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Speaker 1: all set on our show before and he's also on

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Speaker 1: So she's been counseling person about a month, five weeks

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Speaker 1: And a lot of this, some people may say is

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Speaker 1: Nick and Tona Tello was a thirty year resident of Venice.

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Speaker 1: He's on the ocean Front and Outreach committees of the

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Speaker 1: because I thought that look cool. You have your own

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Speaker 1: little booth in the front, and you're just like it's

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Speaker 1: like a ride, you know. Yeah, you're like head an

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Speaker 1: amusement parker down the track, you go. Maria and Los

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Speaker 1: Angeles said that the train station near a home is

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Speaker 1: simply too scary to use, too dangerous for adults, and

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Speaker 1: I'm concerned about children as well. Yeah, you don't put

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Speaker 1: a kid on a train? Oh man? Would would anybody?

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Speaker 1: Would you ever take your child on a Metro train

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Speaker 1: or stand and wait at a station? The response was, oh,

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Speaker 1: we have an app for you, download the La Transit,

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Speaker 1: the La Metro Transit Watch app on your smartphone and

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Speaker 1: you can send a message to security. Well yeah, but

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Speaker 1: you're already there and you got to deal with dangerous

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Speaker 1: homeless guy. Why even go there? What do you mean

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Speaker 1: you have an app? How about you keep balling app

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Speaker 1: for everything. By time I'm on an appage too late,

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Speaker 1: the guy already has just pants down. God, what a

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Speaker 1: bunch of dopes run this agency. Metro has launched supplemental

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Speaker 1: safety protocols, including teams as serving a trainer bus line

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Speaker 1: for a week and report findings. They have trained Oh John, look,

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Speaker 1: eighteen security officers are now trained in the use of narcan.

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Speaker 1: Of course. Okay, here's what we found. We had found

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Speaker 1: seventeen guns, fourteen knives, nine men masturbating, four people passed

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Speaker 1: out from opioids. They have increased spending by nine percent

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Speaker 1: to clean the buses, trains and stations. Wow. Callers were

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Speaker 1: asked to use their phones to note if they've seen

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Speaker 1: cleaner metro. Fifty four percent said no, Only twenty percent

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Speaker 1: said the buses are cleaner, they're just CEO then said, yes,

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Speaker 1: we know there's a lot more we have to do.

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Speaker 1: Stephanie Wiggins, what does she do all day? Honestly, what

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Speaker 1: does Stephanie Wiggins doing this? Gina Osborne, dude, what are

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Speaker 1: they doing? Nine billion dollars is their budget. You've got

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Speaker 1: ten thousand people who call You're not how hard to

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Speaker 1: get to get people to participate in anything. You've got

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Speaker 1: ten thousand people to call it and tell you how

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Speaker 1: much your metro, trains and buses suck. And you know

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Speaker 1: how clueless these people are. I'll bet you some of

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Speaker 1: them thought, let's have a town hall, a bitch of

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Speaker 1: people calling and they'll say, when are the electric buses

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Speaker 1: coming so we can have clean your hangar. Maybe Kamala

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Speaker 1: Harris will be on hold, Oh, electric buses, atomic fighting? Instead,

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Speaker 1: they got barraged with homeless crime knives they're pleasuring Merlinda

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Speaker 1: from West LA said, they got to get the homeless

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Speaker 1: off the trains and buses. I've seen fights and lots

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Speaker 1: of dirtiness on the Dirty line, dirtiness and the Blue line,

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Speaker 1: which is now the A line. They by the way,

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Speaker 1: they renamed all the lines with the letters, Yeah, nobody

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Speaker 1: uses them. No uses those references. They used to be colors.

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Speaker 1: The genius Gina Osbourne says, well, we're gonna be deploying

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Speaker 1: more resources during certain hours starting next month. Resources. They're

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Speaker 1: scheduling a third one of these from March, but I'm

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Speaker 1: not so sure now because of the way this went.

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Speaker 1: They got barage with negative And again this was kind

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Speaker 1: of random. They just dialed one hundred thousand phones and

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Speaker 1: ten thousand people said sure, I'll talk about nothing like

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Speaker 1: a ninety percent of them said, oh my god, it's awful.

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Speaker 1: Didn't didn't all these people see it with their own

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Speaker 1: two eyes? You know, idiots like Gina Osborne and Stephanie

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Speaker 1: Wiggins should be forced to take trains all day for

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Speaker 1: a week and buses for a week. Well like if

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Speaker 1: you don't take if you don't spend a week on

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Speaker 1: the trains and buses. Then you're fired. You have to

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Speaker 1: do it. Then you go back to your office and

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Speaker 1: tell me about the resources you're deploying. All right, we

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Speaker 1: got more John and Ken kf I A. I'm six

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Speaker 1: forty live everywhere the iHeart Rule Radio all right to

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Speaker 1: three o'clock hours almost upon us. That'll bring us two

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Speaker 1: rounds of the moist line. And for the brand new year,

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Speaker 1: we got the mob members assembled to throw a hack

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Speaker 1: into the dumpster after the news at three thirty. We're

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Speaker 1: going to begin next hour though with this headlines and

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Speaker 1: this kind of follows up on Dippity Do remember Dippity

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Speaker 1: Due a few months back when he was seriously running

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Speaker 1: for president. I'm not sure what he's doing now, but anyway,

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Speaker 1: because he's got a lot of money and he was

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Speaker 1: easily going to be re elected, so he had nothing

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Speaker 1: to do when he was acting like he was running

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Speaker 1: for president. Talked about how there's a red state problem

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Speaker 1: with murder. Remember that. Yeah, here's the headline, bad neighborhoods

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Speaker 1: one percent of the counties in the US are responsible

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Speaker 1: for forty two percent of America's murders. And that in

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Speaker 1: mind when we talk about it, and take one. Guess

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Speaker 1: where one of the counties is, Yeah, pretty close by here.

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Speaker 1: Yeah he was. He was so lying about that. He

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Speaker 1: is so full of it. Bell that exposes him like

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Speaker 1: it should. All right, Well, we got a clip from Biden.

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Speaker 1: Biden was in California yesterday over the storm damage. But

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Speaker 1: you know, the dope reporters all they wanted to ask

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Speaker 1: him about was luclausofar doc scandal. We're only going to

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Speaker 1: play this because Biden got a little snippy. Let's listen

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Speaker 1: to the audio. You know, the only I will answer

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Speaker 1: the question. But here's the deal. You know what, quite

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Speaker 1: frankly bugged me, is that we have a serious problem here.

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Speaker 1: We're talking about they we're talking about what's going on,

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Speaker 1: and the American people don't quite understand why you don't

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Speaker 1: ask me questions about that. But having said that, what's

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Speaker 1: your question? Okay? As we found, we found a handful

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Speaker 1: of documents were failed or filed in the wrong place. Failed.

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Speaker 1: We immediately turned them over to the archives in the

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Speaker 1: Justice Department. We're fully cooperating, looking forward to getting this

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Speaker 1: resolve quickly. I think you're gonna find there's nothing there.

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Speaker 1: I have no regrets. I'm following what the lawyers have

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Speaker 1: told me they want me to do. It's exactly what

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Speaker 1: we're doing. There's no there there. Thank you leave me alone.

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna ask me about how if I talk

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Speaker 1: to people about the terrible storms in California, where's my oatmeal?

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Speaker 1: The dope reporters all just want to know about the classify.

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Speaker 1: That woman's question was, well, how come this wasn't revealed

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Speaker 1: before the midterm elections? Could have changed everything. That's why

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Speaker 1: I do anything. But yeah, you don't. They don't take

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Speaker 1: any risks though, of course that han't reason the risk. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you're right, they don't know how this stuff's gonna play.

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Speaker 1: And I guess the other clip we have of Biden

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Speaker 1: is from a few days ago when the Golden State Warriors,

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Speaker 1: the NBA champs, were welcome to the White House, and

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Speaker 1: I guess said Joe had a little trouble with one

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Speaker 1: of the big stars names re imagine the team around

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Speaker 1: the Big three staff jam and uh and well, you

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Speaker 1: guys are sun incredible. I mean I watched the video

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Speaker 1: and he got to Clay Thompson's name and only had

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Speaker 1: to say who was trying to come up with Steph

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Speaker 1: Curry and Raymond Green and lay Thompson right, and as

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Speaker 1: soon as he got to you know, there was some

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Speaker 1: kind of like partial syllable that came out of his mouth,

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Speaker 1: some kind of sound, and then he just swung and

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Speaker 1: turned right towards the players to like distract everybody because

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Speaker 1: he knew he was never going to come up with

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Speaker 1: hear that again, yeah, Raymond and uh and you guys

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Speaker 1: are and that's like the happy birthday song again, happy

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Speaker 1: birthday la la la la. Yeah, but he can't come

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Speaker 1: up with the name make a sound and people might

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Speaker 1: believe you close Jeff Raymond and uh, yeah, he doesn't

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Speaker 1: pronounce the first two names all that clearly, but did

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Speaker 1: not jeff Ram wow or his teeth out of place

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Speaker 1: or like he's losing the ability to to like his

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Speaker 1: his h muscles, his mouth muscles are now not responded properly.

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Speaker 1: And now that we have a minute, we turned to

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Speaker 1: the Brian Coburger story. That's the man's accused of killing

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Speaker 1: the four college students who went to the University of Idaho.

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Speaker 1: More and more we're finding out his connection to the victims,

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Speaker 1: and this one is probably the creepiest. A former employee

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Speaker 1: at the Mad Greek restaurant in Moscow, Idaho, said that

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Speaker 1: Brian Coburger was a customer. Why is that important? Two

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Speaker 1: of the victims worked there. Madison Mogen and Zanna Cronotl

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Speaker 1: were servers at the restaurant. She said, there was nothing

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Speaker 1: really suspicious about him except and here it comes. He

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Speaker 1: had a strict vegan order and he wanted to make

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Speaker 1: sure the order did not come in contact with any

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Speaker 1: animal products. So that's why they remembered him. Oh wow, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it sounds like he was a little unhinged. So this

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Speaker 1: probably is where he got his first up close look

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Speaker 1: at the two of the girls he killed. And course

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Speaker 1: we also mentioned that he tried to DM them. He

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Speaker 1: also was following a couple of them on Instagram, so

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Speaker 1: it isn't like this was completely random and he just

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Speaker 1: drove by this house and said, I was a party house.

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Speaker 1: I'll see if I can kill somebody in there. It

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Speaker 1: looks like he did have some kind of knowledge of

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Speaker 1: at least two of the victims and decided, I guess

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Speaker 1: that's who we wanted to kill him Once he must

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Speaker 1: have figured out where they lived. Do you make those requests?

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Speaker 1: You make demands that I do not assurances that no

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Speaker 1: animal products obtainted your food. I many many years ago.

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Speaker 1: I did that once, and then I stopped many many years.

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Speaker 1: I just wanted to make sure that the food wasn't

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Speaker 1: being cooked in the same pan and the same utensils

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Speaker 1: as meat. But then I stopped. Was at a restaurant, somebody,

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Speaker 1: I would never do that. I feel very rare. Most

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Speaker 1: of the people that invite me over for dinner, no

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Speaker 1: way I am. They prepare your food though, separate from

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Speaker 1: many animal product foods. Or most of the time when

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Speaker 1: when I go to somebody's house, they'll have a salad

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Speaker 1: or some vegetables for me, and so there isn't really

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Speaker 1: a reason that they would be touching animal products. Did

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Speaker 1: they make but sit at the kids table too? Okay? Really,

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Speaker 1: just real quick. I did go to some Philly some

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Speaker 1: famous Philly cheese steak place in Philadelphia, and I was

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Speaker 1: in line and my husband was getting a Philly chee steak,

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Speaker 1: and I'm looking at the menu and I see nothing vegans.

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Speaker 1: So they had some vegetables in a bun. So I said, okay,

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Speaker 1: I'll just I'll just throw some lettuce and tomato and

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Speaker 1: onions and and I'll be happy. So they start scooping

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Speaker 1: it up with the same utensils that they're touching them.

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Speaker 1: So then and I saw that, so I said no,

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Speaker 1: thank you, and I and I and I walked away.

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Speaker 1: I did do that, So you understand Coldburger's discover. Now

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Speaker 1: you're calling me a murderer, I said, I just said,

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Speaker 1: you're you're going to be empathetic with his discomfort there,

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Speaker 1: And yes, I yes, that that is one thing I

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Speaker 1: can understand. That's about the only thing. Don't compare me

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Speaker 1: to a murderer. And another steak he made if he

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Speaker 1: was going to go out and kill people. Don't try

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Speaker 1: to play by strict vegan rules, because you'll be remembered,

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Speaker 1: right right, because there are very few people who insist

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Speaker 1: them would do that. Yeah, right, let me come to

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Speaker 1: the kitchen sea I prepare my dish, so make sure

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Speaker 1: there's no don't commit any crimes. I'm not going to.

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Speaker 1: I don't plan on. You're very memorable, I know, all right.

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Speaker 1: Three o'clock hour is here. That brings us two rounds

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Speaker 1: of the moist line, a hack for the dumpster in

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Speaker 1: the new year. But when we come back, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: start with picking on Gavin Newsom again because he came

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Speaker 1: up by last year with this dopey thing about the

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Speaker 1: red state murder problem, right that the Republican red states

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Speaker 1: have the most murders. It was such bs more proof

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Speaker 1: in the latest study that has come out that one

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Speaker 1: percent of US counties have forty two percent of America's murders.

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Speaker 1: John and Ken kf I AM six forty Live Everywhere,

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