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Speaker 1: Can't. I Am six forty.

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Speaker 2: And the thing is when I come in and I'm discombobulated.

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Speaker 2: Now that I'm by myself, I got nobody to tie

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Speaker 2: up my wires here. We had a lot of interesting

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Speaker 2: stuff coming on. At one point thirty Petros Papadagas from

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Speaker 2: the Petros and Money Show on AM five seventy, the

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Speaker 2: sports station.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna come on.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 2: Petros was a football player at USC of something renown

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Speaker 2: years college football, and we're going to talk to him

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Speaker 2: about California trying to ban tackle football under the age

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Speaker 2: of twelve, not letting people have their freedom whether to

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Speaker 2: allow their children or not, not letting the children have

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Speaker 2: their freedom to pick what sport they'd like to play.

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Speaker 2: And no, the Nanty States big government is now going

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Speaker 2: to stick their beak and intrude on what Pop Warner.

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Speaker 1: Football and.

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Speaker 2: I'm in the camp where we should have our freedoms

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Speaker 2: and we should decide by now most of us know,

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Speaker 2: or it's easily it's easy to find out what the

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Speaker 2: risks are with football, just like there's risks with every

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Speaker 2: sport and anything you do recreationally. And the government now

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Speaker 2: in California, there is nothing they don't want to ban,

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Speaker 2: Nothing they don't want to regulate, nothing they don't want

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Speaker 2: to prohibit. And now it's come to tackle football for

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Speaker 2: little kids, so we can talk to Petros about it

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Speaker 2: since he has spent his life in football. Yesterday, you

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Speaker 2: know something, Kevin Newsome, he unveiled the new budget yesterday,

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Speaker 2: and then California is in big financial trouble. There's a

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Speaker 2: deficit of sixty eight billion, and that's because the state

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Speaker 2: is wildly overspent. I mean, there's no question we've wildly overspent.

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Speaker 2: In fact, let me find this thing that I wanted

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Speaker 2: to point out right off the top. Do you know

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Speaker 2: how much money? You know, how much money we're spending

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Speaker 2: compared to maybe just oh, I don't know, thirteen years

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Speaker 2: ago when Jerry Brown took over in twenty eleven, do

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Speaker 2: you know what the size of the California budget was

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Speaker 2: ninety eight billion dollars. Ninety eight billion. That was the

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Speaker 2: whole operating budget for the California government. Do you know

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Speaker 2: what it is today? It's over three hundred billion. Somehow,

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Speaker 2: in thirteen years under Jerry Brown and Gavin Newsom and

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Speaker 2: the Democratic Legislature, the size of government spending, the amount

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Speaker 2: of government spending tripled, tripled in thirteen years.

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Speaker 1: Holy crap. Now the population hasn't tripled.

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Speaker 2: In twenty eleven, the population was a little over thirty

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Speaker 2: eight million. Now it's a little over thirty nine million.

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Speaker 2: So we've had a population increase of I don't know

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Speaker 2: what's what's the like just a couple of percentage points

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Speaker 2: two percent. Jerry Brown doubled the budget in eight years

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Speaker 2: with no measurable increase in the population. And the Newsom

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Speaker 2: to three hundred and thirty billion in five years while

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Speaker 1: How could this be?

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Speaker 2: Where the hell is the money gone? I mean, how

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Speaker 2: can this be? So he's got so we're sixty eight

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Speaker 2: shadow campaign for president. Certainly in twenty twenty eight and

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Speaker 2: possibly in twenty twenty four. But what do you think

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Speaker 2: he was hanging around with that suspected pedophile Bill Clinton

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Speaker 1: Golf tips. I what do you think? What do you

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Speaker 1: think is going on here?

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Speaker 2: Besides it, behind the scenes, he's in the choote ready

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Speaker 2: to go to run for president because Biden is wobbling,

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Speaker 2: he's he has dementia, he's incoherent, he's one hundred twenty

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Speaker 2: years old. What I read is that most people inside

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Speaker 2: the Democratic Party don't think Biden can make it, and

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Speaker 2: so that's why Newsom is so prominent. So's he's a

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Speaker 2: far left wing progressive running in a country that does

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Speaker 2: large I mean, ninety five percent of the country is

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Speaker 2: not farling progressive. So how do you appeal to a

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Speaker 2: general population. Well, you pass a bloated budget and pretend

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Speaker 2: it's not a bloated budget. He is very upset that

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Speaker 2: the Wall Street Journal has come after him in their

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Speaker 2: editorials about the massive spending, and much of his well,

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Speaker 2: much of his speech yesterday, from what I've read, I

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Speaker 2: two hours reciting numbers. You know what he does. It's

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Speaker 2: No normal person could figure it out anyway. And I

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Speaker 2: very knowledgeable about running the government because he just rolls

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Speaker 2: into numbers. But the legitimate question here, and virtually nobody asks,

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Speaker 2: is what are we getting for three hundred billion that

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Speaker 2: we didn't get for one hundred billion thirteen years ago?

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Speaker 1: What is it for? Well? I know what we've got.

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Speaker 2: For example, we've got Medicaid spending now for every illegal

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Speaker 2: alien the state eight Remember when that was controversial, very controversial,

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Speaker 2: it from cradle to grave Americans. We don't have one

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Speaker 2: hundred percent of Americans with healthcare, but in California, one

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Speaker 2: hundred percent of illegal aliens are eligible. But nobody challenges

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Speaker 2: that anymore. Nobody even highlights it, discusses it. They did

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Speaker 2: it incrementally when no one was paying attention. They just

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Speaker 2: moved it up a little at a time. First it

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Speaker 2: was for the kids, then it was for teenagers and

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Speaker 2: young adults to twenty five. Then it was for people

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Speaker 2: whole thing. Now it's every single one. Now we all

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Speaker 2: know that healthcare is insanely expensive, and we have millions

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Speaker 2: But there's no discussion of it. They're just blowing the

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Speaker 2: eight billion dollars in deficit.

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Speaker 1: And we come back.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to tell you how Gavin Newsom cut the

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Speaker 2: budget deficit in half. While he was talking, he just

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Speaker 2: started to make heus made up a new deficit number

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Speaker 2: off the top of his head, and all the reporters

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Speaker 2: wrote it down, but there's no basis to it. He

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Speaker 2: just decided he didn't want a sixty eight billion dollar deficit,

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Speaker 2: so he cut it in half and announced that as

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Speaker 2: the deficit. Now the next day, everybody's going, way, what

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Speaker 2: did he do here? He stuck at all of you.

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Speaker 2: It's what he did. Tell you more we come back.

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Speaker 4: You're listening to John Coebelt on Demand from KFI AM

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Speaker 4: six forty.

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Speaker 2: Coming up after one point thirty. We are going to

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Speaker 2: talk to Petros Petros Papadakas from the Petrols and Money

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Speaker 2: show over on AM five seventy. Because the nanny state

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Speaker 2: is coming after your kids football. You're got a kid

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Speaker 2: under the age of twelve, they wouldn't be able to

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Speaker 2: play tackle football anymore. We're going to just do flag football,

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Speaker 2: touch football, nonviolent football. There'll be no development of a

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Speaker 2: young boy's masculinity, all right, none of that, none of

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Speaker 2: that violence, none of that aggrestion anymore. Okay, seminize all

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Speaker 2: the boys and men, but makes them happy. We're talking

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Speaker 2: about Gavin Newsom, and isn't he the perfect emblem of

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Speaker 2: a modern day man. He's just so soft and so

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Speaker 2: wants to call him on it. He unveiled his budget

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Speaker 2: yesterday and the real deficit sixty eight billion, and he

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Speaker 2: just made up a lie and says, well, it's going

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Speaker 2: to be thirty seven billion, and they said, well, where'd

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Speaker 2: you get that number from? Well, I just think the

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Speaker 2: economy is going to do better. Well, the Legislative Analyst

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Speaker 2: Office in this state, thanks we have a sixty eight

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Speaker 2: be a mild recession affecting California. By the way, California's

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Speaker 2: economy is far worse than the rest of the country.

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Speaker 2: Nobody discusses that because we have such an incompetent, impotent

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Speaker 2: economy here is much weaker. Well, Newsom got angry yesterday

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Speaker 2: because again you got to put it in the prism

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Speaker 2: of he's running for president. He got angry with the

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Speaker 2: Wall Street Journal editorial board, of all things, because the

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Speaker 2: editorial board had criticized him for the possibility of a

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Speaker 2: wealth tax. And Newsom did something really strange and dishonest.

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Speaker 2: He started complaining about the Wall Street Journal, saying the

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Speaker 2: damage you intentionally do.

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Speaker 1: There, I said that, ooh there, I said.

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Speaker 2: That so bold. He said, they're not truth seekers. It's ideological.

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Speaker 2: He called the board a broken clock and denied that

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Speaker 2: there's a wealth tax, except they just had a hearing

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Speaker 2: on the wealth tax. There's an assemblyman named Alex Lee

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Speaker 2: who just had a committee hearing on it. Alex Lee

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Speaker 2: is this little weeny weasel of an assemblyman who lives

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Speaker 2: elected in a far left district in northern California. And

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Speaker 2: it's to grab a one percent tax on the worldwide

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Speaker 2: net worth of every wealthy person, not their income for

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Speaker 2: the year. They're worldwide net worth, so all the stocks

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Speaker 2: expensive artworks on the walls, Alex Lee and Gavin Newsom

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Speaker 2: want to tax that because the billionaire's residence of record

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Speaker 2: First of all, I have no idea how they would

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Speaker 2: and just to allow the government to come and devour

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Speaker 2: one percent of your worth. It would be one percent

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Speaker 2: of net worth above fifty million dollars rising to a

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Speaker 2: So they think they can go to mister wealthy person

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Speaker 2: who has a fifty million dollars total package and just say,

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Speaker 2: you know what, I'm just gonna take Let's see, what

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Speaker 2: would that be?

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Speaker 1: Five hundred thousand dollars. That's mine, five hundred thousand dollars.

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Speaker 2: And you can go to a billionaire and say, yeah,

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Speaker 2: you know what, I want fifteen million, and they're gonna

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Speaker 2: pay it.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna continue living here.

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Speaker 2: Edward Ring wrote for The California Globe that a wealth

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Speaker 2: tax will accelerate the exodus already in progress. The wealthy

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Speaker 2: will flee like California small business people. It's finishing middle

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Speaker 2: class and everybody else. No one, no one known billionaire

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Speaker 2: or even fifty millionaire is gonna say, oh yeah, five

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Speaker 2: come yeah, take take one percent, take one and a

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Speaker 2: half percent. Hey, it's all yours.

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Speaker 1: Whatever.

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Speaker 2: Here, I'll give you a list of everything I own

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Speaker 2: in the world, because I want to be a good citizen.

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Speaker 2: That's confiscation of money that doesn't belong to the government.

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Speaker 2: Alex Lee, I don't even think had a paper route

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Speaker 2: in his life. He's this little weani in his twenties

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Speaker 2: who can't break away from mommy yet because he never

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Speaker 2: earned any money, He never had earned anything for a living.

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Speaker 2: What gives him the right to go up to billionaire,

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Speaker 2: to go up to billionaires and say, oh, that's mine,

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Speaker 2: I'm taking that.

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Speaker 2: They're not only socialists, they're out of control Nanny's Now

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Speaker 2: The California State Assembly has passed a bill, well, a

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Speaker 3: In a way? I think you know, I'm really on

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Speaker 3: it certainly is a nanny state type of thing. I mean,

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Speaker 3: But I certainly don't like being told what I can

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Speaker 3: It feels like you can't have plastic straws, but the

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Speaker 2: Football's yeah, it's the freedom for the parents and kids

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's where I come from.

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Speaker 2: It seems like they want to take the masculinity out

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Speaker 2: And you know what they do to young boys in

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Speaker 1: I don't know if it's that so much or just

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Speaker 3: And I think I think that stuff exists ad D

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Speaker 2: But I think it's the first thing that a lot

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I've heard some experts say that boys should play

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Speaker 3: I mean, you know, I was way too in my

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Speaker 3: But I always tell people that if your kids are

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Speaker 2: Thanks for coming on, because that was a really interesting

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it's fun not to look through a face

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Speaker 3: I got to be honest, all right, Petra Avandakas. He's

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Speaker 1: Weren't coming up.

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Speaker 1: We have a chase.

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Speaker 1: Looks like a silver.

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Speaker 2: Pickup truck being chased by a CHP officer and he's

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Speaker 1: And there's we just tuned into it. So I don't

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Speaker 5: He did turn down a street that was a dead end,

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Speaker 1: So this guy needs a freeway. Oh, he's just slammed

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Speaker 2: Oh, that's the highlight box. I'm sorry.

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Speaker 1: I always do that.

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Speaker 2: They always start running the good replays, and I I

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you tried down to turn a wrong way street

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Speaker 2: a that's a that's a tough guaries guy. That looks

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Speaker 2: like a real solid pickup check. Well, we'll see where

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Speaker 2: that goes. You know, these stories we've been reading them

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Speaker 2: all the time, and it really gets frustrating because there's

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Speaker 2: there's a way to fix all this that you film

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Speaker 2: more up in northern California. Where's filmore debor you know exactly,

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Speaker 2: I've heard of it.

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Speaker 1: They have.

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Speaker 2: They talked to a woman named Mattie Scott. Mattie Scott

445
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Speaker 2: is upset because her local Safeway is closing and Safeway

446
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Speaker 2: is closing the store on Webster Street and they're selling

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Speaker 2: the property. And the reason is, the real reason is

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00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:09,320
Speaker 2: most of the inventory at the Safeway is locked behind plexiglass.

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00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:14,480
Speaker 2: They shut down the self checkout kiosks to cut down

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Speaker 2: on the theft. They keep having community meetings to address loitering,

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Speaker 2: drug use, homeless encampments on the property. The store started

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Speaker 2: blasting classical music and its parking lot to discourage loitering.

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Speaker 2: I went to a seven to eleven the other day

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Speaker 2: and they were blasting what were they blasting? Some kind

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Speaker 2: of music. It wasn't quite classical, but it was really loud,

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Speaker 2: instrumental music. And it took me a second to.

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Speaker 5: Realize the chase just hit a very bad end. Hit

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Speaker 5: a guy straight on head on collision, head on collision

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Speaker 5: on what street here? With mission mission and brea place.

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Speaker 5: Oh my god, he crossed the yellow line.

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Speaker 1: Huh yeah, that was bad. Oh jeez, is anybody coming around?

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Speaker 6: I'm waiting to see nobody so far nobody.

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Speaker 1: It's okay.

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Speaker 6: So the police are all going around. They're around the

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Speaker 6: car that was just hit, obviously to see if that

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Speaker 6: person is okay. They just opened up the the driver's

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Speaker 6: side door. Looks like that airbag did deploy in the.

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Speaker 1: Car that was hit.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of debris on the road from both

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Speaker 2: cars and both of them are on.

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Speaker 6: The but nobody's getting out okay. So now they're it

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Speaker 6: looks like they're trying to help the person out of

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Speaker 6: the car that was hit.

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Speaker 1: So did you see what he did? And he just swerved.

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Speaker 6: I'm sure they're going to replay it in any second now,

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Speaker 6: all right, they just took.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the other driver walked out.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: Wow, So it looks like he's ok.

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Speaker 1: Boy.

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Speaker 2: That's scary, yeah, because his car is pretty badly Yeah,

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Speaker 2: the front and the other's smoke coming out of the

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Speaker 2: front engine.

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Speaker 1: It's a red car.

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Speaker 6: Now they're off to try and see what they can

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Speaker 6: do with the driver that just hit that car.

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Speaker 2: There's liquids splattered all over the ground and pieces of debris. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: a lot of radiator fluid on the on the street.

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Speaker 2: You don't see that too often. Just a head on collision. Now,

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Speaker 2: they got a lot of cop cars. Yeah, this guy's

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Speaker 2: refusing to come out of this car.

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Speaker 1: What a surprise.

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Speaker 2: Well he just racked up quite a few more felonies

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Speaker 2: along the way, although we never know if these people

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Speaker 2: ever get charged with anything significant.

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Speaker 5: After the chase is over, one of the cops is

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Speaker 5: grabbed with the riot shield.

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Speaker 1: So this guy's this guy's a real crazy person. I

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Speaker 1: can't really see.

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Speaker 6: I think that ara bag is deployed too in that truck.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, the truck's air bag is for sure deployed. Well,

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Speaker 2: looking at the damage, I didn't see the actual collision.

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Speaker 2: If the airpeg doesn't deploy for.

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Speaker 1: You know, I don't know if it's an older car.

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Speaker 5: Where.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so it was. It was right at the overpass.

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Speaker 2: It goes across the seventy one freeway.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, they're showing.

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00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:22,360
Speaker 2: Oh yes, he swerved over to the left across two

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Speaker 2: double yellow lines.

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Speaker 1: That looked intentional.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's no reason for that, because he was on

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Speaker 2: the overpass. They were playing it again. Yea, and he went.

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Speaker 2: He went across two lanes before he crossed the double yellows.

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Speaker 6: Now, I don't think he intentionally hit that that truck.

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Speaker 2: I mean, there was a left turn that he could

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Speaker 2: have made a little farther up, but he was well sure.

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Speaker 5: There was another SUV behind the red car that got hit,

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00:30:52,120 --> 00:30:53,760
Speaker 5: and it almost got hit as well, and it was

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Speaker 5: able to maneuver itself out of the way, so it

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Speaker 5: could have been worse.

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Speaker 6: You can see some movement of the driver in that truck.

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Speaker 6: He's moving around a little bit. He's just hanging out

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Speaker 6: with the airbag.

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Speaker 5: A lot of guns trained on that truck right now. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: I mean, was that some kind of a suicide mission

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Speaker 5: because there was no reason to do that. It was

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Speaker 5: just out of the blue and he went out of

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Speaker 5: his way. It wasn't a mistake.

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Speaker 6: No, I mean, it look like he intentionally wanted to

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Speaker 6: go that way. But I'm just wondering did he really mean,

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Speaker 6: did he really think he was going to go and

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Speaker 6: hit that truck head on?

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Speaker 1: Well, he wasn't.

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Speaker 2: He was making a turn, but there was nowhere to

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Speaker 2: make the left turn too. There was still on the overpass. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: he was in the middle of a bridge. Yeah, and

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Speaker 2: the left turn was still a short distance up farther

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Speaker 2: up the road. That makes that as a really and

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Speaker 2: he wasn't forced into it by the cops.

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Speaker 6: I guess I'm a naive trying to think that there's

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Speaker 6: no way he would intentionally want I want.

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Speaker 2: To do that, but there's bad people in the road,

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Speaker 2: Little Debbie, I know, you know, not everyone is good,

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Speaker 2: I know, but that's a bad guy.

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Speaker 6: I would just think he was trying to get away,

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Speaker 6: and by doing this, he certainly wasn't able to get away.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they have a canine unit there that I'd just

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Speaker 2: let the dog have him.

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Speaker 5: I count eight cop cars and ten cops. Well, Mission

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Speaker 5: Boulevard is gonna be closed for a while going over

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Speaker 5: the seventy one, so if you're in if you were

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Speaker 5: going over that road, you better find another route because

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Speaker 5: this may take some time here. I don't know if

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Speaker 5: this is going to be an extended standoff or not.

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Speaker 5: But he's not coming out of the car and there's

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Speaker 5: no way he can get away.

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Speaker 6: We don't know if he's injured and caned to get

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Speaker 6: out of the car. Now they're gonna okay, So Channel

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Speaker 6: five is doing kind of a close up into that

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Speaker 6: silver truck.

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Speaker 1: And you can see the airbag deployed. Yeah, and his windshield.

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Speaker 2: Wipers go off every once in a while. There's a

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Speaker 2: lot of rage he couldn't drive the car. He's not

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Speaker 2: capable of suddenly taking off of that thing. No, all right,

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Speaker 2: I'll tell you the Safeway story later on in the show.

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Speaker 2: Coming up after two o'clock, and it's almost two o'clock,

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Speaker 2: Were Dever's going to do the news and then we're

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Speaker 2: going to have Vince Fong on.

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Speaker 1: And Vince Fong is one of.

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Speaker 2: The few Republicans state senator in the Bakersfield area. In fact,

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Speaker 2: I think he's running for Congress, and he's going to

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Speaker 2: talk about Gavin Newsom's budget two hundred and ninety one

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Speaker 2: billion dollars. It is triple the California budget of twenty eleven,

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Speaker 2: triple when it was ninety eight billion dollars in twenty eleven.

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Speaker 2: It's two hundred and ninety one billion now, and there

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Speaker 2: were sixty eight billion in deficit. And Newsom came out

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Speaker 2: yesterday and said, no, no, I think it's only thirty

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Speaker 2: seven billion. Well, what do you base that on? Well, nothing,

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Speaker 2: we'll talk about it when we come back with Vince Fond. Hey,

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Speaker 2: you've been listening to The John Cobalt Show podcast. You

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