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Speaker 1: Hey there, folks. It is Thursday, March twelfth, and check

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Speaker 1: on your friends in California. They are a little stressed

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Speaker 1: out right now after news of an alert that Auran

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Speaker 1: possibly wants to retaliate by attacking the US West coast.

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Speaker 1: And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. Look,

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Speaker 1: we'll get into just how credible this is, but it

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Speaker 1: sounds credible as hell if you're living in California right now.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, and when you get an alert from

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Speaker 2: the FBI saying that Iran wants to retaliate against California specifically,

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Speaker 2: and that they have received word and they've known about

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Speaker 2: this apparently before the war even began.

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Speaker 3: So the question is, when you get an alert like this, what.

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Speaker 2: Are you supposed to think? What are you supposed to feed?

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Speaker 2: What are you supposed to do?

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Speaker 1: If anything, what you're supposed to do is you get

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Speaker 1: on your phone and you start, Yes, you doom sirch Rag,

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Speaker 1: you start doom scrolling. But you also pick up your

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Speaker 1: in the news industry. Because our phone started buzzing yesterday.

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Speaker 1: We haven't heard from this many friends and colleagues from

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Speaker 1: California in a while, wondering what the hell is going on.

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Speaker 3: That's true, because it is a scary thing. You know,

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Speaker 3: you're going about your day.

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Speaker 2: And truthfully, like we here in New York, when we

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Speaker 2: have any sort of international threat, we can see it

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Speaker 2: and feel it in the city.

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Speaker 3: We can see increased police presence here.

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Speaker 2: In the last several days, we've seen patrol boats up

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Speaker 2: increased police presence just on the streets, on the corners,

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Speaker 2: not so much. You feel a little insulated, like oh,

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Speaker 2: perhaps a bubble out there. You're in your car, you

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Speaker 1: That is so true, Ropes. We do not need to

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Speaker 1: see any news alert to know that something's going on.

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Speaker 1: You walk around this city and you go, wait a minute,

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Speaker 1: wait a minute, why are so many cops there? I

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Speaker 1: have not used to seeing that many automatic weapons just

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Speaker 1: yesterday we have boat traffic by our window all day long,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the NYPD boats are almost hugging the Manhattan shoreline

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Speaker 2: up and down, and that is unusual. We do not

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Speaker 2: It perks you up and you start to be more

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Speaker 2: being asked to do, to be alert. And we're used

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Speaker 1: And that's okay, and that is perfectly. We know that

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Speaker 1: robes when anything happens, and something happens in New York,

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Speaker 1: us here in New York. Californians, this is different. It's

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Speaker 1: spread out, it's a different way of life. But yes,

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Speaker 1: let's give you the heads up here to our friends,

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Speaker 1: our family, our loved ones, our colleagues, and our dear,

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Speaker 1: dear Californians. This is what happened to yesterday is that

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Speaker 1: word got out that the FBI had in fact warned

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Speaker 1: California law enforcement, state and local officials that Iran might

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Speaker 1: retaliate against any US military action with drone strikes. Along

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Speaker 1: about doing this, Robes is by launching those drones from ships.

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Speaker 1: This is something we're seeing more and learning more about

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Speaker 1: sounds terrifying. When we're turning on the TV and seeing

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Speaker 3: Oh, it's frightening.

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Speaker 2: And to imagine a ship off the coast of California.

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Speaker 2: Isn't that our biggest coastline in the United States, So

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Speaker 2: there is a difference between Iran being aspirational and capable,

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Speaker 2: imagining being in your home, driving your kids to school,

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Speaker 3: That's terrifying.

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Speaker 1: The idea of what you just described is terrifying. And

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Speaker 1: so what we're trying to do now, folks, is put

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Speaker 1: see this alert necessarily? This is standard practice when it

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Speaker 1: comes to cooperation between federal authorities and state and local

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Speaker 1: law enforcement. They give them alerts, They give them heads

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Speaker 1: it was, and they sent it ahead of the war,

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Speaker 1: essentially given a heads up, like you said, Robes, that

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Speaker 1: Iran aspired to pull off such an attack, but unclear

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Speaker 1: to local law enforcement. This is what it's apt.

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Speaker 2: We recently acquired information that as of early February twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty six, Iran allegedly aspired to conduct a surprise attack

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Speaker 2: coast of the United States homeland, specifically against unspecified targets

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Speaker 2: in California. In the event that the US conducted strikes

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Speaker 2: against Iran. We have no additional information on the timing, method, target,

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Speaker 2: or perpetrators of this alleged attack. That's kind of scary

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Speaker 2: because you're giving a very doomsday prognosis of what could happen,

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Speaker 2: and yet you're saying, we're not really sure when, how, where, why?

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Speaker 3: Nothing? We don't know.

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Speaker 1: So that is where the problem lies. Robes in that

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Speaker 1: this message has to be taken in context for who

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Speaker 1: it was meant for. This was meant for other law enforcement.

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Speaker 1: Right they get alerts from federal authorities all the time,

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Speaker 1: Heads up, be on the lookout. Just want to let

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Speaker 1: you know that's just a part of information sharing. It

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Speaker 1: doesn't mean anything is imminent. Now, the other audience ropes

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Speaker 1: with context. If I'm just a lay person hanging out

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Speaker 1: the context of Ah, that's just between law enforcement. It

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Speaker 2: I go, ah, Yeah, You're in Santa Monica, you're on

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Speaker 2: And all of a sudden you're like.

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Speaker 3: Could that be an aircraft carrier?

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Speaker 2: Is at a naval ship of a foreign destined like

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Speaker 2: you just start to freak out, and that's what's happening.

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Speaker 2: We got so many, as you pointed out, text yesterday

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Speaker 2: What am I supposed to do with this information? And

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Speaker 2: we even talked about this when we were talking about this, well,

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Speaker 3: Getting alerts about possible.

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Speaker 2: Just I don't know incoming anything, whether it's a satellite

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Speaker 3: Missile or a drone.

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Speaker 2: What are we as residents supposed to do with that information?

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Speaker 3: Should we have this information? Do we want this information?

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Speaker 2: If there's nothing you can do about it, it's better

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Speaker 1: That's your I know, that's the way you like to listen.

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Speaker 3: I would prefer ignorance. If there's something actionable that I

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Speaker 1: Rather not know. You can stress about it. That's what

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Speaker 1: you can do that is actionable. Just stress the hell out.

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Speaker 1: And you better believe some folks will be looking up

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Speaker 1: what is that? Is that a what kind of drone

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Speaker 1: is that that folks will absolutely be doing.

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Speaker 2: It because the scary thing is there's nothing you can

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Speaker 3: You don't know.

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Speaker 2: First of all, this again aspirational versus whether or not

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Speaker 2: they're capable. But the idea is there's nowhere that you

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Speaker 1: You could go stay with Grandma in Colorado.

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Speaker 3: For I guess that's the truble. You could leave California this.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely don't come to New York because that we

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Speaker 2: like we live knowing we're a an operational target at

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Speaker 2: all times. I mean really and truly I think about

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Speaker 2: that not too often, but you know, when you live

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Speaker 3: Because you know this is this would be their number one.

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Speaker 1: Target or I'm laughing, I would just as always. Remember

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Speaker 3: Well, we live literally right under.

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Speaker 1: Yes targets we live at the World Trade Center. We're

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Speaker 3: We are World Trade Center.

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Speaker 2: We can see the Statue of Liberty, we can see

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Speaker 1: And we just it's so different. You get adjusted to

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Speaker 3: This prepare for worst case scenario?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he was making remarks somewhere else and just said, hey, yes,

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Speaker 1: isn't something like we're reacting to any specific threat. But

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Speaker 1: we're always on the edge. We're always prepared for the

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Speaker 1: worst case scenario. But that's important. They're turning to the governor,

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Speaker 1: know about this threat? So it seems like almost something

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Speaker 1: as if because ABC News got the correct their hands

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Speaker 1: on the memo first, it wasn't supposed to necessarily be disseminated.

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Speaker 2: But you still I mean, look, I understand you want

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Speaker 2: aware and have made adjustments, but you still don't want

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Speaker 2: to hear your governor say worst case scenario.

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Speaker 3: I felt like that that wasn't maybe what I would

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Speaker 1: We're prepared for the worst is what he's trying to.

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Speaker 3: Don't even say worst case scenario.

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Speaker 2: But he did also follow up with this, while we

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Speaker 2: are not aware of any imminent threats at this time,

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Speaker 2: we remain prepared for any emergency in our state.

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Speaker 1: And then you had the mayor of San Francisco, the

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Speaker 1: having to put out some kind of statements. They have

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Speaker 1: pretty much Robes all said the same thing. There is

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Speaker 1: something else that we're all aware of. Quite frankly, Robes

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Speaker 3: Now for a week or two, and you had no

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Speaker 1: You know what. I'm trying to think? Who got blamed?

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Speaker 1: Remember all the the UFO sightings, if you will, But

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Speaker 1: Yes, but was it Iran? I think it was Iran.

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Speaker 3: Now going to be thinking about that. It's going to

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Speaker 2: And that's a shame because this is a night to

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