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Speaker 1: John hit Tommy. John hit Tommy one of the strongest

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Speaker 1: If you don't know the candidates and you're kind of

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Speaker 1: overwhelmed and confused because there was ten of them last night,

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Speaker 1: let me tell you John Tommy is one of the

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Speaker 1: best and Deputy DA a lot of high profile cases,

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Speaker 1: been on with us a number of times. Let's get

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Speaker 1: John on here. How are you, John?

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Speaker 2: Good?

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Speaker 3: Good?

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for having me.

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Speaker 1: I thought you came across great last night. How did

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Speaker 1: you feel after the event?

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Speaker 4: I felt great.

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Speaker 2: You know, I think that many people in Los Angeles

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Speaker 2: know that George Gascon has a failed district attorney. He's

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Speaker 2: let us down regarding public safety. He's let us down

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Speaker 2: regarding the fact that violent crime it still continues to

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Speaker 2: be a problem with Los Angeles. Property crimes have increased

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Speaker 2: every single year George Gascon has been DA. We have

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Speaker 2: numerous smash and grab burgaries, we have organized retail theft,

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Speaker 2: and I think so many people are ready for a

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Speaker 2: new district attorney who's actually going to prioritize public safety.

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Speaker 1: I found him infuriating, and I know I'm not the

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Speaker 1: only one. I've talked with a couple of people today.

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Speaker 1: They saw Gascon act is if everything has gone swimmingly

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Speaker 1: for the first three years. I mean, he didn't give

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Speaker 2: He's straight up lie about pretty much everything. First, you know,

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Speaker 2: he indicated that he's prosecuting misdemeanors. That's a straight out lie.

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Speaker 2: He's not. There's at least twelve misdemeanors he doesn't prosecute,

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Speaker 2: resisting arrests, disturbing the peace, public junkenness, solicitation for prostitution,

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Speaker 2: criminal threats, thirty seven cities. John devoted no confidence in

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Speaker 2: George Gascon because the fact that he won't prosecute misdemeanors

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Speaker 2: and he doesn't care about the quality of life of

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Speaker 2: so many Angelinos. He also indicated numerous times that he's

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Speaker 2: That's a straight out lie. He's never spoken to me,

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Speaker 2: He's never spoken to a lot of the prosecutors within

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Speaker 2: completely untrue and their fabrications. He also doesn't realize that

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Speaker 2: when you bring in people into the office office that

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Speaker 2: say police are barbarians, where they want to abolish prisons

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Speaker 2: authority and power and management. You know, I worked on

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Speaker 2: the Gable Fernandez case. There's so many children who are

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Speaker 2: victims of abuse. Can you imagine telling these individuals not

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Speaker 2: the public that somehow criticizing that is racial. That has

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Speaker 2: nothing to do with race. It has to do with facts.

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Speaker 2: We don't want people in charge of public safety that

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Speaker 2: People like that should not be in positions of power.

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Speaker 2: And that has nothing to do with race. That has

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Speaker 2: public safety. And so when George got Gun stands up

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Speaker 1: No, I thought he was lying quite a bit last night.

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Speaker 1: As you've been campaigning, I mean, that's got to be

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Speaker 2: So I will tell you this, Many people know me

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Speaker 2: And I do that every day. And many people know

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Speaker 2: to fight to make sure that my children are safe,

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Speaker 2: and we don't feel that our children are safe. And

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Speaker 2: so I'm blessed that I've handled a lot of these cases,

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Speaker 2: and a lot of people throughout LA County know me

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Speaker 2: I could also tell you that I've encountered a lot

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Speaker 2: victimized with their businesses as well. I've encountered so many

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Speaker 2: individuals who are victims of hate crime, and they're tired

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Speaker 2: George Gascon has abandoned them, and they feel like nobody's

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Speaker 2: up there for them. And so for me, my experiences

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Speaker 2: I think Angelinos are tired of George Gascon. They're tired

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Speaker 2: of these radical politicians. They want someone to lead, They

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Speaker 2: prioritize public safety. And so I think people are ready

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Speaker 1: You know, it's funny, this is one of the few races,

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Speaker 1: dramatic negative impact on the day to day life every

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Speaker 1: day of the people living in La County. You know,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of people. They run for office, and

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Speaker 1: It doesn't matter who's in the office, right, But this

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Speaker 1: is a unique situation where his decisions really greatly impacted

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Speaker 1: millions of lies. And every day you're noticing it. Every

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Speaker 2: I agree, go ahead, I agree. He first, he destabilized

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Speaker 2: He has so many people within the office suing him,

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Speaker 2: you know, you know, I mean I came on your show,

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Speaker 2: attorney to step forward and challenge George Gascon's directives. And

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Speaker 2: I did it publicly, and I would be on your

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Speaker 2: show numerous times talking about all the radical policies of

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Speaker 2: George Gascon. Over the last three years. This individual has

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Speaker 2: impacted our community in an incredibly negative way. The amount

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Speaker 2: of crime we have here in Los Angeles is unprecedented.

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Speaker 2: Ask anybody when you go out there. People are afraid

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Speaker 1: But last night he denied any of that is happening

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Speaker 2: I know, he is a good liar and a straight

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Speaker 2: up liar. And I looked at him when when when,

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Speaker 2: you know, when when he was talking about these things,

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Speaker 2: he is a politician. He is not somebody who actually cares.

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Speaker 2: He is not somebody who's honest.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 2: He is an individual who only cares about his job,

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Speaker 2: about power, about you know, imposing these radical and rogue policies,

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Speaker 2: just about not telling the truth. He doesn't care about

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Speaker 2: with the media thing about him. But you know, children

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Speaker 2: who are abused and tortured and neglected that nobody knows about.

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Speaker 2: He doesn't care innocent Angelino's who are killed. He doesn't

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Speaker 1: I thought it was powerful last night when you guys

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Speaker 1: her record as a vicious anti police activist called police barbarians,

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Speaker 1: and you talked about your wife being an La County

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Speaker 1: when you talked about your mother, your wife and your

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Speaker 2: I mean, you know, John, first off, we lost two

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Speaker 2: really good police officers in Almante, dads Paratus and Santana

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Speaker 2: who were brutally murdered in Almonti and they were murdered

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Speaker 2: as a result of George Gascon's policies of allowing and

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Speaker 2: for George Gascon to hire somebody into management who calls

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Speaker 2: police barbarians, that's sick. That's really disturbing. And for my wife,

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Speaker 2: I'm worried. I want to make sure that my wife,

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Speaker 2: And I also want a DA who if something bad

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Speaker 2: don't believe the DA we have right now has their back.

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Speaker 2: They don't believe the DA cares about them. They're family

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Speaker 2: members of police officers, don't believe the DA cares about them.

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Speaker 2: And to me, that's a disgrace. It's sick of a

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Speaker 2: and make sure that if something bad happens to a

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Speaker 6: I'm sitting here looking at the sky and I'm watching

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Speaker 7: I'm sure you feel secure as I do. We have

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Speaker 8: Right.

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Speaker 9: On the topic of nonprofits and how much the employees,

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Speaker 10: A couple of years ago, the state of California had

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Speaker 10: sixty billion dollar deficit. That's how Newsome manages money. The

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Speaker 11: Scary He's covered homeless people. It will stealing everything in

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Speaker 11: food scrap. That's the real problem. They need a special

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Speaker 12: You know what, I'm done flying. I value in my

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Speaker 1: People value their job at Boeing, So I'm not trusting

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Speaker 12: I'm done.

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Speaker 7: I'm going to control things myself and drive myself anywhere.

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Speaker 4: You guys, remember that old thing beggars can't be choosers, Well,

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Speaker 4: California has turned that upside down. In the same to

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Speaker 5: This is pretty depressing. They're trying to look for federal

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Speaker 13: But they let all the drug dealers that are killing

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Speaker 6: Come on, man, that's ridiculous.

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Speaker 11: Hey Jebra, you need to stop eating round Rockley. It's

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Speaker 8: Stop eating the wrong Rockley.

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Speaker 12: I worked for a small aerospace company here in southern California,

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Speaker 10: You should run for Governor, John, that's the only way

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Speaker 11: Do you become our next governor.

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Speaker 8: I'm second generation here Mexican.

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Speaker 13: My parents came here.

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Speaker 12: They had family waiting for them, they had a job

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Speaker 9: They work hard, they build businesses.

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Speaker 8: But these people that are coming watching YouTube videos, they

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Speaker 14: Joe Biden saying they're taking advantage.

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Speaker 13: They're happy to be living off the welfare and all

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Speaker 5: Oh wait, seem to follow the band on gas carron equipment.

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Speaker 7: This is the ban on generators. Well done, Lusland, get

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Speaker 13: First, I agree with you about the accident investigations on

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Speaker 13: It's just like the poop water. It all goes through

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Speaker 13: the same process. It's clean water. Get over it.

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Speaker 4: We need the water.

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Speaker 1: Love Deborra Mark.

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Speaker 15: This issue regarding the kids football is an orchestrated plan.

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Speaker 15: Legislator can bring the bill so Newsom can veto the

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Speaker 5: Hey, debor this the universe we heard you want me

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Speaker 2: Thank you for leaving your message. Please hang up goodbye.

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Speaker 1: So I don't I said, I don't want to put

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Speaker 1: we when we come back. Joe Biden got really really

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Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A

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Speaker 1: We have another round of the voiceline coming up in

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Speaker 1: about twenty minutes. We've been talking a lot about George Gascon.

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Speaker 1: Somebody I know sent me a message anyone who votes

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Speaker 1: Deborah Ross. This is Raleigh, North Carolina, and Biden got

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Speaker 16: Appreciate very much. Also want to mention Commress Deborah Ross.

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Speaker 16: Where's Deborah this year? I just had my picture taken

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Speaker 1: Did you follow all that? Where's Deborah? I just had

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Speaker 1: He couldn't see you? Boy? Oh boy, I mean he

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Speaker 1: I got Daniel Guss's report here. Here's a quote from

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Speaker 1: the guild caucus leaders. They wrote this to Soon Chiang,

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Speaker 1: as you navigate financial pressures in our industry, we urge

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Speaker 1: you to avoid undoing the diversity that we've worked so

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Speaker 1: hard to build. Look, the issue here is there's no

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Speaker 1: money coming into the La Times and Soon Chiang has

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Speaker 1: already blown a billion dollars of his money and he

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Speaker 1: does doesn't want to lose anymore. And you're worried about diversity.

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Speaker 1: How come your diversity doesn't bring readers. How come the

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Speaker 1: few readers that show up spend no time on the

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Speaker 1: website reading all your propaganda? Really They're only there for

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Speaker 1: like a minute or two, and then they can't take

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Speaker 1: it anymore. Hard left progressives constitute, I don't know, maybe

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Speaker 1: six percent of the population. How about pitching news coverage

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Speaker 1: to the other ninety four percent of us who don't

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Speaker 1: spend our days obsessing on race and gender and COVID

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Speaker 1: and climate. The LA Times Guild caucus leaders wrote this letter.

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Speaker 1: The group includes these are all separate caucuses. This is

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Speaker 1: not separate caucuses within Congress. These are separate caucuses within

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Speaker 1: the LA Times Union. You have the Black Caucus, the

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Speaker 1: Latino Caucus, the Asian American Caucus, the Middle Eastern Caucus,

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Speaker 1: the South Asian Caucus, and the LGBTQ plus Caucus. So

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Speaker 1: that's one, two, three, four or five six caucuses, which,

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Speaker 1: by the way, if you notice, doesn't cut doesn't count

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Speaker 1: any of the white writers and editors there. And the

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Speaker 1: guild caucus leader says, as you navigate financial pressures, we

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Speaker 1: urge you to avoid undoing the diversity that we've worked

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Speaker 1: so hard to build. Layoffs would be catastrophic, eliminating new

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Speaker 1: and essential voices and diminishing the games we've made on

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Speaker 1: your family's leadership. It's about it's not about your voices,

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Speaker 1: it's about the news coverage. I'm not looking for a

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Speaker 1: voice when I read a newspaper, I want to know

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Speaker 1: what the news is. But instead they have endless opinion

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Speaker 1: columns or endless opinion columns masquerading as news stories. So

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Speaker 1: there's all these voices, but there isn't too much news

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Speaker 1: that's useful, unbelievable. So that's the last dying screams of

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Speaker 1: the La Times. We're losing our diversity. Yeah, I guess

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Speaker 1: when everybody's fired, you're gonna have absolutely no diversity because

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Speaker 1: there's going to be nobody working there anymore because you've

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Speaker 1: ignored ninety five percent of the public now for many years.

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Speaker 1: So this was going to happen. People don't want to

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Speaker 1: read this stuff. They and we could statistically prove that

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Speaker 1: they don't read the La Times. All it is is

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Speaker 1: a masthead from the nineteen hundreds. It's like an old

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Speaker 1: British coat of arms where all the family members who

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Speaker 1: inherited that coat of arms became a bunch of drunks

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Speaker 1: and drug addicts, and it's it's not worth anything anymore.

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Speaker 1: We have another round of the moistline coming up.

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Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM

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Speaker 3: six forty.

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Speaker 1: We're going to do round two of the Moistline. In

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Speaker 1: just a moment, I was looking through another story on

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Speaker 1: the dissolving Los Angeles Times. New York Times says the

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Speaker 1: La Times was on track to lose thirty to four

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Speaker 1: thirty million dollars in twenty twenty three. That was as

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Speaker 1: of the middle of last year. Now, the year before

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Speaker 1: that I had read they lost fifty million. So they've

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Speaker 1: been cutting expenses, but Sun Chiang is still losing tens

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Speaker 1: of millions of dollars. They called a spokeshole for sun Xiang,

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Speaker 1: and she said that the company has a significant gap

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Speaker 1: between revenue and expenses, even with the layoffs and other

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Speaker 1: cost saving measures from last year. She said the Sun

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Speaker 1: Chiang family had invested tens of millions of dollars every

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Speaker 1: year since buying the Times. They're committed to continuing to invest,

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Speaker 1: but relying on a benevolent owner to cover expenses year

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Speaker 1: after year is not a viable long term plan. So

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Speaker 1: it sounds like he's close to cutting out because he

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Speaker 1: spent five hundred million dollars on the carcass he threw

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Speaker 1: in another three hundred million dollars and then it's it's

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Speaker 1: it's anywhere from thirty to forty to fifty million a

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Speaker 1: year to keep a float to pay the bills. And

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Speaker 1: I don't care how wealthy you are, there's really so

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Speaker 1: long you're going to put up with that you feel

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Speaker 1: like an idiot. I have an idea. Run more hard

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Speaker 1: left wing progressive stories, more woke stories that'll turn it around.

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Speaker 1: Big market for that out there, just ask bub blight.

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Speaker 1: Let's go now to the moistline one eight seven seven

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Speaker 1: moist eighty six and John, thanks for calling the moistline.

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Speaker 1: I'm so excited to hear from you. To map time.

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Speaker 14: The reason you're looking for is probably the same reason

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Speaker 14: why voter turnout is only fifteen percent.

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Speaker 2: We get what we deserve, people of California.

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Speaker 1: This is what they voted for.

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Speaker 10: John, Nobody voted to have this DA in the DA

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Speaker 10: was nudging automatically without our quanting.

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Speaker 5: Good chair for this great old NFL who chose to

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Speaker 5: streamline one of the most popular games of the weekend.

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Speaker 5: They decided to piggyback with NBC and do nothing but

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Speaker 5: a streamline for a league that's making had over fist

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Speaker 5: They should be a shamed of themselves for making the

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Speaker 5: fans go out of their way.

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Speaker 15: To watch it.

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Speaker 5: I'm tired of you guys making money on top of

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Speaker 5: money that sucks.

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Speaker 12: One day, I went to the grocery store to use

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Speaker 12: that DMB machine and it was out of paper so

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Speaker 12: it couldn't print out my receipt. So I went to

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Speaker 12: the DMB and the lady behind the counter told me, oh,

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Speaker 12: you need to call the eight hundred number. Those aren't

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Speaker 12: our machine. What do you mean those aren't your machines?

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Speaker 12: Got a big DMB low wanted data California feeler is

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Speaker 12: on it. What do you mean I have to go

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Speaker 12: and call the eight hundred number. Do your job for one?

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Speaker 7: Okay?

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Speaker 5: John?

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Speaker 7: So these idiots at the Innocence Project or whatever are

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Speaker 7: going to take on Scott Peterson. That's like saying in

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Speaker 7: nineteen sixty three they would have taken on Jack Ruby

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Speaker 7: for not killing Oswalt. I mean, come on, there's nothing

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Speaker 7: more obvious in the world. How would do these people

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Speaker 7: have nothing to do?

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Speaker 12: I really pissed off that buy and Shippy Joe allowed

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Speaker 12: all these illegal immigrants to cover and raid our country.

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Speaker 17: Hey, John, what do you think that almost thing that's

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Speaker 17: gonna get all better with the Fedel, It's gonna get worse.

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Speaker 17: Nobody's doing nothing. It's just gonna get worse and worse

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Speaker 17: and worse. Escape from La Baby that are getting a bunker.

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Speaker 13: A grown ass woman would not call herself a grown

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Speaker 13: ass woman.

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Speaker 10: I used to live over by that Kuwannga area garbage town.

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Speaker 10: I had to leave, but I remember that sidewalk completely obstructed.

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Speaker 8: I want the campaign Ethan Weaver for mayor. That's the

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Speaker 8: campaign that needs to start in the shadows. But yes,

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Speaker 8: please put this man on city council to start with

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Speaker 8: Ethan Weaver President. I can't say how much I liked

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Speaker 8: what he had to say. You know, I think I

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Speaker 8: fell in love with Ethan Weaver when he called the

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Speaker 8: La Times the Elsa Gunda Times.

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Speaker 18: Nithia Rahman wanted to come to the apartment building I

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Speaker 18: own and tell all my tenants they don't have to

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Speaker 18: pay their rent and how to get around it. And

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Speaker 18: I told her, you step one foot on my property,

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Speaker 18: I will have you arrested for trespassing. I am so

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Speaker 18: glad to hear you call out that socialist communist witch

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Speaker 18: for what she is.

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Speaker 19: If Governor hair jail becomes a Democrat candidate for president,

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Speaker 19: I will move to a swing state. I want my

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Speaker 19: vote to keep that piece out of us.

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Speaker 12: John.

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Speaker 7: I need you to run for president.

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Speaker 12: I know you can do it.

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Speaker 7: You're right on most issues.

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Speaker 12: You still got time to do it.

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Speaker 17: We need you, brother, we need you.

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Speaker 7: Come on, John, do it.

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Speaker 17: John.

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Speaker 7: I'm very surprised that you've never heard the expression of

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Speaker 7: grown ass woman. Dang man, you're a grown ass man.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for leaving your message. Please hang up, goodbye.

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Speaker 1: And Evan Weaver running against Nathia Rahman in that council

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Speaker 1: district covers the valley from A and Sino all the

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Speaker 1: way over to includes Van Nuys and Studio City, also

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Speaker 1: down into the Hollywood Hills area Los Feels. Vote for him, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: because he would be a good mayor someday. So get

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Speaker 1: him on the city council. Get rid of stop voting

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Speaker 1: for communists. Don't vote for Nithia Ramian Roth. What's her name?

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Speaker 1: Nithia Ramen Communists conways here?

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Speaker 14: Hey now, hey, grown ass woman is the newer, softer

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Speaker 14: version of.

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Speaker 1: That's a huge bitch. I just hadn't heard that.

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Speaker 14: M Yeah, you very rarely hear that Alex Michaelson's coming

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Speaker 14: on with us. We'll talk about the debate last night.

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Speaker 1: That was good. Did you get to see it?

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Speaker 14: I only call it the tail end where he asked

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Speaker 14: all the contestants what their favorite band was, what their

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Speaker 14: favorite movie was. Ah, so, I guess there's a well

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Speaker 14: it's still online, no crime, throw these softballs.

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Speaker 1: Why does he come on with you? I don't know.

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Speaker 14: We're trying to stop it and this is the best

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Speaker 14: way to do it. And then we have one of

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Speaker 14: the greatest dog trainers in the world dog parks. Are

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Speaker 14: they good or dangerous?

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Speaker 4: John?

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Speaker 1: We'll figure that out and that's what we do.

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Speaker 14: And then Walmart is upping their annual salary for managers

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Speaker 14: to one hundred and twenty eight thousand dollars. Really, yeah,

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Speaker 14: one hundred and twenty eight grand to be a Walmart man.

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Speaker 1: That's right, that's right. Yeah, I'm out of here, guys.

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Speaker 1: See you Gee, that's where we're gonna lose half the staff.

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Speaker 14: And then there was something else I don't remember. Oh no,

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Speaker 14: a buddy of mine, Chris Pitcher, who is the head

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Speaker 14: of all detectives at LAPD. I grew up playing hockey

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Speaker 14: with him and he's retiring. I look, I played hockey

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Speaker 14: with this guy. He went on to become the head

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Speaker 14: of all detectives with LAPD, and I'm doing a stupid

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Speaker 14: radio show.

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Speaker 1: Well, you took the wrong path a long time ago.

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Speaker 1: I did, I did. I did see you as a

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Speaker 1: police officer though, no, no, I would be fired the

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Speaker 1: first week.

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Speaker 14: I would have shot somebody in the first week, and

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Speaker 14: then at the end of that chase.

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Speaker 1: Today looks like they shot that guy at the end

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Speaker 1: of the chase. Yeah, no, no, good run from the cops.

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Speaker 1: All right, Conway's next and Rain's coming in, John Rain. Hey,

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Speaker 1: you've been listening to The John Cobalt Show podcast. You

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Speaker 1: can always hear the show live on KFI A M

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Speaker 1: six forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday,

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