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Speaker 1: It's very productive. Um, you know he doesn't. He's got

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Speaker 1: Well I found that an oddity then, that he sent

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Speaker 1: la That's mostly what people use use Facebook. Oh good,

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Speaker 1: I'm glad you have a slightly cynical approach to this

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Speaker 1: the weekend the El Segundo Times profile. There's eight people

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Speaker 1: after thirty years of service. LA lifeguards can retire as

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Speaker 1: young as age fifty five on seventy nine percent of

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Speaker 1: their pay. I forgot about that. The old fixed pensions

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Speaker 1: all completely out of control. It's part of the La

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Speaker 1: County Fire Department. Is our lifeguards union too? I mean,

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Speaker 1: is this this makes no sense? This is crazy. I

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Speaker 1: liked the way you said some of these people aren't woke,

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Speaker 1: but whoever wrote this just wanted to point out and

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Speaker 1: there were hardly any women. Only two of the top

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Speaker 1: twenty high earners were women. Okay, sorry, there's that. You

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Speaker 1: go and work on that. You go door to door

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Speaker 1: and try to get more of female lifeguards. I'm told

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Speaker 1: they are a union Los Angeles County Lifeguard Association. Since

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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety five. The union has bargainized for better wages,

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Speaker 1: hours and benefits, and working conditions. Over the past five years,

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Speaker 1: Lifeguard Captain Daniel Douglas brought home six hundred and thirty

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars in overtime alone. You got the wrong job, Eric,

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Speaker 1: What are you doing? Swim? Yeah? I can swim, but

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Speaker 1: not that well. Yeah. The Ellly County Lifeguards is a

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Speaker 1: division of the ell County Fire Department. The Lifeguard operations

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Speaker 1: safeguard thirty one miles of beach and seventy two miles

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Speaker 1: of coastline from San Pedro in the south to Malibu

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Speaker 1: in the north is just too much. They have four

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Speaker 1: section headquarters, teen substations, one hundred and sixty towers in total.

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Speaker 1: But are the Orange Country Lifeguards paid like this? I bet?

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Speaker 1: I bet? Of course. People say, well, it's la You

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Speaker 1: got to pay more costs a lot to live here. No,

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Speaker 1: you don't have to. You could. You could go live

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Speaker 1: somewhere else, driving every day you can. I'm sick of

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Speaker 1: hearing about that. No, you don't get entitled to a

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Speaker 1: five hundred thousand dollars salary because you want to live here,

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Speaker 1: so don't live here. Channel five just posted a story

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Speaker 1: where have all the lifeguards gone? Lifeguards shortage could close

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Speaker 1: pools across the US at you see, that's why they're

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Speaker 1: working overtime, probably because just to really fill in the gaps.

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Speaker 1: A half million dollars doesn't lure young guys into work.

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Speaker 1: It might now word gets around, but that's that's the

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Speaker 1: possible pay, he would think. So, you know, I'll bet

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Speaker 1: this guy the top, Daniel Douglas. I'll bet she's probably older.

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Speaker 1: He's probably you know what, I'd like to find out

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Speaker 1: if the union is rigging it so people don't get hired.

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Speaker 1: This makes zero sense to me, although I heard in

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Speaker 1: Phoenix half the city pools are closed because of a

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Speaker 1: lack of lifeguards. One of those pandemic jobs that went away.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, there's a nationwide shortage of

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Speaker 1: so many workers. There's something structurally wrong with either our

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Speaker 1: mentality now or the entire economy really really like crumbled

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Speaker 1: during this is in the story for now. Parks departments

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Speaker 1: are hopeful that older Americans can fill the gap. Retiree

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Speaker 1: is looking for a park job. Part time job by

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Speaker 1: the pool. Wouldn't that be a funny little skit. There's

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Speaker 1: like a ninety year old guy in the lifeguard chair

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Speaker 1: and some of the kids drowning. I get there, you

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Speaker 1: can't even get up. Yeah, Covin stumbles in a walker

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Speaker 1: throws him a floaty h don't I don't understand. You

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Speaker 1: know what I saw on TV the other day. Babysitters,

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Speaker 1: just regular teenage babysitters are getting thirty dollars an hour

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Speaker 1: and something thirty. You know, I wondered what that pay was.

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Speaker 1: Now thirty dollars an hour. I used to get a

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Speaker 1: dollar an hour or something ridiculous like that back in

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Speaker 1: step aside from your job in the booth. Good babysit. No,

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Speaker 1: I may consider that might do better. I'm asking my

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Speaker 1: sister how much she charges. Yeah, oh right now you

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00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:21,760
Speaker 1: are now thirty dollars an hour. Ridiculous. Should you go

487
00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:26,359
Speaker 1: out for three hours it's ninety bucks on top of

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Speaker 1: your your dinner. No way. So this story says the

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Speaker 1: highest paid pool lifeguards only make forty five thousand, including

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Speaker 1: paying benefits. So it's really about being the ocean lifeguard.

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Speaker 1: This is being part of the union and the fire department.

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Speaker 1: This some kind of union racket. I bet you if

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Speaker 1: somebody bothered to do an investigation, it's the the the

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Speaker 1: the the availability is somehow being artificially limited to hire lifeguards. Yeah,

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00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:56,680
Speaker 1: because that's too much overtime. That's yeah, it's ridiculous. And

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Speaker 1: anybody in the private sector would look at overtime numbers

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Speaker 1: like that and say, we got to do something the

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00:28:01,560 --> 00:28:04,080
Speaker 1: right hire some people, figure out a better method, because

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Speaker 1: because if you're Daniel Douglas, right, the captain, he's the

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Speaker 1: guy that made two hundred and forty six thousand and overtime,

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00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:11,560
Speaker 1: he's already high paid. So when he works overtime and

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00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:13,560
Speaker 1: what do you might get time and a half, that

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Speaker 1: makes it even more expensive than to have somebody, you

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Speaker 1: know of a lessons to do the overtime. It sounds

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Speaker 1: like they're choosing not to hire more people because at

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Speaker 1: these prices they should be having wines. I mean, you

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Speaker 1: work outdoors and it's it's easy girls in bikinis, that's right,

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00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:35,480
Speaker 1: it's an easy life, and every once in a while

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Speaker 1: you gotta blow your whistle and wrestle the fat guy

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Speaker 1: out of the water. I mean, what, all right, we

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Speaker 1: got more coming up John and can cafe all right.

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Speaker 1: Number of stories popped up over the weekend about what

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Speaker 1: happened a week ago and Valdi, Texas, the school shooting

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Speaker 1: that killed nineteen school kids and a couple of teachers.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk about it after three o'clock, but the first

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Speaker 1: story we're gonna tell Deborah Mark will have to leave

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Speaker 1: the room. Oh, giving you fair warning, go into a

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Speaker 1: soundproof booth and listen to I don't know, because we'll

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Speaker 1: be cackling here is I don't know that we'll be cackling.

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00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:11,960
Speaker 1: I just don't think she wants to hear what the

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Speaker 1: story is. That's all I'm saying. Then no more. Most

522
00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:17,239
Speaker 1: of the rest of our listeners are now like, oh,

523
00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:21,560
Speaker 1: I gotta hear that. That's the idea. Story over the

524
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Speaker 1: weekend that made news is that the husband of Nancy

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Speaker 1: Pelosi got into a drunk driving car crash in northern California.

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Speaker 1: Paul Pelosi is eighty two years old. He had apparently

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Speaker 1: just left a dinner party. According to the Pelosi spokesperson,

528
00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:46,040
Speaker 1: it was a short drive home, but he didn't make it.

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Speaker 1: He crashed his car into a jeep driven by another driver,

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Speaker 1: and nobody was seriously hurt. Police reports were taken, and

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Speaker 1: then later on Pelosi was actually arrested and charged with duy.

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Speaker 1: He was, according to the measurement, above the limit five

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars bail. The sort of a bombshell update this

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00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:15,480
Speaker 1: afternoon is that he got into a crash when he

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Speaker 1: was seventeen years old and it resulted in the death

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Speaker 1: of his brother. That's a kind of they went on

537
00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:27,760
Speaker 1: a joy ride, Yeah, and nineteen fifty seven, is it. Yeah,

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00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:31,360
Speaker 1: he lost He lost control of the car and veered

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Speaker 1: across the road, bounced bank from an embankment, went twenty

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Speaker 1: feet up another embankment, spun around, somersaulted, ended up upside down,

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Speaker 1: and the brother was wearing a neck brace because he

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00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:47,760
Speaker 1: had fractured his neck previously, and they think a diving accident.

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00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:51,280
Speaker 1: They think he had a neck brace on. And apparently

544
00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:54,920
Speaker 1: when the car flipped upside down and they were both trapped,

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00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:59,680
Speaker 1: Paul Pelosi got out, but the brother he trowned in

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00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:01,960
Speaker 1: some small pool of water or something. Is that what

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00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:06,440
Speaker 1: they're saying. Yeah, it ended up upside down on the

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00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:11,800
Speaker 1: shoulder with both youths underneath, right, So he's underneath the car.

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00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:17,440
Speaker 1: According to this story. Yeah. Yeah. It says here that

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00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:21,600
Speaker 1: the brace lodged tightly against his neck. They jacked up

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00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:25,720
Speaker 1: the car to relieve the pressure, but David apparently was

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00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:31,400
Speaker 1: already dead, and while Paul broke his collar bone, he

553
00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:33,560
Speaker 1: was trapped onto the car for a while. He was

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00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:39,240
Speaker 1: set free and called for aid. This is six years

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00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:43,200
Speaker 1: before he married Nancy Pelosi. He was also charged twice

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Speaker 1: in twenty eleven, once for running a red light and

557
00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:48,320
Speaker 1: once for veering over the center line. Wow, while driving.

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00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:53,160
Speaker 1: Even killing his brother didn't give him the lifetime trauma

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00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:58,959
Speaker 1: to be more careful when he yet not. I mean,

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00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:01,800
Speaker 1: this is like not just not being careful. This has

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00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:07,360
Speaker 1: been reckless, like aggressively reckless. Oh the when he was seventeen,

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00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:12,560
Speaker 1: you mean yeah, yeah, And then but over the weekend

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00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:17,680
Speaker 1: he's eighty two and he's still driving drunk. Yeah. He's

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Speaker 1: the honor of something called Financial Leasing Services. His fortune

565
00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:24,800
Speaker 1: has estimated over one hundred and thirty five million. That

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Speaker 1: makes her one of the richest members of Congress. Um

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00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:37,320
Speaker 1: says here she doesn't drink, but they do own a winery. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: northern California, And of course, obviously she's a San Francisco

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Speaker 1: Congress fan. At least he didn't hurt anybody this time. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Hayes Sus Slopez was the driver of the jeep. He

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Speaker 1: wasn't charged, and neither man was injured. I don't think

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Speaker 1: they were going that fast. It was Pelosi was driving

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Speaker 1: his twenty twenty one Porsche Nice sports car. I guess

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00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:02,040
Speaker 1: she was in Rhode Island doing commencement speech at Brown University,

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00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:05,520
Speaker 1: so he was alone. Yeah, her staff scent kind of

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00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:10,400
Speaker 1: a sharp statement saying she's back on the East coast

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00:33:10,520 --> 00:33:12,320
Speaker 1: right now. In other words, she's got nothing to do

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Speaker 1: with this. This is her drunken husband. Yeah, driving into people.

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Speaker 1: And there are times I've always wondered about her, just

580
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Speaker 1: the way she kind of slashes about when she speaks.

581
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Speaker 1: But no, that's your plastic surgery. And I think her

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Speaker 1: dentures or her teeth or something plastic surgery. And she's

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00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:36,600
Speaker 1: got some of the Biden disease to because she's eighty something. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he was booked on two misdemeanor counts of driving under

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Speaker 1: the influence, driving with a blood alcohol content a point

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Speaker 1: zero eight percent or higher. Yeah, they do own a

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Speaker 1: vineyard in Napa. We don't know what the party that

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Speaker 1: he went to was but he apparently was in no

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Speaker 1: condition to drive. And you're eight two and you're worth

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Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty five million dollars and you don't

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Speaker 1: have somebody to drive a party. Yeah, that's what I

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00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:08,680
Speaker 1: don't get, Especially if you go to a party you

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Speaker 1: might have a few. You started out life killing your brother.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Noah, does that mean you're microwaved dishes? Ready?

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Speaker 1: I don't know is that the correct? It was correct?

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Speaker 1: You should have a driver if you're worth that much money.

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00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:31,479
Speaker 1: Toast popped up. It sounded like a tiger for another dish.

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Speaker 1: All right. When we come back, we're gonna run down

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Speaker 1: the latest news, and you've all de Texas the mass

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Speaker 1: shooting of a week ago. We can talk about that

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Speaker 1: police chief who was supposed to take a position on

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Speaker 1: the city council. You just want an election recently, he's

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Speaker 1: not going to do that right now. There's a lot

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Speaker 1: of questions surrounding that guy. Has he done any interviews?

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00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:54,080
Speaker 1: I don't think he has. As it's probably the police chief. No,

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Speaker 1: I think he's gonna this is Pete rodamdo. Yeah, he's

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Speaker 1: gonna be liable for so much. I think. But as

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Speaker 1: I Proba must the first story Deborah Mark wants to

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Speaker 1: cover her ears. More coming up Johnny Ken Show. Deborah

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