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Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 2: We've got the Moistline coming up next hour, twice at

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Speaker 2: about twenty after and fifty after the hour. And now

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Speaker 2: we're gonna continue covering a story we have for the

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Speaker 2: last few days. If you remember, a couple of days ago,

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Speaker 2: we had a woman named Christina on from Santa Monica.

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Speaker 2: She had taken some of her friends on a walk

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Speaker 2: because they were in town on vacation and they're walking

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Speaker 2: around Santa Monica and Christina's with the parents of a

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Speaker 2: six year old girl who got whacked in the head

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Speaker 2: by some crazy homeless guy who was sitting on a

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Speaker 2: bus bench, and we wondered if the Santa Monica police

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Speaker 2: were gonna bother to find him. Well, he ended up

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Speaker 2: hitting somebody, a little kid in Los Angeles, and LAPD

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Speaker 2: got a hold of him and Michael Munk's from CAFI News.

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Speaker 3: Hey, I'm glad to be here with you, John, to

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Speaker 3: talk about this strange, strange turn of events. I mean,

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Speaker 3: you've been talking about this all weeks since it happened

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Speaker 3: talking about downtown Santa Monica, and now we're talking about

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Speaker 3: the Venice Boardwalk. These are important places. If you have

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Speaker 3: visitors from out of town, where do you take them

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Speaker 3: when they come to LA.

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Speaker 2: You know, you take them without their kid getting smacked

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Speaker 2: in the head? Do you did the police say what

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Speaker 2: this guy did to the seven year old in LA

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Speaker 2: punched him in the side of the head, knocked him

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Speaker 2: He was walking with his parents and a sibling, according

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Speaker 2: to police. And then after he did this. The suspect,

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Speaker 2: by the way, we have his name now. His name

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Speaker 2: is Assante Lamar Morgan. He's twenty three years old and

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Speaker 2: as you noted, is believed to be homeless, and he

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Speaker 2: is someone who did this allegedly punched this boy and

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Speaker 2: then walked over to the bleachers on the beach there

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Speaker 2: that he was connected to the Santa Monica incident as well.

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Speaker 4: Well.

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Speaker 2: What was the connection they were able to make? Was

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Speaker 3: Was apparently the Pacific Division of the LAPD there in

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Speaker 3: the Venice area got when through their detective network, you know,

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Speaker 3: Santa Monica, of course, not being far from there, we're

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Speaker 3: In fact that you know, for these folks to just

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Speaker 2: Did please say if he was well known in the area,

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Speaker 2: like he was one of the local characters.

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Speaker 3: Don't have a lot of details about him. I did

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Speaker 3: during COVID year. It was a story about the plandemic. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: And he was noted as someone from Inglewood who was

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Speaker 3: to him. It was about the governor's reopening policy. But

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Speaker 3: Was this like a free meal? I don't know. It

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Speaker 3: So that's what they're saying, is that he appears to

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Speaker 3: We hear that he was also suffering a psychotic episode.

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Speaker 3: are they going to arrest him? Like you noted, it's

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Speaker 1: Do you know what they're charging him with right now?

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Speaker 3: It's child abuse and those are felony uh charges, and

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Speaker 3: he's being held without bond. Uh oh wow, right now,

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Speaker 1: He would pack a punch, he was, yeah, kid like that.

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Speaker 1: No idea of the condition of the child.

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Speaker 3: I think they were probably more shaken up than anything

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Speaker 2: But they didn't hit their heads on cement or anything.

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Speaker 2: That's the real danger.

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Speaker 3: We're the language used by the police was punched, But

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Speaker 1: Of you know, if he was with his parents or

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Speaker 3: And so now this is you know, it's another example

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Speaker 1: My wife and I walk around Santa Monica all the time.

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Speaker 1: We won't go to your Venice anymore.

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Speaker 2: But Miam, I'm constantly looking around and I don't go,

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Speaker 3: John, I live downtown, I see it. I see it

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Speaker 2: It's not homelessness, it's it's that it's that well, they're crazy,

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Speaker 3: They don't always strike you as people who are ready

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Speaker 3: thank you very much, my pleasure. John nisraving Michael Monk's

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Speaker 3: KFI News on the on the arrest a Santa Lamar Morgan. Well,

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Speaker 3: I can't wait to find out this guy's background. He's

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Speaker 2: He's wandering around like a lunatic, and as Michael said,

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Speaker 1: And so he hits two.

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Speaker 7: Actually, I do hear I do hear that from people

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Speaker 6: Don't have an agenda. Just because I'm a vegan doesn't

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Speaker 6: They people think people that listen to this show.

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Speaker 7: nice listeners, but some people think that because I'm a vegan,

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Speaker 6: They're all wrong.

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Speaker 2: Is different from a vegan prism. Yes, so the research

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Speaker 2: He said people have trouble distinguishing factual claims from opinion.

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Speaker 1: Well, just it's a short clip.

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Speaker 2: We'll play you that, and we're going to tell you

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Speaker 2: Eight second green light. It's causing all kinds of traffic

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Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A six.

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Speaker 2: You know, the sant Anah Wins have really screwed up

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Speaker 2: a brief visit to Bidenville. We just have a short clip.

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Speaker 6: I'm going to take a few questions.

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Speaker 8: Thank you, girl, bride, thank you so much, hard, thank you,

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Speaker 2: They sounded like a kindergarten teachers, didn't they Are there

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Speaker 1: Waving him off. Play it again. I can't believe that.

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Speaker 8: Thank you, thank you so much, hard for your car,

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Speaker 2: So there was one aid who said, because he said,

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Speaker 2: how can he run for president?

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Speaker 1: If his staff is afraid he might say something? How

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Speaker 2: See, they know he's senile. There should be no debate

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Speaker 1: That's just terrible. All right, let's go to this story.

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Speaker 1: You're not gonna believe this.

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Speaker 2: I mean, we're just run here in Los Angeles, especially

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Speaker 2: In Hollywood, you get a green light for exactly eight

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Speaker 2: Let me see who did this story? Oh yes, NBC

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Speaker 4: The stopwatch timing this signal's green light on le Bran

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Speaker 1: Basically, this corner right here is the worst.

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Speaker 4: People who live nearby say this signal can cause a

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Speaker 10: I just see cars and cars waiting, and so then

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Speaker 4: And because the light changes so quickly, cars sometimes speed

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Speaker 1: People are very impatient.

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Speaker 8: They literally want to get across immediately when they see

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Speaker 4: This intersection in Hollywood is near several popular walking trails.

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Speaker 4: Not only is it difficult to drive through, it's also

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Speaker 10: Or I'll just shoot up the hill because I don't

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Speaker 4: Basically, we checked out another signal on Franklin down a

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Speaker 6: If this was a common issue.

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Speaker 4: This one stayed green for about ninety seconds. That's nearly

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Speaker 2: Well, so something's malfunctioning here. All I have to do

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Speaker 2: let's I want to drive to the grove from here

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Speaker 2: you're gonna do is you're gonna create accidents because people

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Speaker 2: and they're gonna run. They're gonna run somebody over. Now,

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Speaker 2: how come when you how come? When NBC Channel four

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Speaker 2: calls La Dot, nobody answers the phone. They don't have

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Speaker 2: a press office that immediately responds. They don't care if

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Speaker 2: they look like idiots. I don't get this not responded

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Speaker 2: to our request.

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Speaker 6: Well, it's Friday? Was it today? Because now people don't

447
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Speaker 6: work on Friday?

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Speaker 2: Oh right, this is like Sunday, isn't it. Nobody goes

449
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Speaker 2: to work? Yep, nobody's sitting at a desk to answer

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Speaker 2: a phone. I forgot about that, right, there's only what

451
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Speaker 2: there's about three workdays now, right, or is it two?

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Speaker 2: I forget three?

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Speaker 1: Two?

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Speaker 2: The three at most certainly not Fridays. And soon it's

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Speaker 2: gonna be thirty two hours. Except if people are only

456
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Speaker 2: working three days a week, it's gonna be twenty It's

457
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Speaker 2: gonna be twenty four hours. That's what it's gonna be. Yeah,

458
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Speaker 2: but they're gonna take the full salary. I cannot believe

459
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Speaker 2: that would not be fixed. You know, in about an hour,

460
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Speaker 2: you just you know, people start calling in because you

461
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Speaker 2: call that three one one number and say, hey, there's

462
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Speaker 2: an eight second light. Got a malfunction, here a glitch.

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Speaker 2: Oh okay, we'll be right on it. You send a

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Speaker 2: truck down there, and you that's what in a normal world,

465
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Speaker 2: that used to be the way everything works. I'm I'm

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Speaker 2: calling for potholes, by the way, on three to one one.

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Speaker 2: Nobody's fixing them. There are a lot of potholes, Yeah,

468
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Speaker 2: deep ones. You could you could fall into one and

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Speaker 2: not come out for a week. There's yeah, there is

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Speaker 2: there is. What I mean, what a dilapidated city we've

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Speaker 2: got here. Finally we both send kids to UC Berkeley.

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Speaker 1: Right. Do you hear about this guy?

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Speaker 2: You see Berkeley professor he's been living in his office

474
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Speaker 2: for a week, sleep in protest. He doesn't think the

475
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Speaker 2: Berkeley administration is doing enough to stop anti Semitism and

476
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Speaker 2: protect free speech. So he's going to sleep in his

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Speaker 2: office for as long as it takes. Well, that'll change

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Speaker 2: the policy.

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Speaker 6: I was going to make a difference.

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Speaker 2: He has not showered. Yes, he has a hunt well,

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Speaker 2: he has a full week worth of dirt and body

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Speaker 2: oils on him.

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Speaker 6: Does he have a restroom in there?

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Speaker 2: Uh, he uses a public bathroom in the hallway, but

485
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Speaker 2: he has not been able to shower. So is Professor

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Speaker 2: Ron Hassner, political science professor. So I would I'd cancel

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Speaker 2: my meetings with the Professor Hassner.

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Speaker 6: Until he could wear a nose.

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Speaker 2: Plus until he could maybe somebody could hose him down

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Speaker 2: in the parking lot.

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Speaker 1: So I don't I don't get it. Locking yourself in.

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Speaker 2: The office and just you're you're, you're sitting there and

493
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Speaker 2: you're starting to stink. How does that change the policy?

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Speaker 2: I'm not I'm not saying he's wrong on his issue, obviously.

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Speaker 6: But people. I mean, that's the thing.

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Speaker 7: People do these types of things because they think it's

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Speaker 7: going to do something.

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Speaker 2: Because the story was a violent mob forced Jewish students

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Speaker 2: to evacuate and auditorium because they were going to have

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Speaker 2: an Israeli Defense Forces soldiers speak. And he's right on

501
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Speaker 2: the issue. But I mean, you talk about in inane response,

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Speaker 2: well you know what, I just won't wash.

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Speaker 1: How about that? Not no shower for me? Okay? And

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Speaker 1: the administration is going it's not gonna shower. I guess

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Speaker 1: we gotta.

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Speaker 6: You know, it's a bio hazard for the students.

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Speaker 1: It's a human bio hazard. We're coming up.

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Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI.

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Speaker 2: A six coming up after three o'clock Alex Stone and

510
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Speaker 2: from ABC News, and we're going to talk to him

511
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Speaker 2: about the the discovery as well. Why they think that

512
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Speaker 2: plane Boeing plane over Australia suddenly dove five hundred feet

513
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Speaker 2: and left, uh left some of the passengers flattened to

514
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Speaker 2: the ceiling. Has something to do with the pilots being hungry.

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Speaker 2: I'll tell you more about that after three o'clock. And

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Speaker 2: we got two rounds of the moistline This is almost funny.

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Speaker 2: We've talked, you know, hundreds of times about the idiotic

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Speaker 2: attempts to uh shut down all the power plants, especially

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Speaker 2: in California, the natural gas plants, UH and and and

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Speaker 2: try to switch everything to solar and wind and uh.

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Speaker 2: This is you know, a fanatical desire, mostly in the

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Speaker 2: Democratic Party all across the country, including Joe Biden's administration.

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Speaker 2: They want to they want to They don't want to

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Speaker 2: build nuclear plants. They want to shut down natural gas plants,

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Speaker 2: and they want everything to be solar and wind, and

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Speaker 2: they want to have they want to use less electricity

527
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Speaker 2: because electricity requires you to burn gas or call and

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Speaker 2: the world's not cooperating because the world is surging ahead

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Speaker 2: with all kinds of technological innovation, and all this technological

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Speaker 2: innovation requires a huge amount of energy.

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Speaker 1: I'll give you an example.

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Speaker 2: The electric utilities in this country have doubled their forecast

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Speaker 2: of how much additional power they need over the next

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Speaker 2: five years. An unexpected explosion in the number of data centers.

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Speaker 2: Data centers. Now life work life has changed so much

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Speaker 2: because of remote remote work, video streaming, online shopping. Everything

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Speaker 2: is a data center. You need massive servers and conditioning

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Speaker 2: systems to keep the servers cool, and it uses a

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Speaker 2: tremendous amount of energy, and wind and solar are inefficient

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Speaker 2: and unreliable compared to natural gas. So while they were

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Speaker 2: pushing the world towards a solar and wind revolution an

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Speaker 2: electric vehicle revolution, in the real world, the opposite has happened.

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Speaker 2: Things are progressing so rapidly record amounts electricity are going

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Speaker 2: to be used over the next few years, to the

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Speaker 2: point where there's not going to be enough. States have

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Speaker 2: no idea how they're going to serve these kind of needs.

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Speaker 2: They don't know what to do because all the political

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Speaker 2: movement is to not build natural gas plants anymore and

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Speaker 2: to do solar and wind. But it takes forever to

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Speaker 2: build solar and wind. Those are huge, complicated construction projects,

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Speaker 2: years and years worth of permits and environmental delays and whatnot.

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Speaker 2: A data center can be built in a year, but

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Speaker 2: it takes five years or longer to connect solar or

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Speaker 2: wind projects to the grid. It takes a decade to

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Speaker 2: build long distance power lines that they require. Data centers

556
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Speaker 2: and factories need power twenty four hours a day, something

557
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Speaker 2: wind and solar can't do alone. They've got this problem

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Speaker 2: with the sun setting every day. They don't know what

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Speaker 2: to do. They have this problem with the wind dying down,

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00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:44,040
Speaker 2: especially at night. What they ought to do is build

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Speaker 2: nuclear power plants everywhere. It's clean energy, zero greenhouse gases.

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Speaker 2: It's cheap once you get past the construction costs. But

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Speaker 2: they will do it. So they have all these idiotic deadlines.

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Speaker 2: Biden administration certainly empty head Newsome. They have deadlines, they

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Speaker 2: have goals, they have targets, but in the real world,

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Speaker 2: none of it's working. Wind and solar power, they're not

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Speaker 2: growing very fast, and they've got supply chain issues, permit problems,

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Speaker 2: environmental problems. Says one expert in power systems. I can't

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Speaker 2: recall the last time I was so alarmed about the

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Speaker 2: country's energy trajectory. And it's going to be bad in

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Speaker 2: California because we're hanging by a thread. You know, we

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Speaker 2: almost had blackouts a couple of years ago. They had

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Speaker 2: to put several they had to put a natural gas

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Speaker 2: plant back online that they had taken offline, and they

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Speaker 2: were going to close several plants and they haven't, and

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Speaker 2: they were going to close the nuclear plant, and they

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Speaker 2: changed their mind because we had no margin for error

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Speaker 2: in California. But that didn't stop Dopey Newsome from insisting

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Speaker 2: on electric vehicles. Well, electric vehicles cost a lot of electricity, obviously,

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Speaker 2: and you need natural gas here in California to make

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Speaker 2: the electricity. So there's not that much fossil fuel savings

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Speaker 2: going on. And like I said, people are working at home,

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Speaker 2: you do video streaming. You need so much more in

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Speaker 2: terms of in terms of data centers and manufacturing too,

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00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:27,520
Speaker 2: because just making clean technology, just making the microchips you

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Speaker 2: need to power this new world you need, you need

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Speaker 2: a tremendous amount of electricity. I mean the federal government

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Speaker 2: spending a half a trillion dollars helping out factories to

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Speaker 2: build semiconductors and batteries and solar panels, all right, but

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Speaker 2: to make those things right now in the moment, uses

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Speaker 2: this electricity that just doesn't exist and is not going

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Speaker 2: to exist. So you can't you can't shut down you

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Speaker 2: cannot shut down the coal plants, the natural gas plants.

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Speaker 2: That's impossible. But we told you this, We told you

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Speaker 2: this years ago, this was going to hit a wall.

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Speaker 2: This is the year we hit a wall. You know

597
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Speaker 2: what the worst performing stock is If you look at

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Speaker 2: the top five hundred stocks, it's a standard in poor

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Speaker 2: index top five hundred stocks. Worst stock out of five

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Speaker 2: hundred is Tesla. Tesla's down thirty percent this year in

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Speaker 2: a very good year for the stock market. They're down

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Speaker 2: thirty percent because Tesla sales are going going splat. They're

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Speaker 2: cutting prices. Even Elon Musk can't can't figure things out

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Speaker 2: right now. I heard of another electric car company that's

605
00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:43,600
Speaker 2: going bankrupt. They're not selling, so they should They should

606
00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:47,760
Speaker 2: back away from all these artificial, silly deadlines and let

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Speaker 2: progress play out. It's going to take a long time.

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Speaker 2: You are not going to get people to go backwards.

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Speaker 2: We are not going to go back to the eighteen hundreds.

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Speaker 2: People will just refuse to. They have refused to. They're

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Speaker 2: not buying the cars. I mean outside of California, they

612
00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:06,600
Speaker 2: are not buying the cars. A lot of rich guys

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00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:09,640
Speaker 2: bought cars out here and people were thrown off. It's like, wow,

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Speaker 2: I see Tesla's everywhere. Hey, I see Tesla's on the

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Speaker 2: west side of LA. Just to you know, drive drive

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Speaker 2: about thirty miles outside of LA you'll see you won't

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Speaker 2: find a Tesla for probably three thousand miles. All right,

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Speaker 2: more coming up. Hey, you've been listening to The John

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