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Speaker 1: I Am six forty. You're listening to the John Cobelt

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Speaker 1: pick up there. We're gonna put on Blake trolley in

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Speaker 1: just a minute. But you heard Deborah reporting that the

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Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs Parades, somebody opened fire, killed one. I

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Speaker 1: see an ABC report that maybe nine injured, three critically five. Seriously,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure those numbers will change, but that's bad news.

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Speaker 1: And then just handed to me, And this story has

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Speaker 1: been building all day. The Republicans in Congress are warning

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Speaker 1: that there's a national security threat and it's about Russia

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Speaker 1: wanting nuclear weapons in space. I don't know if my

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Speaker 1: the sky. So we'll have more details on that as

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Speaker 1: they trickle out. Then here in La, you have this

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Speaker 1: ridiculous skyscraper situation downtown. It's rightnear Crypto dot com. In fact,

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Speaker 1: if you were watching the Grammys the other night, they

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Speaker 1: had an opening shot with Trevor Noah the host, and

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Speaker 1: in the background you could actually see this stupid thing

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Speaker 1: which had thirty floors spray painted with that idiotic graffiti,

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Speaker 1: which is art for morons. And now there are people

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Speaker 1: climbing up there and jumping off. It's called base jumping,

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Speaker 1: and they're jumping off the skyscraper and then paragliding down

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Speaker 1: and Karen Bass is clutching her pearls, well, somebody might die.

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Speaker 1: It's like, well, so you jump off of skyscraper, what

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Speaker 1: are you gonna do? Now? They want Now, Kevin de

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Speaker 1: Leon wants to spend about four million dollars to secure

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Speaker 1: this skyscrape. Early police chief says he doesn't have enough

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Speaker 1: personnel or money to do that. Let's get Blake trolley.

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Speaker 1: This thing is really spiraled out of control. Lake.

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Speaker 2: How are you hey, John?

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Speaker 3: Good?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Kevin deleone asking for about four million dollars to clean

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Speaker 2: up and secure the now infamous Ocean Wide Plaza. Dalle

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Speaker 2: Oon's motion says that more than one million dollars would

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Speaker 2: go towards fencing and securing the building's ground floors. Now,

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Speaker 2: I haven't actually accessed this building, John, but I have

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Speaker 2: covered it a few times now, And I was at

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Speaker 2: the building recently and another reporter told me that he

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Speaker 2: was able to get on the site relatively easily. You know,

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Speaker 2: around the building there really is just a chain link,

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Speaker 2: kind of flimsy fence around it.

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Speaker 1: Well, you take about this, take a backpack and a

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Speaker 1: parachute with you, and uh, we can broadcast it live.

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Speaker 2: You're not going to be running a base jumping service

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Speaker 2: out there. Well, well, anyways, I guess it's pretty easy

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Speaker 2: to get on there, and kind of makes you wonder

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Speaker 2: why we're just hearing about people breaking into that building.

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Speaker 2: You know, construction stalled on that building in twenty nineteen,

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Speaker 2: so theoretically it's been vacant for quite some time. So

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Speaker 2: it just caught on recently, and you kind of have

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Speaker 2: to wonder how people didn't catch on to this sooner. Well, anyways,

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Speaker 2: one million dollars to go towards fencing and securing the

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Speaker 2: building's ground floors. The other two point seven million would

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Speaker 2: pay for security services, fire safety upgrades, graffiti abatement and

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Speaker 2: other measures. Last week, the city council demanded the building's

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Speaker 2: Chinese developer, ocean Wide Holdings. This is a Beijing based company,

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Speaker 2: to clean up the building, remove the scaffolding, secure the site.

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Speaker 2: The council gave them until this Saturday.

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Speaker 3: To do so.

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Speaker 2: Else the city said it would do the work then

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Speaker 2: build the developer. So it to here's this move is

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Speaker 1: They're going to build the developer who's in China. How's

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So there's obviously some questions as to how the

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Speaker 2: city will successfully collect from an overseas company, and the

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Speaker 2: maneuver officials appear to be setting up or at least attempting,

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Speaker 2: is to put a lien on the building. But I

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Speaker 2: still have my own questions on that lean. Given that

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Speaker 2: Kevin de Leone was on the floor of city council,

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Speaker 2: he's got obviously a lot of knowledge about this. This

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Speaker 1: They there's a bed, they've abandoned the building. They're they're

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Speaker 1: they're they've washed their hands of it. They're not going

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Speaker 2: A California Pellic card has already blocked the foreclosure sale

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Speaker 2: people who worked on this building that say their own

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Speaker 1: No, we're going to have to eat the cost. Either

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Speaker 1: that or let all these base jumpers just go splat

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Speaker 1: on the ground. Why should we spend four million dollars

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Speaker 2: I don't jo that there is one thing that I

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Speaker 2: thought you'd find funny. Kevin de Leon has had to

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Speaker 2: do this a couple of times, and he did this

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Speaker 2: at city Hall last week. I don't know who's pushing

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Speaker 2: this was supposed to be luxury condos, a mall he's

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Speaker 2: getting put. People are pushing him to turn it into

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Speaker 2: homeless housing. Dot com arena, I want to go to

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Speaker 2: this sound by here's da leone breaking down the cost

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Speaker 4: This three tower Ocean Wide Developments has an estimated five

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Speaker 4: hundred and four units. If in fact we were to

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Speaker 4: turn it into homes's housing and we actually had one

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Speaker 4: point five billion dollars in a round, that would come

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Speaker 4: to a total of three million dollars on a price

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Speaker 4: per unit basis on homeless housing, not luxury housing, by

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Speaker 4: the way, not penthel sweet housing, you know, for VIPs, you.

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Speaker 2: Know, the way California is going. At one point, that'll

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Speaker 2: sound like a great price.

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Speaker 1: That will be. That'll be the price of like a

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Speaker 1: double wide trailer. Yeah, you know, this is a fiasca.

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Speaker 1: How much would it take to blow the thing up,

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Speaker 1: like when they blow up those old casinos in Las Vegas.

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Speaker 1: I think they could do that. No, just dynamite. It's

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Speaker 1: not that expensive.

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Speaker 2: He got to wonder what they're going to end up

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: One of the things that I read about this this

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Speaker 2: speculation that one of the reasons they're having a hard

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Speaker 2: into construction in twenty fifteen and developers now are looking

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Speaker 2: So developers don't want to go in and buy it

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Speaker 1: No, it's a dead building, it's a dead site. There's

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Speaker 1: nothing you can do. I think this is I think

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Speaker 1: this is my opinion. This is the legacy of Jose

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Speaker 1: Weezar's corruption, which I want to get into and is

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Speaker 1: worth checking into if you hear anything, because he was

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Speaker 1: in charge of these kind of developments, not only in

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Speaker 1: this thing was developed and was started, started its construction,

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Speaker 1: and it's another Chinese company, and Weezar went to prison

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Speaker 1: over bribes he took from a separate Chinese company. So

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Speaker 1: this just smells like a Jose Weezar production to me.

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Speaker 1: All right, Blake, good talking with you.

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Speaker 2: Thank you a RKS.

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Speaker 1: All right, and I'll get into that. I was exchanging

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Speaker 1: emails this morning with Daniel Guss from the Gus Report.

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Speaker 1: He's an independent journalist in LA and he by himself

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Speaker 1: extracts more useful news than the entire La Times Local

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Speaker 1: department combined. And we'll get into this. Is this a

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Speaker 1: leftover white elephant from the Weezar corruption rain? Talk about

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Speaker 1: that coming up at one thirty. I will at one third,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you all the information about the show

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Speaker 1: we're going to do a week from tomorrow, right, yeah,

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Speaker 1: a week from tomorrow at the Honda Center in Anaheim

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Speaker 1: to sign a petition. It's a referendum that will rewrite

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Speaker 1: Prop forty seven, it'll fix Prop forty seven. I'll give

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Speaker 1: you the details. We're going to do a live broadcast

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Speaker 1: from Anaheim at the Honda Center, and those details coming

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Speaker 1: up after one thirty. And we're also going to talk

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Speaker 1: with Mike hestrin the Riverside County DA And we got

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Speaker 1: one thousand dollars to give away, and we got to

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Speaker 1: All right, let's continue because this this downtown graffiti covered

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Speaker 1: abandoned off office tower. Actually it's not an office tower.

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Speaker 1: It was going to be a luxury condo tower seems

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Speaker 1: to be captivating everyone because it really, this really is

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Speaker 1: a monument to Los Angeles corruption. This is the corruption

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Speaker 1: of the Eric Arceti years, of the years when Herb

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Speaker 1: Wesson was the LA City Council, of the corruption of

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Speaker 1: Jose Weezar, the corruption that continues to this day. And

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Speaker 1: there's something comical about the current Mayor Karen Bass standing

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Speaker 1: outside going, oh, but it's going to be so dangerous

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Speaker 1: for these people, Ibby, somebody might get killed, you know what.

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Speaker 1: The real story of this is not a bunch of

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Speaker 1: that this was a Chinese company that was involved with

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Speaker 1: the LA government. And we know Weezar has already been

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Speaker 1: convicted along with many other people at city hall and

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Speaker 1: lobbyists and developers. They were all convicted of bribery scandals

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Speaker 1: because these these companies were paying, like Jose Weezar, big

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Speaker 1: so they could construct their their their towers, whether it

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Speaker 1: some combination. What you had to do when Herb Wesson

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Speaker 1: and Jose Weezar were running things. You had to play ball,

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Speaker 1: and you have to play ball, specifically with Weezar, and

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Speaker 1: he was. He was making big money. Now I talked

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Speaker 1: to Daniel Guss, who's an independent journalist. We've had him

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Speaker 1: on many times. Gus Report is something you definitely want

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Speaker 1: to subscribe to because he's like the last guy who

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Speaker 1: does who covers a city hall and city government as

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Speaker 1: Gundo Times does this anymore. And when they find stuff,

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Speaker 1: they they don't publish it. They do everything they can

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Speaker 1: to protect ruling powers. And I said to him this morning,

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Speaker 1: this something to do Jose Wezar? Again? Wesar's already prison

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Speaker 1: for another Chinese company bribe scheme, right, And he realized

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Speaker 1: he wrote about this two years before Weezar was arrested.

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Speaker 1: He had a story in November of twenty eighteen about

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Speaker 1: an FBI raid that it may be linked to an

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Speaker 1: la real estate property developed by ocean Wide Holdings in Beijing. Well,

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Speaker 1: that's who owns the building in question, ocean Wide Holdings,

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Speaker 1: as well as shen Zhen Hazen's in Shenzhen China. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and that was the company that was involved in the

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Speaker 1: Just one more thing on the graffiti monstrosity that Karen

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Speaker 1: Well, we've tried the experiment now for ten years Prop

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Speaker 3: It's just it mirrors the Watson advisement that's currently valid

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Speaker 3: under California law or DUIs. So if you pick up

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Speaker 3: a DUI tomorrow, you're going to go into court and

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Speaker 3: judge is going to tell you the same exact thing

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Speaker 3: about driving under the influence. It's just common sense. And

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Speaker 3: guess what if someone pay up a second DUI and

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Speaker 3: they kill someone, we charge them with murder in California.

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Speaker 3: So we should do the same for fetanol dealers.

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Speaker 1: All right, Mike, We're going to be gathering signatures at

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Speaker 1: the Honda Center in Anaheim to rewrite Prop forty seven Thursday,

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Speaker 1: February twenty second. They're going to collect petitions from one

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Speaker 1: to six pm. We're going to be on the air

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Speaker 1: from one to four pm. You're going to make it

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Speaker 1: out there, can you can you come?

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Speaker 3: I'm going to do my best to get out there. John.

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Speaker 3: Can I tell you that the name of the initiative

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Speaker 3: is the Homelessness, Drug Addiction and Theft Reduction app. And

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Speaker 3: the website of some people want to go check this

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Speaker 3: out on their own is California. So Casafecommunities dot com,

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Speaker 3: Dasafecommunities dot com. It's this is long overdue. We've got

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Speaker 3: to take back our stand.

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Speaker 1: Well, we tried ten years of an experiment. It's been

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Speaker 1: it's just been awful. All right, Mike, talk again soon.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for coming on. Appreciate it.

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Speaker 3: Thank you boy.

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Speaker 1: All right, it's Mike Hestern, Riverside County, DA. Now we

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Speaker 1: come back and this is the only love related story

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Speaker 1: I'm going to do today.

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Speaker 6: Happy Valentine's Day by the way, Oh.

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Speaker 1: Happy Valentine's Day. How you're you're you're all furry in

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Speaker 1: red today? Pink pink?

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Speaker 6: Are you color blind?

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Speaker 1: I see shades of colors differently.

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Speaker 6: Okay, it's kind of a hot pink.

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Speaker 1: Is it a hot pink?

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Speaker 3: That's right?

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Speaker 1: Struck me as a as a darker pink. All right.

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Speaker 6: Uh.

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Speaker 1: In any event, you are furry though, that's for sure.

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Speaker 6: Yes, yeah, it's.

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Speaker 1: Not a real pink animal. That was.

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Speaker 7: Uh.

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Speaker 1: And we're going to talk about how some men are

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Speaker 1: falling in love means. You know, people have had male

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Speaker 1: order brides, and then they had blow up dolls and

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Speaker 1: now it's AI generated love interests. People are falling in

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Speaker 1: love with fake artificial intelligence women online. More coming up.

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Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM sixty.

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Speaker 8: All right, are actually going to go to a news

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Speaker 8: conference on an update on the parade shooting.

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Speaker 9: Aid to folks who are seriously injured without concern for

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Speaker 9: the shootings and the challenges that were near them. This

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Speaker 9: is absolutely a tragedy the likes of which we would

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Speaker 9: have never expected in Kansas City, and the likes of

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Speaker 9: which we will remember for some time. However, I want

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Speaker 9: to say thank you to those who are making sure

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Speaker 9: that we are safe today, those who are investigating this incident,

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Speaker 9: and those who will continue to make sure that those

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Speaker 9: who committed these acts today are brought to justice. We'll

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Speaker 9: come back for some questions at the end of the

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Speaker 9: chief's comments, but now the police.

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Speaker 1: Chief, Stacy Graves.

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Speaker 7: The Chief Stacy Graves kensiem is a re police department.

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Speaker 7: At the conclusion of the chief's rally today, there were

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Speaker 7: shots fired on the west side of Union Station. Immediately

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Speaker 7: officers responded to the area, took two people into costody,

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Speaker 7: and also immediately rendered life sustaining aid to those victims.

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Speaker 7: We're still gathering information on the number and the status

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Speaker 7: of victims, but like I said, we know that one

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Speaker 7: of the victims is deceased. We also know that officers

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Speaker 7: ran towards danger. Officers were there to keep everyone safe.

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Speaker 7: I'm angry at what happened today. The people who came

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Speaker 7: to this celebration should expect a safe environment. We had

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Speaker 7: over eight hundred law enforcement officers Kansas City and other

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Speaker 7: agencies at the location to keep everyone safe because of

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Speaker 7: bad actors, which were very few. This tragedy occurred even

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Speaker 7: in the presence of uniformed law enforcement officers who again

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Speaker 7: ran towards them and took them into custody. People who

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Speaker 7: were injured in this tragedy, Our hearts go out to

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Speaker 7: you and your families. This investigation is just beginning and

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Speaker 7: we are working safely to clear all surrounding areas and businesses.

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Speaker 7: This is still an active investigation. We will continue to

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Speaker 7: keep you updated.

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Speaker 2: We will keep you.

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Speaker 7: Updated on Twitter and most likely a follow up press availability.

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Speaker 3: Did jeffyth.

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Speaker 7: Let No one of our victims has been declared deceased.

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Speaker 3: We have.

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Speaker 1: All right. That was a press conference from Kansas City

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Speaker 1: where they had a shooting near the parade celebrating the

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Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl victory. We'll have more right

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Speaker 1: after this after at two o'clock. The defense is now

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Speaker 1: defending Rebecca Grossman in that trial. She ran over two

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Speaker 1: young kids back in September twenty twenty. She was out

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Speaker 1: drinking with a boyfriend. Rebecca Grossman is the wife of

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Speaker 1: the doctor Peter Grossman, who started the Grossman Burn Center.

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Speaker 1: He testified on her behalf today and she's trying to

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Speaker 1: get out of this double death accident. But you know,

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Speaker 1: they got all the evidence that it was her car,

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Speaker 1: and the defense just keeps saying, Oh, it wasn't her car, Well,

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Speaker 1: it was her car. Talk about that. Corbyn Carson was

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Speaker 1: at the trial. Yeah, this is the one love story

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Speaker 1: I'm going to talk about here. Derek Carrier was profiled

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Speaker 1: by the Associated Press. His girlfriend was generated by artificial intelligence.

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Speaker 1: It's thirty nine years old. He has something called martha

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Speaker 1: and syndrome, so he looks unusual and it's a lot

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Speaker 1: of health disorders there. So he's very lonely, and he

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Speaker 1: tried out this companion app called Paradox, and he's fallen

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Speaker 1: in love with this holographic woman who appears on well, no,

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Speaker 1: he named her after a holographic woman from a movie

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Speaker 1: name is Joy, but Joy on screen is an artificial

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Speaker 1: intelligence woman. Okay, And he's apparently fallen in love and

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Speaker 1: they talk every night for quite a while. And it's

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Speaker 1: not just people who have you know, genetic problems like

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Speaker 1: this guy. It's a lot of guys. These are guys

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Speaker 1: who have spent their whole life staring at screens. They're

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Speaker 1: socially undeveloped. They cannot deal with women, and so they've

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Speaker 1: got a fake woman who always loves them and always

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Speaker 1: says the right thing.

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Speaker 6: But there's nothing physical that's going to happen, right.

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Speaker 1: Well, I don't know. With a guy, you can never

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Speaker 1: tell oh oh oh oh oh.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I stepped on that one.

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Speaker 8: Okay, you know, my mind doesn't always go to those

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Speaker 8: dark places.

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Speaker 1: You should know guys by now.

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Speaker 8: I know, I just you know, I know it takes

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Speaker 8: a while for me to guys.

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Speaker 1: Guys don't talk to women just for the thrill of

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Speaker 1: the conversation.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I know.

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Speaker 1: Okay, but the women or blow up dolls or AI women,

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Speaker 1: I know.

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Speaker 8: But I'm thinking of fake woman, right, So he's not

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Speaker 8: really with her, So there's no hugging or kissing.

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Speaker 6: Of the other person, that's right. But I understand where

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Speaker 6: you go.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if he jumps on his PC or right,

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Speaker 1: it's just everything is in his head. But they really form,

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Speaker 1: they really form deep bonds. They get emotionally attached. Well, look, I.

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Speaker 8: Mean, you know, didn't we do some kind of story

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Speaker 8: about loneliness a while ago. So, yeah, good for people

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Speaker 8: that are lonely that they have they have something to

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Speaker 8: feel less lonely, as long as they're not hurting other

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Speaker 8: people or animals.

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Speaker 1: Because this girl not even scripted. Apparently she's been programmed

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Speaker 1: to respond spontaneously wow to whatever you know, and and

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Speaker 1: she goes along with things.

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Speaker 8: Oh well, yeah, I'm sure that's what guys like. A

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Speaker 8: woman who will go along with everything.

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Speaker 1: She's not programmed to be contentious.

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Speaker 6: So what are you saying, she's not programmed to.

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Speaker 1: Tell you what to do all day?

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Speaker 6: Well, what's the fun in that?

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Speaker 1: She's not programmed to judge what you're wearing? You know,

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Speaker 1: it's so funny.

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Speaker 8: That you said that, because for Valentine's Day, I did

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Speaker 8: buy my husband clothes right and there.

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Speaker 1: Because you don't like what he's wearing.

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Speaker 6: Well, there have been discussions about that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I wish I had a recording of the last

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Speaker 1: thing my wife says is we're going out the door somewhere,

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Speaker 1: and I could string all those compliments together.

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Speaker 6: You're not wearing that, are you?

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Speaker 1: Exactly? You're not wearing that? Are you? Boy? That would

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Speaker 1: be the title of a book.

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Speaker 6: There's a little chain right there.

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Speaker 1: See the AI girl never says that it's not programmed

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Speaker 1: into her.

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Speaker 8: Okay, but you know what, there's other benefits to having

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Speaker 8: a real lady.

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Speaker 1: This is my book. You're not wearing that, are you?

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Speaker 1: Why men go for AI women love it? There you go.

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Speaker 1: That is a bestseller, all right. When we come back.

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Speaker 1: Corbyn Carson on the Rebecca Grossman trial in Westlake. A

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Speaker 1: couple of years ago, she ran over and killed an

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Speaker 1: eleven year old an eight year old, and now the

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Speaker 1: defense has begun their process of trying to confuse the

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Speaker 1: less intelligent jurors if there are any. Deborah Mark Live

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Speaker 1: and the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been

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