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Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 2: Now you may have heard it that Luigia Mangione is

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Speaker 2: beneficially indicted by a grand jury in New York for

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Speaker 2: murder and the case of Brian Thompson getting shot to

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Speaker 2: death by Mangione. I can say that because I saw

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Speaker 2: it with my own eyes on videotape. Yeah, he's the

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Speaker 2: United Healthcare CEO. Now, not only was he charged with

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Speaker 2: first degree murder, they charged him in furtherance of terrorism,

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Speaker 2: also second degree murder, which includes killing as an act

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Speaker 2: of terrorism, criminal possession of a weapon, and other crimes.

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Speaker 2: They put in the terrorism charge in part because New

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Speaker 2: York has a lot of scree rules, screwy laws, and

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Speaker 2: I don't want to get into the weeds with all

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Speaker 2: the details, but generally we all know first degree murder

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Speaker 2: is premeditated. You had a plan and then you carried

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Speaker 2: out the plan, where second degree murder is a more

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Speaker 2: spontaneous decision, more like an act of passion. You didn't

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Speaker 2: wake up that morning planning to kill, but you did so.

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Speaker 1: Well.

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Speaker 2: In New York, first degree murder is only for certain cases,

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Speaker 2: such as shooting a police officer or witness killing a

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Speaker 2: witness killing a police officer, and there had been speculation

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Speaker 2: though in the traditional use of that term it seemed obvious.

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Speaker 2: So that's why alvid Bragg decided to add in furtherance

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Speaker 2: of terrorism or an act of terrorism, which it was

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Speaker 2: too because this was a cause that he was following

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Speaker 2: through on, but it's also a way to get him

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Speaker 2: a longer guaranteed prison sentence anyway they're going to He

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Speaker 2: was already charged with murder, but the terror allegation was

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Speaker 1: In the grand jury indictment.

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Speaker 2: In New York, you get a terror allegation when the

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Speaker 2: crime is intended to or intimidate or coerce a civilian population,

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Speaker 2: or influence the policies of a unit of government by intimidation,

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Speaker 2: if he's convicted on these murder charges. Alvid Bragg finally

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Speaker 2: found a criminal he wants to put away. He called

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Speaker 2: the killing brazen and premeditated, frightening, well planned, targeted murder.

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Speaker 1: So it's impossible to.

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Speaker 2: Understand how man Jean could ever get out of this

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Speaker 2: one unless, of course, jury nullification dury nullification is what

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Speaker 2: happened in the oj trial. You had a jury who

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Speaker 2: decided to ignore all the facts of the case and

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Speaker 2: they thought they had a more important cause that they

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Speaker 2: more important cause, which was sending LAPD a message that

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Speaker 2: the days of abuse, in their mind were over, that

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Speaker 2: this is what we're going to do. We're going to

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Speaker 2: start releasing murderers because of the unfair treatment that LAPD

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Speaker 1: And if you're.

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Speaker 2: Thinking that this sounds outrageous to suggest there could be

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Speaker 2: nullification dury nullification in the Luigi Mangion case, it's not.

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Speaker 2: That's what hit me today. Emerson College has a poll out.

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Speaker 2: They have a pretty large polling unit, and they survey

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Speaker 2: at one thousand registered voters and among those eighteen to

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Speaker 1: All right, so this would be.

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Speaker 2: Adults under thirty forty one percent believe that the murder

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Speaker 2: sink in. Forty one percent of adults under thirty say

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Speaker 1: You just made the cut. I did, you just squeaked by.

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Speaker 1: There's no chance I think this is acceptable.

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Speaker 2: What the hell's wrong with everybody who came behind you.

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Speaker 1: That's a great question. Wow, their parents wants to drop

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Speaker 2: Nineteen percent said they're neutral on the question neutral.

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Speaker 2: So you have forty one percent who thinks it's acceptable,

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Speaker 1: Hey was an executive, he was a CEO. He had it.

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Speaker 4: Coming because people don't like him because he made a

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Speaker 4: I mean, I don't like insurance companies. I don't know

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Speaker 3: The CEOs of insurance companies.

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Speaker 2: You know, I'm looking at this other thing because you

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Speaker 2: you grew up getting most of your news from television

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Speaker 2: I don't know. Three quarters of Americans under thirty get

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Speaker 3: Maybe I need to do a newscast on TikTok.

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Speaker 1: Uh better get it in while you can before it's banned.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, right, January nineteenth, that might be a good idea

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you're going to get your news from an influence.

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Speaker 2: I guess everybody's running their own news service now and

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Speaker 2: think they're getting news from TikTok. Yeah, even though it

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Speaker 3: If you want real news, you come here k IF.

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Speaker 1: Five and you don't want anybody killed.

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Speaker 5: I do not.

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Speaker 1: Well, well, you.

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Speaker 3: Know you know where I stand on not CEOs. I'm

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Speaker 3: not saying that some of the idiots on.

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Speaker 1: The road right exactly.

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Speaker 2: I think you you hurled death threats on your way

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Speaker 1: I don't know that.

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Speaker 2: That just really shocked me because that means people under thirty,

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Speaker 2: and it doesn't matter about the you know, the and

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Speaker 2: you know the news industry has discredited itself so many times,

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Speaker 2: all their bogus stories over the years. I mean, they

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Speaker 2: it's permanently hurt them. They've lost a lot of credibility

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Speaker 4: But you have to have some common sense and knowing

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Speaker 4: it's not okay just to go gun down a CEO of.

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Speaker 3: An insurance company. I mean, you really you need to know.

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Speaker 2: There's a woman named Taylor Lorenz. Have you ever heard

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Speaker 2: she has like her own communications online right and she said,

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Speaker 2: if you watched a loved one die because of an

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Speaker 2: you remember all the TikTok comments I was telling you

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Speaker 2: what struck me. Is like, No, it looks like, you know,

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Speaker 1: Shoot the guy in the back again.

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Speaker 4: I understand people's frustration because I feel it too, with

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Speaker 4: pre existing conditions. I could understand why somebody would be

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Speaker 4: I would be I'd be furious. But you can't you

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Speaker 2: Taylor of the Wrens again, she's the former Washington postwriter,

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Speaker 2: think that's why I felt, along with so many other Americans'

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Speaker 2: joy after Thompson was murdered, unfortunately, and she was being

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Speaker 2: interviewed by Piers Morgan and he said, how can this

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Speaker 2: been gunned down in the middle of Manhattan. Why does

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Speaker 2: that make you feel joyful?

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Speaker 1: But it does. People openly celebrated, and I.

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Speaker 2: Thought they were just acting up for their social media feed,

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Speaker 2: just to be controversial and cool and all that. No,

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Speaker 2: they really meant it. They're happy he's dead. They think

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Speaker 2: All right, so almost sixty percent of the country. And

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Speaker 2: there's like way too much there's way too much internet,

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Speaker 2: there's way too much television. Everybody's filling time with all

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Speaker 2: sorts of ridiculous, absurd theories on the election. It is

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Speaker 2: it's ee even it's like, no, it's not.

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Speaker 2: The percentage of people who strongly approved of Joe Biden's

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Speaker 2: A lot of that's your fault because people just are

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Speaker 2: That is the damage that transgender ad did to Kamala Harris.

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Speaker 2: That was absolutely devastating because that is what people have felt,

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Speaker 2: they have known for all these years. Too much on

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Speaker 2: to run on that, you're gonna lose, and you're gonna

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Speaker 2: lose badly. It's only gonna get worse. Shut up about

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Speaker 2: it already, Stop it. There's nothing new to say, and

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Speaker 2: nobody wants to hear you say it anymore.

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Speaker 1: So I'm looking here.

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Speaker 2: They what they did is they scored the relative importance

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Speaker 2: Inflation too high under Biden, too many immigrants crossing. Kamala

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Speaker 2: coming out and saying I was born in a middle

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Speaker 1: Did you hear I was born That's not a policy.

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Speaker 1: That is not a policy.

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Speaker 2: Other important issues, the debt rose too much under the

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Speaker 2: Biden Harris administration. Yeah, Kamala Harris is too similar to

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Speaker 2: Joe Biden. Yes, Kamala would let in too many immigrants. Yes,

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Speaker 2: there you go, two issues economy, inflation and immigration.

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Speaker 1: That's it.

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Speaker 2: All other analysis is idiotic, stupid. I've seen black men

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Speaker 2: most everyone's saying was fed up with the inflation. Sixty

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Speaker 1: Stop it.

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Speaker 2: Focus on what matters when you when you cover elections,

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Speaker 2: Right now. Gavin Newsom recently bought a nine million dollar

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Speaker 2: He only makes two hundred thousand dollars a year. The

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Speaker 2: Now we know, you know, he has businesses and he

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Speaker 2: was financed originally by the Gettys. But still, what's going

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Speaker 2: on here? A nine million dollar house? Katie Grimes from

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Speaker 2: California Globe. It's trying to unravel this mystery, Katie, How are.

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Speaker 5: You, hi, John doing well?

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Speaker 2: This is this is galling, absolutely galling. You know, the

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Speaker 2: And meantime, this guy just bought a nine million dollar house.

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Speaker 1: How can you afford this? How does this work?

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Speaker 5: Well, I'm asking these questions too, I mean kind of

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Speaker 5: the title of my article was how did California Governor

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Speaker 5: Gavin Newsom by a nine point one million dollar home

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Speaker 5: on a public servant salary? Yes, we know that, you know,

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Speaker 5: he has some businesses, And I say that pretty loosely

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Speaker 5: because the you know, the primary investor in everything he's

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Speaker 5: it's not like he's some entrepreneurial guy who's you know,

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Speaker 5: he's been in government since nineteen ninety six, and kind

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Speaker 5: this is just one of those cases. A nine million

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 5: Yes, plenty of tracked houses now are going for you know,

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Speaker 5: a nine million dollar home that's not your average really

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Speaker 2: No, it's it's fifty six hundred square feet.

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Speaker 2: And he I mean he was living in a twelve

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and the Serramento or Sacramento.

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Speaker 1: So this is his health.

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Speaker 2: They're downsizing here, going from twelve thousand to about fifty

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Speaker 5: Well, they tremendously upgraded their neighborhood. They're back in Marin County,

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Speaker 5: But what's so interesting about this is this is almost

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Speaker 5: the same way that the three point seven million dollar

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Speaker 5: an LLC also at that time, this one was run

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Speaker 5: cash for that estate in December twenty eighteen. Then they

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Speaker 5: then the LLC gifted the home to the Newsoms free

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Speaker 5: But then mister and missus Newsom, I know this is

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Speaker 2: His cousin has an LLC, pays three point seven million

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Speaker 2: but Newsom is a member of the LLC, so he

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Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, because he can't even do that.

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Speaker 5: We really need, I desperately need a forendic accountant to

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Speaker 5: that's the rabbit hole I might be going down. Because

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Speaker 5: then mister and missus Newsom or the first partner, they

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Speaker 5: took out a cash out refinance of that three point

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Speaker 5: all right, how they get money.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so they refinanced and the house had increased so

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Speaker 5: Yeah, because it was the LLC that he was a

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Speaker 1: Got to pay taxes on LLC profits too, I know.

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Speaker 5: But what's so interesting also is that they also had

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Speaker 2: Wait, they were delinquent on their property taxes.

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yes, and he's actually so all.

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Speaker 2: Right, and they manipulate the system to avoid the transfer tax.

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Speaker 1: Oh, this is bad stuff. Yes, you're the only person.

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Speaker 1: You're the only person I know that's writing about this.

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Speaker 5: Well, I do believe our friend Jennifer van Lauret red

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Speaker 5: And this is what this. He just operates like in

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Speaker 5: a whole different world. And kind of the point of

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Speaker 1: This is particularly egregious and obnoxious.

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Speaker 5: Yes it is, Yeah, it is both.

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Speaker 1: So the does does he get do we know?

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Speaker 2: Does he get paid out of this LLC's purchasing the homes?

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Speaker 1: So the LC is going to pay the taxes?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, And that's why I said I really could use

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Speaker 5: I mean it's just and last time around, the Fair

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Speaker 5: Political Practices Commission just kind of ignored the fact that

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Speaker 5: he got this major gift of well over five hundred

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Speaker 5: reportable dollars. And so again it's not operating the way

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Speaker 5: it would for you or me. For Gavin Newsom, is.

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Speaker 2: He really going to run for president on his record

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Speaker 2: on the state. With the condition that California's in, he's

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Speaker 2: actually going to campaign and say, hey, look what I

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Speaker 2: did in this state. I just I can't understand any

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Speaker 2: of this.

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Speaker 5: I can't either, because, yeah, I mean, we live it.

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Speaker 5: We're stuck in the traffic, We're stuck with the high

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Speaker 5: gas prices, We're stuck with the crappy schools and the

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Speaker 5: terrible roads and crumbling infrastructure and homeless everywhere you turn.

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Speaker 5: But yeah, I don't see how he can run on it.

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Speaker 5: But he thinks he's you know, he thinks he's above

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Speaker 5: it all and that America is just waiting for him.

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Speaker 2: Well, that is a pretty serious delusion. That is serious

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Speaker 2: mental illness. But he's getting away with this. He's the

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Speaker 2: one in the nine million.

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Speaker 5: Dollar house exactly, and you're not.

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Speaker 1: And we're going to have people.

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Speaker 2: Are gonna have to earn an extra thousand dollars a

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Speaker 2: year to cover the gas price increase next year.

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Speaker 1: One thousand dollars a year.

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Speaker 2: And already sixty percent of the country is having serious

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Speaker 2: debt problems. According to the last study I read this week,

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Speaker 2: most of most of the public can't pay their credit

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Speaker 2: card bills, right.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, they're making decisions about what to pay this time

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Speaker 5: as opposed to next time. And it's yeah, and he's

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Speaker 5: out there living in the nine million dollar house that

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Speaker 5: he didn't buy.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. There's going to be a French revolution soon,

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Speaker 1: I think. I think so there has to be all right?

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Speaker 2: Like it? Well, Katie, keep up the good work, excellent story,

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Speaker 2: and if you find out anything more, tell us all right.

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Speaker 1: I read here. I read the website every day.

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Speaker 2: In all your articles, californiaglobe dot com. They're doing the

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Speaker 2: work of like the entire state media here. That's Katie Grimes.

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Speaker 2: We've got more coming up on the John cobelt Show.

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Speaker 6: You're listening to John cobelts on demand from KFI six.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I raised three boys, and you have

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Speaker 1: a son and daughter.

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Speaker 5: Yes.

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Speaker 2: I like to think that if one of my sons

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Speaker 2: committed three hundred and seventy five felonies out of his bedroom,

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Speaker 2: I'd know about it.

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Speaker 3: I would hope you would know that I would.

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Speaker 2: I would figure this out, And that, to me is

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Speaker 2: the most fascinating part of the story, which is rich

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Speaker 2: is really weird on its own. But you may have

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Speaker 2: heard there's an eighteen year old in Lancaster who made

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Speaker 2: his name's Alan Fillion. He made three hundred and seventy

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Speaker 2: five swatting calls or otherwise threatening hoax calls. Now, a

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Speaker 2: swatting call is when you call authorities and tell them

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Speaker 2: about a situation that's so dangerous the police send the

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Speaker 2: swat team.

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Speaker 1: And he would usually get the cops to.

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Speaker 2: Drag the victim out of the house and their families

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Speaker 2: out of the house, cuffed them all and then searched

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Speaker 2: the house for dead bodies. He'd say, there's a mass

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Speaker 2: shooting going on at this address, you know, go there. Now,

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Speaker 2: there's dead bodies all over the place, and so the

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Speaker 2: cops would burst into the house, grab anybody who was

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Speaker 2: alive in standing, which was everybody, and it was totally fake,

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Speaker 2: and then they'd tear up the house looking for the deceased.

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Speaker 1: And he was sixteen when he started this.

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Speaker 2: He also went after religious institutions, high schools, colleges, universities,

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Speaker 2: government officials, and just random people across the country. He

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Speaker 2: would provide false information about placing explosives explosives. He would

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Speaker 2: tell authorities that he and others had firearms and that

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Speaker 2: other individuals had either committed or intended to commit immediately

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Speaker 2: these violent crimes. And then he tried to turn this

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Speaker 2: into a business online and he put put like a

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Speaker 2: little ads on social media advertising his services swatting for.

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Speaker 1: A for a fee.

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Speaker 2: So if you wanted to turn somebody's life upside down,

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Speaker 2: you contact this guy, pay him some money.

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Speaker 3: How much does he charge?

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Speaker 2: I don't know, and they don't know if he actually

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Speaker 2: made any sales. He did all this from his house

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Speaker 2: in Lancaster. A lot of weird things going up in

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Speaker 2: that Lancaster Palmdale area.

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Speaker 4: But I mean, you know what, if you're in if

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Speaker 4: you're in your bedroom right and you're you're saying you're

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Speaker 4: doing whatever, homework, whatever it is, I could I could

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Speaker 4: see how maybe I wouldn't know that my kid was

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Speaker 4: making those calls.

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Speaker 2: A random phone call, I could see, you know, But

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Speaker 2: three hundred and seventy five times.

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Speaker 3: I mean, look, I would hope that I would know, But.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I tell you, my wife is way too.

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Speaker 3: Nosy, So I don't think I was nosy enough.

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Speaker 2: I I mean, ye, you hear voices, and if you're

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Speaker 2: hearing constantly that something's going on, I'd love to hear

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Speaker 2: recordings of how dead Penny was about this. He threatened

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Speaker 2: to carry out a mass shooting in Florida at a

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Speaker 2: mosque in Sanford. Mosque Jeed al Hai is the mosque.

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Speaker 2: He claimed he had an AR fifteen, a glock seventeen, pistol,

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Speaker 2: pipe bombs, molotov cocktails. He played an audio of gunfire

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Speaker 2: in the background while on the call.

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Speaker 1: I would have heard that.

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Speaker 3: I would have heard that too.

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Speaker 2: He also made a call to a public high school

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Speaker 2: in Washington, threatening to commit a mass shooting. Claimed he

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Speaker 2: planted bombs throughout the school. May twenty twenty three, he

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Speaker 2: called a black college in Florida. He said there were

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Speaker 2: bombs in the walls, bombs in the ceilings. He was

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Speaker 2: going to detonate it, detonate them in an hour. He

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Speaker 2: made a call in Texas saying he's law enforcement and

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Speaker 2: claimed to have killed his mother and he's going to

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Speaker 2: kill any police officers who show up. Three hundred seventy

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Speaker 2: five times now he can. I'm trying to see how

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Speaker 2: many actual counts he was charged with, but he's he

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Speaker 2: can get five years for each count.

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Speaker 1: The stuff.

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Speaker 2: I just I want to know what the parents were about.

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Speaker 2: Did he have parents, Were they like laid out on

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Speaker 2: the ground drunk or methed out or how do you

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Speaker 2: do that? How disconnected from your And I saw two

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Speaker 2: different pictures of him, and one of them he's got

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Speaker 2: like a bloated face and long hair, and another one

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Speaker 2: hair shit, and he's thinner looking. And I don't know

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Speaker 2: what time periods they're from, but I mean, he just

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Speaker 2: looks like one of those loser kids, right, He looks

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Speaker 2: like the kind of kid that, Yeah, you would be

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Speaker 2: afraid he'd come to the school and shoot.

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Speaker 1: Up the place.

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Speaker 4: I mean, you would kind of think that the parents

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Speaker 4: really weren't that involved. But I hate to I hate

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Speaker 4: to place blame on parents for things like this, because

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Speaker 4: maybe maybe they thought he was a good guy.

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Speaker 1: Three three hundred and seventy five times.

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Speaker 3: I mean, most likely there were issues in the household.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I want to know. All Right, We've

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Speaker 2: got more. We're coming up. Poop water is back for

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Speaker 2: Los Angeles. Poop water and they're going to spend three

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Speaker 2: quarters of a billion dollars three quarters of billion dollars

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