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Speaker 1: the same as the radio show. Now we're going to

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Speaker 1: talk with Carl Demyo because, as you know, the insurance

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Speaker 1: in this state is an absolute disaster. We have an

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Speaker 1: idiot as insurance commissioner. We have all kinds of We've

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Speaker 1: insurance companies when it comes to charging premiums. Everybody still

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Speaker 1: thinks it's way too expensive. You saw what happened in

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Speaker 1: the Palisades. The insurance companies were canceling in advance of

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Speaker 1: the fires or not choosing not to renew. And with

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Speaker 1: all the natural disasters we've had, it is difficult for

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Speaker 1: a lot of people to get any kind of affordable

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Speaker 1: life insurance, affordable home insurance. And if they do, you

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Speaker 1: find out, like in the Fair Plan, doesn't really cover

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Speaker 1: He's the Republican assemblyman. He's got a bill that would

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Speaker 1: seriously reform the insurance industry and try to stabilize the rates. Carl,

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Speaker 1: how are you?

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Speaker 2: Hey?

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Speaker 3: Thanks for having me on.

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Speaker 1: Summarize in a way that the average person could understand.

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Speaker 1: What are the big issues with insurance in California.

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Speaker 3: Well, you highlighted a good number of them. That broke

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Speaker 3: the system. We've got these crazy regulations on insurance products

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Speaker 3: give consumers what they want. The state of California has

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Speaker 3: all sorts of restrictive regulations. You have to cover this,

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Speaker 3: you have to do it this way, and all of

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Speaker 3: these ad costs and restrictions. What my bill does is

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Speaker 3: it says, let's talk to the insurance industry and ask

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Speaker 3: them what regulations do we have to reduce, reform or

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Speaker 3: eliminate in order for you to drive down costs. Put

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Speaker 3: those entire reforms in one package and do an updown vote.

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Speaker 3: But that's not enough.

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Speaker 2: The second thing we have to do is we have.

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Speaker 3: To reduce the risk of catastrophic loss from wildfire. We

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Speaker 3: are not seeing increased fires because of climate change. Let

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Speaker 3: me repeat that climate change is not producing the fire

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Speaker 3: disasters that we're seeing. It's not the number of fires

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Speaker 3: driven by the fact that we're not properly managing forests.

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Speaker 3: We're not properly managing public lands like the canyons in

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Speaker 3: by government. By the way, government is the bad property

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Speaker 3: owner in this case, not sinning and clearing their own property.

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Speaker 3: And then finally, private property owners are not able to

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Speaker 3: if you damned if you don't. We've got to waive

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Speaker 3: those regulations. If a fire marshal says that it's appropriate

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Speaker 3: for fire risk management, then a homeowner, a property owner

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Speaker 3: clear defensible space. Now, all those reforms will take some

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Speaker 3: time to achieve cost. I'm a realist. The problem didn't

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Speaker 3: way we do that is we limit the increases in

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Speaker 2: People do not know this.

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Speaker 3: The media is not covering it, but the state of

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Speaker 3: California politicians have added a massive insurance premium tax to

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Speaker 3: And so we need to take away the incentive for

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Speaker 3: I do have in my plan insurance rate stabilization rebates

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Speaker 3: going to pay for it. We're going to take it

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Speaker 3: out of the climate change fund. The politicians say climate

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Speaker 3: fund that pays for high speed rail, why don't we

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Speaker 3: homeowners to soften the bloat. That's the plan. It's it's comprehensive.

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Speaker 3: It will save the average homeowner between three hundred and

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Speaker 1: That thing is a disaster, and that's going to be

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Speaker 3: It's yeah, but my plan fixes the problem. It's the

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Speaker 3: only comprehensive plan up in Sacramento. All the other plans

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Speaker 3: that have been offered literally are about CYA. It's saving face,

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Speaker 3: it's trying to divert attention, trying to pretend like you're

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Speaker 3: doing something. Now, we got to bend the cost curve.

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Speaker 3: And while we bend the cost curve, we cannot force

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Speaker 3: And I believe firmly that my bill is more about

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Speaker 3: consequence management than anything else. Politicians won't fix a problem

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Speaker 3: pay for the problem, they'll start fixing it. And that's

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Speaker 3: the brilliance I believe of the model that we've adopted.

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Speaker 1: Do you have any takers outside of your Republican friends

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Speaker 3: Even my Republican friends are hesitant because they say, well, boy,

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Speaker 1: Really, how big is this tax? I didn't know there

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Speaker 1: was an insurance tax. You mean when we get a

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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, and it's a percentage. It's a gross receipts tax.

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Speaker 3: And those are the worst forms of taxes because even

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Speaker 3: if you're not making money, you're still paying a higher tax.

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Speaker 3: It's a three percent gross receipts tax on the value

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Speaker 1: You know something what you said about the Republicans, they're

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Speaker 1: reluctant to give up that money. The state budgets three

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Speaker 1: hundred billion dollars. This is three much. This is three billion,

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Speaker 1: and it's coming out of the hides of everyone who

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Speaker 1: insurance rates. I mean, seriously, is anybody on our side?

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Speaker 1: Does anybody say they've got enough money in Sacramento and

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Speaker 1: they don't need to be taxing insurance policies.

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Speaker 3: There are reformers that we've gotten elected it's the newer

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Speaker 3: class members. Yeah, and hopefully the Sacramento swamp doesn't tain them.

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Speaker 3: I don't think so. They're really, you know, true believers.

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Speaker 3: But what we need to do is put pressure on

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Speaker 3: all the politicians. That's why my email to our supporters

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Speaker 3: earlier this week, I didn't just say contact Democrat legislators.

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Speaker 3: I said, contact every damn politician in Sacramento and put

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Speaker 3: your finger on their chest and pope and say, why

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Speaker 3: are you forcing me to pay double or triple my

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Speaker 3: insurance for your mistake? You need to take it out

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Speaker 3: of the state budget by giving up your portion of

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Speaker 1: All right, Carl, thank you for coming on.

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much. Take here, Carl Douaya.

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Speaker 1: We're probably going to assemble them in from San Diego

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Speaker 1: about completely reforming and restructuring insurance in this state. I

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Speaker 1: That's you don't want to You don't care how you

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Speaker 1: think Carl did a good job outlying why the rates

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Speaker 1: that's right, Sai Kashani, and he is the gentleman from

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Speaker 1: DWP chief, Genie Kinonyez failed the city of Los Angeles

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Speaker 1: So this is the way it should work in any

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Speaker 1: normal country. I know it's going to give progressives palpitations,

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Speaker 1: those who believe in anarchy and the destruction of the

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Speaker 1: United States, but the Trump administration has created a registry

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Speaker 1: for illegal immigrants. You're going to have to submit your

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Speaker 1: That's according to a draft of a regulation. The Wall

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Speaker 1: Cobelts Show Moistline for Friday, Call eight seven seven Moist

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Speaker 1: Let's get Sayid Kashani on because he's gone online to

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Speaker 2: Thanks for having me on again? Yes, that's correct. Investigation

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Speaker 2: Well, that particular one was pretty critical. That document referred

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Speaker 1: Yes, it was after the nineteen sixty one bel Air fire.

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Speaker 1: I've read that Karen Bass's staff has has eliminated some

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Speaker 2: Now, well, what of them? Surprise me if they have

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Speaker 2: The only person who spoke out against the mayor, the

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so everybody's covering their rear end now they want

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Speaker 2: Well, how mighty. They're willing to spend unlimited amounts of

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Speaker 1: Newsom is gonna let them Menendez brothers out. He wants

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Speaker 1: a risk assessment from the parole board. Well, you wouldn't

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Speaker 1: do that unless you're gonna let him out. We're also

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Speaker 1: gonna talk about all the dirty, perverse messages that has

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Speaker 1: led to one hundred intelligence officers being fired by Tulsea Gabbard,

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Speaker 1: the dude Director of National Intelligence.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 1: They were writing all this, all these disgusting sex messages

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Speaker 1: on one of those slack channels, one of those internal

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Speaker 1: messaging channels that companies have. But wait till you hear

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Speaker 1: about the content. One writer actually printed some of the

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Speaker 1: messages and I got to figure out how to explain

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Speaker 1: him to you. I have a dumb button.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 1: It's not it's not that it's just a bad word.

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Speaker 1: It's it's a it's a it's a it's a disgusting

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Speaker 1: concept that nobody's going on to hear. But she's firing

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Speaker 1: one hundred of these people. You're you're not gonn believe

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Speaker 1: the whole story that's coming up to next hour. But first,

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Speaker 1: what we have here is two people on board a plane.

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Speaker 1: They they brought Byron Leaf Fitzpatrick and Shannon Lee Page.

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Speaker 1: They they went on a plane and they started chatting

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Speaker 1: to nearby passengers and uh, they're flying over California. And

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Speaker 1: you know, I hate passengers who talk to me on

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Speaker 1: a plane. I mean I give out every vibe that says,

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Speaker 1: don't even say hello. All right, you know, I got

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Speaker 1: baseball cap pulled down, sunglasses on a coat, hunched up,

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Speaker 1: carrying something block in my face, PLoP into the chair,

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Speaker 1: lean away. Do not want to talk to people on

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Speaker 1: a play. And every once in a while you get

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Speaker 1: somebody chatty like and it's it's like an older woman

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Speaker 1: and they're really nice, and you can't really tell them

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Speaker 1: to shut up. Well you can, but that would be

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Speaker 1: awfully rude. It would be awfully rude. I try not

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Speaker 1: to be rude. Actually, see that's the thing. But you

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Speaker 1: know if you push me. Well, these two are jabbering

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Speaker 1: away and they said that they'd hunted a mountain lion.

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Speaker 1: That was the adventure they were coming back from. In fact,

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Speaker 1: they said one of their relatives was a big fan

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Speaker 1: of wild animals, and they had stuffed and mounted a

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Speaker 1: number of them, mounted ands wolverines, wolve. They had a

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Speaker 1: big trophy room. Now they're telling this to a couple

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Speaker 1: of other passengers nearby who were sitting in front of them,

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Speaker 1: and I guess the passengers saying, oh, really, go on,

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Speaker 1: go on, and so they they said, you know, we've

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Speaker 1: got a sea turtle skull, got a seat turt and

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Speaker 1: so and so the other two passengers said you do,

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Speaker 1: Can we take a look at it? And that's when

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Speaker 1: they landed. They said, can we can we look at

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Speaker 1: the sea turtle skull? Well, the couple said yeah, well yeah,

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Speaker 1: but it's it's it's illegal for us to have this.

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Speaker 1: So they waited until there was no one around, no

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Speaker 1: TSA agents, and then they showed off the turtle skull. Well,

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Speaker 1: the two passengers that they had been babbling to, these

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Speaker 1: two passengers who wanted to see the turtle skull were

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Speaker 1: two officers with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.

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Speaker 1: Knew it is that crazy. Yes, karma, karma, karma, I

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Speaker 1: mean these two idiots Byron and Shannon. They pulled the

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Speaker 1: skull from inside their jacket. It was inside a jacket

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Speaker 1: in their luggage, and it was part of a federally

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Speaker 1: listed endangered species illegal to possess, illegal to transport. So

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Speaker 1: the wildlife officers got back to their office, they wrote

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Speaker 1: up search warrants, and they raided the couple's home in Chico,

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Speaker 1: and they raided the home of the family member who

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Speaker 1: had all the stuffed animals in his trophy room. They

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Speaker 1: found mountain lion claws, a ringtail cat, a mounted barn owl.

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Speaker 1: You don't kill owls, No, you don't stuff owls. I

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Speaker 1: think that's bad luck? Is it bad luck to stuff

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Speaker 1: and owls? So they've been they're being prosecuted, they're being fined. Ah,

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Speaker 1: they're not even going to jail.

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Speaker 4: Did so those officers didn't confront them and tell them

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Speaker 4: who they were. They waited, as I would have loved

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Speaker 4: to see the looks on their faces.

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Speaker 1: Gotcha, No, they went back and filled up the paperwork

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Speaker 1: for a proper search warrant.

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Speaker 2: No.

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Speaker 1: I know, I know, and but you know, I was

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Speaker 1: surprised they didn't get there wasn't one of them got

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Speaker 1: fined eighteen hundred dollars, another one thousand, another one six hundred.

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Speaker 1: That's the old relative. And they were all placed on probation.

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Speaker 1: And it's going to stop prohibited from hunting for a year. Well,

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Speaker 1: they were already already prohibited from doing what they were

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Speaker 1: doing because that, I mean, can imagine showing off a

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Speaker 1: turtle skull? No, I mean did they kill the turtle? Yes? Probably,

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Speaker 1: It's just you know, these people should be stuffed. They

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Speaker 1: should be taxidermied, absolutely, put up in somebody's basement. When

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Speaker 1: I'm in charge, you all these creepy people, all the

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Speaker 1: creepy people, that's right, all their insides carved out, replaced

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Speaker 1: with stuffing. Yeah, and formaldehydelly. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: No.

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Speaker 1: I always thought there's something really sick about having like stuffed.

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Speaker 1: I agree. I mean, there's there's something wrong with you.

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Speaker 1: When we come back Alex Stone on the Menendez brothers,

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Speaker 1: Now they're going to get out because it looks like

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Speaker 1: Nathan Hoffman is not in favor of supporting their request

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Speaker 1: to be re sentenced or to be retried. So the

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Speaker 1: third avenue they always had was Gavin Newsome, and you know,

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Speaker 1: he's dumb as a brick, so he's looking at a

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Speaker 1: risk assessment to possibly release them. Alex Stone and then

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Speaker 1: a hundred intelligence officers getting fired by the new Director

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Speaker 1: of National Intelligence, Tulsa Gabbard for being on a chat platform,

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Speaker 1: discussing all kinds of sexual matters, things you may have

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Speaker 1: never heard of before. Seriously, I'm not just hyping this

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Speaker 1: things until this morning, and I read this before breakfast.

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Speaker 1: In fact, I even sent it to a friend of mine.

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Speaker 1: I said, read this, but you know, eat first, and

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Speaker 1: then wait a while after you eat. Debra Mark Live

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