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Speaker 3: You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 3: Trump is doing just dozens of things every day. It

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Speaker 3: almost seems like there must be three Trumps out there.

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Speaker 3: He's announced today that he's meeting with the Putin possibly

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Speaker 3: And meantime, he's he and Musk are trying to root

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Speaker 3: people angry and upset, and various entities are gone to

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Speaker 3: created a fascinating debate. You know, Trump has a way

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Speaker 3: in the Constitution.

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Speaker 2: It's neither in it or it's.

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Speaker 1: Not in it.

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Speaker 3: And you know when you tell him, well, you can't

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Speaker 3: do that, and he goes, well, why can't I do that?

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Speaker 3: Because the Constitution doesn't say you can. Well, it doesn't

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Speaker 3: say I can't. I mean, that's really what it comes

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Speaker 3: down to. Let's talk to Royal Oaks now, ABC News

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Speaker 3: legal analyst about all the lawsuits and judges trying to

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Speaker 2: Here, Riley there, I'm here.

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Speaker 1: And here absolutely right, John. I mean that the president's

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Speaker 1: anact for zeroing in on areas that you know, you

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Speaker 1: can call it a gray area, the birthright citizenship deal.

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Speaker 1: Everybody's reaction, a lot of reactions initially all that he's

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Speaker 1: trying to chase the constitution. Well, now he's interpreting the

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Speaker 1: language in the Constitution in a certain way. We'll see

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Speaker 1: what they to say. If you say, just the last

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Speaker 1: sorry eight fired inspectors generally like watchdogs for the federal agencies,

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Speaker 1: whistleblower and so on. They've been fired and they've sued

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Speaker 1: like thirty days notice and talk to Congress about it,

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Speaker 1: The other deal is the funding freeze. He's freezing billions

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Speaker 3: So if the stuff, if some of the money for

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Speaker 3: with it. That's what these judges are saying. That Trump

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Speaker 1: Exactly what they're saying is he's violating the separation of powers.

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Speaker 1: The executive is encroaching on Congress's exclusive authority on federal spending.

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Speaker 1: the problem for Trump is, first of all, us to

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Speaker 1: this idea of a constitutional crisis, which is defined as okay,

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Speaker 3: Trump was saying, bring a judge could bring in a

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Speaker 1: Exactly. And let's assume that Trump says aha, I run

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Speaker 1: the Department of Justice. That's where all the prosecutors at

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Speaker 1: my own special prosecutors. Very rare, but it could happen again.

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Speaker 2: Lest I know, but I could see. I could see

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Speaker 1: Well, absolutely, and he's he's warmed up for two years.

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Speaker 1: You remember when he indicted him four times. All we

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Speaker 1: You have weaponized the criminal justice system. It is totally unfair.

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Speaker 1: And he's saying the exact same thing. Now. What he's

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Speaker 3: Let me offer this, and I'm not saying you'd have

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Speaker 3: Let's say the Supreme Court says, well, too bad, you

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Speaker 3: And Trump says, make me make me pay this money

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Speaker 1: Well, you're right, I think maybe the answer there is

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Speaker 1: The bridges are crumbling, and if Trump is not going

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Speaker 1: to spend this money, that's really bad. And if the

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Speaker 1: But if it's not essential, then let him have his way.

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Speaker 3: I heard a poll today that eighty three percent of

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Speaker 3: Even people who hate him say, yeah, the government really

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Speaker 3: That's why I'm curious how it would play out in

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Speaker 1: All right, yell no, And I think I think it's

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Speaker 1: very smart for Trump to focus on issues that got

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Speaker 3: Royal Oakes.

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Speaker 1: You bet.

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Speaker 3: ABC News Legal analyst. We got a thousand dollars we're

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Speaker 3: going to give away, and we've got more stories on

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Speaker 3: more federal officials being fired and more absurd spending.

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Speaker 2: That's coming up.

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Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM

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Speaker 4: six forty.

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Speaker 3: All right, this is fascinating, and you know, I keep

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Speaker 3: like arranging stories I want to talk about here, and

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Speaker 3: then like five other things happened. This has been going

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Speaker 2: Let's say.

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Speaker 3: Yesterday, the Trump administration fired four people from FEMA, including

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Speaker 3: sent fifty nine million dollars that.

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Speaker 2: Was supposed to go to disaster relief.

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Speaker 3: All right, this is supposed to go for like, you know,

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Speaker 3: the people who suffer from fires or hurricanes. Instead it

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Speaker 3: the whole fifty nine million did not go for luxury hotels,

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Speaker 3: and all of it went for illegal aliens. New York

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Speaker 3: by FEMA. Joe Biden authorized it last year. It's not

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Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI Am sixty.

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Speaker 3: I told you a few weeks ago that California's Fair Plan,

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Speaker 3: You go, he said, a drone over the reservoir. It's like, wow,

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Speaker 2: Made up by you. And here's this quote from Lara.

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Speaker 2: That's what's some nuts. You're going to.

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Speaker 3: I don't think those two can count to ten, let

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Speaker 3: flying around, and they had the reservoir filled and the

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Speaker 3: hydrants worked and everybody was ready to go, maybe they

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Speaker 3: would have noticed the first smoke rising up on the hillside,

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Speaker 3: and maybe they could have squelched that thing right away.

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Speaker 3: Maybe if it came from the New Year's Day fire.

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Speaker 3: They if they had constantly checked it to make sure

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Speaker 3: it couldn't be reignited, and now nobody did their job.

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Speaker 3: Two hundred and fifty billion dollars worth of damage. Two

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Speaker 3: hundred and fifty billion talk more coming up.

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Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty.

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Speaker 3: Trump just went around in court. This just came over

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Speaker 3: what two minutes ago. A federal judge said, Oh, it's

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Speaker 3: it's that buyout program. Remember he's offering a buy out

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Speaker 3: to thousands of government workers. You get eight months pay,

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Speaker 3: and thousands are taking the buyout. But then the unions

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Speaker 3: sued the unions and this is the whole lawsuit thing.

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Speaker 3: I didn't understand. He's not firing anybody. He's just saying, hey,

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Speaker 3: here's a big payout. You don't have to work for

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Speaker 3: eight months. I mean, you're not working anyway, You're not.

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Speaker 3: You know, I heard today, you know what percentage of

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Speaker 3: federal workers show up in the office. Six percent, six percent.

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Speaker 3: Ninety four percent of federal workers do not show up

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Speaker 3: in the office to work. That's why I don't care

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Speaker 3: what happens to these people, because we're paying for them.

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Speaker 3: You know, you got to keep like reorienting your mind.

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Speaker 3: It's like, hey, I'm the boss here, it's my money.

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Speaker 3: Not only we're the bosses, we're paying our money.

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Speaker 2: You know, most.

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Speaker 3: Supervisors are not financing the company. We are the owners

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Speaker 3: of this company, and ninety four percent of our workers

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Speaker 3: aren't showing up, and then we offer an eight month

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Speaker 3: severance package and their union sues. Well, a judge had

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Speaker 3: put this program on hold a few days ago and

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Speaker 3: now has said no, the program can proceed. Judge George A. O'Toole,

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Speaker 3: Junior District Court judge in Massachusetts. He said that he's

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Speaker 3: denying this lawsuit because the union doesn't have any standing.

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Speaker 3: The union is not being affected by this. It was

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Speaker 3: various state and federal unions and some stupid nonprofit left

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Speaker 3: wing group, and they said the order was unlawful because

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Speaker 3: Congress had already appropriated the funds. No, actually, they said

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Speaker 3: Congress had not appropriated the funds yet that are needed

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Speaker 3: to compensate the workers who agreed to the buyout. And

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Speaker 3: the judge said, well, that's all irrelevant because you don't

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Speaker 3: have standing to file the suit, says one of these

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Speaker 3: nuisance lawsuits just to slow up the process. This is

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Speaker 3: just throwing, you know, wrenches into the gears. Sixty five

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Speaker 3: thousand government employees had volunteered for the buyout as of

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Speaker 3: last Thursday.

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Speaker 2: That was the original deadline. So what's wrong with that?

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Speaker 3: Sixty five thousand people don't want to work anymore and

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Speaker 3: they agreed to eight months pay, then.

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Speaker 2: That's a good thing.

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Speaker 3: The Judge SI sided with Trump and said the Indians

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Speaker 3: can go pound salt.

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Speaker 5: All right, we got Conway here, Dang dong with you, buddy.

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Speaker 5: We've got a lot going on. This rainstorm's coming in

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Speaker 5: tonight and tomorrow. It's gonna be pretty heavy. I don't

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Speaker 5: know what you're how you're preparing for, but you.

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Speaker 2: Should prepare gonna get wet.

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Speaker 5: David Vassay is coming on and talk about your world

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Speaker 5: champion La Dodgers, and I don't mean twenty twenty four,

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Speaker 5: I mean twenty twenty five World Champion La Dodgers.

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Speaker 2: Is that right?

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Speaker 5: They're gonna win the World Series? You're gonna put money

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Speaker 5: on that. You don't think they're gonna win the World Series?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 2: Really? Really? Is that right? You want to bet? Yeah? Okay,

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Speaker 2: all right, you got to take a team though. You

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Speaker 2: can't just take the rest of the league. I'll take

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Speaker 2: the Mets.

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Speaker 5: Okay, I'll think I'll definitely take the Dodgers over the Mets. Right,

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Speaker 5: So what are we betting your car up against your.

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Speaker 2: Car at two thousand and six?

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Speaker 1: Car?

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Speaker 2: I want that? Oh you want? I'll put that up, okay?

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Speaker 5: And against what.

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Speaker 2: A car do you have? I don't want to say

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Speaker 2: better than yours?

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Speaker 5: Alright, I'll put the Lincoln Navigator up against Let's say

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Speaker 5: I don't want to take.

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Speaker 2: Your car from you.

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Speaker 5: I'd feel horrible because the Dodgers are going to sweep.

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Speaker 2: Up this year.

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Speaker 5: We'll figure it out, Okay, all right, but I don't

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Speaker 5: want to take your car from you. No, you don't

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Speaker 5: want to give up that. No, I'll give you that

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Speaker 5: car tonight. You're right, the right amount of money, you know.

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Speaker 5: I don't take anything over a grand if yours.

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Speaker 2: We've got.

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Speaker 5: The investigation finds more than one tho three hundred fire

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Speaker 5: hydrants need maintenance across LA. That wasn't enough scared to

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Speaker 5: scare the hell out of them. That those fires in Alta, Dina, Yeah,

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Speaker 5: and eating fire Pacific valis Ades of Malibu. There's thirteen

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Speaker 5: hundred hydrants. Who's there's an investigation going on. Jeez, Ellio's

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Speaker 5: handling the investigator.

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Speaker 3: We have no government. Do you have thirteen hundred fire

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Speaker 3: hydrates not working?

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Speaker 2: How do they have thirteen hundred five period? It's a lot.

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Speaker 2: That's a lot of fire. Just none of them are

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Speaker 2: any good. Oh my god.

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Speaker 5: And you know, and and and we really I really

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Speaker 5: missed the reporters, you know, like David Goldstein, Eric over

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Speaker 5: at at NBC, you know, Joel Grover, the guys that

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Speaker 5: used to really go out and make sure that people

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Speaker 5: were behaving, they're no longer around. Eric's still around, Joel

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Speaker 5: Grover's gone, you know, yeah, he retired that. Yeah, and

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Speaker 5: then David Goldstein retired, So Eric's the last one left,

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Speaker 5: last guy, yeah, you know. And then it's the most

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Speaker 5: of the local.

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Speaker 3: Newscasts are just stupid, you know they are.

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Speaker 2: They're just stupid.

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Speaker 5: I like the people. I don't like the news. It's

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Speaker 5: not news, it's not news. That's how that's why the

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Speaker 5: city went to hell. Ellen Lava is leaving.

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Speaker 2: I love her.

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Speaker 5: She's great, nice over Channel seven. She's been there thirty years.

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Speaker 5: Ellen Lava. She started when her daughter was like eight

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Speaker 5: months old. I remember the I remember the and now

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Speaker 5: it's over. And then Lyft is in the news as well.

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Speaker 5: They're gonna roll out autonomous rides in twenty twenty six

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Speaker 5: in and out Burger relocating its Orange County headquarters. We'll

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Speaker 5: tell you where that's going, all right, Conway thing go

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Speaker 5: and rain, Buddy rain, I heard rain gonna get wet. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: don't stand in front of any mudslides, right, you get

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Speaker 5: wiped out. Kruzher's got the news live in the KFI

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Speaker 5: twenty four hour newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the

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Speaker 5: John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear the show

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Speaker 5: live on KFI Am six forty from one to four

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Speaker 5: pm every Monday through Friday, and of course, anytime on

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