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Speaker 3: All right, Well, the breaking news twenty four hours ago

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Speaker 3: around this time was that there were charges again against

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Speaker 3: a Los Angeles City Council member. This time it is

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Speaker 3: Current Price, and these charges deal with well embezzlement, fraud,

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Speaker 3: perjury comes from the LA County District Attorney George Gasconbe.

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Speaker 3: This is not a federal case as many of the

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Speaker 3: others have been against Price. The man who was predicting

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Speaker 3: this for some time and talking about this looks like

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Speaker 3: six years is Daniel Guss with the Gus Report, who

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Speaker 3: follows all things LA politics, and he can give us

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Speaker 3: a lot more detail on this story.

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Speaker 1: Daniel, how are you.

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Speaker 4: It's been a heck of a twenty four hours. Thank

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Speaker 4: you for having me back now.

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Speaker 2: Current Price is a more lesser known criminal on the

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Speaker 2: LA City Council.

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Speaker 1: He used to be legislature right, yes.

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Speaker 4: He was. He was here from the legislature. He was

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Speaker 4: in the Inglewood government a city council there. This is

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Speaker 4: all this guy has ever done. That's why these alleged

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Speaker 4: crimes are so pervasive. He's been doing this type of

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Speaker 4: thing for long, long, long periods of time.

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Speaker 3: And you say that the media and other city officials

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Speaker 3: have just ignored this or just didn't pick up on it.

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Speaker 4: No, No, they knew about it. Because I asked over

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Speaker 4: the past six years everybody who was his colleague at

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Speaker 4: one time or other, including but not limited to Paul

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Speaker 4: for Corrian, Hey, aren't you concerned that this is a

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Speaker 4: deal with current Price's wife quote unquote wife, And largely

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Speaker 4: they'd like to not answer. They say, oh, I appreciate

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Speaker 4: your passion if they respond at all. So they knew

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Speaker 4: about it. The La Times knew about it, and the

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Speaker 4: La Times gave Price as they do all of these

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Speaker 4: politicians lots of cover. Ask them a softball question and

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Speaker 4: then just absorb whatever they say and move on to

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Speaker 4: the next subject. So they're all culforable. They all knew

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Speaker 4: about it to one degree or another until now when

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Speaker 4: you know what hits the fan?

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Speaker 2: All right, explain to the so like an average person

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Speaker 2: can to understand what was the scam? The current price

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Speaker 2: and his one of his wives was pulling off.

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Speaker 4: Well, the big one is basically Price's second wife. Her

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Speaker 4: last name is Richardson, Dell Richardson, a very successful real

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Speaker 4: estate let's just say consultant, and she was getting money,

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Speaker 4: According to the district attorney's charging documents, she was getting

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Speaker 4: money from consultants or real estate developers. I mean they

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Speaker 4: were paying her firm ten tens of thousands of dollars

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Speaker 4: to get a certain hhh, real estate project approved and her.

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Speaker 2: Right, yeah, that's the one for the homeless or yeah,

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Speaker 2: homeless tax money that they condest in depend So so

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Speaker 2: all right, we'll continue.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And so it seems heck of a coincidence that

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Speaker 4: one particular developer, maybe not the only one, the last

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Speaker 4: name is Saffron, whenever he would pay current prices real

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Speaker 4: estate consultant wife Delbra Richardson tens of thousands of dollars,

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Speaker 4: it seemed that his projects got advanced through the labyrinth

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Speaker 4: of bureaucracy in city Hall. At other times, property was

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Speaker 4: getting irrationally discounted, so that they were basically paying Price's

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Speaker 4: that you own, that I own, and every one of

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Speaker 4: your listeners own.

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Speaker 2: So the city had these properties and they they they

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Speaker 2: sold them to current Price's wife, or they they sold

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Speaker 4: Exactly, exactly. That's that's one of the allegations. That's really

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Speaker 4: just a different flavor of the same thing that Jose

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Speaker 4: Weezar was doing when his wife was working as a

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Speaker 1: Now, what's with the two.

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Speaker 3: Why yeah, let's talk about the medical benefit money that

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Speaker 3: was paid in these two women, right.

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Speaker 4: Sure. So Price has been in state politics in Inglewood,

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Speaker 4: many many years. He was He had three attempts to

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Speaker 4: And so she went and moved to New Jersey after

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Speaker 4: According to the district attorney, that the real estate wife,

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Speaker 4: wife number two, is his wife, when in fact he

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Speaker 4: was still married until twenty eighteen to wife number one. Well,

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Speaker 4: when you sign up for benefits, whether it's it's your

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Speaker 4: employer at KFI and iHeartMedia or mine, when you represent

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Speaker 4: to the insurance company that so and so is my spouse,

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Speaker 4: that is a sworn statement. So for years, every time

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Speaker 4: that Price's second wife got, for example, health insurance benefits

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Speaker 4: for somebody who was not his spouse, that's embezzlement.

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Speaker 2: Why did he not cleanly divorce the first wife?

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Speaker 4: You know, I've been wrapping my brain around this for

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Speaker 4: several years. I can tell you that there was a

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Speaker 4: While he was telling the times that he wasn't married

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Speaker 4: For some reason, he didn't want to serve her directly.

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Speaker 4: And so I know that there was a house and

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Speaker 4: hundred thousand dollars, but I can't figure out why. Because

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Speaker 4: can't tell me that she didn't know that we should

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Speaker 4: know that they didn't split up the assets. There's something there, guys,

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Speaker 4: and for years I've been trying to figure out what

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Speaker 4: He has a law degree, never an attorney. So how

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Speaker 4: can these three educated people not realize that they never

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Speaker 4: split up the Matta assets?

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Speaker 2: Well, which means that there was there was some There's

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Speaker 2: some benefit here into not going through at the divorce

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Speaker 2: and just pretending that wife number two was real. Somebody

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Speaker 4: Somebody was getting something. I don't know if it was financial,

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Speaker 4: and not to veer off into other related subjects, but

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Speaker 4: somebody in that triumvirate, or between Price and Life number

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Speaker 4: one and Prices divorce attorneys, somebody was getting something that

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Speaker 4: prevented them from finalizing this divorce. And I suspect, by

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Speaker 4: the way, this is the tip of the iceberg. I

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Speaker 2: Why does the La Times consistently protect cover four live

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Speaker 2: for all these criminals? I mean, I mean, I said

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Speaker 2: the ideology, but I mean you don't have to have

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Speaker 2: these criminals. You can have some other ideological compatible candidates

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Speaker 2: who aren't crooks, aren't felons. You know.

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Speaker 4: I think that for many years, decades, generations, I think

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Speaker 4: it's been a very cozy thing between the Times, in

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Speaker 4: particular because they are the investigative, you know, media outlet

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Speaker 4: for this region, and I think between them and the politicians,

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Speaker 4: I think it was always very very cozy. And I

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Speaker 4: think that both sides of that resent people like me

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Speaker 4: let you know when there's something serious to report on.

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Speaker 4: That's my take. I think it's born out of arrogance.

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Speaker 4: I think it's born out of elitism, and I think

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Speaker 4: it's born out of resentment that somebody else is controlling

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Speaker 4: the narrative other than them.

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Speaker 3: And I'm sure that you were gagged to the point

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Speaker 3: of speechless when you heard the city Council President Paul

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Speaker 3: Kakorean was shocked at the charges.

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Speaker 4: You know what, if I wasn't preparing to come on

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Speaker 4: the show today, I would have been down there and said,

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Speaker 4: are you kidding me? Paul? Are you kidding me? I

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Speaker 4: sent them a media relations in Qorey immediately after the meeting, saying,

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Speaker 4: are you kidding me? Do you want me to dig

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Speaker 4: up all of the times I reached out, all of

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Speaker 4: the times they sent you these columns, all of the

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Speaker 4: times you didn't respond. And not just him, It was Garcetti,

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Speaker 4: it was Wes, and it was everybody who's been a

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Speaker 4: been covering city Hall. They all knew about it. They

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Speaker 4: oh gee, when did this come up?

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Speaker 1: And then they all pretend they're shocked and saddened.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, It's like, what do they say, I'm shocked

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Speaker 4: that there's corruption in city Hall? You come on and.

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Speaker 5: You think there's even more coming? Did you allude to that?

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Speaker 1: Who's the next one?

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Speaker 4: Would if I was a betting man, I would would

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Speaker 4: tell you, among other things. I actually think I think

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Speaker 4: Price's second wife, Gilba Richardson, or her daughter might be

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Speaker 4: I think the daughter potentially for voter registration fraud. I

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Speaker 4: personally believe that hurt Wesson is the most vulnerable because

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Speaker 4: when a lot of this was going on at least

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Speaker 4: decided who's on the committees, who's chairing them, and what

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Speaker 4: gets on the city council agenda. Price is seventy three

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Speaker 4: years old, and he hasn't been looking well in the

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Speaker 4: past few weeks. Not to make light of that, but

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Speaker 4: And the person who I think is most vulnerable is

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Speaker 4: hurt Or and or one or two of his four sons.

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Speaker 4: I'm not going to name them, but that's a hunch

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Speaker 4: that I have. I also think Garcetti and Mike Fewer

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Speaker 4: are potentially a potential target. Oh, John, I have to

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Speaker 4: tell you this. You were talking about how Current Price

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Speaker 4: said some nasty things about the John and Ken show

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Speaker 4: back in the day. Well back in the day, Current

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Speaker 4: Price said about some thes of Nach's been quite quite up,

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Speaker 4: quite accurate. Sometimes the gadflies, the critics who go there

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Speaker 4: and scream and shout. Current Price said about one of

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Speaker 4: them a few years ago. I think mister so and

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Speaker 4: so should be made an example of. And if I

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Speaker 4: can find that clip, I'm going to send it to you,

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Speaker 4: because now it looks like he's going to be made

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Speaker 4: an example of.

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Speaker 5: Right, gonna go, Daniel, Thanks for coming on anytime.

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Speaker 4: I'm here. Thank you so much for having me, all.

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Speaker 5: Right, Daniel Gus.

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Speaker 3: Stay tuned after three point thirty. It is a bombshell.

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Speaker 3: It's a good one coming up. Not even going to

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Speaker 3: committee working to re elect Price. This is how it

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Speaker 2: Workers, So a lot of politicians do that. Why do

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Speaker 2: you have to steal? It doesn't justify stealing, So do

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Speaker 3: And to say that things like all my votes have

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Speaker 2: Really, you know, they shouldn't allow that. They shouldn't allow

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Speaker 2: should ban all this stuff. But they don't, which they're

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Speaker 1: It's like, wow, let's stop it.

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Speaker 3: They knew nothing about this because this story has been simmering,

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Speaker 2: Everything he voted on, they voted on two. They knew

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Speaker 1: They all knew that they ain't doing it.

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Speaker 2: You don't see any of them standing up and say,

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Speaker 2: I find this reprehensible that Councilman Price's wife is getting

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Speaker 2: all for affordable housing. It's all for proposition. Hhh housing

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Speaker 5: Well they think it's two birds with one stone.

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Speaker 3: I'm getting the affordable housing bill, Dan, I'm getting something

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Speaker 1: Look at that.

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Speaker 5: It's a win win, But that's not really how it works.

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Speaker 2: And then they let the pay mental patients into the

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Speaker 1: You notice the.

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Speaker 5: Common thread here.

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Speaker 3: So much has been talked about with the City of

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Speaker 5: Do you see that? You see the connection there.

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Speaker 3: They realize there's so much money to be made off

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Speaker 2: They created a housing industry that now thousands of people

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Speaker 2: to have our downtrodden. That is a scam, That is

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Speaker 1: Doesn't help either one of them.

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Speaker 3: All Right, when we come back, we got a bit

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Speaker 1: Listen to what you missed.

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Speaker 3: All Right, Well, I consider this bombshell news on probably

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Speaker 3: what is the biggest world story yet this century?

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Speaker 5: John Colbelt, you know what it is?

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Speaker 1: Well, there's a lot of candidates.

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Speaker 3: What it's covid Oh, yes, I saw it change the

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Speaker 1: Yes, this is a big bombshell.

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Speaker 3: So this comes from Substack, Michael Schellenberger, Matt Tayibe, and

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Speaker 5: And it is this.

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Speaker 3: After years of official pronouncements to the contrary, significant new

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Speaker 3: evidence has emerged that strengthens the case that tsar's COVID

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Speaker 3: two virus accidentally escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Arology.

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Speaker 3: According to multiple US government officials interviewed as part of

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Speaker 1: It was propaganda. It was always lies.

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Speaker 2: This is an orchestrated cover up by the world's governments

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Speaker 2: because they're very deferential to China.

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Speaker 1: They're afraid of China. Is that what it is?

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Speaker 2: Because I can't figure it out, I think so. I

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Speaker 2: think the word is let's leave them alone. It's not

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Speaker 3: Oh, they're controlling a lot of the supplies for like

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Speaker 1: Yes, it's right, electric car batteries.

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Speaker 2: All that's important to the environmental Apple's components, the components

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Speaker 1: They come from China.

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Speaker 2: They control all the minds in Africa where they mine

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Speaker 2: all kinds of batteries. No, if China says fu and

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Speaker 2: China has no problems screwing themselves and screwing their own economy.

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Speaker 2: You saw what they did with COVID, right, let people die.

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Speaker 2: They let they let people die. They don't care, they

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Speaker 1: They don't know.

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Speaker 3: What's important to them is keeping their communist government going right,

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Speaker 5: This would keep us around.

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Speaker 1: This was a huge embarrassment. They covered everything up.

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Speaker 2: I don't know well, I was actually shocked the links

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Speaker 1: Loud, and and they were stuffed. All the idiot reporters

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Speaker 3: Those are the three of the earliest people to become

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Speaker 3: how about that? Yeah, did they go to the wet market?

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Speaker 5: They went there for lunch.

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Speaker 3: One day together and they all got infected by a

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Speaker 2: May have Tanglo pangolin, which was a brilliant animal to pick.

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Speaker 2: They picked a penglin because nobody ever heard of it,

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Speaker 2: And guess what it was Anthony Fauci's National Institute of

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Speaker 3: Bandanned twenty fourteen, but apparently they think that people at

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Speaker 2: The reason Obama banned federal funding for gain of function research.

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Speaker 2: Experts had come to the consensus that it was too dangerous,

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Speaker 2: So Fauci wanted the research done anyway, so he sent

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Speaker 1: In all the major newspapers.

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Speaker 2: It was immediate prop again using our newspapers as the

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Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, I mean, they're they're in that city,

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Speaker 2: They're working on the exact virus in that city, and

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Speaker 2: that's where the epidemic started in that city.

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Speaker 3: They won, didn't they because they managed to keep it

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Speaker 3: this way for almost three years before the real truths

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Speaker 3: are coming out and not nobody cares anymore. That's the key, Right,

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Speaker 3: this had come out in twenty twenty or twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 3: and it had been really proven. Oh, this would have

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Speaker 3: really reversed everybody's thinking. But now here we are in

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Speaker 3: the middle of twenty twenty three, and it's like, yeah,

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Speaker 3: people just shrug, But you know what, don't be.

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Speaker 2: Shocked when the next story comes and people say, I

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Speaker 2: just don't believe it. Everybody is surprised that all the

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Speaker 2: Trump supporters are saying, I don't believe these charges. It's

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Speaker 2: because there were so many other stories that turned out false,

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Speaker 2: and now the next story in this category people aren't

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Speaker 2: gonna believe it. You're not gonna get people to put

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Speaker 2: on the mask. You're not gonna get people to kneel

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Speaker 2: down and worship your directives. If you're some whack job

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Speaker 2: health director like Barbara Ferrer, I want to hear about

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Speaker 2: it because they lied like hell from beginning to end.

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Speaker 2: And I am no longer and I'm no longer believed

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Speaker 2: in the media transmission to these stories. I'm just not

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Speaker 2: gonna sit here and say yeah. I'm gonna wait a

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Speaker 2: while before I say yes. I'm gonna wait a while

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Speaker 2: before I say I believe, because this enough is enough

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Speaker 2: already twenty years.

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Speaker 3: We got more coming up. Johnny Ken k IF I

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Speaker 6: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from KFI

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Speaker 6: AM six forty.

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Speaker 3: Remember this, it's not what people say, it's what they do.

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Speaker 3: We now have a number of stores in Oakland that

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Speaker 3: no longer accept cash, and that has nothing to do

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Speaker 3: with the pandemic. Some businesses did that because they didn't

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Speaker 3: want to handle the cash back and forth right and

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Speaker 3: we just swiped a card on a machine and there.

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Speaker 2: Because people thought money spread COVID. That was another good one.

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Speaker 2: There was that paranoia.

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Speaker 3: Well, that's not the reasons they're doing this. It's burglaries

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Speaker 3: and they a lot of many more businesses now have

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Speaker 3: a sign up that says no cash card only, because

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Speaker 3: when the robber comes in there, what they want is

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Speaker 3: the cash. Right, they could take some merchandise, but the

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Speaker 3: stores we're talking about here, a lot of them are

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Speaker 3: cafes and restaurants and bars. They're looking to grab a

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Speaker 3: big cash fix, and this costs the merchants because when

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Speaker 3: you pay with a credit card, they get hit on

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Speaker 3: their bottom line anywhere from like two to five percent.

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Speaker 3: They lose out on but it could be that their

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Speaker 3: losses from the robberies exceed those numbers, and they don't

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Speaker 3: want they don't want this to happen now. In San Francisco,

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Speaker 3: of course, they passed an ordinance in twenty nineteen requiring

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Speaker 3: all merchants to take cash moneys. Oakland doesn't have anything

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Speaker 3: the legislation emphasize.

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Speaker 2: Because the vagrants don't have debit cards and credit cards.

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Speaker 5: The low income people, right.

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Speaker 3: The legislation emphasized San Francisco's ethos of inclusivity, which extends

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Speaker 3: to people who've been denied credit. We cannot get bank accounts.

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Speaker 3: But they don't have this over in Oakland. So the merchants,

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Speaker 3: a number of them here, have decided that they're going

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Speaker 3: to put up no cash cards in the windows all

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Speaker 3: along their storefronts and a big part of the neighborhood here.

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Speaker 1: And some of the stories are unbelievable. Some of these

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Speaker 1: they call them.

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Speaker 3: Police Area two one hundred and thirty seven commercial burglaries

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Speaker 3: this year, up from one hundred and thirty five at

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Speaker 3: this time last year, but nearly triple the fifty two

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Speaker 3: they had back in twenty twenty one as of this date.

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Speaker 3: So you can see they are reacting to the reality

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Speaker 3: that's out there. Now, somebody comes in and doesn't get

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Speaker 3: any cash because you're gonna claim you don't have any

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Speaker 3: I hope there aren't consequences for that, right.

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Speaker 5: Some robbers are like, you're lying, right, I'll suit.

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Speaker 1: You, but that could happen. That's why they put the

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Speaker 1: sign up front, singing no cash in here.

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Speaker 3: They hope you don't even bother to come in. Of course,

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Speaker 3: that's really that's why people put. Some people put signs

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Speaker 3: in their car. There's nothing in this car.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: No, that's for the robbers, not for the customers. For

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Speaker 1: the robbers. Hey, don't come in here with a gun.

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Speaker 1: I got nothing to give you, right.

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Speaker 3: But they might think you're lying, right of course, as well.

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Speaker 3: You do the best you can with the sign up front.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 3: One bar spent twenty thousand dollars. Security cameras, laser alarms,

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Speaker 3: panic switches, stole lights, horn sound alarms.

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Speaker 5: Wow, this is the reality we live in.

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Speaker 1: Cheaper to move to another state. Conway's here? Hey, no, hey, no, hey.

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Speaker 7: The US post Office is gonna be closed on June nineteenth,

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Speaker 7: the observance of Matine.

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Speaker 1: Is that your birthday? Yes, Oh, that fantastic.

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Speaker 7: It's a national holiday. Now, wow, that's great, Bob. I

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Speaker 7: mean you know that's not the reason. No, right, okay,

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Speaker 7: I've got a proclamation.

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Speaker 1: I know, all right, okay, national holiday for your birthday.

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Speaker 1: All right.

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Speaker 7: Strawberry is a big straw No, you're not, you ken,

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Speaker 7: You might be a strawberry guy, but yes, products sold

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Speaker 7: in thirty two states recalled over hepatitis.

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Speaker 3: Hepatitis strawberries you got hepatitis?

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Speaker 5: Is that from the pickers?

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure who the eaters? Pickers, drivers, arrangers.

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Speaker 2: I don't know that whoever pooped and didn't want wipe

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Speaker 2: themselves that's how you get hepatitis.

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Speaker 1: There you go. But also, the Vegas Knights win the

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Speaker 1: Stanley Cup. Cool?

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Speaker 5: Is that breaking news?

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Speaker 1: No, it's but here it's.

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Speaker 7: Great because guys like you, you two, you know what it's

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Speaker 7: like not to win a championship for forty years and

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Speaker 7: then finally get one.

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Speaker 5: Wait, that franchise is only a few years old, is

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Speaker 5: it right?

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Speaker 1: That's why this is a curse. T talk to him

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Speaker 1: about the Jets. Oh yeah, how about those Jets?

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Speaker 4: Right?

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Speaker 1: But but when your Jets win.

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Speaker 7: Again, it's gonna be a big deal for you, your dad,

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Speaker 7: your uncles, your brothers, your cousins, the whole run.

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Speaker 5: That's what I say. Like Patriot fans got jaded after

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Speaker 5: a while they kept winning.

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Speaker 1: That's right, like Vegas fans. I don't know.

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Speaker 7: If you watch the celebration two minutes after the game ended,

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Speaker 7: they're staring at each other going, hey, what are we

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Speaker 7: supposed to do now that?

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Speaker 4: Right?

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Speaker 2: Did you see the obituary for this Jets scout a

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Speaker 2: few weeks ago?

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Speaker 1: It was in the New York Post. This was the

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Speaker 1: headline through the obituary.

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Speaker 2: You know Bob Smith, Jets scout, failed to convince management

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Speaker 2: to draft Tom Brady.

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Speaker 1: He tried to tell everybody with the Jets, you got

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Speaker 1: a draft Braid.

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Speaker 5: Well they were alone and passing on Brady. That's not fair.

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Speaker 5: That's the that's the headline. Was he like the fourth

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Speaker 5: round or something?

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Speaker 1: Sixth round? You know what?

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Speaker 7: I wanted my on my tombstone hand of cards like

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Speaker 7: playing cards. Ace King Queen Jack nine almost busted straight,

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Speaker 7: story of his life, The Royal Flush.

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Speaker 1: Here lies a busted straight. All right, here he comes.

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Speaker 2: Let's Strawberries Rush Nights in the Strawberry Live the twenty

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Speaker 2: for our Cafe newsroom.

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