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Speaker 1: And yeah, Rick Ruso is coming on with us now.

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Speaker 1: Rick has been talking a lot about the performance of

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Speaker 1: the city the mayor Karen Bass. Now that it's six

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Speaker 1: months since the January seventh fires that destroyed much of

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Speaker 1: Pacific Palisades and Altadena, it's a good day to stop

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Speaker 1: and look around and say what's been done, what's the recovery,

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Speaker 2: How are you I'm good, John, How are you doing?

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Speaker 1: I'm doing good. I go there frequently. I know a

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree with you, John. So let's start out

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Speaker 3: with good news. The good news is the Army Corps

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Speaker 3: The last recoveries are Steve Soberoff was terminated ninety days ago.

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Speaker 1: Do they really care? I'm starting to wonder, because six

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Speaker 1: I just noticed, and I don't want to talk about

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Speaker 3: La Well without getting, you know, going down that hole.

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Speaker 3: you also should be able to as a leader multitask.

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Speaker 3: You have to be able to multitask. This is a

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Speaker 1: So if she's not, everybody in the Palisades is stuck

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Speaker 3: Good news is we've got steadfast and we've got a

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Speaker 3: The mayor says she couldn't solve the problem about the

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Speaker 3: So any sale of property in Los Angeles residential, commercial, industrial,

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Speaker 3: the reality is John, you're going to get a double

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Speaker 3: The schools are getting reopened, the public, the private schools

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Speaker 1: I believe in. There's one more question, things like the

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Speaker 3: Dribs and drafts. We did dribs and drafts. But you

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Speaker 1: Steadfast LA is his uh nonprofit that's doing a tremendous

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Speaker 1: We just had Rick Caruso on, and earlier we played

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Speaker 1: over ice, and it's become clear, more clear than ever.

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Speaker 1: In fact, I'm absolutely sure I'm right about this, that

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Speaker 1: I think that's Karen Bass's vision. The City council President

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Speaker 1: When we come back, we're going to have we are

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Speaker 1: going to have Sayid Kashani on. He's the Palisades resident.

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Speaker 1: We've had him on many times, who's been taken on

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Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A

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Speaker 1: We are on every day from one to till four

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Speaker 1: o'clock and then after four o'clock John Cobelt's show on

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Speaker 1: demand on the iHeart app coming up. I've got to

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Speaker 1: of Newsom, where all these other politicians came up to

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Speaker 1: Brad Sherman thanked Newsom so much for the pre planning

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Speaker 1: Grimes wrote this. I'll get to it coming up, but

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Speaker 1: how are you hello, sir?

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Speaker 2: Good to be back.

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Speaker 1: Well, what did you make of yesterday's six month anniversary

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Speaker 2: Well, they finally claim, anyway that they have the Centienez

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Speaker 2: who knows, but that's what they claim. It only took

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Speaker 2: In the meantime that that's a year and a half later,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's the time when you need it. You

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Speaker 1: I know you go to the DWP meetings, as anyone

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Speaker 2: They don't even mention it at all. But everything at

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Speaker 2: in advance. They're not taking any chances of disclosing any

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess they're on lockdown because of all the

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Speaker 2: Well, that's pretty much true. And the governor and the

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Speaker 2: the mayor fired the fire chief, Christine Crowley, because Chief

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Speaker 2: And then from the state, let's remember one thing about

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Speaker 2: But taking hen and Lee investigating that's a problem.

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Speaker 1: The thing is it was taken offline for turned out

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Speaker 2: I'll do you one better, which is absolutely remarkable if

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Speaker 1: So they just lie and lie and lie, and they've

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Speaker 2: Well, that was a remarkable thing to say. I mean,

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Speaker 1: One hundred and seventeen million gallons. Are you hearing anything

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Speaker 2: Well, that's another thing we don't know. I mean, at least,

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Speaker 2: At least that's an agency that doesn't have a hand

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Speaker 1: Right. Well, clearly the reservoir should have been filled. It

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Speaker 2: Well let's let's let's look at that from the point

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Speaker 2: sure Kristen Crowley could have looked into as the fire

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Speaker 2: And I know many residents who tried to get firemen

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Speaker 2: houses and buildings and structures that have fire sprinklers, you know,

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Speaker 2: fire sprintler systems. Well guess what. They don't work without water.

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Speaker 2: So it's clear that many structures could have been saved,

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Speaker 2: if not most of the structures could have been saved

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Speaker 2: with with enough water. But I'm just concerned that, you know,

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Speaker 2: they're talking about investigations, but where is the independent investigation.

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Speaker 2: The state is not independent, the city is not independent.

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Speaker 2: The bwp's commissioning some kind of study, but that's not independent.

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Speaker 2: So where is the independent investigation?

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Speaker 1: And after six months, they really don't know, They really

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Speaker 1: don't have the report ready. I don't believe that they

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Speaker 1: must all know. It's not that complicated.

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Speaker 2: No, and I'm sure they know basic basic information, basic

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Speaker 2: investigation like was water available, we're hydrants working, basic stuff

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Speaker 2: like that that could have been reported a long time ago.

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Speaker 2: But that that's the kind of thing that you know,

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Speaker 2: I can predict one thing. Someone of these agencies is

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Speaker 2: going to issue report. I'm I'm laying this down. I'm

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Speaker 2: saying this right now. This is going to happen. Everyone

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Speaker 2: watched for it, because it's going to happen. One of

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Speaker 2: these agencies is going to issue a report that will

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Speaker 2: say that having the reservoir would have made no difference.

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Speaker 2: We're going to see that report is it's not based

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Speaker 2: on reality. It's just based on dodging litigation and avoiding

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Speaker 2: liability and avoiding accountability. But I predict that one of

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Speaker 2: these agencies will issue that report and then you have

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Speaker 2: a bunch of politicians patting themselves on the back saying sorry,

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Speaker 2: reservoir made no difference.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, good talking with you again, shing Palisade's

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Speaker 1: resident we come back. I want to play the Eric

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Speaker 1: Leonards story on what started the five and they don't

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Speaker 1: know yet, and also talk about the Katie Grimes story

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Speaker 1: on the party for Gavin Newsom that I realize this,

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Speaker 1: but the press conference that Newsoman bass had turned into

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Speaker 1: a launch pad for Newsom's presidential run on his way

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Speaker 1: to South Carolina.

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Speaker 4: South Carolina, you're listening to John Cobels on demand from

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Speaker 1: We are going to have Michael MChE on, the USC

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Speaker 1: professor who has done the research on how why California

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Speaker 1: gas prices are so absurdly excessive. It's all the taxes

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Speaker 1: and the regulations and he thinks it's going over eight

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Speaker 1: dollars a Gallon, and we have some new statistics to

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Speaker 1: give you that's coming up right after three o'clock. Katie

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Speaker 1: Grimes wrote about the Newsom press conference yesterday, and I

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Speaker 1: didn't get a chance to watch it. I think I

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Speaker 1: heard the audio for just a few seconds, and you know,

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Speaker 1: the first thing you want to do is grab a

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Speaker 1: gun and just shoot yourself when he starts rambling on.

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Speaker 1: It turned out it was a love fest. According to

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Speaker 1: Katie Grimes, everybody in the Democratic Party had gathered to

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Speaker 1: celebrate Newsom his alleged work on the fire and he

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Speaker 1: then took off for South Carolina to start meeting Democratic

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Speaker 1: officials and voters. And I guess Newsom is the first

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Speaker 1: entry into the race. I mean he hasn't officially announced,

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Speaker 1: but again you go by actions here. Alex Padilla showed up.

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Speaker 1: Last time I saw Alex Padilla, he was face down

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Speaker 1: on the ground getting tossed from Christy Nomes press conference

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Speaker 1: during the riots, and Padilla started complaining about the National

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Speaker 1: Guard showing up for the riots and being used at

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Speaker 1: the border rather than preparing for the upcoming fire season.

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Speaker 1: Padia thanked Newsom for his tirelessness with the fire recovery tirelessness.

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Speaker 1: What has he done? The cleanup was done by the

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Speaker 1: federal government. The cleanup was done by the Army Corps

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Speaker 1: of Engineers. The cleanup was done by the Trump administration.

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Speaker 1: That's a fact. This is Padilla, an actual quote to Newsom.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, wait, this is to Newsom's wife, you know,

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Speaker 1: the first partner. Thank you, thank you, thank you. That's

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Speaker 1: Padilla to Newsom's wife, Jennifer. Congressman Judy Chu thanked Newsom

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Speaker 1: for his incredibly strong and unwavering leadership doing what Chu said,

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Speaker 1: disasters are not political. This is the United States of America,

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Speaker 1: and we help our citizens wherever they are and whatever

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Speaker 1: they need. Mom and Karen Bass believes that I hear

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Speaker 1: her screaming and waving her arms over the illegal aliens

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Speaker 1: in MacArthur Park. She shown no interest in the palisades.

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Speaker 1: Brad Sherman, a congressman here in the valley, thanked Newsom

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Speaker 1: so much for his pre planning ahead of the fires.

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Speaker 1: What would that be? Sherman thanked Biden. Sherman just said,

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Speaker 1: I couldn't have a better partner than Senator Alex Padia,

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Speaker 1: and the governor couldn't have a better partner than Jennifer

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Speaker 1: Newsom Sherman married to Padea. I must have missed that.

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Speaker 1: It'd be okay if he was. But Jennifer Cybel Newsom

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Speaker 1: gave her speech in Span when she when she switched

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Speaker 1: to English, she was talking about climate disasters. Katie Grime's right,

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Speaker 1: as if the la fires were ignited by climate change?

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Speaker 1: Are they They're all insane, They're all absolutely insane. Next hour,

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Speaker 1: I'll get an Eric Leonard's report on the origin of

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Speaker 1: the fire. We got a lot to do because we're

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Speaker 1: gonna have Michael MChE On play Eric Leonard's report. We're

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Speaker 1: also gonna have Alex stone on. After over twenty years,

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Speaker 1: you don't have to take your shoes off at LAX.

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Speaker 5: I can't wait for them to get rid of the

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Speaker 5: you know, you can't have more than three ounces and

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Speaker 5: a little tenor sunscreen, perfume whatever. It's so annoying shampoo.

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Speaker 1: They had nothing. Yeah, I had nothing to do with terrorism. No,

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Speaker 1: you look at the people, you profile the people. I mean,

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Speaker 1: do you do.

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Speaker 5: You know how many things I've lost throughout the years

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Speaker 5: in an airport because that's stupid rule. Probably cosmetics, yes,

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Speaker 5: but even I mean, I think I brought home one

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Speaker 5: time a snow glow for my kids, And you know,

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Speaker 5: you can sort of forget.

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Speaker 1: Really, Yeah, and you're so terrified. Oh, I know, God,

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Speaker 1: so annoying. More coming up. Hey, you've been listening to

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Speaker 1: The John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear the

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