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

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Speaker 2: Welcome to KFI AM six forty live everywhere in the

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Speaker 2: iHeartRadio app. Happy to be sitting in the big boy

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Speaker 2: chair today and tomorrow from one to four. I believe

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Speaker 2: John is were you telling me he was in mar

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Speaker 2: Lago consulting with the Trump transition team, I think, on

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Speaker 2: the best strategies to begin the New year. Beautiful sixty

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Speaker 2: three degrees in sunshine in Burbank, California. We sort of

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Speaker 2: ease into this awkward time between Christmas and New Year's

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Speaker 2: when people are working, they're not working, they're sort of working.

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Speaker 2: So the big news, of course, as you've been following,

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Speaker 2: is the death of President Carter. Jimmy Carter died at

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Speaker 2: the age of one hundred, and it's fascinating to read

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Speaker 2: about the remarkable life he led. We're going to talk

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Speaker 2: about that in detail, but first I want to get

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Speaker 2: the latest on the plans for his funeral, on how

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Speaker 2: he's being remembered from Jannon Kingston, who's with ABC News,

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Speaker 2: a State Department correspondent.

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Speaker 1: Shannon, what do you have for us.

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Speaker 3: Well, Jimmy Carter is not remembered as a great president

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Speaker 3: by historians, but he is remembered as a great former

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Speaker 3: president because part of that is he had four decades

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Speaker 3: basically after leaving the White House and use that time

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Speaker 3: to promote peace abroad, to resolve conflicts, and really champion

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Speaker 3: these kind of international global public health issues, bringing some

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Speaker 3: of them to a close. So that's part of the

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Speaker 3: reason that we're seeing such an outpouring of support and

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Speaker 3: really admiration for the former president who left after being

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Speaker 3: defeated by Ronald Reagan handedly after only one term in office.

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Speaker 4: Right It's interesting because that was immediately what people went to.

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Speaker 4: It's not so much his presidency, which of course had

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Speaker 4: a lot of huge moments, the Energy crisis, the Camp

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Speaker 4: David Accords, but then his post presidency, as you mentioned,

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Speaker 4: spanned decades, and we don't really talk about other forms

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Speaker 4: in that context quite to that degree, do we.

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Speaker 3: That's right, And part of the reason is, I mean,

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Speaker 3: if you look at Joe Biden right now, when he

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Speaker 3: leaves after one term in office, you know, it's I

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Speaker 3: don't think I'm I'm overstepping to say that. It's hard

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Speaker 3: to imagine that he'll have decades of time left and

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Speaker 3: energy to devote himself to these causes. So Carter had

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Speaker 3: years and years to really rehab his public image. And

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Speaker 3: it's something that what we've seen with older presidents. It's

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Speaker 3: just not the same.

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Speaker 4: So what's the mood in you're in Washington? Now, what's

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Speaker 4: the mood there?

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Speaker 3: That's right, Well, you kind of hit the nail on

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Speaker 3: the head when you said that. It's that kind of

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Speaker 3: awkward time at the end of the year where you're

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Speaker 3: not quite sure who's working. Everybody's kind of doing their

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Speaker 3: own thing. But definitely, plans have already turned to the

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Speaker 3: state funeral that's being planned, all of the pompet's circumstance

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Speaker 3: that goes into honoring a former president or any national

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Speaker 3: figure really of this merit. All those plans are underway,

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Speaker 3: so you know, we're getting ready for that, and really,

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Speaker 3: I think it is a moment of celebrating this long

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Speaker 3: life and all these contributions, you know, more so than

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Speaker 1: But we're working.

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Speaker 3: We are working. That is true. Some people are still working,

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Speaker 3: but they're not all me and you.

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Speaker 4: Of course, yeah, because here in the studios like KFI,

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Speaker 4: I'm looking at CNN, I'm looking at Fox News, I'm

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Speaker 4: looking at MSNBC, and they all have, you know, full

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Speaker 4: coverage family and friends, remember Jimmy Carter. Jimmy Carter's legacy

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Speaker 4: funeral set for January ninth, and I mean, it's just

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Speaker 1: A remarkable outpouring of love for the man.

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Speaker 4: I mean, in contrast to say, the way people feel

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Speaker 4: even going back to Bush Clinton Obama, it's unusual to me,

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Speaker 3: Right. And part of that, of course, Jimmy Carter was

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Speaker 4: So tell me what it's like covering the State Department

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Speaker 3: Well, this is another time of transition. I think I

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Speaker 3: some similarities. Of course, we're still dealing with conflicts in

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Speaker 3: expecting Senator Mark Rubio to be confirmed. Obviously has a

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Speaker 3: know from covering the Trump administration all of these decisions

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Speaker 1: So were you there in the first Trump administration as well?

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Speaker 3: I was that we covered the White House and Capitol Hill.

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Speaker 4: So the different side of it from your perspective. I

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Speaker 4: know we're getting a little bit off President Carter, but

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Speaker 4: just interesting to talk to people who are actually there.

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Speaker 4: I mean, the biggest difference between covering the Trump administration

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Speaker 3: I think, it's going back to the first year of it.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it did feel that when Trump was in office,

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Speaker 3: do have a very different incoming president. Even from where

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Speaker 3: I think he's changed, his team has changed. So it's

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think the safest thing to say is be

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Speaker 4: prepared for for anything. Buckle your seat belt, get ready

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Speaker 4: for a ride, all those sort of cliches that apply

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Speaker 4: to President Trump, who seems a I guess you'd call

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Speaker 3: Right, that's right. But you know, part of when my job,

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Speaker 3: of Jimmy Carter will looks back on for sure, we're

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Speaker 3: in the moment here, but that chaos can work to

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Speaker 4: Well, Shannon Kingston, ABC News State Department correspondent, appreciate your time,

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Speaker 4: your insight. Don't make any long term plans for twenty

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Speaker 3: Probably Well let's write it out and we should talk

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Speaker 4: Shannon, appreciate your time. Happy Newear to you and your family.

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Speaker 4: Shannon Kingston from ABC News. I'm Phil Schuman in for

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Speaker 4: John coblt with you from one to four today. We

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Speaker 4: I've been online and looking up some interesting facts and

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Speaker 4: We're going to talk Nathan Hawkman, which brings it more

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Speaker 4: going to affect us here in southern California. There's an

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Speaker 4: update on the Menendez Brothers, one of our favorite stories.

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Speaker 4: Of course, we can't go through a session here on

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Speaker 4: And then you have any favorite headlines from twenty twenty four?

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Speaker 4: for John co Belt today and tomorrow from one to four.

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Speaker 4: John gets a little well deserved time off during the holidays,

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Speaker 4: You have anything interesting planned for New Year's of course,

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Speaker 4: the big New Year's Eve celebration in New York City.

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Speaker 4: Times Square. Heard somebody talking on the radio this morning,

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Speaker 4: one billion people will be in Times Square for New

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Speaker 1: I'll look that up for you. We're going to talk

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Speaker 4: I mentioned crime. Waking up this morning to the shocking news.

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Speaker 4: The numbers of murders is falling if you keep track

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Speaker 4: I'm Phil Schuman infant John cobelt will four o'clock today

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

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Speaker 1: Music is so much fun.

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Speaker 4: If you've listened to me here on KFI and the

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Speaker 1: The past few months. You know that I'm a big

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Speaker 4: fewer in twenty twenty four. Again, these are numbers for

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Speaker 4: twenty twenty three. Same thing in San Francisco, same thing

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Speaker 4: in Chicago. Other crime categories that have had declines car

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Speaker 4: theft falling about twenty percent nationwide, including some sharp.

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Speaker 1: Decreases in cities like New York City and DC.

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Speaker 4: Of all things, they mentioned Long Beach, California seeing an

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Speaker 4: increase an increase in violent crime. So the point is

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Speaker 4: good news we want to see the numbers going down

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Speaker 4: rather than up. But it's the fear of crime that

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Speaker 4: is the issue for me and so many others, because again,

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Speaker 4: when you wake up and you hear the news this

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Speaker 4: morning about the shooting out in Woodland Hills, or whether

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Speaker 4: it's break ins in Encino or in West la which

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Speaker 4: would traditionally considered and I say quote unquote air quotes

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Speaker 4: It's just it's this fear, the unpredictability, the concern that

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Speaker 4: the homeless person who in years past you would sort

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Speaker 4: pull out a knife and stab you. I mean that

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Speaker 4: led to directly the fear of crime, directly to the

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Speaker 4: election of Nathan Hofkman, the new Los Angeles County District Attorney.

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Speaker 1: You remember George Gascon rightly.

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Speaker 4: Or wrongly, I would argue maybe wrongly again, according to statistics,

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Speaker 4: was perceived as soft on crime. He survived to recall attempts,

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Speaker 4: but certainly didn't survive the election in November. We're going

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Speaker 4: to talk a little bit about how his plans are

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Speaker 4: to implement his sort of tougher on crime agenda. If

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Speaker 4: you will, We're going to talk about that when we

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Speaker 4: come back after the top.

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Speaker 1: Of the hour.

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Speaker 4: But it's do you feel that way? I mean again,

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Speaker 4: drop me a message on the iHeartRadio app. I mean,

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Speaker 4: do you feel safe? Do you feel afraid? Does it

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Speaker 4: depend on where you live? Does it depend on whether

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Speaker 4: it's daytime or nighttime? Having a lot of arguments in

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Speaker 4: my family about taking the Metro. My son was really

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Speaker 4: in a recent trip downtown, not so much the trip there,

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Speaker 1: It's like, promise me you'll ever do that again, which

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Speaker 1: is sad to say.

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Speaker 4: And I feel like I'm not giving into the praised

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Speaker 4: I want to take the Metro from downtown LA to

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Speaker 4: who are they.

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Speaker 1: To intimidate me into not doing that?

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Speaker 4: And then it's like, well, that sounds great, but you

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Speaker 4: also have to have to live in the real world, right,

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Speaker 4: which I get.

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Speaker 1: It's just it's it's sad to see.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I was driving to so far, as I

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Speaker 4: this encampment. And again we've made significant strides into cleaning

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Speaker 4: that up, but we have so much more work to do.

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Speaker 4: So it's just, you know, the challenges of living here

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Speaker 4: weather is beautiful. You know, there's so much to do here,

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Speaker 4: whether it's the beach, the mountains, this opportunity for everybody,

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Speaker 4: but it comes at a huge cost, whether it's our

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Speaker 4: If you're fortunate enough to be in Malibu or not.

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Speaker 4: You know, it comes at a cost. I mean, some

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Speaker 4: people are packing up and heading out. But again that's

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Speaker 4: a narrative that is also contrasted by the fact that

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Speaker 4: more people move in than move out. In your achieve

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Speaker 4: you're pursuing your dreams here in Southern California, right, at

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Speaker 4: least that's the theory for most of us, at least

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Speaker 4: I came here for that. What about you drop me

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