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Speaker 2: five Freeway is shut down all the way to the

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Speaker 2: Grapevine now, just looking at the latest bulletins. Fully closed

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Speaker 2: air tankers, eight of them. So they're sending eight National

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Speaker 2: Guard air tankers to attack this gigantic fire in It's

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Speaker 2: called the Hughes Fire. It's near Lake Hughes Staic on

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Speaker 1: It is massive.

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Speaker 2: They've evacuated or ordered evacuations of nineteen thousand people. The

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Speaker 2: video is spectacular. The high wind warnings are in effect

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Speaker 1: And over and.

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Speaker 2: Every possible red flag fire warning is in effect.

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Speaker 1: We will give you more.

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Speaker 2: Michael Monks is coming on with a detailed report after

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Speaker 2: three point thirty. Debor will provide all the bulletins between

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Speaker 2: now and then, and let's go to uh.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to the phone.

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Speaker 2: Are Tom McClintock, who's uh has been a US congressman

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Speaker 2: in northern California for years and been on our show

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Speaker 2: for it seems like decades, Tom, Are you.

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Speaker 3: There, Yes, right here, Johnny, it has been decades.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been a long time, and you're one of

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Speaker 2: our favorite guests there there. There's so much to cover

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Speaker 2: in so short a time. Let me let me ask

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Speaker 2: you first with what Trump is doing this this immigration,

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Speaker 2: the set of executive orders are overwhelming. There's not enough

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Speaker 2: time to go through all the different policies that he's

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Speaker 2: changing or implementing. I mean, this is gone, this is

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Speaker 2: already underway. I saw Tom Holman, heard him speak on

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Speaker 2: Fox this morning. They've already rounded up hundreds of criminals.

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Speaker 2: Talk about the size of this illegal immigration operation that

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Speaker 2: Trump and Homan are launching.

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Speaker 3: Well, we've had, as you know, the most massive illegal

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Speaker 3: mass migration in recorded history, and that is now under Biden,

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Speaker 3: and that's now requiring the greatest repatriation effort in history.

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Speaker 3: And that's what the Donald Trump was elected to do,

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Speaker 3: and that's what he has been doing since noon on Monday.

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Speaker 3: It's there's there's nothing complicated about it. It's simply enforcing

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Speaker 3: immigration law. If you're not going to enforce your immigration laws,

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Speaker 3: you don't have immigration laws. If you don't have immigration laws,

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Speaker 3: you don't have borders. And you don't have borders, you

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Speaker 3: don't have a country. And that's the danger we've been

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Speaker 3: running for these last four years. And and and thank

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Speaker 3: god God, that national nightmare ended at noon on Monday.

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Speaker 3: Trump proved in his first administration that we have the

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Speaker 3: laws in place as long as they're enforced to secure

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Speaker 3: our border. The problem is, Joe Biden proved that a

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Speaker 3: president who is willing to make a mockery of our

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Speaker 3: immigration laws and open our borders can do that as well.

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Speaker 3: So I have no doubts that that Donald Trump, on

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Speaker 3: his own authority, will secure our borders. But the Congress

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Speaker 3: now has to act to assure that this never happens again,

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Speaker 3: and that no president in the future can ever do

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Speaker 3: to our country what Joe Biden did.

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Speaker 2: And what must they do because my understanding is that

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Speaker 2: the president has absolute authority over the border, you know,

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Speaker 2: through the constitution and Supreme Court rulings and congressional laws

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Speaker 2: in the past. What is missing here to keep Biden

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Speaker 3: Well, a large number of things. In fact, we just

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Speaker 3: President for signature. What that says is that if any

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Speaker 3: taken into custody. The President has no discretion. They have

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Speaker 2: So is that going to force the City of Los

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Speaker 2: you still have council people here making noises about this

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Speaker 3: Well, they are not required to cooperate with federal authorities,

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Speaker 3: And I think what we're going to see is, you know,

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Speaker 3: Tom Holme has made this very clear, any local official

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Speaker 3: to go after this whole sanctuary nonsense. You know, sanctuary

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Speaker 3: policies do not protect the immigrant community. They protect the

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Speaker 2: So is there any way that ICE can tract people

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Speaker 3: Now, that is a good question. I don't know the

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Speaker 3: through the court system, have been ordered deported, and that

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Speaker 3: the Biden administration simply refused to enforce those deportation orders.

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Speaker 3: That's going to be one of the targets. The other

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Speaker 3: detained but aren't there at large, hundred thousand of them

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Speaker 1: Currently in the US. They have records and they haven't

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Speaker 3: Correct. And remember the i NA requires Immigration and Nationality

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Speaker 3: Act requires of any illegal alien to be detained while

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Speaker 3: their case is being heard. That was the beauty of

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Speaker 3: the remains in Mexico policy under the first Trump administration.

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Speaker 3: It took the incentive of making phony asylum claims out

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Speaker 3: They had to remain in Mexico while their case was

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Speaker 3: being adjudicated. Of course, that that process is now backlog

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Speaker 3: by five or six years. Trump has just reinstated that

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Speaker 3: a huge effect on drying up all of these phony

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 2: The deadline to close all the federal diversity offices passed

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Speaker 2: about an hour and fifteen minutes ago. How does how

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Speaker 2: does that change the way the government operates a lot

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Speaker 2: of people don't understand exactly what all these all these

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Speaker 2: Like what what was the purpose? And what's what's how's

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean, obviously their purpose was to judge people

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Speaker 3: And it was promoted under the Biden administration, and it

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Speaker 1: What did these people do all day? Do you know?

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Speaker 2: I assume most of them are working from home to

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Speaker 1: Homes all day.

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Speaker 3: No, And actually I think what they did was highly

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Speaker 3: You know, there's only one race in this country. It's

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Speaker 3: enormously unifying effect. And then you raised the other question.

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Speaker 3: We have an awful lot of employees throughout the bureaucracy

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Speaker 3: of if they're at home, one really has to ask

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Speaker 2: Let me ask you one more thing before we got

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Speaker 2: we have a new fire, raging and castaic right now,

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Speaker 2: what is your what are your thoughts on Trump if

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Speaker 2: he's going to authorize aid to Los Angeles, for example,

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Speaker 2: for the Palisades fire in La County, for the Altadena fire,

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Speaker 2: strings attached. Some of the politicians here are appalled there

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Speaker 2: might be strings attached. But considering the way Newsom in

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Speaker 3: I think the American people are going to demand it too.

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Speaker 3: I think people California are going to demand it. I mean, first,

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Speaker 3: And second, the policies that produced this catastrophe have got

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Speaker 3: through grazing, through cutting fire brakes, fireproofing power lines. Without

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Speaker 3: these reforms, we're going to continue to see catastrophic fires

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Speaker 3: destroying our community. There's an old thing. You can't fill

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Speaker 3: some point you've got to fix the bucket, all.

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Speaker 1: Right, Tom good talking with you. Thank you for coming on.

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Speaker 3: Same here, John, thanks for having me.

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Speaker 2: Congressman Tom McClintock from northern California. Michael Munks is going

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Speaker 2: to have extensive fire coverage coming up after three thirty.

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Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM

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Speaker 2: We're covering this massive Hues fire up by Lake Hughes,

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Speaker 2: Castaic region. The five is shut down in both directions

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Speaker 2: through the grapevine and visually there. It is a spectacular

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Speaker 2: fire with long snakes of flames.

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Speaker 1: Let's see Fox eleven.

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Speaker 2: It's being blown by sant Ana wins that are thirty

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Speaker 2: plus in gusts. It's all brush right now. It's a

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Speaker 2: tremendous amount of extremely dry brush. Humidity levels over the

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Speaker 2: next twenty four hours supposed to drop to about three percent,

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Speaker 2: and Fox eleven has a shows the firefighters trying to

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Speaker 2: I guess, set up some kind of fire line along

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Speaker 2: the edge of Lake Hughes Road, but it's a total inferno,

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Speaker 2: enormous amount of smoke. Obviously homes are threatened, but I

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Speaker 2: guess not imminently. And nineteen thousand people were told to evacuate,

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Speaker 2: which is pretty much the whole population of Castea. But

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Speaker 5: Here at well now that fifty three hundred acres, maybe more,

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Speaker 2: Northbound Interstate five all ways closed just north or Route

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Speaker 2: They have an evacuation point at Hart High School, which

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Speaker 1: Now it's five.

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Speaker 2: Now it's five, it was four, and now it's going

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Speaker 1: Have you ever been out on the lake at Castak, John, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: It is really a beautiful area up there. When the

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Speaker 2: It is beautiful, and it's everything's on fire right now.

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Speaker 2: They're even evacuating a prison, which can only mean good things.

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Speaker 2: Right when we come back, Michael Monks is going to

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Speaker 2: do an extended report on everything that's happening in the fire.

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Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM

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Speaker 2: There's going to be a news conference coming up at

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Speaker 2: five o'clock on this Hughes fire near Kistaic. Until then,

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Speaker 2: the next best thing is Michael Munks here from KFI News.

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Speaker 2: He's got all these sheets of paper spread in front

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Speaker 1: Take it away.

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Speaker 2: What's gone on today and what's going to be happening

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Speaker 6: Well, here's the situation. Another national event happening right here

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Speaker 6: When the Hughes fire near kist broke out a little

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Speaker 6: this thing blew up fast. It started to spread rapidly.

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Speaker 6: this thing spreads. Those evacuation zones have spread to Ventura County,

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Speaker 1: They're battling this thing from the air.

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Speaker 6: I'll note that we haven't seen any official word on

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Speaker 6: But the winds are a problem still, ye, I mean,

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Speaker 2: They said they had the Palisades that the winds are

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Speaker 2: These are still Santa Ana winds, but they are not

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Speaker 1: Miles per hour up to about forty two miles power.

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Speaker 6: Now that's a good gust of wind that can bother

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Speaker 1: The forecast is.

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Speaker 1: We're still in these conditions.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, So like we just saw that Griffith Park has closed,

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Speaker 6: And John, as you know, we've got maybe a little

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Speaker 2: The status of the Palisades and the Eaten fire now

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Speaker 6: That's what it looks like. Those fires are not out right,

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Speaker 6: haven't seen any destruction to residences yet. This is a

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Speaker 1: We haven't seen.

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Speaker 6: We haven't seen any reports of that yet. An entertainment,

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Speaker 2: Yeah spectaculator watch, but it's burned almost one hundred percent

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Speaker 1: It absolutely has.

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Speaker 6: And you know, schools, students have been evacuated, some inmates

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, no, I have no faith in any agency

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Speaker 2: Michael Monks, CAFFI News, Thank you very much. I mentioned

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Speaker 1: Did you jump? I actually I did jump, because.

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Speaker 2: When you're on zoom, you assume that the other person

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Speaker 2: And I had to double track right away. It's like,

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Speaker 2: And they are really as good as it gets when

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Speaker 1: Uh, And there's just no hope that.

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Speaker 2: And if we have another fire or another calamity of

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Speaker 2: And at one point she she seemed really stunned that

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: It was almost like Grandma suddenly coming to terms with

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Speaker 1: One of the things.

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Speaker 2: The last paragraph of this news story that the organization

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Speaker 2: by all.

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Speaker 1: So I thought of you know, just in case I

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Speaker 2: I was overwhelmingly unimpressed by the presentation, and I hung

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Speaker 2: have no confidence that if we have another fire tonight,

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Speaker 2: an earthquake, any kind of natural disaster or human disaster

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Speaker 2: or riot or whatever whatever nature and Hu mannikin unleash

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Speaker 2: the current Bass administration and much of the city council,

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Speaker 2: the bureaucracies, the agencies. Everyone is understaffed, underfunded, many of

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Speaker 2: them are clueless, and there has to be a massive change.

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Speaker 2: And the same thing for the county. We talked about

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Speaker 2: the Altadena Finer fire and how West Altadena got evacuation

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Speaker 2: warnings nine hours after the fire was already burning homes.

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Speaker 2: Nine hours later, seventeen people died. All the people that

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Speaker 2: died in the Altadena fire lived west of Lake Avenue.

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Speaker 2: They did not get evacuation warnings until three in the morning.

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Speaker 2: The fire was burning in the six and seven o'clock

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Speaker 2: hour of the night before all the all the erroneous

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Speaker 2: evacuation warnings that went out, and then the ones that

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Speaker 2: mattered were many hours late.

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Speaker 1: I mean the the reservoir that was empty.

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Speaker 2: It's just the firefighters that weren't dispatched to the palisades,

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Speaker 2: the engines that weren't dispatched, the one hundred engines that

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Speaker 2: are in the garage that need to be fixed, but

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Speaker 2: they don't have mechanics. LA fire department is half funded,

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Speaker 2: the police department is at least fifteen hundred officers short,

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Speaker 2: and for the goal of what they need for the Olympics,

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Speaker 2: more like thirty five hundred short.

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Speaker 1: This is a disaster. The city is broke.

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Speaker 2: They're going to be borrowing money to cover the fire

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Speaker 2: expenses until the federal government bails them out. And you

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Speaker 2: bet Trump is going to put conditions on the money

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Speaker 2: for Bass and Newsome, and he should because these two

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Speaker 2: are massively responsible and incompetent. And I'm going to say

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Speaker 2: that every day, really loud, until the two of them

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Speaker 2: get out, we get replaced by somebody good.

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Speaker 1: I don't want.

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Speaker 2: I don't want just Newsom junior, like Rob Bonta, the

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Speaker 2: attorney general, or one of those city council clowns to

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Speaker 2: replace Bass. There's got to be an entirely different type

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Speaker 2: of person.

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Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM

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Speaker 4: six forty.

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Speaker 1: Well, and you get home tonight, you want to watch something.

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Speaker 2: You can watch my wife's video podcast, Debora Cobet Live.

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Speaker 1: I'm the guest.

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Speaker 2: We talk about the fires recently and the Trump administration

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Speaker 2: coming in. So it's Debora Cobet Life on YouTube. So

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Speaker 2: go to YouTube and you can watch it. And we

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Speaker 2: had a good discussion about those matters, and she does

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Speaker 2: a good show. You should be watching all the time.

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Speaker 2: All right, Conway's coming up in minutes. The fire is

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Speaker 2: now up to eight thousand acres and fifteen thousand people

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Speaker 2: under evacuation orders. This is in the Castaic region, the

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Speaker 2: Hughes Fire near Lake Hughes on the eating fire of

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Speaker 2: the Altadena Fire. In case you missed it, a judge

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Speaker 2: has ordered up in California not to destroy any data,

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Speaker 2: equipment or evidence related to that fire. Investigators have been

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Speaker 2: looking at the at the base of an electrical tower

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Speaker 2: that that might have been the start of the fire.

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Speaker 2: And and a judge told Edison, and the judge's name

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Speaker 2: is ashphoch uh Chattery and and and and Edison was

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Speaker 2: was fighting it saying no, no, no, how dare you?

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Speaker 1: How dare you say we would destroy evidence?

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Speaker 7: But they were trying to contest the restraining order, Well

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Speaker 7: what are you contesting the restraining order for? And then

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Speaker 7: trying to convince this that you're not going to destroy

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Speaker 7: the evidence of the fire's origin.

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Speaker 2: Power companies still, after all these years, still starting fires.

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Speaker 2: Conway's here, Hey, now, hey, I we're going to talk

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Speaker 2: about this fire. Obviously I think it's uh, you know,

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Speaker 2: pretty well contained. They've got under control.

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Speaker 8: Fortunately went toward towards Lake Casteak, so that was a

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Speaker 8: big natural block there.

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Speaker 1: But they've got to stop scaring the f out of everybody.

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Speaker 1: They've got to stop doing this.

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Speaker 8: They they had evacuation, a mandatory evacuation, not has come

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Speaker 8: out to West Hills. That's thirty five miles today. It

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Speaker 8: happened today. Another one happened. This guy is in the

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Speaker 8: guy who sent me an email, he said he's in

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Speaker 8: the evacuation zone. He lives on Sawmill Motor Road. Not

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Speaker 8: familiar with it, so I looked it up. That's in Palmdale, Palmdale.

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Speaker 8: That fire is moving away from him and he's in Palmdale.

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Speaker 8: He got an evacuation with them and then.

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Speaker 2: You get these things with all these codes now and

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Speaker 2: the codes are indecipherable.

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Speaker 8: And this fire is burning again towards the Lake Casteak.

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Speaker 8: They've got it on both sides. And look, I don't

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Speaker 8: question a lot of what these guys do, but they

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Speaker 8: got to open that five freeway up pretty quick. There's

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Speaker 8: a lot of truckers that are making a living. They

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Speaker 8: can fly through this thing. Yeah, I don't know, but

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Speaker 8: it's but that fire is forty two miles away from

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Speaker 8: Palm Dye or you know as the crow flies, maybe

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Speaker 8: thirty five and and the and the fire is burning

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Speaker 8: away from him.

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Speaker 1: And he got an evacuation notice. I think what it is.

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Speaker 8: The areas are too big. They've got to split them up.

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Speaker 8: The areas are too big. So if you encroach it,

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Speaker 8: like five feet into another county or another city, they

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Speaker 8: give the whole city the evacuation notice.

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Speaker 2: And this guy's nowhere near it. Yeah, and well there's

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Speaker 2: no humans involved in sending out the warnings. It all

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Speaker 2: comes out of right, you know, computer software.

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Speaker 8: And some of these reporters are wearing those those yellow

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Speaker 8: fire jackets and they're nine miles from the fire.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's like there seems to be a lot of

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Speaker 2: show going. Yeah, there is, there's there's reporters you like

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Speaker 2: to do that. It's it's odd, it really is.

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Speaker 1: And you know what it does.

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Speaker 8: It scares the f out of everybody up there. It

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Speaker 8: scares the hell out of the kids, and and and

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Speaker 8: it and these kids are gonna grow up to be

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Speaker 8: nervous wrecks. You know, they're gonna be all crazy. They're

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Speaker 8: gonna be all masked up and goggled and you know,

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Speaker 8: gloves and everything their whole life.

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Speaker 2: Imagine can you imagine me and kid growing up in

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Speaker 2: this era? No, it's impossible. Last five years and it locked.

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Speaker 8: And when your parents are all hysterical about global warming

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Speaker 8: all the time, I know, got them mighty, that's going

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Speaker 8: to be a mentally ill generation.

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Speaker 1: Crew takes over.

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Speaker 8: Monks is coming on with us, and we have a

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Speaker 8: pressor at five o'clock, and then Dean Sharp and then

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Speaker 8: Todd Spitzer, your buddy, Yash Spitzer's coming on with us. Yeah,

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Speaker 8: by the way, real quick before we go, Before you go, buddy,

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Speaker 8: you've been living in la for how long?

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Speaker 1: Thirty two years now, and it's not better than when

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Speaker 1: you got here.

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Speaker 8: No, I think it's time for you to move out

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Speaker 8: of the city of la and I think we have

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Speaker 8: to put together go fund me.

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Speaker 1: If you don't know the can for you, it was

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Speaker 1: me all right.

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Speaker 8: You have not you have not seen the the tea leaves,

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Speaker 8: you've not written, you've not read the tea leaves.

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Speaker 1: It might be time to go.

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