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Speaker 1: of media leaks that are trying to undermine the immigration

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Speaker 1: rates that Tom Homan and Trump are trying to pull

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Speaker 1: off here. And it's happened in Aurora, Colorado, it happened

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Speaker 1: in San Francisco, and also in Los Angeles. The La

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Speaker 1: immigration raid coming uh sometime this month. Uh, We're gonna

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Speaker 1: talk about these matters, Alex, how are you I'm doing.

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Speaker 2: Great, John Pleasure on your show.

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Speaker 1: It's good to have you on. So how how much

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Speaker 1: interference are you getting from leakers inside the government and

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Speaker 1: these these advocate advocacy journalists who are spreading the word

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Speaker 1: to try to thwart the raids? How how how difficult

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Speaker 1: a problem has it been?

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Speaker 2: Look I Tom homans As and DJ Secretary Christy Noma's

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Speaker 2: spoken about this. Obviously, these leaks put ICE officers lives

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Speaker 2: who you mentioned activists who are trying to, you know,

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Speaker 2: stop raids. Who are these activists un to protect? So

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Speaker 2: I actually have a list here of some of the

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Speaker 1: You get the point.

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Speaker 2: Uh, These activists who don't want ICE to arrest criminal

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Speaker 2: So look, these elites are are awful and they're getting

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Speaker 1: We haven't had a big raid that I know of

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Speaker 1: That's stunning, that's I mean, that's why Biden could have

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Speaker 2: your show next Yeah, I can't get into the head

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Speaker 2: of that decision. But President Trump has wasted no time

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Speaker 1: And it's about all the aspects of the fires in Pasadena,

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Speaker 4: I've been to a lot of those meetings, Oh yeah,

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Speaker 4: you know, and I see a lot of the stuff

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Speaker 4: that they talk about that doesn't seem all that consequential.

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Speaker 4: Now they are dealing with the most serious issues they've

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Speaker 4: ever had to face, and who is the most serious

437
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Speaker 4: Those are going to be the who's taking this seriously?

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Speaker 4: Who are the so called adults in the room this time?

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Speaker 4: And you can see some arguments emerging on the city

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Speaker 4: council that rarely happens about this topic where we need

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Speaker 4: to put our priorities. I think this is obviously devastating

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Speaker 4: the people in Altadena, devastating the people in Polisades, but

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Speaker 4: more broadly, this this is going to change I think

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Speaker 4: the way LA is governed.

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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, because a disaster can happen anywhere. This time

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Speaker 1: it happened in Pasadena. I'm sorry Palisades in Altadena, but

447
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Speaker 1: an earthquake that could devastate any part of the city

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Speaker 1: or the whole city at once, depending on where it happens.

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Speaker 1: So this is a warning because we're I keep telling Debra,

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Speaker 1: we're due for the big quake. Every every minute, we're

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Speaker 1: getting a minute closer.

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Speaker 5: Come on, stop.

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Speaker 4: No, I had that that four that four point zero

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Speaker 4: we had in the fall. That was my first relatively.

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Speaker 4: I know it's nothing, I know, people, but like I'm

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Speaker 4: here two years, so that's the worst one I have welt.

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Speaker 4: We gotta rough you up, I know, that's what I mean,

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Speaker 4: Like when it gets bigger than that. I mean, we're

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Speaker 4: ten minutes closer since you started talking here. Oh man,

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Speaker 4: all right, Michael again, give me the title.

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Speaker 1: It's La Fires a Path Forward, and it's gonna run

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Speaker 1: Saturday from seven to nine pm in the evening and

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Speaker 1: then again Sunday from two to four, and you should

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Speaker 1: listen to it. Michael does great stuff here at K five. Thanks. John,

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Speaker 1: all right, she gets she gets a little rattled every

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Speaker 1: time I bring up that quake, which is another two

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Speaker 1: minutes closer.

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Speaker 3: Oh no, you're listening to John Cobbels on demand from

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Speaker 3: KFI Am sixty.

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Speaker 1: Coming up after two o'clock. We have had said Kashami

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Speaker 1: Kashani on over the phone in person, and we also

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Speaker 1: twice played his presentation before the Department of Water and Power.

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Speaker 1: He's an attorney who lost his home in the Palisades,

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Speaker 1: and he went up to the Department of Water and

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Speaker 1: Power commissioners and really gave him a scorching over not

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Speaker 1: having the reservoir filled up, not having a water supply

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Speaker 1: to the Palisades and pointedly asked Janice Kinonyez why she

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Speaker 1: was so concerned with all kinds of diversity equity issues,

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Speaker 1: and she never once brought up that the sent in

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Speaker 1: As reservoir was bone dry empty one hundred and seventeen

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Speaker 1: million gallons. Well, said Kashani is coming on because LEDWP,

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Speaker 1: which had which spent no money to refill the reservoir yesterday,

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Speaker 1: spent ten million dollars on a three year contract with

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Speaker 1: a top law firm to try to defend the DWP

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Speaker 1: from all the lawsuits that are coming. And there's no

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Speaker 1: defense for this. It's the firm of Munger, Talis and Olson.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna need all three of those guys. I guess what,

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Speaker 1: And if you're a ratepayer to the DWP, this crew

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Speaker 1: is charging about two thousand dollars an hour, two thousand

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Speaker 1: dollars an hour, and what are you going to tell us.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna tell us that not having one hundred and

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Speaker 1: seventeen million gallons of water had no effect on the

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Speaker 1: fire response. I can't wait for that anyway, Sayid Kashani,

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Speaker 1: who's also an attorney. He's going to come on with us.

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Speaker 1: But now we have Tony Valar News. It's been a

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Speaker 1: long time and this just broke minutes ago. Tony Valar

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Speaker 1: history of the women guys, Well, that's exactly the issue here.

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Speaker 1: He's he's had numerous romantic entanglements and he's seventy two

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Speaker 1: now and he's running for governor. And I saw Paul

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Speaker 1: this week. He's got four percent of the vote. And

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Speaker 1: that's just on the Democratic side. He's got four percent

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Speaker 1: of the vote. I like that, that's his own party. Anyway.

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Speaker 1: He's uh, he finalized his divorce to Patricia via re

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Speaker 1: Gosa and the the agreement has gone public. Come on,

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Speaker 1: he's going to pay Patricia five hundred thousand dollars in

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Speaker 1: lieu of spousal support. It's a lump sum payment. And

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Speaker 1: he's also going to pay her one hundred thousand dollars

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Speaker 1: for her attorneys and her forensic accounting fees and costs.

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Speaker 1: I guess she got her own crew to go into

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Speaker 1: via Regosa's money. Her maiden name is Villa, and she's

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Speaker 1: reverting to that name. She does not want to be

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Speaker 1: known as Patricia via Regassa for the rest of her life.

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Speaker 1: One of the women, guys, I wonder is that the

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Speaker 1: reason for the divorce. I don't know. I mean, you

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Speaker 1: remember he had he's real We would call him Tony

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Speaker 1: Vallar because he's his real name is Tony Vallar. He

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Speaker 1: married a woman named Karinn Regosa decades ago, and she

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Speaker 1: was the first wife supported him early political career, and

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Speaker 1: he repaid her by having an affair with I believe.

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Speaker 5: Was it the news anchor.

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Speaker 1: No, that came later that he had an affair with

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Speaker 1: with I don't know, somebody on his staff or a

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Speaker 1: campaign staff or something like that. And so to make

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Speaker 1: it up to Karin, he said, look, to prove my love,

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Speaker 1: I want to merge my Valar with your Regosa. And

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Speaker 1: that's how he came up with this fake name via

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Speaker 1: Regosa Villa Garosa, and that one will allowed and then

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Speaker 1: he and then his name was Tony as a kid,

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Speaker 1: you know, he turned it into Antonio to sound more Hispanic, right,

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Speaker 1: And so Antonio via Goosi is a fake entity. It's

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Speaker 1: like a stage name. Well, he's seventy two now, Patricia

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Speaker 1: is fifty is fifty two, and she's going to drop

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Speaker 1: the via Regosa name and update her information with DMV.

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Speaker 1: They put all the detail in this La Time story

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Speaker 1: and she agreed not to use the via Regosa name

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Speaker 1: for any social marketing or business purposes. Oh come on,

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Speaker 1: and uh, Patricia gets to keep two properties in Mexico,

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Speaker 1: fantastic a twenty sixteen range rover, along with bank accounts

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Speaker 1: and all the furniture, artwork and jewelry in her possession. Wow,

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Speaker 1: she made out. He gets to keep Evolvo. He gets

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Speaker 1: to keep his last name. Was that up for auction?

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Speaker 2: Uh?

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Speaker 1: And his bank accounts, his pension home at Beverly Hills.

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Speaker 1: He also gets to keep all the streaming services, including

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Speaker 1: the Netflix account. I like that couples fight over the

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Speaker 1: Netflix account.

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Speaker 5: That would be so at the bottom of my list.

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Speaker 5: But actually, you know, I do watch a lot of Netflix.

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Speaker 1: Well but I I guess technically it's community property. But

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Speaker 1: wouldn't you just get your own Netflix account for it?

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00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:38,640
Speaker 1: But it's the same. Yeah, it's right.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that makes that makes no sense.

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Speaker 1: So this is really galling. The last time anyone could

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Speaker 1: see his tax returns is twenty seventeen when he ran

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Speaker 1: for governor, and it said he made more than four

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Speaker 1: million dollars as a consultant, including herbal Life Bank of California,

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00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:58,600
Speaker 1: a water company called Kate is, a global public relations

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Speaker 1: firm Eaedelman and health Clank chain called Ultimate four million dollars.

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00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:11,160
Speaker 1: What seriously, I'm not just being starky here, I mean

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Speaker 1: that serious. What knowledge or expertise would he would Antonio

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00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:21,360
Speaker 1: Vira goes to have that's worth four million dollars? Where

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Speaker 1: the women are guys?

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Speaker 5: He knows a lot about women.

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Speaker 1: I don't see any you know, women oriented corporations here.

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Speaker 1: I that's really that's just stunning that at that a

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Speaker 1: guy like him. Let me see what else here? Oh,

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Speaker 1: he's home in Beverly Hills is worth three and a

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00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:50,600
Speaker 1: half million, and there's two hundred thousand dollars loose here.

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Speaker 1: I see where I can't trying to figure out where

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Speaker 1: it is. Says two hundred thousand dollars should be awarded

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Speaker 1: to Patricia as her sole and separate property. That's a

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00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:03,520
Speaker 1: lot of legalistic mumbo jumbo. Oh oh, Antonio agreed to

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Speaker 1: transfer Patricia her AT and T phone number. I'm on

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00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:09,520
Speaker 1: my way out, everybody, and Patricia agreed to pay the

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Speaker 1: bills starting as of December twenty twenty four. And this,

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00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:20,920
Speaker 1: this divorce took three years. Fantastic didn't last long they

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Speaker 1: got married in August of twenty sixteen and they were

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Speaker 1: separated by June of twenty eighteen. That's it. That's it.

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Speaker 1: That's all she can That's all they could take of

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Speaker 1: each other. Wow, But he keeps the Netflix account.

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Speaker 5: Well, there's a lot of good shows on that Netflix.

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Speaker 1: I like that. Does Netflix have like an x rated

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Speaker 1: session section? I don't know, an adult only section?

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Speaker 5: I don't think so.

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Speaker 1: I mean, why would he be that interested because.

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Speaker 5: There's a lot of good programming, a lot of good shows.

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Speaker 5: You know, when you're sitting around all.

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Speaker 1: By yourself exactly you think you think Virags is by

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00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:58,040
Speaker 1: himself very often? No, No, I think he has a

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00:33:58,080 --> 00:34:02,120
Speaker 1: lot of company guys. Edie's making four million a year,

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00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:05,720
Speaker 1: so he will always have any single, any single, Yeah eighties.

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Speaker 1: Did you ever have a run in with him? No,

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00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:08,440
Speaker 1: you never run across.

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Speaker 5: It's never met him.

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Speaker 1: You're not missing much. Well, we've got we come back.

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Speaker 1: We're going to talk to Sayid Kashane, he's the attorney

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00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:24,120
Speaker 1: who is told off the DWP Commission and Genie Kinoniez

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Speaker 1: and we're going to have him on to discuss how

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00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:30,000
Speaker 1: la DWP is hiring a law firm at two thousand

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Speaker 1: dollars an hour to defend itself against all the wildfire lawsuits.

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Speaker 1: Deborah Mark live in the CAFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey,

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Speaker 1: you've been listening to The John Cobalt Show podcast. You

603
00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:42,520
Speaker 1: can always hear the show live on KFI AM six

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Speaker 1: forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday,

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Speaker 1: and of course, anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app