven't you.

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Speaker 1: I have. I've been following her closely for several years.

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Speaker 3: Could you give a description of what her politics are like,

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Speaker 3: some of her signature issues and votes, her philosophy. So

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Speaker 1: You know. The one that stands out to me the

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Speaker 1: council member Mike Bonnen, and it was about encampment cleanups.

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Speaker 1: And they had written emotion to say that it would

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Speaker 1: They didn't have to have it take place. It was

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Speaker 1: a voluntary process. That was one of the first motions

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Speaker 3: Sense that didn't pass though, did it It didn't pass,

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Speaker 3: but it's still was something that she had presented and

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Speaker 3: I mean, I just say that I didn't remember it.

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Speaker 3: That she was connected with Mike Bonding from day one.

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Speaker 3: I think I should tell everybody what they need to know,

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Speaker 3: but that it was so whacked out even the rest

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Speaker 1: Like, yeah, this was early on when they were bringing

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Speaker 1: to say the one thing that I kept saying, you

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Speaker 3: She voted against relocating homeless and camps away from schools,

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Speaker 3: which is really so shocking, so overwhelmingly awful. I mean

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Speaker 1: Well, I don't know why she thinks the way she does.

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Speaker 1: But when she was voting on that, I was going

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Speaker 3: I remember there was a bad encampment in front of

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Speaker 1: Not knowing that actually door knocked in that area, and

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Speaker 1: But they were rightfully fearful of speaking to the press.

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Speaker 2: Retaliation from who the homeless people or yes, yes, so

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Speaker 2: they were. They were.

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Speaker 3: They were afraid to speak on camera. They were afraid

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Speaker 1: Yes, And then they would reach out to Nitia's office,

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Speaker 3: She's notorious for not responding to anybody who complains about anything. Yes, yeah,

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Speaker 3: including the media, but and the constituents. I mean, you

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Speaker 3: doesn't matter. You get in our response.

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Speaker 1: Well, even when she would show up on a zoom

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Speaker 2: Is what is her background?

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Speaker 1: She Harvard m I T grad. Uh, she's like Bonnan

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Speaker 1: they both have Harvard degrees. Actually, like a lot of

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Speaker 1: these DSA, they have a very high level expensive degrees.

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Speaker 3: In the DSA Democratic Socialist of America, she's one of

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Speaker 1: It is and it's we should be clear that they

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Speaker 1: denounce the Democrats. They don't believe in being a Democrat.

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Speaker 1: They are democratic society so far left socialist is what

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Speaker 3: But she has a really nice house. I saw two

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Speaker 1: Do you remember her last election she ran against Ethan Weaver,

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Speaker 1: how you can say you're of the people and be

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Speaker 3: Well, you had a story recently, actually it just came

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Speaker 3: j E. Strategic Actions for Just a Economy, and a

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Speaker 3: committee chaired by Nathia Rahman is going to pay this

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Speaker 3: group six and a half million dollars. They're described as

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Speaker 3: Why did they get six and a half million dollars?

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Speaker 1: Well, in front for a tenant rights group, which they

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Speaker 1: do do some of that work, but a majority if

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Speaker 1: you go on their instagram of public publishing, what they

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Speaker 1: do is anti Olympics, anti police. They also donate to

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Speaker 1: LA Forward and if you do your homework on LA Forward,

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Speaker 1: La Forward is the arm that supports a lot of

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Speaker 1: there's there's a connection there with them as well too.

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Speaker 1: What's interesting about this contract, this six point six million

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Speaker 1: whether they don't have to hand in receipts. So it's

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Speaker 1: how it. Cardes followed a paper trail. Yes, I know.

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Speaker 3: Right, this is our tax money and the city's broke,

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Speaker 3: and the fire department's half funded, the police department's two

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Speaker 3: thirds funded, and she's got six million dollars for this

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Speaker 3: lefty activist group that doesn't have to show where they're

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Speaker 3: what they're spending the money on.

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Speaker 1: Yes, you just summed it up. Really, this is part

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Speaker 1: of one hundred and seventy seven million dollar package. I

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Speaker 1: want to say to multiple organizations receive these grants, but

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Speaker 1: Sage is the one that we just well, we're picking now,

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Speaker 1: but we're continuing down this trail, following up with all

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Speaker 3: We got four months until the primary election, and I

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Speaker 3: want to have you back on. Thank you for taking

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Speaker 3: some time with us to tell us about NITTHI Olomon

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Speaker 3: All right, Jamie.

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Speaker 1: Page, I want to thank you. I listened to your

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Speaker 2: That's all right.

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Speaker 3: It's twenty four hours a day. That's what it's there for,

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Speaker 3: all right. Thanks Jamie Page from California Post.

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Speaker 3: we're talking with Jamie Page, who writes for the California

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Speaker 3: In twenty twenty three, Nithia Rahman blamed Toyota for all

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Speaker 3: the catalytic converters that were being stolen. There was a

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Speaker 2: I don't know what they're for.

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Speaker 3: Anyway, it's mandated, so everybody's got to have one, and

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Speaker 3: it's illegal to possess a catalytic converter.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's pollution control. She voted against it.

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Speaker 3: She didn't want the thieves to be prosecuted for stealing

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah. And there's a lot I can't if

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Speaker 3: them are RELI. I wish you guys the best of luck.

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Speaker 3: I think you already sound great together, and uh, I'm

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Speaker 2: So I've never seen you so happy. It's kind of

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Speaker 2: making me feel strange. I mean, he's been smiling for

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Speaker 2: six days and it's just not the Cobalt I've grown

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Speaker 3: Well, you happen to come in at an odd dime.

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Speaker 3: Now life is going back to normal, all right.

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Speaker 2: Don't make me keep talking because I'll get all kinds

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Speaker 2: of trouble a right track. You guys down with me? No, no,

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Speaker 2: not today?

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Speaker 1: All right?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're just getting started okay, so Tuesday at noon,

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Speaker 2: Tuesday noon to three is the debut of Monks and

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Speaker 2: Monks and Merrill.

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Speaker 3: Michael Monks and Chris Merrill. All right, very exciting. You'll

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Speaker 3: be listening to them.

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Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM sixty.

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Speaker 2: There was some entertainment, you know. These congressional hearings are

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Speaker 2: really like a vaudeville show often. And there's one Congressman,

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Speaker 3: The man is a fool and uh he tried to

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Speaker 3: go after the US Attorney General, Pam Bondi by waving

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Speaker 3: the bloody Epstein flag. And let me tell you, I'm

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Speaker 3: so exhausted by the Epstein story because still there hasn't

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Speaker 3: been a list of people other than maybe Prince Andrew,

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Speaker 3: a list of people who actually had illegal sex with

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Speaker 3: the underage girls. I mean, obviously it happened, and it

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Speaker 3: probably happened hundreds of times, but they won't tell us

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Speaker 3: then what is this? You know, millions of pages released,

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Speaker 3: Pam Bondy goes after Tedlu.

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Speaker 5: This is what Congressman Lou didn't want to talk about.

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Speaker 5: He didn't want to talk about all the crime that.

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Speaker 2: Is happening in his state.

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Speaker 5: California refuses to honor detainees because of it's dangerous sanctuary

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Speaker 5: city policies. The refusal means California has released four thousand,

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Speaker 5: five hundred and sixty one criminal illegal aliens, criminal illegal

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Speaker 5: aliens onto its street. The crimes of these aliens include

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Speaker 5: two hundred and thirty four sexual predator offenses. That's why

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Speaker 5: they are deflecting, That's why they're trying to talk about

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Speaker 5: the Epstein files that's currently happening in his home state.

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Speaker 2: Nothing about the Epstein story endangers me or you, or

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Speaker 2: government has harbored here. And all those murders, assaults, burglaries,

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Speaker 2: sexual predators, weapons charges, drug charges, all that stuff, the robberies,

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Speaker 2: all that stuff harms all of us, makes us afraid

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Speaker 3: That's what matters in our life here. But all the

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Speaker 3: Democrats in this state want to protect the perpetrators of

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Speaker 3: all the crimes she listed. They had sanctuary here, legal

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Speaker 3: protected sanctuary from Gavin Newsom, Karen Bass and everything else.

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Speaker 3: All Right, we come back, Well, Conway's coming in next

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Speaker 3: nice forget where I am. I'm really going to be

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Speaker 3: lost once we go back to our other time slots.

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Speaker 3: Vince Fok's gonna come on tomorrow. We were gonna have

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Speaker 3: half billion dollars in change orders that Newsome is paying

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Speaker 3: this high speed rail construction company. Fong wants to know

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Speaker 3: specifically how much federal money is involved. Everybody wants to

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Speaker 3: billion in change orders. So we'll be doing that tomorrow

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Speaker 3: at the three o'clock hour. Vince Fong will be here

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Speaker 3: and Conway's next. Remember our show moves to three o'clock

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Speaker 3: on Tuesday. Conway moves to six o'clock on Tuesday. Monks

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Speaker 3: and Meryl debuts at noon on Tuesday, and Michael Krozer

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Speaker 3: has the news now live in the KFI twenty four

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Speaker 3: hour newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the John Cobalt

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Speaker 3: Show podcast. You can always hear the show live on

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