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Speaker 1: you missed today. Obviously Eclipse Day, although we only got

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Speaker 1: a fifty percent eclipse in LA. It's kind of like

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Speaker 1: having a partly cloudy day. It just it lacks the

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Speaker 1: drama of that I'm seeing on TV where you get

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Speaker 1: and it was still bright out. It was bright out.

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Speaker 1: I stuck my head out a couple of times, and

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Speaker 1: if I didn't know it was an aclipse day, I

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Speaker 1: would not have known by looking. It just seemed a

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Speaker 1: little cloudy in terms of the light we got. So

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Speaker 1: it's a couple of my friends sent me videos from

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Speaker 1: back east, and it was it was much more dramatic.

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Speaker 2: Did you see the picture from the Cleveland Baseball Stadium. No,

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Speaker 2: it looked like a night game. Yeah, and it was

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Speaker 2: the path of totality. It's it's a really big deal.

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Speaker 2: But if you're out here much less so. Now, as

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Speaker 2: far as I know, there was no rioting, no animal sacrifice,

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Speaker 1: But I don't know. Let's talk to Jim Ryan, the

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Speaker 1: ABC News correspondent. He's in Hillsboro, Texas. In the he

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Speaker 1: wasn't the path of totality. Hey, Jim, how are you good?

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Speaker 3: John? How are you?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? So, no, the humans didn't react in any unusual ways.

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Speaker 3: Well, they shut their mouths for a few minutes, you know,

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Speaker 3: as they were standing there and watching this thing. The

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Speaker 3: It was absolutely amazing. You know, we did have some

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Speaker 3: he looked through you could see that that corona, that

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Speaker 3: So it was really dramatic, it was. It was very fascinating, amazing,

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Speaker 3: and I'm glad I got to see that.

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Speaker 1: Well, you you had your glasses on right staring at

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Speaker 3: Well, when you you know, that's the thing I had

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Speaker 3: It did a countdown from ten to one, and then

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Speaker 3: So for four minutes and twenty three seconds, folks in Hillsboro,

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Speaker 1: Wow, that's pretty exciting. Put your glass back on, and

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Speaker 1: then you put your Oh, so you can take your

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Speaker 3: No, but right up until the moment of totality, you

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Speaker 3: It disturbed them, probably surprised how quiet the birds suddenly got.

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Speaker 1: It's easy to snig. There's you know, they don't come

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Speaker 1: up the term bird brain for nothing. No, those things

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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, because I saw a story that said, maybe

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Speaker 3: Well, I'm not going to hold my breath. I hold

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Speaker 1: Wasn't that good? All right? Jim, thank you for coming

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Speaker 3: Thanks John.

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Speaker 1: That is Jim Rant, ABC News correspondent the hills Borough, Texas. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's just it's just hard to connect being out here.

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Speaker 1: You know, last week was the four point eight earthquake

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Speaker 1: So Christina Amira Khalil posted the theory on social media

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Speaker 1: this post went viral millions of views. Nobody could believe

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Speaker 1: what they were seeing. One congressman in Texas, Dan Crenshaw,

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Speaker 1: Holy crap. I was just joking about people blaming climate change,

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Speaker 1: less h One man wrote, Senate candidate Christina Amura, Khalil

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Speaker 1: plates shifting. He's got to explain it because not all

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Speaker 1: I upset a lot of bots. It was such a

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Speaker 1: bad post that X formerly known as Twitter, attached a

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Speaker 1: community note. You know that's when they detect propaganda or

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Speaker 1: incorrect information, nonsense conspiracy theories, and they had to put

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Speaker 1: has often experienced earthquakes. Well, thanks for that. We're coming up.

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Speaker 1: Debra's on vacation. We're not aware that she's been arrested yet.

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Speaker 1: She went to Dubai, so I gave her a list

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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: Coming up later in the show. In the two o'clock hour,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna have Alex Stone from ABC News. This weekend's

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Speaker 1: crumbling Airline entertainment was Southwest. They had an engine cover

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Speaker 1: to see what that's about with Alex Stone from ABC News. Also,

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Speaker 1: we're going to talk in the three o'clock hour to

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Speaker 1: John McKinney, La County Deputy DA. He and another Deputy DA,

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Speaker 1: Maria Ramirez, both ran against George Gascon and they finished

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Speaker 1: three o'clock. Now, how bad a shape are La City finances?

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Speaker 1: If one of the leading socialists in Los Angeles is

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Speaker 1: Safe program is not viable financially. She's putting people in motels,

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Speaker 1: And she admits, we don't, we don't have the money

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Speaker 1: He is upset over police races that the Mirror negotiated

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Speaker 1: and she said she's doing it to help with recruitment.

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Speaker 1: You know her, her idiot predecessor, what was his name,

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Eric Garcetti, the guy who's hiding in India,

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Speaker 1: Michael Morris's leadership. You have you have riots and demonstrations

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Speaker 1: Socialists of America. There's three of these characters on the

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Speaker 1: city council. Mahea is the city controller, and they don't

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Speaker 1: Coming up after three o'clock, we're going to have Alex

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Speaker 1: Jack Welch, and he was a guru like chief executive

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Speaker 1: that other executives worshiped. And he had a very simple

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Speaker 1: theory that a company is in existence, a public company

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Speaker 1: is in existence only to return value to shareholders. In

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Speaker 1: other words, it's only there to jack up the stock price.

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Speaker 1: There is no other purpose to a publicly held company.

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Speaker 1: You're supposed to provide the shareholders with wealth. Because often,

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Speaker 1: and even in this case, what you hear from companies

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Speaker 1: is safety is our highest priority. Well, this investigation made

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Speaker 1: it clear that safety was not the highest priority at

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Speaker 1: Boeing and hasn't been for a lot long time. Over

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Speaker 1: ten years. It was the return on investment for shareholders

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Speaker 1: of the Boeing stock, and that one of the CEOs

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Speaker 1: for Boeing who left a few years back, but he

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Speaker 1: was a disciple of Jack Welch. He found the engineers,

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Speaker 1: he called them a holes. Thought they were very smart

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Speaker 1: and well educated and well meeting and all that, but

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Speaker 1: basically a holes. Why did he feel this way because

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Speaker 1: they were sticklers for safety. There were sticklers for constructing

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Speaker 1: the planes properly so you wouldn't have the kind of

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Speaker 1: trouble we've had for the last few months. And he

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Speaker 1: wanted to get rid of these guys. You know, he

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Speaker 1: admired that they were exceptionally good at what they did,

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Speaker 1: but that got the way of making money. And it

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Speaker 1: sounds like a cliche. All they cared about was the money.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's an easy thing to say about any

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Speaker 1: was religious doctrine. They really didn't care ultimately about the

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Speaker 1: reputation of the company, the safety of the company. You know,

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Speaker 1: if a plane fell from the sky every once in

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Speaker 1: a while, huh, what are you going to do? As

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Speaker 1: long as the quarterly profits kept the stock price increasing

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Speaker 1: and the shareholders made money. It was shareholders over customers,

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Speaker 1: shareholders over employees. And the thing is the shareholders didn't

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Speaker 1: even know that they were in such an exalted state,

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Speaker 1: because you know, most people, if you own stocks, you

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Speaker 1: owned a little tiny slivers of the company, maybe through

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Speaker 1: a mutual fund, maybe invested through a four oh one K.

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Speaker 1: There are bigger institutional investors, obviously, but even then you're

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Speaker 1: you're talking about an investment company owning a piece of

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Speaker 1: an airline company. It's not specific individuals getting getting huge benefits.

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Speaker 1: It's it's it just was a philosophy that was ironclad.

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Speaker 1: He fired the old CEO, fired people who were brilliant

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Speaker 1: at being engineers because it cost him too much money.

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Speaker 1: He didn't want he didn't want to hear about anything else.

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Speaker 1: So the truth is that they don't hold safety as

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Speaker 1: the highest priority. They haven't for quite a while. That's

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Speaker 1: a complete lie. It's just something that you put in

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Speaker 1: a press release when reporters call you up after the

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Speaker 1: latest accident, just say we put safety as our highest priority.

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Speaker 1: Edyer goes, yeah, yeah, I guess they do. That's not

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Speaker 1: you should see these stories. It's absolutely not true. It's

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Speaker 1: the opposite. In fact that they harass and punish and

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Speaker 1: demote employees who insist on safety at Boeing. That's what

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Speaker 1: they've done for years. That's what the whistleblowers have been saying.

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Speaker 1: All Right, we come back. We'll talk to Alex Stone

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Speaker 1: about what happened on this Denver flight, and Deborah Wark's

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Speaker 1: off today, but Heather Brooker's live the KFI twenty four

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