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Speaker 1: The judge smelt something bad and who knows what happens next,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's their crime and terrorism analyst and he'll give

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Speaker 3: So let me start with judges not agreeing with plea

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean, either this happened or it didn't. I mean,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, before we leave the Hunter Biden story, although I

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Speaker 2: So but when I look them up, I mean American attorney, businessman, artist,

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Speaker 1: it the Wayward Sun strategy. Yes, Hunter's troubled, Yes he

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Speaker 2: That's entirely different. I mean the parallel on the smaller

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Speaker 2: you got a dad son, you need a landing spot. Well,

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Speaker 2: you know we can get Hunter Biden some work and

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Speaker 2: you know what, he can make the money. You can

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Speaker 2: make money for the family by selling our influence. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: By the way, one thing it's worth pointing out Hunter

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Speaker 1: Lawmakers are hoping that lives will be saved with the

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Speaker 1: Canyon Boulevard and Frimean Row. They will be announcing this

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Speaker 1: That's also when traffic deaths and serious injuries across the

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Speaker 1: Fines will be issued for cars going above the speed

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Speaker 1: The fines range from fifty to five hundred dollars. And

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Speaker 1: I say fines for cars, not drivers, because the photos

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Speaker 2: Glendale announced a.

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Speaker 1: Couple of weeks ago that it is part of this

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Speaker 2: And it comes from assembly Member Laura Friedman, who actually said,

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Speaker 2: Get to keep it for ourselves.

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Speaker 1: I don't think there's one percent of this lady who

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Speaker 2: No, I don't think she cares about safe. They rolled

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Speaker 1: There's two thousand people dying in the streets, homeless people,

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Speaker 1: So I don't think she's trying to save lives, because

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Speaker 2: In fact, it says in the story that in twenty

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Speaker 2: How many? How many of these.

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Speaker 1: Accidents are late at night in bad neighborhoods where you

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Speaker 2: And here comes the street And if she wants to

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Speaker 1: That's what I'm talking about, is that the people this

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Speaker 1: is aimed at don't care.

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Speaker 2: And the story says it's not the driver, it's the

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Speaker 2: car that's going to get the ticket, right, they get

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Speaker 2: your license plate number in and bill the car. They're

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Speaker 2: not going to pay people. They're not going to pay

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Speaker 2: the ticket. Most of these people are poor.

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Speaker 1: Right, if you're a street racer, you're not exactly stopping

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Speaker 1: off at your five hundred thousand dollars a year attorney job. Okay,

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Speaker 1: most of these people are, which means they won't be

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Speaker 1: charged much money anyway. Most of the people who commit

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Speaker 1: the mayhem are poor young men, all right, and they're

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Speaker 1: out at night and they're the ones who mow people down.

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Speaker 1: So that's ed. They don't care about your silly law.

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Speaker 1: But what they want to go after is everybody else

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Speaker 1: who mildly breaks the law, and they can charge you money,

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Speaker 1: separate some more cash out of you because gee, the

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Speaker 1: income tax rate isn't high enough. What's her name again?

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Speaker 1: I keep forgetting her name. Laura Friedman, Laura Friedman, Laura Friedman.

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Speaker 1: This whole thing is a fraud, Freedman fraud. It's Friedman

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Speaker 1: fraud is what it is. This is a fraud. They

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Speaker 1: know where the people are getting killed, and they know why,

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Speaker 1: and they're trying to make it sound like it's in

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Speaker 1: all our neighborhoods. I don't think anybody in my neighborhood

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Speaker 1: has been run over in like, I don't know, ten years,

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Speaker 1: fifteen years. All I can remember there's one girl getting

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Speaker 1: run over because they were crossing the street and they

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Speaker 1: shouldn't have been at Sunset Boulevard.

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Speaker 2: Between the crosswalks.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. And other than that, I'm on my side of town.

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Speaker 2: Nobody's getting run over. Well, loh, bicyclists do, because they

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Speaker 2: put up those memorials.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you know what, bicyclists should go on bike paths,

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Speaker 1: don't go encroaching on roads made for automobiles and then

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Speaker 1: complain when you get winged by a car. You're not

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Speaker 1: supposed to be there. I don't care your bike right

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Speaker 1: organization tells you more.

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Speaker 2: Coming up, John and Ken kf I AM six forty

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Speaker 2: live everywhere iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 4: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from KFI

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Speaker 4: AM six forty.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Even more outrageous than the idea of these dopey

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Speaker 2: speed cameras is the possible. And again, that could be

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Speaker 2: based on your income, how much you pay for violating

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Speaker 2: you can go more than eleven miles an hour over

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Speaker 2: the speed limit. Also, your utility bill could be based

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Speaker 2: on your inco at least part of it. That's the thought.

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Speaker 2: That's what's going on everything. I mean, we made this

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Speaker 2: joke the other day that everything you buy in the

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Speaker 2: state could eventually be based on your income how much

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Speaker 2: you pay right right now, they can't affect anything in

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Speaker 2: the private world so much, but yeah, the utility bill

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Speaker 2: in your did they have that in the Soviet Union? Well, yeah,

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Speaker 2: that was kind of the mantra of communism, wasn't it.

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Speaker 2: They didn't have the technology to track it the way

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Speaker 2: they do now. To each his own, whatever that expression was.

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Speaker 2: And the Karl Marks thing right, right, that's kind of

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Speaker 2: the same. Coming up after three o'clock, we'll be talking

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Speaker 2: with State Senator Brian Jones about this proposal that your

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Speaker 2: utility bill will have a fixed charge, and that fixed

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Speaker 2: charge will be based on your income level. Some of

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Speaker 2: your utility bill will be based on your usage. We

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Speaker 2: already have the most outrageous Like Jesse, what did we

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Speaker 2: find out last week? It were double the national average.

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Speaker 4: Ye?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so double the national average. But people don't know

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Speaker 1: that because they don't get electricity bills from Kansas, so

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Speaker 1: they don't know how different it is in the rest

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Speaker 1: of the country.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good point, because they do know about

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Speaker 2: gas prices in other states, right, And that's what people

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Speaker 2: get worked up over. And I'm not saying don't get

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Speaker 2: worked up over gas prices, which, by the way, are

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Speaker 2: going up again.

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Speaker 1: Do you see that story. It's because of the hot weather.

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Speaker 1: Gas prices are going up again in California. Oh, I

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Speaker 1: got the quote from Karl Marx, from each according to

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Speaker 1: his ability, to each according to his needs. Ah. So

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Speaker 1: the people with the most ability are supposed to give

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Speaker 1: away all the money they make to those who need it,

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Speaker 1: who need it. And it's a and that that is

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Speaker 1: like the the Center philosophy of communism, and really it's

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Speaker 1: it's everybody in Sacramento believes in that philosophy.

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Speaker 2: So how serious is this proposal? We'll talk about it

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Speaker 2: after the news at three o'clock. Well, John, it's been

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Speaker 2: almost four years since we lost Jeffrey Epstein. Jeffrey Epstein,

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Speaker 2: of course the pedophile was facing a fresh chot. Well,

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Speaker 2: we don't know whether he killed himself or he got murdered, right,

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Speaker 2: it was August twenty nineteen. I believe the story still

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Speaker 2: has legs and now, and of course we've always wondered,

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Speaker 2: will somebody from the rich and or rich and famous

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Speaker 2: world ever be implicated in any of Jeffrey Epstein's doings

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Speaker 2: with underage girls. Well, there's an explosive new lawsuit against

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Speaker 2: a man that's worth ten billion dollars. He may not

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Speaker 2: be known to a lot of you. Leon David Black

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Speaker 2: an American private equity investor, former CEO of Apollo Global Management,

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Speaker 2: which he co founded back in nineteen ninety. He's seventy

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Speaker 2: one years old, and we now have a federal lawsuit

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Speaker 2: accusing him of raping a teenage girl in two thousand

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Speaker 2: and two at the Manhattan townhouse of you guessed it

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Speaker 2: Jeffrey Epstein. Now this could all be bogus, and his

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Speaker 2: lawyers are already sid that this law firm has a

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Speaker 2: vendetta against our client. They've already pursued several cases of

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Speaker 2: against it got thrown out. But the girl they got

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Speaker 2: somebody that's coming forward here. She's now at her late thirties.

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Speaker 1: And she was born with Down syndrome and they say

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Speaker 1: she's autistic. And they're saying to say.

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Speaker 2: She has a developmental age of around twelve.

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Speaker 1: If that's the girl that Black took advantage of, Wow,

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Speaker 1: that's an autistic Down syndrome sixteen year old.

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Speaker 2: Again, this is a civil action, This is not a

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Speaker 2: criminal case, so they may just be looking for a settlement.

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Speaker 2: Black has been tied to Epstein. They recently revealed that

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Speaker 2: Black allegedly paid Jeffrey Epstein one hundred and fifty eight

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Speaker 2: million dollars for tax and estate planning services. Boy, he

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Speaker 2: must be brilliant that Epstein. Remember trying to figure out

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Speaker 2: what he did for a living. Yeah, you know, but

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Speaker 2: this is an enormous amount of money. Let me tell you,

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Speaker 2: this is like that Hunter Biden case we were talking about.

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Speaker 2: Epstein got an incredible sweetheart deal when they had him nailed,

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Speaker 2: no Florida good deal, right, And.

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Speaker 1: Everybody looked at that and said, why, well, you know

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Speaker 1: they have it and showed and we really and it's

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Speaker 1: like no, it's because Epstein had the goods probably on

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Speaker 1: a number of high Washington officials. You know, he provided

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Speaker 1: teenage girls to a lot of politicians. I know that's

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Speaker 1: the story, right, because otherwise there's no way he would

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Speaker 1: have gotten that flimsy little sentence when he got convicted.

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Speaker 1: Same way Hunter Biden and the Biden family is up

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Speaker 1: to a tremendous amount of no good, but they got

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Speaker 1: the flimsy sentence because of the Biden's obvious position.

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Speaker 2: So you know they they the federal.

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Speaker 1: Prosecutors do dirty deals depending on the motivation and the

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Speaker 1: and the connections here. I mean, this could be one

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Speaker 1: of the grocerest stories, right.

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Speaker 2: She described the well, the man that assaulted her. The

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Speaker 2: story is that she was at the townhouse that she

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Speaker 2: was procured by Galley Maxwell. She was handed off the

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Speaker 2: Leon Black like she was a ball in a game

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Speaker 2: and she was supposed to give him a massage and

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Speaker 2: then he sexually assaulted her. She described him as a

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Speaker 2: powerful six foot four man with a bulbous nose and

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Speaker 2: facial skin tags. She described him as an ogre. He

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Speaker 2: is a large guy. I'm looking at his picture. Here

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Speaker 2: is facial skin tags. I guess that means like acne

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Speaker 2: scars or something. Those are those little brown things that

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Speaker 2: hang from skin. Oh yeah, yeah, I.

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Speaker 1: Look at that picture, and he looks like he's more

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Speaker 1: like a wartz or stuff like that on his Yeah,

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Speaker 1: if they're dangling their skin tags.

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Speaker 2: Allegedly, he took Jane Doe by the hand to a

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Speaker 2: massage room and raped her. Ah, he demanded know why

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Speaker 2: Epstein called her his special girl? Oh my gosh.

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Speaker 1: After he finished, he allegedly slammed her into a wall

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Speaker 1: and watches she slid down to a sitting position, crying

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Speaker 1: in fear and pain.

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Speaker 2: Don't that's her story?

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Speaker 1: Don't you wonder about every single well known person that

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Speaker 1: spent time with Jeffrey Epstein?

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Speaker 2: Oh I said that for years? Yeah, I know, I know.

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Speaker 2: When I see how many Why would you get that

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Speaker 2: close to this guy? And you're like, oh, I had

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Speaker 2: no idea he was doing this. It was only business

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Speaker 2: I discussed with him because it was a very knowledgeable,

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Speaker 2: outgoing guy with lots of connections. So he was just

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Speaker 2: good to know.

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Speaker 1: All those dinners Bill Gates spent with him.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Bill Gates. Was Gates really that hungry? You

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Speaker 2: have to keep going to dinner. We learned more and

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Speaker 2: more about Bill Gates. You're right. I do wonder now

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Speaker 2: about the Epstein connection. When I first heard that few

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Speaker 2: years back, I was like Bill Gates, But now we've

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Speaker 2: learned a lot more about him.

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Speaker 1: In the last few years since his marriage ended, Woody

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Speaker 1: Allen would show up regularly. Yeah, there's some proof there

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Speaker 1: isn't Kevin Spacey Kevin space right, Yeah, you're right, there's

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Speaker 1: a Why isn't those.

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Speaker 2: Guys a certain connection going on here? A certain if

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Speaker 2: it was?

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Speaker 1: If it was just dinner, how did all those guys

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Speaker 1: end up at the same dinners? Uh?

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Speaker 2: Black.

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Speaker 1: By the way, I didn't know this. He paid the

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Speaker 1: US Virgin Island sixty two and a half million dollars

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Speaker 1: settlement money because they were investigating him about his relationship

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Speaker 1: with Epstein.

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Speaker 2: That's right. They kind of shook him down for sixty

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Speaker 2: two million and then they went away.

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Speaker 1: Would you pay sixty two million dollars if you were

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Speaker 1: completely innocent? Why were governmented Why would they think he

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Speaker 1: was was was a screw in teenage girls? Why why

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Speaker 1: did they pick Lewis Black out of a hat Leon

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Speaker 1: Leon Black and then and then shake him down for

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Speaker 1: sixty two million?

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Speaker 2: All right? When we returned, we'll be talking to California

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Speaker 2: Senate Republican Brian Jones. He's from San Diego, he's the

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Speaker 2: Senate Minority leader, and we want to talk to him

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Speaker 2: about that this idea that your utility bill in California

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Speaker 2: could be partially based on your income, which is outrageous.

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Speaker 2: John and kenkf I AM six forty live everywhere, iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 1: And Deborah Mark Live in the twenty four hour Cafe Newsroom.

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Speaker 2: Hey, you've been listening to the John and Ken Show.

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