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Speaker 1: social media. So tomorrow is going to be entertaining because

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Speaker 1: the UCLA Chancellor, Gene Block, this guy is only two

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Speaker 1: months from retirement and he got sucked into the Israeli

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Speaker 1: Palestinian War and now he's going to get roasted before

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Speaker 1: Congress tomorrow because there's a House committee and Republicans have

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Speaker 1: the majority, so they're going to direct a lot of

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Speaker 1: the questioning. And it's about the way gene Block badly

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Speaker 1: mishandled the protests. And you know I know this firsthand

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Speaker 1: because there were helicopters fluttering over our neighborhood. I don't

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Speaker 1: live that far from UCLA, and for three days, you know,

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Speaker 1: five o'clock in the morning, but tum tum dum dum

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Speaker 1: thump for the helicopters all because gene Block. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I can't sleep because gene Block didn't have a strong

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Speaker 1: enough character to say, everybody, get the hell out, get up,

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Speaker 1: go home, gone say it with your stupid protest. And

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Speaker 1: I'm sick of hearing this argument that it's free speech.

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Speaker 1: Enough of that. First of all, UCLA can set rules

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Speaker 1: to me, At college is like a place of employment.

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Speaker 1: Free speech doesn't mean you can chant through the halls

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Speaker 1: You can do that on your private time. You can

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Speaker 1: even do it in public, but you can't get the

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Speaker 1: way of other people working. And they were blocking Jewish

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Speaker 1: harassing them and intimidating them. That is not free speech.

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Speaker 1: That is a violation of United States Civil Rights Laws

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Speaker 1: Title six. Absolutely is a violation. So that's what gen

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Speaker 1: against Jewish students and Jewish students only. And here's something

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Speaker 1: I didn't know until like five minutes ago, Gene Block

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Speaker 1: They had signs showing Block with horns and red eyes,

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Speaker 1: which are anti Jewish themes because Jews are supposed to

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Speaker 1: don't understand about him. He's Jewish. They have pictures of

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Speaker 1: him with horns and red eyes, and he still wouldn't

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Speaker 1: do anything to stop it. This is gonna be the

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Speaker 1: House Committee on Education in the Workforce. The chair as

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Speaker 1: a woman named Virginia Fox from North Carolina, and she

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Speaker 1: released the statement. Now, this should be good. The committee

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Speaker 1: has a clear message for merely mouthed, spineless college leaders.

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Speaker 1: Congress will not tolerate your dereliction of duty to your

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Speaker 1: Jewish students. No stone must go unturned while buildings are

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Speaker 1: being defaced, campus greens are being captured, or graduations are

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Speaker 1: being ruined. Block wrote in a letter Monday that he's

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Speaker 1: going to speak honestly and personally about the challenges UCLA

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Speaker 1: I will continue to insist that anti Semitism as well

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Speaker 1: there were no anti Islamic protests on UCLA campus. Palestinian students,

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Speaker 1: Arab students, Islamic students were not blocked in any way,

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Speaker 1: It's like they can't just stick to what happened is

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Speaker 1: that Jewish students were being harassed, intimidated and pushed around.

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Speaker 1: That's it the hell you're talking about. And I know

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Speaker 1: The La Times has one of those critics say paragraphs.

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Speaker 1: Critics say that the hearings are an attempt by House

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Speaker 1: while campus anti Semitic incidents have grown significantly, there have

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Speaker 1: you know now UCLA is releasing all sorts of statements

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Speaker 1: That's what I don't get about block the guy's Jewish?

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Speaker 1: I mean, did you have any a twinge of anger,

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Speaker 1: people doing? This is just people? Well, like Congressman Virginia

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Speaker 1: Fox said, they're spineless, They're weak, They're afraid of confrontation.

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Speaker 1: Boy is that a different world and a better world.

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Speaker 1: Now, first segment. We told you about Gene Block, who

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Speaker 1: is the UCLA chancellor, and he allowed all the mayhem

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Speaker 1: the Times did a fascinating profile on cal State La.

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Speaker 1: It's not the same demographic and they don't They have

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Speaker 1: a little bit of a protest, but nothing out of control.

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Speaker 1: Because the one thing that's not spoken here is at UCLA,

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Speaker 1: especially all the elite schools, the Ivy League schools, these

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Speaker 1: much of them, you know, many of them from Palestine

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Speaker 1: You are not hearing underprivileged people screaming and yelling. These

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Speaker 1: None of them are volunteering. Nobody's volunteering to join Hamas.

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Speaker 1: By the way, speaking Amas, did you see the stories

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Speaker 1: to distribute all the food, all the humanitarian aid for Gaza.

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Speaker 1: Do you know hardly any of that's getting to the people.

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Speaker 1: we come back. We got to get We're gonna play

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Speaker 1: So there's there's two stories, violent stories which speak to

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Speaker 1: And let's set it up with a report from NBC

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Speaker 3: People were a gas at those crimes. I'm a gas too.

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Speaker 3: I want the city to be safe.

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Speaker 4: Santa Monica Mayor Phil Brock says. In this latest attack

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Speaker 4: It comes less than a week after police say a

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Speaker 5: It's an environment for families to come and enjoy their

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Speaker 4: Jessica Rogers of the Santa Monica Coalition, a group consisting

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Speaker 5: Without safe parking structures in downtown Santa Monica, we are

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Speaker 4: Mayor Brox says fifty five officers have been added in

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Speaker 3: Our city is safe for visitors, it's safe for residents,

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Speaker 4: Twenty nine year old Larrysadanielle has now been charged with

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Speaker 1: Is scheduled to be arranged tomorrow. Yeah, would you go

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Speaker 6: Well, to be honest with you, I was just there

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Speaker 1: Across the street, so it's daylight. It was daylight, but.

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Speaker 6: I've been I have been there numerous times in the

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Speaker 6: So many stores that I used to go to aren't

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Speaker 1: No, and like that story I read yesterday from sf Gate,

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Speaker 6: And what really stinks is that the beach is what

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Speaker 1: So why don't you get these people removed. Beverly Hills

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Speaker 1: I don't know why. Santa Monica just say no. Nobody

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Speaker 1: We're gonna have Codway coming in in just a few minutes.

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Speaker 1: They will not stop irritating us. We've talked about Scott

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Speaker 1: That's also driving up the number of pedestrian deaths. The

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Speaker 1: Not so with a gasoline engine, because you can hear

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Speaker 1: the because you teach the little kids, it's like you stop,

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Speaker 1: you look, you listen. Well there's no more listen. So

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Speaker 1: the state has policies between letting the homeless wander free

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Speaker 7: Hey, now, hey, I think we need before we get

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Speaker 7: another one of these overpasses for the mountain lions. I

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Speaker 7: think an overpass for the homeless chaps, you know, because

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Speaker 7: they're the ones walking across the freeway. Yeah, those are

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Speaker 7: the only guys and getting wiped out. Yeah yeah, but

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Speaker 7: otherwise stay out the freeway. All right, we've got UCLA.

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Speaker 7: They reassigned the police chief. I mean I guess the

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Speaker 7: criticism response to the violence on campus Dodgers stars show

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Speaker 7: Hey Otani. I don't if you heard about him. He's

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Speaker 7: been in the news, but he just bought a seven

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Speaker 7: almost eight million dollar mansion in Lacha, YadA, flint Ridge.

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Speaker 1: That's a beautiful, beautiful area. Yes, you know it, and

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Speaker 1: you know what that means.

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Speaker 7: He's gonna have kids because the only reason you moved

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Speaker 7: to that area is for the great schools.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna have kids. Yeah, I know. Well he's got

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Speaker 1: a wife. Yeah, marked by words.

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Speaker 7: Two years from now, little show Hey Otani's walking around.

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Speaker 7: And then we also have an eleven year old who

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Speaker 7: graduated from college. Going on with the parents? You let

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Speaker 7: that kid do that? What's going on with them? I

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Speaker 7: would never let that happen, and my daughter's proof of that.

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Speaker 7: Let him stay home and be miserable, right, You let

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Speaker 7: him grow up, you know, you let him get be

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Speaker 7: a kid and.

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Speaker 1: Go out and play and enjoying the kids, because like

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Speaker 1: that are miniature adults. I know, I know. I guess

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Speaker 1: they like the early Bill Gates types. Yeah, it's it's

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Speaker 1: not because the kid was pushed. It was because this

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Speaker 1: is what what his brain allows him to do.

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Speaker 7: Right, But when I was eleven years old, I'd get

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Speaker 7: home when the street lights went on. And he's graduating college. Yeah,

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Speaker 7: I only graduated in high school. We had six hundred

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Speaker 7: eighty hour class. I think it was six hundred and

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Speaker 7: twelve percent. Didn't kno get out, John, He didn't knock

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Speaker 7: it out. You didn't seem like I never looked at

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Speaker 7: you said what, I bet he was a great student.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I I you know.

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Speaker 7: But then I went to college and I was on

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Speaker 7: because I had such crappy grades in high school. And

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Speaker 7: I got a three point five eight, and I'm like, wow,

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Speaker 7: this is easy.

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Speaker 1: And then I let it slide again.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, well college, by the way, college is easier than

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Speaker 7: high school.

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Speaker 1: Yes, it's found that out with my hundred percent. You

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Speaker 1: know what. They had their struggles in high school, that's right. College, Yeah,

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Speaker 7: You just got to get through high school, learn how

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Speaker 7: to socialize, you can, you know, screw around in high school,

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Speaker 7: and then when you get to college, every class is

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Speaker 7: you know, and if you're falling behind, the teachers going

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Speaker 7: to help you. They fellow students are going to help you,

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Speaker 7: because those are the kids that really want to learn.

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Speaker 1: You know, these high schools.

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Speaker 7: Are filled with If there's thirty kids, fifteen of them

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Speaker 7: don't want to be there.

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Speaker 1: Sure guys like you, that's right, that's right. Diged off

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Speaker 1: with these guys. You were designed for a radio career.

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Speaker 7: I got an I got an A in a class

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Speaker 7: with a guy named God.

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Speaker 1: I can't even think of his name anymore. Anyway.

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Speaker 7: He was a big racetrack fan, and he said I

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Speaker 7: didn't have to to class if I would run bets

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Speaker 7: to sant Anita in back for him.

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Speaker 1: A plus. There you go.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, Coach o' harris, the guys, that's what it was, kiwas.

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Speaker 1: I bless him. Crozer's got the names along with you

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