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Speaker 3: By this, I'm so sorry.

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Speaker 2: Surect Ashley Zavala is the reporter for Channel three and

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Speaker 2: Sacramento covers the Assembly in the state Senate, and she's

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Speaker 2: got a piece I'm going to play in just a moment.

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Speaker 2: This was supposed to be the year that the Assembly

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Speaker 2: tries to do something to help taxpayers with California's lack

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Speaker 2: of affordability. The cost of living is so insanely high here.

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Speaker 2: Of course, it starts with having gas prices that are

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Speaker 2: that are sixty percent higher than most other states. We

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Speaker 2: have the highest taxes. That's the root of all this. Also,

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Speaker 2: their excessive regulations that keep housing from being constructed, also

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Speaker 2: providing so many lures to illegal aliens, like free healthcare,

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Speaker 2: it means that more illegals move into California, taking up

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Speaker 2: space that ought to go for a new housing construction

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Speaker 2: for American citizens. I mean, there's a lot going on here.

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Speaker 2: Much of this is self inflicted. Almost every problem here

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Speaker 2: in California is self inflicted.

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Speaker 1: Well this, I'm convinced that.

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Speaker 2: The politicians and Sacramento, it's all progressive Democrats are starting

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Speaker 2: are increasingly are getting more and more unhappy. And it's

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Speaker 2: not that they want to do something, it's they want

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Speaker 2: Here's Ashley Zavala from KCRA Channel three and Sacramento.

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Speaker 4: Friday is what's known as the House of Origin deadline,

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Speaker 4: the deadline for bills written in the state Assembly to

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Speaker 4: pass out of the Assembly and bills written in the

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Speaker 4: Senate to get out of the Senate. Bills from the

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Speaker 4: Assembly will be considered by the Senate between now in September,

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Speaker 4: and then the Assembly will consider those Senate bills between

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Speaker 4: now and then as well. So the proposed laws that

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Speaker 4: survive this point are officially halfway through the state's lawmaking process.

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Speaker 4: One big question looming how much of a dent will

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Speaker 4: state lawmakers make on their promise to tackle affordability.

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Speaker 5: As we reported at the start of.

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Speaker 4: This legislative session, the Democrats Assembly Speaker Robert Reeves and

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Speaker 4: State Senate pro Tem Mike Maguire limited the amount of

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Speaker 4: on affordability. Both houses combined have six hundred and ninety

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Speaker 4: seven bills to get through by the end of this week.

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Speaker 4: Nine of them have to do with affordability. Most of

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Speaker 4: those nine look to address the cost of housing, one

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Speaker 4: attempts to bring down utility costs, and others address wage theft.

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Speaker 4: Assembly Speaker Robert Reeves also announced new committees that will

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Speaker 4: hold a series of hearings to try to tackle the

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Speaker 4: affordability issues from different angles, including on the cost of energy, transportation, housing, childcare,

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Speaker 4: and food. But these hearings aren't really scheduled yet. It's

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Speaker 4: not even clear when these committees will begin meeting. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 4: Republicans this week are ready to criticize Democratic leaders and

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Speaker 4: this promise. To tackle the issue, they're launching a quote

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Speaker 4: cost of Living Week, which they announced this morning. In

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Speaker 4: a statement, Assembly Republican Minority leader James Gallagher wrote, quote,

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Speaker 4: we don't need another select committee to tell us what

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Speaker 4: most Californians already know. Democrats admit that the cost of

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Speaker 4: living is the top threat to our future. He went

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Speaker 4: on to say, so why do they keep pushing policies

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Speaker 4: higher taxes. Republicans are done waiting. Californians need relief now

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Speaker 4: They'll vote on hundreds of bills a day to have

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Speaker 5: That is a lot too definitely, So what is the

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Speaker 5: governor's role in this?

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Speaker 2: Like?

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Speaker 5: Where is he this week?

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 4: Actually, so right now, the governor is at the Democratic

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Speaker 5: He's supposed to be back tonight.

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Speaker 4: But in the background of all of this bill passing

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Speaker 5: It's a controversial tactic, but.

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Speaker 4: We do know that governor is on board with two

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Speaker 4: proposals that would exempt new housing and urban areas from

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Speaker 4: The governor wants to fast track this push so that

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Speaker 4: it goes into effect immediately, which supporters note could really

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Speaker 5: But a lot of the debates still where there's a

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Speaker 4: Is the state going to address the cost of fuel

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Speaker 4: but again that's what we're watching this week.

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Speaker 2: First of all, the most important thing is the is

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Speaker 2: the price of gas in this state. I checked again

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Speaker 2: triple A state by state gas averages. In California it's

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Speaker 2: at four to seventy seven. In Mississippi it's two sixty

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Speaker 2: Twenty five states are below three dollars a gallon, twenty

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Speaker 2: the nation is three fourteen. Forty four states are below

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Speaker 2: three forty a gallon. If I saw three forty, I'd

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Speaker 2: probably fall out of my car. Three forty under for

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Speaker 2: forty four states two ninety four in Arizona for me

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Speaker 2: over the weekend. Yeah, what was that sign? You sent

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Speaker 2: us a message to sign that. And as soon as

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Speaker 2: a sign that said, deer Californians, welcome to Arizona, but

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Speaker 2: don't California our Arizona. Don't California our Arizona.

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Speaker 1: Good, We're verb now, Well, I mean you go.

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Speaker 2: You just cross the border and it drops to two

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Speaker 2: ninety four. Friend of mine sent me a gas station

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Speaker 2: here in La the other day. It was in the sevens.

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Speaker 2: The gas was in the sevens. Let me see if

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Speaker 2: I can find this really quick, I'll fight it later.

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Speaker 2: But I did double take because it was regular. It

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Speaker 2: Many places are over five dollars.

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Speaker 3: What's getting you ready for the eight dollars plus? Forget right?

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Speaker 2: So last week the California a Resources Board chairman was

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Speaker 2: yelling at the Resources Board because this eight p fifty

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Speaker 2: And those are all the numbers from Michael mcche the

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Speaker 2: USC professor. And now this week, well you heard Ashley

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Speaker 2: as well as report six hundred and ninety seven bills.

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Speaker 2: Only one of the six ninety seven had anything to

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Speaker 2: do with lowering gas prices. They have to they have

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Speaker 2: to completely repeal all the taxes. They should repeal all

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Speaker 2: the taxes, and that is going to reduce inflation substantially

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Speaker 2: in California because of all the excessive transportation costs, all

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Speaker 2: going to be significantly cheaper. I mean, you could knock

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Speaker 3: Then why is a newsome doing that.

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Speaker 6: I mean that that could be a great platform for

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Speaker 6: when he runs for president.

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Speaker 3: See see look what I did.

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Speaker 1: Maybe should get a job in the newsom's.

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Speaker 3: Uh, I'll be the spokespersonally.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, public relations office. Huh okay, I like that idea.

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Speaker 7: You do?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Would you have me on as a guest?

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Speaker 8: Oh?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, They wouldn't let you on. But I was going

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Speaker 2: to say letter, but that that's what That's what he

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Speaker 2: should do, is you could rate it, because there's what

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Speaker 2: was it? What was it fifteen years ago? The budget

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Speaker 2: hundred billion. Believe me, there's plenty of money here. They

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Speaker 2: could squawk all they want, but they could knock a

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Speaker 2: all the gas taxes. Let us pay three twenty a gallon,

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Speaker 2: which is what most of the rest of the country

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Speaker 2: just them stealing money, no purpose to it. They haven't

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Speaker 7: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM

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Speaker 7: six forty.

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Speaker 1: You want the moistline.

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Speaker 2: It's Friday eight seven seven Moist eighty six eight seven seven,

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Speaker 2: Can you can you imagine the mayhem inside six hundred

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Speaker 2: stubbornly obnoxious about is he will not fund Prop thirty six.

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Speaker 2: Prop thirty six, just to review, it just moved into

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Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom and the legislator's crime policies. It made theft

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Speaker 2: It made various fentinyl crimes felonies for the first time,

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Speaker 2: But Newsom and the Democrats fought Prop thirty six bitterly

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Speaker 2: by taking drug treatment.

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Speaker 1: But he will not fund the drug treatment.

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Speaker 2: And Prop thirty six did not have a funding mechanism,

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Speaker 2: So instead Newsom was campaigning against it saying, well, there's

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Speaker 1: You see how he does it.

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Speaker 2: Or they could have proposed stealing money from another program,

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Speaker 2: The truth is they have over three hundred million dollars

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Speaker 1: as you know you're right. I Tim has been felled by.

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Speaker 2: I was going to say, I just heard him promoting

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Speaker 2: something for his show seconds ago.

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Speaker 8: He sounded okay in the promo. Yeah he did, But

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Speaker 8: I think you recorded that on Friday, right, And now

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Speaker 8: he's been hit with his doctor said take two days off,

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Speaker 8: is that right? Yeah, so it must be pretty bad.

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Speaker 8: I mean because usually, of course, the much celebrated Conway

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Speaker 8: immune system is to get him back up on his feet.

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Speaker 1: He did a fair amount of damage to that immune city.

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Speaker 1: That is true. It might be wearing out.

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Speaker 8: He's taken some incoming fire on that immune sattell appune

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Speaker 8: system lasts forever.

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Speaker 2: Eventually, it breaks down, usually over the stuff you did

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Speaker 2: when you were twenty five.

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Speaker 1: This is true.

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Speaker 8: If only we knew, you know, the the wisdom of age. Yeah,

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Speaker 8: I missed you at the Pride stuff this weekend.

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Speaker 1: But I uh, I was Yeah.

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Speaker 8: Well, I mean it's by now become kind of just

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Speaker 8: a thing.

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Speaker 1: Right, People get out and you attended.

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Speaker 8: I didn't because I was on the air yesterday here

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Speaker 8: at this great radio station.

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Speaker 1: But I did get affected by.

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Speaker 8: It because the circuitous way that you have to get

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Speaker 8: around town, and they, you know, they cut off a

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Speaker 8: lot of streets, and I you know, I used to

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Speaker 8: go there every year for Halloween and one other event

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Speaker 8: I forget. Maybe it was the pride event for Channel eleven.

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Speaker 8: You know, because I will send the weather guy out

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Speaker 8: to some colorful place.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, but it was. It was but one

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Speaker 1: of those leather outfits but cutouts. Well, hey, listen, don't

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Speaker 1: make fun of it until you see it. You know.

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Speaker 8: I have the buttox cut out of the later Hosen

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Speaker 8: and that was quite beautiful. But the event when you

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Speaker 8: go on late, like remember the ten o'clock news. I

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Speaker 8: came on around like twenty to eleven, sure, and things

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Speaker 8: are getting nuts then, I mean it was, it was,

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Speaker 8: and you see these wild outfits. I mean, it really

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Speaker 8: is a crazy spectacle. That's Halloween I'm talking about. I

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Speaker 8: don't know how crazy it was. Not today Friday at

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Speaker 8: your house. It's half a click off of Friday. Okay, yeah,

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Speaker 8: But my point is I and I think I want

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Speaker 8: to say Ryan Seacrest has done the I didn't. He

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Speaker 8: wasn't either the Marshal Grand Marshal at a Pride event.

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Speaker 8: That's not something I tracked. So I can't have the scorecard.

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Speaker 2: I can't offer any exact information on who's getting on

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Speaker 2: ORed if you.

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Speaker 1: Were offered the Grand Marshall ship.

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Speaker 2: I have never been offered a Grand Marshall ship of anything.

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Speaker 1: Wow, yeah, why do you think that is? John? Huh?

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Speaker 1: I don't think people like me. You have good reason?

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Speaker 1: Do you have an immensely popular radio show? How? I

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Speaker 1: don't see how those two things can be true.

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Speaker 2: It seems when it comes to being the face of

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Speaker 2: some organization, I see you know, they don't they don't.

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Speaker 1: They don't want the Trump. But you're not a glad hander.

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Speaker 1: I could see that.

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Speaker 2: No I'm not. Yeah, I'm not really good at public relations.

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Speaker 2: But you're not an ambassador.

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Speaker 1: She's the yang to your yin because she is super social,

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Speaker 1: Yes she is.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's annoyingly anyway anyway. I have to get

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Speaker 2: dragged along sometimes.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, exactly, you're forced into.

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Speaker 2: If anybody wants her to be a Grand Marshals, then.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's a thought. Yeah, you know and I can

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Speaker 1: just wave it or going by.

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Speaker 8: Uh, well they've I did that suspect, as you know

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Speaker 8: in the Baldwin Park shooting.

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Speaker 1: And we'll we'll talk a bit about that.

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Speaker 8: The FAA is launching a task force, which is what

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Speaker 8: we need, is another task force.

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Speaker 1: Don't you think task force exactly?

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Speaker 8: Big cuts at Disney. We'll get to that and Big

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Speaker 8: Bear News then you place a Big Bear.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you should come up sometimes. I would love to.

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Speaker 8: I see your wife's Instagram and it looks like just

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Speaker 8: the most magnificent times every time you guys are to

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Speaker 8: gather up there. But there was big news at a

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Speaker 8: Big Bear, so we'll be talking about that as well.

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Speaker 8: And fewer tourists are traveling to this popular destination for

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Speaker 8: Angelino's Las Vegas, and there is a reason for that

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Speaker 8: that I'll share with you coming up.

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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, so there's let me.

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Speaker 8: Just say, I picked a handful of stories, John, that's

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Speaker 8: not the whole show.

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Speaker 2: That's not everything, thank you, No, okay, just a little

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Speaker 2: all right. We've got Mark Thompson in for the ailing

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Speaker 2: Tim Conway.

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Speaker 1: He's ailing.

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Speaker 8: Do he lose his voice or just I haven't gotten

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Speaker 8: to the tails. I think there's a whole. Maybe there's

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Speaker 8: a GI involvement. I don't want to know.

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Speaker 2: No, Yeah, Cruzy's got the news in the KFI twenty

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Speaker 2: four hours. Hey, you've been listening to The John Cobalt

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

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Speaker 2: KFI AM six forty from one to four pm every

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

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