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

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Speaker 2: thank you for joining us. You're here, I'm here, got back.

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Speaker 2: We were my family and I. We were all in

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Speaker 1: The same time.

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Speaker 3: That's amazing, going in.

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Speaker 2: And I realized by Friday that they had told well,

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Speaker 2: all that coming up. But obviously the big news and

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Speaker 2: the reason everybody was concerned if they had to travel

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Speaker 2: over the weekend. Was the government shutdown is coming to

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Speaker 2: an end. Eight Democrats defected, caved in, and the Republicans

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Speaker 2: going through the voting procedures. But the government's going to

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Speaker 2: be reopened. Let's going to talk now to Joe Khalil.

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Speaker 2: He's the Washington correspondent for News it Nation, the cable

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Speaker 1: Joe, how are you say? Good? How you guys doing?

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Speaker 1: I'm good? So is it really over?

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Speaker 4: It is not over yet, but we are on the

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Speaker 4: pathway for this to be over. Yes, last night the

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Speaker 4: we'll keep government open between now and January thirtieth. So

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Speaker 4: it's not super long term, but it reopens the government

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Speaker 4: worker who is furloughed will get back pay. That was

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Speaker 4: today if the Senate votes tonight or tomorrow. They're hoping tonight.

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Speaker 2: But the big demand that the Democrats had and did

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Speaker 4: And exactly, and that is why these eight Democrats are

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Speaker 4: getting a lot of flak from the rest of their party. Effectively,

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Speaker 4: it's leaders, it's leader Chuck Schumer and Huckeen Jeffries that

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Speaker 4: This is pretty remarkable. Even people who are going to

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Speaker 4: out against this deal because it does not include, as

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Speaker 4: They didn't put the language in the CR which would

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Speaker 2: And I imagine these senators as well as everybody else,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I talked to Tim Kaine today, the

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Speaker 4: Mind you, those eight Democrats say they can still fight

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Speaker 2: Within a month, you've got chaos, you've got food stamps

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Speaker 2: Considering you have all year to negotiate this stuff. This

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Speaker 4: Typically. Yeah, and the side that's not making demands, you know,

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Speaker 4: to work on this. We will, but we just got

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I could see why the average person might blame

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Speaker 2: they weren't cooperating. Very good, Joe, thanks for coming on

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Speaker 1: To all that.

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Speaker 4: Of course, happy to do it all.

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Speaker 2: Right, Joe Khalil, Washington, correspondent for Newstation, the cable television

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Speaker 2: news network. When we come back, well, I'll explain in

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Speaker 2: the key in the middle there is the filibuster rules.

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Speaker 2: So the shutdown is on its way to ending, and

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Speaker 2: there is an agreement. There's eight Democratic senators who defected,

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Speaker 2: this deal. But the big thing that the Democrats wanted

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Speaker 2: the shutdown was all over. What was all about Obamacare subsidies,

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Speaker 2: but the subsidies continued, and that's real federal spending. If

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Speaker 2: there's a lot of these situations. A temporary subsidy goes

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Speaker 2: Party is over. No more subsidies. On top of that,

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Speaker 2: the subsidies go directly to the insurance companies. Doesn't even

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Speaker 1: It's a failure.

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Speaker 2: So the public debate should not be about whether you

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Speaker 2: keep shoveling money into a failed program. The public ought

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Speaker 2: And of course the Democrats relye most politicians rely on

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Speaker 2: This is stupid, stupid for a moment one, so the

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Speaker 1: Now. While while all.

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Speaker 2: The news was in Washington this week, Gavin Newsom flew

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Speaker 2: than it was last year. I don't think there's one.

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Speaker 6: Nothing I dislike more than the politician that sits there

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Speaker 6: and lies to you.

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Speaker 2: But you know he can go to Brazil and sell

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Speaker 2: this crap again, and all the other pomp foods listening

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Speaker 2: to it. They're not really paying attention anyway. They got

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Speaker 2: food drinking prostitutes coming up tonight. That's all they care about,

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Speaker 2: you know. And to earn the right to enjoy the

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Speaker 2: food the drink of the prostitutes, you got to sit

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Speaker 2: through a windbag like Gavin Newsom, all right, will we

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Speaker 2: come back. Two dog stories, neither one of them pleasant,

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Speaker 2: not necessarily unhappy endings, such a tease.

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Speaker 1: It's just for you, thank you.

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

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Speaker 2: Okay, two bad dog stories, although in this case, so

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Speaker 2: not to upset you too much, both dogs survive.

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Dog number one.

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Speaker 2: In North Hollywood, Carla Vicuna said she's walking to her

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Speaker 2: four year old German Shepherd named a Treyu German Shepherd

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Speaker 2: Husky mix a Trayo started acting strangely, wouldn't settle down,

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Speaker 2: eyes moving in a weird way, and Carl and her

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Speaker 2: husband took the dog to the vet started getting him tests.

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Speaker 2: He had a fever, his heart rate elevated. It turns

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Speaker 2: out he had tested positive for meth.

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Speaker 7: Of course, because it's North Hollywood, well, it's the valley,

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Speaker 7: it's southern California.

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Speaker 2: They had walked through a neighborhood alleyway and they think

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Speaker 2: somewhere there he's sniffing around, he's chewing on something, and

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Speaker 2: he got a good dose of meth. He saw a

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Speaker 2: tray who grabbed something, but he couldn't tell what it was,

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Speaker 2: and he ate it real fast.

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Speaker 8: That's what happened to my dog. But it was marijuana, right,

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Speaker 8: But it was your own in the house, right, No,

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Speaker 8: it was. I keep forgetting this, you do. You're right

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Speaker 8: on the walk. Yes, did somebody just toss a joint?

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Speaker 3: I know it was a edible or something. A dog

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Speaker 3: was stone, remember, I I.

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Speaker 1: Remember, I remember it was woozy, right, A little.

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Speaker 3: More than woozy. I thought it was having a stroke.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 2: Carly here said this the second time her dog had

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Speaker 2: ingested drugs.

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Speaker 3: Oh well maybe you need to not walk in that

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Speaker 3: same place.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, a few months ago, weed in the park.

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Speaker 3: Different.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: See ye, so one a little bit of weed one day,

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Speaker 2: a little bit of.

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Speaker 3: Meth the other dog, and the dog survived.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 1: Well, there's a lot of riff raff people around. It's

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Speaker 1: all they do, is they They just.

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Speaker 2: Ingest drugs all day and they walk around zombified poisoned dogs.

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Speaker 2: Now for the weed, he was drowsy, he was trying

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Speaker 2: to stand up and then he'd.

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Speaker 1: Pee on him.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, that's exactly what happened to my exactly.

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Speaker 2: But you can see about the homeless people are in

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Speaker 2: the condition they're in now the other one. Uh and

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Speaker 2: and this is why every homeless encamp and are to

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Speaker 2: be cleared immediately, and nobody wants to go. They ought

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Speaker 2: to be arrested. This story alone, all right, mass arrest,

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Speaker 2: mass incarceration for all these street bumps. Florence Avenue in

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Speaker 2: South LA, a one year old shepherd mix. Some homeless

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Speaker 2: people set them on fire on purpose. It was intentional,

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Speaker 2: according to a rescue group. It was done by the

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Speaker 2: homeless people at the encampment. According Sandra Viveros with Compton

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Speaker 2: Paw Patrol, wait, why because they're odd meth and weed?

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Speaker 1: They're crazy people.

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Speaker 3: Oh god, this is horrible.

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Speaker 2: They set them on fire and he took off running

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Speaker 2: and he's in the hospital. Burns covering almost entire his

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Speaker 2: entire body and third and fourth degree burns. I never

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Speaker 2: heard a fourth degree burns. Smoke inhalation and Luke, though,

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Speaker 2: will live. It'll take six more weeks and then they're

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Speaker 2: going to put them up for adoption. Sandy Vivero said,

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Speaker 2: he'll be able to live a very happy life. He

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Speaker 2: needs to heal. He might have some scars, but he'll

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Speaker 2: be okay. He's strong.

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Speaker 3: You know, there is there's a go fundme to help Luke.

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Speaker 7: So if you're interested, you go to kfiam six forty

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Speaker 7: dot com slash Luke so you can help pull Luke.

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Speaker 1: And somebody will adopt them probably.

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Speaker 7: And I think the homeless people that set Luke on fire,

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Speaker 7: we need to set them on fire.

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Speaker 2: Instant justice. Yeah, all right, No, I look, these people

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Speaker 2: have to be removed. I'm running a city and I

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Speaker 2: wake up and I find out these these these these

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Speaker 2: drug addicts and mental patients that I allowed or roam

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Speaker 2: the streets of Los Angeles have set a dog on fire.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, just for sport, just for fun, to see what

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Speaker 1: would happen.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, then we need to do the same to them,

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Speaker 7: just for fun.

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Speaker 1: I don't know why we put up with this.

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Speaker 2: I'm so amazed at the horrific tolerance by Karen Bass

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Speaker 2: and all the rest of them for this stuff.

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Speaker 3: You tell them, John, I am.

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Speaker 1: Tired of this. I'm tired of reading these stories.

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Speaker 3: Almost I'm tired of hearing you read these stories.

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Speaker 2: They're setting dogs on fire, and there's now there's no no,

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Speaker 2: no policy to get rid of them, no policy to

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Speaker 2: put them in prison. They should be belonging to a

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Speaker 2: cycle ward. You're setting dogs on fire. Go to a

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Speaker 2: cycle ward. All right, we come back. Michael Monks.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: You know, the police always gets their budget cut by

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Speaker 2: Karen Bass, and they decided just to start hiring officers

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Speaker 2: on their own. They don't have the money for it.

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Speaker 2: I don't really understand this, and that's why Michael will

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Speaker 2: be here in minutes. Deborah Mark, Friend of all Animals.

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Speaker 3: Yes I am.

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Speaker 2: It's live in the KFI twenty four hour News. Hey,

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

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Speaker 2: forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday,

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