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Speaker 1: Can if I am six forty. You're listening to the

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Speaker 1: John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: App Mark Thompson sitting in for John Cobelt. John returns

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Speaker 2: on Monday. There's a high profile trial going on right now,

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Speaker 2: and there was a high profile detention that went on

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Speaker 2: before this court appearance. I'm talking about p Diddy Puff Daddy.

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Speaker 2: Whatever is Seawan Combs. Laura Engel joins us from News Nation.

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Speaker 2: She is an alum of our crew here. It's great

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Speaker 2: to have her in the mix to fill us in

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Speaker 2: on I guess he didn't look great, Laura.

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Speaker 3: Is what I heard.

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Speaker 4: Hey there, Well, thanks for having me back. I am

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Speaker 4: in New York right now, where I've been reporting outside

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Speaker 4: of Federal court all day, and yeah, that was kind

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Speaker 4: of one of the main headlines was what Seawan Combs

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Speaker 4: looked like when he was led into the well of

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Speaker 4: the court and people.

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Speaker 5: That were in there.

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Speaker 4: I wouldn't call it a gasp, but I would say

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Speaker 4: many people were taken aback and murmuring to each other.

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Speaker 4: There was definitely a rumble in the courtroom because people

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Speaker 4: were very surprised that Sean Combs came out with pretty

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Speaker 4: much gray hair, a gray beard. I wouldn't say that

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Speaker 4: he was looking gaunt, but he you know, people just said, wow,

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Speaker 4: he doesn't look real great.

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Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 4: He's, you know, at the MDC, the Metropolitan Detention Center

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Speaker 4: in Brooklyn, which is a notorious holding facility in jail where.

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Speaker 5: Things aren't great.

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Speaker 4: So he's been there for quite some time since last

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Speaker 4: year and September, and it was wearing on him. So

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Speaker 4: that was kind of the physical headline of the day.

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Speaker 4: But then the other headline of the day was what

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Speaker 4: happened the battle between the defense team and prosecutors, going

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Speaker 4: back and forth about jury selection, about evidence, and you

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Speaker 4: know the thing about the CNN video, remember that video

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Speaker 4: Sean Combs a llegedly physically assaulting Cassie that he's allegedly

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Speaker 4: even though we see it for ourselves, that that happened

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Speaker 4: there in Los Angeles back.

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Speaker 5: In twenty sixteen.

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Speaker 4: And the defense, of course, is trying to not have

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Speaker 4: that tape presented as evident, saying it's been edited, it

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Speaker 4: was sped up, the original apparently has been destroyed.

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Speaker 5: There's no way to authenticate it.

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Speaker 4: The prosecution says that is a key and critical part

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Speaker 4: of our presentation to the jury to show not only this,

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Speaker 4: but just kind of his demeanor overall, the kind of

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Speaker 4: there's a back and forth and the judge said, you

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Speaker 4: guys have to come up with some middle ground here.

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Speaker 4: The defense contends that it was sped up and altered.

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Speaker 4: Prosecution says no. So they're like, Okay, if it was

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Speaker 4: sped up, can you.

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Speaker 5: Slow it down?

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Speaker 4: Is there something that you guys can come together to

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Speaker 4: agree upon that could show the jury this tape? So

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Speaker 4: that's going to be a really interesting development as we

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Speaker 4: move closer to jury selection, which is now on the calendar.

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Speaker 5: We had some major.

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Speaker 4: Calendar for this criminal court proceeding April twenty eighth, jury

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Speaker 4: selection and Mark they're talking about bringing through three one

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Speaker 4: hundred potential jurors a day. Oh yeah, So if you

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Speaker 4: get a jury summons in New York, you know, watch

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Speaker 4: out because you you could be going into this courthouse.

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Speaker 2: So three with those numbers, how could you not get

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Speaker 4: Well, we went through this with President Trump. We went

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Speaker 4: through this during the Trump trial. So they bring through

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Speaker 4: a lot of people and so jury selection begins April

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Speaker 4: twenty eight. Sounds like they're going to try and blast

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Speaker 4: through this in three days. The trial was supposed to

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Speaker 4: start opening statements, I should say, the opening statement was

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Speaker 4: physical appearance. His mom showed up today. I hollered at

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Speaker 2: And two, did you guys have a communication prior to

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Speaker 5: It was more of a back of the head like,

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Speaker 4: and there's all kinds of people, a big entourage that

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Speaker 2: It's more than that, right, I mean that I understand

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Speaker 2: that there is focus on the CNN tape, but there's

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Speaker 2: a lot more in this trial than that. Oh.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, there's the witnesses. And you know that's another thing

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Speaker 4: but it's for attorneys only. Hopefully it doesn't leak. Nobody

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Speaker 4: They just want to get the show on the road,

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Speaker 4: and that was really the sense that everybody got from

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Speaker 5: So let's see what else happened. It was it was.

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Speaker 4: The CNN video. It was talking about the witnesses. It

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Speaker 3: Dates and those US three hundred a day, my.

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Speaker 5: God, and those jures.

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Speaker 4: And also he pled. I also mentioned the headline he

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Speaker 4: pled not guilty to the superseding indictment that was presented

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Speaker 4: against him today in court. Now, this superseding indictment happened

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Speaker 5: It's just as we.

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Speaker 4: Know, covering these cases, you've got somebody that's charged with

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Speaker 4: So it's just like kind of a it gives a

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Speaker 2: That's just it's just an extraordinary thing. I mean, you

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Speaker 2: you know, Sean Coms, who's always just you know, top

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Speaker 2: sketch artists renderings, right, that's.

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Speaker 4: Correct, No cameras, no audio. Only one court sketch artist

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Speaker 4: a bad place. To be as a reporter, because the

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Speaker 5: If you're in the courtroom, you're in the back.

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Speaker 4: You're only really looking at the back of people's heads

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Speaker 5: We just I simply don't know the answer. If there,

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Speaker 5: I guess there's not hair dye that's allowed at the NBC.

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Speaker 4: I mean, Sean Holmes is in the most notorious jail

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Speaker 3: Don't have a salon. There is that you're telling me.

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Speaker 4: Is his choice. Maybe this is a maybe this is

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Speaker 5: All we can do is tell you what he looked

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Speaker 4: He wasn't handcuffed. He was wearing his tan jail outfit.

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Speaker 4: see them, clearly, But that was kind of the color

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Speaker 4: that personal exchange that he had. And I'm sure he

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Speaker 5: But you're right.

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Speaker 4: I mean, you know, when you look at all the

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Speaker 4: his defense team, which is very well put together one

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Speaker 4: and he's got a lot of good people on his

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Speaker 5: They want to get the show on the road, and

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Speaker 5: we he's got a speedy trial here. I mean he

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Speaker 5: May twelfth is pretty good. Yeah, you know, I'm sure

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Speaker 5: he wouldn't say that for me for that long.

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Speaker 3: It's easy for us to say, right.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, easy for us to say.

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Speaker 4: But all in all, you know, I mean two days ago,

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Speaker 4: I was in a courtroom on Long Island covering the

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Speaker 4: Long Island serial killer and Rex Huerman has been jailed

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Speaker 4: since July of twenty twenty three, and they're nowhere near

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Speaker 4: right now. So I say that just because you know,

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Speaker 2: There are a bunch of shows that are available to

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Speaker 2: is likely to go lighter on other parts of that story,

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Speaker 2: such as the moment and I wasn't aware that this

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Speaker 2: is in the story of David. When David wooing a

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Speaker 2: wife quote slew of the Philistines, two hundred men then

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Speaker 2: brought their foreskins and gave them to the king. I mean,

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Speaker 2: that's a rough day, and that's something worth keeping out

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Speaker 2: of whatever you're offering. If you're looking for that again,

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Speaker 2: that's House of David. But you know how successful Passionate

444
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Speaker 2: in the Christ was. I mean, that was Mel Gibson's

445
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Speaker 2: incredible offering that he mounted himself. I think he financed himself.

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Speaker 2: It was largely distributed by Mel, so they've done great

447
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Speaker 2: stuff in terms of you can disagree about how good

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Speaker 2: a film it was, but it was an intense movie.

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Speaker 2: I mean, Gibson went the other way with that film.

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Speaker 2: It was super bloody, super violent. In fact, I remember

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Speaker 2: one critic called it a two hour and six minute

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Speaker 2: snuff film. That's how intense that film was. But you know,

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Speaker 2: these are real producers and directors with their own kind

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Speaker 2: of artistic bent. In any case, there's no disputing how

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Speaker 2: popular it is. So if you're looking for Christian entertainment,

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Speaker 2: you're gonna find more of it. It looks as though

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Speaker 2: that is going to be all over the streaming services

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Speaker 2: in the rest of this year, and of course with

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Speaker 2: Easter coming up, I'd look for even more of it

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Speaker 2: to bump up in the days ahead.

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Speaker 3: It's a John Cobelt show. Conway is coming up at four.

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Speaker 2: Maybe he'll slide in here for a few minutes on

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Speaker 2: his on his way to his show. Mark Thompson sitting

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Speaker 2: in for John on KFI AM six forty. We're live

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Speaker 2: everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 6: You're listening to John cobelts on demand from KFI AM

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Speaker 6: six forty.

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Speaker 2: Mark Thompson here for John Cobelt finishing up. We'll talk

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Speaker 2: to Conway if he slides in here. It is, of

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Speaker 2: course the day that they sent it past, this bill

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Speaker 2: to keep the government open, and if you missed it,

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Speaker 2: the shutdown was to have been at midnight tonight, but

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Speaker 2: the Senate passed the bill which essentially gives Donald Trump

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Speaker 2: and Elon Musk and his crew a lot of running

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Speaker 2: room through September thirtieth. So that will be heading to

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Speaker 2: the desk of the President and he will of course

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Speaker 2: sign it. And there is a lot of disagreement in

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Speaker 2: the Democratic Party about no whether that should have been done,

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Speaker 2: but it is done. I think one of the big

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Speaker 2: things that's happening out of this administration is associated with

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Speaker 2: California and the EPA. I don't know if everybody's been

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Speaker 2: following this, but there is an unwinding of all of

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Speaker 2: these restrictions that are associated with EPA mandates from the

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Speaker 2: Biden administration. They're all getting undone, and in so doing

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Speaker 2: you the I mean Obama started at Biden continued the

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Speaker 2: Clean Power Plan, looking to reduce emissions from power plants

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Speaker 2: fueled by coal and natural gas. It gets at mainstream

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Speaker 2: uses of power production. But it also and I think

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Speaker 2: this is the thing that maybe it's where the shoe

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Speaker 2: pinches for a lot of us. They're not only going

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Speaker 2: for emissions from large power plants and oil and gas producers,

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Speaker 2: but vehicle emissions. I mean, that's the largest source of

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Speaker 2: air pollution in California. Vehicle pollution, all right. So they

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Speaker 2: want to terminate and finish the standards surrounding light, medium

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Speaker 2: and heavy duty vehicles. And that was behind Biden's electric

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Speaker 2: vehicle mandate. Now, they of course want nothing to do

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Speaker 2: with the electric vehicle mandate, but that was a goal.

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Speaker 2: Remember twenty thirty was going to be the goal that

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Speaker 2: evs would comprise half of the cars sold in the US. Well,

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Speaker 2: you can forget about that now. I mean Trump is

501
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Speaker 2: on a jihad against anything that has to do with Biden.

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Speaker 2: You may be perfectly fine with that, But what I'm

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Speaker 2: suggesting is that we're going to really notice it here

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Speaker 2: in California. There are all kinds of ways in which

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Speaker 2: air quality and pollution standards and even fuel efficiency is

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Speaker 2: going to be affected by the rollback in these EPA programs.

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Speaker 2: Does anybody remember how it was in the old days

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Speaker 2: with the first stage smog alert, second date stage smog alert.

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Speaker 2: Any of the older boys and girls recall that. I mean,

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Speaker 2: it's possible that the air could get a lot worse

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Speaker 2: based on the fact that they are rolling back restrictions

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Speaker 2: that are in place for vehicle emissions. Mike Stoker they

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Speaker 2: point here, who served as the EPA's top official for

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Speaker 2: California and the Pacific Southwest during the previous Trump administration,

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Speaker 2: says it's not a big deal that California can still

516
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Speaker 2: set higher standards in the federal government. He says, as

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Speaker 2: a general matter, most of the states that have been

518
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Speaker 2: really strong on the environment, like California are going to

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Speaker 2: exceed whatever the minimum standard is that the EPA is regulating.

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Speaker 2: These kinds of actions have a much bigger impact on

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Speaker 2: the states that have really opted to go with more

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Speaker 2: of the minimum standards. The goal he set is to

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Speaker 2: eliminate rules and regulations that are costly and time consuming

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Speaker 2: and to ensure that those remain. Those that remain are

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Speaker 2: backed up by the best possible science. So that's the

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Speaker 2: reporting on it. But again you've got carbon dioxide, other

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Speaker 2: pollutants with tailpipe emissions being rolled back such that there

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Speaker 2: will be ceilings on all of that that will permit

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Speaker 2: likely more pollution. It's noted that California sets the standard.

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Speaker 2: Actually by increasing things like fuel efficiency, increasing standards on

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Speaker 2: tailpipe emissions, you actually set a standard for the nation itself.

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Speaker 2: But we're seeing more and more that six harmful pollutants

533
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Speaker 2: will now be rethought by the EPA, and that may

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Speaker 2: affect us in California. So it's interesting because as I

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Speaker 2: talk about the old days during which the valley really

536
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Speaker 2: was choked during a lot of the summer months, you

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Speaker 2: must remember that, Tim right.

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Speaker 7: I'm sorry, what an introduction, by the way, thank.

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Speaker 3: You very much. Appreciate that. You must remember that, right, Tim,

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Speaker 3: I just got in.

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Speaker 2: I remember, what do you remember when there was a

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Speaker 2: first stage, second stage smug.

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Speaker 3: That's every day of the value it used to be, right,

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Speaker 3: it used to be.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So that was like the one I thought, like

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Speaker 2: notable thing that happened with the standards on tailpipe emissions

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Speaker 2: and all that stuff.

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Speaker 7: Whether the valley cleared up?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, seriously, yeah.

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Speaker 8: And uh and maybe a lot of the electric cars help,

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Speaker 8: that's possible.

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Speaker 2: Oh I see, yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't know. It's

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Speaker 2: a weird thing about the electric cars because on the

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Speaker 2: one hand, uh, the president has been against the electric

556
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Speaker 2: cars and all those electric vehicles.

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Speaker 3: He wants to unwind all of that.

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Speaker 2: But now with Elon Muskus his buddy, he's now pitching

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Speaker 2: electric cars.

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Speaker 8: Right because the the left who used to love Elon Moss, right,

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Speaker 8: and then they all turned on and now they're they're

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Speaker 8: burning his stores down and his cars down.

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Speaker 3: I know. It's awful, that's just horrible. Yeah.

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Speaker 8: So the guy guy needs a little loud, you know.

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Speaker 8: And and and by the way, it was it was

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Speaker 8: Biden that brought in that that that jeep.

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Speaker 7: Remember he brought a jeep in. Oh, I didn't remember that,

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Speaker 7: did he do?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 8: You brought that rubicon jeep into the drove that thing

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Speaker 8: around for a while.

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Speaker 3: Oh is that right?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: He did, like a pitch thing also yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: I don't remember that.

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Speaker 5: I know.

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Speaker 3: I know.

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Speaker 8: You guys get the news from I don't know what.

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Speaker 8: I don't know what you got outside. You started, you

580
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Speaker 8: started this, Wango Tango was coming up. I Heeart's Wango

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Speaker 8: Tango is returned. Can I take you to Wango Tango

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Speaker 8: and just put this all aside?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I've got to wang.

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Speaker 7: Have you ever been to Wango Tango?

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Speaker 2: I tried to get tickets from this radio station.

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Speaker 3: I couldn't.

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00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:39,560
Speaker 2: Good luck, Yeah, I could not get I want to take.

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Speaker 7: It's a funny singing at sunset.

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Speaker 2: Right, it seems like it'll really be cool. Did you

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Speaker 2: see the uh it was the eclipse thing last night?

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Speaker 8: I saw it last night. Yeah, it was pretty cool.

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Speaker 8: That was pretty cool. Yeah, it was really cool.

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Speaker 3: Was it high in the sky when you saw her?

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Speaker 3: Was it low?

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Speaker 8: It was literally directly over my house. I don't know

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Speaker 8: how that happened, but it was really right over my house.

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Speaker 8: And the next one is not going to happen for

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Speaker 8: another twenty three years.

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Speaker 3: I had heard forty years.

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Speaker 7: Oh is that right?

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 8: I heard twenty three. I heard nineteen forty eight or something. Okay, okay,

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Speaker 8: if that's true. We have seen our last eclipse?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no, you.

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Speaker 7: Think you got twenty three left?

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Speaker 3: No? Absolutely, absolutely not. I'm just hoping to make it

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Speaker 3: through the weekend. Oh.

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Speaker 7: I was glad to see that eclipse last night.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was pretty cool.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 8: Talt with you, David Veas. I know you want to

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Speaker 8: know what's on today? I do, Davidsay, Alex Michaelson. We're

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Speaker 8: going to talk about Orange County real estate with a

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Speaker 8: buddy of mine, Malibu Dan find you remember malav Oh yeah,

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Speaker 8: you always tell stories with him. It'll be fundy guy's

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Speaker 8: the best. And then Keith Roberts with the young dublin Ers.

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Speaker 8: Saint Patrick's Day is Monday. If you're a big Saint Patrick,

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Speaker 8: I would.

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Speaker 3: Never miss it. What's happening with the Irish The people

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Speaker 3: or they? Yeah? The people are they cool?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 7: I think they're doing okay.

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Speaker 8: You know, I like the fact that, you know, the

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Speaker 8: only Irish football team perhaps the world, is Notre Dame yeah,

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Speaker 8: and they called them the fighting Irish. And the leprechaun

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Speaker 8: has a jug of vodka or whiskey and he's and

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Speaker 8: he's about his stance is about to fight somebody.

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Speaker 3: You feel it's a little on the nose.

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Speaker 8: Oh, but but you know what, but we embrace that stereotype. Now,

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Speaker 8: plug in any other stereotype with any other crew and

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Speaker 8: try to get that one passed.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, but the Irish they celebrate that that stereotype.

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Speaker 3: True.

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Speaker 8: There are zero people I know that are offended by

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Speaker 8: the fighting Irish.

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Speaker 3: It's so funny. Zero.

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Speaker 2: I don't know anybody. I used to go to an

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Speaker 2: irishpe real quick. I used to go to an Irish chiropractor.

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Speaker 2: She was lovely and Fitzgerald was her last name. And

641
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Speaker 2: she's telling me that she just got back from Thanksgiving

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Speaker 2: and I said, how was it? And she said, every

643
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Speaker 2: Thanksgiving there's so many fights. And I said, well, I said, well,

644
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Speaker 2: that's the way it is for all of us. I

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Speaker 2: mean it's tension. And then she said, no, no, no, no, no,

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Speaker 2: I don't mean that they were disagreement much. I mean

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Speaker 2: that there were knockdown dragouts. But there might have been

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Speaker 2: six or seven of them. I just love it.

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Speaker 3: Take gong with you, buddy, well, you are my favorite Irishman. Always.

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Speaker 7: We're I'll actually get it.

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Speaker 2: All right, Okay, Conway next to co Belt on Monday.

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Speaker 2: Thanks everybody. KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the

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Speaker 1: and of course anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app