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Speaker 1: And all right, let's move on to our next guest.

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Speaker 1: LA Deputy District Attorney Todd Hicks. He has been with

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Speaker 1: George Gascon. There's a long line of deputy das who

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Speaker 2: Welcome, how are you? Thanks for coming on?

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Speaker 3: Fine, John, how are you?

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Speaker 1: I'm Okay, well tell us, we weren't aware of your

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Speaker 3: John, Actually, we have two subtle services here in downtown

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Speaker 1: So this is a shuttle to try to avoid all

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Speaker 1: In California. Oh my god, the latest invasion in your life,

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Speaker 2: Thank you?

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Speaker 1: What every one of the stories we go through, somebody

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Speaker 5: When my son was playing soccer, I told the coach

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Speaker 1: That's reasonable, especially if a kid gets hurt. I mean,

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Speaker 6: And if parents don't want their twelve and underchild playing

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Speaker 1: So basically, they want to turn all tackle football into

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Speaker 1: And of course the teacher's response to that, and most

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Speaker 1: is this is just galling. There is obviously there could

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Speaker 6: Sports is a safe haven for kids? Oh yeah, And

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Speaker 1: They're always looking for like after school programs for kids,

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Speaker 1: On that Alaska Airline flight which had the door plug

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Speaker 2: They're looking for four bolts, four bolts that we're supposed

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Speaker 1: I don't know how you're going to find four bolts

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Speaker 1: According to Oh this is a great name, Crookshanks. Crookshanks,

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Speaker 1: you knew this. Who do you think certifies the aircraft

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Speaker 1: You are right. I thought a government inspectors would come

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Speaker 1: On the congressmen who discussed this to reporters said that

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Speaker 1: See what happened with Boeing was there was all this

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Speaker 5: If there were even any bolts to begin with, right, or.

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Speaker 1: If there's bolts to begin with, or the bolts flew

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Speaker 1: bit of movement going on in the door and that's

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Speaker 1: set off the pressure light. But the pilots kept looking

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Speaker 1: at it, and I guess it's okay, or maybe the

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Speaker 1: mechanics are looking at I. I guess it's okay. Well,

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Speaker 1: I just don't fly it over the ocean, just in case.

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Speaker 1: But there's nobody to appeal to. That looks like nobody

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Speaker 1: in government wants the responsibility. Not that government employees are

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Speaker 1: any better than any other bunch of lugs.

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Speaker 5: Are we going to be told for now on when

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Speaker 5: we go on one of those planes that there are

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Speaker 5: those types of fake doors there? Because you heard Alex

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Speaker 5: Stone earlier this week when you had him as a

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Speaker 5: guest saying that you cannot tell when you're on a plane,

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Speaker 5: you cannot tell where that door was, right, I certainly

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Speaker 5: no way will I ever want to be in those seats.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know if it's always twenty six A

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Speaker 1: and B, but it was on that plane.

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Speaker 3: I know.

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Speaker 1: Also when you look, you can once you make a reservation, right,

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Speaker 1: you could look and see what model plane. Yes, you're

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Speaker 1: gonna be boarding, and you have to look, because I

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Speaker 1: did this the other day. My wife is taking a

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Speaker 1: flight soon and she wanted to know, and it was

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Speaker 1: a United flight, and it was a thirty seven thirty

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Speaker 1: seven dash eight hundred, and I'm looking at that was

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Speaker 1: that is that a Max eight is an eight hundred

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Speaker 1: of Max eight and a nine hundred to Max nine

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Speaker 1: and it's not It has to say Max eight hundred

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Speaker 1: and nine hundred. They're part of the seven thirty seven family,

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Speaker 1: but it's older models. The new models of the seven

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Speaker 1: thirty seven is Max eight Max nine. They replaced the

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Speaker 1: eight hundreds and nine hundreds. So it means you're getting

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Speaker 1: an older plane, but you're not getting a plane with

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Speaker 1: these problems they've had in the last few years. And

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Speaker 1: you don't know at the last minute they could switch planes.

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Speaker 1: And that's exactly right.

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Speaker 2: So unless you're.

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Speaker 1: Gonna look the morning of and then good luck getting

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Speaker 1: uh right.

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Speaker 5: Then what are you gonna do? You're gonna decide, Okay,

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Speaker 5: forget that, I'm gonna postpone my trip because I can't

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Speaker 5: get on another plane.

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Speaker 1: See, I thought there would be uh an inspection as

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Speaker 1: it's leaving the factory, right, and an inspection after everything,

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Speaker 1: you know, after the doors are put on and all that.

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Speaker 1: And then I thought the federal government comes in and

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Speaker 1: does an inspection. But they don't.

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Speaker 5: Well, maybe they should. Now they're not going to well

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Speaker 5: then we need somebody else. It needs to be obviously

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Speaker 5: we need we need more inspections. You can never have

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Speaker 5: too many.

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Speaker 1: Well, and they also have to do their job. You

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Speaker 1: can hire these inspectors, but when the when the pressure

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Speaker 1: light's going on, then you have to stand down and

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Speaker 1: actually inspect where this could be coming from.

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Speaker 5: This is not like a vacuum cleaner that might be

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Speaker 5: going on. You know, you might need to throw away.

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Speaker 1: This is just so, and it's a new and it's

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Speaker 1: a new plane. So it just happened, right, So.

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Speaker 5: I think maybe people think, oh, it's new, there's nothing

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Speaker 5: wrong with it. It's it's brand new.

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Speaker 1: It's fine. More coming up, John Cobalt showed you're listening

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Speaker 1: to John Cobelt on demand from.

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Speaker 2: KFI A M. Six.

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Speaker 1: I think I have a story here that will affect

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Speaker 1: zero percent of the audience, but I want to tell

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Speaker 1: you anyway because it's it's these fanatical progressives in this

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Speaker 1: State Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee. There is a bill

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Speaker 1: written by an assemblyman named Alex Lee. I'll explain him

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Speaker 1: in a moment. For the second year in a row,

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Speaker 1: he's introduced a tax measure. It would increase, it would

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Speaker 1: impose a one and a half percent tax on all

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Speaker 1: the assets of anyone with a worldwide net worth of

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Speaker 1: one billion dollars. In other words, if you are worth

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Speaker 1: a billion dollars around the world, your assets don't have

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Speaker 1: to be in California. I don't know how you would

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Speaker 1: enforce this. I don't know how this could be legal

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Speaker 1: or constitutional. Right, And this is why I bring this up,

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Speaker 1: because they're so crazy. They have a huge budget deficit,

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Speaker 1: and they're nuts. They're such irritating, annoying cultists, these these ideologues,

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Speaker 1: they're they're like, they're like crazy religious people, and they

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Speaker 1: don't think billionaires should be allowed to keep their money.

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Speaker 1: So like, what's one percent of a billion dollars? That

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Speaker 1: would be like one hundred million, will be ten percent,

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Speaker 1: so this would be like fifteen million dollars, and then

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Speaker 1: a one percent tax on those with a net worth

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Speaker 1: of fifty million. And they're supposed to have a hearing

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Speaker 1: mo The hearing is supposed to be this afternoon. And

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Speaker 1: Alex Lee is a guy who got elected to the Assembly.

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Speaker 1: He was living in his mother's house because he never

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Speaker 1: worked and he never earned any money, and he couldn't

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Speaker 1: afford to move out of his mother's house and up

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Speaker 1: in northern California. That qualifies him to be an assemblyman.

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Speaker 1: And now he wants to put a tax on people

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Speaker 1: who have worked a lot. Billionaires generally have worked a

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Speaker 1: real lot. There's a handful that inherited money, but ninety

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Speaker 1: nine percent of them, you know, put in one hundred

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Speaker 1: and twenty.

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Speaker 2: Hours a week all their lives. All right, tom, ways

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Speaker 2: take the money away from those rich bastards. Yeah, sorry,

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Speaker 2: are we on the air?

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Speaker 3: Yes?

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Speaker 2: Sorry, all right, we have Alex Stone coming on today,

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Speaker 2: continuing to talk about the Alaska Airlines. It's still flipping

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Speaker 2: people out. People are flipped out, man flipped out. Steve

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Speaker 2: Gregory is in Vegas with the Consumer Electronics Show. Talked

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Speaker 2: to him about what the latest is That sort of

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00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:32,560
Speaker 2: like an old radio hack thing to do, you know, Hey,

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Speaker 2: tell us what's going on on the floor there at CS. Oh,

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Speaker 2: well we got a flying car. It's gonna be great. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I know. Every year it's that it's the same old crap.

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Speaker 2: And then key wait, that's a really inviting introduction to

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Speaker 2: have Steve on. But now who doesn't want to hear

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Speaker 2: took the audience appreciates honesty. Well, he did go to

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Speaker 2: the sphere. Oh he did. I didn't know that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, wow there, and that's something we.

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Speaker 2: Have the Duke of Sports coming on to talk about

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Speaker 2: Pat McAfee, Aaron Rodgers, Jimmy Kimmel, the whole run because

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Speaker 2: Jimmy Kimmel has a lot of weight still in this town. Well,

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Speaker 2: and he'd tell old Aaron Rodgers take a hike. And

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Speaker 2: now Aaron Rodgers is off of ESPN. Yeah that was

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Speaker 2: I didn't realize that was a seven figure job yet. Yeah,

557
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Speaker 2: it's like eight hundred thousand years he was getting paid. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: like directly by Pat mcafe though not ESPN. Oh, I

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Speaker 2: didn't know that that much money. Yeah, oh yeah, Pat

560
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Speaker 2: McAfee made eighty five million from that number is wrong.

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Speaker 2: Pat's never come out and said what the number is.

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Speaker 2: That's all I heard. It was eight hundred thousand, So

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Speaker 2: he's but either whatever it is exactly, that has a

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Speaker 2: lot of money to come out of a guy. It's

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Speaker 2: a lot. But but but then again, there are millions

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Speaker 2: of people that wouldn't be watching that show if it

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Speaker 2: wasn't for Aaron Rodgers.

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Speaker 3: Not one of them.

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Speaker 2: Especially now, I think a lot of people are aware

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Speaker 2: of the show that probably or undred percent. You know,

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Speaker 2: that's what that controversy. You know, you can get out

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Speaker 2: of it, you know, like us, maybe it was all stage.

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Speaker 2: That's possible, Like I think that if if you haven't

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Speaker 2: been suspended in radio, at least once you're you're not

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Speaker 2: pushing hard. Now you're not trying, all right. And then

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Speaker 2: we have a Casey Dalton sounds familiar that name. She's

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Speaker 2: the Queen of Weed. She put together a store called

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Speaker 2: stash Dash in Los Fela's and they're calling it the

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Speaker 2: Fat the Whole Foods of pot. The store is built

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Speaker 2: like whole foods, Is that right?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: You been there?

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Speaker 2: Yes, I was there, of course.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Well I went to the opening and I was giving

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Speaker 2: a big bag of stuff.

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Speaker 1: You're like the grand Marshall.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. You know.

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Speaker 2: People think I smoke a lot of weed, and I

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Speaker 2: probably smoke more than that. No, I really, I really don't.

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Speaker 2: It gets me paranoid and I can't. I enjoyed it

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Speaker 2: up until having a child occasionally, but then after having

593
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Speaker 2: a kid, I couldn't do it. I got to paranoid.

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Speaker 2: So it's been eighteen years, eighteen years without a puff,

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Speaker 2: now eighteen years without getting really into it. Look, if

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Speaker 2: somebody passed the joint around a concert, we're not going

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Speaker 2: to do turn it down. Would you turn it down?

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Speaker 1: It's bad for him.

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Speaker 2: I am not sucking on something that someone else has

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Speaker 2: just sucked on. Then you wouldn't make it in good

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Speaker 2: sex clubs.

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Speaker 1: It's just a health thing, that's right.

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Speaker 2: Don Way tigtong with you.

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Speaker 1: John Colebelt Crozer's got the news live in the twenty

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Speaker 1: four our newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the John

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Speaker 1: Cobelt Show podcast. You can always hear the show live

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Speaker 1: on KFI Am six forty from one to four pm

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Speaker 1: every Monday through Friday, and of course anytime on demand

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