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Speaker 1: I believe we are going to have the Eric Sclaron,

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Speaker 1: our technical director. He's at Dodger Stadium. He skipped our

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Speaker 1: about that and cheer for the dog. Yeah, yeah, you

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Speaker 2: I watched the Dodgers, you know, win the World Series.

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Speaker 2: But I'm here.

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Speaker 1: I see his back up here, Mario. He's wearing a

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Speaker 2: We all have our priorities, John.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, we are second place in Eric Sklar's world.

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Speaker 1: But I think he's going to come on the show

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Speaker 1: next segment. Yeah, because the celebration and is still going

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Speaker 1: most exciting world series I've ever seen in my life.

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Speaker 1: From that was exciting. The last two nights were incredible.

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Speaker 1: Now I'm going to be on TV tonight on CNN.

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Speaker 1: Alex Michaelson, the former Fox eleven anchor and host, is

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Speaker 1: now on CNN and he's got his own show from

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Speaker 1: nine to eleven every night called The Story Is. And

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Speaker 1: tonight I'm going to be on his panel and the

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Speaker 1: nine o'clock hour along with attorney Lisa Bloom. Yes, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna be on together again. So tonight nine o'clock watched

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Speaker 1: The Story Is and we we'ld be repeating that endlessly

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Speaker 1: throughout the show. Now, Alex just debuted the show last Monday,

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Speaker 1: the FEDS had said. What the FEDS didn't find out

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Speaker 3: Why did the firefighters leave even though they said in

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Speaker 1: And they'll restate the problem for you, and then they'll

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Speaker 1: Was this written down somewhere that these firefighters thought, it's

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Speaker 1: Of this, all right. So this is part This is

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Speaker 1: Bass funded the fire department. It was only half funded

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Speaker 1: We'll continue with more clips from Alex Michaelson talking to

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Speaker 1: Eric Skarr a wall playing hooky supposed to be uh

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Speaker 1: And it's dad. You're at the Dodgers celebration. What's going on?

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Speaker 5: Listen? Hey, it's not every year the Dodgers go back

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Speaker 5: a World Series. Uh, you know, I had to play hooky.

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Speaker 1: What was it? What was What was it like if

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Speaker 5: It was just one big party at Dodger Stadium. Aguel

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Speaker 5: Rojas spoke to the crowd t K Hernandez spoke to

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Speaker 5: It was it was just an unreal experience. One thing

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Speaker 5: Well. I was at a bar for Game seven and

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Speaker 5: It's it's a party at Dodger Stadium.

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Speaker 1: Yep, six, six and seven were thrillers, both ended with

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I know, it's a regular season award. Mason Wynn

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Speaker 5: But realistically, realistically, we all know Lucy Betts is the

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Speaker 1: Well, you can go debate that. I'm sure you're gonna

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Speaker 1: be party partying the rest of the day. Yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: from a Mets fan, It's been almost forty years for me,

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Speaker 5: Listen, I was in high school when Kobe Bryant and

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Speaker 6: And you know that it was.

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Speaker 4: To those people absolutely understand that people would feel that way.

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Speaker 4: We will get to the bottom of it. Change is

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Speaker 1: I absolutely understand customer service Rep. One oh one, top Lie,

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Speaker 6: You can learn from our mistakes.

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Speaker 1: The fire happened. Yeah, do the firefighters get to ignore

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Speaker 1: We have Steve Hilton coming on after Debra's news. Steve

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Speaker 1: to Steve, because you know, this kind of plays into

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Speaker 1: I feel like I'm living in a cult and I'm

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Speaker 1: one of the few people not part of the cult.

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Speaker 1: I can't believe how obedient everyone is in saluting Gavin

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Speaker 1: we need a drastic change. Steve Hilton you may know

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Speaker 1: of him. He's a former Fox News host. He does

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Speaker 1: He was on his way to get on a plane

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Speaker 1: a little longer than that. So he's on now right

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Speaker 1: after two o'clock Steve Hilton running for governor and currently

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Speaker 1: He's also written a book called Cali Failure, Reversing the

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Speaker 1: Ruin of America's worst run State. I cannot believe with

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Speaker 1: change in the state. I was just today thinking about,

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Speaker 1: you know how we have, God, there's so many things. Well,

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Speaker 1: we've got the worst homeless situation, right. We had crime

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Speaker 1: that's been crazy, especially the quality of life crimes because

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Speaker 1: they decriminalized theft, theft, among other things. We've got the

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Speaker 1: highest taxes in the state, highest gas tax, high sales tax,

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking, God, this would normally sink a guy. Instead

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Speaker 1: News them is bobbed up to the top of the

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Speaker 1: presidential polls on the Democratic side, and I'm thinking, what's

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Speaker 1: wrong with everyone here? We're going to talk to Steve Hilton,

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Speaker 1: who's going to be on with us in minutes. Hey,

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