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Speaker 2: It's good that you're here. Boy. We got a lot

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Speaker 2: of good stuff today. Huh.

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Speaker 1: We are stacked and packed and coming up in an hour.

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Speaker 1: This is my personal favorite story of the day. It

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Speaker 1: was the first thing I saw this morning. In the

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Speaker 1: El Segundo Times, they had a story on the squatter hunter.

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Speaker 1: If you have a squatter in your house, this man

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Speaker 1: squatter hunter is named Flash Shelton, and he charges money,

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Speaker 1: charges good money for this. But if you were on

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Speaker 1: a time, squatters are moving in by the hundreds, Well,

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Speaker 1: the squatter Hunter, Flash Shelton, will take care of business

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Speaker 2: Yes, that's what he does.

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Speaker 1: But first, this was also a big story that broke

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Speaker 1: this morning. The Federal Aviation Administration sent dozens of auditors

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Speaker 1: to Boeing and Spirit Spirit Aerospace. Spirit Spirit manufactures the

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Speaker 1: fuselage for the Boeing jets, and then Boeing assembles it

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Speaker 1: at their factory in rent in Washington.

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Speaker 2: Well.

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Speaker 1: At Boeing, the FAA conducted eighty nine product audits and

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Speaker 1: Boeing failed thirty three of them, and at Spirit Arrow

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Speaker 1: Systems there were thirteen audits and Spirit failed seven of those.

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Speaker 1: Now we know why dark plugs are blowing out of

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Speaker 1: the sky and other things. Let's say go to Alex

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Speaker 1: Stone for ABC News. Who's put all this together? Alex?

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Speaker 2: How are you? I want that name? What was his name?

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Speaker 2: Flash Flash Shelton. Wouldn't that be a great name?

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Speaker 1: It's great, great, great disc jockey name, Flashstone. Yeah, I

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Speaker 2: There we go. That works. It's a porn star or

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Speaker 1: So what this is that that the FAA went in

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Speaker 1: confirmed that all of these mistakes and failures were being made.

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Speaker 1: This was after the blowout of the door on the

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Speaker 1: There, so that doesn't exist according to Boeing, any of

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Speaker 1: So they went into the factories at Boeing and Spirit

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Speaker 1: Southwestern United is going to be halting hiring because they're

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Speaker 1: Alex excellent, Thank you for coming on. You got to

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Speaker 1: The FAA, according to the New York Times, conducted eighty

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Speaker 1: Wow, that's his total corruption. Then that is a late

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Speaker 1: that is deep rot and corruption. We'll have more on

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Speaker 1: up to talk about that woman who's in bad condition

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Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A sixty.

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Speaker 1: Yes and coming up after two o'clock. You're gonna want

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Speaker 1: to hear this man. His name's Flash Shelton. Flash Shelton

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Speaker 1: is the squatter Hunter. If squatters enter your home while

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Speaker 1: He's charging good money for this, and it's it's become

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Speaker 1: in the else Times this morning, Flash Shelton, we'll be

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Speaker 2: Live on that correct, all right? Yes, we are.

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Speaker 1: Blake Trolley with can't find News is coming on here.

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Speaker 1: There's a terrible video that you can see on any

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Speaker 7: Yeah, John, this is a paramount example of how dangerous

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Speaker 7: This was all caught on video. The women pushed the manager,

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Speaker 7: The store's owner, Daniel Min says the manager, who had

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Speaker 3: Are family members and are some of our employees. We

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Speaker 7: And what I mentioned there, John, was that the store

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Speaker 7: Talking to Men earlier today, he immediately got into some

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Speaker 3: Yes, I mean even the law enforcement they're frustrated with

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Speaker 7: Do you think this case really points to a need

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Speaker 3: No, I think it's it's it's been his track record

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Speaker 2: But clearly this is this isn't being handled correctly.

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Speaker 7: And Men tells me John that his store is dealing

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Speaker 1: So commerce is that sheriff's deputy territory for La County.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, so this is being handled by the East La

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Speaker 1: So it's prosecuted, sent off to Gascon and so they've

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Speaker 7: Well, in this case, they haven't actually made the arrests yet.

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Speaker 7: That's what it sounds like. Let's go to this John.

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Speaker 3: Estee, from all these events that's been occurring regularly in California,

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Speaker 7: He said, In fact, burglar's broke into my business last

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Speaker 1: Charlie KFI News on this robbery and this subrtal attack

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Speaker 1: And this is what is so frustrating and baffling. You

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Speaker 1: of the vote, which is a pretty poor showing in

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Speaker 1: the DA's primary, and he's going to face off against

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Speaker 1: Nathan Hawkman. But I can't believe he would get twenty

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Speaker 1: four percent of the vote. There's so many people who

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Speaker 1: are getting affected by the rampant crime that's directly the

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Speaker 1: cause of Gascone's leniency. They're not having this problem in

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Speaker 1: Orange County. Todd Spitzer. Todd Spitcher's prosecuting everything. In fact,

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Speaker 1: we got a story about him. We might I'll probably

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Speaker 1: have him on tomorrow. But Spitcher's putting up billboards in

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Speaker 1: La County telling the thieves, don't come to Orange County

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Speaker 1: because we'll prosecute you. You know, you can stay in

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Speaker 1: a place like East La and do all the thieving

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Speaker 1: you want because maybe you get inconvenienced for a few hours,

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Speaker 1: but ultimately Guesstcone drops the charges. And you know, I

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Speaker 1: would love to talk to every single guestcon voter. It

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Speaker 1: just played Blake's report. Just play that interview Blake did

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Speaker 1: with the beauty store manager. This is what you want,

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Speaker 1: this is what you've voted for. This is the way

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Speaker 1: you think life ought to be. And this poor woman,

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Speaker 1: I mean, she's knocked out for two days. That's just

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Speaker 1: just intolerable. And you know, a lot of it has

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Speaker 1: to do with Karen Basson's incompetence too. That spills over

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Speaker 1: into the surrounding cities. All right, coming up after two o'clock,

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Speaker 1: it's going to be Flash Shelton, the squatter Hunter. If

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Speaker 1: you've been squatted if you have some creepy guy or

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Speaker 1: creepy guy they've moved into your home while you left

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Speaker 1: it unattended, and it's very difficult sometimes to get them removed.

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Speaker 1: You got to go through court. It's a lengthy process. Yeah, squatters, Well,

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Speaker 1: the squatter hunter, he has his way of getting the

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Speaker 1: squatters out. Fascinating story, and we'll talk to him after

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Speaker 1: two o'clock.

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Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from.

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Speaker 1: KFI A six after two o'clock. Flash Shelton, the squatter

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Speaker 1: Hunter works out of Woodland Hills.

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Speaker 2: I wonder if he's a neighbor.

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Speaker 1: Well, actually, i'm sure slightly correct that the profile that

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Speaker 1: they did of him centered on a two story home

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Speaker 1: in Woodland Hills where a squatter had gotten inside and

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Speaker 1: the squatter hunter shows up and he's very successful at

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Speaker 1: convincing the squatters that maybe it's time to go.

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Speaker 2: How does he do this? What's the process?

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Speaker 1: In case you come home today and you find someone

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Speaker 1: that you're not related to in your house, you call

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Speaker 1: up this guy, squad Hunter. His name's Flash Shelton. Now,

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Speaker 1: we were just talking about the terrible story in Commerce

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Speaker 1: where this beauty store manager got thrown to the ground

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Speaker 1: was badly hurts. She's knocked out for two days by

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Speaker 1: a gang of thieves. Four women for Women. World is changing.

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Speaker 1: Women are getting just as aggressive as men out there.

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Speaker 1: In fact, there is a story from CNBC. They spent

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Speaker 1: eight months embedded in law enforcement agencies that are investigating

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Speaker 1: organized theft groups and centering on a woman named Michelle

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Speaker 1: matt Now, Michelle is middle aged, long bleached blonde hair,

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Speaker 1: kind of dumpy, but she's a mastermind. She has made

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Speaker 1: millions of dollars as the head of a crime ring.

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Speaker 1: She sends out her associates, a network of around a

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Speaker 1: dozen women who go out and they steal stuff like crazy. Now,

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Speaker 1: they're not smashing grabbers. You don't see them on the news.

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Speaker 1: They just work quickly and efficiently and quietly, and they

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Speaker 1: gather up like a lot of beauty supplies, cosmetics from

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Speaker 1: Alta Sephora, and they're doing this all over California, Washington, Utah, Oregon, Colorado,

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Speaker 1: all over the West coast, part of the Midwest, even

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Speaker 1: into the Northeast. Michelle Mack selects the stores to target

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Speaker 1: and what to take, and they go in there and

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Speaker 1: clear out entire shelves of merchandise and then sells them

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Speaker 1: online and people are buying them at the fraction of

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Speaker 1: the retail price. If you go online to Amazon and

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Speaker 1: you find really good deals on cosmetics, odds are those restolen?

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Speaker 1: Probably no, I buy them at the store. You're not

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Speaker 1: a receiver of stolen property.

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Speaker 2: I don't think so.

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Speaker 1: There's many of these rings they have. Their business is

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Speaker 1: so organized. According to Adam Parks, who's an assistant special

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Speaker 1: agent at Homeland Security Investigations, they've taken all their millions

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Speaker 1: in profits and invested in fleets of trucks eighteen wheelers

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Speaker 1: filled with palettes loaded with stolen goods. They have cleaning

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Speaker 1: crews that clean the goods after they're stolen to make

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Speaker 1: them look brand new. Then they put them on Amazon,

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Speaker 1: then they sell them at flea markets and CNBC. It

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Speaker 1: was the most sophisticated one that they tracked, and it

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Speaker 1: all centered around this Michelle Mack who was arrested taken

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Speaker 1: into custody today and it's so.

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Speaker 2: Easy to do.

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Speaker 1: That a lot of people are doing it and creating

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Speaker 1: their own many organizations. And the thing is, if you

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Speaker 1: go into their warehouses, it looks exactly like any other

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Speaker 1: distribution center.

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Speaker 2: From the outside. You can't tell the difference.

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Speaker 4: Obviously, these people are smart. Why don't they put their

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Speaker 4: brains and do something illegal? I mean something legal instead

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Speaker 4: of illegal.

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Speaker 2: I think this is so lucrative.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, but there are plenty of other things

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Speaker 4: they could do. Don't they have morals? Don't they feel bad?

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Speaker 4: Aren't they guilt?

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Speaker 2: Don't they feel guilty? Yeah? What's problem with these people?

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Speaker 1: Do you know what sociopaths are? It must be pretty

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Speaker 1: cool to be a sociopath because you just do whatever

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Speaker 1: you want and you don't care. There's no guilt, no remorse,

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Speaker 1: you don't feel bad.

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Speaker 4: I can't imagine you just take stuff. Well, I mean, yeah,

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Speaker 4: i'd sleep better at night.

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Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, you would.

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Speaker 1: These people sleep great, people like you with morals, with

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Speaker 1: a conscience, You're up all night, all right? When we

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Speaker 1: come back, Flash Shelton. He's the squatter hunter. The Elsigunda

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Speaker 1: Times did a rare good story today. And what he

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Speaker 1: does is if you call him and say there's a

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Speaker 1: squatter in my house and you're willing to pay his price,

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Speaker 1: he'll come to your house, and in most cases he

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Speaker 1: convinces the squatter that maybe this isn't a.

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Speaker 4: Good idea in a gentle way, I'm sure.

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Speaker 1: Well, we'll see what his method is, see what secrets

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Speaker 1: he's willing to share with us.

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Speaker 2: So he's next, right.

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