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Speaker 2: At my house, it was kind of a pleasant rainy day,

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Speaker 2: which is how I spent my day anyway. Yeah, I'm

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Speaker 2: Got no one to blame that on anyway. So we've

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Speaker 3: We will. But I saw this story and we just

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Speaker 2: About this because, as you know, this country is losing

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Speaker 2: is happening, and somehow we're not screaming from the rafters

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Speaker 2: One of the most culpable parties in this is the

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Speaker 2: Sackler families, family of that owns Purdue Pharma and they're

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Speaker 2: these unbelievably addictive and abusive drugs. They serve a purpose

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Speaker 2: have shielded members of the Sackler family from civil opioid lawsuits.

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Speaker 2: And to analyze this for us is the best in

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Speaker 2: Royal Oaks, Royal, how are.

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Speaker 1: You and doing great? Yeah, it really is getting a

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Speaker 2: And you use the word fraudulent earlier. And I'm not

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Speaker 2: You know when you look at how you know, criminal negligence,

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Speaker 2: Put in some of these people who are vacationing, you know,

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Speaker 2: A couple years in the Gray Bar Hotel would go

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Speaker 2: just a bit. But I went to the bank this morning.

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Speaker 2: minutes at the nine oh nine Sports Bar and Restaurant

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Speaker 2: at they Amavar Resort and Casino and Island. This happened

434
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Speaker 2: over the weekend, all right, so, and now, by the way,

435
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Speaker 2: I also love the fact that this is an entertainment

436
00:21:55,760 --> 00:21:59,080
Speaker 2: feature that the casinos are booking. This as an entertainment event.

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00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:03,040
Speaker 2: Forget about Tony Bennett and people singing. Forget about you know,

438
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Speaker 2: you know, the people who were playing a casino circuit

439
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Speaker 2: Jim Gaffigan in the showroom. No, a guy's gonna come

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Speaker 2: in and eat a giant hot dog. Stony is inviting

441
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Speaker 2: the public to eat the twenty two inch dog with

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Speaker 2: crisp pork belly and barbecue pulled pork topped with cheddar

443
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Speaker 2: cheese sauce, barbecue sauce, pickled Kolopano peppers, thinly sliced red onion,

444
00:22:29,840 --> 00:22:35,400
Speaker 2: green jalapano sauce, and white crim sauce. And you eat

445
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Speaker 2: it side by side with him. And if, like Stony,

446
00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:40,719
Speaker 2: you can knock this thing back within ten minutes, this

447
00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:43,480
Speaker 2: is what you get. Besides, you know your stomach pumped.

448
00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:46,040
Speaker 2: You got three hundred dollars, a free play in the casino,

449
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Speaker 2: a photo in the Mega Dog Hall of Fame, a

450
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Speaker 2: T shirt triple X undoubtedly, and their name on a

451
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Speaker 2: trophy inside the nine oh nine. It costs thirty dollars

452
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Speaker 2: into the contest. Now again, this was written in Pup

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Speaker 2: before the actual event, So I don't know how the

454
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Speaker 2: amateurs did, but the professional is involved. And by the way,

455
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Speaker 2: he says, he was inspired to get into competitive eating

456
00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:13,919
Speaker 2: watching the Travel Channel's reality show called Man Versus Food,

457
00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:17,520
Speaker 2: where hosts went around the world eating in restaurants that

458
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Speaker 2: had gigantic portions.

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Speaker 3: What happened to starvation? What happened to people you know.

460
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Speaker 2: You know, collecting pennies for unief to feed the starving

461
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Speaker 2: people and biofer and other places around the world. And

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00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:34,720
Speaker 2: by the way, there still is starvation in the world,

463
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Speaker 2: but most of that is politically induced. Most of that

464
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Speaker 2: is because of warfare and other state sponsored famines as

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Speaker 2: a political weapon, which should be war crimes right to

466
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Speaker 2: deliberately starve a population to death. But the problem globally

467
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Speaker 2: now is obesity, and we've turned it into a sport,

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Speaker 2: into an entertainment spectacle that people would go up to

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Speaker 2: the Yamava casino and say seventeen red. And by the way,

470
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Speaker 2: I think I could beat the guy eating the three

471
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Speaker 2: thousand calorie hot dog. Is my thirty dollars. I hope

472
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Speaker 2: I win the T shirt, But debor you know what,

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Speaker 2: the first question I had when I saw the story

474
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Speaker 2: what is that? I wonder what radio station he works for.

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Speaker 2: Anybody who's ever seen its showering down? I've seen a

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Speaker 2: rugby scrum over a tic tac ground into the carpet

477
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Speaker 2: the hallways at KFI.

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Speaker 4: What are you saying?

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Speaker 3: I'm just saying. I'm not saying.

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Speaker 2: I'm just saying itippens as a political weapon, which should

481
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Speaker 2: be war crimes, right to deliberately starve a population to death.

482
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Speaker 2: But the problem globally now is obesity. And we've turned

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Speaker 2: it into a sport, into an entertainment spectacle that people

484
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Speaker 2: would go up to the Yamavah casino and say seventeen red.

485
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Speaker 2: And by the way, I think I could beat the

486
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Speaker 2: guy eating the three thousand calorie hot dog. Is my

487
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Speaker 2: thirty dollars? I hope I win the T shirt? But Debor,

488
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Speaker 2: you know what, the first question I had when I

489
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Speaker 2: saw the story, what is that? I wonder what radio

490
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Speaker 2: s he works for? Anybody who's ever seen its showering down?

491
00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:09,359
Speaker 2: I've seen a rugby scrum over a tick tack ground

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Speaker 2: into the carpet the hallways at KFI.

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Speaker 4: What are you saying.

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Speaker 3: I'm just saying.

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Speaker 2: I'm not saying, I'm just saying update you, obviously on

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Speaker 2: any changing events in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Hillary.

497
00:25:23,359 --> 00:25:26,800
Speaker 2: There are many areas around us that took a real wallop,

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Speaker 2: especially palm springs of San Bernardino Mountains areas and all

499
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Speaker 2: those areas that experience burns. So while most of us

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Speaker 2: mercifully got through it with very little, if any, inconvenience

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Speaker 2: or damage, there's a lot of people who are digging

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Speaker 2: out in the truest sense.

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Speaker 3: So we'll get into all of that.

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Speaker 2: President Biden on his way to Maui, visiting the folks

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Speaker 2: over there who went through that horrific fire and something

506
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Speaker 2: that we've had far too much experience with here in California,

507
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Speaker 2: and this is probably just the way the world is

508
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Speaker 2: going to be for the rest of the foreseeable future.

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Speaker 2: The fires are burning in Spain, up in Washington and

510
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Speaker 2: the State of Washington. Up in Canada, they've been burning

511
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Speaker 2: for months and months Greece, so these wildfires.

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Speaker 3: Are going all over the globe. Now it's a real problem.

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Speaker 2: And speaking of all over the globe, we remember when

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Speaker 2: that horrific earthquake happened in Japan and it breached one

515
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Speaker 2: of the reactors at the Daichi nuclear plant in Japan.

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Speaker 2: I was doing an overnight radio show when that happened,

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Speaker 2: and because of the incredible Internet, I had a guy

518
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Speaker 2: who was listening over the internet in Okinawa, Japan, and

519
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Speaker 2: he called in from Okinawa and he spoke fluent Japanese,

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Speaker 2: and he told me that the nuclear plant had been

521
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Speaker 2: breached about five hours before the story broke and the

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Speaker 2: rest of the United States because he was watching a

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Speaker 2: local newscast when everybody else was sound asleep.

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Speaker 3: It was the middle of the night.

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Speaker 2: Obviously, that was an amazing, astonishing and horrific night. You're

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Speaker 2: literally watching people die on live television. Because it was

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Speaker 2: afternoon drive, they had traffic helicopters up as the waves

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Speaker 2: came across. Well, that story, the long tail of that story,

529
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Speaker 2: besides the thousands and thousands of people have lost their

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Speaker 2: lives in the event.

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Speaker 3: Stays with us.

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Speaker 2: The Japanese Prime Minister of Fumio Kashida, he visited the

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Speaker 2: Fukushima Nuclear Plant yesterday and said that the release of

534
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Speaker 2: the radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean cannot be postponed.

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Speaker 2: They won't tell us when they're actually doing it because

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Speaker 2: of protests which have held it up. But because of

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00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:41,919
Speaker 2: they've got this nuclear wastewater in the containment facilities and

538
00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:43,800
Speaker 2: they've got no place to put it, and they got

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Speaker 2: to make room for new wastewater which is being produced

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Speaker 2: by the still active reactors. So they got to dump

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Speaker 2: in the ocean. And they say, oh, it's been treated,

542
00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:56,480
Speaker 2: it's been treated. It's safe. But they said it's safe.

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Speaker 2: But the Japanese government will do its utmost to support

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Speaker 2: fish communities from the potential impact of damaging rumors during

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Speaker 2: the decades long project. Now, let's put it this way.

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Speaker 2: The confidence in government statements and reassurances that this is

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Speaker 2: perfectly safe. Don't worry about the drinking water in Flint, Michigan,

548
00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:22,159
Speaker 2: perfectly safe. We can spray malifion over your community and

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00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:25,480
Speaker 2: it's okay, whatever it is. X percentage of the population

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Speaker 2: was going to disbelieve it.

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Speaker 3: And that was before what.

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Speaker 2: We got going on now with social media, where every

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Speaker 2: rumor is fueled, where people are posting memes of sharks

554
00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:37,000
Speaker 2: on the four h five during tropical Storm Millery, and

555
00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:39,120
Speaker 2: there are certain people who going to believe that that's true.

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Speaker 2: So the treated water discharge quote, by no means can

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Speaker 2: be postponed for the decommissioning and Fukushima's recovery, He said

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Speaker 2: the Prime Minister of Japan. Now, the big question here

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Speaker 2: is when are we going to as a people realize

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Speaker 2: that you can't use the oceans as a toilet.

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Speaker 3: That we've all had this.

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Speaker 2: We've all been what guy, by the way, what husband

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00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:11,239
Speaker 2: and or mail in a household has not ended up

564
00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:15,200
Speaker 2: with the bacon grease in an empty bean can and

565
00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:18,200
Speaker 2: waited for the wife or the girlfriend to leave the

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Speaker 2: kitchen and then quickly dumped it down the drain, because

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Speaker 2: we didn't know what to do with it. Right, we've

568
00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:26,200
Speaker 2: all done that. Or you're cleaning out the garage. The

569
00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:28,600
Speaker 2: city's always dealing with this. You're cleaning out the garage.

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00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:30,960
Speaker 2: It's Almo's got like old buckets of paint or a

571
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Speaker 2: half a half a gallon of gasoline that's been sitting

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00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:37,479
Speaker 2: there for fourteen years, and you don't know what to

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Speaker 2: do with it, and you wait till the neighbors are

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Speaker 2: on vacation and you go out to the storm drain.

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Speaker 2: Don't do that because it goes right into the ocean,

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Speaker 2: it goes into the groundwater, and we're poisoning ourselves between

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Speaker 2: the plastic.

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Speaker 3: But your pan's gonna dumpt this. There's no way we're

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Speaker 3: gonna be by the way.

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Speaker 2: This has comes just a few days after Prime Minister

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Speaker 2: Kashita was with a President Biden at Camp David, and

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Speaker 2: undoubtedly he told them, look, we're going to dump this

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Speaker 2: nuclear waste into the Pacific Ocean because we got no

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Speaker 2: place to put it and we got to make room

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Speaker 2: for more nuclear waste. So it's going in the ocean.

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Speaker 2: And if we end up with five headed fish that

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Speaker 2: glow in the dark, so be it. You're sushi. You

588
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Speaker 2: may be able to find it in a refrigerator real easy.

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Speaker 2: In a couple of months, you won't need the light

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Speaker 2: bulb and the refrigerator. The sushi will light the refrigerator up. Anyway,

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Speaker 2: this is what's going on in the world.

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Speaker 3: What Debra, I can you.

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Speaker 4: Know I don't have to worry about that because I

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Speaker 4: don't eat sushi, so I'm safe.

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Speaker 3: Well, I eat California rolls, which are not sushi.

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Speaker 4: I eat vegetable rolls, which are not sushi. But California

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Speaker 4: rolls don't they have isn't.

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Speaker 3: There is not? That's imitation crab.

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Speaker 2: That's that's basically a clam that says, I do a

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Speaker 2: great crab here watch me. Okay, what is imitation crab

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Speaker 2: that's made in the factory place. There's no ractual fish

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Speaker 2: in that.

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Speaker 1: Really.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that comes to you know all those fish that

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Speaker 2: go fish they could flush down the toilet. That's what

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Speaker 2: the invitation crab is.

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Speaker 3: That's discussed.

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Speaker 2: I know most things I eat are My diet consists

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Speaker 2: principally of peanut butter and things that come on squares

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Speaker 2: of cardboard that are shrink wrapped and have cream filling

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Speaker 2: and no expiration.

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Speaker 4: All right, I'm not going to make fun of John

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Speaker 4: Cobalt anymore. Doug bad you have taken the cake.

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Speaker 2: Well, well, cake is good as long as it's not

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Speaker 2: carrot cake, because that sounds.

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Speaker 3: Like a vegetable.

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Speaker 4: Do you like frosting?

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Speaker 3: I would just eat the frosting cake.

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Speaker 4: I don't eat the cake. Yeah, okay, we have something

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Speaker 4: in coffon.

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Speaker 3: Cake is just a delivery system. It's a waste of calories. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: all right, we got another hour to go, folks.

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Speaker 2: We're going to talk about We're gonna talk with Jason Nathanson,

624
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Speaker 2: update you on a tropical storm.

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Speaker 3: Hillary. We're also going to talk about kids.

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Speaker 2: Skipping school and Steven Spear is going to be here

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00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:49,760
Speaker 2: to talk about starter homes becoming your finisher home, and

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Speaker 2: that is if you are lucky enough to get a

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Speaker 2: starter home.

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Speaker 3: Let's go check in with Debor Mark.

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Speaker 4: Hey, you've been listening to The John and Ken Show.

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Speaker 4: You can always hear us live on KFI A six

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Speaker 4: one pm to four pm every Monday through Friday, and

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