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Speaker 2: Start off well, the price of gasoline right now in California.

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Speaker 2: The average is five eighty eight and that is almost

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Speaker 2: So we are way way above about two bucks above

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Speaker 2: in the threes. Most states are still in the threes.

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Speaker 2: It's because of California. I think the average gets bumped

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Speaker 2: Alex Stone from ABC News because the price of everything

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Speaker 2: involving airlines is going way up because of the war

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Speaker 2: in Iran and the we can't blame the jet fuel

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Speaker 2: prices undewsome Alex tell us it's not to say you

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Speaker 2: know by time you're done, I'll figure out a way. So, yeah,

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Speaker 2: we got new jet fuel data today. And you know,

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Speaker 2: when the plane pulls up to the gate, they're not like,

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Speaker 2: since the beginning of the war, we know that the

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Speaker 2: prices have gone way up, and really from the beginning

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Speaker 2: spiking and the war in Iran. But the average price

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Speaker 2: of jet fuel starting this week it was at four

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Speaker 2: dollars sixty two cents a gallon. Compare that to even

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Speaker 2: So the price is doubled from the beginning of the year.

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Speaker 2: But even from late February it's gone from two fifty

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Speaker 2: they're saying that this is a big deal now that

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Speaker 2: They are projecting through twenty twenty seven that oil prices

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Speaker 2: and that is why, as we've talked about last week

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Speaker 2: that they across the board, not just United, but all

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Speaker 2: if oil prices take a nose dive, then a lot

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Speaker 2: They're kind of gas prices. They come back down slowly.

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Speaker 2: This is about because they move so much fuel that

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Speaker 2: I heard today for every ten dollars that oil goes up,

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Speaker 2: but hopeful, hopefully all this planning that the airlines are doing,

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Speaker 2: Thanks John Well, it's bad stuff, but bad stuff is

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Speaker 2: good stuff. Here to serve alextone, ABC News. The price

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Speaker 2: This poll is complete and utter nonsense, total horse maneur.

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Speaker 2: I cannot, I can't. I have many more derogatory things

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Speaker 2: This is like the worst poll and I can't believe. Really,

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Speaker 2: they got snookered. This poll's garbage. I'll tell you about

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Speaker 2: it when we come back. And yeah, it's about the

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Speaker 2: LA mayor's race and the people. The people who are

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Speaker 2: This would be the dream that Nythia ROMed would like

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Speaker 2: who'd you vote for? Would you vote for Romen, Bass,

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Speaker 2: There was no undecided. See again, they push you into

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Speaker 2: Nearly fifty percent of LA said they prefer a democratic socialist. No, no, no, no,

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Speaker 2: Of Democratic Socialists according to this poll, that's impossible. Paul

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Speaker 2: The percentages that each candidate would get, because again, you

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Speaker 2: Nathia Rahman doesn't have citywide name recognition, but that description

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Speaker 1: When we come back, I want to give you. I

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Speaker 2: The poll has to say about the poll, because if

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Speaker 2: And I'm saying this because this has been reported in

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Speaker 1: And it actually worked. Now, I did say.

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Speaker 2: When the La Times published it, because it's already out

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Speaker 2: strange election cycle that we're in, both for the governor

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Speaker 2: know who. They don't know who. Nithie Rohman is a

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Speaker 2: And what you do is you set up a mechanism

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Speaker 2: Ramen put together this fake push pole, again designed to

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Speaker 1: And somehow they got this this stooge.

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Speaker 2: Who runs the the Loyal of Marramount Center for the

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Speaker 2: her district. You know, ever heard Nythia Ramin? They don't know,

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Speaker 2: thirty three percent of the vote. In this poll. Bass

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Speaker 2: And now with social media and now with news departments

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Speaker 2: The commanding lead is among those undecided and who don't

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Speaker 2: So the guy, the guy who oversaw the poll, let

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Speaker 1: So Fernando Guerrero said.

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Speaker 2: Well, this poll shows if only positive descriptors are used

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Speaker 2: And then you describe your favorite candidate in glowing terms

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Speaker 2: presented as a poe. And what's worse, the news media

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Speaker 2: covers it as a real poll. Boy, oh boy, we

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Speaker 2: are way lost in the three dimensional maze here. Oh

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Speaker 2: my god, what I've never heard of such nonsense? He

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Speaker 2: says he wanted to force respondents to give an answer

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Speaker 2: similar to when they actually vote. No, it's not the same,

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Speaker 2: because when people go vote, it's because they've reached a

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Speaker 2: decision already after following the campaign, and if they're not

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Speaker 2: following the campaign, they probably don't vote. In case you

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Speaker 2: haven't noticed, turnout for a mayor election is usually really low.

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Speaker 2: I think one year when Garcetti ran, it was like

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Speaker 2: fifteen percent. Most people don't follow it, therefore they don't vote.

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Speaker 2: That's kind of a waste of time. So they do

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Speaker 2: follow it, maybe not well, maybe they're stupid, and they'll

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Speaker 2: process things right. But nobody is forced to vote. That's

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Speaker 2: a volunteer action. And then when he gets fifty percent,

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Speaker 2: say they prefer a democratic socialist.

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Speaker 1: Most people don't know what.

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Speaker 2: That is because if they understood that, they would have

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Speaker 2: run all these people off the city council by now,

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Speaker 2: because we got four of them. But they come generally

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Speaker 2: from illgal alien districts. So activists what they do is

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Speaker 2: they do ballot harvesting. They get you know, they put

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Speaker 2: they get illegal aliens to get on the voter rolls,

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Speaker 2: They fill out fake ballots, they go to nursing homes.

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Speaker 2: There aren't that many people in these districts that vote

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Speaker 2: at all, so it's really easy to flip a district

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Speaker 2: like this and that's how you get democratic socialists in.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, the city's so corrupt, you know,

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Speaker 2: I just this is just the most outrageous thing. I

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Speaker 2: don't say this often, but thanks to the La Times

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Speaker 2: for debunking the pole and those Democratic pollsters who also

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Speaker 2: debunked the poll because it wasn't a poll, it was

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Speaker 2: a campaign stunt. And next time you see a poll

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Speaker 2: coming out of Loyal and Merrimount, remember that.

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Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI Am

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Speaker 3: six forty.

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Speaker 1: Don't forget podcast after six o'clock and you get to

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Speaker 1: listen to what you missed.

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Speaker 2: Women, young women are panicking all over this country over

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Speaker 2: tech neck.

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Speaker 1: Have you heard this tech neck?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 4: I don't think I have neck wrinkles. Oh yeah, not

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Speaker 4: just young women worrying.

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Speaker 2: No, Well, older women get wrinkles in their neck, right, yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's one of the aging signs. And you can't Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I don't know if there's such a thing.

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Speaker 1: As a necklace. Well, men get it to, and yes,

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Speaker 1: men get it to, but men don't care such a thing.

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Speaker 1: Is there such a thing.

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Speaker 2: Well, this comes from I always tell you about the

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Speaker 2: zombies that I see every day and Most of them

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Speaker 2: are young women walking across the streets to Whole Foods

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Speaker 2: in back during lunch hour and with their heads down

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Speaker 2: and they're squirreling looking at their stupid texts.

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Speaker 4: Oh so you're blaming that on this.

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Speaker 2: Well, actually, yes, that's apparently true. Horizontal lines that develop

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Speaker 2: across your neck with age and worsen with incessant smartphone use. Uh.

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Speaker 2: There's one girl here. Her fifty five year old mother said,

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Speaker 2: you have more wrinkles on your neck than I do.

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Speaker 2: The girl's twenty four and is a beauty influencer. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 2: Uh is it because I'm short? She thought, you get

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Speaker 2: nick wrinkles when you're short. Oh, that's give you.

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Speaker 1: I don't really have any yet.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Well, maybe my neck is shorter than others, or

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Speaker 2: maybe it's because I had an iPhone since I was eight.

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Speaker 1: And apparently it's true.

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Speaker 2: If you stare at your iPhone with your.

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Speaker 1: Head bent over, it creates neck wrinkles. Uh. Oh.

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Speaker 2: The neck has usually been a dead giveaway of one's

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Speaker 2: age and it, you know, it depends on genetics and

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Speaker 2: how old you are. But medical professionals now say constant

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Speaker 2: phone use can exacerbate the issue. Some of those drama

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Speaker 2: attic horizontal lines become worse because people are literally spending

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Speaker 2: hours on their phone looking down. According to a cosmetic dermatologist,

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Speaker 2: doctor Melanie Palm, because Americans, and I find this this

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Speaker 2: blows me away. Americans spend an average of five hours

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Speaker 2: and sixteen minutes with their head bent over staring at

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Speaker 2: their phones.

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Speaker 1: Five hours and sixteen minutes a day. That's a lot.

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Speaker 2: Gen Z logs six hours twenty seven minutes. And so

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Speaker 2: the neck wrinkles deepen and harden, and there's actually a

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Speaker 2: you can get a cervical problem in your neck. That's

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Speaker 2: another thing, because if you're bent over all the time. Boy,

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Speaker 2: I tell you the gen Z girls, they are going

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Speaker 2: to be hunched over. They're going to look like those

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Speaker 2: little old men, right, and they won't be able to

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Speaker 2: lift up their necks.

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Speaker 1: Their backs will be curved.

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Speaker 2: They'll have these thick, deep wrinkles, like canyon sized wrinkles.

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Speaker 1: That's where all these zombies are headed.

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Speaker 4: Well, wait a second, you bend your neck for other

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Speaker 4: things too. I mean, if you're reading a book, I

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Speaker 4: guess you can read it like this.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you can hold the book up, but the phone's

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Speaker 2: in your hand. So you tend to look down.

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Speaker 4: Okay, I'm going to look at it like this.

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Speaker 1: I see when I see the phone.

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Speaker 2: Zombies crossing the street by the one girl stepped out

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Speaker 2: in front of me today, Did you honk? I came

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Speaker 2: close to it. They don't look at all. I always honk,

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Speaker 2: I have at times.

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Speaker 1: I have it times I.

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Speaker 4: Know eactly are you talking about coming to work?

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Speaker 2: Well, that that does happen, But this one was closer

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Speaker 2: to my house. No, I got I I made a

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Speaker 2: left turn off Sunset once, trying to get through oncoming traffic,

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Speaker 2: and all of a sudden, out of nowhere, this girl

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Speaker 2: steps off the curb, staring at her phone. I came

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Speaker 2: close to knocking her down because she just like jumped

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Speaker 2: out in front of me, and I haunked the horn

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Speaker 2: and I yelled at her, I go get off your phone.

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Speaker 1: And she looked at me all wide eyed, but yeah,

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Speaker 1: get off the phone. I almost flattened you. I'm glad

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Speaker 1: that you told her that.

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Speaker 2: It's uh of course, you know, she probably figures I'm

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Speaker 2: just some colossal jerk. Yeah, called, that's right, just this

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Speaker 2: jerk old guy complaining about phones. But no, Procter and

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Speaker 2: Gamble has A has a brand of well they got

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Speaker 2: they got all kinds of creams now and I think

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Speaker 2: and potions.

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Speaker 1: What's that?

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Speaker 2: That that that that that woman I told you about.

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Speaker 2: She she actually wraps her neck in some kind of

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Speaker 2: plastic to to it's some kind of treatment to minimalize

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Speaker 2: the lines. It's like, just get off the phone, because

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Speaker 2: now all the companies are going to sell you miracle

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Speaker 2: goop to rub on your neck all day and that's

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Speaker 2: not going to help. If you spend six hours with

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Speaker 2: you with your with your head bent down, that's just

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Speaker 2: I well, you know, you know what if you if

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Speaker 2: you spend six hours a day stare at the phone, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: then you deserve the deep necklines.

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Speaker 1: You deserve to look like you're one hundred years old.

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Speaker 2: That's all right, We come back Michael Gateson he's running

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Speaker 2: for Attorney General against Rob Bonta, and uh, he's gonna talk,

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Speaker 2: among other things about the House Republicans. They got a

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Speaker 2: committee Energy Committee. They are giving subpoenas out and one

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Speaker 2: is going to the head of the California Air Resources

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Speaker 2: Board wanting to know all the details, all the memos,

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Speaker 2: all the emails about the electric vehicle mandate that went Bust.

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Speaker 2: Deborah Mark is live in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.

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