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Speaker 1: CAFI I AM six forty.

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Speaker 2: You're listening to the John and Ken Show on demand

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Speaker 2: on the iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 3: Doug McIntyre in for Johnny Ken on KFI AM six

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Speaker 3: forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, and happy to

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Speaker 3: be with you. And hopefully if you're snaking your way

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Speaker 3: back from the mud at Burning Man, I hope you made.

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Speaker 4: It out alive.

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Speaker 3: You know, it's a slow, by the way holiday, a

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Speaker 3: weekend when hippy wanna be stuck in the mud at

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Speaker 3: Burning Man as the lead story everywhere. It's kind of

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Speaker 3: funny though it is Eric but this is by the way.

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Speaker 3: Sandy Wells is with us as well, my old pal

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Speaker 3: Sandy Wells.

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Speaker 4: How are you. It's good to see you, Doug.

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Speaker 3: Every time I com in to KFI, it's like it's

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Speaker 3: like old timer's day, especially when I'm here.

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Speaker 4: Anyway, The point is when you work on.

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Speaker 3: A holiday, and I've worked many men, I've worked every

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Speaker 3: holiday in radio, and people, first of all.

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Speaker 4: They say, well, why you want to work Labor Day?

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Speaker 3: Because when you work at a radio station on a holiday,

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Speaker 3: it's fantastic. It's like a scavenger hunt for narcotics. You

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Speaker 3: get to go through all the sales guy's desks and

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Speaker 3: you get to go see what Ken's taking. For instance,

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Speaker 3: you find you know it's fantastic, and then you can

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Speaker 2: I definitely walked around before the show started to see

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Speaker 2: if there's any food lying around. There is food, Michelle

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Speaker 2: showed be the food desk. If you guys want to

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Speaker 2: know where it's at.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, don't bogart the snack Sandy Wells place. But

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Speaker 3: you know, so having worked every holiday known to man,

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Speaker 3: another thing that I've observed about the news cycle that

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Speaker 3: it's very quiet today. I mean literally for most of

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Speaker 3: the day. The big story was people stuck in the

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Speaker 3: mud at Burning Man. By the way, That's one place

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Speaker 3: I'll be stuck a lot of places in this life.

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Speaker 3: But being stuck at Burning Man under any conditions sunshine

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Speaker 3: or rain and mud is not going to happen. Because

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Speaker 3: when you're as pale as I am, a burning Man

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Speaker 3: I can get I could become burning Man just by

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Speaker 3: opening the refrigerator and the glow from the light bulble

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Speaker 3: andcinerate me.

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Speaker 4: So I'm not going to Burning Man, not now, not ever.

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Speaker 3: But that was a big story and It's an insight

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Speaker 3: into how pleasant life could be if the troublemakers would

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Speaker 3: simply take long weekends, because that's what's missing. What's missing

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Speaker 3: are the politicians. What's missing are the professional disturbers of

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Speaker 3: the peace and sandy.

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Speaker 4: You will remember this.

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Speaker 3: I created my own cabinet level position many years ago,

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Speaker 3: called the Secretary of knock it Off. Yes, and the

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Speaker 3: Secretary of knock it Off should be an official cabinet

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Speaker 3: post and their job would be to like the people

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Speaker 3: who want to sue to take down manger scenes and

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Speaker 3: manoras out of parks at the holidays because they want

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Speaker 3: an absolutist separation of church and state. It's just you're

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Speaker 3: just stirring the stick in the trouble pot. You're not

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Speaker 3: adding anything that contributes to the peace and tranquility of mankind.

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Speaker 3: So you just issue an order from the Secretary of

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Speaker 3: something that actually matters. Well these holidays when the lead

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Speaker 3: it rained in Nevada and now the Burning Man fizzled,

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Speaker 3: And now the guy from smash Mouth died, and that's

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Speaker 3: the big People are still absorbing the loss of Jimmy Buffett,

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Speaker 3: and those are the big stories. And it just shows

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Speaker 3: you that most of what irritates us and raises our

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Speaker 3: blood pressure in the news is completely by choice. That

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Speaker 3: people are choosing to advance agendas to make you crazy.

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Speaker 3: Because here we are barbecue recipes. That's what we're going

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Speaker 3: to do on Labor Day. Get those smores out. Anyway,

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Speaker 3: it is labor Day. Half the city is on strike

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Speaker 3: and the other half is about to be on strike.

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Speaker 3: This is actually more than LA this is this is nationwide.

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Speaker 3: The UAW United Autoworkers Union is talking about going on strike.

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Speaker 3: And I saw this story and this struck me. I

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Speaker 3: don't know how much weight you want to give this

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Speaker 3: particular poll. It's from something called One Pole, and it

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Speaker 3: says the average American employee has not received a raise

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Speaker 3: at their current job in the last three years. Now,

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Speaker 3: if that's true, then you can certainly understand why people

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Speaker 3: because inflation certainly hasn't taken off the last three years,

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Speaker 3: have to remember when we had those steep cuts in

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Speaker 3: gas prices when Donald Trump was president, most of them

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Speaker 3: was cost Almost all of it was caused by COVID.

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Speaker 3: By the COVID shutdown, the Western economy cratered. And guess what,

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Speaker 3: you shut down all the factories and no one's driving

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Speaker 3: a big demand for gasoline, so the price is fell,

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Speaker 3: and once everything opened up again, gas prices started a spike.

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Speaker 3: But that aside. You can have the argument over the

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Speaker 3: politics of energy policy from now until the second coming.

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Speaker 3: The bottom line is when fuel prices are high, everything

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Speaker 3: goes up. Every single thing that we buy, every service

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Speaker 3: means it's an inherent inflationary cause. We all know this.

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Speaker 3: So are salaries. By the way, labor costs are expensive.

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Speaker 3: But this is where you get into the circular firing

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Speaker 3: As inflation continues to hammer people, then workers want more money.

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Speaker 3: They need it to survive, and if they don't get

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Speaker 3: The point is, though, that it's gotten very, very expensive.

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Speaker 3: Anybody who's been anywhere going out to lunch, going to

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Speaker 3: And I saw this story has another shoe, and that

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Speaker 3: the Mitsubishi Mirage has a list price under twenty thousand dollars,

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Speaker 3: and that's it. And I was trying to think about this,

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Speaker 3: if I've ever paid more than twenty thousand dollars for.

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Speaker 4: A car, and I'm not sure I have.

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Speaker 3: In the tightwad that I am, And of course I'm

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Speaker 3: writing a check for twenty thousand plus bucks for a car.

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Speaker 3: because the adults who run policy around here think that

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Speaker 3: But you can't build cheap housing on expensive land, and

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Speaker 3: and they're doing the reverse Beverly Hill Billies. They're packing

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Speaker 4: So it's labor day we've got.

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Speaker 3: Obviously, the sag After strike continues, The Writer's Guild strike continues.

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Speaker 3: a disaster for the industry. It's a disaster for the writers,

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Speaker 3: for all of the thousands of people who are just

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Speaker 3: thick glasses. So we got a lot to talk about today,

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Speaker 3: including today is LA's birthday.

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Speaker 4: Did you know that Sandy Wells, I did. We are

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Speaker 3: Years alow, so old, I know, and New York City

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Speaker 3: is going to pot I'll talk about that and unfriending

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Speaker 3: people can actually be hazardous to your health, and so

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Speaker 3: convoting all of that this hour. Doug McIntyre in for

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Speaker 3: John and Ken.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from KFI

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Speaker 1: Am six forty.

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Speaker 3: Doug McIntyre in for John and Ken, and lot's talk

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Speaker 3: about this hour, including how unfriending and voting can both

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Speaker 3: be hazardous to your health. I will explain later on,

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Speaker 3: so stick with us. So Happy birthday, Los Angeles. Today

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Speaker 3: City of angels So happy birthday. And by the way,

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Speaker 3: if you looked around, I would say, LA looks about well.

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Speaker 3: It's two hundred and thirty, not two hundred and forty two.

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Speaker 3: It had some work done, little boattox here and there,

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Speaker 3: and it's looking pretty good.

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Speaker 4: Actually it's not looking good, but that's of course out here. Doug. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: drive around, man.

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Speaker 3: I got to say, I was in Boston recently, and

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Speaker 3: and it's got terrible weather, it's got January and February,

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Speaker 3: and everything was clean and the roads were paved everywhere

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Speaker 3: And in fact, that's one of the things we're going

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Speaker 3: all of a sudden, the town was a buzz. It

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Speaker 3: was the biggest story imaginable forty years ago when the

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Speaker 3: Postal Service announced that they were going to start home

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Speaker 3: delivery of mail into the town of Dennis and West Dennis,

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Speaker 3: and the people went crazy in opposition. They did not

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Speaker 3: want the mail brought to their houses because, as it

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Speaker 3: turns out, the social center of those little Cape Cod

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Speaker 3: towns was the post office. Everybody would go down to

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Speaker 3: the post office and pick up their mail, and they'd

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Speaker 3: run into Sarah Clarence of the guy who has the

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Speaker 3: lobster pots and the guy who repairs oars or whatever

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Speaker 3: they do there, and they'd visit with one another, and

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Speaker 3: they actually lobby to get home delivery of their mail canceled. Now,

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Speaker 3: the reason I bring this up is because if you

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Speaker 3: are counting on a chat with the checkout person at

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Speaker 3: Alpha Beta, or at Whole Foods, or at any of

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Speaker 3: those places, you know, Trader Joe's, where everybody's very friendly,

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Speaker 3: they all but ask for your phone number at the

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Speaker 3: end of each purchase, then you have to really wonder

454
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Speaker 3: how isolated have you become. And it's easy to get

455
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Speaker 3: isolated in modern America, especially in southern California, where so

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Speaker 3: many people have moved here from somewhere else. And this,

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Speaker 3: by the way, has a direct connection to why there's

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Speaker 3: so many homeless here, because people relocate from other parts

459
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Speaker 3: of the country and oftentimes the world to chase some

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Speaker 3: kind of a dream or just for a geographic relocation,

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Speaker 3: to put some miles maybe between themselves and their past

462
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Speaker 3: for whatever traumas happened there. But then when they start

463
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Speaker 3: to fall through the cracks, there's no one to help

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Speaker 3: them out. There's no family safety net.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 3: You know, Uncle Carl's hit hard times. You'll take him

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Speaker 3: in for a couple of weeks and give him some

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Speaker 3: sofa time until he gets on his feet. But if

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Speaker 3: there's nobody there to do that, then they can easily

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Speaker 3: end up either living a life on the streets or

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Speaker 3: a life alone in terrible social isolation. And it is

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Speaker 3: one of the ironies of the digital age, where we

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Speaker 3: have all of these communication devices, but there are still people, many,

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Speaker 3: many people who live and walk amongst us who are

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Speaker 3: essentially living solitary lives. You might see them in the

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Speaker 3: hallway of your building a nod to them, or you

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Speaker 3: see them across the street, you know, picking up a

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Speaker 3: newspaper out of the driveway or whatever. But it's reflected

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Speaker 3: in things like chatting at the grocery checkout line, because

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Speaker 3: that's their interpersonal relationship for the day. And by the way,

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Speaker 3: it's where they make lots and lots of enemies, because

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Speaker 3: who in the world has time to stand behind somebody

483
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Speaker 3: while they're catching up with the person working the checkout

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Speaker 3: counter and telling them about you know, how the kiddykats

485
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Speaker 3: are doing, and that you know, near Dowell nephew that

486
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Speaker 3: never sends a thank you note for the five dollar

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Speaker 3: check you send them on their birthday, like Sandy Wells.

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Speaker 3: Not that I'm pointing any finger, Sandy, but I've heard stories. Anyway,

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Speaker 3: it's one forty four when we come.

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Speaker 4: Back, seventy five dollars. Try to be nice to my nephew. Wow,

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Speaker 4: that's pretty birthday. Well, I wish I was nicer to you.

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Speaker 4: Maybe I get one of those checks.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to John and Ken on to Man from

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Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty.

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Speaker 3: Doug McIntyre in for John and Ken. I'll be here

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Speaker 3: till four o'clock. Chris Maryland for Tim Conway Junior that day,

497
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Speaker 3: and it is the end of Labor Day weekend. Hopefully

498
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Speaker 3: you're snaking your way back successfully from wherever it was

499
00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:24,560
Speaker 3: you evacuated, and that includes burning Man. And another bad

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00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:30,840
Speaker 3: news story for the Dodgers, Julio Urius busted apparently on

501
00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:34,600
Speaker 3: Sunday night last night, eleven nine pm near Martin Luther

502
00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:38,320
Speaker 3: King Junior Boulevard at Hoover Street. Apparently he was in

503
00:27:38,359 --> 00:27:42,359
Speaker 3: attendance of that LAFC game against inter Miami with Messi

504
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Speaker 3: coming to Hollywood.

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Speaker 4: All the celebrities were out for that and.

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Speaker 3: He was booked into an lapdjail facility, later released on

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Speaker 3: fifty thousand dollars bond, allegedly for domestic violence. Now this

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00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:57,960
Speaker 3: would be a second if this turns out to be true,

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Speaker 3: a second incident with you urius ureus excuse me.

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Speaker 4: Ch No charges filed the first time, that's correct.

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Speaker 3: He was suspended, though I think for what twenty games

512
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Speaker 3: is something like that areage.

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Speaker 2: In twenty nineteen, yase, he violated the domestic violence policy

514
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Speaker 2: of MLB. Right, it's different when you work for a

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Speaker 2: private company if you don't break the law.

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Speaker 4: Correct.

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Speaker 3: And of course, given the history that the Dodgers had

518
00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:26,760
Speaker 3: with Trevor Bauer and that disaster and the millions that

519
00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:30,240
Speaker 3: they ended up paying him for not pitching for the

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Speaker 3: Dodgers after his incidents, which apparently the you know, the

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00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:38,719
Speaker 3: DA's office felt they couldn't prove was anything other than

522
00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:43,120
Speaker 3: consensual kinky perhaps odd perhaps, but they didn't want to

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00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:46,760
Speaker 3: make a criminal case out of it. So and that's

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Speaker 3: still working its way through the courts. He's still asking

525
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Speaker 3: Baseball to be readmitted to MLB. But this is another incident,

526
00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:56,920
Speaker 3: obviously a huge distraction and a loss to the team.

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Speaker 3: And more significantly, it's it's and if it's true, and

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00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:04,640
Speaker 3: again this is an allegation at this point, it's not proven,

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Speaker 3: but if it turns out to be true, a young

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Speaker 3: man needs some help here. There's something going on there

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Speaker 3: that needs to be addressed.

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Speaker 2: And Dodgers are posted on Twitter that they're aware of

533
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Speaker 2: an incident involving Julio Oris and he is not with

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Speaker 2: a team as it heads off for a six game

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Speaker 2: road trip.

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Speaker 3: And the organization has no further comment at this time,

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00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:26,080
Speaker 3: and it's a tough you know, Look, these are public figures.

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00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:28,720
Speaker 3: At any time anything happens to a celebrity of any ilk,

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00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:32,120
Speaker 3: it becomes a news story, including health issues. By the way,

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00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:35,240
Speaker 3: that would be a criminal violation in the regular walk

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Speaker 3: of life because it would be hepa laws of violations.

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Speaker 3: But this is what happens, And obviously in the Dodgers

543
00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:45,360
Speaker 3: heading to the playoffs with another great season behind him,

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00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:51,000
Speaker 3: it's a story. Especially given the previous incident. When he

545
00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:54,440
Speaker 3: was a much younger man, you would hope that this

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00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:56,360
Speaker 3: would be something that would be in his past. But

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Speaker 3: now as he heads into free agency, by the way,

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Speaker 3: this is going to be big, real.

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Speaker 4: Career problem for Julio.

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Speaker 3: Not to mention what's going on in the house, which

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Speaker 3: I have no insight into, so I will refrain from

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Speaker 3: comment Meanwhile, Taylor Swift, in addition two helping save the

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Speaker 3: American economy along with Beyonce on this error's tour, is

554
00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:24,480
Speaker 3: apparently a huge movie star because missing no opportunity to

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Speaker 3: please her fans and to rake in a few more millions.

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Speaker 3: In addition to this incredibly lucrative tour, she filmed the

557
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Speaker 3: concert and I guess it's one of the hottest tickets

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Speaker 3: in movieland where people can go in and watch the

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Speaker 3: entire concert, and the tickets sold out like instantaneously, so

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Speaker 3: on top of everything else, twenty six million dollars she

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Speaker 3: made in pre sales for the first within the first

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Speaker 3: twenty four hours, beating the previous first day pre sale

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Speaker 3: record for Spider Man No Way Home, which did sixteen

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Speaker 3: point nine million. This is AMC reporting this. They sold

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Speaker 3: twenty six million dollars in advance for people to come

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Speaker 3: in and see her concert at five hundred and sixty

567
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Speaker 3: eight locations around the country, and girlfriends got to go.

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Speaker 3: It doesn't shay boy. Everything she touches doesn't turn to gold.

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Speaker 3: It turns to platinum or turns to a gallon of gas,

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Speaker 3: whichever you consider to be the most valuable commodity these days. Meanwhile, ABC,

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Speaker 3: Disney and ESPN. If you are a charter spectrum a customer,

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Speaker 3: which I am, and you flip on ABC or any

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Speaker 3: of the ESPN channels, including like ESPN forty three, we

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Speaker 3: can watch you know, curling or those sports, you know, cornhole,

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Speaker 3: you know, whatever they got going on there. You know,

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Speaker 3: when I was a kid, I thought highlight was jolly Ali.

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00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:49,040
Speaker 3: I didn't know how to pronounce it.

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Speaker 4: I see this.

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Speaker 3: They had a high Life fronton up in Connecticut somewhere.

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00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:56,200
Speaker 3: You're driving up by ninety five, you'd see that says

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Speaker 3: high Life fronton next Eggs at N.

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Speaker 4: I didn't know what it was.

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Speaker 3: I said, jolly Ali, Which shows you what kind of

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Speaker 3: connection we had to that sport as a kid.

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Speaker 4: But it's a blackout.

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00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:09,360
Speaker 3: You go there and it's just got this slate up

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00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:13,280
Speaker 3: that says, oh there's you know, in our ongoing efforts

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00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:17,200
Speaker 3: to keep costs under control, this is a spectrum saying

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00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:19,800
Speaker 3: this Charter Communications for some time, we have not yet

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00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:22,640
Speaker 3: agreed on a new market based agreement, according to Disney.

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Speaker 3: And you know, it's interesting that this is happening on

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Speaker 3: a Labor day because everything associated with the entertainment industry

593
00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:32,920
Speaker 3: now seems to be in free fall except for you know,

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Speaker 3: tickets sales for Taylor Swift and Barbie. You've got the

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00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:42,920
Speaker 3: strikes are dragging on with no end in sight and

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00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:45,280
Speaker 3: probably spilling into twenty twenty four. And we'll talk with

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00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:48,280
Speaker 3: actress Penny Pizer next hour about that, by the way,

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Speaker 3: the latest and you've got issues like this where the

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Speaker 3: cable industry is falling apart as people continue to cut

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Speaker 3: the cord. And then Congress is still talking about having

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Speaker 3: a la carte subscription services where you can just pick

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Speaker 3: and choose the channels you want, which I'd be one

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Speaker 3: hundred percent in favor of because of the eight hundred

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Speaker 3: channels we've got, I use about six of them, maybe

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Speaker 3: four six on a good day, but most of the

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Speaker 3: time four. So there's just incredible pressures and the environment,

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Speaker 3: the economic environment is changing so rapidly that I don't

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Speaker 3: even and I think this is one of the biggest

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Speaker 3: issues presenting presenting itself to both the AMPTP, the studios

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Speaker 3: and the unions that are negotiating.

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Speaker 4: With the AMPTP is.

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Speaker 3: I don't think anybody knows what's gonna what the world's

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Speaker 3: going to look like in three years, that people are

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Speaker 3: negotiating a contract where technology and consumer trends are changing

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00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:53,000
Speaker 3: so dramatically that the thing you negotiate today may be

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Speaker 3: completely invalid in eighteen months. And that's one of the

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Speaker 3: and there's a schism within the uh, the studio system

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Speaker 3: because Netflix is one thing and Disney is one thing,

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Speaker 3: but Amazon Prime is a whole other thing, and Apple

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Speaker 3: is a whole other thing. I mean, Amazon sells everything.

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Speaker 3: They selling paper towels and you know, and toilet ball brushes,

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Speaker 3: so you know, you know, the streaming series that they

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Speaker 3: produce is like one tiny piece of the puzzle. So

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Speaker 3: they don't they have a whole different interest than you know,

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Speaker 3: you know Paramount or or you know, Sony. So anyway,

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00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:36,759
Speaker 3: that complexity continues. In the meantime, we'll keep an eye

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Speaker 3: on this Dodger story as well, because that's a big

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00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:42,360
Speaker 3: local story, to say the least, And once again pointing

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Speaker 3: out that fame does not necessarily mean that everything in

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Speaker 3: your life is perfect. All right, let's go get some

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Speaker 3: perfect news from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.

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Speaker 4: And here is Sandy Wells.

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Speaker 5: Hey, you've been listening to the John and Ken show.

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Speaker 5: forty one pm to four pm every Monday through Friday,

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