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Speaker 1: slow down. We're still in celebration mode. Mark Ridley Thomas

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Speaker 1: Mark Ridley Thomas going to prison. Love it? Do you

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Speaker 1: think he comes out of thin man? I don't know

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Speaker 1: what fed prisons aren't they known with especially with white

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Speaker 1: gonna be Al Choppo's roommates. Where's anyway he's going to

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Speaker 1: be rooming with Biden? Daniel Guss, So the Gus Report

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Speaker 1: will join us after three point thirty. He's always got

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Speaker 1: good stuff when it involves corrupt city officials, So he'll

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Speaker 1: talk to us about the case. And what we understand

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Speaker 1: Now we're going to turn to Alex Stones. John mentioned

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Speaker 1: Well again it's been the big story all afternoon. It

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Speaker 4: But the good news is that in federal prison, you

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Speaker 4: have to serve eighty five percent of your sentence you're

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Speaker 4: eligible for release. So for every year if he's well behaved,

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Speaker 4: and I'm sure he will be in a undoubtedly a

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Speaker 4: hot and sweaty federal prison somewhere, he'll get fifty four

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Speaker 4: days off for each year of his sentence. But that

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Speaker 4: still means he's going to spend three full years in prison. No,

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Speaker 4: I don't think it's enough. No, I don't think it's

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Speaker 4: enough at all, because you can't tell me that a

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Speaker 4: guy's been around this long, and then thirty forty years

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Speaker 4: into his career, this is the first criminal act he committed.

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Speaker 1: I did exactly when he pulled that seven hundred thousand

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Speaker 1: dollars renovation that he wanted the taxpayers to cover, it

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Speaker 1: was clear this guy was a cruck. It was. It

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Speaker 1: was screaming headlines that he was a cruck and it

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Speaker 1: is and.

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Speaker 4: He's still go ahead. No, no, no, guad, Yeah, I was

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Speaker 4: gonna say. And still the only times endorsed him for

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Speaker 4: city council, and still he keeps getting reelected and on

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Speaker 4: and on. Wesson was going for Ridley Thomas's job on

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Speaker 4: the county supervisors. Thank god he didn't win that. Ridley

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Speaker 4: Thomas went for Wesson's job on City Council. And the

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Speaker 4: LA Times is good with all of this, and the

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Speaker 4: local media, bless their souls, save a few of the

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Speaker 4: hardcore people in the local media, you know, most of

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Speaker 4: the media goes along with it. I'm like, are you

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Speaker 4: kidding me? Maybe, just maybe, if it's legal, we need

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Speaker 4: to find a way where these people lose their public

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Speaker 4: pensions upon conviction related to not for like a dui,

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Speaker 4: but a conviction related to corruption in office. Maybe losing

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Speaker 4: the pension is the thing that they for most, because

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Speaker 4: apparently prison isn't enough.

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Speaker 1: I was gonna say, we've got three going to prison.

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Speaker 1: Now there's a fourth one on the way just off

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Speaker 1: the LA City Council. Like, are they ever going to

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Speaker 1: stop being criminals? Don't they see now that the FBI

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Speaker 1: is on to them, the Justice Department to them.

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Speaker 4: Well, it's no surprise, guys. I'm sure you heard last

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Speaker 4: week that we finally had a fantastic nominee for the

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Speaker 4: LA Ethics Commission, which in most in most elements is

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Speaker 4: a bit of a joke. But there was a real

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Speaker 4: community activist named Jamie York who really belonged on the

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Speaker 4: Ethics Commission, somebody who comes out of the neighborhood council

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Speaker 4: system and they unanimously voted her down. How the hell

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Speaker 4: can that be? So, yeah, I don't see any end

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Speaker 4: in sight. And right now, I mean, Paul Grecorian is

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Speaker 4: the head of La City Council and he's making it

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Speaker 4: less and less favorable for people to chime in and say, hey,

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Speaker 4: you guys are doing a bad job for Cooryan is

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Speaker 4: firmed out and he's just sitting there glowing.

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Speaker 1: In the power.

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Speaker 4: And Marquise Harris Dawson is the second in command. And

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Speaker 4: so no, I don't see any end in sight. Oh

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Speaker 4: and by the way, how dumb it was Morey Thomas

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Speaker 4: to have Sheila Cule and Cornell West speak thinking that

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Speaker 4: a federal judge is going to reduce his sentence because

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Speaker 4: Sheila Cule of old people. Cle Holy Carol.

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Speaker 1: Guys, Daniel, we gotta go, but we appreciate talking to

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Speaker 1: you and get your thoughts on markedly Thomas, thanks for

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Speaker 1: coming on.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, a quick shout out to the people behind Martin Estrada,

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Speaker 4: the US attorney Mack Jenkins. This guy is leading the

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Speaker 4: public corruption and Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department

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Speaker 4: here in Los Angeles. So Mac Jenkins and his team

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Speaker 4: they deserve the credit with Martin Estrada. Guys, call me anytime.

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Speaker 4: I'd be glad to come back.

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Speaker 1: All right, Dan Daniel Gus, The Gus Report, Johnny Ken,

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Speaker 1: caf I AM six forty Live everywhere iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 3: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from KFI

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Speaker 3: AM six forty.

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Speaker 1: So again, market Lee Thomas, though, doesn't have to surrender

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Speaker 1: to November thirteenth. I don't know again. I just figured

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Speaker 1: out maybe that the flash mob of kids had showed

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Speaker 1: up yesterday at the Lama Mall in Torrents a thousand, right,

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Speaker 1: they were celebrating the Little League World Series win of else.

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Speaker 1: Does it make sense? No, I don't think so. I

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Speaker 1: don't think those aren't ball players that were carrying on

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Speaker 1: to rejoice and to be thrilled by the amazing victory

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Speaker 1: of the little league team. It's an all star team, right,

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Speaker 1: They're not just El Segundo kids, aren't they like from

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Speaker 1: the well, they'd be from the El Segundo leagues. Oh,

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Speaker 1: the little league community, yeah, the little League community. Yeah? Right,

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Speaker 1: And they came back from the elimination bracket. That's pretty good.

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Speaker 1: We used when I used to play like softball, we

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Speaker 1: called it the loser bracket court right anymore, But you

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Speaker 1: can fight your way out of it. If you lose

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Speaker 1: the first game you're in that bracket, you're in a

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Speaker 1: loser bracket. You can't lose again. That's why it's the

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Speaker 1: elimination bracket. But they won like what three in a

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Speaker 1: row in just a few days and got fought their

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Speaker 1: way back to play for in the winner's bracket. So

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Speaker 1: good for Apparently they just showed up, you know, Segundo.

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Speaker 1: People there to greet them, and there's gonna be a

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Speaker 1: parade next month. So pives your update on the Little

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Speaker 1: League baseball all right, thank you from the Little League

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Speaker 1: desk conways here.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I love the Little league game, but I was

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Speaker 5: sort of pulling for the you know, the other kids

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Speaker 5: as well. I mean, that's a big deal for Chris.

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Speaker 5: I w had to win a World Series.

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Speaker 1: You're going to root for a non American team, you know.

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Speaker 5: No, I felt bad for those kids because you look

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Speaker 5: at the you looked at at the family section and

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Speaker 5: al Segondo had like nine hundred family members there in

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Speaker 5: the section and Chris I had like like three guys

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Speaker 5: that could get out, and you know, for time to

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Speaker 5: do that, it's.

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Speaker 1: A long trip and they work.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 1: I feel bad for the guy like in this game

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Speaker 1: he gives up the home run that ends the World Series.

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Speaker 1: I know, Yeah, that is tough. He's it's going to

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Speaker 1: be looming over him the rest of his life.

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Speaker 5: Well, what's his name that gave up the the Dodger

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Speaker 5: that gave up the Hank Aaron home run? Down Ow Downing? Yeah,

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Speaker 5: Al Downing used to hate when you brought that up. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: you hated it. So we'd called talk radio at KBC

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Speaker 5: and go, hey, can we get on and talk about

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Speaker 5: the Ron say goes, yeah, sure is that Ron? Say

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Speaker 5: the guy in the hot corner by the way, how

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Speaker 5: was that giving up that bad pitch? Then well, you know,

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Speaker 5: Hank Aaron's like, you mother, you pison, you did it?

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Speaker 5: Oh we did all the time to that guy. All right,

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Speaker 5: we have this might be the last of the heat wave.

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Speaker 5: I think, I think this is a wrap.

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Speaker 1: And then from the Conway weather Santa Anna's are coming.

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Speaker 1: October can be very high, I know, I know. And

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Speaker 1: then Bob Barker passed away.

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Speaker 5: I know that's terrible, bad timing on like late Friday,

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Speaker 5: early Saturday, where he didn't get enough enough juice. You know,

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Speaker 5: if you died during the weekend, it sucks. You gotta

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Speaker 5: die like Monday. I'll remember that so you can have

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Speaker 5: five days of people remembering you.

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Speaker 1: I didn't get enough juice? Did you say I didn't

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Speaker 1: get any any juice? Right? Just but I love that.

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Speaker 5: You know that I watched my grandparents all the time.

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Speaker 5: How much is the rice ironing?

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Speaker 1: Everyone? Everyone can play classic? You're right, everyone can play

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Speaker 1: you know.

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Speaker 5: They they named State Studio thirty three. That's same studio

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Speaker 5: they did Price Is Right and The Carabernet Show, the

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Speaker 5: first woman ever to do a variety show, forty million

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Speaker 5: people watching every week. They named that studio after Bob Barker,

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Speaker 5: after a guy that you know, how much what's more

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Speaker 5: expensive the crystal chandelier or the RISERNI.

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Speaker 1: Come on, but he had forty years out. I get it,

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Speaker 1: I get it. But comer show ran what ten years? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Eleven years? Very close? But come on, all right, okay,

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Speaker 1: the things that invide you, it's always a plug for

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Speaker 1: his dad shown o. Wait neck, alright, eck doll Way

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Speaker 1: Dig Done World Series from CAF Newsroom. Hey, you've been

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Speaker 1: listening to The John and Ken Show. You can always

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