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Speaker 2: Well you could listen to what you miss, oh, John

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Speaker 2: and Ken.

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Speaker 1: Yes, that's right. You're gonna have to start calling at

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Speaker 1: the John Cobelt Show next week, that's right. I got

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Speaker 1: to start practicing, man. In fact, it would be a

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Speaker 1: week from today, right, right, if you're taking a couple

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Speaker 1: of days off after a yeah part, Yeah, Tuesday the twelfth,

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Speaker 1: Tuesday the twelfth, it's the John Cobelt Show. Very exciting.

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Speaker 1: You always wanted that, right, I never thought about it.

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Speaker 1: What were you before I teamed up with you the

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Speaker 1: John Cobelt Show, weren't you? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: I didn't call it that though, what you call it?

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Speaker 2: I adn't call it anything.

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Speaker 1: When you came on the air at the radio station

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Speaker 1: in Almira. You didn't just say I'm John Cobelt, that's all.

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Speaker 3: Oh.

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Speaker 2: There was no formal presentation of wasn't good enough to

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Speaker 2: be called to show?

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Speaker 4: It was?

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Speaker 1: I never thought of it. Okay, you know, some stories

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Speaker 1: escape and they shouldn't. Some stories are not followed up,

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Speaker 1: and that shouldn't be. One of the ones we're going

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Speaker 1: to talk about now is Karen Bass takes her tour

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Speaker 1: of LA to celebrate her first year in office. Can

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Speaker 1: you believe that touting her successes? One of the ones,

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Speaker 1: of course she's going to talk about is the homeless.

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Speaker 1: We already told you this report last week, sixty seven

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Speaker 1: million dollars spent with inside safe, two hundred and fifty

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Speaker 1: five people permanently housed. That is not a success, no,

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Speaker 1: But the story I'm talking about is the fire under

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Speaker 1: the ten freeway that shut down the freeway for a

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Speaker 1: week or so. Obviously it was not as bad as

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Speaker 1: they thought it was going to be. It's holding up right.

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Speaker 1: Anybody check it hasn't collapsed, has it?

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Speaker 2: No, nobody's crashed through it yet.

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Speaker 1: I haven't heard anything in the traffic reports about it

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Speaker 1: smashing down. So the Ladly News followed up Southern California

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Speaker 1: Newsgroup this story from the Pasadena Starting is a preliminary

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Speaker 1: review of a program that rents space around and be

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Speaker 1: California's freeways has identified thirty eight sites that could threaten

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Speaker 1: public infrastructure, including fifteen below the ten Freeway in LA

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Speaker 1: And the story goes on, of course, to talk about

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Speaker 1: the infamous fire and the company that was leasing it

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Speaker 1: and they didn't pay and there was a lawsuit and

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Speaker 1: they were going to a victim, but they had to

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Speaker 1: take it to court and that didn't happen fast enough

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Speaker 1: before the fire. What I found most fascinating about this story,

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Speaker 1: Caltrans rushed to inspect fourteen of the seventeen local properties

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Speaker 1: immediately following the ten Freeway fire. They have a name

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Speaker 1: for this. When they lease space to you underneath the

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Speaker 1: freeways and you use it for a business, it is

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Speaker 1: known as air space. That's what they call it. You

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Speaker 1: have airspace because obviously it's not a building, it's not

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Speaker 1: air under the freeway. Basically they are and this is

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Speaker 1: really had any idea was there. Business is operating in

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Speaker 1: the various sites, including a hydroponics shop, a document archivist,

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Speaker 1: a packing company, a carpet layer, and a towyard. One

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Speaker 1: online and posted images of at least three pallets full

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Speaker 1: batteries could explode. Wait stop you for a second.

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Speaker 2: There's a guy who runs a document archivist, so he

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Speaker 2: archives documents for his customers.

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Speaker 1: Yes, he's under the freeway, but I guess a filing

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Speaker 1: cabins are safe. I don't know.

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Speaker 2: If you archive documents with a company, it's probably important documents.

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Speaker 1: Do they know that he's storing them under a freeway?

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Speaker 1: I mean, would you be cheap? Would you store all

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Speaker 1: That's crazy, but I don't know, it's really crazy. Some

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Speaker 1: people operate open air storage lots wrecked vehicles, wood pallettes,

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Speaker 1: piles of tires. That stuff I understand, but important legal documents,

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Speaker 1: by Google show rows of total cars, stacks of tires,

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Speaker 2: Stuff is highly flammable, I mean, very well be if

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Speaker 1: I it just I guess the state just decided we

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Speaker 1: people who announce supposed to sublease, but they have been

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Speaker 2: I see, you can make some money, but not when

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Speaker 2: you're storing flammable materials. And then you allowed homeless encampments

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Speaker 2: and nobody. And the thing is, if they checked on

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Speaker 2: all these things, nobody did anything about it. They probably

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Speaker 2: filled out a lot of PaperWorks anyway, Oh there's a

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Speaker 1: And this is well, this is Apex's argument. That's the

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Speaker 1: company at the center of the ten Freeway fire that

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Speaker 1: was shut down for a week. They're saying, if LA

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Speaker 1: did something about the homeless problem, because we mentioned this yesterday, John,

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Speaker 1: they still have not arrested Demand. They suspect it's the arsonists,

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Speaker 1: but we suspect he might be homeless, they're saying. They

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Speaker 1: were saying, and they were complaining that there's always homeless

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Speaker 1: encampment fires nearby. It's not that you know, our stuff

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Speaker 1: would only burn if somebody burns it. Well, and you're

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Speaker 1: allowing these homeless people to live there too. They're going

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Speaker 2: They've rented out so much airspace under the freeways, and

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Speaker 2: there are so many encampments under the freeways. Obviously there's

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Speaker 2: a lot of examples of homeless people and these freeway

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Speaker 2: businesses and flammable materials and homeless people starting fires to

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Speaker 2: keep warm or cook food, grope paid tanks and grills.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm looking at a picture that they took.

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Speaker 1: This is one of the APEX properties, the airspace leases.

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Speaker 1: There's workers. This one's on Hooper Avenue on sixteenth Street

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Speaker 1: and in the background you can see the wooden pallets

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Speaker 1: and it's almost like you're inside a warehouse or office building.

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Speaker 1: But then you actually see the freeway. Yeah, the overpass.

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Speaker 1: There's no walls above. There's no walls, right. I realized

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Speaker 1: that property is at a premium in LA and it

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Speaker 1: does cost a lot to rent space, but I had

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Speaker 1: no idea that it was such an economy underneath the freeways.

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Speaker 1: I knew there was homeless under the freeways, but I

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Speaker 1: didn't know there are all these quote businesses operating like this,

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Speaker 1: and again they think the hand sanitizer was a real

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Speaker 1: a big contributor to the Apparently it's a stockpile of

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Speaker 2: The left over from the panic. There's a couple of

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Speaker 2: funny things this story. So APEX, you know, sub subleased

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Speaker 2: Joe's Towing. And they called up the owner of Joe's Towing,

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Speaker 2: but he called himself Jose. We're looking for Joe. No,

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Speaker 2: it's Jose. Joe's not here anymore. And then it said

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Speaker 2: other sites showed signs of past fires. Scorch marks were

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Speaker 2: visible on the underside of the ten Freeway at a

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Speaker 2: sixteenth Street lot, so there was another a ten Freeway fire.

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Speaker 2: Two others had burnt trash and charred sidewalks near their

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Speaker 2: fence lines. So again, of course, because of all the

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Speaker 2: homeless encampments, of all the rented space and Karen Bass

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Speaker 2: total failure, Caltrans who's that head, Tony Tavaris.

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Speaker 1: Failure, knew some failure.

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Speaker 2: They've allowed this to go on for years and years,

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Speaker 2: and it makes the whole it makes the whole city

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Speaker 2: look so dirty and world just so dingy and trashy.

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Speaker 1: So so listings online advertise low rents to share spaces

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Speaker 1: ranging from seventeen thousand to three hundred thousand square feet.

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Speaker 1: One find in this article is apparently somebody once hosted

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Speaker 1: an escape route escape room under the freeway, in which

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Speaker 1: teams of players try to solve puzzles to try to

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Speaker 1: escape within a time limit. I've never been to one

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Speaker 1: of those places, but some people like escape rooms.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're popular with some people. I wouldn't do an

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Speaker 2: escape room under a freeway.

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Speaker 1: Right, And this guy with Joe's Towing says he's been

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Speaker 1: given a month to relocate by cal Trans, and he goes,

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Speaker 1: I don't know what's gonna happen. I don't know what

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna do. So he's a towing business that I

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Speaker 1: guess tows cars to that unbelievable go right down a

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Speaker 1: real empty lot somewhere. So now I guess they're gonna

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Speaker 1: continue to turn this over to cal Trans is going

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Speaker 1: to assess as to just how dangerous what they looked

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Speaker 1: at is and how quick to try to evict these

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Speaker 1: people under these freeways. But kind of amazing that this

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Speaker 1: didn't happen. At this level. Before we've had almost and

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Speaker 1: Cammon fires out of the freeways, Yes, but this time

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Speaker 1: it combined with the business and sanitizer. I had enough

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Speaker 1: fuel and pallets and all right, we got more coming up.

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Speaker 6: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from KFI

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Speaker 1: And another farewell message to Kim to Ken from one

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Speaker 1: of our m Kim, Oh, You're gonna be all right, Biden.

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Speaker 3: I'm Harry Michael Simon. From the moment I met Ken

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Speaker 3: Schampeau when I was John and Ken's program director at

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Speaker 3: New Jersey one oh one point five over thirty years ago,

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Speaker 3: I learned some lessons that have been valuable to this day. Namely,

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Speaker 3: do not speak to Ken, do not make eye contact,

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Speaker 3: just stay out of his way. It worked out well.

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Speaker 3: I think, congratulations Ken on your escape from radio. You've

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Speaker 3: done good, real good.

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Speaker 1: He stayed out of my way so much I didn't

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Speaker 1: know he was pd there. He was no wait a minute.

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Speaker 1: He was always just a lawyer to me. That's what

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Speaker 1: I always remembered he's a lawyer director. No, no, no,

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Speaker 1: because he wasn't there on a daily basis. Yes he

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Speaker 1: was not, No, he was not. He absolutely was New

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Speaker 1: Jersey won on one point five.

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Speaker 2: Yes, what time period, ninety one ninety two, I guarantee,

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Speaker 2: but we got there in ninety he was not there.

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Speaker 1: He was working as the I knew of him. He

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Speaker 1: were well, he worked for the corporation that owned the station,

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Speaker 1: was an attorney.

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 2: Less than a year later, he became the program director

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Speaker 2: for the final on ninety one ninety two. I don't

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Speaker 2: have the exact employment dates, but yes he was.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I just don't remember him being there on a

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Speaker 1: daily basis. But because you didn't look at him.

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Speaker 2: No, remember Jay Sorenson was the program director only for

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Speaker 2: a short time and then he became a full time

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Speaker 2: talk host. Yeah all right, Well you figure, Debra, after

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Speaker 2: thirty six years, are going to remember things differently.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I was told he announced he was PD.

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Speaker 1: Then I guess he was. He was. He really stayed

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Speaker 1: out of my way because I don't remember him. Well,

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Speaker 1: you know, I know who he is. I just I

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Speaker 1: don't remember him in that role. But you saw his plan,

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Speaker 1: his plan worked.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, But I just told the same thing about Ken.

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Speaker 2: I was just telling Deborah, this is why families go

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Speaker 1: What's the story? Well, that's my whole point. I'm not

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Speaker 2: But the vagrants have destroyed all these properties. They destroyed

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Speaker 2: You could scream all day about them being a bunch

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Speaker 1: Whatever renovations are done. How nuts is this?

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Speaker 2: I love this paragraph here because they got a receiver

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Speaker 1: This is the problem with housing first, This is the problem.

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Speaker 1: You just want to take homeless people and stick them

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Speaker 2: They're in permanent supportive housing. They'll wreck the place. They

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Speaker 1: That's a huge waste of money. Well, I like in

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this guy was an operator. He was hired by

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Speaker 1: So we know what that's about. This is one of

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Speaker 1: costs US forty million. Forty million dollars. Forty million dollars.

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Speaker 1: One building was declared uninhabitable due to an arson Garcetti

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Garcetti was proud of this, and Bass is doing

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Speaker 1: Can't make it up. We got more coming up. Johnny

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Speaker 1: Then the John on Demand podcast. That's right JP next week.

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Speaker 1: The John Show starts next Tuesday, which sounds like as toilet,

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Speaker 2: That's why I had to throw in my last fag.

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Speaker 2: Somebody said, why don't you just make up the John

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Speaker 2: like I'm a customer for hiring hookers. Yeah right, John Show. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Experiences with prostitutes on the John Show. All right, Well,

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Speaker 1: I can't go out the door without taking another shot

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Speaker 1: at the vegan why not? Yeah? Bring it on, Ken,

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Speaker 1: great story. California has been at the forefront of healthy,

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Speaker 1: Paul in August of this year found that only one

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Speaker 7: Okay, but you know what, I think.

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Speaker 8: Every restaurant should have at least one vegan option. I'm

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Speaker 8: it's going to be And if they don't have it, oh,

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Speaker 8: we can make you a bowl of steamed vegetables.

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Speaker 1: That's not create.

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Speaker 2: You're the one with the strange demands getting mad at

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Speaker 7: There are plenty of plenty of vegans, But.

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Speaker 1: Every menu I go to does have plenty of options

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Speaker 1: it does they make plates? Yeah, that's the best you

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Speaker 8: But Ken, if you're going into a vegan restaurant, why

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Speaker 1: Right, I have two of them near me. I don't

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Speaker 2: If you're married to a vegan, yeah, well, if you

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Speaker 1: No, not nothing?

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Speaker 7: Well, one time, there's a one time.

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Speaker 8: It has been a problem because I will tell my

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Speaker 7: Go and he says, wait, wait, there's no wait, there's

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Speaker 1: I would get so pissed if that happened to me.

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Speaker 1: If I was told I was going to a restaurant

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Speaker 7: Are you sure there's no better?

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Speaker 8: The menu and I'm okay with that, as long as

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Speaker 8: There's so many restaurants that have the quinoa and the avocado,

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Speaker 8: Well, you're evolving now, right because I'm teaching you. I'm

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Speaker 1: Well, there's a guy that opened a pizza place, I

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, it is. What are you talking.

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Speaker 8: I can't tell you how many places, whether it's in

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Speaker 8: the US or even in Italy, that I have had

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Speaker 8: pizza with no cheese.

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Speaker 1: No.

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Speaker 8: I don't like the vegan cheese, and they it's delicious.

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Speaker 8: The sauce is it's vegan, it's good. I have I

443
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Speaker 8: throw on let's say, some some green olives and some

444
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Speaker 8: pineapple and some spinach and basil.

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Speaker 7: Oh my gosh, I'm in heaven.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: But there's no cheese on pizza, and there's supposed to

448
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Speaker 1: be cheese on pizza. It's pretty basic.

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Speaker 7: I get a cheeseless pizza.

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Speaker 1: Can where you're going? Can I go with you? I mean,

451
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Speaker 1: I love mozzarella. It's delicious. I can't wait to have

452
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Speaker 1: a New York slice this weekend. Yeah, if it's made good, boy,

453
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Speaker 1: there's nothing like a really good slice of pizza.

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Speaker 7: Just don't have the cheese.

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Speaker 1: Pizza doesn't exist without cheese. You guys are missing out cheese, sauce,

456
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Speaker 1: and bread, and then you have your toppings. But that's

457
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Speaker 1: the basics. Yeah, so without the cheese, that's big one

458
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Speaker 1: third of the critical elements.

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Speaker 7: I'm telling you, I don't miss it. Remember I haven't

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Speaker 7: the cheese caramelized.

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Speaker 1: Oh, it's really good.

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Speaker 8: And then you look at all the calories that I

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Speaker 8: don't consume because you're cheese.

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Speaker 1: Well we're winning. You're losing, people are hot? Bad? Are

465
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Speaker 1: you ordering food? If your husband is real?

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Speaker 7: You know I got mad at him.

467
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Speaker 8: Actually I got mad at him because I do it

468
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Speaker 8: very quietly. I've told you I don't make a big

469
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Speaker 8: deal about it, but so many make a deal with John.

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Speaker 7: I can't tell you how many times.

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Speaker 1: Wait, wait, wait, wait. Just because it's quiet doesn't mean

472
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Speaker 1: it's not annoying for the server.

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Speaker 8: No, okay, maybe for the server, but not the other

474
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Speaker 8: people at the table. I try to be respectful, and

475
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Speaker 8: I tell the server to come over, and I do

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Speaker 8: it quietly.

477
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Speaker 7: But I can't tell you how many restaurants and can.

478
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Speaker 7: I think I've said this on the air.

479
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Speaker 8: Before, where I say, you're sure sure? Right there, there's

480
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Speaker 8: no there's no butter. Right Then I go back to

481
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Speaker 8: the same restaurant two weeks later, and then I say,

482
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Speaker 8: I'm vegan. That's my husband hates me.

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Speaker 1: You're vegan.

484
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Speaker 7: And then and he says, oh, but there's butter in here.

485
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Speaker 7: I said, but wait a second.

486
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Speaker 8: You guys told me two weeks ago that you don't

487
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Speaker 8: make it with butter, or you don't have to.

488
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Speaker 7: Oh no, no, there's butter. So that drives me crazy.

489
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Speaker 7: Just off, No it makes me angry and then I

490
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Speaker 7: talk more.

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Speaker 1: Oh wow wow wa. Yeah, yeah, you're right. I'm getting

492
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Speaker 1: out here just in time. Everything's flying out of the

493
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Speaker 1: crazy box. Today we got more comping up town again

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Speaker 1: k IF I AM six forty live everywhere I Heeart

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Speaker 1: radio app. Can you do the news now?

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Speaker 7: Yes I can, I'm a professional.

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Speaker 6: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from KFI

498
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Speaker 6: AM six forty.

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Speaker 1: Well, who has a farewell message for Ken?

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Speaker 5: Now?

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Speaker 7: Hey, Ken, it's Shannon.

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Speaker 9: I'll never forget one of the first times I was

503
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Speaker 9: filling in anchoring for your Guys show and you said

504
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Speaker 9: that when you think of me, you think about that

505
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Speaker 9: song from Henry Gross about the dead dog named Shannon

506
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Speaker 9: that she drifts out to see. Anyway, You'll always hold

507
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Speaker 9: a special place in my heart. I remember co hosting

508
00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:43,840
Speaker 9: with you for the first time and thinking like, this

509
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Speaker 9: is what I want to do. And You've always been

510
00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:49,080
Speaker 9: so great to me, and I think the highlight of

511
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Speaker 9: our time together was when you called Chris Little a

512
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Speaker 9: stick in the hallway. I have the best retirement and

513
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Speaker 9: safe travels.

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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, yeah that happened. Uh, there'll be no tribute

515
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Speaker 1: from him. I don't care.

516
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Speaker 2: He's doing the news at four o'clock.

517
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Speaker 1: So he's, oh, well, you know, I knew right away

518
00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:15,080
Speaker 1: that co hosting with her was going to be outstanding

519
00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:17,119
Speaker 1: because I just knew she had the kind of personality.

520
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Speaker 1: And but I'll never forget the moment on the air

521
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Speaker 1: with her, and when she was doing our news, remember

522
00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:27,640
Speaker 1: for several years, and remember one day Ray came out

523
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Speaker 1: of the ment. Ray came out of the men's room.

524
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Speaker 1: He took a picture of poop on the floor. He

525
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Speaker 1: showed it to all of us, remember that, Yes, So

526
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Speaker 1: he shows it to her and she could not finish

527
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Speaker 1: the newscast because she was still thinking about and she

528
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Speaker 1: actually stopped in the middle and just started giggling, just

529
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Speaker 1: I can't, I can't go on. That was gold to

530
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Speaker 1: me because it's like, that's the one rule you don't

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Speaker 1: break when you were in that little news booth. For

532
00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:53,200
Speaker 1: everything's sacred. You gotta do this. They're very serious, and

533
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Speaker 1: she just That's how I was convinced she can probably

534
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Speaker 1: do what we do because she can break the mold

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Speaker 1: and jump into personality and not care.

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Speaker 2: That's that's a good test of somebody's composure. Showing a

537
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Speaker 2: hoop photo while they're doing the news.

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Speaker 1: Well, they're doing the news. I think he peeked in

539
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Speaker 1: there while she was halfway through the news picture on

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Speaker 1: his phone.

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Speaker 2: Oh, that was the essence of that. Disgusting. It's getting

542
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Speaker 2: to be a crowded room. Conways, here Mark Thompson's here.

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Speaker 1: It's Tuesday, right, yeah, and uh, and you're going on

544
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Speaker 1: I heard you going on a cruise. You talk about

545
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Speaker 1: that on the air. I guess not.

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Speaker 10: No, I haven't yet. No, where I am in the summer.

547
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Speaker 10: We're in the summer. Yeah, you plan on six months

548
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Speaker 10: from now.

549
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Speaker 1: Where you're doing? You have to for a cruise as

550
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Speaker 1: all booked out. I don't know what I'm doing tonight

551
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Speaker 1: after the show. I have no idea. I don't know

552
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Speaker 1: what I'm doing tonight either. All right, all right, where

553
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Speaker 1: you go?

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Speaker 4: Where are you going?

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Speaker 1: Iceland, Greenland, Nova, Scotia, Newfoinland.

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Speaker 10: Wow, it's all blown up, by the way, that's what

557
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Speaker 10: big gut? Oh the volcano.

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Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, it's over. Can a you a cruiser?

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Speaker 9: No?

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Speaker 1: You will be tomorrow after tomorrow? No, No, you do

561
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Speaker 1: that now. I may go. I may have to because

562
00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:10,919
Speaker 1: I'm going to Antarctica, so.

563
00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:15,040
Speaker 4: I can't that's huge. That is a ballsy cruise.

564
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Speaker 1: That's how bad he wants to get away from here.

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Speaker 4: He's cruising from here.

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Speaker 10: It's going to the bottom of the planet. What a

567
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Speaker 10: life you put together for yourself? Right, made a ton

568
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Speaker 10: of money and just you know, in the peak of

569
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Speaker 10: your life, go see the world.

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Speaker 1: I'm nowhere near Mark Thompson money though he's rolling. Yeah,

571
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Speaker 1: I bet you Mark, he's going to teach me his

572
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Speaker 1: gambling tricks.

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Speaker 10: Mark's going on a three week cruise. Mark could teach

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Speaker 10: you how to blow the forty.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly. You want to get through that fortune. But

576
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Speaker 4: you'll have fun doing it.

577
00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:46,320
Speaker 1: But it'll be But he reinvented himself, right, weather guy

578
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Speaker 1: on TV now radio. That's the way you use icon.

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Speaker 4: You made it, haven't I hadn't heard that that word.

580
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Speaker 1: His guru and that promo. I mean, you made a

581
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Speaker 1: lot of your money as.

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Speaker 5: A producer, though I made Silence Ofer and shows. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: I've got an I mean I've got enough to cruise

584
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Speaker 5: to the finish line probably, But.

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Speaker 1: Did you make any selling the shirt? Those shirts?

586
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Speaker 5: How dare you? Way are you of all people? I mean,

587
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Speaker 5: my god, you know you get yours off. They're all

588
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Speaker 5: folded together on top of some picnic table that loads

589
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Speaker 5: you have.

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Speaker 1: Come on, you have the same shirts my dad had

591
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Speaker 1: when I was a kid.

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Speaker 4: You know what.

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Speaker 1: I take that as a compliment.

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Speaker 4: I do. I don't think they're bad shirts. But he comes, yes,

595
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Speaker 4: my shirt.

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Speaker 1: But I know, I see you. Why getting nostalgic. I

597
00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:32,280
Speaker 1: think of my dad. I go to the cleaners and

598
00:28:32,359 --> 00:28:34,200
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, that's mine. No, oh, that's mine.

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Speaker 10: Oh that's fine because nine guys have been to Cole's

600
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Speaker 10: and bought the same crap. Your girl, Amy Robroch and

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Speaker 10: t J.

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Speaker 4: Hol I love this story.

603
00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:47,160
Speaker 1: They split up and now their ex'es are banging around.

604
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Speaker 4: That's revenge. That's a revenge.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe all four of them will get together. Yeah,

606
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Speaker 1: I would not that be nice.

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Speaker 5: I thought they should have left them on GMA once

608
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Speaker 5: they found that they were rolling around again.

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Speaker 1: I thought that was a huge overreact.

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Speaker 4: That was Yeah, that's catnip to the all I know.

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Speaker 1: But that would have increased their ratings.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 10: But anyway, So Ken's last day tomorrow. That's a big deal.

614
00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:08,560
Speaker 10: That's a huge deal for Los Angeles.

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Speaker 4: Big deal. Did we buy him a gift? Do we

616
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Speaker 4: all go in on something.

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Speaker 1: I got him a gift? Would you get him? I

618
00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:17,040
Speaker 1: don't want to say yeah, that would be right exactly.

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Speaker 2: It's at which reminds me I have to show up

620
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Speaker 2: at your house to deliver the gift, so you can

621
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Speaker 2: tell me when you'll be owned it to me.

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Speaker 1: No, that's howcome.

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Speaker 5: That's how.

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Speaker 1: It's too valuable to mail. I don't trust its gold

625
00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:38,240
Speaker 1: bars you're sending me. I have your address. I'll just

626
00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:42,960
Speaker 1: show up a half used in and out gift card. Yeah, exactly.

627
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Speaker 4: Wow, it's kind of sentimental, you guy. I'm not going

628
00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:48,400
Speaker 4: this will be my last chance to chat with Ken

629
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Speaker 4: and you at the same time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so your last ding dong.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 10: And by the way, his last Ken's last words on

633
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Speaker 10: this air, he promised me, ding dong, Wow, I'm pretty

634
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Speaker 10: for hours twenty four hours strong.

635
00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:05,400
Speaker 1: You really look moved to a big dog. So I

636
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Speaker 1: want to go out.

637
00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:08,320
Speaker 4: I was expecting something his last words on the air

638
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Speaker 4: will be, and then he said ding dong.

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Speaker 1: My deathbed to Tim.

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Speaker 4: That's right.

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00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:19,320
Speaker 1: I'm looking at your cup from Carnies. What's your order?

642
00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:25,080
Speaker 2: Big double cheeseburger, chilling two no two plain cheeseburgers, singles medium.

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Speaker 1: Rare, what life you got, he says, almost as good

644
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Speaker 1: as Ken's. He will be dead soon.

645
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Speaker 10: I asked Mark, whatre cruise is going on? What's the

646
00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:36,040
Speaker 10: cruise line? He goes, Tim, celebrity.

647
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Speaker 4: Isn't everybody a celebrity?

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Speaker 1: Ay? That's the Idea's still going with that, alright? Dig dog, Ken, Ken, Mark, Bye,

649
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Speaker 1: everybody today, go with you, Kenny, Chris Little see you

650
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Speaker 1: lighter Ken. Wow, that's quite Sean and got it wrong.

651
00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:03,720
Speaker 1: I called him what Shannon said and he called me

652
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Speaker 1: something else?

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Speaker 2: Was that right?

654
00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:08,360
Speaker 1: No? I think he called you that. No, I said, hey,

655
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Speaker 1: you're you're It is correct. He did use the term.

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Speaker 1: I would never use that term. I've never thought of

657
00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:16,360
Speaker 1: that before. Like it was weird. Like everything else, it

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Speaker 1: was great. I heard that word. I'm like, what is

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Speaker 1: this with this guy? Where do you come up with that? Wait?

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Speaker 1: He m F you No, no FS no, F stick

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Speaker 1: F stick?

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Speaker 8: Oh?

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Speaker 2: Is that right?

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Speaker 4: I like that?

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Speaker 5: I'm not.

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Speaker 1: Somebody said, yeah, Chris called Canon F stick. It's true.

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Speaker 10: Some guy today said to me. I was driving to

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Speaker 10: cut him off and he says, hey, nice s box

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Speaker 10: to my car And I said, buddy, fifteen years ago,

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Speaker 10: this was top of the line.

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Speaker 6: Line.

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Speaker 2: All right, guy, so desperately look at it. Ago.

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