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Speaker 1: Well, in August, the La City Council voted to ban

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Speaker 1: homeless encampments within five hundred feet of schools. Well, it's

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Speaker 1: well past August. Why do we have a problem in

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Speaker 1: Korea town at a middle school which is plagued with

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Speaker 1: a homeless encampment that borders the school's campus. That's what

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Speaker 1: we're going to be talking about. It's called Virgil Middle School.

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Speaker 1: And then the person speaking out about it is the

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Speaker 1: actual principal. It was very frustrated, as of course our

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Speaker 1: students and parents. Blake Trolley KFI News has more on

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Speaker 1: this story.

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Speaker 2: Blake, welcome, how are you.

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Speaker 3: I'm good, guys.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: You know what's interesting is the principal gave that interview

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Speaker 4: yesterday on TV.

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Speaker 3: I reached out this morning to.

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Speaker 4: An assistant principle offered I was at the campus and

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Speaker 4: I never heard anything back from the principle, but I

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Speaker 4: did hear from parents. I heard from students on this issue.

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Speaker 4: I'm glad you prefaced it, Ken with the fact that,

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Speaker 4: of course homeless camps were banned within five hundred feet

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Speaker 4: of schools and daycares. These homeless camps are within five

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Speaker 4: inches of this campus.

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Speaker 3: They border a wall.

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Speaker 4: There's a big kind of square area where there's this

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Speaker 4: kind of a there's basketball courts, there's volleyball courts. One

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Speaker 4: parent tells me that's where PE classes take place. And

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Speaker 4: just on the other side of that wall, on two

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Speaker 4: sides of the campus, there are homeless camps that are

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Speaker 4: just lining the wall. One camp's a lot bigger than

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Speaker 4: the other camp. That said, they're both sizeable homeless camps.

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Speaker 4: And as you mentioned, the principal did come forward. He

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Speaker 4: said they've had to clear out a field because of

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Speaker 4: fires from the camps. They've had wires cut to their

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Speaker 4: outdoor lighting and so on. He says he's seen city

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Speaker 4: cleanups at the site, but the camp's return. I want

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Speaker 4: to go to this clip. This is a mother of

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Speaker 4: to her this morning. She says she's got a lot

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Speaker 4: of concerns about these camps and how close they are

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Speaker 3: They had a couple of lockdowns.

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Speaker 5: My daughter told me that a couple of times they

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Speaker 5: had to lock the school down for homeless people hoping

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Speaker 3: So that was a concern too.

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Speaker 4: Gotcha, Yeah, Off, do outs the school district about that lockdown?

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Speaker 4: About at least three or four times since she been

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Speaker 5: Yes, so I'm just hoping that everything be okay. But

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Speaker 5: if it continues, I'm gonna have to send her.

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Speaker 3: To another school.

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Speaker 4: What.

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Speaker 3: Yes, So if you continue to see these camps on

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Speaker 5: If I continue to see it, it's gonna she's gonna

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Speaker 5: have to go to another school because I don't want

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Speaker 5: any You know, it's a lot going on right now

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Speaker 5: with these schools, and I think school should be really

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Speaker 4: And the only city council did pass five hundred feet rule,

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Speaker 4: and of course, I mean I would call that still

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Speaker 3: That's where they play. That's clearly not even close to

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Speaker 3: five hundred feet. What do you think the city should do?

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Speaker 5: I think they should crack down on it and get

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Speaker 5: get with it and get the kids so they could

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Speaker 3: You know, that's about it, you know? Yeah, Okay, And

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Speaker 3: do you like that the city council did that? Yes,

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Speaker 5: I'm so happy because, you know, like I say, the

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Speaker 5: kids safety is very important. You know, parents worry about

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Speaker 4: You know now this and tells me that she's had

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Speaker 4: I'm trying to figure out exactly what's being done. I'm

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Speaker 4: again they said, you know, enforcement comes down to the LAPD.

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Speaker 4: At this point in time, they're just going to you know,

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Speaker 2: Something that's not entirely true, because from what I understand

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Speaker 2: City Council. People can put a lot of pressure on

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Speaker 2: you know, there's a lot of behind the scenes relationships

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Speaker 3: I think it's a very important question to ask for sure.

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Speaker 4: I mean, because we, yeah, we have seen in the

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Speaker 4: selective issues in their district. But when I asked if

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Speaker 1: Well, what I'd like to know is, and it says

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Speaker 1: in the story Channel five was told by his office

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Speaker 1: and services and outreach have been going to this encampment

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Speaker 1: will continue at least until the end of his term

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Speaker 1: because by the way, oh Farah's out of office at

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Speaker 1: the end of this week. He's been replaced on city council.

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Speaker 1: So is that the way they carry out this ordinance

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Speaker 1: they don't actually have the police go there right away

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Speaker 2: Is that they just keep saying no.

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Speaker 1: They obviously the high percentage of them will just keep

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Speaker 2: Obviously they have They've kept saying no, So they're not moving.

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Speaker 2: This should be a no brainer.

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Speaker 1: You passed an ordinance that they can't be within five

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Speaker 1: They're too close to the school. Got to move.

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Speaker 2: So the police don't respond, Like when you when you

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Speaker 2: to that doesn't respond? If you're a parent, you mean

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Speaker 2: or no, I'm talking I'm talking to Blake.

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Speaker 4: Oh okay, Sorry, I'm trying to follow your question.

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Speaker 2: When when you make a call to LAPD on a

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Speaker 4: Well, yes, so I called LAPD and then you know,

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Speaker 4: it's not being enforced with a lot of I guess

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Speaker 4: as the principle alluded to, these camps get cleared out

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Speaker 4: and then the homeless people return. Well again, a lot

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Speaker 2: The clearouts, because I've seen this in my own town

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Speaker 2: end up being made duty. Right. The city comes or

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Speaker 2: the police come and they just clean up all the.

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Speaker 1: Garment and everybody comes right back. Right.

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Speaker 2: It's just like it's like if you have a maid

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Speaker 2: in the day and everything's perfect. That's what this is.

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Speaker 2: It's the city provides maid service for this crowd.

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Speaker 1: Well, I think it's remarkable that the principal of this

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Speaker 2: Blake talk about that, what is the access?

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Speaker 4: I was, you know, it's it's interesting because I you know,

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Speaker 4: this big sidewalk is just so blocked, right, I mean

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Speaker 4: totally think that, you know, I agree. The big question

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Speaker 4: it's not just affecting a school, it's clearly affecting a

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Speaker 1: What is your estimate of the size of this in

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Speaker 4: I would say that the first and so there's two encampments, right,

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Speaker 4: because they're on two different walls that line these these

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Speaker 4: I don't know, somewhere between I'm gonna estimate fifteen to

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm looking at one picture of it did, but

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Speaker 1: it is awful. All right, Blake, thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for your coverage. You appreciate it.

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Speaker 3: All right, Thanks guys.

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Speaker 1: All right, Blake Trolley KFI News, who went to this

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Speaker 1: middle school in Koreatown which is plagued by a homeless campman.

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Speaker 1: As you heard Blake say, within inches of the school property.

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Speaker 1: The La City ordinance passed an Oregon in August says

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Speaker 1: he cannot be within five hundred feet of schools.

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Speaker 2: I want to crack this merry go round. So Mitchell

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Speaker 2: Farrell's the bunch of feeble fools in his office, they

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Speaker 2: pointed LAPD. LAPD just doesn't respond. All right, that's not

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Speaker 2: going to be it. I want to know what's wrong

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Speaker 2: with the with LAPD. Who is the officer in charge

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Speaker 2: in that district, who can give the go ahead to

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Speaker 2: go and clean this up? Not that just clean it up.

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Speaker 2: Have all these creeps weirdos drug addicts, meant patients, criminals,

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Speaker 2: sex molesters, who can have them removed from the area.

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Speaker 1: Well, sometimes they have to involve the Department of Sanitation

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Speaker 1: too because they have to go and clear up all

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Speaker 1: the debris.

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Speaker 2: Well okay, but I mean this is this is what

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Speaker 2: find a home. But there's no I mean, I saw

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Speaker 2: this work with my own two eyes the day that

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Speaker 2: van a Waeva got the homeless encampment cleared in front

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Speaker 1: Oh no, they'd still rather go in the council chambers

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Speaker 2: But I meant the people who run, you know, like

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Speaker 1: Well, we're going to find out something that you've talked

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Speaker 2: They have been voting for him for many years. He

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Speaker 1: Martinez was the worst of those recordings. You know, de Leon.

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Speaker 2: Now it's like suddenly, now you're in a private meeting,

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Speaker 1: The other development is going to make you angry. The

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Speaker 2: Sometimes it's so absurd.

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Speaker 1: He has been stripped of his duties for nearly fourteen months.

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Speaker 1: He will received nearly two hundred and sixty five thousand

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Speaker 2: He's well, he's indicted for corruption as a county supervisor.

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Speaker 2: So it's but they removed him from the City Council.

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Speaker 2: It's like dover and bodies pay when their representatives are

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Speaker 1: Then why did they take the money away from him

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Speaker 2: Why even bother with this? They're so corrupt, you see that.

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Speaker 2: That is a disgustingly corrupt body. They're paying Mark Ridley

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Speaker 1: Be talking to Brian Enton from News Nation. He was

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Speaker 1: He's learning stuff on the ground in Idaho. He'll talk

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Speaker 1: to us after the news at four o'clock. As parents

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Speaker 1: people brutally murdered. Well, guess who made an appearance today.

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Speaker 1: The last time we talked about him, he was poopy pants.

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Speaker 1: Who'll be talking about John poopy pants?

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Speaker 2: Poopy pots Putin.

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Speaker 1: Putin made an appearance today state television. He was at

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Speaker 1: a meeting to talk about the war in Ukraine. Come

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Speaker 1: Christmas Eve, December twenty fourth, it'll be ten months. February

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Speaker 1: Well here we are almost ten months later, and that

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Speaker 1: A lot of them did, and I kind of bought

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Speaker 1: They lined up like over one hundred thousand troops at

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Speaker 1: in with their tanks and just you know, Ukrainians will

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Speaker 1: just be overwhelmed.

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Speaker 2: Can you imagine the experts were wrong again? Military experts,

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Speaker 2: political experts, international diplomatic experts all wrong.

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Speaker 1: Now if you thought they'd back down, Putin said today

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Speaker 1: he believes the war in Ukraine is going to be

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Speaker 1: a long process, Buddy said, he's not going to call

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Speaker 1: up more combat troops. Remember, back in September they announced

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Speaker 1: they were grabbing the three hundred thousand more mostly men

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Speaker 1: to serve in the military, and thousands of them fled

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Speaker 1: the country. They had it over the border.

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Speaker 2: Way, do you think there are any young guys left

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Speaker 2: in the country. They've either been called up into the

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Speaker 2: service or they fled. I mean, what kind of a guy.

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Speaker 1: Don't you think there are patriotic types though, that would

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Speaker 1: want to serve.

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Speaker 2: And no, not for something garbage like that.

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Speaker 1: Maybe they're buying the propagaria.

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Speaker 2: You're being led to slaughter. Propaganda doesn't work like it

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Speaker 2: used to in the age of social media. He can't

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Speaker 2: pull it off and brainwash an entire country the way

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Speaker 2: you know the US brainwashed everyone about Vietnam in the sixties.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. He tried to make the case once again that

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Speaker 1: this is about anti Russian movements in Ukraine by mostly

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Speaker 1: Western back forces, that they were punishing and persecuting Russians

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Speaker 1: or pro Russian people in Ukraine, and that's why we

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Speaker 1: had to go there to help them. I know it's nonsense.

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Speaker 2: I mean, they can anybody can say stuff, But how

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Speaker 2: much are people believing now they're afraid to rebel in

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Speaker 2: the streets because then you get kidnapped and dragged off

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Speaker 2: to a gulag. See, you can't go by the resistance publicly.

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Speaker 2: But how many people inside their hobbles are actually believing

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Speaker 2: this stuff? I would bet it's a pretty small number

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Speaker 2: at this point.

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Speaker 1: And dropping every day.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Now, the other side of this story, ten months later

476
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Speaker 1: is to take a look at something else involved. All

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Speaker 1: the mighty sanctions?

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Speaker 2: All right? Now?

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Speaker 1: How are the sanctions doing? And a detailed story from

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Speaker 1: NPR not so good. The Russian economy, at least on

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Speaker 1: the surface, looks fairly strong. Forecasters say Russian GDP for

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty will likely fall, but only about three point

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Speaker 1: three to three point four percent.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know this. I knew was a joke causanctions

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Speaker 2: never work. For decades we've been hearing about it. How

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Speaker 2: are they going to work? When they were able to

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Speaker 2: sell anything they wanted to India and China, which that's what.

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Speaker 1: They did, right, which is on the export and import side,

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Speaker 1: that's what they've been doing.

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Speaker 2: That's a third of the world's population. You still have

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Speaker 2: a third of the world as your market. You're not

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Speaker 2: gonna go out of business.

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Speaker 1: They are getting imports from China, Belarus, and Turkey, which

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Speaker 1: are not participating in the sanctions, and on the export side,

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Speaker 1: they're doing quite well and they're still exporting a lot.

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Speaker 2: Of natural gas. India is buying a ton of oil.

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Speaker 2: If only eric Ar said he was there to convince

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Speaker 2: them not to.

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Speaker 1: That would yeah, you know what he does, he could

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Speaker 1: do that. Ye's a shame that he's not gotten that

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Speaker 1: appointment yet.

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Speaker 2: That's rying. He's very persuasive. He might have engaged in

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Speaker 2: some diploma magic and convinced India not to buy all

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Speaker 2: that cheap oil that Russia's offering them Russians.

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Speaker 1: Russia's export income has risen by more than forty percent

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Speaker 1: to roughly one hundred and twenty billion. One of the

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Speaker 1: reasons is inflation. Remember how the whole world is feeling

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Speaker 1: the effects of inflation, so it's helping them on their

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Speaker 1: export dan.

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Speaker 2: But you remember when beginning Biden was beating his old

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Speaker 2: hairy chest, carrying on about how wonderful the sanctions are.

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Speaker 1: He literally had his shirt off at his beatings.

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Speaker 2: He had, yes, he had his shirt off and he's

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Speaker 2: beating that old hairy chest about how these sanctions were

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Speaker 2: going to bring them down.

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Speaker 1: You have to talk tough, right. Russia's trade balance looks

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Speaker 1: extremely healthy. The surplus for January to September was one

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Speaker 1: hundred and ninety eight point four billion, one hundred and

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Speaker 1: twenty billion higher than the same period a year ago.

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Speaker 2: All that happened is our gas prices went through the roof.

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Speaker 1: The currency appears to be in pretty good shape too. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the ruble dropped initially.

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Speaker 2: What happened to that? We heard about all these complicated

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Speaker 2: financial restraints that were being put on Russia right in

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Speaker 2: America and Europe and the whole banking system and the

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Speaker 2: whole money transfer system, everything was being locked down. Oh

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Speaker 2: guess not.

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Speaker 1: Well, they're claiming in this story though, some of this

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Speaker 1: might be deceiving, because the Russian government acted to prop

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Speaker 1: up things like the ruble with some of its policies,

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Speaker 1: and that you know, over the long term, they could

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Speaker 1: still be hurt severely by this. Again, it's only been

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Speaker 1: ten months, but we knew that. And that's what Biden

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Speaker 1: said too. Well, he beat his chest, He said, sanctions

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Speaker 1: take time. We have to be patient.

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Speaker 2: Ten years, I think after ten months it's a pretty

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Speaker 2: good time to evaluate. I don't care. But you know,

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Speaker 2: they're the ones who were bragging how great this was,

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Speaker 2: and they got all the nations of the world together

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Speaker 2: to agree to the sanctions. They didn't do anything. The

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Speaker 2: only you know what worked was us giving away all

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Speaker 2: our military might to Ukraine. That worked. Giving them all

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Speaker 2: the Stinger missiles, yeah, equipment, right, yeah, the anti aircraft missiles,

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Speaker 2: the anti tank missiles. We had to destroy their stuff.

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Speaker 2: We had to have the Ukrainians kill their soldiers. Killing

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Speaker 2: their soldiers worked. Destroying their tanks and their planes worked.

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Speaker 1: All right. We got more coming up, John and Ken

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Speaker 1: Kfi Am six forty live everywhere the iHeartRadio apps anctis.

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Speaker 1: We'll be talking about the the Idaho's student college murderers

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Speaker 1: coming up after the news at four o'clock. It's such

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Speaker 1: a sad story that the breaking development this afternoon is

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Speaker 1: they're looking for a white Hyundai. It may have been

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Speaker 1: in the area of the house where these students were

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Speaker 1: stabbed to death at around that time twenty eleven to

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Speaker 1: twenty thirteen model white Hundi.

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Speaker 2: Were there no ring cameras in the neighborhood.

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Speaker 1: Maybe that's what picked up this car. I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I was thinking about that today. It's like, you know,

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Speaker 2: there's video cameras.

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Speaker 1: They think this house didn't have all that, But.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Moscow's not La Lak young.

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Speaker 1: People like tech. You'd think they would have had something

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Speaker 1: rigged up. Er and I don't know the whole thing.

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Speaker 2: About they had this gap. They didn't know where the

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Speaker 2: couple was for a few hours, and it turns out

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Speaker 2: they were at the frat party the whole time. And

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Speaker 2: I'm thinking, you go to a frat party, there's got

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Speaker 2: to be seventeen videos, video phones running all at the

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Speaker 2: same time. I mean, they probably have every square inch

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Speaker 2: every moment of that frat party recorded.

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Speaker 1: No, you mean in case they ran into someone who

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Speaker 1: did the money the later yesterday they claimed they didn't

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Speaker 1: know where the couple was for the whole time, but

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Speaker 1: there was this gap for hours long.

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Speaker 2: It's like, what do you mean you don't know where

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Speaker 2: they were? They're at the frat party.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know, Well, they knew they were

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Speaker 1: at the frat party, but they didn't know they were

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Speaker 1: there that long. As it turned out, that's why a

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Speaker 1: couple had three hours they we couldn't find where they were.

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Speaker 2: So I'm saying, with all the pictures and videos that

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Speaker 2: people take.

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Speaker 1: We'll see what. Brian Inton News Nation will join us

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Speaker 1: after four o'clock to talk about the latest. Well we

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Speaker 1: are now going to do on the John and Ken Show.

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Speaker 1: A happy creature story and it really is a good story,

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Speaker 1: Debor Mark and I think you will enjoy it. There

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Speaker 1: is an island. It is a happy story with a

589
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Speaker 1: couple of interesting news nuggets attached to it. Let's see,

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Speaker 1: We're going to the South Atlantic Ocean Way off the

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Speaker 1: coast of southwestern Africa to an island called Saint Helena.

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Speaker 1: It's a British territory. Why are we going there because

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Speaker 1: we are celebrating. I believe the world's oldest creature one

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Speaker 1: hundred and ninety year old Jonathan a tortoise. And they

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Speaker 1: know this because a bird was alive. No, the first

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Speaker 1: photograph of a person was taken in eighteen thirty eight.

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Speaker 1: He was alive when that happened. He was actually a gift.

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Speaker 1: They believe he was born in eighteen thirty two, but

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Speaker 1: he could be older. It's based on the fact that

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Speaker 1: he was fully mature when he was brought to Saint

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Speaker 1: Helena in eighteen eighty two as a gift to the

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Speaker 1: then governor. There's an old photograph of a fully grown

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Speaker 1: Jonathan grazing on the grass at the governor's residence called

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Speaker 1: Plantation House, some time between eighteen eighty two and eighteen

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Speaker 1: eighty Sex.

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Speaker 2: What is the odds a tortoise would be in one

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Speaker 2: of the first photographs and he's still around today today?

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Speaker 2: How old he is?

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Speaker 1: He hangs out with three other giant tortoises named David, Emma,

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Speaker 1: and Fred, but they now believe that he is the

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Speaker 1: world's oldest Chelonian, a category that encompasses tortoises, turtles, and terrapins.

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Speaker 2: Do you think the other tortoises make fun of him?

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Speaker 2: He's blind, Jonathan, you're so old.

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Speaker 1: People though, he will come up to you. In fact,

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Speaker 1: they had a problem because cruise ships would come in,

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Speaker 1: the tourists would get off and guess what would happen,

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Speaker 1: Deborah Mark children would stand on his shol photo.

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Speaker 2: That's a limit that I hope they prevent it. While

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Speaker 2: they do prevent it, yes, one child at a time.

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Speaker 2: Can you imagine this poor guy selfies? This poor guy's

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Speaker 2: lived one hundred and ninety years and he's got to

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Speaker 2: put up with kids standing on his shell for a selfies?

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Speaker 2: Is this what I stuck around for? Imagine how slow

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Speaker 2: he is.

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Speaker 1: He can't really run away. He's blind, no sense of smell,

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Speaker 1: but his hearing is great and he loves people right

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Speaker 1: to the government. Yes, his favorite foods cabbage, cucumbers, carrots, apples, bananas,

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Speaker 1: and lettuce.

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Speaker 2: Hearts.

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Speaker 1: That's why he is around.

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Speaker 2: The diet healthy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, here's the part. And I think you're really find interesting.

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Speaker 1: In spite of his age, Jonathan still has good libido

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Speaker 1: and is seen frequently in mating with Emma and sometimes Fred.

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Speaker 2: What Emma and Fred.

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Speaker 1: Animals are not particularly gender sensitive boy, that is a

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Speaker 1: kinky old tortoise. In fact, in twenty seventeen, caretakers discovered

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Speaker 1: during a medical procedure that his mate, Frederica is of

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Speaker 1: nearly thirty years was actually not a female.

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Speaker 2: Well, he is blind, that he doesn't know what he's doing,

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Speaker 2: but eventually there's parts that I would imagine. It feels

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Speaker 2: good enough to me, I let's go with it.

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Speaker 1: He had his first bath just a few years ago,

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Speaker 1: at the age of one hundred and eighty. First bath

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Speaker 1: Jonathan gave They gave the tortoise a bath.

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 1: The life expected generally for a tortoise is about one

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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty years, So this guy really has gone

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Speaker 1: on a remarkably long time.

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Speaker 2: And you know who I saw years ago at the

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Speaker 2: uh the what's the name of it, the Galapago Silence. Yes, George.

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Speaker 2: He was a tortoise and at the time he was

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Speaker 2: almost one hundred years old.

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Speaker 1: And he's got a way to go to catch Giana.

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Speaker 2: No, he's dead, now, what did you do to it?

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Speaker 2: He tied it one hundred and two.

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Speaker 1: No, but we saw him not long after the col

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Speaker 1: Belts left.

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Speaker 2: No, it was it was well, it was He's a hamburger,

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Speaker 2: it was.

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Speaker 1: Exactly.

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Speaker 2: It was disappointing. We went there, but then my son

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Speaker 2: and I refused to leave, and we just just toughed

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Speaker 2: it out and we left. We went back, and we

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Speaker 2: went back, and then finally he woke up and he

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Speaker 2: was coming out. He was he was like a national symbol.

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Speaker 2: And they did.

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Speaker 1: They interact with you or look at you or what

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Speaker 1: do they do?

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Speaker 2: He just walks around like a normal old tortoise. I mean,

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Speaker 2: it doesn't do you pet, No, No, he's he's deep

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Speaker 2: back in the enclosure there. You can't.

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Speaker 1: It's okay because this guy is right there. Jonathan's right

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Speaker 1: there on the island. People can walk right up to him.

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Speaker 2: Is that right?

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's why I said. But they had to

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Speaker 1: give up because tourists started to stand on him. That's

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Speaker 1: why I said that. No, he's not in an enclosure.

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Speaker 1: He just walks around in the grass in this place.

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Speaker 2: Why are people so stupid? I mean that picture.

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Speaker 1: I want to have pictures and video that's them standing

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Speaker 1: on the tortoise's That's pretty sad.

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Speaker 2: That's something else, all right.

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Speaker 1: Coming up next, Brian Enton from News Nation will join us.

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Speaker 1: Of course, he's.

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Speaker 2: Sent to guys and he doesn't bathe.

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Speaker 1: In Moscow covering the horrible story of the four college

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Speaker 1: students who were murdered in their sleep. Next, Johnny ken

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