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Speaker 2: in the last three hours the whole financial world went

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Speaker 2: upside out again. I'm slightly distracted. I've got a couple

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Speaker 2: of TV screens on here and CNN is covering Trump

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Speaker 2: pausing the tariffs, which we'll talk about in a moment.

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Speaker 2: But one of their reporters is explaining how this happened,

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Speaker 2: two thousand and eight. And I think the anchor is

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Speaker 2: one of those anti Trump people because she is glaring

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Speaker 2: the entire time the reporter is talking. She is glaring

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Speaker 2: angrily like she can't believe this has turned out to

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Speaker 2: be a big positive today. I hope nobody Withdrew their

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Speaker 2: money from the stock market a few days ago, because

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Speaker 2: this was destined to be another short term hysterical period.

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Speaker 2: All like almost everything in the last five years or so,

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Speaker 2: it's one hysterical news story after another where everybody melts

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Speaker 2: down predicts doom. And then what did I say on Monday?

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Speaker 2: I said, you know, we used to have a three

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Speaker 2: day rule on the show. For this one. It might

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Speaker 2: It's like, let it play out. Nobody can predict things.

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Speaker 2: But what I thought is, I didn't think whatever flaws

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Speaker 2: to tank the economy, to make millions of people that employed,

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Speaker 2: to destroy everyone's retirement funds.

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Speaker 1: I don't think that was one of the goals.

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Speaker 2: You could say whatever you want about him, but that's

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Speaker 2: when he gets up in the morning. It's not about

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Speaker 2: putting everybody out of work, ruining their savings, and wrecking

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Speaker 2: the economy. He plays a negotiating game in public that

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Speaker 2: the revealing things with that little dust up with Valdmer's Zelensky.

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Speaker 2: Remember the President of Ukraine is Trump and JD Vance

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Speaker 2: told Zelensky off and it happened in public, on live television,

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Speaker 2: and everybody clutched their pearls and fainted. But that's what

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Speaker 2: goes on behind closed doors since the beginning of time, since.

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Speaker 1: The creation of human being.

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Speaker 2: Lead corporate leaders, political leaders, business people. They scream and

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Speaker 2: yell at each other, and then you go out to

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Speaker 2: the cameras and you act fake and you say fake things,

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Speaker 2: and you do fake things, and it's all show, and

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Speaker 2: we have a media that reports it.

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Speaker 1: Literally all.

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Speaker 2: They shook hands today, they made diplomatic statements to each other.

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Speaker 2: They could have been tearing each other's clothes off, ripping

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Speaker 2: Inside newsrooms at newspapers, TV stations, radio stations, people are

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Speaker 2: yelling at each other, they're getting in their arguments. Debra's

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Speaker 1: Every day, and.

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Speaker 2: Then they go on camera and everybody's calm and professional

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Speaker 2: I always like to see reality, whether it's good or bad.

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Speaker 2: I want to know what's really going on.

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Speaker 3: You know, put such a spin on things that that

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Speaker 1: I put it, well, what.

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Speaker 3: You're saying is that when we do see people come

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Speaker 2: For some reason, expressing negative emotions in public or in

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Speaker 2: But I would rather know what the truth is, you know,

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Speaker 2: I've read books and articles on how you're supposed to

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Speaker 2: treat employees, right, and you're supposed to create a compliment sandwich. Right,

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Speaker 2: you call somebody into the office if you read this. No,

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Speaker 4: I hate that there's a method that there. I hate that.

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Speaker 3: I'd rather come in and somebody just be honest and

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Speaker 1: I know you can't get that, you can't get the.

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Speaker 2: And I don't like that, and I don't trust them

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Speaker 4: I'm sorry, mister Cobel.

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry you feel that way, but I hear you,

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Speaker 2: and I that I've I became a new phrase some

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Speaker 2: I know you hear me. That means I hear you.

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Speaker 2: I'm not going to do a damn thing about it

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Speaker 2: disagree with you. It's like, well, just say that, just

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Speaker 3: Well, I don't like when they read a script and

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Speaker 3: I actually say that, please stop reading your script.

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Speaker 1: Oh on the phone, Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Please stop reading your script. Just talk to me like

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Speaker 4: Oh it goes back. I'm like, please stop with the script.

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Speaker 2: And this is why Trump unnerves people sometimes because he

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Speaker 2: And by the way, everybody's forgotten about that moment, right,

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Speaker 2: act hysterically. Well, in the moment, his tariffs caused everyone

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Speaker 2: It's like we you sit down, that's not going to happen.

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Speaker 2: But it's for effect, it's for negotiation.

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Speaker 3: Yes, but it is scary for older people who do

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well they should know these things resolved themselves.

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Speaker 2: Trump pausing the tariffs, uh, and exactly what's going on here.

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Speaker 2: But but I like, I like often to focus on

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Speaker 5: Literally you're listening to John Cobelt on demand from kf

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Speaker 1: All right. I'm just I just spend all day talking.

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Speaker 4: I know you do. Don't you get tired of your

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Speaker 4: I'm want so much.

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Speaker 1: I hear you all day.

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Speaker 4: I know it's not my intention. I'm just doing what

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Speaker 2: All right, you're a good employee. Uh so Trump he

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Speaker 2: pauses the tariff hikes for ninety days. Now, this was

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Speaker 2: it or not, and that creates uncertainty. When there is

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Speaker 2: uncertainty at that grand escape, professional stock traders sell I

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Speaker 2: didn't sell anything.

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Speaker 1: You probably didn't sell anything.

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Speaker 4: Right, didn't No, I did not.

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Speaker 1: I don't do day by day trading or hour by

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Speaker 4: But I wasn't thrilled. I'll be honest with you. I

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Speaker 2: I thought, well, I always look what changed in the

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Speaker 2: The companies that exist are selling their products, they're making

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Speaker 2: their profits. Nothing has changed. We don't have some kind

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Speaker 2: All their policies defy common sense. None of them have worked,

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Speaker 1: And now there is no more. Valicia Adams Kellum running.

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Speaker 2: I'd give him some kind of treatment for his insanity

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Speaker 1: It's not that complicated. It reminds me of what Trump did.

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Speaker 2: We had politicians from both parties on our show for

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Speaker 2: We find you, we arrest you, and we'll give you

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Speaker 2: Enough with this outreach nonsense. You could fix it quickly.

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Speaker 2: Stop with the complex reasons. Here's a simple thing. It's

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Speaker 2: against the law. So if they're breaking the law and

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Speaker 2: they don't want to move on their own. It's like,

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Speaker 2: all right, buddy, what do you want? You want to rest,

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Speaker 2: you want a mental health clinic, you want drug wherehab.

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Speaker 2: There's your three choices, four choices. Really, because you can just.

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Speaker 1: Move on down the road. That's what you do. That's

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Speaker 1: what I would do if I was in charge. Wouldn't

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Speaker 1: it be what you would do?

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Speaker 2: So I think the reason the homelessness thing hasn't been

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Speaker 2: solved over the last ten years is because we have

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Speaker 2: a bunch of criminals profiting from all the money, the

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Speaker 2: billions of dollars between the taxes, the private donations, the

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Speaker 2: corporate donations, it's huge cash cow.

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Speaker 1: And these people are sites, they're criminals. Well, Bill Salley's

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Speaker 1: going to find out.

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Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM

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Speaker 5: six forty.

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Speaker 2: You can follow us on social media at John Cobelt Radio.

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Speaker 2: And as I mentioned before, if you want to see

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Speaker 2: me on my wife's video podcast, Deborah Cobet Live on YouTube,

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Speaker 2: Deborah Cobelt Live on YouTube, and we talked about all

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Speaker 2: that's going on in Los Angeles and in Washington, and

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Speaker 2: that's I think posted already.

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Speaker 1: Deborah Cobelt Live.

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Speaker 2: Now in a few minutes, right after Deborah's news, we're

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Speaker 2: going to have Jake Steinfeld on Body by Jake.

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Speaker 1: He's got the fitness Empire. He's been involved in.

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Speaker 2: A lot of efforts to get Americans in healthier, fitter shape.

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Speaker 2: He's really devoted his life to it, and he's built

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Speaker 2: quite an empire. But you know, money doesn't predict you

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Speaker 2: from the incompetence of Karen Bass and the rest of

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Speaker 2: the LA government. Because his house burned to the ground

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Speaker 2: like so many others in the Palisades. And he's gonna

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Speaker 2: come on with us. I've known him for years and

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Speaker 2: he's going to talk about his experience, and he's seriously

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Speaker 2: considering running for governor in California, and we need we

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Speaker 2: need choices.

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Speaker 1: It can't be.

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Speaker 2: Somebody from Newsom's administration. Half the candidates that have announced

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Speaker 2: so far are some loser from either the administration or

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Speaker 2: from the California Legislature. And those people no, no more

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Speaker 2: of those. We'll talk to Jake Steinfeld coming up after

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Speaker 2: two o'clock. I hate wamos. I don't know if you

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Speaker 2: have a strong opinion on that.

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Speaker 3: I've never been in one, have you seen him though.

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Speaker 3: One time somebody pointed it out to me, but I

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Speaker 3: kind of missed it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're big on the West Side, especially in Santa Monica.

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Speaker 4: I'm a valley girl.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they freaked me out. They freaked me out too.

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Speaker 2: I have some visceral reaction, and if I was like seventeen,

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Speaker 2: I'd probably be pulling pranks on it or vandalizing them.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what it is. They really bother me.

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Speaker 1: I have to do a double take whenever I don't

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Speaker 1: see a driver in the driver's seat. It's like, wait,

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Speaker 1: how does that work? It freaks me out.

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Speaker 2: One of these and these are driverless taxis if you

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Speaker 2: don't know, because if they're not Woodland Hills, they're probably

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Speaker 2: not in a lot of places.

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Speaker 4: But might I mean they might be. I just haven't.

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Speaker 4: Haven't think there're too many, though.

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Speaker 2: When I have seen three or four times them do

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Speaker 2: weird things. And this is the strangest I've heard of.

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Speaker 1: I think.

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Speaker 2: A few weeks ago there was a story about one

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Speaker 2: of them started driving in circles, yeah, and couldn't get

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Speaker 2: out of it. This one somehow got in the middle

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Speaker 2: of a drive through entrance at Chick fil A on

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Speaker 2: Lincoln Boulevard in Santa Monica, and it's stalled out. So

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Speaker 2: if you were stuck behind the way mow you were

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Speaker 2: getting to the.

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Speaker 4: Chicken order, No, that would kiss off a lot of people.

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Speaker 2: And this Chick fil A is drive through, only they

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Speaker 2: don't have a sit down area. So there's video out

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Speaker 2: there and the Chick fil A workers are standing around

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Speaker 2: the stalled way.

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Speaker 1: Mo.

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Speaker 2: It's hazard lights were on and it backed up for

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Speaker 2: just a moment and then stopped again.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's nobody to yell at.

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Speaker 2: There's nobody to hontcat can't walk up and shake your

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Speaker 2: fist at the empty window.

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Speaker 6: I'm pretty sure the passenger also can't. Like right, Yeah,

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Speaker 6: I don't know. They said that it wasn't clear. You know,

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Speaker 6: if you're going to do a news report a bunch

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Speaker 6: of answer. The first question everyone would have was there

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Speaker 6: a passenger in the back seat. It's but if they're right,

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Speaker 6: it's unclear if anyone who was inside the vehicle, it's

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Speaker 6: unclear service.

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Speaker 4: There's nobody.

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Speaker 3: It's automatically gonna the window is going to go down

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Speaker 3: so that somebody can put.

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Speaker 4: In the food.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and then how do you pay the bill?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that doesn't make sense, it says, or if the

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Speaker 2: taxi was directed to the Chick fil A as part

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Speaker 2: of a fair well, how does that work? But Wabo

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Speaker 2: confirmed to Channel five the vehicle got stuck and its

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Speaker 2: team had to recover, had to recover the way moo

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Speaker 2: from Chick fil A. Nobody else has explained it. This

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Speaker 2: is this particular thing has never happened before, No one has,

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Speaker 2: No Wabo's ever gotten stuck.

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Speaker 4: So what did they do? They had to tow it?

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Speaker 4: Not clear?

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Speaker 2: I don't and it's not clear. It's a crappy report.

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Speaker 2: Channel five really could do better. What I mean, we

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Speaker 2: don't know how they eventually moved it, and we don't

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Speaker 2: know how it got there, and we don't know if there's.

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Speaker 1: A person inside.

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Speaker 2: And they took what There was only one line worthwhile

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Speaker 2: that the waimol got stuck in the Chick fil A line.

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Speaker 2: Then they added six seven more paragraphs and told us

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Speaker 2: nothing useful. The state of journalism here in Los Angeles

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Speaker 2: when we come back. Jake Steinfeld, you may know him

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Speaker 2: as Body by Jake. He's got a fitness empire. He

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Speaker 2: lost everything in the Palisades fire. He's gonna talk about that.

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Speaker 2: It's quite a story, and he's thinking of running for

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Speaker 2: governor in twenty twenty six, so that is next. Jake

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Speaker 2: Steinfeld on Oh we got debor Mark.

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Speaker 1: Look at that.

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Speaker 4: Oh wow, we're still here. I'm still here.

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Speaker 2: Live in the KFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey, you've

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Speaker 2: been listening to The John Covelt Show podcast. You can

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Speaker 2: always hear the show live on KFI Am six forty

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