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It's later with mo Kelly kf I
am six forty. We're live everywhere on

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the iHeartRadio app. And sometimes there
aren't good answers or solutions for all problems.

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Last week we were telling you what
was happening at USC. We told

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you what was happening at Columbia and
Yale. But within the context of the

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USC discussion, we said, hey, USC, I understand what you are

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trying to prevent. You are trying
to stave off, you are trying to

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avoid. You did not want an
escalation, and the Sea thought the answer

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was making sure that the valedictorian did
not speak at commencement. That was the

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wrong answer. It was well intentioned, I believe it was just the wrong

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answer. And now I think Twalla
and I we've been born out as being,

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i don't know, not like a
soothsayer, but we kind of saw

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this coming. USC kind of saw
it coming as well. They just chose

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the wrong door to walk through.
USC was worried about whether this was going

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to balloon, whether this was going
to expand, it was going to turn

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into something they could not control,
and they were right, but in a

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way they helped make it happen.
They were right to be concerned about what

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could happen at a commencement speech.
They were right to be concerned about whether

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there will be protests, whether those
protests could escalate to some form of violence.

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Were right to be concerned about all
of their interests. They just chose

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the wrong answer. They chose the
wrong way to go about it, because

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there's no singular right answer, but
there are plenty of wrong ones. USC

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was worried about what was going to
happen in the rest of the world,

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and of course you saw what happened. You had the military response from Israel

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and the missile shot into Iran.
You couldn't have foreseen it, but you

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knew that something could happen, a
further escalation, and it did happen.

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USC didn't necessarily know what the conversation
was going to be around the country,

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but they knew that it was probably
going to intensify. People were going to

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become more agitated, and it did. We see what has happened at Columbia,

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We've seen what has happened at Yale, and there have been hundreds of

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students arrested. And I made mention
of this yesterday. None of these universities

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want another Kent State type situation.
None of them want to be seen on

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TV as having students engaging in any
type of behavior, or law enforcement engaging

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in any type of behavior which would
either embarrass the university or tarnish the name

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of the university. We get all
that, but now we're here in universities.

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Colleges from coast to coast, USC
on the west coast, Yale and

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Columbia on the east coast, and
all the colleges in between are going to

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have to make adjustments to commencement exercises. Here's why, because these young people

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from coast to coast have a way
of communicating that we didn't in decades past.

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They're already coordinating right now what they
plan to do on commencement, during

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commencement, leading up to commencement,
they're already coordinating and planning. There probably

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will be protests, There probably will
be demonstrations. How they will play out.

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I don't know exactly. I'm not
in the no, but I'm sure

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that the universities are preparing for this. So and I understand. I'm someone

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who's graduated from college. I remember
how important that day is, how special

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that day is. Not only for
the student but for the university, for

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friends and family who may be in
attendance, it is a huge day.

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But this is not a typical year, This is not a typical time in

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America, this is not a typical
time around the world. And the universities

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have to plan in advance, unfortunately, possibly for the worst case scenario.

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They have to assume that there will
be some level of agitation leading up to

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and possibly on graduation day. And
if they're going to still have these ceremonies,

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and if they're still going to be
open to students and family and some

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members of the public, depending on
how many tickets they give out, they're

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going to have to wrap their arms
and head around this ready quick fast,

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because it is getting worse air quotes, and it's going to get worse before

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it gets better, because it is
just getting more complicated in nature. And

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again, there is no singular right
answer, but there are a bunch of

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wrong answers, and universities are going
to have to get this right in the

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moment. And when I say there's
no singular right answer, it means that

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you're not going to please everyone.
Get that out of your mind right now.

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You're not going to be able to
please students. You're not going to

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be able to please those who are
pro Palestinian. And I make the distinction

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pro Palestinian, not pro Hamas.
I hope you don't fall into that trap.

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There is a huge distinction between being
pro Hamas, pro terrorism, pro

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death, pro murder of Israeli citizens
and Jewish people more broadly, and being

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pro Palestine in terms of supporting a
two state solution. Let's not lose our

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humanity in this moment. Let's demonstrate
that we have more sense than some of

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the senselessness going on out there.
You're not going to be able to prove

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that please everyone. You're not going
to be able to make everyone happy.

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You can approach a measure of fairness
in trying to have your graduation ceremonies.

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But people are going to be angry, and that's okay, and I mean

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that that's okay. People being angry
is one thing. People being violent is

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something altogether different. And the university's
first, first responsibility is making sure that

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its campus is safe for everyone,
and if that means that there are no

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formal graduation ceremonies, even going back
to COVID where we didn't have in person

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graduation ceremonies. It's kind of the
same thing because the first responsibility does not

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change, and that is to protect
the students, protect the faculty, and

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protect the campus. And if that
means that there aren't in person graduation ceremonies,

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then I say, so be it, because ultimately I would rather there

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be a virtual graduation ceremony on any
of these campuses or all of them,

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than having an in person one and
then having the risk of something spiraling out

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of control. But on every campus, in every state, all around the

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country, they're having the same conversation, and there is going to be no

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right answer. There's going to be
no really good answer. They're only just

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variations of bad ones. But you
would rather choose the bad one in which

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someone is unhappy than one which leads
to someone being hurt. It's later with

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Mo Kelly Cafi am SINX forty We're
live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and Twala,

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I told you so. I told
you with these autonomous cars and taxis

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that they are just going to be
victims. Okay of society. Did you

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see the video, Tala, We
want to talk about the video of the

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person trashing the waymo car in San
Francisco. Yeah, yeah, I saw

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it. I saw it. I'm
ready for it. Okay, we're gonna

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have that conversation next can if I
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And as we've talked about autonomous vehicles
way Mo, Cruse whatever they're named,

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driving up and down the street in
San Francisco and LA, we've had

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the ups and the downs. To
Walla Sharp would like to deny the downs,

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but here we are once again discussing
them. And just to remind people,

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I thought that we were not ready
for these cars. We being our

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society, we can't have nice things, we can't have nice things. And

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also the technology is not where it
needs to be for this to be successful.

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And there were these two stories happening
in the same space and place and

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time which highlights this fact. There's
a video going around of a man in

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broad daylight jumping up and down and
trying to trash a way Mo vehicle in

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broad daylight. And there's video of
this which goes back to my point.

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You know, these cars are just
going to be vandalized left and right.

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And I don't blame way Mo for
that. I do not, but that

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is one aspect of this why I
don't believe it will be successful because we're

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going to trash these cars. And
number two, I don't think that technology

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is where it needs to be.
As I said, it's not ready for

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prime time. And there's another story
where a Robotaxi was heading west in the

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San Francisco area where it crossed a
double solid yellow line onto the eastbound lane

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closest to the median as it drove
behind a crowd of people riding electric scooters

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and unicycles. Let me put it
in layman's terms, it was on the

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wrong fricking side of the road.
To Waller Sharp, what do you have

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to say for yourself, I appreciate
your your biased reporting on this. I

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appreciate my opinion. I appreciate you
trying to lay out your opinion with this

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one sided manner the same way that
San Francisco is because both of the stories

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you're referring to are coming from the
same city that has launched this single city

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attack on way Mo and self driving
technology. The individual who was jumping up

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and down and trashing a car chances
are an out of work Uber driver.

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Not to mention Uber attacks, they're
not really going down. The other story

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about the way more going around the
car was literally trying to ensure the safety

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of all of these people on these
electric scooters. As if, as if

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if you were going around or you
saw a crowd of people being sick,

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lavie or whatever, and we're trying
to go around, you wouldn't go around

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them if if it was safe to
do so. It didn't go It didn't

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go into oncoming traffic. It just
went into the other lane to get around

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these cars. No, no,
no, no. The idea that going

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into the wrong direction traffic, okay, it's somehow safer than the car just

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stopping or pulling over to avoid hitting
cyclists. Okay, I'm not buying that.

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No, we do not know what
the street was like. We don't

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know if this is just a two
lane street. We do not know.

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It could have been a two lane
street with women double line in the middle.

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All we are saying is this is
this is double line. You said,

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across the double line, across double
lines? As if this is like,

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oh, would you rather be reporting
on the way more running the people

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over? What are we doing.
This is not actually this is not a

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bad side. No no, no, no. I would rather the car

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be able to understand that going to
the other side of the of the double

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line. In other words, the
opposing lane of traffic poses more of a

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danger than the car slowly either driving
behind the cyclist or pulling over that sort

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of thing. They can't figure out
what to do with the myriad of obstacles

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and choices that it has to deal
with, or you know, people running

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out in front of it, or
codes be putting the street. It's not

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ready. No mo. I literally
saw someone do that this morning to get

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around the crowd of parents dropping off
their kids. They went around into the

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oncoming traffic lane because the light was
red and they decided to go around so

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they could get around us trying to
make a left into the school parking lot.

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They went around the wrong side to
go all the way around so they

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could get into a turn lane.
That was one of the most illegal displays

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of driving I've seen, and it
was done by a person. It wasn't

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autonomous vol that happened, but if
there were a cop there, that person

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would have been cited. It feeled
dangerous, you know, if if well,

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if there was someone in the street, they would have been run down

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today if if nothing happened the way
mood just went around, and San Francisco,

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with their one city crusade, is
quick to report this. I just

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I don't see how we're not saying
this. I wish your Twitter was still

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active, because right now people will
be saying, yeah, Mo, you're

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not really You're not really making a
case against Wayne. Oh yes I am.

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You can't use the absence of a
tragedy to justify a behavior or an

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action which was inherently dangerous. Going
back to our story last night about the

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people who are allowed to come up
into the the cockpit and sitting in the

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captain seat. Just because the plane
didn't fall out of the sky doesn't mean

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that the behavior wasn't inherently dangerous.
What I'm saying is drivers do that all

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the time. That doesn't mean the
driver's speed all the time. It doesn't

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mean that. It's like, I
get that, I get that. But

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what you're talking about is something that's
almost an everyday occurrence, I assure you,

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not the same as someone going sitting
on the captain's chair during a flight.

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That's not the same thing, Stephanie, it's are you going to allow

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this man to align your profession as
an uber driver? Are you just gonna

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sit on the foods? Sitting on
the car trying to smash the windows?

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Don't know what he leaves here?
Here's probably like it's because of you.

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It wasn't. It wasn't foosh.
I could tell it was. It was

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a younger guy. It was a
skinnier guy. It wasn't foods. Hey,

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now we're talking about fus age.
Now what do we do fush to

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take this side? It looks like
some guy in his late twenties. Okay,

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stephan are you in your late twenties? Yes? Or no? No?

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No, that's all I'm saying.
Okay, see I'm not saying he

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looks old. I'm to say that
guy look younger and dumber. Okay.

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All we're doing is getting away from
the point that there is no point.

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What I'm saying is this is still
one city one. San Francisco is not

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even opening one. He's constantly got
something bad to say about Waymo. We

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still have no bad stories in LA
about any self driving cars, not a

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one. And they've been in business
now for over a month, two months

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now two months and one story roll
out. It's not like you have autonomous

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self driving taxis as many on the
road as you do just regular cars on

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the four or five. If we
had a four or five full of these

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cars, that we have plenty accidents
to talk about. Now, that's not

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true because it's limited in San Francisco. It's not every other car. That's

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my point. I'm saying he has
such a small sample size. You want

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to say, oh, there are
no accidents, okay, for the twelve

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cars are out there. Whoop do
you do? We've got We've got two

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stories out of San Francisco, and
all of a sudden, it's like pull

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the plug. Huh. This is
an important question, Taula. When big

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autonomous vehicle cuts you a check,
do they fill in the little registerrary on

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the lower left It tell us what
it's for you? You blanket blank blank

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you dirty beep. The crowds on
my side, so ill just admit it.

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You're in the bag. Oh no, I just do not like the

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level of reporting this coming out of
all of these rags that are reporting this.

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Uh. The San Francisco Chronicle Rag
literal rag probably probably in the pocket

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of these protesters and these uh lobbyists
who are trying to do away with it.

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This is this is a lobby written
piece here. Okay, So KTLA,

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that's a rag. Look. Kt
LA reported just on what they saw

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from the San Francisco They said,
Hey, look at the sting. That's

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the San Francisco chronicles. I believe
don't believe our lying eyes with the video.

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Look, no, no, no, no, no, You're right

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about that about us not deserving nice
things because that that was on the car.

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You were absolutely right about that.
But that's not a self driving car

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thing. That's I know. I
did not blame way Mo for that.

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I'm saying that highlight at the point
that this is going to lead to other

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issues. Second, no, absolutely
absolutely there will be more people trying to

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trying to vandalize way but they will
say, you know what I heard the

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other day on Later with Mo Kelly, someone took it into their own hands

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to show these cars whose boss whatever
that means, and then they're gonna want

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to spray paint them, smash the
window, try to steal them, whatever,

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but they're gonna try to jump in
the driver's seat and see if they

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can drive. Hopefully they all go
to prison. We can only hope you're

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listening to later with Mo Kelly on
Demand from KFI Am six forty. Yesterday,

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Mayor Bass shared her proposed budget.
It's kind of like the financial end

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to the state of the city,
And for me, it's kind of like,

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not exactly, but kind of like
the the Union or any other major

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speech in which an elected official would
give. People don't remember the words of

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the speeches. They rarely remember the
promises, even in the age of the

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internet, and unless we play them
back, most people have no reference point.

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I follow this every single day.
I couldn't tell you what Governor k

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Newsom said last year in the State
of the State, or what Mayor bas

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said last year in the State of
the City, or what Joe Biden said

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in the State of the Union.
Most people don't remember. Most people don't

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care. People don't remember the words
you say, but they'll remember how various

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administrations made you feel. And if
we look out over the landscape, be

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it on a city, county,
or state level, we can look out.

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We can see the homelessness we have
a feeling about the homelessness. We

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can see the trash we unfortunately are
experiencing the violence that impacts how we feel.

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That means far more than any speech, that is going to stay with

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us, far longer than anything said
in a budget proposal. But nonetheless we

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should still listen. We should hold
our elected to leaders to account. We

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should be aware of at least what
they're planning to do and maybe, if

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possible, move our city, our
state, and our country forward. But

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this is what Mayor Bass had to
say as far as how she was planning

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to spend the money in the coffers
for La budget equips the city to continue

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moving with urgency and smartly invest in
housing solutions to bring more people inside from

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tents, cars, and RV encampments. This includes building an interim and permanent

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housing infrastructure to save lives, promote
stability, and create pathways to well being.

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The budget also invests in work to
prevent people from falling into homelessness in

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the first place. We're seeing a
record number of applicants to the Police Academy.

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This budget focuses on recruitment and retention
of officers, and it also maintains

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our staffing goals for the department,
allowing full Police Academy classes. We are

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continuing our expanded approach to supporting the
safety of our communities by focusing on preventing

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crime and interrupting the cycles of violence. The budget maintains the current levels of

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investments, which have strengthened gang prevention
and community violence intervention programs. We are

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funding the hiring of firefighters. The
vast majority of calls to the fire department

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are medical in nature, so the
budget continues the Emergency Appointment Paramedic program to

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high paramedics to respond to these urgent
calls and resources to help accelerate response times.

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The budget maintains core city services to
further improve the delivery of services.

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The budget will invest in modernization of
the my LA three to one one system

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to better meet the needs of Angelinas. By investing in system enhancements, departments

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will be better able to respond to
calls for service and residents will be better

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informed about wind services will be delivered. We're building a greener LA by continuing

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investments in fighting climate change, including
transportation, electrification, water resilience, and

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organics recycling. A new Climate Cabinet
is being formed that will help guide new

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required climate plans at key city departments. Stakeholder engagement and action on climate justice

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our work continues to make La a
one clean energy city by twenty thirty five.

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I would rather La be a one
hundred percent safe city by twenty thirty

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five. But that's just me.
That's just me personally, and I'm very

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cynical. I don't believe necessarily that
if Rick Caruso were mayor right now,

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that the city will look all together
different in nature. I don't think the

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crime would be that different. And
I know people probably disagree with me because

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but I fundamentally know the limitations of
politicians as far as how policy can change

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cities in a short amount of time. But I'm not a hater. I

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would like to think I'm not a
hater. I would like to think that

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if all that Mayor Bass has promised
and proposed were to come to pass,

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and she were able to hire more
police officers as she said she wanted to

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increase hiring, hire more firefighters,
focus on violence prevention not just violence,

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stopping violence after the fact, and
arrest. If all of that worked out,

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I would be happier than just about
anyone, because, unlike a lot

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of people, I actually live in
the city of Los Angeles. I have

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a vested interest. I have skin
in the game. I want my elected

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official, whether I voted for him, her or them, whether I voted

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for them or not, I want
them to be successful. Now, we

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can disagree on the best mode of
action, the course of action, but

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we shouldn't disagree on what we want
for the city. And you know what,

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three hundred and sixty five days from
now, nobody's gonna remember anything that

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Mayor Bass said. But I bet
three hundred and sixty five days from now

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we will be very clear on whether
our city has improved or not. You're

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listening to Later with Moe Kelly on
demand from KFI AM sixty and I love

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pizza, I really do. It's
one of those foods. Have you ever

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thought about if and when you're gone
from this earth some of the things that

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you would miss. Pizza is one
of those things. Pizza is something I

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think about often. And I'm not
a foodie by any measure. It's not

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like the Folk Report is ever ever
gonna ask me about anything related to food.

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But pizza is one of my guilty
pleasures and usually we have it in

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the studio Friday nights. I say, guys and gals, go ahead and

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order something. I'll pay for it, and more times than not, Tauala

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will say we're getting pizza. I
said, I'm in the problem is I'm

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trying to do better with my diet. It's an ongoing fight, and I'm

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trying to continue to lose a little
bit more weight. I want to get

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down to like one seventy, just
one more time in life, one more

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time. And the pizza keeps getting
in the way. So Tuala, who's

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always working against me, sends me
the story about the Pizza City Fest,

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which is returning for its second an
annual festival this weekend, and it's all

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you can eat pizza with the price
of admission. If you like pizza,

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and who doesn't, you might want
to head to La Live next weekend for

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Pizza City Fest, Los Angeles,
and we have a preview today. Forty

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southern California pizza makers will be there, and that means lots of different pizzas

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to sample. Got all these great
pizzas baking live on enormous commercial ovens and

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lac Jackson woodburning. You're gonna see
all pizzas baked live in front of you.

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Yeah, different styles as well,
not just Neapolitan, but Sicilian.

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Enrollment and style. You get to
see everything made in front of you.

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It's unlimited pizza for the ticket price. I'm limited so good. Tickets start

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at one hundred and twenty five dollars
and you can get them at la live

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dot com wave it. They say, one hundred and twenty five dollars.

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Wait, what you can eat pizza? Yeah? Possibly eat if you go

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in the morning and stay till evening. That's breakfast, lunch and dinna.

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Okay, let's let's say it's fifteen
dollars a slice. Okay, that's like

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thirteen piece is yeah, I'm waiting. Yeah, I can have twenty five

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pieces. I look, as much
as I love pizza, there's just not

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enough room in my stomach. I'm
bringing yeah, right, are you going

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to get it to go box?
Okay? Man, I don't think it

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works that way. And if Moe
has that much pizza, he's gonna be

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looking even more Raphaelite than he already
is. Here. I can't ever enjoy

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anything. Oh no, that's a
compliment. It's a It's an art term

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for full figured women in paintings like
ribbonesque. Sure, why not. I'm

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just gonna I'm just gonna leave out
here for a moment, So you just

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go ahead and have your conversation without
me. No no, no, no,

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no no no no, go ahead, get it all out, get

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it all out. Any more pear
shaped jokes. Come on, it wasn't

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it wasn't a joke, No,
it was it was a COMPLI I think

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he really appreciates your figure, that's
why. Yeah, yeah, some people

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are into that. Yes, men
have curves too, Yes, I know.

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Yeah. I think you look splendid
and you should eat all the pizza

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you feel. But the one I
got includes alcohol too, so that's gonna

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be a oh wait wait wait,
wait, wait, wait wait what what

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there's one that includes alcohol too.
There's one hundred and twenty five dollars based

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I think it's I think it's more, but no, but I'm saying it's

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one hundred twenty five dollars if you
just want to eat pizza. Is that

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correct? Yes? And now you
have everybody's attention, right you go,

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so I can get liquored up too. There you go, boom. I

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want to know if it's going to
be another one hundred and twenty five dollars.

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No, you see, then let's
find out. Right now, let's

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get to the bottom of this,
because I gotta travel Friday Saturday, but

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I'll be back on Sunday. Oh
so you definitely need some pizza in your

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life. No, no, no, I'm serious. When I get back

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into La on Sunday, I'll I'll
get I'll stop by on my way home.

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Oh yeah, definitely out choose some
tickets. Yeah, who's gonna sponsor

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me? Mark? Let me tell
you what I make off the air pass

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the hat. Yeah, call some
friends. I mean they say I want

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to start at sixty two. So
I'm thinking it might be the whole hundred

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plus for general emission from fifty eight
dollars each, that's just general emission up

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to one hundred and eighty two.
See, okay, so go ahead.

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Now, I was just wonder if
general admission does that mean you get to

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walk in and just smell the pizza. You just can't have it. No,

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no, no, no, no
general emission. It's they give you

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a bunch of tickets, all right. So every once you pay, it's

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almost like going to a fair.
And you know it's like if you go

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to a fair lots of times,
instead of going around with cash, you

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will have to go and purchase tickets
for rides or anything, and you just

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pay using tickets. And they even
do that with concessions, with prize and

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games and stuff like that. They're
like, no, we don't want cash,

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we don't want cars, we won't
want to deal with that. You

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go and you buy a book of
tickets and then you come round and pay

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with this is the same thing you
buy looks like a book of tickets,

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and then you go and you know
to something you get. So I think

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general mission of fifty eight dollars is
what looks like it's around eight tickets.

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Let me see what you get here? Yeah, uh few one result.

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Hey look if I get four pieces
of pizza and four drinks, no,

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that's unlimited, no matter what.
But then if you get the VIP at

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the twelve pm entry, you get
in earlier. And then I don't know

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what panels they have, but it's
as preferred seating at panels. I don't

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want to talk to anyone. I
don't want to listen to anyone. I

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just want to eat. Just yeah, you just get the basic one.

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Does this cost include a place to
lie down If we're gonna be eating like

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that, where we're gonna have to
light out, we have to go to

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sleep. Yeah right, I mean, yeah, we have anap area.

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And that's what I'm gonna say too, is that, like you probably will

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get full, but you're walking around, so you're gonna burn that pizza off,

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you know. It's like a basically
a workout for the day. I

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would love to sample pizza all day. I don't need to have, you

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know, a full piece of Chicago
or Detroit style, just just sample.

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I would like to taste all the
different pizzas of the United States and around

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the world. Yeah, one of
those Chicago manhole cover pieces of pizza put

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you away right away. Yes,
I've had those in Chicago. They are

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no joke, no, no.
See. The problem with the all you

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can eat joints is most people,
most humans, can eat exactly one plate

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of food. So it's it's ridiculous. Most well, I can put away

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some pizza. I can put away
least seven eight pizzas pieces of pizza.

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I had no idea. So today
we learned Stefan can put away about what

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would you say, eighty of a
bottle of booze? Yeah, yeah,

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I heard it too. He could
drink a fifth, did you say that?

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Well, I split it with my
friend. He can drink four Yeah,

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your invisible friend. Sure you have
no friend? His girlfriend from out

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of state. Yes, Georgia Glass. No, it was funny. I

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was listening because Tim Conway Junior was
on before me, and I was listening

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to stuff and talk about how much
he's not a beer drinker. He can't

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handle beer, but he can put
away bourbon. It's like, that's strange.

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Yeah. No, It's like I
had an ex who was like,

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really, the breweries we'd go and
I'd be the designated driver because after one,

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I'm so full, I can't have
anymore. It's just it fills you

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up so much. This is true. I do have light beer. Well

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yeah, but if you get like
those I pas, it was really heavy

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one, it's like a meal.
I'm messed with you because I'm a bourbon

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and whiskey man, so you know
that I just stayed with the brown liquor.

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Nice, that's just me. Well, do we have a bezza plan

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then, because I feel like we
have to resolve this before we go to

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a break. Oh no, yeah
we do. I'm going y'all aren't so

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much. I'm not paying for y'all. Remember, Mark, you don't make

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any money. I'll ask you off
air, so I'm not That's not the

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resolution I was hoping for. Well, you should have been nicer to me

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in the past six minutes, but
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Everything's transactional with you, isn't it. Yes, it is. And now

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I'm gonna go cry because you hurt
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cry, so cut it out.
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