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Speaker 1: posted after four o'clock. Moistline is back this Friday, eight

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Speaker 1: So you usually talkback feature. You know if you had kids,

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Speaker 1: maybe you have kids now, you know how long it

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Speaker 1: takes to save money for college. It's the number one

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Speaker 1: right and dogs you for twenty years you have multiple kids, stuff,

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Speaker 1: how those loans go right interest rates. People end up

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Speaker 1: paying those loans for decades. However, in the United States

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Speaker 1: of America, if you're a member of al Qaeda, you

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Speaker 1: More specifically, you will get us, the American taxpayer, to

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Speaker 1: this story, but it's true. Do you remember Anwar al

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Speaker 1: ALACKI remember that name. He was an al Qaeda terrorist.

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Speaker 1: In fact, he was a central figure. He was a

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Speaker 2: Say he was gone.

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Speaker 1: They're only finding out now that this organization called the

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Speaker 1: US Agency for International Development USAID, they provided full funding

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Speaker 1: They wanted to be inclusive, They wanted to be diverse.

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Speaker 1: They wanted equity and diversity. Equity inclusion means you have

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Speaker 1: I was thinking about this today. The progressives really have

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Speaker 1: Children are hungry, these women are in danger, and it's like, oh,

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Speaker 1: That's what the government is for. And they use that.

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Speaker 1: They use your compacts as a weapon against you. The

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Speaker 1: That's how we end up with spending over a billion

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Speaker 2: Homeless to no avail. Same thing.

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Speaker 1: People get emotionally manipulated. These organizations run by these thieving psychopaths.

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Speaker 1: They know it works. They know all they have. What

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Speaker 2: Well, this is money that is necessary. You're going to

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Speaker 1: This is money that helps aid patients and starving children.

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Speaker 1: It's like, no, it's money that you use to send

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Speaker 2: That's what the organization was used for.

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Speaker 1: You're not gonna believe this one either. There's something about today.

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Speaker 1: There's these unbelievable shocking stories. You remember the Chinese spy balloon,

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Speaker 1: it's always been a mystery what was really inside the balloon.

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Speaker 1: They said early on this probably was Chinese spy technology.

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Speaker 1: Although the government claims that all that information was ultimately

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Speaker 1: And so now they're wondering, well, apparently this stuff all

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Speaker 1: Something called a short burst messaging module called Iridium ninety

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Speaker 1: and that comes from a Virginia company, a global satellite

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Speaker 1: communications company called Iridium and Jordan Hassim is one of

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Speaker 1: does not condone the use of its radios or modules

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Speaker 1: you don't condone it, but we don't condone that. Well,

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Speaker 1: it happened. Isn't there a way to make sure these

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Speaker 1: things don't work unless they're in the hands of the

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Speaker 1: We need to know the module specifically. It could be

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Speaker 1: They said, if they knew that it was being used

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Speaker 1: every week, every day because all this there's been so

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Speaker 1: It goes into the One of my favorite new words

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Speaker 1: in the last few years has been the memory hole

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Speaker 1: where major events happened and then everybody seems to forget

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Speaker 1: social media. Well, I'm not gonna I do not have

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Speaker 1: a memory hole. I remember everything, and I'm going to

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Speaker 1: remember this stupid reservoir that was never filled. And this

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Speaker 1: Italian inventor, Trusen, he says he was puzzled why they

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Speaker 1: left it empty. Yeah, and they don't offer an explanation

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Speaker 2: That's what's fascinating. Nope, I mean you you.

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Speaker 1: We played the clip a couple of times of that

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Speaker 1: the DWP board to say something about why the reservoir

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Speaker 1: wasn't filled and nothing. Silence. Thank you, sir, thank you

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Speaker 1: not gonna put up with this forever.

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Speaker 2: But why are we funding a new sesame street program? There?

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Speaker 1: Six million dollars for tourism in Egypt, well, you might

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Speaker 2: Have you been there? I have not. Don't go there.

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Speaker 2: What are you going to do about it?

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Speaker 1: One hundred and ten million dollars to terminate seventy eight

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Speaker 2: We need to be a consultant. What are we going

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Speaker 1: If you were a consultant, who could you convince to

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Speaker 1: There you go, Oh, there's got to be some vegan

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Speaker 1: This is this is good. Federal research office that tracks

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Speaker 1: And I said to somebody the other days, do you

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Speaker 1: eighth grade, and it's gotten worse over the years. Seventy

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Speaker 1: in either English, no reading, reading, or math. Well, what's

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Speaker 1: think if we didn't spend one federal dollar in education,

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Speaker 2: Here's another one, Musk. Musk's team.

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Speaker 1: Terminated eighty nine contracts worth almost a billion dollars, including

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Speaker 1: of your tax money to observe mailing and clerical operations

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Speaker 1: at a mail center, what I could do that?

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Speaker 2: Well, there you go. Maybe that's that's what you should

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Speaker 1: A million and a half dollars and you just show

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Speaker 1: up and say, okay, so how do you mail stuff here?

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Speaker 1: We just collect the mail and we put it in

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Speaker 1: In fact, going back to the Education Department, the fourth

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Speaker 2: More coming up.

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Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI.

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Speaker 1: A six coming up in just a few minutes. You

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Speaker 1: may have heard the name Rick Grennell. I think his

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Speaker 2: As you know.

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Speaker 1: The trendy Iragua gang members were the most famous, and.

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Speaker 1: About six hundred thousand of them had temporary protected status.

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Speaker 1: Trump got the Venezuelan government to use its own national

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Speaker 1: I don't know what we were doing to them in

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Speaker 1: All right, it's working. Conway's here.

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Speaker 4: I saw that they're treated like they just won the

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Speaker 2: Venezuelan's finest.

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Speaker 4: Hey, one of the funniest guys in the world, Brian

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Speaker 4: Reagan is coming on with us. Very funny stand up

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Speaker 4: comic and he's going to be performing here in Southern California.

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Speaker 4: So we'll give out some of the dates and you

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Speaker 2: John, I know it's a big deal.

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Speaker 4: You know, Well, we haven't had a disaster in about

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