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Speaker 1: First of the new year, and we are here from

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Speaker 4: Hello, Happy New Year, Happy New Year.

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Speaker 2: Hello, Eric, Hey, John. Thanks.

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Speaker 1: He was real quick with the buzzer. You say hello

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Speaker 1: and it's like a pause for two beats. We at

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Speaker 1: is going to come on and we were going to

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Speaker 1: go through the winners of Goulepool twenty twenty three. Do

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Speaker 1: you know we had six listeners go three for three

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Speaker 1: With Gouldpool. You get to pick three celebrities that you

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Speaker 1: think will die in the upcoming year, and so a

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Speaker 1: you an idea of who they picked. Listener number one

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Speaker 1: picked Feinstein, Tony Bennett, and Harry Belafonte. Second one picked Feinstein,

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Speaker 1: unusual number of famous people in their mid to late nineties,

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Speaker 1: celebrities leaving for good and well, we'll get into some

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Speaker 1: of the other statistics now, if you want to pick

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Speaker 1: a hot prospect, because you can go to our web

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Speaker 1: the Hot Prospect. Based on last year's voting, Jimmy Carter

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Speaker 1: you know, I imagine he'll crack one hundred for this

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Speaker 1: And supposedly this mess is live on Instagram right now. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it validates everything that we've been talking about for for

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Speaker 1: These are mental patients and drug addicts living out in

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Speaker 1: We had an extra two extra taxes We did want

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Speaker 1: Cowmatters dot org. This is a great news website and

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Speaker 1: A former politician forced to resign in disgrace because of

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Speaker 1: There's still tens of thousands of homeless people on the

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Speaker 1: and out fraud. There is a nonprofit called Hopix Hopics.

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Speaker 1: It was paid one hundred and forty million dollars in

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Speaker 1: They hired organizations like Hopix. Hopix is a division of

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Speaker 1: then hopex hires middle men to help manage the hundreds

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Speaker 2: They really do.

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Speaker 1: Now, in this case, they stopped paying rent on hundreds

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Speaker 1: deputy director of HOPEX. A former United States congresswoman named

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Speaker 1: Katie Hill.

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Speaker 2: Does that name ring a bell a little bit? Katie Hill?

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Speaker 1: Mass potato woman, No, Katie Porter, Katie Porter dump mashed

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Speaker 1: Anybody remember she was involved in a three way with

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Speaker 1: So Katie Hill was caught in a thropple with her

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Speaker 1: where does somebody let that go? Well, of course they

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Speaker 2: That's a term.

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Speaker 1: Hopix is claiming that they hired middlemen middle men which

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Speaker 1: were other newly created nonprofits to rent out the rooms.

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Speaker 1: middlemen we hired. In fact, Katie Hill says, we didn't

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Speaker 2: Are you following this? Katie Hills organization.

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Speaker 2: More drug addiction than ever before.

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Speaker 1: And now the supporters of legalizing drugs are now begging

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Speaker 1: the government to reverse it. That they want they want

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Speaker 1: to pass a law referendum to reverse it and make

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Speaker 1: it illegal again, to make it criminal again, because what

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Speaker 1: did you think was going to happen.

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Speaker 2: What did you think was going to happen?

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Speaker 1: Is this weird mass psychosis that is hitting certain populations

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Speaker 1: in certain states, certain cities is just fascinating. You legalize drugs,

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Speaker 1: you already have more homeless people than anybody can count.

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Speaker 1: What do you think is going to happen? Now you

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Speaker 1: have a Chagelle outbreak? All right, we come back. We've

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Speaker 1: got Animal News and Debra. You can end up choosing

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Speaker 1: one story number one, story number two, or both if

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Speaker 1: we have time.

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Speaker 4: But do I get a hint to see?

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Speaker 9: I never People don't realize I never know what's going

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Speaker 9: to be on this show.

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Speaker 4: I never know when John's going to talk to me.

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Speaker 4: I don't know what he's going to talk to me about.

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Speaker 9: It's total improv So can't I get a warning once

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Speaker 9: in a while?

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Speaker 1: All right, I'll give you animal categories. There's one story

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Speaker 1: about birds and cats and one story about monkeys. So

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Speaker 1: you can choose birds and cats or monkeys, okay, all right,

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Speaker 1: or both.

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Speaker 2: Depends when you stop screaming. I guess lovely, Steve Gregory'll

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Speaker 2: be on after two o'clock.

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Speaker 5: You're listening to John cobelts on demand from KFI AM

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Speaker 1: We're on the radio from one until four, and then

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Speaker 1: let's get it together by Friday. On that and then

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Speaker 1: twenty four. Now we will have our animal news. And

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Speaker 1: I gave Deborah a choice without without giving you any

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Speaker 1: details of the story other than the animal categories. You

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Speaker 1: have a choice. One story is birds and cats. The

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Speaker 1: other story is monkeys.

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Speaker 4: I'm going to do birds and.

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Speaker 1: Cats, birds and cats. We go to Florida. A Florida woman,

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Speaker 1: her name is Lisa Lacerite. She was found with three

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Speaker 1: hundred and nine animals in her home. Three hundred and

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Speaker 1: nine one hundred and sixty four ducks, chickens, geese, cats,

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Speaker 1: and dogs. Do you think she's living in a regular

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Speaker 1: house or a mobile home?

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Speaker 9: Well, okay, I'm assuming it's a mobile home. But she

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Speaker 9: should be in a house with all those animals. How

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Speaker 9: do they fit in a mobile home?

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Speaker 1: Well, she also has some property around the mobile home,

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Speaker 1: so they lived on the property and inside the home.

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Speaker 1: The home was the stench was so overwhelming, a smell

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Speaker 1: of what do you think, what do you think? It

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Speaker 1: smelled like urine? Ammonia because ammonia is the is the

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Speaker 1: stink in urine, That's.

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Speaker 2: What you smell.

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Speaker 4: That makes sense.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So she was charged with five counts of felony

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Speaker 1: animal neglect, three one hundred and four counts of animal neglect.

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Speaker 1: So there's felony and then there's regular neglect, and then

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Speaker 1: one count of elder neglect because Mom lived in the

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Speaker 1: house too.

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Speaker 4: I thought maybe one of the animals was elderly.

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Speaker 1: No, they don't charge elderly neglect with I don't know.

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Speaker 4: I mean, you're talking about animals, and then you threw

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Speaker 4: the mom there.

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Speaker 2: This is what she did to Mom.

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Speaker 4: But I don't understand.

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Speaker 9: I mean, didn't she care for these animals and she

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Speaker 9: loved these animals or was she just too overwhelmed.

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Speaker 4: We've heard that a million times.

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Speaker 1: She was doing the best she could. I mean, if

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Speaker 1: I get as much as you love animals. If I

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Speaker 1: gave you three hundred and nine of them.

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Speaker 4: Well I wouldn't.

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Speaker 7: Okay.

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Speaker 9: As much as I love animals, I know I can't

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Speaker 9: care for more than a couple.

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Speaker 1: So the deputy showed up and there was a really

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Speaker 1: bad stench of ammonia outside the home, and Lackwright came

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Speaker 1: out and said that she was her mother's caregiver and

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Speaker 1: mom had health issues. You know, you breathe in ammonia

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Speaker 1: twenty four hours a day. That's gonna, that's gonna. Many

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Speaker 1: were roaming free, climbing on the furniture. They appeared sickly, malnourished.

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Speaker 1: They lived in squalor, in unsanitary conditions. Many of the

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Speaker 1: cats were lying across the kitchen countertops. Gee, why would

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Speaker 1: mom be sick? This is what they're cooking in.

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Speaker 4: Oh god, that's gross.

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Speaker 1: Fifty cats were running loose in the kitchen, living room,

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Speaker 1: and utility room. Many animals were perched on top of

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Speaker 1: the refrigerator.

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Speaker 4: Well, they were hungry.

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Speaker 2: Guess what she does for a living Lisa? What second

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Speaker 2: grade teacher?

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Speaker 4: Oh no, are you serious?

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Speaker 2: Yes?

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Speaker 4: Wow? What does she teach? Animal welfare?

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Speaker 1: The sheriff said, Lisa is not an evil person. She's

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Speaker 1: an overwhelmed cat lady.

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Speaker 4: Yeah about the ducks and the other Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I did ducks geese. I mean, you know she was.

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Speaker 1: She didn't discriminate any anything that wandered near her property

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Speaker 1: got a place. Five of the cats. Five of the

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Speaker 1: cats had eye and nasal discharges and respiratory problems. They

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Speaker 1: were coughing and wheezing. Lisa's mother had glassy eyes and

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Speaker 1: was not able to move freely, and they moved her ound.

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Speaker 2: Wow, she was.

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Speaker 1: Practically paralyzed from the ammonia. Now you want to hear

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Speaker 1: the monkey story?

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Speaker 4: Is it better than I didn't like this story?

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Speaker 2: No, it does not.

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Speaker 1: There is a big fight in Brazoria County, Texas neighbors.

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Speaker 1: You know, people go to this part of Texas and

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Speaker 1: they buy big properties, ranches, and unbeknownst to the neighbors,

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Speaker 1: a biomedical research firm. This is a big firm. It's

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Speaker 1: worth twelve billion dollars. They bought five hundred acres of

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Speaker 1: land and they want to house up to forty three

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Speaker 1: thousand monkeys to do experiments.

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Speaker 4: Yes, no, no, I'm putting my foot down.

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Speaker 1: No, well that'll take care of it. A veternarian a

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Speaker 1: veterinarian is living next door coincidentally, and his name's John Stern,

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Speaker 1: and John said, I thought this would be a place

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Speaker 1: to get away from everything, and he built a retreat

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Speaker 1: on nine hundred acres for his family and grandchildren. Now

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Speaker 1: a monkey farm is my neighbor, Charles River Laboratories. They

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Speaker 1: already housed nineteen thousand monkeys and half a dozen states,

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Speaker 1: and they sell animals for research, and they run tests

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Speaker 1: on animals in their own facilities. They do research on

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Speaker 1: human disease and treatments. And now so it's a double thing.

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Speaker 1: Not only you got forty three thousand months, but they're

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Speaker 1: being tested for all kinds of terrible diseases. And the

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Speaker 1: neighbors think there's gonna be an outbreak.

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Speaker 4: Oh oh, I didn't. I really didn't even think about.

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Speaker 2: That, that you're gonna you're gonna have some like COVID thing.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, that I'm thinking about. You're you're you're gonna be

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Speaker 9: hearing these poor animals screaming.

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Speaker 4: And I mean.

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Speaker 1: Generally medical testing is not pleasant for the for the monkey.

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Speaker 9: No, how can it be? I mean, I I can't

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Speaker 9: even imagine a single case where it would be pleasant.

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Speaker 4: For a monkey.

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Speaker 2: Uh, No, you know.

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Speaker 4: That song Shocked the Monkey. Yes, it's an eighty song, right.

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Speaker 9: I can't Yes, I can't listen to that song because

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Speaker 9: it makes me think about animal experimentation.

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Speaker 2: Do you know what shocked the monkey means?

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Speaker 4: Well, I look at it.

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Speaker 9: The way I internalize it is they're shocking the monkey

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Speaker 9: because they're they're testing.

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Speaker 2: You know what I heard? That phrase means what? I can't.

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Speaker 2: I can't say why. It's a euphemism, what it's sexual.

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Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I'm gonna have to google think about it.

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Speaker 4: I don't know if I want to.

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Speaker 1: Only only men would participate in shocking the monkey. Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: you don't have a monkey to shock?

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Speaker 4: Okay, that's crazy though, what hell the song?

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Speaker 1: That's what I heard? I've heard that several times. Maybe

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Speaker 1: it's a myth, but stuck in my head. I like

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Speaker 1: spreading the myth. All right, Dever's got news coming up.

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Speaker 1: Steve Gregory's going to be in here. Oh my goodness.

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Speaker 1: More than three hundred thousand people across the border in

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Speaker 1: December the Mexico US border, three hundred thousand, which would

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Speaker 1: be an all time record. He'll be here with all

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Speaker 1: the latest on the John Coblt Show and Deborah Mark

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Speaker 1: live in the KFI twenty for our newsroom. Hey, you've

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