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Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobalt podcast on the iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 2: All I'm hearing from people are are you to remember

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Speaker 2: start a drinking game online. How many times I was

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Speaker 4: I said, oh, months and months and months.

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Speaker 2: You're probably right, I said a year. It's the John

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Speaker 2: Cobelt Show, new, not necessarily improved, but new, and that's

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Speaker 2: that's what it's going to be. And I just want

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Speaker 2: to say that Eric, you and Ray and Clay did

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Speaker 2: a terrific job on the Farewell Show for kid Oh

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Speaker 2: people in our past and all the old clips that

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Speaker 2: that really was well done all of you on a

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Speaker 1: So thank you. We're going to just get right into

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Speaker 1: the show and just do what we've always done all

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Speaker 1: these years.

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Speaker 2: And first up is going to be Blake Trolley from

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Speaker 2: KFI News and two dozen LA County cities tried to

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Speaker 2: end the zero bail policy in the county by taking

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Speaker 2: it to a judge. And for now they've hit a wall.

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Speaker 2: We're going to talk now with Blake to see what

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Speaker 2: kind of wall this is. Blake, how are you?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, John Well of COURK good. You know it's so

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Speaker 5: weird John, just saying John and not guys. I got

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Speaker 5: to say that this might take me a few months

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Speaker 5: for the adjustment period here.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, just say guys.

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Speaker 5: Anyways, Hey, you know, I have an uncle. He doesn't

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Speaker 5: know anybody's name in the family. So every holiday, birthday, whatever,

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Speaker 5: he just calls everybody guy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's his thing.

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Speaker 2: Hey guy, Hey buddy, Hey boss. Everybody works in fast food.

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Speaker 2: You paid them the money. Thanks boss, here's your under boss.

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Speaker 2: Whatever you want.

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Speaker 6: You know.

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Speaker 5: The other day I went to a bar alone, which

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Speaker 5: I rarely do, but I've heard it in there drinking,

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Speaker 5: and the guy came up to me and said, hey, buddy,

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Speaker 5: And that's when you know it's time to go. When

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Speaker 5: the bartender's calling you Buddy's that's your hint that you're

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Speaker 5: looking a little strange in there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you've been there too long.

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Speaker 2: Well what about this this lawsuit that these La County

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Speaker 2: cities brought to try to stop zero bail.

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Speaker 1: Actually this argument these go ahead.

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Speaker 5: Well yeah, this is being heard down in Orange County,

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Speaker 5: and a core argument these cities are making is that

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Speaker 5: the California Constitution requires courts to consider public safety when

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Speaker 5: setting bail. The city say, all of the crimes under

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Speaker 5: this blanket zero bail policy, I mean, or given the

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Speaker 5: be a threat to public safety if they're allowed to

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Speaker 5: walk out. Now. The judge seemed to not agree with

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Speaker 5: their assessment and denied an injunction that would reinstate the

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Speaker 5: old bail system. The judge rule that bail is not

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Speaker 5: required under the constitution. The judge also gave the cities

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Speaker 5: strengthen their arguments and come back. This morning, I had

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Speaker 5: It sounds like as of today the cities are in

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Speaker 5: the planning phase of responding.

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Speaker 1: Nonetheless.

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Speaker 5: Kimberly Harl Barlow, the attorney representing the city says, she

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Speaker 5: disagrees with this judge's ruling.

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Speaker 7: I think our point was that because the Constitution requires

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Speaker 7: taking into consideration the criminal history of the defendant, the

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Speaker 7: So it's not that you could never have zero bail,

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Speaker 7: So I disagree with the ruling to the extent that

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Speaker 5: So she says, at least some of the cities are

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Speaker 5: they're not completely against zero bail for every single crime

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Speaker 5: been roped into here really need to have a second look,

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Speaker 5: and they don't believe that this blanket policy of just

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Speaker 5: looking at what the charges and letting somebody walk on

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Speaker 5: zero bail assesses public safety under the Constitution.

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Speaker 2: And this was put into effect by the Los Angeles

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Speaker 2: in Orange County to eliminate that conflict of interest. So

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Speaker 2: these city officials going to talk to? They'd have to

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Speaker 5: They're trying to talk directly to the LA County Court

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Speaker 5: judges and the LA County Court officials, and we'll go

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Speaker 5: straight to this haul. Barlow tells me the courts did

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Speaker 5: not seem interested and still do not seem interested in

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Speaker 7: One of the fundamental issues here is that there were

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Speaker 7: no efforts to meet with or reach out to law

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Speaker 7: enforcement prior to the formulation of these schedules, and that

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Speaker 7: no input was you know, as I say, invited or

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Speaker 7: how you could legitimately give public safety the top priority

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Speaker 7: that it's supposed to have in bailed as visions without

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Speaker 5: Now, the court system, the LA County Court system, is

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Speaker 5: arguing that the release status is being determined by risk

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Speaker 5: to the public or victim safety, which it says is

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Speaker 5: consistent with the constitutional purpose of bail. I don't know

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Speaker 5: if you remember this, John, but La County Court officials

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Speaker 5: released a report at the end of October which analyzed

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Speaker 5: data from the first three weeks of the zero bail program.

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Speaker 5: The court found that three percent of people booked on

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Speaker 5: suspicion of crime and then were released on zero bail

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Speaker 5: were subsequently re arrested. That report analyzed five and thirteen bookings.

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Speaker 5: Forty percent of those were under bail. But that's still

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Speaker 5: a hefty amount of bookings that are not that are

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Speaker 5: now subject to this new system. And when you say

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Speaker 5: three percent, I was trying to do the math. That's

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Speaker 5: kind of hard the way that they laid out these numbers.

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Speaker 5: But three percent could still mean quite a bit of

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Speaker 5: repeat crime. As far as the actual number goes, three

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Speaker 2: It also depends on whether the crimes are reported, whether

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Speaker 2: they're considered crimes. You know, one of the ways the

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Speaker 2: state rigged the parole system years ago is stopped they

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Speaker 2: stopped putting people back in prison if there was a

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Speaker 2: for ten days or less. They called it flash incarceration.

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Speaker 2: So because they went to a local jail for ten

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Speaker 2: they weren't counted as a recidivist that didn't show up

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Speaker 2: parole who went back and committed crimes. They just eliminated

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Speaker 2: for ten days and assigned him to another category.

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Speaker 1: That's what they do.

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Speaker 2: They rigged the system so that nobody's ever rearrested, rejailed,

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Speaker 2: re imprisoned doesn't happen anymore, all right, Well, very good,

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Speaker 2: Blake anything else?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, well there's you know a couple Yeah, there's one

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Speaker 5: thing I do want to talk about, John real fast.

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Speaker 5: You know, I was told that some of this effort

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Speaker 5: cops are now being much less lenient in what they

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Speaker 5: charge criminals with, at least in some cases. So back

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Speaker 5: in the day, they might have had somebody they could

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Speaker 5: have charged heavier, but to show a little grace or

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Speaker 5: to show a little kindness, they would lower the boom

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Speaker 5: on some of those charges. But now knowing that if

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Speaker 5: they lower those charges too much, this is going to

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Speaker 5: way less lenient and they are going to charge you

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Speaker 5: with the max that they can if it's a situation

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Speaker 5: where that determines whether or not you get bail or

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Speaker 5: not as a public safety measure. So in some ways,

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Speaker 5: the you know, from what I'm hearing, this is working

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Speaker 5: against a criminal reform or at least leniency on people

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Speaker 2: All right, Blake, thanks very much, Blake Trolley Caffine News. Well,

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Speaker 2: you know what is the whole thing is a charade.

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Speaker 2: They once again we're talking, we're getting in the weeds

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Speaker 2: talking about the details. What these judges want, like most

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Speaker 2: of the woke progressives that run the state, is they

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Speaker 2: want to destroy the system entirely. They want to stop

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Speaker 2: people from getting arrested, being prosecuted, going to jail, going

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Speaker 2: to prison entirely. But they have to come up with

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Speaker 2: a legal reason. They have to come up with a

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Speaker 2: cover story. One of their core values is the whole

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Speaker 2: system is screwed because more people of color end up

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Speaker 2: a massive rebalancing, and that's what drives them to do

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Speaker 2: very least stop with bail money. Then nobody goes to prison,

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Speaker 2: and there can't be this disproportionate thing. Of course, the

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Speaker 2: whole disproportionate argument is absurd. You get thrown into jail

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Speaker 2: or prison because of what you did, not because of

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Speaker 2: your color. So who's ever in prison right now actually

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Speaker 2: committed those crimes? And it was proven, But they've inverted

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Speaker 2: this entire argument. So you can't even see straight. You

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Speaker 2: can't even think straight anymore. It's like, wait a second,

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Speaker 2: what is this? Is this proportionate that doesn't matter. It

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Speaker 2: matters what you did, not the color of your skin.

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Speaker 2: And now they use the color of skin argument to

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Speaker 2: step by step dismantle the system. So George Gascon doesn't

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Speaker 2: prosecute most crimes, are not are not even well, nobody's

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Speaker 2: even arrested now, right, you steal something nine to fifty

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Speaker 2: or least, there's no arrests. If you're arrested, there's no prosecution.

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Speaker 2: If there's prosecution, there's no bail. If eventually you get

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Speaker 2: convicted by some miracle, there's no jail time or very little.

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Speaker 2: You're let out quickly. And so the purpose is to

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Speaker 2: dismantle the system. And then they get you bogged down

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Speaker 2: and arguing details. But the reasons are bogus. Real reason

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Speaker 2: is they want to destroy the system. Never forget that.

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Speaker 2: We're coming up, Johnny Ken KFI. I did it already?

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Speaker 1: Look at that? Oh yeah, yeah, all right, strike John Cobelt.

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Speaker 2: Oh do stop with your cackling, John all right, John

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Speaker 2: as we always have on Fridays. Now, coming up at

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Speaker 1: We're going to talk to him.

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Speaker 2: He's down in the San Diego area talk show host

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Speaker 2: you know, you got to get on the inside. Have

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Speaker 1: You see this story.

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Speaker 2: There is a Bay area technology executive who's being accused

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Speaker 2: front of me here His name is Christian Lang. He's

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Speaker 2: It was originally valued in twenty eighteen over a billion dollars. Eventually,

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Speaker 2: on multiple grounds, serious allegations of sex, assault and harassment. Now,

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Speaker 2: It's led to years of rape, sexual abuse, torture, and assault.

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Speaker 4: So she signed it.

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Speaker 2: She signed the contract. I'm going to read you some

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Speaker 4: Okay, right there, right there, right there.

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Speaker 1: Well, you are no fun.

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Speaker 2: Henceforth, Jane Doe will be known as slave she or

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Speaker 2: her Oh is this real? This is real? This is

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Speaker 2: of Christian Lang. Henceforth known as Master Please. This contract

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Speaker 2: Section one, the slave's roll, the slave agrees to submit

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Speaker 4: Oh, the slave actually has a veto.

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Speaker 2: There's another section called the slave's veto. I'll get there.

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Speaker 4: Wait did a lawyer put this together?

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Speaker 1: It sounds legalistic, So so far you're saying.

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Speaker 4: No, a big no. I'd be walking out of there

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Speaker 2: The slave also agrees that, once entered into the slavery contract,

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Speaker 2: The slave agrees to please the master to the best

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Speaker 3: This is ludicrous. First of all, what a ding dong

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Speaker 3: to sign that. I don't understand that. And who does

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Speaker 2: I don't know, I guess she was. I guess she

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Speaker 2: was special. The slave's veto the slave holds vetail power

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Speaker 1: And there's about twenty of these. Twenty of these rules.

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Speaker 2: You can never lie, you must always be sexually available,

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Speaker 4: Oh okay, what kind of a business is this again?

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Speaker 1: This was a tech business. Software.

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Speaker 2: No, to always be attentive to her master and put

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Speaker 2: Worship her master and all of his body.

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Speaker 4: How much was she getting paid?

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Speaker 1: I don't know. To never pleasure herself without wearing her collar.

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Speaker 4: Oh my god.

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Speaker 1: Stop and whenever she.

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Speaker 2: Does pleasure herself nobody knowing that this privilege is given

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Speaker 4: Is this in the US?

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Speaker 1: This is in San Francisco.

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Speaker 4: Oh my god, in San Francisco.

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Speaker 2: And San Francisco Trade Shift is the name of the

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Speaker 3: You need to get that guy on the air. You

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Speaker 1: I want to talk to her now.

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Speaker 2: He's claiming that they had a consensual relationship and maybe

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Speaker 3: So this was a special contract just for her, even

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Speaker 3: though she worked for him. Yes, and now she's upset

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Speaker 1: Well, then she went through years of sexual abuse.

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Speaker 4: How long was she at that job?

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Speaker 2: It said it went on for years. I mean she

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Speaker 2: and he was CEO for more than ten years. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: Why does she get fired She didn't perform her slave duties.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, didn't know these kind of women were

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Speaker 3: Or these kind of men who would draw up such

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Speaker 1: Oh, I know the men are out there.

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Speaker 4: I mean really, I mean, it shouldn't surprise me.

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Speaker 1: But that's no more coming up, debor Mark.

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Speaker 4: I don't know. I don't know what to say after that.

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Speaker 2: But I could see he can pull that on you

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Speaker 8: You're listening to John cobelts on demand from KFI Am sixty.

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Speaker 1: The John Cobelt Show.

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Speaker 2: There I go on one for three John Cobelt Here

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Speaker 2: Live on the twenty four hour iHeart what is it?

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Speaker 2: I forgot the rest of it. Now the iHeart Radio

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Speaker 2: the John Cobelt Show on demand. By the way, there

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Speaker 2: is much much more to that slave contract that this

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Speaker 3: Right now, I just cannot believe this is really happening.

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Speaker 3: I mean, what are we I mean, we're in twenty

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Speaker 1: I don't know, I guess, but she went for this,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, something soured in that relationship. Yeah, maybe she didn't.

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Speaker 4: Well I'm just guessing that maybe there was a financial

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Speaker 2: If she's wearing the collar and she sees her master

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Speaker 1: How I mean.

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Speaker 4: Look, there are relationships like that, right, are there?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I mean you hear about them. I mean I haven't

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Speaker 2: We have Carl Demyle on the line here. Carl Demayle

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Speaker 2: and he's decided now maybe it's time to run for

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Speaker 2: Karl Deamaiya, welcome, How are you John?

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Speaker 9: Thanks so much for having me on. I think I've

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Speaker 9: I think they got the terrible ideas. They are awful

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Speaker 9: They want to see both points of view presented, and

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Speaker 9: they're not seeing that currently. So I started thinking about

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Speaker 9: And I said, well, who's going to fill the void?

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Speaker 9: Who's going to step up? And it's not me alone.

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Speaker 9: I started talking to others and we came up with

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Speaker 2: And you're all going to be running in the next cycle.

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Speaker 9: In March, Yes, March election, it's less than three months away.

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Speaker 9: And then the runoff obviously is in the general election

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Speaker 1: Let me ask you, let me.

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Speaker 2: Let me ask you some because this I've thought about

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Speaker 2: this a lot. It's puzzled me, as it puzzles you.

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Speaker 2: There are a lot of issues which nearly all my

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Speaker 2: not I've never thought of that. Is that a conservative

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Speaker 2: a Democrat Republican thing. It's just that, No, we can't

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Speaker 2: have criminals running amuck like we do. We can't have

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Speaker 2: people living and dying in the streets like we do.

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Speaker 2: We can't have a sixty eight billion dollar budget deficit.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you just can't have this stuff. And everybody

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Speaker 2: agreed on it. And at what point did the Republican politicians,

446
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Speaker 2: what few are left, just surrender on all this stuff

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Speaker 2: and not mount any kind of a pushback on the insanity.

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Speaker 1: Why.

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Speaker 9: I think it's because anyone worth their salt, anyone who's talented,

450
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Speaker 9: looks at Sacramento and says, well, do I want to

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Speaker 9: go up there, and being part of a permanent minority,

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Speaker 9: I'm not going to be able to pass my bill

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Speaker 9: because it's so lobsided, with the governor being a Democrat

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Speaker 9: and the legislature being a supermajority Democrat legislature. But that's

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Speaker 9: not how I see leadership. I see leadership as speaking

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Speaker 9: truth to power, going up and challenging them every day

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Speaker 9: on their corrupt agenda and what they're doing wrong. But

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Speaker 9: then the other part of leadership is changing the political

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Speaker 9: system from the outside, and that means you use a

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Speaker 9: legislative seat to organize the opposition, to educate voters, to

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Speaker 9: hold press conferences, to do town halls, to file ballot measures,

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Speaker 9: to collect signatures, to recruit candidates. I'm looking for a

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Speaker 9: team of agitators across the state, and I think we have,

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Speaker 9: you know, eight to ten great candidates, and more are

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Speaker 9: calling me every day saying, hey, I want to join.

466
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Speaker 9: I'm committed. Here's the seat I'm running for and so

467
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Speaker 9: we've been inundated by people wanting to be part of

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Speaker 9: this movement. And I don't trust the Republican politicians to

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Speaker 9: figure this out. We gave them twenty years and every year, John,

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Speaker 9: you've seen the same thing I've seen, which is these

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Speaker 9: guys get picked off by the Democrats and there's fewer

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Speaker 9: and fewer of them.

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Speaker 2: Can you create a third party because so many people

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Speaker 2: recoil when they see the word Republican on the ballot.

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Speaker 2: If they see an R, it's automatic, They're not going

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Speaker 2: to vote for them for whatever reason. Right, And I'm

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Speaker 2: thinking I would just dispense with that name, dispense with

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Speaker 2: that brand, because it clearly doesn't work here and there's

479
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Speaker 2: not too many people who want to buy the product.

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Speaker 2: So come up with a new brand, a new product,

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Speaker 2: and maybe people will give it a fair shot.

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Speaker 9: You know. I know a lot of people talk about that.

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Speaker 9: I think we're stuck with the two party system, and that's,

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Speaker 9: you know, just the way our country has been since

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Speaker 9: pretty much the founding. What I'm trying to do, though,

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Speaker 9: is get beyond the party label and say, look, if

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Speaker 9: you oppose the gas tax, then you're part of the

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Speaker 9: reform California Movement, and a lot of Democrats will join us.

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Speaker 9: I think we need to start defining issues as what

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Speaker 9: we're talking about, inviting everybody to the table, and sometimes

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Speaker 9: John it means we have to challenge Republicans for being

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Speaker 9: do nothing, uninspired and lazy in their approach. I gotta say,

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Speaker 9: there's a number of bad policies in California. The gas

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Speaker 9: tax is one of them where a Republican voted for

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Speaker 9: the bad idea. You know, Chad Mays, the former I

496
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Speaker 9: remember that a bunch of Yeah, you held them accountable.

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Speaker 9: I mean a lot of bad votes that that guy cast.

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Speaker 9: So when you have.

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Speaker 2: We hold them accountable on the air and give them

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Speaker 2: a real rough time, and then he goes and runs

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Speaker 2: and gets elected again. Anyway, I mean, well, the voters

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Speaker 2: keep voting this way and everybody's unhappy, and still they're

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Speaker 2: going to vote for more bad candidates in twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 1: And I don't understand the disconnect.

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Speaker 9: I think that there will be seats that we're going

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Speaker 9: to flip. And the disconnect is that you have such

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Speaker 9: a terrible state of the Republican Party. They don't have volunteers,

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Speaker 9: they don't have college students or high school students. They

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Speaker 9: don't have good candidates. I've heard from candidates across the

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Speaker 9: state that said the California Republican Party never return their

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Speaker 9: call when they ask for help with the filing of

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Speaker 9: paperwork just to get on the ballot, and that we

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Speaker 9: lost a seat because they didn't file the right paperwork

514
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Speaker 9: for the seat. That is absolutely inexcusable when you don't

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Speaker 9: have an opposition party that will help people who want

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Speaker 9: to step forward and offer all sort of So that's

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Speaker 9: why I'm running. Well.

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Speaker 2: I understand your point of having a two party system,

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Speaker 2: but when the second party has become a non party,

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Speaker 2: then we should replace that second party with something else

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Speaker 2: that's functional, because the current whatever the Republican Party is

522
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Speaker 2: in this state is non functional as if they exist.

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Speaker 9: And so my view is we create a reform California movement.

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Speaker 9: We get beyond party labels. We invite anyone who's a

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Speaker 9: Democrat or Republican to work with us if you agree

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Speaker 9: with our agenda of making California more cost effective, cost affordable,

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Speaker 9: putting the criminals back behind bars, cleaning up the homeless

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Speaker 9: from the streets, fixing our schools. These are very basic issues.

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Speaker 9: That seventy percent of Californians agree on one last thing

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Speaker 9: about what we have to do. Our elected officials cannot

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Speaker 9: be button pushers anymore. You know, they go up to Sacramento,

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Speaker 9: they push the button, and you know what, if you

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Speaker 9: push the button the right way, I guess I'll give

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Speaker 9: you a little bit of credit. But your job as

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Speaker 9: an elected official isn't just to push the damn button.

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Speaker 9: Your job is to educate the voters and go out

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Speaker 9: and help create the movement. That's what these people have

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Speaker 9: not been doing on the Republican side in California. That's

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Speaker 9: what this whole movement represents. And look, I think you

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Speaker 9: would probably acknowledge that Reform California has been the agitator

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Speaker 9: for the last five years and the things that move

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Speaker 9: the needle gas sash Appeel recalling Josh Newman. I believe

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Speaker 9: that if we're going to actually get more traction, we've

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Speaker 9: got to take our fight inside the value of the beast,

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Speaker 9: inside the legislature. And so if people want to help,

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Speaker 9: they can throw into contribution or sign up for more

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Speaker 9: information at reform California dot org. That's Reform California dot org.

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Speaker 9: And if not now when if not you who?

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Speaker 2: All right, Carl, thanks, got to run Carl Demio and

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Speaker 2: he's got to be running assembly down in the San

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Speaker 2: Diego area. It's the John Cobelt Show on the iHeart

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Speaker 2: the twenty four hour. Oh man, I am confused, Live

553
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Speaker 2: on the iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 8: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM

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Speaker 8: six forty.

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Speaker 1: John Cobelt Show.

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Speaker 9: Right.

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Speaker 2: Oh, Ken is probably sitting at home in his underwear

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Speaker 2: now laughing. One yeah, one for four. Okay, we're going

560
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Speaker 2: to talk with Alex Stone coming up after two o'clock

561
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Speaker 2: from ABC News. This is a cool story. Some Russian

562
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Speaker 2: guy bordered a plane in Denmark, made it all the

563
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Speaker 2: way to Los Angeles. No passport, no visa, no plane

564
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Speaker 2: ticket and Scandinavian airlines. You don't need those things anymore.

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Speaker 2: You can just walk on a plane. I assume you

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Speaker 2: didn't pay for the ticket since he didn't have it,

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Speaker 2: and no any question in being on the plane. And uh, well,

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Speaker 2: the whole story is going to come from Alex at

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Speaker 2: least as much as we know.

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Speaker 6: I was just I was just telling Ray I was

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Speaker 6: at JFK last night, flying back from New York and

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Speaker 6: I definitely saw a few people that had a bunch

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Speaker 6: of paperwork and one way tickets out of New York.

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Speaker 1: And I want.

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Speaker 6: To say that probably were the illegals that were getting

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Speaker 6: shipped to New York and now New York's trying to

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Speaker 6: ship them out. And one guy had I was at

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Speaker 6: the security checkpoint where they check your ID and then

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Speaker 6: they checked to see if your name's on any of

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Speaker 6: the flight manifest before you go through security, like the

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Speaker 6: machines and everything, and this guy had a ticket with

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Speaker 6: his name on it and a flight number, but the

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Speaker 6: TSA people were saying that the flight number he had

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Speaker 6: on his ticket was different and not matching the ticket

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Speaker 6: and the flight number they had in the computer for him.

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Speaker 1: So there was a whole big mess. Yeah.

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Speaker 6: So when this Russian stone thing, when I saw it

588
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Speaker 6: on the on the pile this morning, I was like, oh,

589
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Speaker 6: this is this is probably something very similar to that.

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Speaker 1: HIGs.

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Speaker 2: He almost made it all the way through. So Alex

592
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Speaker 2: is going to have that coming up after two o'clock.

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Speaker 2: We've been reading pieces from the paragraph from the slave

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Speaker 2: contract that this tech executive in San Francisco uh coerced

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Speaker 2: a woman to sign. And now she's now she's suing,

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Speaker 2: and come, I'm not hearing myself. Oh now I'm hearing myself.

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Speaker 9: Now.

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Speaker 2: Remember I told you she signed the contract and worked

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Speaker 2: under this contract for years and the uh, the executive

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Speaker 2: and his name is Christian Lang. He was CEO of

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Speaker 2: a business software company named trade Shift. One of the provisions, Uh, well,

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Speaker 2: this was this allowed the slave, the executive assistant, to

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Speaker 2: get out of the contract.

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Speaker 4: And I can't believe he's allowed to even have that

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Speaker 4: word in there. Now.

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Speaker 2: Well, since the body of the slave now belongs to

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Speaker 2: the master, it's the master's responsibility to protect that body

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Speaker 2: from permanent bodily harm. Should the slave ever come to

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Speaker 2: permanent bodily harm during the course of punishment or any

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Speaker 2: other activity, it will be grounds for immediate termination of

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Speaker 2: the contract. So she could get out of the contract

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Speaker 2: if something really bad happened to her. And you want

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Speaker 2: to hear the provisions, bodily harm shall be determined as

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Speaker 2: number one death that's permanent, So if she died, she

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Speaker 2: could get out of the contract. Any damage that involves

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Speaker 2: loss of mobility or function, including broken bones, any permanent

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Speaker 2: marks on the skin including scars, burned damage, or tattoos

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Speaker 2: unless accepted by the slave. Number three, Any loss of

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Speaker 2: hair by ripping the hell.

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Speaker 1: Were they doing?

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Speaker 4: Oh my god.

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Speaker 2: Any diseases that could result in any of the above results,

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Speaker 2: including STDs. You could get out of the contract if

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Speaker 2: you suffered drastic loss of circulation from bondage chains or

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Speaker 2: other forms of restraints. Any activity that caused internal bleeding.

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Speaker 2: Any activity that caused extended, unintended loss of consciousness. So

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Speaker 2: this this came would come largely from the sexual activity

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Speaker 2: these two were having.

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Speaker 4: Right now.

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Speaker 3: Is this a standard contract that he hands out to

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Speaker 3: all his female employees or was she special?

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Speaker 9: Uh?

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Speaker 2: You know it doesn't say in the law lawsuit, there's

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Speaker 2: nobody else that's uh, it's.

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Speaker 4: Come forward, come forward yet, So maybe some other female

636
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Speaker 4: employees are still.

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Speaker 2: But he must have worked this out over over time

638
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Speaker 2: because it's so detailed.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean there there's uh.

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Speaker 2: And then the last uh, the last provision is slave's signature.

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Speaker 2: It's section nine. I have read and fully understand this

642
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Speaker 2: contract in its entirety. I agree to give everything I

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Speaker 2: owned to my master, and further accept the claim of

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Speaker 2: ownership over my physical body. I understand that I will

645
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Speaker 2: be commanded and trained and punished as a slave. And

646
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Speaker 2: I promised to be true and to fulfill the pleasures

647
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Speaker 2: and desires of my master to the best of my abilities.

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Speaker 2: I understand I cannot withdraw from this contract except as

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Speaker 2: stated in the contract, such as death, and you're allowed.

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Speaker 4: To break the contract.

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Speaker 2: So if this is all real, she very clearly would

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Speaker 2: have been aware of.

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Speaker 4: Right, Well, I want to know. I want to talk

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Speaker 4: to her.

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Speaker 1: Are you I love together? But she's only Jane Doe

656
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Speaker 1: right now? All right, we got more coming up.

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Speaker 2: Alex Stone's going to come on about this Russian man

658
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Speaker 2: who ended up in Los Angeles, no passport, no visa,

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Speaker 2: no plane ticket on a Scandinavian Airlines jet. Deborah Mark

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Speaker 2: live in the twenty four hour CAFI Newsroom. Hey, you've

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Speaker 2: been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You can

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Speaker 2: always hear the show live on KFI AM six forty

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Speaker 2: from one to four pm every Monday through Friday, and

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Speaker 2: of course anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 9: Yah