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Speaker 2: we are now going to talk with a man and

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Speaker 2: his attorney. The man is Huey Tran and he was

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Speaker 2: on the Boeing flight that started the string of news

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Speaker 2: stories about bad Boeing flights Alaska Airlines on January fifth,

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Speaker 2: that was the door plug blowout from Portland to Ontario.

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Speaker 2: This happened in Rowe twenty six. It was Roe twenty

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Speaker 2: seven where Huey Tran was sitting and it was it

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Speaker 2: was quite the trauma. He's going to come on here

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Speaker 2: with his attorney, Ari Friedman. Let's get Huey Tran and

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Speaker 2: Ari Friedman on Hueie.

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Speaker 1: How are you hi?

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Speaker 3: Good?

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Speaker 4: Thank you very much for having me man.

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Speaker 1: Ari Friedman, welcome to the show as well.

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Speaker 5: Thank you. John. Happy to be here.

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Speaker 1: Jully tell us about it. What was it like?

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Speaker 4: Craziest thing I've ever seen? And I've had a few

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Speaker 4: near death experiences in the past, but this is nothing

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Speaker 4: like it. A giant hole from the top of the

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Speaker 4: cabin all the way to the floor two feet in

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Speaker 4: can see the traffic below, the freezing air blowing in.

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Speaker 4: I was either die from freezing or the plane was

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Speaker 4: going to fall apart. It was extremely, extremely scary. I

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Speaker 2: Was there any build up to when the plug finally

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Speaker 2: blew out? Did you hear noises or wind whistling?

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Speaker 4: I myself didn't hear anything. I had just closed my

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Speaker 4: open my eyes, and the door was already gone. It

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Speaker 2: Now now the door was hidden by an right they

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Speaker 2: had covered up the door plug.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I didn't even know there was a door there

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Speaker 2: Was anyone sitting in those two seats beforehand? I found

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Speaker 2: it odd. I had read that there were six empty

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Speaker 2: the odds that two of the six were right next

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Speaker 2: to that that plug and made me.

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Speaker 4: Think, yeah, there were so many odds that played. Actually,

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Speaker 4: there was nobody sitting in the two seats right next

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Speaker 4: at the window seat because it was open.

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Speaker 1: His mother.

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Speaker 4: Convinced him not to to stay by her side, which

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Speaker 4: he was on topposite aisle seat.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 2: So so all right, So there's this tremendous sucking sound

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Speaker 2: as the cabins depressurized. What did this do to your body?

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Speaker 2: I mean, how did you feel the sucking force and

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Speaker 4: For me, I was in the middle seat and I

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Speaker 4: my friend, he told that afterwards his body was lifted

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Speaker 4: up off his seat. He can feel his himself rising

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Speaker 4: out of his seat. For me, between the shocks and

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Speaker 4: do to keep myself safe, including you know, pulling on

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Speaker 2: Yes, the oxygen mask. Did you have any any trouble

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Speaker 4: For me, like I said, the adrenaline, the rush, I

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Speaker 4: the flight attendants also came up with an air canister.

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Speaker 1: Just in case.

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Speaker 4: I've recently been told that the mask only has enough

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Speaker 4: oxygen for ten for maybe thirteen minutes, actually, so is

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Speaker 4: that right to me? That's yeah, apparently it's just enough

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Speaker 1: I didn't I thought that it would have oxygen for

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Speaker 1: How many how many minutes before the plane landed? Remember,

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Speaker 1: it was very hard to say.

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Speaker 4: It was hard to say because the stress and you're

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Speaker 1: There about ten were people screaming on the plane.

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Speaker 6: Was their panic, like I said, because of the wind,

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Speaker 6: I could not hear screams that there was, Yeah, but

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Speaker 6: I think people were so scared that they they tried

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Speaker 4: There was a scary calmness.

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Speaker 1: That it was.

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Speaker 4: It was like we're either gonna make it or not

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Speaker 4: kind of thing. It was, you know, singing our last

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Speaker 2: So the plane lands, I guess it circled back to

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Speaker 1: That's it was there? Did this?

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Speaker 2: Did the crew, the pilots, did anybody tell you anything,

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 4: We did not get any information.

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Speaker 4: I and my friend was allowed off the plane first

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Speaker 4: give me any additional information at the time. We were

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Speaker 4: just told to d board and try to figure figure

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Speaker 4: a way to rebook the plane. Good luck.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah? Wow?

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Speaker 2: How long did it take before, like you calm down

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Speaker 4: There definitely was, and I would say there's probably several stages.

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Speaker 4: The first stage, I think what you're asking about is

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Speaker 4: probably within the first one to three hours, where it

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Speaker 4: shock what was there. We're talking, We're talking for another

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Speaker 2: Really, we're talking with Huey Tran. He was a passenger

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Speaker 2: and wrote twenty seven one row behind from where the

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Speaker 2: door plug blew out on Alaska Airlines back in January,

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Speaker 2: and his attorney Ari Friedman, all right, Ari, lay out

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Speaker 2: the lawsuit here, you're representing seven passengers who were on

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Speaker 5: That's right, Sean. And fundamentally, what we're looking at is

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Speaker 5: that the bolts that were used to hold this door

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Speaker 5: plug in place were not installed during the manufacturing process.

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Speaker 5: So the lawsuit is looking at the manufacturer Boeing and

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Speaker 5: Spirit Arrow Systems, who actually made the plug wondering why

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Speaker 5: during routine assembly and maintenance these bolts which were critical

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Speaker 5: to securing the plug to the fuselage were we're not installed.

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Speaker 2: Is this something Alaska should have noticed their maintenance crew.

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Speaker 5: Well, you know, John, Unfortunately, we are still very early

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Speaker 5: on in the investigation. The NTSB, Boeing, Spirit Aerosystems are

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Speaker 5: all involved in that investigation. We are not, so we

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Speaker 5: only have very scant information. The information that we are given,

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Speaker 5: we aren't really able to do much investigation ourselves. Right now.

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Speaker 5: It appears that the plane was delivered without the bolts

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Speaker 5: to Alaska and there was no further maintenance. But again,

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Speaker 5: we need the opportunity to, you know, have the chance

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Speaker 2: You have you had other cases in your practice dealing

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Speaker 2: with airlines.

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Speaker 1: And these kind of issues, Yes, we have. Now you

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Speaker 2: I was going to say you probably have read the

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Speaker 2: New York Times and the Wall Street Journal investigations in

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Speaker 2: recent days, just the complete disaster it seems that Boeing

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Speaker 2: is when it comes to quality control and their production lines.

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Speaker 2: I mean, my head spins every time the new story

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Speaker 4: Is it Boeing?

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Speaker 2: You know?

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Speaker 5: For I don't want to necessarily say aviation insiders, but

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Speaker 5: people who have been paying attention to Boeing have watched

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Speaker 5: this slow and sometimes rapid decline, this shift from Boeing

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Speaker 5: once being a prideful engineering powerhouse to one that's making

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Speaker 5: monetary and business decisions to honor deadlines over quality and

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Speaker 5: profits over people. So this is not something necessarily new

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Speaker 5: for us in seeing how Boeing is approaching its manufacturing process,

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Speaker 5: especially as it pertains to the seven thirty seven max.

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Speaker 5: But again, you know this, this near tragedy highlights the

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Speaker 5: state that Boeing is in, and it's our hope in

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Speaker 1: All right, ariy hewey. I guess you feel like you're

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Speaker 4: Right for sure?

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Speaker 1: I mean definitely?

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Speaker 2: Okay, Well, yeah, you have seven more to go after this,

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Speaker 2: so good luck, Huie, thank you so much, Thank you

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Speaker 2: so much for your time. Harry Friedman, his attorney, thank

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Speaker 2: you for coming on.

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Speaker 5: Appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: John happy to be here all right. Now.

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Speaker 2: That was an Alaska Airlines flight Boeing and it landed

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Speaker 2: at Portland Airport. We have another Alaska Airlines flight, a

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Speaker 2: Boeing plane landing at Portland Airport with another issue. We'll

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Speaker 2: tell you about it when we come back. You didn't

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Speaker 1: Oh good?

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Speaker 8: Can't wait?

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Speaker 1: All right, big day here.

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Speaker 2: Coming up ato three point thirty, we're going to talk

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Speaker 2: about the shocking Supreme Court decision they cited temporarily at

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Speaker 2: least with Texas against the federal government. Texas has passed

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Speaker 2: its own immigration laws and they can arrest people, says

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Speaker 2: never got a verdict like that in memory. We'll tell

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Speaker 2: I'm also going to tell you in just a minute

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Speaker 2: about the CEO of Hurtz Rental Cars getting tossed for

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Speaker 2: a really amusing reason or amusing to me. He bet

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Speaker 2: the farm on electric cars and it's cost the company

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Speaker 2: As the electric car a fad continues to implode, but

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Speaker 2: as promised Alaska Airlines a Boeing plane Portland Airport. That

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Speaker 2: is where all the drama happened with the door Plug.

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Speaker 2: You believe that guy's story. We just had Huey Tranon.

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Speaker 2: He was a passenger on the door Plug plane and

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Speaker 2: he was just on with us. He was one robot,

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Speaker 2: Mathematically, it's not possible you have nine incidents and they

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Speaker 2: One of the things you should listen to. You must

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Speaker 1: And it's a big change.

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Speaker 2: about the vagrants. Karen Bass still failing at that nat.

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Speaker 2: The Araman's still failing at this is our district. So

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Speaker 2: we'll continue John Cobelt Show Cafine.

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Speaker 9: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from.

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Speaker 1: Conway's coming up in minutes.

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Speaker 2: Sherman Oaks, which had really because I used to do

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Speaker 2: a lot of shopping. My wife and I go to

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Speaker 2: restaurants and go grocery stores and wander around Ventura Boulevard

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Speaker 2: years ago, and it's become really some blocks run down,

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Speaker 2: filled with crazed homeless people. This is Nithia Rahman, and

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Speaker 2: I don't know what's wrong with people who live in

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Speaker 2: her district. She got re elected with fifty percent of

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Speaker 2: the vote and so she doesn't have to go to

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Speaker 2: a November runoff. She had two candidates against her and

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Speaker 2: they split the vote to some extent anyway, another restaurant.

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Speaker 2: The restaurants have really been struggling because there's so many

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Speaker 2: homeless people terrorizing them and some TRANSI had started a

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Speaker 2: fire next to Casa Vega, and we're going to get

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Speaker 2: a report here from KTLA five Sandra Mitchell, who talked

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Speaker 2: with the owner.

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Speaker 3: Security video shows the arsen is poor and accelerant in

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Speaker 3: a dumpster and lighted on fire. Flames go flashing up

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Speaker 3: the side of a Sherman Oaks apartment building.

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Speaker 8: I was horrified.

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Speaker 3: The Saturday night fire was in the parking lot of

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Speaker 3: Kosa Vega, a popular restaurant.

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Speaker 11: I mean, the flames are about ten feet high and

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Speaker 11: it's right next to our grease trap, and if the

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Speaker 11: fire had hit our grease trap, it would have been

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Speaker 11: like a bomb explosion.

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Speaker 3: The arsonists have not been caught. Local business owners blamed transients.

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Speaker 11: We have a constant assault by the transients that come

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Speaker 11: in the restaurant.

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Speaker 3: Terrorizing the Ventura Boulevard neighborhood.

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Speaker 11: And we had a busser that was stabbed coming to

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Speaker 11: work right in the driveway of Cosa Vega by a transient.

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Speaker 3: The owner of Valley in the oldest restaurant in the

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Speaker 3: valley tells us homeless people are scaring their customers and employees.

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Speaker 3: They're pleading with the officials to help, but they're also

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Speaker 3: doing what they can to protect themselves. Robert Tomlinson is

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Speaker 3: a volunteer with the neighborhood Watch group. That's him in

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Speaker 3: the bright yellow vest. He was on patrol Saturday night

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Speaker 3: and spotted the arson fire.

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Speaker 1: And I just happened to cross the smoke column and

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Speaker 1: then I made the determination that I needed to do

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Speaker 1: something so called nine to one.

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Speaker 3: One and the dumpster fire really didn't cause much damage,

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Speaker 3: but the owner of Casa Vega says incidents like this

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Speaker 3: ultimately could put her seventy year old restaurant out of business.

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Speaker 3: Her insurance company recently canceled her policy.

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Speaker 11: The crime the homeless, the lack of consequences. It's been

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Speaker 11: making businesses unensurable because if the governments and authorities aren't

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Speaker 11: going to prosecute crime, insurance is going to stop paying

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Speaker 11: for it.

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Speaker 3: You probably noticed in that security video at least three

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Speaker 3: people involved in the fire lap details as nobody has

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Speaker 3: been arrested.

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Speaker 1: Of course, yeah, I thought of that angle.

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Speaker 2: Insurance companies not wanting to ensure restaurants because the neighborhood

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Speaker 2: has gone to hell there. And uh yeah, if you're

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Speaker 2: if you were the mayor, if you're the city council

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Speaker 2: and you heard that report, wouldn't you be angry and

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Speaker 2: embarrassed at yourself for allowing this to go on? They

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Speaker 2: could stop it in a day. In a day they

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Speaker 2: wanted to Conway and Thompson.

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Speaker 1: We were born outraged. You should be.

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Speaker 12: Outraged, doctor dre John.

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Speaker 13: I know you'll be very very hard to tell me

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Speaker 13: much about doctor who.

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Speaker 1: The guy does the eyes.

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Speaker 12: He got a star on the Walk of Fame.

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Speaker 1: It's a big deal.

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Speaker 12: Don't you just right next to doctor Mangers.

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Speaker 2: I don't know a single piece of music by it.

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Speaker 2: Would you say yes if they offered you a starm Uh?

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Speaker 2: They have already decided then we were never going to

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Speaker 2: stop that?

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Speaker 7: Is that a separate Is that a separate email?

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Speaker 5: You get?

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Speaker 1: You gotta kiss the ass of city council people to

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Speaker 1: do that.

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Speaker 12: I remember who it was.

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Speaker 13: I think it was Loman and Barkley with some old

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Speaker 13: Dr School guys, and they showed up, they unveiled the

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Speaker 13: star and the name was misspelled.

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Speaker 1: That. Oh that's strong, that's great.

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Speaker 2: Well that was there was Kobe's statue. They've got all

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Speaker 2: these type four typos. Yeah right yeah on one statue.

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Speaker 2: The world is stupid for four typo apparently. How hard

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Speaker 2: is it to check the spelling statue?

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Speaker 7: As Conways always says, how many people looked at that

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Speaker 7: and then just let it go, let me.

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Speaker 12: Give it, gave it the okay?

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Speaker 13: And and by the way, in two of the mistakes

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Speaker 13: on that statue, it's decision, but decision is spelled correctly

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Speaker 13: right on top of where it's misspelled.

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Speaker 12: You don't have to go to a dictionary. You just

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Speaker 12: have to look up an.

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Speaker 2: Inch that they couldn't get to the end of the decision,

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Speaker 2: and they spelled decision differently two times. One of them

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Speaker 2: has got to be wrong. Didn't the guy think babing?

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Speaker 7: How many times do you want to sp who is

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Speaker 7: that guy?

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Speaker 1: I want his name, I want to see his photo.

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Speaker 13: Yeah, I don't know. It probably works here I space.

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Speaker 13: Did you see the big launch last night?

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Speaker 1: I did not.

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Speaker 12: Did you watch it last night?

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Speaker 1: I saw yeah, many many videos.

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Speaker 13: I saw it live. I was I felt like I

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Speaker 13: was better than you guys because I saw it live.

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Speaker 13: L A fire department knocks down a fire and a

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Speaker 13: Baked Potato jazz club.

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Speaker 12: That's a big deal.

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Speaker 1: You know that.

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Speaker 13: That's one of the premier jazz clubs in Studio City.

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Speaker 13: I think it's the only one, but it's a big

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Speaker 13: Have you ever been in the Baked Potato?

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Speaker 1: I have not.

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Speaker 12: Have you been there?

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Speaker 7: Mark? I have not, And I'm now thinking I want

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Speaker 7: to go when they get it all cleaned up.

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Speaker 13: They saved it, though, they saved it, Okay, Yeah, and

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Speaker 13: I think I.

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Speaker 7: Think I feel like I fired. A jazz club is

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Speaker 7: a real bad thing, don't you. A jazz club, especially

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Speaker 7: the last bastion of like a special kind of art civility. Yeah,

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Speaker 7: I see I see Conway. I say this often, John,

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Speaker 7: Maybe you'll agree. I see him as a jazz stylist

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Speaker 7: of talk radio.

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Speaker 1: Kind of a free form.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, that's why, I mean whatever is hitting him at

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Speaker 7: that second?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they change nothing organized.

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Speaker 12: They changed it to the burnt Potato.

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Speaker 1: Oh doubled back for that.

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Speaker 13: Powerball Mega millions and the Powerball make a million's one

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Speaker 13: point five billion dollars.

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Speaker 12: We're in that. Are you in the office pool with us?

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Speaker 2: We're an office pool if we win. I don't do lotteries. Well, no,

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Speaker 2: it's one in one hundred and three hundred million. No, right,

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Speaker 2: but my definition and you put it like that. But

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Speaker 2: there was the last.

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Speaker 13: Group that won was was an office group of like

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Speaker 13: thirty people. And guess what they have a better lotto

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Speaker 13: captain than we.

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Speaker 7: Do, do shaming our lot of captains won a prize.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to share it with thirty other people.

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Speaker 7: Really, billion you wouldn't be okay, sure.

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Speaker 2: You know, you'd ge end up with one of those

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Speaker 2: cheaper prizes, be one thousand bucks to be thirty and

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Speaker 2: then they take out taxes.

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Speaker 1: Wow, you'll be able to buy a cheeseburger at the I.

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Speaker 13: Would love to win it with like eighty people. That

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Speaker 13: would be great, yeah, you know, and then to find

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Speaker 13: the two guys that didn't shut that.

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Speaker 7: We're still over and then there's a whole lawsuit over that,

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Speaker 7: right because everybody else sues them.

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Speaker 1: No, they didn't actually hadn't made the contribution.

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Speaker 13: Yeah, everyone can buy and go like, hey, John, I

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Speaker 13: got a little bag of cookies for you.

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Speaker 1: I bought it down the Hall Consolation Prize Conway to.

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Speaker 12: Big Gong with Colt. How many years you been here?

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Speaker 1: Col Belt?

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Speaker 13: Somebody asked me that today, well thirty one? Wow, is

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Speaker 13: that right?

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Speaker 4: Right?

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Speaker 12: When's your anniversary here?

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Speaker 1: November twenty third?

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Speaker 13: Okay, that's my my that's the day Kennedy got killed,

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Speaker 13: is it?

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Speaker 1: Okay? Six second? Remember twenty second?

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Speaker 12: That's right.

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Speaker 13: My brother, my friend was born on the twenty third,

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Speaker 13: the day after all right.

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Speaker 1: Anything else, Ashley Jersey, I get the name right today? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: she's the best. All right? Come on, Crozer who's because

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Speaker 1: nobody tells me again?

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Speaker 12: Crozier who.

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Speaker 2: She's got the news? That's live tig Dog with you. Hey,

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Speaker 2: you've been listening to the John Covelt Show podcast. You

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Speaker 2: can always hear the show live on kf I Am

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Speaker 2: six forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday,

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