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Speaker 2: And we want to take a few minutes pause our

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Speaker 2: regular programming because we'd like to replay a piece done

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Speaker 2: to commemorate David Goldstein's career at Channel two and Channel

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Speaker 2: nine here in Los Angeles thirty four years, most of

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Speaker 2: them as an investigative reporter. And you've seen all his

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Speaker 2: investigative pieces. We had him on many, many times previewing

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Speaker 2: the pieces, we'd play the pieces, we'd talk about him

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Speaker 2: the next day. And he was the only guy doing

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Speaker 2: this on a regular basis as far as I know, anywhere,

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Speaker 2: I'd never seen anything like this, And I know it

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Speaker 2: was a difficult job for him because he'd have to

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Speaker 2: spend a lot of hours on stakeouts and unmarked an

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Speaker 2: uh and uh. But he caught a lot of city workers,

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Speaker 2: for example, famous one the city workers going to the

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Speaker 2: strip club while on duty. DWP guys city agencies throwing

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Speaker 2: away food that we're supposed to feed the homeless. And

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Speaker 2: these are just some of the recent ones that come

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Speaker 2: to mind, and one of his one of his news directors,

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Speaker 2: also was going through the list. In any event, here

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Speaker 2: is a rundown of David Goldstein's career and also we're

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Speaker 2: going to talk to David afterwards.

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Speaker 3: David Goldstein, this is your life.

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Speaker 1: This guy is like a fun by the way, I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna give it what you do.

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Speaker 3: Before, David made a name for himself in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 4: I'm David Goldstein, a reporter with Channel two.

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Speaker 3: News Devagad perfecting his sigout in Harrisburg, Virginia, David.

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Speaker 4: Gordon reporting, Wait a second, I forgot who my opening

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Speaker 4: line was. When I forgot what I was going to say.

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Speaker 3: Next Jacksonville, Florida, then Miami Drop said where he developed

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Speaker 3: a thick skin for his next gig, New York City.

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Speaker 5: Oh can do it.

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Speaker 4: And with our hidden camera, here's how easy it is

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Speaker 4: to buy drugs on Wall Street.

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Speaker 3: Yep, that's Goldie undercover getting a shoeshine.

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Speaker 4: Do you know anyone around selling any poke?

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Speaker 6: I know.

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Speaker 3: David's played a crucial role at CBS two and k

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Speaker 3: CAL nine News, covering LA's biggest stories like the LA Riots.

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Speaker 1: They're all thankful. The buyer Department has arrived.

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Speaker 3: The OJ trial.

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Speaker 1: And I told you before he wasn't going to say anything.

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Speaker 6: I know you got to ask him question, but give

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Speaker 6: us a break.

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Speaker 4: Official say this was the area that was brown zero

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Speaker 4: for the Scud missile.

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Speaker 3: And reporting on the Gulf War from Jerusalem. Another witness,

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Speaker 3: while some are willing to answer his questions, he.

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Speaker 6: Said, Hey, man, the lady's walking right up the feet.

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Speaker 3: Others not so much.

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Speaker 6: You have.

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Speaker 4: You brought up being frugal. Let me just talk to

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Speaker 4: you one second.

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Speaker 1: I can't, man, I got nothing.

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Speaker 4: It's idiot, you got nothing to say nothing, how go

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Speaker 4: not too none of us true. I got a video, man,

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Speaker 4: we got you going into the strip club.

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Speaker 1: Mister Baker.

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Speaker 4: You left your wine over here, sir, mister Baker.

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Speaker 1: You left your twelve bottles of wine.

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Speaker 3: Well you've got to give it to David. He's the

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Speaker 3: reporter who never bats down.

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Speaker 4: Don't stand in front of my camera, sir, you'll put

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Speaker 4: your hand on the camera.

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Speaker 1: Hey, hey, don't put your hand on the camera.

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Speaker 3: It was not a party.

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Speaker 7: It was a professional promotional event.

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Speaker 1: It was a party.

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Speaker 2: It was a professional promotional only.

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Speaker 8: It's not yet.

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Speaker 4: It is it's about why won't you show it to us?

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Speaker 4: I'll show it to you right No, No, wait a minute,

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Speaker 4: I asked you right now, sir, excuse me, listen, if

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Speaker 4: you want to take my.

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Speaker 1: Phone, go back.

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Speaker 3: And when they see Goldie coming, it's time to get moving.

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Speaker 4: But what about the best come on, Jason.

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Speaker 3: We've been grateful to have an investigative reporter like David

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Speaker 3: to expose fraud and corruption. And when it comes to

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Speaker 3: safeguarding taxpayer dollars.

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Speaker 4: Ten point two million dollars.

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Speaker 5: No one's been more vigilant.

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Speaker 4: Because you're getting a manicure using the lapd BMW.

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Speaker 3: David has been a friend of mine for thirty five years.

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Speaker 3: I know I speak for the entire KKL News team

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Speaker 3: as we bid him a fond.

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Speaker 1: Farewell, And that was Ben Harvey.

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Speaker 5: That was your life.

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Speaker 1: It was that was three minutes.

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Speaker 5: Your life been three minutes, you know, Goldie. I just

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Speaker 5: want to point out there's so many things that you

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Speaker 5: have done for this city, and whether you know it

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Speaker 5: but at the same time they are so grateful because

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Speaker 5: you were the one who would go out and not

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Speaker 5: only expose corruption fraud, get information that helped the taxpayers

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Speaker 5: of this city. I remember that red light camera investigation

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Speaker 5: you did. David Golstein made it. Folks were there are

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Speaker 5: no more red light cameras in.

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Speaker 4: You know, they were making a lot of money off

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Speaker 4: red light tickets and people were complaining about it, and

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Speaker 4: the city always said, oh, they make the streets safer.

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Speaker 4: So we did an analysis of accidents on the corners

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Speaker 4: where they had red light cameras for six months or

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Speaker 4: eight months before the cameras were installed to six or

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Speaker 4: eight months after the cameras and showed there were actually

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Speaker 4: more accidents after the cameras were installed because people saw.

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Speaker 1: That there was a camera.

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Speaker 4: They would slamming their brakes and person behind them didn't

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Speaker 1: So it's little.

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Speaker 4: Things like that that I'm proud of that the city

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Speaker 4: took those away. Pet stores, we did an investigation on

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Speaker 4: how they were abusing dogs and cats and some pet stores,

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Speaker 4: and then they banned. The city banned the sale of

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Speaker 4: dogs and cats in pet stores partly due to our investigation.

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Speaker 4: So it's things like that and all of these pretty

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Speaker 4: much came from tips from viewers who saw something and said, hey,

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Speaker 4: this isn't right, let me call and let me email them,

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Speaker 4: and we were able to do some of those investigations.

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Speaker 5: I think I told you this that one of the

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Speaker 5: most frightening things for me is when you showed up

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Speaker 5: in Israel during the Gulf War in the nineties and

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Speaker 5: he had on a gas mask. That made my heart stop. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: I was really scared for you, but you were intrepid,

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Speaker 5: incredulous David when we met.

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Speaker 4: Thirty thirty four years ago.

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Speaker 5: Did you expect that you'd be here now?

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Speaker 4: Of course not. No one in this business, or I

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Speaker 4: don't know any business you expect to be there so long.

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Speaker 4: I mean, it went like a flash.

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Speaker 5: It does not that I say that.

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Speaker 3: And I'm looking at wife Dorothy and your son Nash

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Speaker 3: over there, and I just remember when when you got married,

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Speaker 3: your wedding, when Nash was born. But we used to

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Speaker 3: have a lot of fun together. We still will, We.

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Speaker 4: Still do and people and we use the term family

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Speaker 4: a lot in this business. But truly we have been

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Speaker 4: the best of friends for thirty four years.

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Speaker 5: My brother, I'm gonna miss seeing you every day. I'm

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Speaker 5: going to miss seeing you coming in the doors, miss

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Speaker 5: seeing you too sitting on the set, and just all

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Speaker 5: those little any question I had or concerned, I talk

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Speaker 5: to you and get wisdom, and you're really were Luckily.

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Speaker 4: I'm going to miss seeing you coming in the newsroom

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Speaker 4: every day. But we still you know, we're going out

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Speaker 4: to dinner after the six o'clock broadcast. We're still going

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Speaker 4: to see each other.

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Speaker 1: We will, and but you know.

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Speaker 4: We talk about retirement, and I'm want to set it straight.

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Speaker 4: I'm not calling it a retirement. I'm going to take

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Speaker 4: a break for a while and see if there's a

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Speaker 4: next next chapter out there.

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Speaker 2: All right, David Goldstein, And that was the true that

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Speaker 2: they did on Channel two and Channel nine Kate cal

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Speaker 2: News last night with Pat Harvey and really the best

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Speaker 2: investigative reporter I've ever seen on television, and we really

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Speaker 2: we ran a lot of his reports and all we

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Speaker 2: had to do is run him. Could not improve on that,

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Speaker 2: And it was a lot of it was street theater.

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Speaker 2: It was funny because when people got caught, especially random

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Speaker 2: anonymous government workers, when they saw him in the camera

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Speaker 2: coming and they would take off and run, and then

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Speaker 2: the gobbledegook from the idiot bureaucrats trying to explain something

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Speaker 2: that was indefensible and inexplicable.

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Speaker 1: It's just classic stuff.

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Speaker 2: I wish it was like a collect They had to

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Speaker 2: sound like some kind of collection. Maybe have a YouTube

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Speaker 2: channel of the best of David Goldstein. He won more

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Speaker 2: than fifteen Emmy Awards. He got a Lifetime Achievement Award

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Speaker 2: from the LA Press Club and the Radio and Television

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Speaker 2: News Association of Southern California. If you watched his investigations

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Speaker 1: Do we have him? Is he coming in?

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Speaker 2: Because I know he's really busy today and I think

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Speaker 2: we're gonna have him on next Also this hour, we're

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Speaker 2: gonna have Jane Wells, and she's got a story on

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Speaker 2: how the LA Ports lost an enormous amount of business

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Speaker 2: all I had too. On the John co Belts Show

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Speaker 9: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM

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Speaker 9: six forty.

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Speaker 2: Now we're gonna talk. We got David Goldstein on helps

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Speaker 2: if he put his name on the screen so I

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Speaker 2: know he's really there. David Goldstein retired yesterday after thirty

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Speaker 2: four years at Channel two and Channel nine, KKEL News

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Speaker 2: and k CBS. He was the investigative reporter for most

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Speaker 2: of those years and just just the best, the best

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Speaker 2: reporter of his kind I've ever seen in the whole country.

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Speaker 1: And let's get him on here. David, John, how.

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Speaker 6: You doing man? Thank you for the kind words.

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Speaker 2: I'm so glad you had some time to come on

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Speaker 2: because I know everybody wants to get a piece of

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Speaker 2: you today.

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Speaker 6: Well I'm really nothing, but.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm really going to miss you.

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Speaker 2: I thought your reports were just they were first of all.

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Speaker 1: They were entertaining.

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Speaker 2: They were so funny because you'd always have these government

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Speaker 2: workers running across parking lots trying to get away after

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Speaker 2: you caught them wasting time on the taxpayer's clock because

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Speaker 2: they were out buying things or they who who was

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Speaker 2: the group that was at the Strip Club at like

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Speaker 2: eleven o'clock in the morning.

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Speaker 6: D W P d W.

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Speaker 2: I've told that story so many times through friends and family.

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Speaker 2: We aren't they stacking beer cups next to the table.

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Speaker 1: If I remember.

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Speaker 6: Oh, we never got video inside it was too dark.

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Speaker 6: But they weren't drinking and driving the trucks, right, we

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Speaker 6: found them doing. But you always need a good character

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Speaker 2: Well, Deby and I were just talking off the air,

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it was fun and I still enjoyed it. You know,

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Speaker 1: Well, whatever your next venture is, give us a call.

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Speaker 6: And we'd tell I know you got it. You have

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Speaker 2: I know, an anytime you want to come in, please

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm feeling abandoned here. Well, David, enjoy whatever whatever

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Speaker 6: Okay, thanks John, I appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: Thank you all right, David Goldstein, Kay cal KCBS Channel

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Speaker 2: I only had two today, record low, that was impressive. Yeah, no,

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Speaker 2: Because James got a story she's doing for CNBC about

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Speaker 7: Well, that Port complex Los Angeles and Long Beach, the

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Speaker 7: You know, in twenty twenty one when I was out there,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember all the ships back down to see

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Speaker 7: make you, you know, soft and warm and fuzzy.

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Speaker 1: Oh not another one.

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Speaker 4: No.

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Speaker 7: So when we did the story two years ago in

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Speaker 7: October twenty twenty one, we followed a care Bear from

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Speaker 7: its manufacturing plant in China to the port of la

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Speaker 7: to a train station to Toys r US in New York.

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Speaker 7: And at that point it was taking over two months

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Speaker 7: and it was phenomenally expensive. Now we're talking maybe a

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Speaker 7: week and a half. So it's really back to the

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Speaker 7: way things used to be. The problem is your care

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Speaker 7: bears are selling. People are not spending despite the consumer

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Speaker 7: spending numbers that came out this morning, right, people are

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Speaker 7: not spending as much. And a lot of these retailers

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Speaker 7: bought a lot of inventory expecting more supply chain problems

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Speaker 7: which are no longer existing at the most.

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Speaker 1: So there's a lot of unwant a homeless bears.

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Speaker 7: Including the one I'm holding, which will be on live

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Speaker 7: television tomorrow. And then I got you know what they're

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Speaker 7: gonna make us do, John, We have to do this tease.

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Speaker 7: This is so TV Okay, we want you to do

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Speaker 7: a teas we're each reporter and all full locasions China, La. Uh,

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Speaker 7: I don't know where she's on the train station New York.

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Speaker 7: You're gonna have the bear handed to you, You speak

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Speaker 7: for a second, and then you hand it off. So

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Speaker 7: it's supposed to look like I said, Well, but the

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Speaker 7: hands handing me the bear aren't going to be the

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Speaker 7: reporter's hands from you know, China, So maybe we should

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Speaker 7: toss it. They're like, that's a great idea, toss it.

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Speaker 7: So I have to do this teas. I'm so afraid

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Speaker 7: I'm going to toss it overboard because I'm.

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Speaker 1: On a boat. So you're going to toss it and

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Speaker 1: then somebody in a train station is supposed to catch it. Okay,

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Speaker 1: we'll get your arm ready.

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Speaker 7: Well, I said, are we doing from the right to left,

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Speaker 7: left and right? I mean, these are logistics of TV news, and.

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Speaker 1: This core bear is going to sink. I hope I

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Speaker 1: got not. I hope to got not.

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Speaker 2: Well, thank you for coming in explaining something I didn't know.

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Speaker 2: Proud to be part of John and Friends.

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Speaker 1: That's right, friends, John of Friends.

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Speaker 2: All right, we've got more coming up John Cobelt's show.

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Speaker 9: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM

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Speaker 9: six forty.

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Speaker 2: Well, this amused me. I don't know if everybody would

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Speaker 2: be amused by something like this. But have you seen

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Speaker 2: what happened to the Turkish parliament member Hassan bit Mez. Well,

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Speaker 2: he was, first of all, the guy's supposedly fifty three

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Speaker 2: years old. He's this short, dumpy, bald guy who looks

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Speaker 2: like he's about seventy five. Didn't look young and healthy

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Speaker 2: to me, didn't look young and vibrant. But he got up,

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Speaker 2: I guess in parliament, went to the podium and started

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Speaker 2: denouncing Israel, obviously a pro Hamas supporter, and he said

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Speaker 2: supporters of Israel would suffer the wrath of Allah. And

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Speaker 2: he's given this angry speech to the General Assembly in Turkey,

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Speaker 2: and you'll hear him suddenly stop speaking, and you'll hear

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Speaker 2: a woman scream. And I'll explain what happened, But play

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Speaker 2: the cliff.

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Speaker 10: She's silence, she's his silence to his silent goes out

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Speaker 10: the head of my mother got his boat tardy? A hangers.

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Speaker 1: Sniping?

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Speaker 10: Is he so listen on you?

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Speaker 1: No, I couldn't resist. I'm sorry. Well, he walks away

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Speaker 1: from the microphone.

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Speaker 2: I guess that's the end of his speech, and then

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Speaker 2: it suddenly drops and a woman screams, and he's laying

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Speaker 2: there and you can see his eyes rolling to the

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Speaker 2: back of his head. And that was it for Hassan Bitmets.

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Speaker 2: He's went to cardio cardiac arrest and he later died

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Speaker 2: at the hospital. This is after he threatened Israeli supported

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Speaker 2: as with the wrath of Allah. Allah suddenly stepped in

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Speaker 2: and said, no, you're wrong, you will suffer the wrath

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Speaker 2: of Allah. And he just went splat on the ground.

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Speaker 2: And that was just You don't get to see something

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Speaker 2: like that very often. You know, you've got to revel

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Speaker 2: in it, You've got to enjoy. I mean, this is

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Speaker 2: perfect timing. So Hassan Bitmez is no more second story.

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Speaker 2: And I only bring this up because when Ken and

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Speaker 2: I started out together in Atlantic City, New Jersey, a

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Speaker 2: few miles up the road was the island town of

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Speaker 2: Ocean City, New Jersey, and it was isolated and it

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Speaker 2: was a dry town. We had to drive across a

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Speaker 2: bridge causeway they called it, in order to go drink

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Speaker 2: in the next town over. And but especially you know,

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Speaker 2: the rooms were cheap and our salaries were cheap, and

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Speaker 2: so that's where we were living in Ocean City. I

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Speaker 2: think it had like Christian roots. That's why it was

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Speaker 2: a dry town, very quiet, very peaceful. I don't know

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Speaker 2: what's happened to the place, because this story came out

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Speaker 2: of the New York Daily News. They found a forty

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Speaker 2: six year old naked man covered in blood, reportedly on

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Speaker 2: top of his mother's body. And mom had been decapitated.

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Speaker 2: So you had naked man laying on top of headless mom.

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Speaker 2: I just don't remember that kind of clientele in Ocean City.

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Speaker 2: When we were there, Jeffrey Surgeon called nine to one

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Speaker 2: one confessing he just killed his mother, and they came

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Speaker 2: and they found seventy four year old Alexandrie Surgeant, well

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Speaker 2: what was left of her, dead in the hallway, and

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Speaker 2: then they found the severed head a few feet down

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Speaker 2: the hall. Security video shows that the head was being

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Speaker 2: tossed out of the apartment and into the hall of

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Speaker 2: his building. It was the Ocean City Housing Authority, so

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Speaker 2: this was I guess some kind of welfare housing and

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Speaker 2: Surgeent was wearing no clothing and on security video they

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Speaker 2: see him dragging his mother's corpse into the hallway as well.

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Speaker 2: So he tossed the head, then he dragged the then

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Speaker 2: he dragged the body. He told police that he had

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Speaker 2: mental health issues, and he also sang Jesus loves Me

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Speaker 2: to the cops.

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Speaker 1: As they were leading him away.

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Speaker 2: A neighbor, of course, said he just played with the

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Speaker 2: kids and he was really nice.

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Speaker 8: I don't know what to say, he was really nice.

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Speaker 8: Cut off his mom's head, rolled it down the hallway

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Speaker 8: while naked. Conway's here. That sounds like a guy who

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Speaker 8: works at a radio station.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't.

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Speaker 8: That's a radio move. That guy stealing our thunder man.

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Speaker 8: We might have worked with the guy Eric Hastler was

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Speaker 8: coming on with us. I don't know if you remember

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Speaker 8: the regular guys. They used to be in town, very

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Speaker 8: popular radio duo in town. And now he's number one

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Speaker 8: in Atlanta. So we're going to try to steal some

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Speaker 8: of his audience by having him on, just to be honest,

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Speaker 8: all right, steal some of his material. That's right, Yeah,

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Speaker 8: I did that years ago. Dean Sharp's coming on O

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Speaker 8: of us. At six twenty plus, nine suspects have been

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Speaker 8: arrested in the crackdown in Orange County, a burglary ring.

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Speaker 8: And guess where all nine guys are from? La County,

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Speaker 8: La County, right, almost every single person in that robbery ring,

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Speaker 8: in that burglary ring is from La County.

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Speaker 1: It's a big industry here, right. But you know, I've

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Speaker 1: been saying this for years.

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Speaker 8: If you stay in La County, the chance of you

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Speaker 8: getting away with it are pretty good. You go to

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Speaker 8: Orange County, they're gonna nail you. They have a lot

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Speaker 8: of cops there and a lot they have really not

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Speaker 8: a lot to do. It doesn't get around, No, And

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Speaker 8: the people who live in Orange County still respect the cops,

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Speaker 8: and so the cops work for them, right. They don't

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Speaker 8: work for people in l anymore because La doesn't care

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Speaker 8: about cops.

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Speaker 1: No.

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Speaker 8: Like last night with this chase last night that went

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Speaker 8: on and on and on. There is a helicop after

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Speaker 8: above that guy for twenty minutes before a cop showed up.

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Speaker 8: And then reluctantly a guy comes up and goes, okay,

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Speaker 8: where is he?

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Speaker 1: All right, we'll get to it.

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Speaker 6: Take him in.

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Speaker 1: What the hell?

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Speaker 8: So we have that, and then we have a recall

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Speaker 8: on dia coke. I don't know if you're a big

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Speaker 8: fan of diet coke. No, I never drink Oh boy,

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Speaker 8: no good, no good, Oh those chemicals will kill you.

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Speaker 8: What's another study. That's right, that's exactly right. That's exactly right.

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Speaker 8: And then we have Starbucks ordered to reopen six LA

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Speaker 8: stores according to the FED say they were illegally closed.

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Speaker 1: How about that?

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Speaker 8: All right, I'm telling you to open up your coffee

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Speaker 8: shop the hell out illegally closed.

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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, dig dong with you? All right, ding dong,

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Speaker 1: there we go.

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Speaker 2: Come Crozier is the news roh Live in the KFI

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Speaker 2: twenty four hour newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the

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Speaker 2: John Cobelt Show podcast. You can always hear the show

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