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Speaker 1: I'm sitting here listening to Debra's news and I hear

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Speaker 1: Michael Monks. I want to know what's going on. Welcome Michael.

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Speaker 2: How are you?

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Speaker 3: I am fine keeping things clear here in Burbank? Just

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Speaker 3: for you, let me tell you. I hear that we,

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Speaker 3: the taxpayers of Los Angeles. I'm assuming taxpayers in this case,

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Speaker 3: are going to be giving money to businesses that were

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Speaker 3: harmed by the ice riots. And I'm thinking, well, first

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Speaker 2: In, and now you're going to pay for the for.

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Speaker 1: The damage done to the businesses by the riots that

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Speaker 2: That's certainly one way to frame it. John, certainly no

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Speaker 3: And look, the past couple of days have seen a

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Speaker 3: have been swept up in federal immigration enforcement, both at

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Speaker 3: to helping businesses in downtown La recover. As you know,

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Speaker 1: When do you get a job as one of those

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Speaker 1: spinning spokes holes they pay a little bit.

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Speaker 3: If I could use you as a reference, I think

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Speaker 2: That's what he's doing now, well a few of them.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So what happened was obviously there were protests and

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Speaker 3: now the city says we should give these folks some money.

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Speaker 1: That happens after all these ridiculous riots, after the George

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Speaker 3: And downtown has been an other thing particularly hurt by

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Speaker 3: So City Councilwoman Isabelle Herado pushed for this motion today.

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Speaker 3: It's not in effect yet. What it's asking for is

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Speaker 3: some indications that there is some money for this. The

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Speaker 1: The DTLA Resilient Legacy Business Grant. I think that was

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Speaker 1: what the f is this? They?

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Speaker 2: What is they say? Riot? A riot response fund that

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Speaker 3: Well, it seems like there's not just this push, but

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Speaker 3: that references what they call legacy businesses. You may recall

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Speaker 3: That's what motivated that particular motion. They're calling them legacy businesses.

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Speaker 1: So they're trying to I got an idea, how about

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Speaker 2: I tell you, it's been interesting.

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Speaker 3: Why John, I'm sorry, I just wanted to say that

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Speaker 2: The HomeOS. It is discussing you live there, and it

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Speaker 3: And at first I was a little timid about this

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Speaker 3: and it is, certainly, but you can't gloss over these

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Speaker 3: very obvious challenges. They went to city Hall yesterday and

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Speaker 3: said y'all need to look at this stuff. Please put

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Speaker 3: So you're starting to see residents down there start to

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Speaker 2: Angeles that they have to that that is good to hear.

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Speaker 1: That is like the best news of all is that

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Speaker 3: I wanted to let you know before you kick me off.

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Speaker 3: I told Eric that we call this cobalt kibble when

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Speaker 2: Part of this same motion.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I started salivating and barking, and yeah, I'm ready

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Speaker 2: Well, here you go, doggie.

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Speaker 3: They are also looking at engaging philanthropic organizations to provide

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Speaker 1: When one of these protests start, have the police throw

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Speaker 3: There were certainly a lot of criticism to the way

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Speaker 3: seen our last dust up, so we'll see how they've.

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Speaker 1: Changed their ways if they have. All right, very good, Michael,

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Speaker 1: thank you, my pleasure, My belly is full. I'm satisfied.

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Speaker 1: All right, Michael Monks CAFI News. Well, we'll talk more

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so don't get on my case today.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I was listening and I'm hearing this and you know,

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Speaker 1: The bass and everybody else in Los Angeles allows things

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Speaker 1: going crazy. Remember the police chief Jim McDonald said, we

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Speaker 1: And now we find out, you know a lot of

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Speaker 2: And they wait, they're not, they're not.

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Speaker 1: They don't care about illegal immigration, they don't care about

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Speaker 1: just because they enjoy destroying things. You know, it is fun.

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Speaker 1: Do you ever had a chance to destroy something? You know,

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Speaker 1: people get, people get a surge out of it. It's exciting,

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Speaker 1: And instead, you know, where did Caaren Beths do? She

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Speaker 2: And so now you know, now what is it? Three

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Speaker 1: Like, oh uh, I guess you know, do we have

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Speaker 1: I told you this yesterday. Okay, you just spend a week.

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Speaker 1: All of you should go on a mandatory week's vacation

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Speaker 1: Bulldozer, you just go chase everybody out odd lawful assembly.

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Speaker 1: it's just uncivilized, all right, thank you?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, steel better.

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Speaker 2: Yes, this is why I'm so quiet? Otherwise, aren't I quiet?

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Speaker 1: right now, now, Eric going to get to the clip.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you remember, well, I'm not sure

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Speaker 1: I'm sure all her influence influencer fans. Her influences were

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Speaker 2: Too bad. If you don't like it, follow the law,

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Speaker 2: how about that?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, she's here illegally and Adaviovich's got a duy. It's

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Speaker 2: Now. That was the story.

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Speaker 2: He at least he had a decent job towing trucks.

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Speaker 1: He steals the ice car and then goes on social

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Speaker 2: Look at the guy running after me, ha ha. Who's

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Speaker 1: like unimaginable stupid, and that's where Nuna is in this

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Speaker 1: Tatiana Martinez full all right, Well, when you come back,

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Speaker 1: we have news about the overfed, which should maybe a

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Speaker 1: regular segment on the show.

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Speaker 2: That's coming up.

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Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobbels on demand from KFI.

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Speaker 2: Coming up after two o'clock. Never's News at two o'clock.

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Speaker 1: Carl Dobyo is coming on. The Republican assembly Man Carl

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Speaker 1: Tobio has one question who drew the maps. He's filed

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Speaker 1: a formal complaint with the California it's the Fair Political

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Speaker 1: Practices Committee, and.

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Speaker 2: He wants to know.

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Speaker 1: What miscreant has drawn the new congressional district lines here

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Speaker 1: in California, since this is going to be on the

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Speaker 1: ballot in November, to take away the independent Registricting Commission

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Speaker 1: and replace it with a bunch of political hacks. They've

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Speaker 1: already redrawn the lines so they could get rid of

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Speaker 1: most of the Republican representation in the state of California. Apparently,

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Speaker 1: if you're a citizen in California, you are not allowed

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Speaker 1: to have any other party other than the Democrats represent you.

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Speaker 1: That is the belief of Gavin Newsom and the rest

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Speaker 1: of the Assembly. A state setate Democrats. They believe it's

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Speaker 1: like you should only have representation from their ilk. There

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Speaker 1: is no other party to rerepresented by. So they've redrawn

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Speaker 1: the district lines. As you've probably heard, we're going to

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Speaker 1: vote on this in November to replace the Independent Commission

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Speaker 1: and just let these democratic political hacks. Now which political

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Speaker 1: hack actually drew the maps? Well, they don't want to say,

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Speaker 1: and so Carl Demayo's trying to find out.

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Speaker 2: We'll have him on coming up.

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Speaker 1: Okay, news about the overfed, the overfed.

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Speaker 2: The overfed.

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Speaker 5: Oh that sounds a that sounds like I don't know.

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Speaker 5: That sounds very weird. Do you just mean that you

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Speaker 5: just mean fat people?

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Speaker 1: If i'd said fat people news, Well, now you're.

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Speaker 5: So PC, are you?

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Speaker 2: Well? Yeah, I mean you didn't like me, but you

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Speaker 2: don't like to.

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Speaker 5: You just use one.

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to show my sensitive side. I am sensitive.

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Speaker 5: No, it's not working.

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Speaker 2: They're not believing this. I'm all right.

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Speaker 1: Well, it's very rare that you get two news stories

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Speaker 1: within a few days of each other and they both

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Speaker 1: quote the same activist from the same weird protest group.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you've ever heard of the National

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Speaker 1: Association to Advance Fat Acceptance.

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Speaker 2: This is a real group.

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Speaker 1: No NAFA, naa FA, NAFA, National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance.

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Speaker 1: They've been around for several decades because I remember Ken

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Speaker 1: and I are arguing with their their their leader years ago,

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Speaker 1: and they.

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Speaker 2: Want to erase they want they look at being.

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Speaker 1: Overfed as a specific identity to be respected and honored

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Speaker 1: like anybody else's identity, right along with all other agendas

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Speaker 1: and races and ethicities and everything else. And people just don't.

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Speaker 1: But what it is is, like all these interest groups,

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Speaker 1: is they want special treatment. That's what they want. And

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Speaker 1: within the last few days, Southwest Airlines announced they were

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Speaker 1: changing their seating policies, and the euphemisms fly. They come

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Speaker 1: fast and furious. In the La Times. First they refer

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Speaker 1: to the overfed as the plus size community.

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Speaker 5: Okay, well that's better than the overfed.

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Speaker 1: Then later on it's called the customer of size policy.

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Speaker 1: I think the overfed is better.

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Speaker 5: I would just say overweight people policy.

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Speaker 1: No, it's the overweight is already too harsh. Well, here's

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Speaker 1: the deal here, Southwest. Their old policy was if you

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Speaker 1: were going to slop over into the seat next to you.

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Speaker 1: You ever experienced that, have you would get crushed.

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Speaker 5: Look, I'm not fat shaming here, I'm.

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Speaker 2: Not, but yes shaming.

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Speaker 1: There's another one, all right, Well, norm normally they try

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Speaker 1: to squeeze in. You got a lot of fat lopping

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Speaker 1: over the sides, and the airlines were saying, well, you

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Speaker 1: should buy second ticket, right so.

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Speaker 5: You can have both seats, absolutely right, You.

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Speaker 1: Pull up the armoorrest and you just spill out. You

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Speaker 1: can spread out your legs.

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Speaker 5: You don't have to be mean. We get the point.

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Speaker 1: Currently, travelers, and I guess this is in the Southwest handbook,

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Speaker 1: travelers who encroach upon neighboring seats that's actually in quotes here.

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Speaker 1: I guess it's from there from their manual, are encouraged

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Speaker 1: to purchase an extra seat to ensure it will be available.

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Speaker 1: Right Otherwise you you because not all airline seats are

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Speaker 1: the same correct currently they range between fifteen and a

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Speaker 1: half to nineteen inches. So if you're stuff to do

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Speaker 1: a fifteen and a half inch seat and you're nineteen plus,

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Speaker 1: that's a big problem. And you could get a refund

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Speaker 1: and you could get a refund if when the flight

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Speaker 1: lifts off there is an open seat. In other words,

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Speaker 1: you don't have to pay for the extra seat if

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Speaker 1: they add an open seat anyway, Okay. Well, now Southwest

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Speaker 1: wants to keep that money and the NATHA group very

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Speaker 1: upset about it. They interviewed Jim McLellan. She's an overfed

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Speaker 1: customer for the last decade, and she said that she's

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Speaker 1: always bought the extra seat because she didn't want to

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Speaker 1: be the next viral video of someone upset about sitting next.

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Speaker 2: To the fat passenger.

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Speaker 5: Okay, that's fair.

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Speaker 2: She used the word fat.

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Speaker 5: Okay, okay.

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Speaker 1: And flyers in the plus sized community knew that on

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Speaker 1: top of the guaranteed refund, customers could easily reserve an

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Speaker 1: empty seat and that they would be met with compassion

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Speaker 1: from customer service agents. Compassion, it's not a disease, just

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Speaker 1: means you, you know, you can't control yourself eating easily fixable,

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Speaker 1: and McLelland says the customer of size policy helped ease

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Speaker 1: what too often feels humiliating. That's why the recent changes

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Speaker 1: are heartbreaking. It's heartbreaking. Now again they want an automatic refund.

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Speaker 1: They buy two seats because they need two seats worth

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Speaker 1: a room, and they used to get the refund if

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Speaker 1: it turns out there was an extra seat around anyway,

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Speaker 1: and they will move. Apparently I didn't know this. But

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Speaker 1: let's say you get next to somebody who's lopping over

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Speaker 1: on you. They will allow you to move if there's

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Speaker 1: an open seat somewhere. And according to Flyers' Rights this

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Speaker 1: is another activist group. Fewer than half of travelers can

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Speaker 1: reasonably fit in their seats some.

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Speaker 5: Of those sets. Yeah, they're pretty tiny.

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Speaker 6: I mean, look, I'm a small person and I'm uncomfortable

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Speaker 6: in most airline seats. You aren't, I am, And and

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Speaker 6: also my legs hurt all the time because my legs

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Speaker 6: are smushed and I have short legs.

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Speaker 5: But that's besides the wait, yes, I am.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I think that was.

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Speaker 5: You sound like my husband?

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Speaker 7: What do you mean?

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Speaker 1: So I gotta want to hear Tigris Osborne, executive director

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Speaker 1: of NAFA, and they they said, for fifteen years they've

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Speaker 1: had they've gotten more and more rights for these overfed passengers.

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Speaker 1: There was a film director back in twenty ten who

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Speaker 1: is removed from a flight of Kevin's film director named

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Speaker 1: Kevin Smith because the captain thought Smith was a safety

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Speaker 1: risk to other passengers, which I can see right if

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Speaker 1: you don't have your seat belt on and you go

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Speaker 1: flying right.

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Speaker 5: Well yeah that.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: The other story that NAFA is involved in is apparently

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Speaker 1: they are upset with ozempic and all the other ozempic

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Speaker 1: like drugs. They are opposed to these drugs because they

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Speaker 1: say fatness is their identity and there shouldn't be a

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Speaker 1: drug promoted to wipe out their identity.

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Speaker 6: Okay, so if people that are fat want to be fat,

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Speaker 6: that they don't have to take ozembic.

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Speaker 5: They I don't understand what the problem is.

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Speaker 1: Nowhere in these stories is the suggestion that people should

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Speaker 1: just eat less.

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Speaker 6: Would you know what, if you want to be fat,

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Speaker 6: then that's that's okay, But you can't. You can't go

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Speaker 6: on a plane and slop over and and and bother

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Speaker 6: other people.

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Speaker 5: That's that's fine. You do you, but it can't that.

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Speaker 2: Look, he's using the phrase slop over.

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Speaker 5: Well that's yours. So it came to mind.

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Speaker 6: I didn't want to sit and try and think of

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Speaker 6: another word. But yeah, that was kind of rude of me, admittedly,

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Speaker 6: But it's your fault because you put it in my head.

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Speaker 2: I'm glad when I drag you down to my level.

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Speaker 2: Oh you have so fat activists with that are opposed

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Speaker 2: to weight loss.

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Speaker 1: Tigris Osborne, the executive director, says, Oh, Zeppik is making

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Speaker 1: it one hundred percent worse for us. It's created a

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Speaker 1: lot of public narrative that if you could just solve

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Speaker 1: all your problems by taking this magical drug, and if

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Speaker 1: you don't take it, well, then you deserve what you get.

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Speaker 6: Well, we all know that if you're obese, that's forget

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Speaker 6: the way it looks. It's not healthy.

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Speaker 7: No, no, So.

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Speaker 1: The one time I had to go to a nursing

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Speaker 1: home frequently, you know, with my in laws, I looked

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Speaker 1: around one day in the cafeteria. I was there with

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Speaker 1: my father in law having lunch with him. Although I

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Speaker 1: wouldn't need anything there, Oh my god. That convinced me

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Speaker 1: I'm never going to one of those places. That food

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Speaker 1: is just awful. And maybe that's why everybody's so thin,

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Speaker 1: Because there were about two things I noticed. There were

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Speaker 1: about thirty people in the room, right, thirty out of

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Speaker 1: thirty were really thin, probably because they couldn't stomach the

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Speaker 1: terrible food. Yeah, I'm sure, but also it's because when

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Speaker 1: you're overweight, you're not going to live that long.

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Speaker 2: You're not going to make it to the nursing home.

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Speaker 1: Secondly, twenty five out of the thirty were women, which

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Speaker 1: you know, men die off much sooner than women for

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Speaker 1: obvious reasons. All Right, more coming up Debora Mark live

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