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

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Speaker 1: The John co Belt Show.

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Speaker 3: Mark Thompson sitting in for it, John, and always fun

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Speaker 3: to see this guy walk in. He's a great reporter

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Speaker 3: and he's on top of this story involving Mayor Bass,

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Speaker 3: the LA City Council, and a lawsuit from the US

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Speaker 1: Yes about it for Michael Monks. Good to see you, sir.

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Speaker 1: Always good to see you as well.

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Speaker 3: So I was saying in the first hour that I

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Speaker 3: was talking about the rise of this socialist candidate in

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Speaker 3: that I didn't think it could really happen here in LA.

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Speaker 3: But we do have sort of and share with New

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Speaker 3: York a lot of the same discuss for where we

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Speaker 3: are with the incompetence, handling homeless issues, handling certain issues

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Speaker 3: in the business community. You know, where are money's going.

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Speaker 3: These are all things that New Yorkers have some on

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Speaker 3: the same frustrations. I was just seeing if somebody so

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Speaker 3: but in talking about it and how it relates to

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Speaker 3: this incoming lawsuit is so I was saying that you know,

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Speaker 3: La is one of those places where the mayor has

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Speaker 3: not nearly as much power as New York. New York

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Speaker 3: is a mayor centric power base. LA is a council,

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Speaker 3: the city council centric power base.

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Speaker 1: So sure enough.

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Speaker 3: They've thrown in the city council in addition to the

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Speaker 3: mayor on this lawsuit.

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Speaker 4: They have, indeed, and just to build upon what you're

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Speaker 4: seeing in the comparison to New York City, the Democratic

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Speaker 4: Socialist of America which tend to be the group behind

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Speaker 4: candidates like you're seeing in New York, and here they

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Speaker 4: get behind city council candidates and their stated goal is

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Speaker 4: because that would be more consequential than even having the

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Speaker 4: mayoralty in Los Angeles. Because of the system of government

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Speaker 4: that we are appulated, there are executive powers with the

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Speaker 4: see in New York or some other large cities. Certainly, so, yes,

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Speaker 4: the LA City Council islumped in here with the mayor

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Speaker 4: and the city itself overall the entirety of the city government.

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Speaker 4: In this lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice today

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Speaker 4: over the sanctuary city status. Keep in mind LA has

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Speaker 4: long been welcoming to illegal immigrants and has created an

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Speaker 4: It was clear to some of the members of the

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Speaker 4: enacted until after the election. In fact, this lawsuit filed

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Speaker 4: by the DOJ today notes that it says that President

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Speaker 4: Trump campaigned and won on the presidential election in twenty

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Speaker 4: twenty four on a platform form of deporting millions of

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Speaker 4: illegal immigrants the previous administration permitted, through its open borders

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Speaker 4: Trump won the November fifth, twenty twenty four election, the

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Speaker 4: Los Angeles City Council, wishing to thwart the will of

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Speaker 4: the American people regarding deportations, began the process of codifying

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Speaker 4: into law its sanctuary city policies, and so this lawsuit

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Speaker 4: looks to invalidate that policy and to force more cooperation

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Speaker 1: Wow, I mean, could it happen? Could this? I mean?

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Speaker 3: I see in the lawsuit that the verbiage of what

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Speaker 3: I'm just wondering if that verbiage will carry the day

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Speaker 4: The courts have been a mixed bag for this relatively

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Speaker 4: I don't know if you're a betting man, but it's

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Speaker 1: What to build on what you just said?

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Speaker 4: Though Attorney General Pam Bondi has blamed the sanctuary policy

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Speaker 3: I mean, and again this is an interpretive art. You

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Speaker 4: I think it's important to note that the sanctuary policy itself,

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Speaker 4: it does have some authority, it does have some role

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Speaker 4: to play in the way the government operates in relation

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Speaker 4: it's not a huge thing. There's a lot of symbolism

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Speaker 1: You know that that's not happening.

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Speaker 4: But there's certain cooperation that the city now forbids.

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Speaker 1: This is part of it.

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Speaker 4: We did see in the early days of the demonstrations

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Speaker 4: the LAPD their strategy shifted a few days after that.

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Speaker 4: Originally they were not overly responsive, they were not on

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of criticism about that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but that has completely changed the implementation of the curfew.

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Speaker 4: You see the LAPD showing up a lot faster. They're

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Speaker 4: knocking these protests down much more rapidly. There hasn't even

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Speaker 4: the curfew is long gone at this point. Now we

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Speaker 4: the vandalism that took place. There's still some businesses boarded up,

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Speaker 4: but also the looming threat of immigration enforcement hanging over

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Speaker 4: if they do, they're not seeing the customer base return

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Speaker 4: at the volume that they had previously.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, can you can you hang out for a

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Speaker 3: to cover this lawsuit. This is yeah, I mean again,

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Speaker 3: the Trump administration suing the mayor and the LA City

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Speaker 3: tentacles of it really extend beyond just this lawsuit. Michael

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

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Speaker 5: six forty.

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Speaker 3: We're talking to Michael Monks about the Trump administration lawsuit

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Speaker 3: against Mayor Karen Bass also the LA City Council. It's

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Speaker 3: over the sanctuary policy that is in effect here that

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Speaker 3: the suit is alleging is getting in the way of

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Speaker 3: legitimate attempts to continue with the policy of the administration,

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Speaker 3: which is to deport people who are not here legally.

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Speaker 4: And I think what's happening, and this is just me

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Speaker 4: speculating the federal government has come in here to enforce

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Speaker 4: federal immigration policy. I don't know that it anticipated how

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Speaker 4: well organized opposition folks are in Los Angeles. It's unlike

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Speaker 4: agree with what these activists stand for, but when they

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Speaker 4: want to mobilize, they do it. They do it effectively.

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Speaker 4: They do it efficiently, and there is a vast network

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Speaker 1: Get folks to show up.

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Speaker 3: They took Dave Huerta and they first week, I mean

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Speaker 3: that union leader, I mean that, I thought, oh my god,

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Speaker 3: you guys just really don't get it.

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Speaker 1: And think about the moment that that happened, where it happened.

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Speaker 4: That was really the first day of highly visible immigration enforcement,

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Speaker 4: and it was the first operation that we saw of

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Speaker 4: but when people got word that illegal immigrants in this

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Speaker 4: dozens of people showed up. And that was in an instant.

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Speaker 4: They showed up before the police did. There was a

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Speaker 4: lot of criticism about the police response from the federal

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Speaker 4: That's how you ended up with people like David Houerta,

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Speaker 3: And there is a gray area right when this ice

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Speaker 3: activity is going on. You have these, as you say,

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Speaker 3: wait a minute, I thought we're sanctuary shitty. You cops

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Speaker 4: Some of these activists have been harshly critical, as they

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Speaker 4: not in the sense that what they're doing is in

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Speaker 4: violation of the sanctuary city policy. It does not mean

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Speaker 1: So there are.

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Speaker 4: Activists who believe the LAPD officers are aiding and abetting

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Speaker 4: federal agents because they come out when there are protesters there,

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Speaker 4: but they're there to ensure that there isn't a violent scene.

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Speaker 4: You have to protect the activities that are going on.

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Speaker 4: I mean, that is what a sworn officer has sworn

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Speaker 3: Well, there'd be a meltdown potentially, I mean if there

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Speaker 4: But we also see a disconnect between city and county

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Speaker 4: leaders in Los Angeles and the federal government in how

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Speaker 4: they view illegal immigration in general. And I think this

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Speaker 4: of that point.

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Speaker 1: With a quote that they use.

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Speaker 4: I got a statement from city Councilman Hugosta Martinez, who

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Speaker 4: is very sympathetic to illegal immigrants here in this community,

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Speaker 4: often talks about his own parents who are immigrants here.

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Speaker 4: His quote, officially to the press today was, we refuse

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Speaker 4: We're going to do everything within our power to keep

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Speaker 4: families together. That's the extent of that. But he was

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Speaker 4: also quoted in the very lawsuit that the DOJ filed today,

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Speaker 4: and the federal government quotes him as we refuse to

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Speaker 4: stand by and let Donald Trump deport illegal immigrants. Oh wow, Now,

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Speaker 4: the words illegal immigrants is in parentheses here. And if

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Speaker 3: Mark Thompson here for John Coblt was vacationing. Didn't know

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Speaker 3: if you'd seen that the Alec Baldwin and other Rust producers.

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Speaker 3: you know, Tim, Hey, No, you were not there. I

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Speaker 1: think when you see all these people the first date thing,

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Speaker 1: if you're trying to impress.

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Speaker 6: The check okay, and then you know, and then once

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Speaker 6: you know, you get engaged or whatever, you're like, honey,

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Speaker 6: I'm not gonna do that again.

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Speaker 1: Isn't that a one off too? Do you imagine? Can

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Speaker 1: you imagine doing that every year?

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Speaker 3: I mean, these singalongs, this is what's weird.

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Speaker 1: It's funny you say this.

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Speaker 3: When I look at the schedule at the Hollywood Bowl,

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Speaker 3: I think, gosh, when I dreamt of coming to l A,

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Speaker 3: I associated that Hollywood Bowl with the Philharmonic.

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Speaker 1: You know what I mean?

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Speaker 3: And I guess I didn't. So I have to ask you,

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Speaker 3: because you're a native Angelina, I've been here a long time.

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Speaker 3: But the point is it seems like they're morphing into

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Speaker 3: morphing craps into more fun stuff like this.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, they do a lot of they still do. They

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Speaker 6: do the Philarmonic. They also had Look the Beatles played there.

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Speaker 6: You know, Beatles at the Hollywood Ball is one of

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Speaker 6: the great albums of all time. And now it's, you know,

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Speaker 6: a sing along with a guy with a jukebox and

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Speaker 6: a microphone.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm just saying, I don't know you.

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Speaker 6: Look, if you're going to go see John Travolta, I mean,

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Speaker 6: I'm sorry, if you're going to go see Elton John

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Speaker 6: at the Hollywood Bowl or the Beatles or I don't know,

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Speaker 6: name anyone, Billy, Joel, anybody you know. That's one hundred

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Speaker 6: and twenty dollars a ticket? What is the ticket price

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Speaker 6: for the sing along? If you're singing? Doesn't they don't

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Speaker 6: they shouldn't they pay you?

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Speaker 1: First of all, you're doing the work.

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Speaker 3: First of all, your notion about how much tickets costs

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Speaker 3: Hollywood Bowl is so cute.

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Speaker 1: One hundred and twenty dollars. Seriously, wait, I can't park

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Speaker 1: for a dollars. I haven't been there in a while. Exactly.

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Speaker 1: I've not been there in a long time.

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Speaker 3: But but I take your point like a more mature

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Speaker 3: evening you feel.

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Speaker 6: I can't tell you the last time I went to

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Speaker 6: the Hollywood Bowl. It must have been when I was

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Speaker 6: driving a lemousine and I drove Loretto's with.

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Speaker 1: Oh, that's such a good story, back in the eighties. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I've not been there since the maybe eighty four, eighty five.

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Speaker 1: It's nice, it's really fun. It's big.

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Speaker 3: I mean when I was like you, like, you think

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Speaker 3: you have good tickets, but you're still like nowhere near

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Speaker 3: the star.

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Speaker 6: All right, let me ask you a question about the

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Speaker 6: Hollywood Bowl. You're in a concert. One of your favorites

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Speaker 6: is who.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: It could be any pick one, right, I don't know.

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Speaker 3: It could be a throwback concert like Okay, the Ringo star.

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Speaker 6: Man, Okay, Ringo star Band is playing. You're there with

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Speaker 6: Courtney and the show starts. How soon into the show

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Speaker 6: do you start saying to yourself, oh, how am I

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Speaker 6: going to get out of here?

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Speaker 1: Now? The park you're talking about park parking or the

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Speaker 1: parking is hell? But don't you think about it during

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Speaker 1: the whole show?

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Speaker 3: You don't think the whole show. But I will say

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Speaker 3: no hour in you're thinking about it, right.

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Speaker 6: An hour after the concerts start, You're like, how am

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Speaker 6: I going to get out of it?

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Speaker 3: Were thinking, okay, what is I got to plan an

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Speaker 3: exit strategy? Right?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 6: And you got to run people over to get to

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Speaker 6: your car to get out quickly.

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Speaker 3: Well, but the other thing is that you park and

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Speaker 3: what is that called to when? Yeah, when you're when

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Speaker 3: you're parked in, it doesn't matter how quickly you got

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Speaker 3: to the car because all these other people have to

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Speaker 3: get to their car before you can get.

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Speaker 1: Out, I know.

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Speaker 6: And then everyone's pissed at the one guy with the

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Speaker 6: VW that's not starting in the front.

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Speaker 1: Got a bad Ye, there's a better people are sitting

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Speaker 1: behind him.

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Speaker 3: When you have that many people going to an event,

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Speaker 3: there's gonna be a lot of situations that kind of interlock.

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Speaker 1: Do you know? Do you seriously know people who went

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Speaker 1: to the single long? Oh? Yeah, absolutely, I know. But

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Speaker 1: again I couldn't. I couldn't.

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Speaker 3: I talked to Courtney about this. I said, gosh, you

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Speaker 3: look at him so much, but I don't think I'd

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Speaker 3: do it. I just don't think i'd. I can't let

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Speaker 3: myself go like that. That's a problem with me. I

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Speaker 3: wish I could. I just can't, you know, I just feel.

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Speaker 6: Buddy, Yeah, you know what that means. You're alive, Okay,

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Speaker 6: have a pulse.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I think it looked like a lot of fun and

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Speaker 3: then Tribolta comes out at the end. I mean, how

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Speaker 3: great is that?

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Speaker 6: It doesn't seem like a stadium filled with with people

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Speaker 6: who are.

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Speaker 1: Not quite there, you know, I mean no, I mean

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Speaker 1: it's a shared extreme I know.

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Speaker 6: But okay, all right, Look if it was in Houston

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Speaker 6: or Dallas or Cleveland, fine, but don't you think that

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Speaker 6: ninety percent of the people that go are going to think, Wow,

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Speaker 6: I'm going to blow them away with how great I'm

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Speaker 6: going to sing, and I'm going.

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Speaker 1: To sit next to some producer who's going to discover me.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to be discovered. That's right, bulling along.

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Speaker 6: Ninety percent of the people are doing that are wanting

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Speaker 6: to get discovered.

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Speaker 3: If somebody told me they were discovered at the Hollywood

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Speaker 3: Bowl sing along for Greece, it's not a story that

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Speaker 3: necessarily seems so extreme.

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Speaker 1: It would it is possible, That's right, That's why they go.

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Speaker 1: You know to be this.

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Speaker 6: It's a big it's a it's a thirty thousand seed audition.

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Speaker 1: For it to make it. And guess what, they're not.

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Speaker 1: You're the best. They're not gonna make it. Oh god.

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Speaker 6: But it's just it's it's really you know, I think

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Speaker 6: everything everybody in there has OCD or add or ADHD

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Speaker 6: or something working.

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Speaker 1: You know. I'm not going to go as far as

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Speaker 1: to say they you know, they're.

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Speaker 3: I think you're just overthinking it. I think it's people

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Speaker 3: going for fun. They that movie made a big impact

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Speaker 3: on people, and they just wanted to dress up and

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Speaker 3: kind of have fun.

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Speaker 1: So it's all show. It's all songs from Greece, right,

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Speaker 1: it's the movie. You're watching the movie. What do you

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Speaker 1: think they pay John Travolta to show up?

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Speaker 3: I'll bet he didn't get a lot. I'll bet I'll

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Speaker 3: bet he wanted to be there. What you know, I'm serious.

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Speaker 3: I don't think it was I don't. I don't think

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Speaker 3: that's a stunt cast. I think that he wanted to

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Speaker 3: be there. What could they do? I mean, I'd love,

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Speaker 3: but by the way, i'd love I'm going to research that.

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Speaker 3: I'd love to know the answer to that this time tomorrow,

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Speaker 3: I'm going to try to have some answers for.

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Speaker 1: You on that.

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Speaker 6: There's a comedian that had a great John Travolta joke.

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Speaker 6: John Travolta has like four airplanes and during COVID and

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Speaker 6: right after nine I'm sorry, right after nine to eleven,

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Speaker 6: he got a bomb sniffing dog to sniff around the

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Speaker 6: airplanes and he bought a like from a local police academy.

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Speaker 6: He bought a bomb sniffing dog. And the comedian said, yeah,

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Speaker 6: but he bought it four movies too late. I got

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Speaker 6: it because the movies are a bomb. I got that, buddy.

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Speaker 1: I'd love to sit next to you at a comedy place.

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Speaker 1: Let me let me tell you why this is Yeah,

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Speaker 1: let me tell you why that's funny? Okay, bomb? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: All right, what's on the commerce? Who cares? Okay?

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