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Speaker 2: It can't be strings attached. It's like, now you have

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Speaker 1: That's your deal. You voted for that, you live with it,

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Speaker 2: Debra has a has a positive story.

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Speaker 4: Little positivity here, right, I mean, it's been such a

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Speaker 1: No, only because I need a rest. Okay, I know

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Speaker 2: Well this justin.

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Speaker 4: A SpaceX rocket launched from Texas within the past hour

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Speaker 4: was apparently lost on takeoff. The spacecraft was a prototype

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Speaker 2: Washed Yeah, lost me, I think, yeah, oh okay, I thought.

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Speaker 3: Well they can't. It's destroyed. It's gone.

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Speaker 2: You said a lot of prototype though, with no people on.

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Speaker 3: No, Yeah, just dummies, rummies.

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Speaker 2: Wrong.

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Speaker 3: Now they're still there.

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Speaker 2: Another Boeing production there.

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Speaker 1: Now we've been telling you about how difficult it's extremely

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Speaker 1: how I want to talk more about this. You know

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Speaker 1: how many robberies in my neighborhood last night?

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Speaker 1: supposed to decarcerrate, rehabilitate. Okay, so how many robberies am

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Speaker 2: Five in a night? Is that enough? Or should I

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Speaker 3: It's ridiculous.

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Speaker 2: You believe this? Now, this is what happens.

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Speaker 1: This is after all these years of dumping people out

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Speaker 7: He called me right back.

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Speaker 4: But you know what, he was so nice, and you

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Another temper vacation spot. Whe were you there this week?

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Speaker 2: Every place you've gone has had some kind of disaster. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Jen Saki. She hosts a show on MSNBC, and he

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Speaker 6: I get it.

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Speaker 2: I'm not naive.

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Speaker 6: I get the California Derangement Center. I've been living that

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Speaker 2: I can handle that.

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Speaker 6: We'll leave that aside. I understand what they're trying to do.

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Speaker 6: I want to work with them. It's not about me.

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Speaker 6: It's about people that we both represent. He represents and

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Speaker 1: I won't spend the money to protect them from fire,

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Speaker 1: but I'm honored in Pratt, how many times do you

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Speaker 1: think he was beat up in seventh grade? That's a

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Speaker 1: good question, isn't Isn't he the kid that everybody would

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Speaker 7: I don't know, because the cheerleaders in high school had

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Speaker 7: what what. The girls liked him, yeah, but the guys.

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Speaker 2: Maybe the guys were jealous and beat him up.

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Speaker 2: I don't think that came out right, but.

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Speaker 3: Isolate that one.

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Speaker 1: Eric, Oh worry, Look you want to we'll bring out

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Speaker 1: your greatest hits. The other you put me to shame

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Speaker 1: with the stuff that comes flying out of your mouth.

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Speaker 1: Here is a list, all right. So he says he's

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Speaker 1: state budget signed into law by Gavin Newsom. Okay, he

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Speaker 1: cut five million dollars in spending on cal fire fuel

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Speaker 1: You got that cut five million dollars, Gavin Newsom, boy,

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Speaker 1: I'm glad he's representing us. He cut four million dollars

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Speaker 1: million dollars funding for a forest data hub, twelve million

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Speaker 1: hardening is when you make your property more resistant to fire.

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Speaker 1: And so just twelve million dollars he cut. In total,

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Speaker 1: We don't do the clearing of brush, we don't do

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Speaker 2: Anyway.

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Speaker 1: She shortchanged the offense of the La Fire Department. He

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Speaker 2: Over the last four years.

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Speaker 1: authorities have repeated declined to fund wildfire prevention evidence. Wildfire

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Speaker 1: looking into this. This has to be followed up. So

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Speaker 2: Oh, how does well? What a title?

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Speaker 1: That is the longer the title, the dimmer the bulb

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Speaker 1: Assistant deputy director, He says, emphasis at each level is

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Speaker 1: In August, cal Fire refused to award three million dollars

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Speaker 1: to offer specific steps. They were going to identify specific

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Speaker 1: steps homeowners can take to reduce the risks of a

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Speaker 1: destructive fire. But CalFire said no, cal Fire was concerned

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Speaker 1: about the high cost of the foundation's proposal.

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Speaker 2: But what's the.

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Speaker 1: Cost now that all the homes have burned? Are they

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Speaker 1: saying two hundred and fifty billion? I mean, we give

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Speaker 1: and whatever money they saved. And I don't know which,

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Speaker 1: you know, I don't know which of these programs would

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Speaker 1: work or not. But it seems that the theme of

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Speaker 1: all the news stories, almost all the news stories.

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Speaker 2: Is cut cut, cut cut.

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Speaker 1: While the state bloated, state's budget bloated up, the LA

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Speaker 1: City's budget bloated up, and it bloated up on homeless

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Speaker 2: All the rest.

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Speaker 1: But this is the most fire prone state in the Union. Right,

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Speaker 1: it's been legendary ever since it's been settled for you know,

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Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty years plus. How many fires have

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Speaker 1: we seen? Like, like we had a guest on earlier

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Speaker 1: said ninety thirty fires in Malibu over the last ninety years.

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Speaker 1: So why I got a half dozen stories in front

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Speaker 1: of me. I've been reading all week this cut, that cut,

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Speaker 1: everything's cut.

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Speaker 2: It's one of the greatest dangers we have.

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Speaker 1: And they cut, and they give the money to the

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Speaker 1: crowd that starts the fires, the vagrants.

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Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobbels on demand from KFI Am

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Speaker 5: six forty.

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Speaker 1: We're on every day from one until four after four

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Speaker 1: o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand on the Iron app and.

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Speaker 2: Change dot Org.

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Speaker 1: The number of signature demanding the immediate resignation of Karen

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Speaker 1: Bass almost at one hundred and fifty thousand. Oh, we

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Speaker 1: can get there in minutes. One hundred and forty nine

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Speaker 1: five to nineteen. Go to change dot org typing Karen

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Speaker 1: Bass in the search box. It says demand the immediate

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Speaker 1: resignation and one hundred and fifty thousand. It's the next

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Speaker 1: rung on the ladder. So go sign that and demand it.

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Speaker 1: It's not going to cost you anything, you know. One

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Speaker 1: of the things. I don't have a whole lot of

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Speaker 1: time here at the end of the show, but it's

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Speaker 1: a story in the Orange County Register that maybe we'll

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Speaker 1: get to in greater detail tomorrow. There's a story about this,

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Speaker 1: this concept that municipal water systems can't handle the load

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Speaker 1: when it comes to what fired fighters need to put

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Speaker 1: out a large wildfire. That that's not the way a

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Speaker 1: city water system was designed, which may be true, which

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Speaker 1: is why. But you know you can't show up a

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Speaker 1: couple hours late, then yeah, there isn't enough water to

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Speaker 1: spray quickly enough when the winds are blowing hard. But

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Speaker 1: that's why showing up within minutes is so important. Now,

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Speaker 1: I think we'll find out eventually officially, unless they lie,

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Speaker 1: which they might, we'll find out that it was the

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Speaker 1: La Fire Department was understaffed and they did not prepare

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Speaker 1: for a Palisades fire, which they should have. Anybody who

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Speaker 1: tells you that's not high fire danger, you don't know

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Speaker 1: what you're talking about. I live very near there. Yes,

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Speaker 1: high fire danger where I live. I mean, I live

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Speaker 1: in the flats, and we moved out of the hills.

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Speaker 1: We moved out of the hills. It was in La

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Speaker 1: north of Beverly Hills, because part of the reason was

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Speaker 1: high fire danger.

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Speaker 2: And there's no question anybody says that is a liar.

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Speaker 2: So you have.

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Speaker 1: Since La City obviously extends into the hills, then you

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Speaker 1: must have a water system that can handle it. And

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Speaker 1: in fact, that's the second part of the story. They

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Speaker 1: might not be designed to fight wildfires, but maybe they

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Speaker 1: should be. So this goes back to what are we

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Speaker 1: spending the money on. Why don't we have a municipal

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Speaker 1: water system that handles big wildfires since the city is

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Speaker 1: partly in an area prone to big wildfires. It's the

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Speaker 1: cities I tell you about. You know, it's Pacific Palisades,

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Speaker 1: It's Brentwood, it's Westwood, bell Air, Beverly Hills, which is

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Speaker 1: its own thing, into West Hollywood also its own thing,

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Speaker 1: Hollywood Hills. But the county, the county would cover them,

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Speaker 1: I think. And then out east and then on the

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Speaker 1: northern side you have Tarzana and Cino, Sherwan Oaks, Studio City,

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Speaker 2: To the west.

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Speaker 1: And again, if you add up all the money that

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Speaker 1: we spend on illegal aliens and homeless people and climate change.

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Speaker 1: If we just spent one percent of that in l

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Speaker 1: A on the fire department, we would double the budget,

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Speaker 1: double the amount of firefighters, double the amount of engines,

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Speaker 1: and uh, you know a little bit more, and we

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Speaker 1: could we could build a modern municipal water system to

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Speaker 1: handle the wire wildfires and and this is this is

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Speaker 1: what we have to demand in starting with next year's budget.

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Speaker 1: They got to do a massive, massive change and and

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Speaker 1: fund the fire and police like they never had before.

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Speaker 8: Conway he now, hey, now, Alex Stone is coming on

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Speaker 8: with us. We'll talk about the weather in so Cal

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Speaker 8: over the next few days. Patrick O'Neill, what are the

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Speaker 8: voices of the La Kings.

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Speaker 2: You might know his father, Ryan O'Neil.

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Speaker 8: Uh, they just lost their home in Malibu.

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Speaker 2: Oh horrible, that is Yeah, he does all the like

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Speaker 2: the Angel pregame.

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Speaker 8: Shows too, Yes, Angels and uh and also the Kings

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Speaker 8: and and Sharon Belly has been texting him for two years,

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Speaker 8: Hey can you come on?

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Speaker 2: You want to come on?

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Speaker 8: And he kept saying I don't know really much about hockey,

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Speaker 8: and and then she thought that was odd, right, And

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Speaker 8: then he said, And then she said, how you doing

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Speaker 8: with the fires because they lost their family home and

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Speaker 8: he said, I've been living in New York for three years.

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Speaker 8: I don't know what you're talking about. Well, it turns

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Speaker 8: out she was texting the wrong Patrick O'Neill. This is

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Speaker 8: the Patrick O'Neill that owns a racehorse in Kentucky. Oh's

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Speaker 8: that Sharon's a sharp cookie. Every once in a while

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Speaker 8: she one gets away. Yeah, you know, every once in

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Speaker 8: a while. Other than that, man, she's as sharp as.

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Speaker 1: Like somebody named Patrick O'Neill's coming on. There's probably a

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Speaker 1: lot of Patrick O'Neill's in the world. But you know what,

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Speaker 1: but here's something weird. I ran into him in a

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Speaker 1: King game and I introduced myself.

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Speaker 8: I said, hey, we'd love to have you on, but

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Speaker 8: Sharon said, you don't know much about hockey, and he goes, Tim,

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Speaker 8: I'm doing the Kings. I know a lot about hockey.

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Speaker 8: And then Dean Sharp is coming on. That guy's great. Well,

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Speaker 8: he's a custom home designer. You know who's the show

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Speaker 8: home every Saturday and Sunday, and we're going to talk

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Speaker 8: more about prepping your house and getting your house back

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Speaker 8: up on its feet, So what's going on all right?

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Speaker 1: Conway Crozier with the news live in the twenty four

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Speaker 1: hour CAFI Newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the John

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Speaker 1: Covelt Show podcast. You can always hear the show live

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