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Speaker 1: The camera's tilted in the studio here. I'm looking.

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Speaker 3: I can't see.

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Speaker 1: I know it's I looked. It's like, what happened to me?

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Speaker 4: Well, Shannon was here by herself, and so usually the

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Speaker 4: camera's pointed toward you or Gary. Yeah, but today it

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Speaker 1: Oh I see, Okay. It just scared me.

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Speaker 2: I know, I thought I'd be became invisible.

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Speaker 3: Well you were all right?

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Speaker 2: posted we have we have a big show today.

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Speaker 1: Next hour. We're going to talk to Rick Caruso.

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Speaker 2: The famous businessman here in La who's running Steadfast La,

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Speaker 2: among other things. That is the nonprofit that is trying

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Speaker 2: to help people cut through the red tape and get

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Speaker 2: their homes rebuilt. In Palisades and Altadena A there's over

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Speaker 2: seven thousand homes that were destroyed in the Palisades, over

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Speaker 2: seven thousand destroyed in Altadena, there was some destroyed in Malibu.

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Speaker 2: It was totally think of about sixteen thousand altogether, and

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Speaker 2: it has been very, very difficult to get permitting from

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Speaker 2: either the city or the county.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's atrocious. What's gone on with.

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Speaker 2: Karen Bass and with the five supervisors in La County

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Speaker 2: is just awful, unconscionable, unforgivable. They are not processing the

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Speaker 2: permits and people are stuck. Even That's how I'm feeling

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Speaker 2: on the inside. It's gonna be a lot of that

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Speaker 2: today anyway. Rick Carusso is gonna come on, uh and

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Speaker 2: we're gonna talk about what he's doing. And you know,

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Speaker 2: it's six months and it's hit me. I think yesterday

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Speaker 2: it's kind of one of those notions that I always

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Speaker 2: carry around with me, but it really came to the

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Speaker 2: surface of my brain. I saw a Bass in Newsom

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Speaker 2: doing their self congratulatory press conference, and they had nothing

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Speaker 2: to congratulate themselves about except the cleanup that was done

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Speaker 2: on the burned out lots, and that was done almost

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Speaker 2: entirely by the federal government. That was done by the

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Speaker 2: Army Corps of Engineers and FEMA that that had nothing

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Speaker 1: Anything.

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Speaker 2: I had nothing to do with Newsom or Bass or there.

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Speaker 2: They're governments, their employees. It was entirely a federal government situation.

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Speaker 2: And you know, if everybody, if everybody in city and

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Speaker 2: state government performed like the Army Corps of Engineers, we'd

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Speaker 2: be in a far different place in many ways. And

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Speaker 2: I started thinking, you know what, care best doesn't care?

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Speaker 2: She really doesn't, because what else hit me yesterday was

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Speaker 2: on the way to the self congratulatory press conference, she

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Speaker 2: got into araw and MacArthur Park.

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Speaker 1: MacArthur Park's disgusting.

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Speaker 2: Filled with the illegal immigration, drug cartels, gang members, all

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Speaker 2: crimes of all kinds of criminals and homeless people and

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Speaker 1: It's awful, awful, And.

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Speaker 2: Iceland was there, National Guard was there and they were

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Speaker 2: doing some had a staging exercise. I guess, I don't

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Speaker 2: know what they were doing. And that caused a big Ruckus.

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Speaker 2: The Rapid Response Network went into operation. That's Turla, that's

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Speaker 2: an illegal alien rights group. We paid, We paid for

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Speaker 2: from Newsom. And that's to warn the locals that Ice

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Speaker 2: is here and it's time to resist, interfere, maybe.

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Speaker 1: Shoot at them.

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Speaker 2: Well, Bass went over there to do her official interference.

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Speaker 2: And man, she is so engaged, she's so passionate. And

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Speaker 2: That was ninety seconds of silence. And yesterday I'm here

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Speaker 2: supposedly she was on her way to meet Newsome so

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Speaker 1: Made a turn to MacArthur Park.

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Speaker 2: You know, she got she got the message that the

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Speaker 2: what happened, Aaron Bethel.

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Speaker 1: So, what's the time where the start walking to the car?

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Speaker 1: You have better I am going to say my comments

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Speaker 1: as they need to leave?

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Speaker 3: Can they need to leave right now?

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Speaker 2: Unaccepted yourself the phone, They need to leave, and they

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Speaker 2: leave to leave. They need to leave now? Eric, Can

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Speaker 2: you isolate that particular line, because this is what she

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Speaker 2: cares about. She cares about MacArthur Park and the illegal

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Speaker 2: she wants law enforcement out. That is what gets her crazy.

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Speaker 2: Listen to the emotion in her voice here they need

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Speaker 1: Can they need to leave right now?

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Speaker 2: I have never heard her express any of that energy

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Speaker 2: and passion when it came to the Palisades. I mean,

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Speaker 2: I mean thousands and thousands of people homeless, thousands of

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Speaker 2: to care. She was guilty of leaving town. Maybe there

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Speaker 2: was a bit of shame in that response. Guilty of

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Speaker 2: not preparing the city, not preparing the fire department, Guilty

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Speaker 2: not having the reservoir filled. Guilty for hiring an idiot,

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Speaker 2: Genie Kinonias to run the DWP. Guilty of not having

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Speaker 2: the power turned off. And then another fire exploded that

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Speaker 2: evening on January seventh. Guilty of funding the fire department,

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Speaker 2: Guilty of defunding the police department, Guilty of not having

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Speaker 2: for all her neglige, she got to be spending about

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Speaker 2: twenty years in prison, but she never uttered a peep.

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Speaker 2: And then I'm listening to her yelling yesterday, It's like, oh, okay,

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Speaker 2: I get it. You judge people by what they do.

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Speaker 2: She's angry, animated, challenging the federal government because this really

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Speaker 2: pisses her off. That the park that's home to so

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Speaker 2: that law enforcement is getting in the way of that party.

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Speaker 2: The palisades. She's got nothing, doesn't care, and it makes

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Speaker 2: me wonder what's up to her entirely. What would she

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Speaker 2: do about the Palisades. Maybe she doesn't want the Palisades rebuilt.

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Speaker 2: Maybe she doesn't like the people in the Palisades. Maybe

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Speaker 2: she doesn't consider it really Los Angeles. Maybe those are

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Speaker 2: another vision for what the Palisades ought to be. Talk

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Speaker 2: more about this coming up.

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Speaker 2: All right, let's continue here, So two o'clock, we're gonna

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Speaker 2: have Rick Caruso. On three o'clock hour, we're gonna have

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Speaker 2: Michael MChE from USC with his latest analysis of jess

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Speaker 2: how far out the gas prices are going to go

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Speaker 2: in this state with two refineries closing, with a low

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Speaker 2: carbon fuel standard being imposed any day now, as you know,

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Speaker 2: he has predicted that gas could be well over eight

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Speaker 2: a half. So we're gonna be talking to Michael Shay

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Speaker 2: coming up. But back to Karen Bass, because it was

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Speaker 2: very revealing yesterday when the federal government ICE held some

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Speaker 2: kind of workout, some kind of demonstration. I guess They

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Speaker 2: had a lot of armed men there and they had

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Speaker 2: military like vehicles, they had horses, they had a National Guard.

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Speaker 1: It was quite a show.

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Speaker 2: They didn't do anything, and they didn't do a ray,

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Speaker 2: they didn't rest anybody, and it was either some kind

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Speaker 2: of training exercise or rehearsal, or maybe it was a

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Speaker 2: show of force, because that area is just wall to

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Speaker 2: It's almost like a separate country when you get into

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Speaker 2: MacArthur Park. And so maybe this was a force to say,

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Speaker 2: you know, we're trying to be nice here. We're not

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Speaker 2: carrying you out, but we're here and we're not going away,

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Speaker 2: and maybe it's time to make some decisions, you know.

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Speaker 2: Twenty four hours later, That's what it seemed like it

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Speaker 2: was meant to be because I noticed when in the

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Speaker 2: oh this is ending soon.

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Speaker 1: Well what time is it going to end? And I

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Speaker 2: Had on the phone, whatever ICE official she was speaking with,

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Speaker 2: said hey, you know this, this particular exercise is going

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Speaker 2: like that, and of course she popped off, claiming sim

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Speaker 2: she's angry. It's like like, you know, this must end.

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Speaker 2: And the Border Patrol Sector chief, it's the Elcentro sector.

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Speaker 2: Name is Gregory Bovino. He spoke with Fox eleven and

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Speaker 2: made it clear to the world that this is not

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Speaker 2: Karen Bass's call. He said, quote, the federal government is

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Speaker 2: Karen Bass. We're going to be here until that mission

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Speaker 1: And it sounded like.

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Speaker 2: This was some kind of staging, some kind of rehearsal

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Speaker 2: that maybe soon we're going to see this quite frequently,

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Speaker 2: and this is a way for everybody in Los Angeles

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Speaker 2: who's not compliant with federal law to get it together

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Speaker 2: that they're not going away. Do you think Trump and

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Speaker 2: Tom Homan are going to change their minds because Bass

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Speaker 2: is shaking her fist.

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Speaker 1: This isn't her call. This really isn't her business. Sorry,

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Speaker 1: it's not.

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Speaker 2: It's federal law they try to enforce. It's not Karen

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Speaker 2: Bass's sanctuary city. That was a fake concept. It's fascinating.

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Speaker 2: These people live in a world of well, we're going

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Speaker 2: to come up with a really cool, politically correct Wilke

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Speaker 2: concept like sanctuary city, and we are going to pass

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Speaker 2: up resolutions and legislations and declarations. And then somebody comes

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Speaker 2: along and says, sanc craise city. It's no such thing.

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Speaker 2: Where's that in the constitution, where is that in federal law?

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Speaker 2: Doesn't exist? You made that up, No such thing, imaginary, delusional.

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Speaker 2: So Bass is bumpering and sputtering and waving her arms

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Speaker 2: and getting all mad. It's like, what are you doing.

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Speaker 2: You have zero power on this one, no vote. You're disenfranchised,

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Speaker 2: And Bovino just said it clearly, we don't work for you.

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Speaker 2: Get used to us.

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Speaker 1: The way it is.

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Speaker 2: Of course, Bass is saying, the second I heard about this,

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Speaker 2: I went to the park to speak to the person

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Speaker 2: in charge and tell them it it needed to end. Now,

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Speaker 2: absolutely outrageous. She has no jurisdiction. But again my mind

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Speaker 2: flashes to the Palisades, and when she should have been

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Speaker 1: At least.

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Speaker 2: Occasionally she'll do some kind of raw ras speech and

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Speaker 2: There's been one hundred permits granted, a hundred takes forever.

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Speaker 2: Well, billions of dollars have been added for border and

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Speaker 1: Then why wouldn't you bring in law.

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Speaker 2: Let them intimidate all these bad guys, let them clean

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Speaker 2: A huge show of force to chase away all these

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Speaker 1: They're just idiots, They're just stupid. All right.

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

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Speaker 1: And what's he doing there? He is campaigning for president.

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Speaker 3: He is, and uh, you know, South Carolina is a

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Speaker 1: To refer to it, all right, I wouldn't last five

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Speaker 3: No, you would.

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Speaker 1: I used to do what you do. I used to do.

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Speaker 2: This is where we're going this next story. First of all,

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Speaker 1: They don't want to get a bullet rip them through

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Speaker 2: Democrats congressman told Axios that's a political website that people

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Speaker 2: Here there's the representative Brad Schneider from Illinois said, we've

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Speaker 2: People, Actually, you know, I know a couple of people.

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Speaker 1: So this is what we're gonna see.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna we're gonna see women an expensive carrying, expensive handbag.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, the Birken bag, the burken bag, and we're burken.

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Speaker 2: Bag and expensive heels and uh, brass knuckles and brass

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Speaker 1: What's wrong? Since this is the thing.

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Speaker 2: They're living good lives. Their neighborhoods are beautiful. They're not

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Speaker 1: This is just flat out mental illness, isn't it. Well,

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Speaker 1: Unissus Hernandez said, they need to be ready to throw down.

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Speaker 1: When they start risking their.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I can't risk fifty thousand dollars handbags.

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Speaker 2: When they start risking their accessories, then I know were

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Speaker 1: I think that happens when you get too rich. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, in humans, if there's a lack of.

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Speaker 2: A lack of engagement in your life, I think you

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Speaker 3: A cost then go rescue pets.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you tell them that, why don't you go rescue pets? Oh,

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Speaker 2: we should do the turtle story. Oh yes, oh boy,

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

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Speaker 5: six forty.

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Speaker 2: Rick Caruso coming on after two o'clock. Rick Caruso, and

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Speaker 2: he is running Steadfast LA in addition to all his

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Speaker 2: entire business empire, but Steadfast LA has been set up

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Speaker 2: to try and help people navigate the process of rebuilding

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Speaker 2: in the Palisades in Altadena with all the incredible bureaucracy

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Speaker 2: and red tape. So Rick is coming on in about

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Speaker 2: fifteen minutes or so, right after Deborah's news. All right,

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Speaker 2: so here's the turtle story. Seventy seven year old man

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Speaker 2: eighty seven I think eighty seven, eighties, All right, I

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Speaker 2: got seventy seven. Well, I think he aged a lot.

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Speaker 2: He was standing in Florida for some reason Sunday afternoon,

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Speaker 2: four twenty Interstate ninety five, which is the biggest north

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Speaker 2: south freeway on the East Coast, runs from Maine all

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Speaker 2: the way to Florida. And he's in the southbound lane

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Speaker 2: and he sees a turtle and he gets out of

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Speaker 2: his car to rescue the turtle, and he's walking across

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Speaker 2: the lanes and then a chain reaction crash. A Miami

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Speaker 2: woman driving a vehicle she slowed down so she wouldn't

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Speaker 2: hit the old guy. But behind her, another man in

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Speaker 2: a ram pickup truck failed to break in time. The

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Speaker 2: pickup truck rear ended the first vehicle, veered off the road,

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Speaker 2: crashed through the fence. The ram continued southbound and hit

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Speaker 2: the guy from Vermont, killed him. And then you know,

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Speaker 2: there were other cars that were crashed and backed up

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Speaker 2: behind them. Man's dead at the scene. Don't know what

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Speaker 2: happened to the turbine.

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Speaker 4: I have been pouring over these stories and I'm seeing

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Speaker 4: eighty seven, So.

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Speaker 2: What well, I'm seeing dead. Okay, you could be a

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Speaker 2: seventy seven year old dead body or an eighty.

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Speaker 1: Seven year old dad seven.

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Speaker 3: You know that's ten years older. I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Maybe it was senile, because who would cross Interstate ninety five.

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Speaker 1: I would, It's like Interstate Oh you wouldn't.

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Speaker 4: Yes, I have done those things before. I had a

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Speaker 4: rescue dog that I went in the middle of a

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Speaker 4: very busy street. It's Corbin Avenue in Woodland Hills, very

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Speaker 4: very busy, and.

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Speaker 3: I go, I put my hands up, wave to be

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Speaker 3: people can.

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Speaker 1: Even see you. Well, it's the bright yellow she's wearing today.

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Speaker 1: They would yeah, maybe.

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Speaker 4: Right, I cannot find what happened to the turtle.

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Speaker 3: I don't understand.

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Speaker 4: That would be the first question I, as the journalist,

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Speaker 4: would ask if I'm.

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Speaker 3: Writing this story.

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Speaker 1: It sounds like Auntie may might have had some turtle

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Speaker 1: stew for dinner.

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Speaker 2: It's it's not worth it for your your your children,

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Speaker 2: your grand children.

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Speaker 1: You don't think. But John, you're not thinking that turtle.

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Speaker 3: He didn't think he was going to get killed.

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Speaker 2: I would think of that, say, ah, poor turtle, he's

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Speaker 2: gonna get crushed.

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Speaker 3: He saw the turtle. It's big. It was big.

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Speaker 4: I saw a picture of it, and he probably thought,

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Speaker 4: you know what, people are gonna stop, just like I'm stopping.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna take a chance. I'm gonna think positive that

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Speaker 4: I'm able to say.

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Speaker 1: People don't pay attention anymore.

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Speaker 2: Well, you know when I saw it the other day,

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Speaker 2: like over twenty percent of the public is staring at

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Speaker 2: their phones while driving.

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Speaker 3: I know I see it every day, five cars past you.

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Speaker 1: One of the five is not watching the road.

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Speaker 4: But John, in the moment, you know, you get caught

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Speaker 4: up in the moment you see a helpless turtle, and your.

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Speaker 1: Instinct, there's your your instinct.

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Speaker 4: Okay, my instinct would be okay, I think.

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Speaker 1: Doesn't want to be flattened by a Dodge Ram truck.

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Speaker 1: Someone was probably texting and driving and didn't break on time,

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Speaker 1: and that's what caused the crash. Yeah, it's very exactly

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Speaker 1: what goes on.

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Speaker 3: Look, this guy had a good heart.

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Speaker 1: He did.

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Speaker 4: He tried.

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Speaker 1: Not anymore.

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Speaker 3: I know he's dead, but he tried. He really wanted.

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Speaker 1: He wanted to.

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Speaker 3: That was very selfless.

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Speaker 1: You can't just try.

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Speaker 3: You have to pull it off, okay, he thought. I

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Speaker 3: am sure he thought he was going to pull it off.

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Speaker 4: I really do.

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Speaker 3: I don't think he thought.

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Speaker 1: At eighty seven, how quickly can you get across?

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Speaker 4: He thought people would see this old man that jopped

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Speaker 4: and they would stop for him.

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Speaker 2: At eighty seven, how's a guy going to cross five

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Speaker 2: lanes of traffic?

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Speaker 1: Minimum five lanes of traffic?

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 4: Again, I've been in a situation like that where you

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Speaker 4: don't really necessarily think at the time. Rationally, I think

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Speaker 4: you are all impulse huh. I am oh, yeah, that's

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Speaker 4: why I said that. It's a good thing I don't

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Speaker 4: have a gun in my car. I get so riled

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Speaker 4: up in this traffic.

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Speaker 2: You jump out to save a turtle. But if somebody

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Speaker 2: cuts you off, you got no problem.

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Speaker 1: Off.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, right, because I hate a lot of people and

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Speaker 4: I love animals.

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Speaker 1: Is it bad that I'm just picturing President Biden trying

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Speaker 1: to cross five state planes to save the turtle. It

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Speaker 1: wasn't Biden. This is just my imagination.

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Speaker 3: I think it was very nice.

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Speaker 4: Look if it was my grandfather, of course, i'd be

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Speaker 4: very sad, but i'd also say hots after you, Grandpa for.

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Speaker 1: Trying to through the right. And then one more story,

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Speaker 1: Jere about the guy at Mulan Airport. Was it?

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Speaker 3: Uh no, that's something else.

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Speaker 1: No, he got sucked into a jet engine.

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Speaker 3: Oh yes, I was going to send that here this morning. Actually,

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Speaker 3: did you send me.

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Speaker 1: The turtle story? I did, Yes, And you were gonna

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Speaker 1: say I was.

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Speaker 4: Going to said I saw that this morning, but I thought, eh,

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Speaker 4: you know, people do these stupid things.

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Speaker 3: All the time.

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Speaker 1: Well, apparently he did it on purpose.

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Speaker 3: Oh I didn't know he did it on there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, this is how he decided to leave the planet.

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Speaker 3: Oh oh he oh, oh, okay, why don't you do that?

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I mean, there's there's easier ways.

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Speaker 1: To go, there's more peaceful ways to go. But hurling

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Speaker 1: yourself into a jet engine.

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Speaker 3: No, that would be wouldn't that be painful?

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Speaker 1: Oh and messy? Yikes? Who gave him that idea? I

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Speaker 1: don't know what.

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Speaker 2: So yeah he if the story is right, Uh so

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Speaker 2: they he just threw himself into the engine and that's it.

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Speaker 3: Oh, that's an awful way to go.

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Speaker 1: That is it's it's like a huge blender. Oh that yeah. No, no, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: all right. When we come back, we're gonna have Rick

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Speaker 1: Caruso on.

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Speaker 2: And Rick is not only owns the Grove and many

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Speaker 2: other real estate projects that are wildly successful. Ran for

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Speaker 2: mayor lost to Karen Bass, worst decision voter have ever

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Speaker 2: made in the history of the United States of America.

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Speaker 2: And now, while Bass flounders around and botches up everything

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Speaker 2: in sight, especially the Palisades rebuild after being absent during

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Speaker 2: the fire, Rick has put together Steadfast LA, which is

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Speaker 2: a nonprofit organization that tries to connect all the Palisades

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Speaker 2: and Altadena residents with I don't know, we're trying to

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Speaker 2: get their their homes rebuilt because there's so much in

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Speaker 2: the way. We're going to talk to Rick. Since Bass

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Speaker 2: and newsome We're having a congratulatory press conference yesterday, and

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Speaker 2: that really they they had nothing to show for it.

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Speaker 2: I knew, some kind of knew that. That's why he

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Speaker 2: ran off to South Carolina a campaign for president today. Well, anyway,

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Speaker 2: Rick's coming up next Deborah Mark Live and the KFI

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Speaker 2: twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the

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