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Speaker 2: are going to open with something that smells. I smell something,

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Speaker 2: and when I smell something, I'm usually right. And this

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Speaker 2: show Hey Atani story, this doesn't add up, and I

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Speaker 2: think everybody knows this doesn't add up. If you didn't

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Speaker 2: hear if you're not a baseball fan, I think even

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Speaker 2: non baseball fans, no show. Hey Otani is right now

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Speaker 2: the most famous baseball player in the world. Played for

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Speaker 2: the Angels, moved to the Dodgers seven hundred million dollar contract.

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Speaker 2: He's can can hint, he can pitch, he's really an

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Speaker 2: named Then maybe Eric can help me with the pronunciation

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Speaker 2: on this, because I've heard it pronounced different ways. Ipeia, Missuhara.

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Speaker 2: We'll call him Misahara. He's the uh interpreter for Otani.

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Speaker 2: Been friends with him for years and all the time

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Speaker 2: Apparently had a very bad gambling problem, like four and

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Speaker 2: a half million dollars worth of debts. Yesterday the Dodgers

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Speaker 2: initially a spoke And this is from ESPN. ESPN had

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Speaker 2: the real reports at ESPN. Spokesman for Otani told ESPN

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Speaker 2: for a ninety minute interview on Tuesday night, and Musahara

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Speaker 1: Lawyers would issue a statement.

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Speaker 2: Now. Musahara's account originally is uh Otani was paying my

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Speaker 2: The statement from from the law firm Burke Brettler LLP.

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Speaker 2: In the course of response funding to recent media inquiries,

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Speaker 2: we discovered that shohe has been the victim of a

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Speaker 2: massive theft and we're turning the matter over to the

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Speaker 1: Well, according to ESPN, they have.

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Speaker 2: Seen the bank paperwork showing Otani's name on two five

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Speaker 2: Otani's account to an associate of Ballriers. This is according

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Speaker 2: they've seen, they've seen the paperwork, they've seen the bank records.

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Speaker 2: Now Missuhara, according to sources dealt directly with Ballyer, Misihara

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Speaker 2: Ballrier was aware of Otani's name on the wire transfers,

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Speaker 2: everyone to know that Johani Shohe had zero involvement in betting.

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Speaker 2: I want people to know I did not know this

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Speaker 1: That was the second story.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so the first story is Otani wanted to agreed

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Speaker 2: They've seen Otani say, do you know.

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Speaker 1: How hard it is? It is?

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Speaker 2: It is a wire transfer is a paint of the ass.

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Speaker 2: Have you ever wire transferred money? Never?

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Speaker 1: Have you ever done that?

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Speaker 2: You need you need wire transfer instructions, you need special numbers.

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Speaker 2: gun runners, fraudsters. Right, they work with those kinds of amounts.

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Speaker 2: So you you've got to go to the bank, and

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Speaker 1: And it's a whole thing.

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Speaker 2: It was just a few months ago that something came

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Speaker 2: and I said, how do you do this? My wife

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Speaker 2: of this story because having having Otani's spokesman present Musahara

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Speaker 1: And then some lawyers.

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Speaker 2: Got involved and said, okay, we got to start denying things.

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Speaker 1: We got to start.

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Speaker 2: I'll bet you the first story is the true story,

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Speaker 2: because the people at ESPN saw the bank records. So

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Speaker 2: now it makes me wonder what's being covered up. Something's

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Speaker 2: being covered up here. It's it's not illegal for Otani

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Speaker 2: to pay off his interpreter's gambling debts.

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Speaker 1: It's illegal for.

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Speaker 2: The interpreter to make the bets, but for Otani to

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Speaker 2: help him out. Now I understand it's a bad look,

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Speaker 2: it's bad public relations. I can see the motivation to

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Speaker 2: but only the truth matters. Just lay out exactly what happened.

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Speaker 1: That's it.

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Speaker 2: Now that you've tried to muddy it up, it's made

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Speaker 2: the whole thing way more suspicious. What are you doing?

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Speaker 2: You can't you can't have the guy talk for ninety minutes.

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Speaker 2: An ESPN gets the bank records and talks to sources

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Speaker 1: Mind, I never mind whatever you heard there, No, no, no,

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Speaker 1: come on, now you're asking for it.

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Speaker 2: And when I come back, there's something else that's not

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Speaker 2: you a clip from Craig Carton. I don't know if

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Speaker 2: So Craig Carton lived this gambling life for several years,

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Speaker 2: coming up. All right, So last segment we were I

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Speaker 2: was talking about Shohei Otani and the interpreter that's been

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Speaker 2: fired by the Dodgers. The interpreter's Ipa Misuhara and originally

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Speaker 2: miss O'Hara gave a ninety minute interview to ESPN talking

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Speaker 2: thousand dollars payments wired from Otani's bank account to a

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Speaker 2: Otani has been the victim of a massive theft. Now,

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Speaker 2: how do you steal four and a half million dollars

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Speaker 1: How does that?

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Speaker 2: Because the implication is Missie Horror stole the money? How

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Speaker 1: How do you do that?

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Speaker 2: How did he access the information to do a wire transfer?

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Speaker 2: Like I said, doing a wire transfer is a pain

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Speaker 1: Tell me how another guy.

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Speaker 2: Accesses his friend's bank accounts and does the wire transfer?

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Speaker 1: How do you steal that kind of money? So, this,

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Speaker 2: By Breck Burke Bretler, LLP, sounds like nonsense. The victim

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Speaker 4: How do you?

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Speaker 2: How do you steal money in a bank account when

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Speaker 2: a lot of b s flying around.

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Speaker 1: Craig Carton thinks that too.

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Speaker 2: Craig Carton is a sports host on FS one, and

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Speaker 2: like I said, he's been well known in New York

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Speaker 2: And because he ended up in jail for he ran

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Speaker 2: order to pay his gambling debts. So he lived that life.

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Speaker 2: And here's what he had to say on his show

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Speaker 1: His friends are.

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Speaker 5: Gonna have to say, I forged this signature on the

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Speaker 5: bank wire transfer.

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Speaker 2: And let me tell you something.

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Speaker 5: For a guy who has lived in a compulsive gambling world,

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Speaker 5: the country, because I've lived it and I've done it,

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Speaker 5: you can't build a relationship with the bank absolutely, and

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Speaker 5: do things they won't do for average people walking in

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Speaker 5: the door. But you are not sending half a million

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Speaker 5: dollar wire without the owner of that account blessing your

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Speaker 5: in a bad spot and the story can't go away quickly.

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Speaker 5: Because there's a federal investigation into the bookmaker, and now

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Speaker 1: So it's just I don't know who is falling on

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Speaker 2: But this this the statement from from the UH law

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Speaker 2: not a normal transaction. All right, we come back, Blake trolley, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: take la metro, says paren Bass. Right, that should be

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Speaker 2: Blake Trolley from caf I News is coming on. Well

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Speaker 2: this this is another day in the metro system. A

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Speaker 6: Are you there, Yeah, John, this is a wild story.

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Speaker 6: That's an absolute shock. Yeah, all right, sorry, go ahead, No,

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Speaker 1: After the last few years, very few things scarce anymore.

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Speaker 1: Doesn't a job get really Oh homeless guy.

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Speaker 6: What's more alarming about these crimes really is watching society

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Speaker 6: Yeah, the guy was arrested this morning. He did try

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Speaker 2: Well, if you get any more information, you know that

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Speaker 6: Charlie from Kfine Karen Vass is doing the job, isn't she.

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Speaker 6: Did you hear about this happening in any other city today? No,

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Speaker 6: this is this is a Karen Bass special. Now she's

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Speaker 2: That's what she said she was going to do, and

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Speaker 2: wants to get set on fire, and nobody wants to

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Speaker 2: be hijacked and rammed into a hotel. This is this

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Speaker 2: is what we're paying for. This we're paying for this

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Speaker 2: Metro system. We're paying for We're paying billions of dollars

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Speaker 2: to get homeless off the street, except they don't come

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Speaker 2: off the street. And by the way, I got it

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Speaker 2: later in the show, I'm going to get into that

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Speaker 2: hearing that Judge Carter had because he wants to do

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Speaker 2: a massive audit of the city of Los Angeles and

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Speaker 2: what they done with all their homeless money, because nothing's

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Speaker 2: adding up. They blew billions of dollars, problems worse. And

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Speaker 2: I just read another story today. None of Karen Bass's

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Speaker 2: numbers add up. But we told you that from day one,

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Speaker 2: because she's lying. She makes up homeless numbers in terms

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Speaker 2: of how many they've taken off the street and put

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Speaker 2: into housing. Jesus makes up the numbers, and the dumbasses

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Speaker 2: in the media just report whatever lies Karen Bass tells

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Speaker 2: them because she smiles a lot.

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Speaker 1: You know, she's kind of cute. She's smiled. It's like

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Speaker 1: a grandmother. You know, she's got this perky personality.

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Speaker 2: She's line her rear end off, and she's not cleaning

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Speaker 2: enough the city in most How many cities are there

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Speaker 2: in the United States? Where else do you have a

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Speaker 2: bus getting carjacked and driven into a driven into a hotel?

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Speaker 2: Where else does that happen? Guy's clearly a maniac, clearly

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Speaker 2: whacked out on drugs or is severely mentally ill, and

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Speaker 2: in a normal society in almost any other country in

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Speaker 2: the universe, have been locked up already. We're gonna find

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Speaker 2: out he's got a record. We're gonna find out that

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Speaker 2: he got spun through the system very easily. Twenty four

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Speaker 2: years old. Twenty four years old, and he's carjacking a

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Speaker 2: bus at almost midnight. Good lord, and you know what

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Speaker 2: this is the danger though The key sentence, the key clip,

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Speaker 2: was the last thing in Blake's report. You know the guy, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: nothing really surprises us anymore.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, go ahead, get used to it. More.

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Speaker 2: Coming up after two o'clock, we're going to talk with

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Speaker 2: Angela Marsden. We had her on a number of times

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Speaker 2: during the lockdown when stupid Garcetti was destroying local businesses.

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Speaker 2: She runs the Pineapple Hill Saloon in Sherman Oaks. The

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Speaker 2: latest trouble, and we learned this the other day, is

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Speaker 2: that businesses can't get insurance in the Sherman Oaks area

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Speaker 2: because of all the homeless. They don't want to cover

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Speaker 2: all the damage and all the they don't want to

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Speaker 2: cover the risk that the homeless people create. Is that

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Speaker 2: happening in any other city, any other city not run

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Speaker 2: by Karen Bass? Is that happening more?

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Speaker 1: Coming up?

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Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A sixty.

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Speaker 2: We are going to talk to Angela Marsden after the

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Speaker 2: two o'clock Jebra News. She owns the Pineapple Hill Saloon

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Speaker 2: in Sherman Oaks. I've gone there and Angela came on

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Speaker 2: with us a number of times during the stupid lockdown

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Speaker 2: because stupid Garcetti wasn't allowing people to eat at restaurants.

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Speaker 2: The County wasn't either. All the idiot board A supervisors

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Speaker 2: wouldn't let you eat indoors, wouldn't let you eat outdoors.

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Speaker 2: And I remember we had Angela on because at one

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Speaker 2: point she could not serve food on outdoor tables in

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Speaker 2: her back parking lot where she had set at a setup.

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Speaker 2: But next people were eating outdoors under a tent because

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Speaker 2: they worked on a movie crew, and Garcetti had given

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Speaker 2: permission for the movie crew to eat under the tent.

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Speaker 2: And I went there and I saw, because it's actually

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Speaker 2: more or less on my way to work if I

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Speaker 2: want to take that route. So I saw the tent

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Speaker 2: for the movie crew, and I saw Angela's set up

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Speaker 2: behind her restaurant, and there was no difference between the two.

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Speaker 2: But the movie people could eat and Angela's customers couldn't eat.

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Speaker 2: And she went on television a number of times, the

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Speaker 2: latest indignity, and again, this is life in Karen Bassel's

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Speaker 2: Los Angeles. There's a lot of homeless.

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Speaker 1: Right. There was a fire at Casse.

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Speaker 2: Cafe Vegaga, Casa Vega, right, which is in shrman Oaks

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Speaker 2: as well. And the fire was near the restaurant, and

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Speaker 2: if it had spread to the grease pit. Then you

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Speaker 2: would have had a real crazy situation there. Fortunately it

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Speaker 2: did not, and I think the owner of the restaurant said,

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Speaker 2: insurance is getting hard to get well. Angela says that

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Speaker 2: as well, because the homeless situation leads to a crime situation,

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Speaker 2: and it leads to.

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Speaker 5: It.

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Speaker 2: Let me see, you got homelessness, you've got crime, and

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Speaker 2: you just have oh the burglaries too, right, And it's

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00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:24,880
Speaker 2: all related because the homeless people do the burglaries. The

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Speaker 2: homeless people, you know, commit the crimes, and people are

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Speaker 2: afraid to You're I'm afraid to stop at a light

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Speaker 2: in that in that neighborhood. Anyway, We're gonna talk to

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Speaker 2: Angela about it, because it's just it's one thing after another.

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Speaker 1: Try to run a business in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 2: The latest on Boeing is a group of airline executives

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Speaker 2: are demanding a meeting with Boeing's board of directors.

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Speaker 1: Because I think they're fed up.

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Speaker 2: Finally, I h there was one of those summary stories

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Speaker 2: that I read this morning, and I think I counted

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Speaker 2: nine different Boeing events that has happened in recent weeks,

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Speaker 2: and they don't even want to talk to the CEO

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Speaker 2: David Calhoun, he's not coming to the meeting. They're going

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Speaker 2: to the board and Boeing is sending chairman Larry Kellner

534
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Speaker 2: used to run Continental Airlines and other board members, and

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Speaker 2: these airline executives are basically saying, what the hell, when's

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Speaker 2: this going to end? Are you going to clean up

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Speaker 2: your production facilities? Are you going to clean up your

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Speaker 2: quality control issues? Boeing was supposed to deliver fifteen new

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Speaker 2: seven thirty sevens every month for the next few months.

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Speaker 2: That's what they're projecting. Now that's down from forty. So

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Speaker 2: it's gone from forty to fifteen because now they have

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Speaker 2: to spend time looking to see if all the bolts

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Speaker 2: are screwed in properly and rivets are assembled properly. Ryan

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Speaker 2: Air is a European airline and Southwest they have cut

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Speaker 2: their flight capacity because there's a shortage of Boeing jets

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Speaker 2: that they have ordered. United is putting a halt on

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Speaker 2: pilot hiring for at least two months. They're also trying

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Speaker 2: to hit up air Bus buy some planes from Airbus

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Speaker 2: to fill the gap there. Now, listen to this. The

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Speaker 2: whole reason Boeing was cutting quarters more than cutting quarters.

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Speaker 2: I think they cut out quality control. I was gonna

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Speaker 2: say cutting quarters and quality control. They just gave up

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Speaker 2: on quality control. And it's always to save money, right.

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Speaker 2: Do you know how much money Boeing is going to

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Speaker 2: lose just in this quarter? Four to four and a

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Speaker 2: half billion dollars, a four to four and a half

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Speaker 2: billion dollar hit. And if you remember in and after

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Speaker 2: the two crashes a few years back in Ethiopia and

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Speaker 2: Indonesia that cost them a two and a half billion

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Speaker 2: dollar fine, that was just a fine that didn't even

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Speaker 2: count to you know, whatever business they lost. But here's

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Speaker 2: another another four to four and a half billion in

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Speaker 2: lost revenue. And now people are starting when they book flights,

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Speaker 2: they're starting to filter out Boeing seven thirty sevens.

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Speaker 1: Have you done this well?

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Speaker 3: I told you I'm flying on two Boeing planes next month,

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Speaker 3: but I'm hoping that they'll be changed by then.

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Speaker 2: Kayak is allowing searchers to exclude specific aircraft, so you

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Speaker 2: could look for your next flight and have Kayak eliminate

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Speaker 2: the Boeing seven thirty sevens, for example, from your choices.

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Speaker 2: And now they're going to have a new little icon

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Speaker 2: that will tell you what the aircraft model is when

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Speaker 2: you get the flight results, so it'll flash it's an

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Speaker 2: upside down plane, it's a plane in a nose.

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Speaker 4: Time.

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Speaker 2: Then there's a business travel software company named Navon and

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Speaker 2: they are also providing details about aircraft models when you

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Speaker 2: do flight search. And a woman who was the COO,

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Speaker 2: Dina Harald, said, anytime there's an external event, I love

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Speaker 2: the code they use. We do see requests for more information,

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Speaker 2: and that's where we are right now.

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Speaker 3: Well we should, you know, actually we should always have

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Speaker 3: this information. You should be able to decide what type

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Speaker 3: of plane we want to go on.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, usually you can find it, but I think it's

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Speaker 2: after you buy the ticket. Yeah, you keep clicking and

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Speaker 2: you could find the fine print on the fourth click.

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Speaker 2: And when we come back, we're going to talk to

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Speaker 2: Angela Marsden, Pineapple Hill Saloon and Sherman Oaks. Business owners

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Speaker 2: have trouble getting insurance because of all the property damage,

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Speaker 2: the robberies, the homeless people, just a general crime and disorder.

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Speaker 2: That's what it's like to be a business owner in

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Speaker 2: the Los Angeles. Hey, you've been listening to the John

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Speaker 2: Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear the show live

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Speaker 2: on KFI Am six forty from one to four pm

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Speaker 2: every Monday through Friday, and of course anytime on demand

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