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Speaker 1: gonna have that at three twenty and three fifty. We're

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Speaker 1: also gonna have Lora Angele on from News Nation to

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Speaker 1: tell us the latest in the p Diddy trial, because

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Speaker 1: that's coming to a close shortly, and there were a

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Speaker 1: lot of wild details testified to in court today. But first,

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Speaker 1: this seems to me like chapter three of a trilogy.

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Speaker 1: Chapter one several years ago, Kevin Newsom puts us all

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Speaker 1: of Lockdown with harsh rules, and then he goes to

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Speaker 1: the French laundry and crowds into a small dining room

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Speaker 1: with twelve other people, including a lot of lobbyists who

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Speaker 1: bribe him for a living, and he drinks a lot

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Speaker 1: somebody snapped a photo of it, and that became a

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Speaker 1: That's what really ignited the recall. I mean, the recall

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Speaker 1: was going on, but they weren't getting enough signatures until

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Speaker 1: somebody took a photo of him at the French Laundry.

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Speaker 1: There were no masks at the table. None. And then

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Speaker 1: we had Karen Bass drinking in Ghana at a party

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Speaker 1: when the Pacific Palisades started to burn. Remember the fire

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Speaker 1: started I think at about ten thirty in the morning

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Speaker 1: on January the seventh, and she was in Ghana, in

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Speaker 1: Africa at a cocktail party celebrating the inauguration of the

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Speaker 1: new president of Ghana. Same time, while the Palisades was

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Speaker 1: beginning to burn, she was in Africa partying. So while

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Speaker 1: at the French laundry when the Palisades thousands were fleeing,

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Speaker 1: running for their lives, losing their homes. Forever Bass was

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Speaker 1: partying in Ghada. And now chapter three, the riots begin

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Speaker 1: in Los Angeles Friday afternoon, June the sixth. We were

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Speaker 1: on the air i'mby seeing the television monitors and you

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Speaker 1: of Saturday, June seventh, right, the riots were twenty four

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Speaker 1: hours old. Did Gavin Newsom immediately fly to Los Angeles,

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Speaker 1: immediately contact the National Guard, contact LAPD, the Sheriff's Department,

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Speaker 1: to see what he could do, what kind of state

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Speaker 1: resources to quell the rioters. No, he didn't. He did

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Speaker 1: not offer the National Guard, He did not contact anybody.

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Speaker 1: He went over to the Odette Estate Winery. That's his winery.

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Speaker 1: He co founded it. In twenty eleven, there was an event.

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Speaker 1: The name of the event was Vineyard Vibes. I'm not

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Speaker 1: making this up. Vineyard Vibes. It was a fundraiser for

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Speaker 1: the plump Jack Foundation. Pumpjack is the name of this

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Speaker 1: wine company. It's his wine label. His sister created the

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Speaker 1: plump Jack Foundation and featured contemporary yet sophisticated wines, live

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Speaker 1: jazz music, locally made pizza and smash burgers. The perfect

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Speaker 1: kickoff to summer fun. Read the promotion. This will take

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Speaker 1: place on the winery crush pad, where we'll gather for music, food,

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Speaker 1: conversation and delicious wine. And he did. While Los Angeles

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Speaker 1: while Los Angeles burned. A source who photographed Newsom at

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Speaker 1: this expressed shock that the governor was in attendance because

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Speaker 1: wine in Napa Valley, the riders had already begun vandalizing

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Speaker 1: This is just poetic and it's beauty, isn't it. French

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Speaker 1: they do a run through of the French laundry story.

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Speaker 1: And remember he had told all of us not to

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Speaker 3: Well, you could remember when you're eating, in between the

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Speaker 3: just cut your mask down when you sip, and you

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Speaker 1: And then after a while you couldn't be outside. Remember

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Speaker 1: exactly they banged outside right. He later would apologize, saying,

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Speaker 1: Newsom found drinking wine twenty four hours after the LA

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Speaker 1: riots started. He did not call the National Guard. Trump

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Speaker 1: guzzling the wine. This is what you have running the

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Speaker 1: to ole chaos. The two of them, Basst and Newsome

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Speaker 1: are more interested in going to elite cocktail parties. Well,

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Speaker 1: they need to relax.

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Speaker 3: I mean, wine helps people relax.

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Speaker 1: It's very stressful.

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Speaker 3: It's stressful running a city.

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Speaker 1: In a state, especially a city that's burning and rioting. Right,

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Speaker 1: it's you know, you need to take a break and

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Speaker 1: knock back a couple of lines. All right, more coming up.

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Speaker 1: We will definitely do the follow up. That story just broke,

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Speaker 1: and the story about Gavin Newsom was drinking wine Saturday afternoon,

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Speaker 1: that on his own, Newsom was hosting a party at

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Speaker 1: not interested the way Bass wasn't interested if the Palisades

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Speaker 1: And I think you can call to draw a clear

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Speaker 1: well on one of the other charming aspects of Los Angeles.

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Speaker 1: When it's not burning and people aren't rioting, is all

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Speaker 1: The kt l A had a story. You may have

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Speaker 1: heard a TRNK. TRNK is a tranquilizer that veterinarians use,

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Speaker 1: and uh, some evil people, presumably south of the border,

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Speaker 1: have mixed the tranquilizer with fentanyl. Now I've seen these people.

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Speaker 1: What happens is their their bodies freeze up in a

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Speaker 1: Here's k t l A or order Terene Winter.

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Speaker 5: Tuesday afternoon, downtown la' skid row. We didn't have to

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Speaker 2: Dope that comes out are the forest, I guess.

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Speaker 5: Among the crowd of homeless people packing these streets, strung

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Speaker 5: out addicts like Josh Booker.

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Speaker 2: Three days of train thoughe that's my finger.

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Speaker 5: Booker's finger ravaged by the flesh eating so called zombie

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Speaker 5: drug xylazine that new research shows as spriting across Los Angeles.

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Speaker 5: They cut the fennel with trank xylozine and it gives

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Speaker 5: you these blisters that come up out of nowhere.

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Speaker 1: It's like a like a parasite.

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Speaker 5: Almost. The animal tranquilizer, also known as trenk or dope trank,

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Speaker 5: is not approved for human use. Trank is mixed with

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Speaker 5: fentanyl to create a longer lasting high, making fentanyl the

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Speaker 5: deadliest drug threat our country has ever faced. Even deadlier.

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Speaker 5: What's worse, overdose reversal medications like Narcan don't work on

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Speaker 5: trank since it's not an opioid. Trank leaves users in

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Speaker 5: a zombie like state and causes absences that wrought the skin.

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Speaker 5: You feel a rush and a media rushaurant, and that's

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Speaker 6: in terms of illicit opioid use.

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Speaker 5: Doctor Joseph Friedman has been tracking the emergence of xylazine

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Speaker 5: presence of xylazine across the Southland. Friedman tested urine and

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Speaker 6: There's actually a pretty high rate of xylazine in fentyl

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Speaker 5: Friedman's study also revealed the drugs prevalence in Tijuana, where

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Speaker 5: drug experts say the cartels are manufacturing trenk and smuggling

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Speaker 5: shipments across the US Mexico border into southern California and

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Speaker 5: look at drug seizures at the busy Santa se Through

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Speaker 5: they've intercepted a significant amount of fentanyl along with other drugs,

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Speaker 5: about forty eight thousand pounds of narcotics this year alone,

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Speaker 5: some of that xylazine and steadier and more concerning amounts.

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Speaker 7: Where we're seeing it is mixed with fentanyl, which could

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Speaker 7: be a double whammy for individuals who are taking fentanyl

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Speaker 7: and of course unbeknowns also taking xylazine as well.

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Speaker 5: It seems like it's significant the amount of drug sees

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Speaker 7: Week correct and we believe as much tools as possible

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Speaker 7: that we have hitting it from a different perspectives us

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Speaker 7: being very successful.

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Speaker 5: According to the Drug Enforcement Administration San Diego Field Division,

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Speaker 5: in twenty twenty four, there were four xylazine related deaths

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Speaker 5: in that region. This is a photo of some of

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Speaker 5: the trenk confiscated from a fatal overdose last year. This

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Speaker 5: breakdown by region shows fentyl seizures containing xylazine agency in

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Speaker 5: Los Angeles, for example. While the number of seizures remain

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Speaker 5: low for xylazine compared to other more well known street drugs,

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Speaker 5: with LA more than doubling both powder and pilled trenk seizures.

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Speaker 5: Four, KTLA got exclusive access to the DEA Southwest Drug

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Speaker 1: Now xylazine is ravaging La drug addicts and mental patients,

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Speaker 2: Great? Thanks so much, and a belated happy birthday to

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Speaker 1: Oh, thank you very much. You actually reside in San Francisco, right.

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Speaker 2: Oh at two years in a row.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. But you know what when I went through this report.

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Speaker 2: You know it is it is ruined the tax base.

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Speaker 9: This is the end of civilization, Yeah, but it really

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Speaker 1: This is true in Santive. This progressive religion is more destructive.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely. And you know we also rank at the bottom

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Speaker 1: And and we have the worst roads, aha, we we

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Speaker 1: John Richie Greenberg, writer and commentator up in San Francisco.

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Speaker 1: San Francisco worst city in the nation according to a

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Speaker 1: He had a pair of seven hundred and seventy thousand dollars.

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Speaker 1: Tiffany earrings. Wow that he got during a robbery. Florida

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Speaker 1: Highway patrolman pulled over Jaython Gilder and I've seen the video.

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Speaker 1: They were so they could search the inside of his mouth.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you need a warrant for that.

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Speaker 1: They take him, took him out of the car, and

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Speaker 1: Gilder is thrashing around. The three officers wrestled him to

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Speaker 1: the ground, demanding open your mouth. He had stolen the

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Speaker 1: earrings from Tiffany in company, the store at a nearby

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Speaker 1: shopping wall. Very expensive, how old? How much is yours?

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Speaker 1: I don't have it. You don't have any Tiffany.

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Speaker 3: I don't have any Tiffany anything really nothing. Huh.

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Speaker 1: The cops noticed he was this guy was talking with

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Speaker 1: his mouth closed and he was moving an object around

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Speaker 1: with his tongue. You're about to get tased, yelled one trooper.

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Speaker 1: I don't have to. And he swallowed. He swallowed the earrings.

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Speaker 1: How he got into the store is he claimed to

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Speaker 1: be a representative for an Orlando Magic NBA player, and

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Speaker 1: they brought him. They believed him, and they brought him

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Speaker 1: into a special VIP room. He said his name was Sean.

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Speaker 1: He was negotiating a sale for a magic player. Then

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Speaker 1: he grabbed two sets of earrings, one nearly five carrots

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Speaker 1: worth one hundred and sixty thousand dollars, another eight carrots

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Speaker 1: that worth six hundred and nine thousand. Then he took

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Speaker 1: the place on a wild chase on Interstate ten. But

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Speaker 1: they couldn't find the stolen earrings. So they take him

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Speaker 1: to jail, and he suddenly asked the staff if he

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Speaker 1: was going to be charged with what's in my stomach?

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Speaker 1: So they gave him a body scan, and I got

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Speaker 1: there's a photo of the body scan, and there they

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Speaker 1: are sitting in his colon. They're in his digestive tracked

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Speaker 1: and it took more than twelve days to poop them out.

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Speaker 1: To poop them out, Yeah, they didn't do it.

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Speaker 3: They didn't go in surgically and.

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Speaker 1: Open them up. Nobody wanted to do that. They figured

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Speaker 1: eventually it was gonna come out. I guess they got

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Speaker 1: stuck on something, right. Well, I mean, you don't normally

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Speaker 1: hold food for twelve days. No, no, no, but if

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Speaker 1: you held your your poop for twelve days, you'd explode.

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Speaker 1: Eventually the earrings were expelled and they were cleaned. I

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Speaker 1: would hope. So certly, Tiffany has a master jeweler, clean

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Speaker 1: impoort master jeweler. What's the difference between a poop diamond

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Speaker 1: and a blood diamond? They and then then they returned

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Speaker 1: the ear rings to the security manager. This guy had

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Speaker 1: forty eight outstanding warrants in Colorado and he'd robbed another

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Speaker 1: Tiffany's in a few years ago. Didn't say he worked

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Speaker 1: for a magic or a MAVs player and a Nuggets player.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know if that was his

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Speaker 1: usual scam. Well, to get to get earrings that expensive,

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Speaker 1: you have to you have to somehow prove that you're

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Speaker 1: you're worth you know, a lot of money, because they

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Speaker 1: know that these you know, there's a lot of bad

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Speaker 1: guys out there to steal these jewels. I don't get

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Speaker 1: paying six hundred thousand dollars for a pair of earrings.

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Speaker 1: I don't either.

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Speaker 3: I mean you have to be I mean, you have

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Speaker 3: to be Jeff Bezos that kind of guy.

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Speaker 1: See even if even if you are, why, I mean,

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Speaker 1: obviously as there's some people can afford this, but then

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Speaker 1: what does it do for them to have a six

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Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars pair of earrings.

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Speaker 3: I don't know, because I don't have such a thing.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's just the ability to say they can.

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Speaker 8: I don't.

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Speaker 1: I guess they don't have that impulse. You would have

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Speaker 1: that impulse if I could afford it, you'd be buying.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, because I'm asking jewelry, but I can't afford that.

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Speaker 1: I know it lurks inside you are we coming back?

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