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Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 2: We opened with Steve Gregory. I remember this lawsuit being

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Speaker 2: filed a while back. It's families versus Snap, the parent

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Speaker 2: company of Snapchat, right right, Yeah, And one of the

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Speaker 2: families is in Orange County, the Neville family. Their son

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Speaker 2: Alexander was fourteen, died of fentanyl poisoning back in twenty twenty.

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Speaker 2: Bought a pell on Snapchat. Thought it was zenax. He's

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Speaker 2: number of teenagers who died from fentanyl being sold over

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Speaker 2: Snap or Snapchat. And we're going to have the mother

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Speaker 2: on tomorrow, Amy Neville, because there's a new movie coming out.

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Speaker 2: It's a mini documentary called Come Back Home. There's a

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Speaker 2: private screening tomorrow in Sane on Compastrana and then it

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Speaker 2: her tomorrow. But Steve Gregory knows about how the case

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Speaker 2: has progressed and where it is right now. Steve, Well,

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Speaker 2: a judge just I mean literally hours ago, just ruled

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Speaker 2: that the lawsuit filed by relatives of over sixty young

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Speaker 2: people who died that the lawsuit can move forward and Snap,

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Speaker 2: as you mentioned, the parent company of Snapchat. Snap had

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Speaker 2: argued that it was immune from civil lawsuits under the

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Speaker 2: Federal Code Section two thirty. It's a lot like qualified

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Speaker 2: immunity for law enforcement, if you will. And they felt

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Speaker 2: like they were immune from any kind of a civil lawsuit. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: the well, they do have special protection often, right, because

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Speaker 2: these social media companies say that they're not responsible for

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Speaker 2: how their customers use their site. They're like the messenger.

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Speaker 2: You can't you can't, you can't kill the messenger, right,

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Speaker 2: Otherwise they could be charged with thousands of crimes every day.

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Speaker 2: And there are there are bunches and bunches of cases

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Speaker 2: Craigslist was attacked constantly for you know, pervasive prostitution ads

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Speaker 2: Seeing is that because a lot of fentanyl and other

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Speaker 2: these social media platforms, parents and other organizations are fighting

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Speaker 2: back and saying that these organizations have got to be

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Speaker 2: more responsible. They've got to start vetting and filtering and

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Speaker 2: monitoring and figuring out what's going on here. So in

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Speaker 2: this particular case, a judge did rule that the civil

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Speaker 2: lawsuit can move forward. Now, they did drop the judge

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Speaker 2: did drop the charge of abating or excuse me, aiding

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Speaker 2: and a betting drug dealers under section two thirty, So

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Speaker 2: they did take that out. But what gets to stay

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Speaker 2: a public nuisance. So that's going to be interesting. And

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Speaker 2: as the case moves forward and he gets into the

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Speaker 2: this case is going to come in. Now, keep in mind,

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Speaker 2: this is the first time in history of social media

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Speaker 2: illegal and fatal drug use. So we're going to find

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Speaker 2: out about all the memos and the internal discussions that

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Speaker 2: Snapchat knew what was going on and why they never

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Speaker 2: they're going, we can't afford to go to trial. You

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Speaker 2: We want to sell them ads. And they were hiding

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Speaker 2: why they you know, they wanted to look like they're

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Speaker 2: in a space for people to espouse their personal views

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Speaker 2: So, those accounts and those posts were never blocked or

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Speaker 2: that just frustrates me on social media. But we've put

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Speaker 2: We're having to do everything on social media now because

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Speaker 2: I make sure it's directly on you did. I didn't

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you slow down their jock.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, this is going to be an interesting case

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Speaker 2: setting case. It will be and moving forward discould very

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Speaker 2: well shape. Section two thirty, Well, we're going to have

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Speaker 2: the mother from the Orange County case on. Her name

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Speaker 2: and you'll be able to see that online as well.

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Speaker 2: We'll pumpasize this more tomorrow when we have Amy Neville on.

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Speaker 2: So anyway, John mc kinney coming on after three o'clock.

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Speaker 2: me see, they always have a roundup of the new

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Speaker 2: here looking at news sites, and I've got an announcement

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Speaker 2: for all the television stations, all the television news directors.

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Speaker 2: then four, five, seven, eleven. Okay, that's five sites to

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Speaker 2: cover six stations. Do you know today virtually everyone had

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Speaker 2: There's a robbery there, and I imagine they get all

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Speaker 4: And can I just say, I really hate gender neutral restrooms?

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Speaker 2: I want to share the restroom really with anybody. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: Right, But I'm talking about a single stall gender neutral restroom.

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Speaker 5: Can't you just pee in the toilet?

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Speaker 4: I think if I had one of those, I would

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Speaker 2: You know you could aim, but it's still all right.

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Speaker 5: Yes?

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Speaker 2: This is something that you want to vote no on.

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Speaker 1: Forty moistline is Friday.

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Speaker 2: That's only two days away, eight seven seven moist eighty six,

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Speaker 1: Plenty of room, plenty of.

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Speaker 2: Plenty of room. Come on, let's get with it here.

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Speaker 2: First of all, they can get this apartment. I have

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Speaker 1: Nobody's allowed.

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Speaker 2: If you're getting federal funding, you can't deny funding to people.

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Speaker 2: the last thing you want to do is vote for

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Speaker 2: Proposition one. I mean this is this is like the

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Speaker 2: first proposition literally of the new year, of the of

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Speaker 2: the first election, the March primary, and and this is

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Speaker 2: what this is what they this is what they give us.

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Speaker 2: So you've been warned. And Carl will come on. Another

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Speaker 2: story that oh that broke today was you may have

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Speaker 2: heard state capitals around the country have been evacuated in

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Speaker 2: a whole bunch of states because they don't know why.

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Speaker 2: I mean, obviously this was coordinated. It was an email

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Speaker 2: and like in Connecticut, the police received complaints from employees

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Speaker 2: about the suspicious email that multiple explosives were placed in

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Speaker 2: the Capitol building so they had to close and evacuate it.

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Speaker 2: They also all other states like uh, Mississippi, Tennessee, all

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Speaker 2: over the place.

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Speaker 1: That's all you have to do.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, all you have to do is get some email addresses,

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Speaker 2: come up with a with a fake threat, and you

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Speaker 2: could close government buildings all over the place and watch

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Speaker 2: the watch the news on TV and just laugh about it.

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Speaker 1: That's a big hoot. All right, Well more coming up.

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Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from kf I

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Speaker 3: Am six forty.

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Speaker 2: On the radio one till fourth after four. John Cobelt

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Speaker 2: on demand on the iHeart app. I've been good today,

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Speaker 2: haven't I? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: With that one, you didn't sound very confident.

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Speaker 5: I thought he did.

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Speaker 2: Okay, that's just a little low key. But now I'm

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Speaker 2: being scored on enthusiasm. I'm just I'm just trying to

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Speaker 2: get the name of the show out properly. I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: tell you, all right, all right or punch more enthusiasm.

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Speaker 2: John McKinney coming on the show at three o'clock. He

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Speaker 2: is the Deputy DA and he's running against George Gascone,

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Speaker 2: and there is even more retaliation going on against Deputy

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Speaker 2: Das who cross Gascone, and we'll talk to John about that.

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Speaker 2: There's also a story about how Gascon's parole policies have

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Speaker 2: led to even more felons getting out early. Ah yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's such a disaster. Also, the return of lour Engel

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Speaker 2: from News Nation. She is covering the Epstein case and

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Speaker 2: when is the release happening. Everybody thought by now we'd

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Speaker 2: have one hundred and eighty seven names to go through

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Speaker 2: who are somehow connected to the Epstein story, and nothing's happened.

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Speaker 2: Something's holding it up. Well, I guess that's predictable. Anyway,

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Speaker 2: Lawd's going to be on coming up after three point thirty.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna play a story for you here. There was

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Speaker 2: I mean, everybody in the world has done this. You

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Speaker 2: sell stuff, right, you're selling junk, You meet up with someone,

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Speaker 2: or someone comes over your fastback. We just did this

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Speaker 2: this week. We had some stuff we sold and did

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Speaker 2: you go to a.

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Speaker 4: Public place where there's a lot of people. Did you

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Speaker 4: go outside a police station and.

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Speaker 5: Do the handover?

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Speaker 6: No?

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Speaker 2: I mean there was a guy who had a business

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Speaker 2: and he was buying some old stuff. Of all, how

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Speaker 2: do you know he really well, you know what, I

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Speaker 2: didn't even think twice about it. But now after this story,

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Speaker 2: maybe maybe we should have taken some precautions. Just have

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Speaker 2: a stranger come over. He would have been confined to

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Speaker 2: the garage, right. He came over to you came over

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Speaker 2: to the house. Crazy, We were huh.

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Speaker 4: Yes, most of the time people at least meet at

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Speaker 4: you know, a trader Joe's parking lot or someplace like that.

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Speaker 5: But your house, well, now he knows where you live.

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Speaker 2: You know what it was, Well, I told you this

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Speaker 2: off the air. It was It was wooden picture frames. Yes,

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Speaker 2: Over the years, my wife has constantly bought gotten rid

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Speaker 2: of paintings, and at some point she decided that having

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Speaker 2: wood frames was old fashioned at a date, right out

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Speaker 2: of style. So she would hang the paintings up with

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Speaker 2: no wood frames. And all the wood frames ended up

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Speaker 2: in my clothing clothing cop clothing closet. So I had

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Speaker 2: stacks of wood frames on the shelves or my clothes

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Speaker 2: should be that I have enough clothes to fill them. Anyway,

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Speaker 2: she decided to sell them. Because it turns out old

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Speaker 2: wood frames are worth a few dollars, so I went online.

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Speaker 2: This guy has a business. He bought the wood frames,

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Speaker 2: and I think my wife was so excited about the

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Speaker 2: money he was going to pay for the old wood frames.

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Speaker 2: Totally forgot about the security security breach.

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Speaker 5: All right, well you're okay, you're fine.

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Speaker 4: So now the next time, you know, because I know

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Speaker 4: the story that you're going to be talking about, and

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Speaker 4: it's crazy.

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Speaker 2: Here's what happened to this couple. KTLA Channel five reporter

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Speaker 2: Omar Lewis.

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Speaker 7: It was I was definitely not expecting that to to

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Speaker 7: go that way.

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Speaker 8: Eduardo Reyes got much more than he bargained for after

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Speaker 8: receiving a message on the mobile marketplace of for Up.

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Speaker 8: It was from someone pretending to be interested in buying

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Speaker 8: an iPad he posted for sale just two days before Christmas.

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Speaker 7: They wanted to meet it like in a public street,

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Speaker 7: which I usually don't do. But he sounded like he

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Speaker 7: was a kid, and he's like, Oh, I'm gonna have

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Speaker 7: my mom come out with me.

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Speaker 8: Yes, agreed to meet the buyer in a residential neighborhood

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Speaker 8: in Pomona. At first, it was only one suspect who

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Speaker 8: Ray has interacted with, but you can see here as

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Speaker 8: another suspect with the gun comes from around the street corner.

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Speaker 7: Then he started running towards me. And when he ran

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Speaker 7: towards me, I grabbed the iPad. I turned around. The

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Speaker 7: other person had already taken out their gun and said

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Speaker 7: give me your iPad. Give me your iPad.

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Speaker 8: The entire ordeal was captured on video by Rayes's tesla.

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Speaker 8: It shows the moments the robbers pointed a gun at

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Speaker 8: Reyes and his wife then wrestled them to the ground.

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Speaker 7: I was like, there's no way they have like a

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Speaker 7: real gun, Like that's crazy. And I was concerned because

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Speaker 7: my wife was there and I was like, oh my god,

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Speaker 7: what if they tried to do something to her.

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Speaker 8: At one point, a suspect is seemed body slamming ray

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Speaker 8: AS's wife. The gun goes off multiple times in the

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Speaker 8: video before the robbers take off with the iPad and

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Speaker 8: Rayes has seemed walking back to his car with blood

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Speaker 8: on his face.

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Speaker 7: I mean, it could have gone really bad. It could

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Speaker 7: have gone really bad.

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Speaker 8: If you're making any sales transactions with someone from the internet.

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Speaker 8: To avoid becoming the victim of a robbery, police recommend

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Speaker 8: meeting in a well lit busy location like a shopping

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Speaker 8: center or a police station, and sharing your location with

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Speaker 8: someone you trust. While Rayes has sold over fifty items

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Speaker 8: on off up, he now knows it only takes one

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Speaker 8: for things to go terribly wrong, and says he'll make

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Speaker 8: changes in the future.

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Speaker 7: Probably for sure, made it in a public place, preferably

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Speaker 7: maybe around a police station or something, and try to

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Speaker 7: get more information out of them a little bit, like

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Speaker 7: maybe their phone number or something.

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Speaker 8: And Rayes's wife's cell phone was also taken by those robbers, however,

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Speaker 8: or police later found it in a yard nearby. Rays

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Speaker 8: is now hoping that someone out there recognizes these suspects.

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Speaker 8: If you have any information that could help in this case,

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Speaker 8: you're asked to pick up the phone and contact the

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Speaker 8: Pomona Police Department.

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Speaker 2: You ever sell something and someone in public, I have,

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Speaker 2: it's very dangerous.

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Speaker 1: What did you sell?

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Speaker 5: I think I sold some handbags, of course.

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Speaker 2: Ah those expensive ones, and on the street to a stranger.

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Speaker 5: In a public place.

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Speaker 4: And we also just sold an appliance and my husband

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Speaker 4: met in a Trader Joe's parking lot and that's and

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Speaker 4: that's how that went down. And there's there's been some

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Speaker 4: other places but no, I haven't had anybody come to

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Speaker 4: my house and I never will.

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Speaker 6: My dad is obsessed with the Facebook offer up and

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Speaker 6: free offerings and all of that type of stuff. I

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Speaker 6: will not let him like go to other people's houses.

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Speaker 6: I'd make him, like, well, meet in public places because

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Speaker 6: of stuff.

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Speaker 1: Like that, because this is going to happen.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So I remember, I remember one time when my

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Speaker 2: when my my, my guys were teenagers and they wanted

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Speaker 2: to go to Coachelle every year, and you know with

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Speaker 2: those tickets a brand, that's right, Yes, Oh, I had

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Speaker 2: to do that too, And one year I think I got,

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Speaker 2: I got, I bought the tickets, but then I got

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Speaker 2: free tickets I think some through the station, right, So

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Speaker 2: I had extra tickets, nothing to do with them. So

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Speaker 2: I gave my sons the free tickets, but now the

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Speaker 2: ones I paid for I had to sell and I

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Speaker 2: ended up going, I think to Wittier College and stand up.

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Speaker 2: I sold them on Craigslist and ended up meeting a

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Speaker 2: girl and the campus and I felt so creepy. It's

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Speaker 2: because you know, I'm a full grown adult and there's

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Speaker 2: all these twenty year old girls walking around, and you

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Speaker 2: know I'm giving her an envelope and she's giving me money.

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Speaker 2: And I'm thinking this really looks bad.

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Speaker 6: Because just John standing on a college campus, you want

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Speaker 6: to go to Coachello.

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Speaker 1: I think he's got like a white band behind him somewhere.

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Speaker 1: That's what I felt like. I felt like I should

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Speaker 1: be wearing a trench coat. Jeez. All right, we come back.

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Speaker 2: John McKinney on the Deputy DA and he is he's

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Speaker 2: running against George Gascon and he's got stories here about

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Speaker 2: more retaliation by the evil Gascon against the good Deputy Das.

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Speaker 2: He's really trying to ruin a lot of careers. That's

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Speaker 2: coming up on The John Cobelt Show. Deborah Mark in

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Speaker 2: the KFI twenty four our newsroom, Hey, you've been listening to.

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Speaker 1: The John coblt Show podcast.

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Speaker 2: You can always hear the show live on KFI Am

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Speaker 2: six forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday,

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