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Speaker 1: Are you flexing? Yeah? Unplug? Unplug your electric car right now,

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Speaker 1: all right, don't be sucking up all that unnecessary energy.

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Speaker 1: You'll entertain me. If you go to uh CISO dot

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Speaker 1: it'll tell you what the current capacity of electricity is

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Speaker 1: California Globe had a story Evans Simon wrote today, and

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Speaker 1: it's funny how this California Globe is one of these

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Speaker 1: a picture of Cedar the goat before the animal was seized.

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Speaker 1: I can't believe. I can't believe that this little girl

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Speaker 1: Didn't the parents explain to her what was going to happen?

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Speaker 1: Why don't I don't missing here, Yeah, I don't know. Well,

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Speaker 1: what happened is, before Cedar could be killed, the family

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Speaker 1: decided to take Cedar away. They grabbed Cedar, and they

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Speaker 1: took the goat to a farm in Sonoma County. They

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Speaker 1: were hiding the goat because the mother was afraid that

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Speaker 1: everybody in the neighborhood was going to be upset because

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Speaker 1: they take their goat auction seriously up there, and they

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Speaker 1: take the four age program for the kids seriously, and

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Speaker 1: to them, there's no emotional issues here. It's like you

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Speaker 1: raise the goat to slaughter it, to eat it, and

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Speaker 1: the four age program teaches you how to care for

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Speaker 1: the goat. And then you know, we had the auction.

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Speaker 1: Somebody pays money. And but honestly, maybe I'm really naive

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Speaker 1: or ignorant or both, but I didn't know that people

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Speaker 1: really slaughter goats here their meat. Here's how serious it is.

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Speaker 1: According to the lawsuit, plaintiffs live in an agricultural community

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Speaker 1: and they feared that deviating from the four h program

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Speaker 1: by resisting the slaughter would upset other four aged members

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Speaker 1: and community members. Yeah. Rules are rules, you know. Rules

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Speaker 1: are meant to be broken so that it gets even better.

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Speaker 1: So the livestock director at the fair BJ Macferlan McFarlane,

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Speaker 1: excuse me. BJ McFarlane called Long and threatened mom with

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Speaker 1: a grand theft charge if Cedar was not returned. Oh

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Speaker 1: my god. Long was desperate. She continued to offer to

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Speaker 1: cover any losses and reached out to Brian Dolly's office Right,

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Speaker 1: the state Senator for help. Right and Senators Dolly's people said, well,

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Speaker 1: we're not We're not going to resist your efforts to

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Speaker 1: save Cedar from slaughter. In other words, we're you know,

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Speaker 1: if you want to save Cedar, we're not going to

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Speaker 1: get in the way. But it looks like they didn't

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Speaker 1: do anything to help. Long road a letter trying to

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Speaker 1: get them to understand his human beings. Her daughter was heartbroken,

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Speaker 1: didn't want Cedar killed. Three of her grandparents had died

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Speaker 1: in the last year. She was already shook up. But

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Speaker 1: despite all that, the fair officials and b. J. McFarlane

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Speaker 1: called the Shasta County Sheriff's office. According to the lawsuit,

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Speaker 1: two sheriff's deputies left their jurisdiction in Shasta County, drove

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Speaker 1: over five hundred miles at scene, and absurd. Oh, come on,

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Speaker 1: crossed six county lines and confiscated the young girl's beloved

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Speaker 1: pet goat, Cedar after she decided not to auction him.

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Speaker 1: Cedar was her property, she had every right to save

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Speaker 1: her life. But Cedar has been slaughtered. Oh you know,

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Speaker 1: oh oh this gets me so mad. This is this

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Speaker 1: is so ridiculous. I don't even know what to say.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how Brian Dolly runs for governor. Now, well,

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to talk about the political ramifications because

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Speaker 1: I'm a news person, so I'm going to have to,

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Speaker 1: you know, refrain myself here. But somebody's not getting your vote. Um. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he was eighty two pounds. He sold. He sold for

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Speaker 1: eleven dollars a pound, for a total of nine hundred

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Speaker 1: and two dollars. And it's so sad. Eight. I'm so upset, John,

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Speaker 1: I know, I understand. This is not how I wanted

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Speaker 1: to end my work day. This is not how you

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Speaker 1: wanted to head into the holiday weekend. Eleven bucks a

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Speaker 1: pound is cheap? Is it a goal? Again? Again? Who

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Speaker 1: eats goat me? Really? Apparently South Asian and Caribbean cuisine

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Speaker 1: has a lot of goat? Mean, isn't isn't a lot

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Speaker 1: of Middle Eastern and Middle Eastern. Yeah, Middle Eastern, sure, wow.

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Speaker 1: But apparently goat meat can range from thirteen sixty three

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Speaker 1: to eighteen twenty four per pounds, so eleven per pounds

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Speaker 1: that's pretty cheap. It's a good deal there. And you

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Speaker 1: know what I don't understand. Here's this little girl in

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Speaker 1: her family. They're desperately trying to keep this baby goat.

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Speaker 1: They're going so far as to do all the different

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Speaker 1: things that they were trying to do. You you couldn't

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Speaker 1: let this one goat slide. I'm I'm just thinking of

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Speaker 1: all the people who call up the police and sheriff's

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Speaker 1: deputy when there's real crime happening. Exactly homeless people are

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Speaker 1: screaming on their front lads waving machetes, and you can't

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Speaker 1: get anybody to come. But the stolen goat, Yeah, that

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Speaker 1: will get somebody five hundred miles they drove. All right.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what I'm laughing. It's not funny. It's

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Speaker 1: very not funny at all. It is very sad. All right,

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Speaker 1: More coming up John and Ken Show. Deborah Mark has

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Speaker 1: the News caf. I am six forty