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Speaker 3: There's a lot of people running for governor. Steve Klubeck

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Speaker 3: He's a businessman, very successful. We'll talk about that. He's

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Speaker 3: I think you'd agree that California needs. I mean, if

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Speaker 3: you heard that Kamala Harris thing we just played last segment,

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Speaker 3: it's like, enough of that, enough of this nonsense. Right,

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Speaker 3: the rest of the country is rebooting itself. We've got

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Speaker 3: we've got to go in a completely different direction here.

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Speaker 3: Let's get Steve Kolbeck on running for governor and talk

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Speaker 3: how are you, John?

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Speaker 1: Thank you? I'm good. How are you today?

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Speaker 3: Let's uh, let's give a background as like just a

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Speaker 1: Well, you know, John, I'm a product of California, California

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Speaker 1: It used to be the bully pulpit of the United States.

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Speaker 1: I've fixed the most broken of business and people have

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Speaker 1: because I learned business in the street. I learned politics

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Speaker 1: We don't steal, John is zero. None of this nine

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Speaker 1: If I was a kid and stole nine hundred and

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Speaker 1: been called on to fix federally the Tourism Department of

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Speaker 1: And it's still in existence today, fourteen years later, with

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Speaker 1: fraud in our state. Tens of billions of dollars uncollected.

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Speaker 1: People forgot. They want you to forget their mistakes. Now

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Speaker 1: When is enough enough? We have California values here which

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Speaker 1: But there are solutions. There are solutions, And that's why

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Speaker 1: I'm running because I interviewed every single person that was

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Speaker 1: the front of a check, John.

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Speaker 2: Not one? Not one is what.

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Speaker 1: Signed the front of a check? Yes, who's made payroll?

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Speaker 1: I know I've not only made payroll, John, I've come

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Speaker 1: red carpet, John, I don't have I don't put hair

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Speaker 1: no trophies. I want everyone to do well. Everyone's a

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Speaker 1: and that our customers, all of us, because it's our money.

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Speaker 1: It's not Sacramento's money, it's our money. And we got

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Speaker 2: Done, though, well it was being done not that long ago.

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Speaker 1: But you're right that I would agree with that. But

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Speaker 1: You've got arguments between the city, of the county, the

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Speaker 2: So we're going to continue here with Stephen Klubeck.

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Speaker 3: He's a Democrat running for governor, a successful businessman all

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Speaker 2: That's next.

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Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM

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Speaker 3: We're going to continue with Stephen Klubeck, businessman running for

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Speaker 3: There's got to be a better, like he keeps saying,

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Speaker 1: Our text dollars are supposed to protect us and serve

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Speaker 1: I you didn't hear from me during that period of

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Speaker 1: To dister, because you know, I've been the guy to

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Speaker 1: And I was out in the field helping first responders,

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Speaker 1: fire stations. John, there's no washer and dryers in what world?

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Speaker 1: we can't forget this, No.

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Speaker 3: And it frustrates me that nobody wants, nobody in power

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Speaker 1: They should be well because they want us to forget. No,

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Speaker 3: Right, what's yeah, No, I'm not people people feel and

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Speaker 1: Oh I'll give you a better one, John. I found

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, this is going to come out.

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Speaker 1: forget about Alsadina. It's not all about Pasadena. I mean Palisades, right, Okay,

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Speaker 1: So that's going to come out soon and hopefully there'll

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Speaker 2: Oh shocking? Two months they still haven't filled it up.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so you got why? Why Why wasn't it fixed immediately?

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Speaker 1: Why let's start there.

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Speaker 3: To me, it's like filling up your kid's pool with

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Speaker 1: All of them. That's what's most important to get those

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Speaker 1: What are we going to do? I mean, who wants

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Speaker 1: to even live in Alcadena? If you if your home

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Speaker 1: the real question job insurance. That topic insurance. We got

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Speaker 1: an insurance crisis in this state, or it does too,

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Speaker 1: by the way, But how do we fix that? How

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Speaker 1: Some people have no insurance, Well that's a problem. How

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Speaker 1: do they keep the vultures from purchasing their properties? Some

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Speaker 1: a gap because they're homes paid off, their mortgage paid off,

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Speaker 1: It's probably one and a half time. So where's that

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Speaker 3: Steven I gotta take a break to do the news.

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Speaker 3: Can we do this again soon you come back on.

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Speaker 1: I can't wait. Darn's enjoyable, all.

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Speaker 2: Right, Stephen Klubec.

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Speaker 3: He's a Democrat businessman running for governor here in California,

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Speaker 3: and I'm sure he's got even a lot more beyond

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Speaker 3: talk against student. Stephen, Thanks again for your time.

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Speaker 3: Kevin Kylie, the congressman from northern California, former legislator. He

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Speaker 2: Everyone has seen it.

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Speaker 3: And just like the disaster in the Palisades and how

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Speaker 2: So we're shouting as loud as we can here.

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Speaker 3: And we just had a really good conversation with Stephen Klubek,

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Speaker 3: the future. Stephen is a very successful businessman and you

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Speaker 2: Here's the story.

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Speaker 3: Out of the La Times, they arrested three people, Joyce

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Speaker 2: And this happened to friends of ours. They went to.

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Speaker 2: It stole somebody's identity.

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Speaker 3: The Delray Avenue property was damaged, but his owners had

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Speaker 3: on an unemployment claim from the state.

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Speaker 2: Then there's a.

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Speaker 3: There's another property on Harding Avenue and the owners there,

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Speaker 3: they're only identified by their initials MS and as they

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Speaker 3: were told when they applied to FEMA that someone else

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Speaker 3: had already submitted an application for their property. And this

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Speaker 3: is Hidishia Robertson, suspected of filing a fraudulent application. She

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Speaker 3: was seeking benefits of about a damaged dressed or residence

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Speaker 3: in the Palisades, except Robertson did not own it, did

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Speaker 3: not rent, did not live there, did not work at

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Speaker 3: the property. She got twenty five thousand dollars to Dcia Robertson.

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Speaker 3: Then she submitted a letter to FEMA asking for more money,

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Speaker 3: saying I've lost both my home and workplace, leaving me

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Speaker 3: in an extremely difficult financial and personal situation.

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Speaker 2: She also tried to.

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Speaker 3: Obtain more FEMA benefits for some property in San Francisco. Now,

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Speaker 3: if you get convicted of fraud in connection with a

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Speaker 3: major disaster, you can get up to thirty years in prison.

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Speaker 3: I hope they get all thirty years. They should all

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Speaker 3: die in prison. If we started sentencing people so they

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Speaker 3: die in prison, this stuff will stop. But these people, again,

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Speaker 3: these aren't kids pulling a prank. Troce Turner's fifty five,

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Speaker 3: Tyron Barnes thirty eight, Dhia Robertson is thirty six.

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Speaker 2: This is what they do. This is how they earn money.

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Speaker 2: You have to have.

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Speaker 3: Do you have to And this is why I don't

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Speaker 3: have much sympathy for government employees squealing that they're getting

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Speaker 3: cut in the federal government. But because look at this,

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Speaker 3: these are all government workers. Rubber stamping all these claims,

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Speaker 3: letting the fraud happen. Nobody doing even the slightest check.

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Speaker 3: I mean, all you got to do is like a

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Speaker 3: Google search to see who owns a property.

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Speaker 2: More.

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Speaker 3: Coming up three o'clock Kevin Kylie. He's the congressman Northern California.

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Speaker 3: He wants the FBI to investigate that criminal operation, California's

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Speaker 3: high speed rail. We'll talk to Kevin Kylie in about

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Speaker 3: fifteen minutes.

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Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty.

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Speaker 3: About about fifteen to ten to fifteen minutes, we're gonna

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Speaker 3: have Kevin Kylie on. The Congressman wants the FBI investigating

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Speaker 3: high speed rail because the criminals there. All right, I

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Speaker 3: have a disturbing story involving an embalmer at a funeral home. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: you are going to go oh on this one. Her

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Speaker 3: name is Amber Laddermilk's thirty four years old. She works

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Speaker 3: as an embalmer at the Memorial Mortuary and Crematory in Houston.

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Speaker 2: She's licensed. Do you have to have a license?

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Speaker 5: I would hope so.

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Speaker 2: Can't just let anybody come in off the street.

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Speaker 5: I don't know who would want that job.

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Speaker 3: Anyway, Well, this is the kind of employee you get.

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Speaker 3: A man named Charles Rodriguez died. He's fifty eight years old,

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Speaker 3: and his body was taken to the mortuary. Charles was

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Speaker 3: a bad man. He was a registered sex offender. He'd

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Speaker 3: been charged with sexual assault twenty years ago. He was

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Speaker 3: on the registry. He died in natural causes. Well, the

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Speaker 3: body comes in, and, according to two other employees at

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Speaker 3: the mortuary, louder Milk, when she heard what Rodriguez had done,

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Speaker 3: stabbed him twice in the grind in the cremation room.

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Speaker 3: Now he's already dead.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, twice in the grind made her feel better.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, and then cut off his penis.

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Speaker 5: What'd she do with it?

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Speaker 2: And then.

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Speaker 3: I don't know how to say this, she relocated the penis,

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Speaker 3: uh huh into an opening where yeah, and.

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Speaker 2: Like the northern most opening.

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Speaker 5: Eric's trying to figure it out, and I'm sort of

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Speaker 5: giving him a.

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Speaker 3: Well, is making the motion to south, and John just

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Speaker 3: said north north.

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Speaker 6: I'm thinking, okay, well, then maybe it's north. Okay, then

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Speaker 6: forget it, Eric, Sorry, start at the top of your head.

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Speaker 2: Yes, okay, I.

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Speaker 5: Thought it was somewhere.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 3: One of the witnesses was an embalming student. He'd never

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Speaker 3: seen this before, and in fact, Ladimirk said, you didn't

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Speaker 3: see anything.

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Speaker 5: Or else you're going to be next.

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Speaker 2: Well, actually it was.

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Speaker 3: He was told that in a manner that he perceived

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Speaker 3: as to be threatened exactly.

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Speaker 5: How he deterpreted it as he should.

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Speaker 3: The second witness showed up a little later and noticed

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Speaker 3: that Charles Rodriguez's grain area was quote disfigured. When this

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Speaker 3: person asked ladder Milk what had happened, Laddermik said that

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Speaker 3: the deceased had a lot going on with him. Okay,

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Speaker 3: the the prosecutor says, this case is about two troubled people,

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Speaker 3: the victim, who is a registered sex offender, and the defendant,

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Speaker 3: who is accused of viciously attacking his dead body. No

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Speaker 3: matter what what thinks of his life, the law requires

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Speaker 3: that he be treated with dignity in death. She is

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Speaker 3: now in jail five thousand dollars bail. She has been fired.

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Speaker 6: Oh boy, there's so many things to say about had

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Speaker 6: a scalpel.

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Speaker 2: So it was one quick slice.

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Speaker 5: You know, he didn't feel anything.

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Speaker 2: That's what I thought. What's the big deal here?

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Speaker 6: Except the family members right, Well, if any family members

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Speaker 6: showed up a funeral.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not sure he got much of a crowd.

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Speaker 5: Who cares.

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Speaker 2: Well, there you go. What was the harm here, He's

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Speaker 2: already dead. She got she got a little.

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Speaker 5: The witnesses, they were appalled.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the first guy was a little shook up because

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Speaker 3: you know, he's she was still holding the scalpel. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's like, hey, you didn't see anything. You're right, I

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Speaker 3: didn't see anything.

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Speaker 5: Who told on? Who told on?

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Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't know. I guess I guess.

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean, once once it was cut off and

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Speaker 3: was relocated, it was a lot of evidence.

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Speaker 2: Everyone can see.

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Speaker 5: That is so disgusting.

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Speaker 2: That most disgusting.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, and I picked that one over a

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Speaker 3: couple of other story also would be offensive.

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Speaker 5: Wow, well this was quite offensive.

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Speaker 3: Okay, Well I was holding on to it. You weren't

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Speaker 3: here yesterday. Oh wow, Yeah, I just I'll just save

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Speaker 3: this coming. That's right, all right, Kevin Kylie. H I

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Speaker 3: five is Kevin Kyllie. I wouldn't be following. Yeah, that story,

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Speaker 3: well I have to follow it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Unfortunately we have you as a buffer in between. He's

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Speaker 3: the Republican congressman in northern California. It's in the state

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Speaker 3: Assembly for years, and now he's in Congress and he

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Speaker 3: knows all about the horrors of high speed rail. He

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Speaker 3: is asking the FBI director Cash Pattel to investigate high

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Speaker 3: speed rail seventeen years old, thirteen billion gone, no track,

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Speaker 3: no trains, no stations, no nothing. That is next, Kevin Kylie, Debra.

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Speaker 6: Mark, I'm offended, actually offended at that story.

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Speaker 5: So I don't know how to go.

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Speaker 2: On at what that I that I told the.

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Speaker 5: Story commutilated penis.

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean you take it up with what's her name?

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Speaker 3: See how she reacts Loudermilk, Amber Louder.

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Speaker 5: Oh, yeah, I'm gonna have a conversation.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you call Amber Louder. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Hey, hey, want to have lunch? Debra Mark live in

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Speaker 3: the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hey, you've been listening

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Speaker 3: to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear

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Speaker 3: to four pm every Monday through Friday, and of course,

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