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Speaker 1: Can if I am six forty you're listening to the

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Speaker 1: John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 2: The news that has been dominating coverage for the past

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Speaker 2: couple of days is frightening. But we're going to overcome.

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Speaker 2: We are going to persevere, we are going to rise

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Speaker 2: above it. We're going to talk about what's been happening

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Speaker 2: in Southern California the past year and some of the

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Speaker 2: big stories that we expect to unfold over the year ahead.

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Speaker 2: I'm Phil Schumann from Fox eleven News. Been covering the

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Speaker 2: news in southern California since nineteen eighty three? Can you

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Speaker 2: believe that? And if I was working today, I would

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Speaker 2: no doubt be out in Fullerton. This is what Debra

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Speaker 2: Mark was talking about as a small crane. A plane

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Speaker 2: has crashed into a building near the Fullerton Airport. Don't

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Speaker 2: know details, don't know whether it was on takeoff or landing,

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Speaker 2: but we do know there was a small airport in

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Speaker 2: Fullerton very close to that crime scene. I actually used

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Speaker 2: to have my private pilot's license, but I gave it

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Speaker 2: up because I just didn't feel confident enough occasionally flying

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Speaker 2: they'd always say, you know that Clem, he was the

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Speaker 2: safest pilot I ever knew, never had a problem in

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Speaker 2: fifty years of flying. And then there's this, you know,

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Speaker 2: charred wreckage on the on the pavement. I'm thinking, well,

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Speaker 2: that could happen to Clem, could happen to me?

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Speaker 3: All right?

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Speaker 2: Valley Dashcurrent dot com and Westside Current dot com websites

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Speaker 2: that are doing a great job, and I guess what

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Speaker 2: we would call it is hyperlocal coverage, one of the

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Speaker 2: many ways that people get news and information these days,

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Speaker 2: in addition to obviously newspapers, television, and the radio. You

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Speaker 2: have to pick your websites to spend your time on.

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Speaker 2: This is an excellent one. And joining us now is

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Speaker 2: Jamie Page from uh Westside Current dot com, who has

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Speaker 2: I guess you'd call this an article or a posting.

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Speaker 2: A year of telling stories that matter, Jamie.

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Speaker 4: Good to have you on again, Good to have are,

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Speaker 4: good to talk to you. Happy new year to you, Happy.

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Speaker 3: New year to you.

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Speaker 2: So a year of telling stories that matter, and you've

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Speaker 2: told some great ones. I haven't printed out here, but

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Speaker 2: maybe you could give our listeners like a recap of

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Speaker 2: what you think the year of stories that mattered. What

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Speaker 2: the headlines are from Southern California from twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 4: You know, it's really hard to choose because our city

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Speaker 4: and county seem to fumble a lot when it comes

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Speaker 4: to taxpayer dollars and accountability. That is a theme, yes, right,

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Speaker 4: It just feels like we keep getting everything wrong. But

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Speaker 4: we chose a few that we thought were important, especially

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Speaker 4: the taxpayers. One of the biggest stories that we've been telling,

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Speaker 4: and we have a new series coming out next week,

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Speaker 4: is Project Home Key. Those are our series of hundreds

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Speaker 4: of millions of dollars being spent in Los Angeles City

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Speaker 4: empty from these one hundreds of units that we've bought

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Speaker 4: and again one hundreds of millions of dollars that we

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Speaker 4: we compare Los Angeles City with San Francisco. So the

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Speaker 4: biggest stories that we've been telling this year about how

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Speaker 4: upt our city and county. It's about accountability, yes, yes.

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Speaker 3: But isn't a state program.

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Speaker 4: It's a state program, but each each of the municipalities

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Speaker 4: So we spent months driving to each location in the

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Speaker 4: We're talking about both. So Project Homeky one they had

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Speaker 4: question was, out of all the buildings in Los Angeles,

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Speaker 2: over the past year that will continue to be important

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Speaker 4: Well, I think one of the stories that we're continuing

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Speaker 2: And because three one one is yeah, that's the city's

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Speaker 2: But I do know talk with Mayor Bass about this,

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Speaker 2: in advance of the twenty eight Olympics, she's launching this

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Speaker 4: You're one of the failings of that though. We don't

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Speaker 2: So Jamie, you're kind of like depressing me. I mean,

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Speaker 2: It's like it's it's not that people want these things

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Speaker 4: Well maybe, but that's why we elect our officials, right

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Speaker 2: Jamie Page from Westside Current dot com and Valley dash

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Speaker 2: Current dot com. I really appreciate the work that you

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Speaker 4: We actually just launched our new hyperlocal teer system of

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Speaker 2: Hyperlocal journalism that is the future I think people. I

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Speaker 2: So thanks for doing what you do, and I'm going

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Speaker 3: And see how I can help out. Appreciate it all right,

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Speaker 3: Jamie Page, thanks you so much. We'll talk with you soon.

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Speaker 3: I'm Phil Schuman in for John COBLT.

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Speaker 2: This homelessness issue, I mean, it's perhaps the issue of

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Speaker 2: I'm Phil Schuman in for John co Belt. He will

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Speaker 3: So have you ever been to Amsterdam?

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Speaker 2: We don't know that yet. But the suspect or the

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Speaker 2: dead man, Matthield Lewsberger, former Green Beret, which is to

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Speaker 2: me shocking special operations, elite soldier through extensive obviously you

441
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Speaker 2: qualified through extensive physical and psychological training. Obviously, somewhere along

442
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Speaker 2: the line, things went very wrong in his life, whether

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Speaker 2: it was personally, professionally, or whether he was isis inspired

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00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:55,040
Speaker 2: as this crazed killer apparently was in New York shifting

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Speaker 2: rather in New Orleans, shifting to that story again. Were

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Speaker 2: warnings ignored? Were security measures insufficient? A lot of cya

447
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Speaker 2: going on right now from New Orleans, especially that police

448
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Speaker 2: commissioner who's talking about, Well, he was hell bent on destruction.

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Speaker 2: So if we had a police car barricading Bourbon Street,

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Speaker 2: which apparently they did, which he went around, he would

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Speaker 2: have just gone to another location. Well, no, because Bourbon

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Speaker 2: Street is where the crowds are. He wouldn't have gone till,

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Speaker 2: you know, Sixth Street with nobody on it, So who

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Speaker 2: are you kidding?

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Speaker 3: And nearly and this is a headline from today.

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Speaker 2: Nearly a year before he allegedly, say, allegedly still killed

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Speaker 2: fourteen people and injured I think three dozen more. This

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Speaker 2: suspect some should ding. Jabbar openly expressed his beliefs about music, quote, intoxicants,

459
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Speaker 2: sex and other pleasures were quote evils deserving of destruction.

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Speaker 2: This was an account on the sound card sound cloud platform,

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Speaker 2: where you can post audio again under his own name,

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Speaker 2: at least three recordings, twenty minutes each. They all contain

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Speaker 2: numerous expressions of extremist religious views. Now, if you're with

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Speaker 2: us earlier, we were talking about if you see something,

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Speaker 2: say something. Well, this is something you would see or

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Speaker 2: hear that if you were a responsible citizen, you would report.

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Speaker 2: But apparently nobody reported it and you saw the results.

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Speaker 2: Let's play cut to Eric. This is the FBI talking

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Speaker 2: about right now, no link between the attack on Bourbon

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Speaker 2: Street in New Orleans and that incident in Vegas.

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Speaker 9: At this point, there is no definitive link between the

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Speaker 9: attack here in New Orleans and the one in Las Vegas.

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Speaker 9: And again I'll preface as I close, I'll preface everything

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Speaker 9: with what I started with in the beginning, which was

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Speaker 9: this is very early in an investment gation like.

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Speaker 2: This, Yes, which we understand, and things can change. I

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Speaker 2: mean they changed between Wednesday and Thursday. There were accomplices,

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Speaker 2: there weren't accomplices. We think he had friends and other

479
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Speaker 2: supporters who helped him carry out the tack. Now we

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Speaker 2: think he didn't. They may have been a connection to Vegas.

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Speaker 2: Now we don't think there's a connection to Vegas. I mean,

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Speaker 2: we get it, We'll we'll give them some some slack there.

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Speaker 2: But what what is hard to understand is how these

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Speaker 2: apparent warning signs were missed, disregarded, and then this at

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Speaker 2: the same time that security measures were perhaps less less

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Speaker 2: than robust in New Orleans. If you were with us earlier,

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Speaker 2: you heard former a Secret Service agent, now an ABC

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Speaker 2: News law enforcement contributor Don Mahllick talk about that and

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Speaker 2: how a simple police vehicle as a barricade as opposed

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Speaker 2: to a dump truck, a city bus, concrete barriers, mobile

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Speaker 2: vehicle barriers, like they use along Colorado Boulevard, and the

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Speaker 2: rose per might have done a better job of preventing

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Speaker 2: the loss of life.

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Speaker 3: Why does he say that he made a good point.

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Speaker 2: That's why we had experts on to give us their insight,

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Speaker 2: because let's say this is what happened now, was the

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Speaker 2: suspect was able to simply drive up on the sidewalk

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Speaker 2: in his rented electric pickup truck and go around a

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Speaker 2: vehicle that was acting as a barricade and then barrel

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Speaker 2: down the crowded street, killing fourteen and injuring three dozen.

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Speaker 2: So if you could imagine a different scenario where maybe

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Speaker 2: he had the same intentions, but he hit a concrete barricade,

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Speaker 2: or he bounced off the side of a dump truck

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Speaker 2: and perhaps got out of his vehicle and law enforcement

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Speaker 2: could have engaged him right there and taken him out,

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Speaker 2: which they eventually did before he could have, you know,

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Speaker 2: driven down the block and killed all those people.

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Speaker 3: So a lot.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it's easy, especially of us, you know, weasels in

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Speaker 2: the media to second guess law enforcement on these kinds

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Speaker 2: of scenarios. To second guests are intelligence officials, why were

512
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Speaker 2: these warning signs missed? But we're not second guessing. We're

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Speaker 2: asking like legitimate questions. I mean, here this suspect Jabbar

514
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Speaker 2: shamsu Din Jabbar. He posted five videos on Facebook. Now,

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Speaker 2: granted this was in the early morning hours leading up

516
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Speaker 2: to the attack, but if you're implementing a security plan

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Speaker 2: around a venue on a New Year's Eve, then one

518
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Speaker 2: of the basic functions of these analysts, and as I

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Speaker 2: told you earlier the Joint Terrorism Task Force the Joint

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Speaker 2: Regional Intelligence Centers, is to monitor social media using computers

521
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Speaker 2: which pick out red flags and keywords and religious extremist views.

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Speaker 2: Again without crossing the line to spying. It's a delicate balance.

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Speaker 2: But these warning signs were not picked up. And then

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Speaker 2: what's even more bizarre is that he apparently had discussed

525
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Speaker 2: plans to kill his family as well as as plans

526
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Speaker 2: to join ISIS, but decided that killing his family wouldn't

527
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Speaker 2: exactly have the same kind of impact as what he did,

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Speaker 2: which was you know, mowing down people on Bourbon Street

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Speaker 2: at three o'clock in the morning on Wednesday. And then

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Speaker 2: again to add to make this even more bizarre, this

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Speaker 2: is someone who was an elite Special Forces operator as

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Speaker 2: a Green Beret, who obviously had some major radicalization in

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Speaker 2: his life since he passed the psychological evaluations to become

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Speaker 2: a Special Forces operator.

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Speaker 3: Wow, just so much here.

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Speaker 2: And then does it matter to the fourteen people who

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Speaker 2: are dead and the thirty five people who were in

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Speaker 2: the hospital about the details of this guy's life or

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Speaker 2: what pushed an to do what he did. I would

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Speaker 2: say not really. You know, they get to deal with

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Speaker 2: it whatever, whatever the realities are. But what will matter

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Speaker 2: is that what could have been done to prevent it?

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Speaker 2: And then what we can learn from this, which we do,

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Speaker 2: but we don't to try to prevent it from happening

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Speaker 2: again in the future.

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Speaker 3: That to me is the bottom line.

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Speaker 2: How do we prevent it from happening again in the

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Speaker 2: future if that's even possible, and we want to live

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Speaker 2: in a free society.

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Speaker 3: We don't want to have, you know, roadblocks on every corner.

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Speaker 3: All right. I'm Phil Schumann in for John cole Belt.

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Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI Am sixty.

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Speaker 2: I will be back again tomorrow from one to four.

554
00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:41,280
Speaker 2: And then I know you're saying, when is John coming back?

555
00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:43,640
Speaker 2: When is John coming back? Let's get rid of this

556
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Speaker 2: TV news guy. Well, John will be back on Monday,

557
00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:49,200
Speaker 2: no doubt, with some wild tales to tell about his

558
00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:52,880
Speaker 2: time off during the holidays. One of the things that's

559
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Speaker 2: very cool these days, and this would be under the

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Speaker 2: category of entertainment if we can take a break from

561
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Speaker 2: all of this heavy depressing news, is TV. The TV

562
00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:08,000
Speaker 2: has never been better than it was than it is

563
00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:09,880
Speaker 2: right now. And yes, you have to spend money on

564
00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:14,520
Speaker 2: the streaming services and it's not like just popping on

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Speaker 2: the old broadcast networks. Although this weekend should be fun

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Speaker 2: when Nicki Glazer hosts the People's Choice the Golden Globes

567
00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:24,200
Speaker 2: Awards rather on Sunday on CBS. But there's so much

568
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Speaker 2: great content on right now. Land Man is a fun

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Speaker 2: thing I'm watching. I bet Tim Conway Junior is paying

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Speaker 2: attention Nike, Tim, because you know you come from a

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Speaker 2: rich showbiz tradition.

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Speaker 3: Do you watch a lot of TV? I don't watch anything.

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Speaker 3: You don't watch anything. No, I'm starting to watch.

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Speaker 2: Like, for instance, two years ago at Christmas, my daughter said, Hey,

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Speaker 2: you got to watch this show called The Office. I said,

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Speaker 2: I'm not a big Steve Carell fan. I'm not gonna

577
00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:53,720
Speaker 2: watch you off, okay, And she said watch. It was

578
00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:55,600
Speaker 2: in the snowing in the winter, and we had locked

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00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:58,200
Speaker 2: inside nothing to do, and she said, look, Dad, I

580
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Speaker 2: never asked you anything. Just watch threepsodes and if you

581
00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:03,600
Speaker 2: don't like it, I'll never bother you again for anything.

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00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:06,560
Speaker 2: And I said, okay, deal, watch the first episode. I

583
00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:09,840
Speaker 2: didn't get it. Watch the second episode. Hooked for life.

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Speaker 2: Really yeah, can't stop watching him now. I love it,

585
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Speaker 2: can't stop watching. And I feel like an a hole

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Speaker 2: that I did. Do you have anything from like you know,

587
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Speaker 2: recent times? I don't watch anything. I don't watch it,

588
00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:22,400
Speaker 2: but there's so much there's a lot of quality program

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Speaker 2: I look, I have a problem keeping track of what's

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Speaker 2: going on on the movies on the movie set. Like

591
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Speaker 2: like I'll be with my wife at a movie and

592
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Speaker 2: I'm like, hey, that guy who plays Superman looks a

593
00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:37,080
Speaker 2: lot like the guy playing Clark Kent. And She's like,

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Speaker 2: oh my god, Wow, can't take you anywhere.

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Speaker 3: I can't follow it.

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Speaker 2: Plus I don't like going to movies where I know

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Speaker 2: the actors, so I purposely ignore a lot of actors.

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Speaker 3: Wow, you know, because I.

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Speaker 2: Was watching I think it was Saving Private Ryan right,

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Speaker 2: and then like halfway or three quarters to the.

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Speaker 3: Movie Tim it's twenty twenty five. I know, I know, but.

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Speaker 2: Every one of my stories starts like I'm like back in,

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Speaker 2: I'm like Dad nineteen Johnny Carson. So halfway three quarters

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00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:06,280
Speaker 2: through that movie, Ted Danson comes on. Okay, like Ted, Wait,

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Speaker 2: why is Ted Danson in World War two? This is

606
00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:11,120
Speaker 2: a war where everybody knows your name. Get out of here.

607
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Speaker 2: So I don't watch any of the other new stuff. Wow, No,

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Speaker 2: I'm surprising. I mean, I'm surprised to hear that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I don't watch Netflix. I don't watch YouTube. No, that's

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Speaker 2: not true. I watch a lot of stuff on YouTube.

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Speaker 2: I watched. I listen to a lot of podcasts, watch

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Speaker 2: a lot of podcasts.

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Speaker 3: But I like, do you read books. I don't read

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Speaker 3: books either. Wow.

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Speaker 2: I just love talk radio. So you work on the

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Speaker 2: radio and you go to the track. I grew up

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Speaker 2: on talk talk radio. I listen to talk radio from

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Speaker 2: around the country. I go to the racetrack and.

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Speaker 3: I go home, and I go to Walmart and I

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Speaker 3: go home, and I go to the racetrack and I

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Speaker 3: go home. I live the simplest life in the world.

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Speaker 2: That's why if I won the lottery, it would ruin

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Speaker 2: my life because everybody would bay on me. You wouldn't

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Speaker 2: know what to buy. Well, no, I don't need that

626
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Speaker 2: kind of you know, that kind of money. I don't

627
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Speaker 2: spend that kind of money. Wow, you know that's interesting.

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Speaker 2: So but I really think if I did win the lottery,

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Speaker 2: it would ruin my life because every time some to

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Speaker 2: call me, they'd be expecting like a package. Well know,

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Speaker 2: you would just say, yes, have a fifty grand. What

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Speaker 2: the hell do you buy lottery tickets?

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Speaker 3: I do? Yeah, when it's big, big jackpone.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, like right now it's in forty eight million or

635
00:34:12,640 --> 00:34:15,880
Speaker 2: forty million, Brian, yeahah, give me a billion, that's.

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Speaker 3: Right, that's right.

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Speaker 2: We have Brian Gann coming on today. Okay, he's the

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Speaker 2: KFI national correspondent. We'll talk about the New Orleans of course. Yeah,

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00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:25,719
Speaker 2: the house whisper at six twenty and then breaking news

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Speaker 2: here a small plane crash in Fullerton, right, resulting in

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Speaker 2: a foe alarm fire.

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Speaker 3: So we'll talk about that as well, a.

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Speaker 2: Lot of bad news. Yeah, I know, we were talking

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Speaker 2: about that this afternoon. I mean, you know it's this

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Speaker 2: beautiful day or in the new year. Yeah, we're dominated

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Speaker 2: by this, especially the New Orleans story. I mean, the

647
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Speaker 2: guy in Vegas even wanted to kill himself. Good for him,

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Speaker 2: you know, right, but odd that they're both veterans. Veterans,

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Speaker 2: they both served at the same Fort Bragg, I think.

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Speaker 2: And this guy, the guy in Vegas is a Green Beret.

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Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, yeah, I think. Well the other guy,

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Speaker 2: Jabbarrow is his name.

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Speaker 3: I think he he.

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Speaker 2: He left his service, left theervious as a master sergeant.

655
00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:05,640
Speaker 2: That's also very tough to Yeah, yeah, I mean, you know,

656
00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:08,040
Speaker 2: we were obviously in the early stages as you hear

657
00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:11,560
Speaker 2: these law enforcement types talk about it. But I'm a

658
00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:14,160
Speaker 2: little nervous with the Sugar Bowl tonight and then the

659
00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:15,440
Speaker 2: Super Bowl in New Orleans.

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00:35:15,520 --> 00:35:16,799
Speaker 3: You know, in a few weeks.

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Speaker 2: We had the Rose Parade here with no issues fortunately,

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00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:22,440
Speaker 2: and the Rose Bowl. But you know, we live in

663
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Speaker 2: like tense times, you know. You you I don't know

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Speaker 2: if you said heard the promos that they've cut for you,

665
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Speaker 2: but Los Angeles.

666
00:35:28,239 --> 00:35:30,920
Speaker 3: It hit you in the face. It's like it does.

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00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:32,880
Speaker 2: And what we're trying to do here, at least what

668
00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:34,080
Speaker 2: I've been trying to do is figure out how to

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00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:36,640
Speaker 2: make that blow like a little softer, you know. Yeah,

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00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:40,640
Speaker 2: I don't look. I've asked people on the radio this week.

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00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:42,279
Speaker 2: You know we got we got one hundred and fifty

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00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:45,479
Speaker 2: to two hundred thousand visitors for the Rose Parade, Rose Bowl.

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Speaker 3: Please leave me alone.

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00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:48,839
Speaker 2: You know, we can go back to punching each other

675
00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:51,000
Speaker 2: in the face on Sunday night. Yeah, you know, we

676
00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:53,480
Speaker 2: can turn return to Matt Matt Max on Sunday.

677
00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:55,040
Speaker 3: But let's leave these people alone.

678
00:35:55,120 --> 00:35:57,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, don't don't sexually views them, don't take the wallet,

679
00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:00,279
Speaker 2: you know, don't shoot them, don't punch them.

680
00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:00,640
Speaker 3: In the face.

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00:36:01,160 --> 00:36:04,000
Speaker 2: These are visitors, and don't let don't let the homeless

682
00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:06,960
Speaker 2: harass them. Right but you know what, right now, Pasadena

683
00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:08,879
Speaker 2: does a pretty good job of keeping the lid on things.

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00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:10,520
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, passing a cop step youre quick.

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00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:13,839
Speaker 2: But this right now in Minneapolis, it's like, I don't know,

686
00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:17,040
Speaker 2: three degrees, you know, shockling the drivewhere you can't go out,

687
00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:19,399
Speaker 2: you can't do anything, can't start your car, you can't

688
00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:21,880
Speaker 2: you know, food delivery service has been canceled.

689
00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:23,560
Speaker 3: It's too cold, so you have nothing.

690
00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:25,640
Speaker 2: And then they turn on the TV and they see

691
00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:27,839
Speaker 2: the Rose Parade in the Rose Bowl and they look

692
00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:29,840
Speaker 2: at their bank account. They have enough retirement money, and

693
00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:32,839
Speaker 2: they're coming here. They're coming here. That's been Yeah, that's

694
00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:35,560
Speaker 2: long been like the sort of double edged sword of

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00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:37,719
Speaker 2: the of the Rose Parade and the coverage. Right, it's

696
00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:40,239
Speaker 2: a twelve hour commercial. Yeah, South southern California. But then

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00:36:40,239 --> 00:36:43,239
Speaker 2: when they get here, they say, a three bedroom, two

698
00:36:43,239 --> 00:36:46,399
Speaker 2: bath house and alta dina costs how much? That's right,

699
00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:49,640
Speaker 2: three million dollars. But there are some people who made

700
00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:51,600
Speaker 2: a lot of money. That's another one of your themes

701
00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:53,759
Speaker 2: that come find a small town you love. Yeah, let's

702
00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:55,920
Speaker 2: a move there, But how were you gonna do live

703
00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:58,120
Speaker 2: in a tent on the sidewalk? No, Burbank is a

704
00:36:58,120 --> 00:37:01,759
Speaker 2: small town. Burbank is is uh is? He'll fairly love. Yeah,

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00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:04,719
Speaker 2: Burbank's beautiful. You know, Burbank is the only city in

706
00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:07,560
Speaker 2: the United States. How about this for trivia only city

707
00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:10,560
Speaker 2: in the United States. The doubles in size every day

708
00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:11,960
Speaker 2: because the amount of people work here.

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Speaker 3: Warner Brothers.

710
00:37:13,520 --> 00:37:16,240
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, okay, okay, Well you'll studio real quick story

711
00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:18,799
Speaker 2: that then I'll leave this all to you. You know,

712
00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:21,239
Speaker 2: you mentioned Johnny Carson earlier when I worked a Channel

713
00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:22,840
Speaker 2: four of course, up on the second floor, down on

714
00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:24,799
Speaker 2: the first floor is the Tonight Show studios, and every

715
00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:26,879
Speaker 2: time there's a big news story, you know, you try

716
00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:28,480
Speaker 2: to get Carson. You see, you can get Carson to

717
00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:30,640
Speaker 2: talk about it right because you got the TV cameras

718
00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:32,560
Speaker 2: are right there. And he came in in his Corvette

719
00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:34,600
Speaker 2: convertible every day on the midway and he'd walk right in.

720
00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:36,720
Speaker 3: Super nice guy, you know, no security or anything.

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00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:41,319
Speaker 2: One time, finally Burbank, which had been downtown Burbank, as

722
00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:43,479
Speaker 2: you know, had been depressed for for a long time,

723
00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:46,520
Speaker 2: was opening a movie theater. So I call up Carson's office. Hey,

724
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Speaker 2: we're doing the story and with mister Carson talk be

725
00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:51,360
Speaker 2: on the set at five o'clock and he'll do a

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00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:54,120
Speaker 2: question for you. Mister Carson height, It's Phil Schuman from

727
00:37:54,239 --> 00:37:56,960
Speaker 2: from Channel four News. What do you think about Burbank

728
00:37:57,520 --> 00:37:59,480
Speaker 2: getting a movie theater? Because you know, of course he

729
00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:01,840
Speaker 2: made it fame. It's a beautiful downtown Burbank. So he

730
00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:02,839
Speaker 2: goes mm.

731
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Speaker 3: Next thing, you know, Tago Bill will get it drive

732
00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:08,759
Speaker 3: through and then and he walks off. That was my

733
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Speaker 3: one moment with Johnny Carson. I'm gonna leave it at

734
00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:14,200
Speaker 3: that and will have that tape. I don't have the tape.

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00:38:14,239 --> 00:38:16,040
Speaker 3: I just have the Benot It's great, buddy.

736
00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:18,200
Speaker 2: But but look if you look right out the window

737
00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:20,600
Speaker 2: and there it is that building. That's the building.

738
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Speaker 3: Yeah that was.

739
00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:24,040
Speaker 2: I mean you guys were in that building forever exactly

740
00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:25,840
Speaker 2: exactly right. That used to the land used to be

741
00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:26,720
Speaker 2: owned by Bob Hope.

742
00:38:27,080 --> 00:38:27,640
Speaker 3: Oh is that right?

743
00:38:27,719 --> 00:38:27,919
Speaker 8: Yeah?

744
00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:30,200
Speaker 3: Before NBC built on there. Yeah, Bob.

745
00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:32,600
Speaker 2: A lot of great memories. There is Carson or is

746
00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:33,680
Speaker 2: that Carson's last show?

747
00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:34,040
Speaker 4: Oh?

748
00:38:34,080 --> 00:38:34,520
Speaker 5: Is that right?

749
00:38:34,520 --> 00:38:36,480
Speaker 2: Bette Midler and he walked out of the midway with

750
00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:39,799
Speaker 2: his wife, walked out to a waiting helicopter and threw

751
00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:41,280
Speaker 2: off into the sunset to Malibu.

752
00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:42,840
Speaker 3: Wow, what a career.

753
00:38:43,160 --> 00:38:45,800
Speaker 2: And nobody's been able to well, Letterman got closed and

754
00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:49,200
Speaker 2: Leno got closed, but nobody sends Leno and Letterman has

755
00:38:49,239 --> 00:38:50,880
Speaker 2: been able to really reach an audience.

756
00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:52,480
Speaker 3: No, it's so fragmented now, you know.

757
00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:54,759
Speaker 2: It's there's so many people out there trying to get

758
00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:59,080
Speaker 2: attention and laughs. Nikki Glazer Sunday the Golden Globes, Right,

759
00:38:59,080 --> 00:39:01,960
Speaker 2: you know, she's kind of an X rated comedian. Where

760
00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:03,720
Speaker 2: she spends going to be talking about her on Monday.

761
00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:05,239
Speaker 2: I know where she spends her money by the way,

762
00:39:05,560 --> 00:39:07,440
Speaker 2: I read an article on Nikki Glazer. By the way,

763
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Speaker 2: she looks great for seventy one, eight seventy four. She's

764
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Speaker 2: seventy three, but she looks great in her seventies. But

765
00:39:16,239 --> 00:39:19,480
Speaker 2: she had an article came out about her. And she

766
00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:22,080
Speaker 2: has spent over the last two or three years one

767
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Speaker 2: hundred and twenty thousand dollars flying around the globe going

768
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Speaker 2: to Taylor Swift concerts.

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Speaker 3: Right, that's her thing. She went to like twenty five

770
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Speaker 3: of them or something. That's her thing.

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Speaker 2: She doesn't have kids, so she doesn't have that expends,

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00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:37,000
Speaker 2: and so she you know, she puts on a skirt,

773
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Speaker 2: he tends she's not seventy one and goes to these concerts.

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Speaker 2: I mean, after your fifth or sixth Taylor Swift concert,

775
00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:44,640
Speaker 2: you probably think that might be enough for a short time.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right, all right, all right, I'm Bill.

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Speaker 2: She was saying, so long, Phil Schutman, thanks to talk

778
00:39:50,360 --> 00:39:51,239
Speaker 2: for visiting with us.

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Speaker 3: Maybe we can do it again tomorrow.

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