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Speaker 1: we have much to do today. Steve Garvey coming on

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Speaker 1: in an hour at three o'clock. But batting just ahead

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Speaker 1: of Garvey is Eric Sadal, who is running for La

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Speaker 1: County District Attorney, one of the strong candidates that want

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Speaker 1: to wants to replace George Gascone, and he's been the

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Speaker 1: vice president of the Association of Deputy District Attorneys and

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Speaker 1: he has the endorsement of that organization too. Eric's in

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Speaker 1: here in the studio. Welcome, Thank you for having me. Yeain, Well,

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Speaker 1: we've talked with you a lot. In fact, you were

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Speaker 1: on many times detailing the sins that Gascone has committed

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Speaker 1: not only against the public but the deputy das and

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Speaker 1: thwarting them from doing their job. Today's news is that,

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Speaker 1: unlike what Gascon has been claiming, it looks like shoplifting

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Speaker 1: in Los Angeles City went up eighty one percent last year.

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Speaker 1: Well that I mean, he has been lying his rear

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Speaker 1: end off about crime statistics going down an eighty one

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Speaker 1: percent increase. It's gone from sixty six hundred in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty two to almost twelve thousand cases. And that's just

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Speaker 1: the reported case. As we all know, there's thousands and

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Speaker 1: thousands more unreported. Talk about this, I mean, this is

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Speaker 2: Well, first of all, I just want to talk about

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Speaker 2: unreported crime for a second. Okay, So there's a survey

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Speaker 2: that the US Department of Justice does every year, and

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Speaker 2: they show that property crime is the most underreported type

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Speaker 2: of crime. So about twenty five percent of property crime

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Speaker 2: every crime. Los Angeles is not one of those communities.

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Speaker 2: My car was burglarized. I never reported it because there's

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Speaker 2: no point. So if it's twenty five percent national, you

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Speaker 2: know that number is much lower here in Los Angeles. So, yes,

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Speaker 2: there is a lot of underreported crime. And yes there

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Speaker 2: has been an effect in terms of Prop forty seven

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Speaker 2: in terms of retail theft. We know this. There was

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Speaker 2: independent studies that were done a few years after Prop

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Speaker 2: forty seven they showed that Prop. Forty seven had an

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Speaker 2: increase in retail theft. And most importantly, we have to

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Speaker 2: has actually been trending downwards over the past five years,

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Speaker 2: crime has been trending upwards in California and in Los

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Speaker 2: Angeles over the past five years, and in particular, retail

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Speaker 2: other words, I go into a store and shoplift, and

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Speaker 2: I do it one time, and then I do it

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Speaker 2: a thousand times. On the thousandth time, I'm treated the

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Speaker 2: to stop. The law has to change. That was a

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Speaker 1: Right And we're gonna be doing a broadcast from the

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Speaker 2: Which is what it used to be. So we're just

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Speaker 1: What makes you distinctive? How do you differentiate yourself from

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Speaker 1: Why are you special? Why should you get special consideration

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Speaker 2: Well, because not only do I have the prosecution experience,

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Speaker 2: I'm involved in an initiative to be able to change Prop.

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Speaker 1: Talking with Eric Saddal, who's running to replace Gascona's La

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Speaker 1: Where What do you think caused this? Really goes back

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Speaker 1: What's the message you want to get to people who

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Speaker 2: Well, I was very involved in the campaign against Prop

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Speaker 1: Gascom uses that word reform and it's very vague, and

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Speaker 1: when he was running for office, he did not spell

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Speaker 1: I think even a lot of deputy DA's were blindsided

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Speaker 2: You know. I wrote a lot of articles during the

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Speaker 2: when Day one happened, when he unleashed all these orders

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Speaker 2: going to basically stop using gang enhancements. He said that

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Speaker 1: I don't think people were aware of what he was about,

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Speaker 2: You are a thousand percent correct. I have no doubt

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Speaker 2: all the changes that he wanted to impose in La County.

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Speaker 2: They had no idea about most of the things. All

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Speaker 2: They heard that slogan. And then they heard that George

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Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty. We're talking with Eric Saddal. He's

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Speaker 1: running for LA County District Attorney. He's been a prosecutor

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Speaker 1: for many years, handling very difficult to cases, many many

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Speaker 1: John Cobelt Show, I Am six forty and we're live

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Speaker 1: on Instagram because we're talking to Eric Saddal, another very

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Speaker 1: strong candidate for Los Angeles County District Attorney to replace

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Speaker 1: Talk about you touched on it briefly, but really get

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Speaker 1: into the types of cases that you've taken on. Because

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Speaker 1: you've taken on difficult cases involving murderers, gangs, MS thirteen.

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Speaker 1: So I've done a number of gang cases, very complex ones.

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Speaker 1: Eric thank you for coming on. Thank you so much,

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Speaker 1: good luck, appreciate it. We got three weeks until the election.

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Speaker 1: Deborah Mark Live. It's Eric Saidahl. He's running to replace

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Speaker 1: All right, this is disgusting. You're ready for a disgusting story.

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Speaker 1: I am not in favor of turning waste water into

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Speaker 1: And here's another example. Why not only do we get

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Speaker 1: ingredients in this stew here? Sure, polycyclic aromatic, hydrocarbons, aromatic.

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's said, yeah, stage.

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Speaker 3: You know what.

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Speaker 4: Some people don't like the smell of sage. I'm sure

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Speaker 4: it's better than this.

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's your perfume. No prohibited pesticides, including

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Speaker 1: chloridine DDT, polychlorinated by fennyls, heavy metals, and thalates. All

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Speaker 1: these are banned in the United States except they're in

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Speaker 1: the soil and air and water in San Diego County.

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Speaker 1: These are persistent bioaccumulative, which means it keeps accumulating. It's carcinogenic, toxic,

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Speaker 1: and can be resuspended in the water and air during

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Speaker 1: weather events.

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Speaker 4: Uh oh, we'll rain this weekend.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know. So when the wind blows from the

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Speaker 1: south from San Diego and Mexico, it's coming our way.

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Speaker 1: We got Steve Garvey in just about fifteen twenty minutes

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Speaker 1: after Debris's three o'clock news.

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Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM

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Speaker 3: six forty.

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Speaker 1: Steve Garvey coming in next hour. We were gonna have

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Speaker 1: him on right at three o'clock after Debrah's News. He's

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Speaker 1: running a little bit behind, but as soon as he

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Speaker 1: comes in sometime in the three o'clock hour, we'll put

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Speaker 1: him on immediately. He's coming off a debate last night

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Speaker 1: against those three Democratic blobs, Shift, Katie Porter, and Barbara Lee.

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Speaker 1: I only heard clips of the debate because I just

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Speaker 1: can't stomach these things anymore. Yeah, Barbara Lee is this

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Speaker 1: nutbag from Oakland, and she's another one who's gotten senile.

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Speaker 1: She's seventy seven years old. She's been in Congress since

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Speaker 1: the beginning of time. A looney tune. She she came

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Speaker 1: out for a minimum wage. Guess the minimum wage that

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Speaker 1: she proposed because somebody just taken guess thirty dollars an

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Speaker 1: hour way off wait off off way short. Fifty an hour?

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Speaker 1: You got it? No way, Barbara ly said last night,

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Speaker 1: fifty dollars an hour for minimum wage? Well, how much

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Speaker 1: was everything else gonna cost?

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Speaker 4: I was gonna say, we're in for raises.

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Speaker 1: The dollars an hour. So if if you're shaking the

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Speaker 1: fry basket eight hours a day. Uh, you're supposed to

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Speaker 1: get four hundred dollars a day, four hundred dollars, which

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Speaker 1: would be two thousand a week, which would be one

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Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars a year just for fry basket work

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Speaker 1: in Barber Lee's world. And she's considered a serious contender

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Speaker 1: for Senate.

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Speaker 4: Eric's thinking about leaving the show.

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Speaker 5: Well, it's funny, John said, shaken the fry basket and everything.

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Speaker 5: Me and my buddy went to In and Out the

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Speaker 5: other night for dinner, and there was a sign on

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Speaker 5: the door that said now hiring starting at twenty dollars

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Speaker 5: and twenty five cents.

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Speaker 1: That's high. Yeah, that's really high.

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Speaker 5: And I mean In and Out is known for taking

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Speaker 5: care of their employees too, So that's like way above

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Speaker 5: the minimum wage, which is I believe right now is

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Speaker 5: what sixteen an hour something like that.

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Speaker 1: In californiah I thought it was at least at fifteen. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: because it's you know what the federal minimum wages seven

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Speaker 1: to twenty five.

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Speaker 5: Minimum wage right now in the city of Los Angeles

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Speaker 5: is sixteen seventy eight an hour seventy eight and in

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Speaker 5: and out is starting people at twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 1: Well, she wants two and a half times that she

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Speaker 1: wants it at fifty bucks. That's insane. She wants it

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Speaker 1: three times the LA rate with no concept. I guarantee

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Speaker 1: you Barbara Lee has never run a business. Can you

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Speaker 1: imagine tripling or quadrupling your payroll because everyone else has

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Speaker 1: got to you know, everyone else has got to make

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Speaker 1: triple or quadruple two. She one of the stories I

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Speaker 1: want to get to and I have enough time now.

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Speaker 1: But then we're talking about how Hugo Soda Martinez is

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Speaker 1: this communist Socialist Council member in Hollywood and he's allowed

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Speaker 1: Hollywood to go to hell. It's really disgusting there. And

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Speaker 1: now one of the great recording studios that has recorded

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Speaker 1: some great acts and many hit records is thinking of

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Speaker 1: going out of business because the whole almeless people have

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Speaker 1: destroyed the neighborhood. In fact, Taylor Swift showed up and

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Speaker 1: she said never again because she got a cost it

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Speaker 1: at the seven to eleven. Another absurdity, and Channel four

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Speaker 1: has a story on it, we'll get to it later.

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Speaker 5: Is this.

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Speaker 1: Half finished office building in downtown Los Angeles. This is

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Speaker 1: the one where graffiti, well graffiti vandals. They sprayed graffiti

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Speaker 1: on thirty floors, thirty floors. It went on for several days.

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Speaker 1: Either nobody noticed or nobody cared, and Karen Bass is

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Speaker 1: trying to have a hissy fit. Now somebody now people

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Speaker 1: are parachuting off the skyscraper. I we'll play that story

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Speaker 1: coming up. We also got Steve Garvey coming in, but

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Speaker 1: he's running just a little bit late. Deborah Mark Live

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Speaker 1: the twenty four hour Can't Find News Rum. Hey, you've

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Speaker 1: been listening to The John Cobalt Show podcast. You can

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Speaker 1: always hear the show live on KFI Am six forty

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