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Speaker 1: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: Today's story of the day, La County DA George Gascone.

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Speaker 2: He elevated a woman you may not be familiar with,

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Speaker 2: but will make you very familiar with her. Tiffany blacknew A.

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Speaker 2: She's a she wasn't public defender, and then she was

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Speaker 2: upgraded to prosecutor under Guestcone, a special advisor chief of communications,

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Speaker 2: and now she has been promoted to chief of staff.

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Speaker 2: And Martin Marx from californiaglobe dot com went through her past.

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Speaker 2: Her self admitted past with starts with a tweet that

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Speaker 2: she put out back in twenty twenty during George flour

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Speaker 2: Foyd Riot Week, she admitted she was a looter in

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Speaker 2: nineteen ninety two, fifteen years old, during the Rodney King riots,

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Speaker 2: and she was proud of it, said it was a

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Speaker 2: formative moment of her life. And now during the George

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Speaker 2: Floyd riots, she was triggered and she started scolding Black

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Speaker 2: and white liberals, especially on the West Side, who are

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Speaker 2: complaining about their whole foods and their nordstrums being ransacked

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Speaker 2: and damaged. And she's full of self righteousness, full of anger,

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Speaker 2: and she apparently thinks rioting and looting is cool, although

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Speaker 2: she gets upset when her neighborhood gets looted and damaged.

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Speaker 2: It's a lot of conflict. She thinks the lped are

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Speaker 2: barbarians and an occupying army, and she also thinks the

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Speaker 2: prison system ought to be abolished. A lot of these

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Speaker 2: tweets are dug up originally by Bill Malugin from Fox News.

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Speaker 2: Martin Marx put it all together at californiglobe dot com.

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Speaker 2: Let's get him on here, Martin.

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Speaker 3: How are you quite well?

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Speaker 1: John?

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Speaker 3: Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 2: This just happened Friday, Gascone released this announcement that Tiffany

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Speaker 2: Blackmail got this promotion.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I actually announced a number of promotions within the

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Speaker 3: department and they're evidently supposed to take place in the

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Speaker 3: new year and moving to the top spot.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And chief of staff, What specifically kind of role does

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Speaker 2: she have now in Gascone's office?

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Speaker 1: What does the chief of staff do?

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Speaker 3: He is she's the connection to everything in Los Angeles

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Speaker 3: government interactions with the police department, helping the prosecutor, mister Gascone,

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Speaker 3: set policy and set attitudes for how the department is

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Speaker 3: going to proceed, and she will have his year twenty

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Speaker 2: Now, she's clearly an anti police, anti prison activist.

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Speaker 1: Without a question.

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Speaker 3: You know, listen, you know we all know about towards

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Speaker 3: Gascon and his worldview and as it's evolved from his

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Speaker 3: time in San Francisco and now in LA He's a

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Speaker 3: radical without a doubt. And you know, we came very

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Speaker 3: close to having him recall just a few thousand signatures short,

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Speaker 3: and speculation is had that recall maate it to the ballot,

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Speaker 1: Well, his approval.

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Speaker 2: Rating is fifteen percent and he's got nine people running

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Speaker 2: against him, and so he's definitely going to be stuck

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Speaker 2: in a runoff at the very least and likely would

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Speaker 2: lose the runoff in November. So is this promotion of

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Speaker 2: Tiffany Black now on nothing to lose. I don't give

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Speaker 2: a crap and just stick it in the eye of

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Speaker 2: every voter in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 3: I think you hit the nail on the head I

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Speaker 3: think he sees the handwriting on the wall. Time as

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Speaker 3: weeks now that he's likely not going to win reelection,

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Speaker 3: and this is his thumbing the nose of Los Angelos.

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Speaker 3: It's an extreme, radical, woke, scorched earth policy. And you know,

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Speaker 3: as radical as Gascon is this woman that he's appointed

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Speaker 3: to chief of staff, Tiffany Blackmail. As you put, she's

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Speaker 3: just an angry, angry woman who is taking some rather

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Speaker 3: radical positions and dangerous positions. Listen, I've watched enough episodes

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Speaker 3: of Law and Order to know that the police department

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Speaker 3: not cordial relationship. I don't see how that is possible

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Speaker 3: They're an occupying army. If I was the police, I

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Speaker 2: Well, it's one thing to have a philosophical difference, but

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Speaker 2: she seems unhinged to me. I mean the language that

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Speaker 2: them back. I mean, and she is proud. She brags

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Speaker 3: Yeah, as a youth. She was only fifteen at the time.

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Speaker 3: But you know, she translates that, translates that into what

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Speaker 3: happened in Los Angeles and many other cities back in

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty when George Floyd lost his life through a

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Speaker 3: homicide and the city's burned, and she cheered it on

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Speaker 3: without a doubt. She's an apologist for criminals. How can

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Speaker 3: anyone take a position that we should abolish prisons? What's

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Speaker 3: the alternative? I understand you know that she may have

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Speaker 3: a position that, for whatever reason, prisons may have a

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Speaker 3: disportionate population of minorities, and that may be true for

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Speaker 3: any number of reasons, But to abolish prisons, that's a

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Speaker 3: that's a ludicrous proposition. And now she's going to be

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Speaker 3: in the county is ludicrous.

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Speaker 4: It is.

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Speaker 2: It's probably not the only one of Gascon's office that

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Speaker 2: feels that way, including Gascone is probably part of that crowd.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, without a doubt. Listen, and as you pointed out,

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Speaker 3: she's been with him right from the beginning. She was

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Speaker 3: a part of the Gascon for District Attorney campaign a

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Speaker 3: few years back, so she's been in that office in

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Speaker 3: a number of positions. But she was part of the

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Speaker 3: campaign too. And you know when Gascon Juan, you know,

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Speaker 3: he defeated I believe it was La County's first African

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Speaker 3: American woman prosecutor. And she certainly is not ay right

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Speaker 3: wing conservative, but she was taken aback by some of

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Speaker 3: during that campaign.

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Speaker 1: Well, let me ask you something.

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Speaker 2: Let's say Gascon does not make the runoff, he does

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Speaker 2: not finish in the top two. So it's the middle

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Speaker 2: of March. He's a complete lane duck. The election is

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Speaker 2: not till November. He's not going to be replaced until December. Officially,

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Speaker 2: what the hell is it going to look like?

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Speaker 1: What's he going to do?

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Speaker 2: Because right now he's not even trying to suck up

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Speaker 2: to the voters, he's not even playing pretend. What's he

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Speaker 2: going to do when he really has nothing to lose?

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Speaker 3: The best question is can it get any worse? Maybe yes,

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Speaker 3: maybe no, But I think this is maybe a hint

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Speaker 3: of things to come. When you have a woman like

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Speaker 3: this who will now be his chief of staff. As I,

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Speaker 3: as I tried to point out, it sounds like a

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Speaker 3: scorched stark policy that you know, maybe LA won't be

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Speaker 3: burning to the ground, God forbid, but certainly it's a

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Speaker 2: And a local this dream, right, and there's nothing the

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Speaker 2: public can do about this.

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Speaker 3: Well, has any mentioned anybody mentioned the word recall?

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Speaker 1: Either way, there's no time for it.

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, not that this is what happened with

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Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom, but I know in Florida, Ron DeSantis removed

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Speaker 2: I believe, two district attorneys who we were off the edge,

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Speaker 1: So he had to remove.

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Speaker 2: He had the state power, and the attorney general here

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Speaker 2: does have the state power to remove.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think Rob Vonte will do it. I

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Speaker 3: don't think Gavin Newsom would even consider it. Keep in

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Speaker 3: mind that it was Gavin Newsom who appointed Gascon as

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Speaker 3: the prosecutor up in San Francisco when our vice president

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Speaker 3: who got Gascone got that ball rolling up in San

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Speaker 3: Francisco as a prosecutor, so right, I wouldn't count on

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Speaker 3: on our governor to be showing the prosecutor the door

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Speaker 3: in time soon.

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Speaker 1: What a San Francisco machine?

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Speaker 2: Huh Newsome Kamala Harris, George Gascone, Oh my god. All right,

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Speaker 2: well listen, great article. This was a pleasure to wake

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Speaker 2: up to this morning. Martin Marx, and thanks also to

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Speaker 2: Bill Mallusion from Fox eleven because he dug up a

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Speaker 2: lot of these tweets over the years.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Martin, keep covering it. We'll talk with you again soon.

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Speaker 3: Are you bad? Thanks? Thanks John Martin.

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Speaker 2: Marx from californiaglobe dot com. You should read the whole

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Speaker 2: story and look at the tweets. In fact, I'll read

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Speaker 2: some of the tweets in their entirety. This is why

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Speaker 2: you do vote in March, and you do vote for

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Speaker 2: a candidate other than George Gascon. You must okay, this

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Speaker 2: is brightening. I mean, maybe nobody gets prosecuted in twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty four. Maybe they completely shut down the prosecution machine,

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Speaker 2: and you know they're going to be releasing murderers, rapists

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Speaker 2: and sexual assaulters and arsonist. Maybe anything goes now for

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Speaker 2: the next year, Nothing would surprise me with this crowd,

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Speaker 2: because if you're for abolishing prisons, then you're saying everybody

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Speaker 2: should be free, no matter what crime they've committed. That's

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Speaker 2: the only way to look at it. You're abolishing prisons.

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Speaker 2: Well what does that mean? Abolishing? All right, not reforming,

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Speaker 2: not scaling back, abolishing, which means everybody's free. Well, if

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Speaker 2: everyone's going to be free, why would you prosecute anybody?

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Speaker 2: The next step from no prisons is no prosecutions, because

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Speaker 2: prosecutions lead to prisons. Right when I say these things,

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Speaker 2: it sounds outrageous, but break down the process here.

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Speaker 1: It's not outrageous.

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Speaker 2: It's what they're selling, and they've been open about it

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Speaker 2: for the last three years.

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

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Speaker 2: Okay, So the case of Tiffany Black now, and this

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Speaker 2: is the most important local election, well actually on the

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Speaker 2: ballot in March. It's the most important election because it's

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Speaker 2: supposed to be a presidential year and out here in California,

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Speaker 2: Biden and Trump, unless one or both of them die,

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Speaker 2: are going to win the California primary. So let's go

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Speaker 2: to what matters in your day to day life more

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Speaker 2: important than a state senator, state assemblyman. There's no governor

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Speaker 2: on the ballot. This is it in La County, and

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Speaker 2: the crime spills over into Orange County as well. Obviously

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Speaker 2: we had Todd Spitzer on last week, and you know,

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Speaker 2: they just arrested a whole bunch of LA gang members

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Speaker 2: who had spilled into Orange County and were responsible for

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Speaker 2: many home burglaries, whole ration home burglaries. Tiffany Blacknew Now

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Speaker 2: we've known about her for several years since Gascone took over.

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Speaker 2: She is was a public defender, and then she started

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Speaker 2: moving up the chain in the DA's office, a Grade

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Speaker 2: four prosecutor, that's the top level of prosecutor. Also listed

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Speaker 2: as a secial adviser, chief of communications, and now chief

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Speaker 2: of staff. They released this news on Friday, hoping that

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Speaker 2: nobody was going to know it. Gascon, of course, is

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Speaker 2: doing very badly when it comes to an approval rating

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Speaker 2: about fifteen percent or so depending on the poll. And

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Speaker 2: while at the moment he would sneak into the top

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Speaker 2: two in a ten person primary, he would not do

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Speaker 2: well in November. He would lose, probably by gigantic proportions.

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Speaker 2: But you just don't want him out there anymore. You

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Speaker 2: don't want him surviving in March. You don't want something

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Speaker 2: weird and fluky and unusual to happen. Tiffany Black. Now

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Speaker 2: let's get into her background. During George Floyd Rioting Week

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Speaker 2: back in May of twenty twenty, she posted I was

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Speaker 2: And we've seen some of it already the last few years.

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Speaker 2: as well. This story, you're gonna hear a lot of

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Speaker 2: a short time ago. The state of Colorado, well, the

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Speaker 2: So this is some kind of weird political ruling from

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Speaker 1: All right. Have you ever been doored?

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Speaker 5: Have I ever been dored?

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Speaker 1: You know what? Being doored sounds dirty?

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Speaker 1: That's what. You're biking down.

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Speaker 5: The road and somebody opens their car door.

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Speaker 2: Right yeah, and you go or you go flying through

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Speaker 1: Here.

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Speaker 2: You've got to look in your mirrors, you've got to

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Speaker 2: story is the obvious solution. Stop driving the road. Don't

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Speaker 5: Don't bike riders have to abide by the same law

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Speaker 1: They're going to get hit. I do too.

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Speaker 2: They're an arrogant Honestly, They're an arrogant class of people.

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Speaker 2: The roads were designed, you know, one hundred years ago

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Speaker 5: We're going to park and you go on those bike paths.

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Speaker 1: You tell your kid?

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Speaker 5: I tell I always told my kids not to ride

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Speaker 2: You did say, hey, go drive down Ventura Boulevard. Oh god, no, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I didn't tell my kids to ride down Sunset Boulevard.

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Speaker 2: The issue of dooring is part of a larger discussion

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Speaker 2: of bike infrastructure. I know this has to do with

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Speaker 2: a deeper systemic issue that we have to address. How

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Speaker 2: do we move bike lanes throughout the city of LA

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Speaker 2: and especially with our within our disenfranchised community that are

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Speaker 2: are black and brown communities, so we don't have instances

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Speaker 2: like this? The hell are you talking about? Even bike

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Speaker 2: riding has like some racial component to it? And what

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Speaker 2: do you mean we have to have a discussion. How

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Speaker 2: about here's the discussion. Anything you wouldn't tell your kid

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Speaker 2: to do, you don't do use common sense. Cars are

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Speaker 2: thousands of pounds, they can be measured in tons. Bikes

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Speaker 2: are pretty flimsy. You're not going to win against the bike.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you're not. If you're on a bike, you're

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Speaker 1: not gonna win against the car. So I don't I

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Speaker 1: don't get this.

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Speaker 2: Get out of the road, Go on a bike path

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Speaker 2: at the beach or in a park, you know, move

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Speaker 2: slowly on the sidewalk, get out of the road. Stop

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Speaker 2: asking for all these special considerations. I've got to look

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Speaker 2: like seventeen different ways. And the bicylics, by the way,

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Speaker 2: is coming at you know, like like thirty miles an

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Speaker 2: hour down the bike lane. So if I try to

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Speaker 2: get out of my car, I can't see him coming

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Speaker 2: because he's going to so fast he just appears. All right,

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Speaker 2: more coming up.

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

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Speaker 4: six forty.

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Speaker 2: I found the name of this woman I had been

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Speaker 2: talking in the last segment that the La Times did

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Speaker 2: his story about the dangers of being doored to death.

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Speaker 2: If you're a bicyclist, you're biking along in your in

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Speaker 2: your bike lane or whatever lane you're in, and somebody

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Speaker 2: opens their door and you go flying. You could imagine

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Speaker 2: it's Yolanda Davis overstreet, and she's a mobility justice advocate,

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Speaker 2: a mobility justice advocate, and she's the one who thinks

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Speaker 2: we should have a discussion about bike infrastructure. We have

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Speaker 2: a deeper systemic issue we have to address. How do

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Speaker 2: we move bike lanes to the city of la with

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Speaker 2: our disenfranchised communities, so we don't have instances like this, Well,

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Speaker 2: you're not going to Well, we've got millions of cars

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Speaker 2: on the road. That's how people get around. It's not

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Speaker 2: meant for bikes. We're not gonna have a discussion. There's

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Speaker 2: no systemic anything going on. The system is roads for cars,

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Speaker 2: bikes for bike paths, bike paths in parks and beaches,

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Speaker 2: go drive in suburban cul de sacs. Only little children

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Speaker 2: ride bikes in public on their little safe suburban streets.

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Speaker 2: Adults aren't supposed to ride bikes on busy boulevards. It's nuts,

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Speaker 2: But Yolanda Davis over Street a mobility justice advocate, that

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Speaker 2: should not be a thing, that should not exist that phrase.

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Speaker 2: Here's something else that's nuts nuts. Elon musk H posted

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Speaker 2: online he was irritated by a feature in Microsoft Word

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Speaker 2: if you had that software, Apparently Microsoft Word has an

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Speaker 2: inclusivity checker, and if you type a politically incorrect phrase.

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Speaker 2: Microsoft word will correct it, and he says he got

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Speaker 2: scolded for typing the word insane. He was working on

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Speaker 2: a Microsoft word document discussing Tesla's new product, the cybertruck,

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Speaker 2: that's the electric truck, and he wrote about the cyber

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Speaker 2: trucks insane stability, and the phrase was highlighted by the

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Speaker 2: software warrying that insane is quote a word that implies

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Speaker 2: mental health bias. So he went on his X platform

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Speaker 2: and said, Microsoft Word now scolds you if you use

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Speaker 2: words that aren't inclusive. Then he gave other examples. He

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Speaker 2: posted a screenshot he was trying to type the term

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Speaker 2: eleven thousand pounds eleven thousand lbs, which is the abbreviation

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Speaker 2: for pounds. That term is not inclusive. I guess that

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Speaker 2: implies somebody's fat. Well, except that's apparently what the cyber

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Speaker 2: truck weighs. Other social media users posted screenshots of terms

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Speaker 2: that were flagged by the inclusivity checker. Can you believe this?

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Speaker 2: This is like George Orwell's stuff. So someone wrote in

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Speaker 2: a word document, hey, could you man the booth this afternoon? Well,

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Speaker 2: that phrase was flagged instead of manned the booth. Please

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Speaker 2: use a gender neutral term that would be more inclusive,

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Speaker 2: such as staff the booth or take control of the booth.

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Speaker 2: Postman is also flagged by mateo postman. That's right, it

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Speaker 2: should be postal worker. You can't use the word master, right,

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Speaker 2: somebody's a master at a certain profession. Have to change

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Speaker 2: that to expert. Since twenty twenty and George Floyd, Microsoft

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Speaker 2: Word has concluded a feature that allows users to prompt

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Speaker 2: the software to flag exclusionary language that promotes age bias,

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Speaker 2: gender bias, cultural slurs, sexual orientation bias, and racial bias.

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Speaker 2: You have to turn on the feature for it to work,

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Speaker 2: but you've got to be a weenie if you do this.

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Speaker 2: And once you turn it on, for example, mankind, you

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Speaker 2: can't even do new mankind. It offers humankind or humanity. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's all It's all on algorithm. That's why AI is

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Speaker 2: going to be filled with this crap. They're going to

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Speaker 2: program AI to be hyper politically correct and woke. And

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Speaker 2: I've heard I have a couple of friends. You played

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Speaker 2: with AI and it you ask questions and you get

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Speaker 2: a lot of woke stuff spewed back at you. Chris

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Speaker 2: Merrill is in for Conway.

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Speaker 1: Hey, Hey, what's that? What's going on your show today?

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Speaker 6: It's funny because I was talking to you through the

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Speaker 6: whole segment, and then I realized I wasn't on the

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Speaker 6: air because I was going, yeah, well, listen, let's uh,

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Speaker 6: let's let's have more bike lanes, and then when the

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Speaker 6: cyclists don't go in the bike lanes that we can

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Speaker 6: all agree that cyclists are.

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Speaker 1: The problem with that. Dah Yeah, perfect problem solved.

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Speaker 6: Yes, but listen, we're we're turning a sewage into drinking water.

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Speaker 6: I've been practicing all day long. Uh so let's come

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Speaker 6: to find out if the third or fourth glass still

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Speaker 6: tastes the same. I was thinking, maybe you get used

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Speaker 6: to it. We'll talk about tur and the skies because

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Speaker 6: we've got everyone is now on the tur watch list,

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Speaker 6: and uh well, oh uh Airbnb is using your AI

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Speaker 6: as well, so now you're gonna have a woke Airbnb.

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Speaker 1: John.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, actually, I'm sure that's a problem in some ways.

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Speaker 2: All Right, welcome B and B Chris Maryland for Conway.

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