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You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly
on demand from KFI AM six forty and

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I would get it if you said
to me, Moe, what's happening in

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the Middle East is so far away, it's so far removed from my life.

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Yeah, maybe my gas will be
a little bit more in the coming

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weeks, but it's hard for me
to understand everything that's happening over there.

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I don't know how it's going to
impact me here, but I know I

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live in an area in which serves
high crime, there's high prices. Already

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gas was already high. I'm not
so sure where our country is going,

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much less Israel and Iran. I
don't know what's going to happen with Israel

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Tamas. If you were to say
that to me, I would completely understand.

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And to that end, let me
just talk about some of the things

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which are going on here locally before
we get out of here and turn it

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over to George Nori and Coast to
Coast. Remember last night I was going

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on a rant of one of my
mini rants regarding Metro, talking about how

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a guy, unprovoked with brass knuckles, struck a bus driver, a Metro

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bus driver and then proceeded to stab
him again unprovoked. What I did not

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know is there was a preceding incident, unrelated, different person, in which

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someone else was stabbed and was accosted
by another person. There were two incidents

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ten hours apart, different people,
different locations, both tied to Metro.

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Good Samaritan Erica Diaz was driving behind
the bus when it pulled over at a

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stop. Within seconds, she noticed
a young man in his thirties shouting for

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help just outside her car. He
had it so much, a blooded in

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his chest, so I knew that
he was hurt in his chest. You

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know. He was like walking back
and forth, asking, streaming for help,

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and no one was helping him.
No one was helping him. I

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just rolled down my window. I
screamed to him, get inside my car,

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Get inside my car, and I
just said, calmed down, it's

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going to be okay. You're going
to be okay. Diaz rushed the bus

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driver to a nearby hospital. A
Metro spokesman says the stabbing victim is now

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resting at home. Erica Diaz is
keeping in touch with the young man and

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says his recovery from emotional trauma may
take longer than healing from his physical injuries.

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This is a young person that almost
last his life working and we have

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a new statement tonight quote Metro is
saddened to hear about this senseless act of

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violence against our bus operator, which
has apparently been fueled by drug abuse and

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untreated mental illness crises that are plaguing
our nation. Okay, that's what we

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reported on last night, the bus
driver who was attacked with brass knuckles and

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stabbed, But an La Metro passenger
was stabbed on a bus earlier that night,

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I should say later intnight turning into
mourning. But there's been no update

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on that victim's condition. So there
were two different stabbings on two different buses.

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One had to do with a passenger, one had to do with the

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bus operator. So again, how
can I, in good conscience recommend Metro

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for anyone? How can I say
to someone I care about Let's say you're

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visiting La for the Olympics, visiting
La for the World Cup, visiting LA

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and you don't want to pay for
an uber. You want to ask about

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rapid transit, you know, a
Metro transit getting around the city, going

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to see the different sites, different
landmarks, maybe go to Hollywood and you

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say, what is it with Metro? Is it? Is it okay?

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Is it a good way to get
around town? I can't in good conscience

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recommend anyone get on Metro. That's
two stabbings in the course of eight hours.

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Let's talk about the months preceding it. How many other incidents of violence

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have we seen on Metro? There
are so many that I can't keep up

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with them. Here's what actually happened. I finished my show last night and

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I was going out outside the studio
and Tuala was working on the podcast,

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and there was this news report of
a Metro stabbing. I thought, wrongly,

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thought that it was talking about the
Metro bus operator. No, it

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was actually in regard to the Metro
passenger stabbing. But since they happened in

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close proximity as far as location and
also time, I confused it too.

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I thought it was the same one. It wasn't until this morning Talla said,

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no, there were two different ones. We missed one. There was

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one which happened actually before it.
And there's nothing funny about this. It's

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absurd at this point because we can't
talk about what is actually happening right in

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front of our eyes. It doesn't
matter. I should say nothing else matters

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in regard to Metro. If you
can't get the safety and security parts straight,

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you can't control everything, you can't
prevent everything. But you have to

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start there in the conversation of what
needs to improve and change, because thousands

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of people tomorrow have no choice but
to ride Metro. In fact, they're

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not even going to concern themselves with
the issues in the Middle East. They're

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just going to concern themselves with getting
to work and getting home safely. And

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maybe they are not as concerned as
they should be about the safety of Metro,

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but it's a real thing. People
are really getting hurt. Bus operators

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are really getting hurt. People on
platforms are really getting hurt. I'm not

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going to over am not going to
be prone to hyperbole and saying it's happening

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every single day. But I can
say it's happening just about every single week,

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some act of violence perpetrated against a
Metro employee or a Metro passenger,

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be it bus or trained, just
about every single week. And I'm not

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a gambler. I don't like to
play the odds. I rarely play lotto,

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with exception of the company Lotto pool. It's not something I actively think

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about, but I'm not getting on
Metro and it's not a fear thing,

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it's a smart thing. How many
times do you have to read about people

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getting attacked on Metro before you think
maybe that's not such a good idea.

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I passed my number. I don't
know how many times, but I passed

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my number. At this point,
it's up to you. If you want

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to get on Metro, and you
have a choice not to get on Metro,

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well that's on you, and I
don't wish any thing bad to happen

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to you. But at this point
we kind of know there's a distinct possibility

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at something. Well, mathematically,
I don't know what that number is.

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It could be infiniteestable in nature of
excuse me, in the sense of how

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many people may ride Metro every single
day. But do you really want to

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pressure luck Twaula. You were telling
me like you wouldn't even recommend your own

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family members to ride. No,
no, no, My son was going

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to catch the bus home this morning
after his presentation of learning and because of

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the coverage that you provided on Metro
last night and then now today, I

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said, you know what, I
will leave work and come and pick you

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up. You are not getting on
a bus when there is someone walking around

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with someones with knuckle dusters and knives
attacking individuals unprovoked. That's a no.

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There is no bus riding for you
right now. I will come and get

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you. I'll make that. It's
Later with Mo Kelly KFIM six forty.

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We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. But that's that's the bad news,

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or at least some facet of the
bad news. But there is a bright

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side to this. We're going to
tell you about seven of California's top ten

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safest cities and you know what,
they're all in Orange County. That's next.

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You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly
on demand from KFI AM six forty.

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Of course, we've been talking about
the events in the Middle East.

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Not much more information has come in. If something definitives should come in,

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we'll have that for you. We're
still on that story, the KFI twenty

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four hour News from this definitely still
on that story. But we also want

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to let you know about some things
which are happening more locally, in in

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the sense of where you live and
write, where you are. Last segment,

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we talked about Metro once again,
how another stabbing happened there. Unbeknownst

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to us, we thought there was
only one one yesterday. There were two

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evidently yesterday. So we talked about
the second one and got me thinking about,

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well, that's the crime aspect.
Let's talk about the safety of it

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all. Seven of California's top ten
safest cities are found right here in Orange

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County. And this is according to
safe Wise, a home security company,

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So you can take it for what
it's worth. I'm quite sure they have

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their own statistics, but this is
the list in which safe Wise compiled.

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Seven of California's top ten safest cities
are in Orange County. But also this

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the top six safest cities in California
are all located in Orange County. Number

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ten is Irvine, Number nine is
Rockland. Number eight is Powway. Again,

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this is according to home security company
safe Wise. Number seven is Lincoln.

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There's Lincoln. I don't know where
that is. I have no idea

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where that is. Number six is
Lake Forest. I know where that is.

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Number five, Mission Viejo, number
four, Laguna Neguel, number three,

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Yorba Linda. Number two Aliso Viejo, and the top city in terms

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of safest cities in the state according
to safe wise, is Rancho Santa Margarita.

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Other Southern California cities in the top
twenty include San Clemente and the inland

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empires Marietta, Fontana, and Menifee. I don't know what to make of

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it. I mean, obviously we
know that Orange County has done a much

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better job with respect to public safety
than Los Angeles County, and I think

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there's a discussion to be had why
there that is, it's more than just

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George Gascone. He's easy to pull
the finger at, but the issues of

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La County precede him. Now you
can say that he's made it worse,

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and I'd agree with that, But
as far as safety is concerned, it

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didn't start the day that George Gascon
got in office. I think that's a

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misrepresentation of facts. But it has
gone in the wrong direction in a severe

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way since he's become La County DA. But La is not the place to

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be when it comes to being safe. And this is an arbitrary list,

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you can say from safe wise,
I can't give you any data to support

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all this, but also there's something
else. Safety for me has always been

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a state of mind. You can't
necessarily predict all the danger which may be

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around you. I talk often about
how I try to limit the dangerous situations

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I may find myself in. I
don't go to gas stations late at night.

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That has nothing to do with whether
I'm in Los Angeles County or Orange

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County. I'm telling you i could
go to Rancho Santa Margarita tonight and if

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I'm low on gas, I'm not
stopping. Why Because I am more susceptible

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and vulnerable in a situation like that. So safety is more than just where

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you live. It's also how you
conduct yourself. There's certain places I don't

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go at night, There's certain places
I don't go in the daytime. As

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a matter of fact, I'm not
gonna put myself in certain situations like on

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metro. It's really difficult to stab
me on a metro bus or train if

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I'm on neither. Now I can
say I'm blessed to be able to be

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in a position where I can be
in a car and not have to ride

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Metro. But when it comes to
making decisions, and Taula was talking about

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he made a decision, an active
decision to intervene and make sure his son

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did not ride metro. That's a
part of the whole safety quotion, not

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just where you live. It's what
you do, It's how you conduct yourself,

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it's how you carry yourself. I
try to explain that to my sons

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all the time. It's like,
look, part of being safe is not

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doing dumb stuff, and they laugh
at me. It's like, what are

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you talking about. I'm saying you
have to play an active role in your

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level of safety. You have to
know when you go to this club or

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you go to this spot at two
am, it's probably diminishing your safety.

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And you have to know that the
decisions that you make in that moment will

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largely impact whether you make it home. The car that you get into,

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the decisions you make, what you
put in your body at a nightclub or

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something, if you get into it
with someone verbally, how it may escalate

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into something physically. All those have
much more impact on whether you're safe as

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opposed to just where you live.
Those are the lessons that I try to

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impart not only to my sons,
but also my students in martial arts.

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I'm not teaching you how to fight. I'm teaching you how to manage your

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emotions. I'm teaching you how to
control your anger. I'm teaching you to

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be aware of all your surroundings.
That applies to whether you're in Santa Margarita,

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your Belinda, or Compton. It's
the same approach and if you understand

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that, then you will be generally
more safe. Now, the environment does

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make a difference. Yeah, you
are more likely to get stabbed in one

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location as opposed to another location.
But I'm not going to help you out.

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I'm not just going to get into
a verbal confrontation which may escalate to

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a physical confrontation because I don't know
how crazy that person are, desperate that

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person may be. For example,
safety is a relative term as well as

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it is considering Orange County and the
fact that we just had the home invasion

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in Newport, So it's relative,
it's relative, but we're going off the

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generalities of statistics. Yeah, yeah, and again, like I said before,

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safety is a feeling. Yeah,
it is how you feel about where

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you are. It doesn't magically change
when you go from Orange County to Los

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Angeles County. As far as the
border, it's not some magical line says,

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Oh, I'm safe here and then
I'm unsafe here when you cross into

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La County. It's much more complicated
than that. Yeah, most of the

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smash and grabs are happening in moren't
upscale neighborhoods. It's large, it's changed.

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So when I look at this Orange
County report, I understand where it's

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coming from. I also know that
it's relative. Well, not only that

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it's a it's a report from a
private company. Then it's that, you

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know, it's it's not a public
policy white paper report with just statistics.

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It's a you know, it's a
security company. They have a vested interest.

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Yeah. You know, if I
really want to be cynical, I

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can say where the places we're going
to spend more on security Orange County.

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You know, you can look at
it through that lens as well. But

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the only thing I would say is
safety is a mindset. Safety is relative,

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and safety has a lot more to
do with our individual decisions than necessarily

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where we may happen to be physically. You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly

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on Demand from KFI AM six forty. We are continuing to follow the events

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in the Middle East and have to
say that getting some conflicting reports coming out

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of different news agencies. There's a
lot that is unknown and unclear. CNN

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is reporting that Iranian airspace has reopened
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attack. I don't I can't describe
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days. But that's what CNN is
reporting. It's unclear as to where the

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information is coming from, whether it's
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but that's what CNN is reporting.
ABC has not changed their information as far

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as Israel, early Friday morning local
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which was a retaliatory strike, allegedly
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a military base in Iran Isfaham,
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goes to why the airspace was reopened. There's a question in my mind,

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if this was an Israeli missile attack
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airspace. That just doesn't make sense
on any level. So I know in

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situations like this, you're going to
get conflicting information, and as you get

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more information, hopefully it will be
more accurate and precise. In nature,

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but we just don't have that right
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We don't know what was hit,
We don't know if there were any

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casualties whatsoever. We don't know if
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President Biden or President excuse me,
Prime Minister Benjamin net Yahoo, or any

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Iranian official. We've heard from Iranian
state news sources, but we've not heard

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from any recognized Iranian official. We've
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that matter, or American official.
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ABC News, came from an unnamed
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wasn't what's the word I'm looking for, wasn't allowed to speak, wasn't authorized

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to speak, so that person spoke
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is reporting that Iran will not respond
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is good news. That it's not
going to be an escalation, which fundamentally

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changes how all this may be perceived
in the morning our time, whether it's

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going to be looked as an act
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Hopefully it will end with that.
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Hopefully it ends with that. We
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information as to the weapons which were
used, the missiles which were launched,

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where they hit, specifically at this
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successful targeting the military infrastructure of Iran. Again, we don't know if there

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were any casualties whatsoever, and there's
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state or official within Iran, so
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We don't know beyond the initial reports
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a target inside of Iran. And
this is a moment I like to ask

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someone who's a little bit younger than
me, Keana, You've worked tonight as

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a producer, but you're also a
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You see the news, and not
only do you participate the news,

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you have to digest the news.
You may not remember the issues between Israel

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and Iran, or Iran in the
United States. Of course, you didn't

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remember. You weren't alive in the
late nineteen seventies and early nineteen eighties.

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You probably don't even remember the Gulf
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you born, Okay, yes,
you don't have memory of that. Oh

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wow. But when you see this
news as it's growing at least what we

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thought was an escalation, what do
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a hard question because I read it
and I take in the information. I

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understand it, and I know that
it's happening. But for myself, I

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don't have any kind of reaction to
it. Okay. I remember when I

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was in college at Georgetown and the
ramp up to Kuwait and that i'll say,

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beginning of what we call now the
Desert Storm. I remember my concern

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because I'm maybe twenty one twenty two
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the world was headed. I didn't
know that if and I'm being serious,

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I didn't know if they were going
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We last had the draft in nineteen
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in an age post Vietnam, and
I have very little memory of Vietnam.

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I didn't know what war felt like
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firsthand digest all the news reports,
and there was a lot of uncertainty.

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Then That's the way I looked at
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at it because that was a good
ten years before nine to eleven, which

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again changed the world in which we
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be an American and how we perceive
what was going on in the Middle East.

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But do you, as a person
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person who's having your eyes open to
a lot of other things which are going

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on in the world, do you
have that level of concern that this may

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lead to something much more widespread in
nature. Yes, but I try not

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to think about that because there's issues
here on our soil that you know,

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need to be addressed more closer to
me. Uh huh, I wonder.

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Okay, let me just have you
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I'm gonna put it on your shoulders. Okay. Do you think they

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more care about what's going on in
their immediate surroundings or what's going on in

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the Middle East. I think that
in hindsight, we care about the situations

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that are happening to us that's directly
affecting us here in the US and here

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in California and locally. But also
we are passionate about everything that's going on

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in the Middle East, like We
a lot of friends that I know have

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family in the Middle East, both
on the in Israel and in Gaza,

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and so everybody is, you know, very tense right now with stuff that's

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happening here, stuff and family that
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we're concerned, but it's starting it's
starting to take a toll on our well

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being and just our mental state and
who we are, because it's kind of

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becoming our identity that we were stressed
out about what's going to happen war wise

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over there or what's going to happen
here with you know, all of the

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politics going on here and just being
our age and not being able to afford

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groceries, not being able to dream
about having a home, struggling day to

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day, being paycheck to paycheck,
Like it's hard to kind of grasp at

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one issue when we're grasping at all
of them to try to figure out,

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you know, how can we help
the future be the future. I'm quite

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sure it's cyclical, but I remember
that same level of concern at different points

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in my life. I remember the
Iran hostage crisis, I remember the OPEC

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crisis, the gas crisis of the
mid to late nineteen seventies. I remember

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that. I remember that uncertainty.
I remember gas rationing, where you would

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get gas on certain days of the
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I remember that, and I remember
worrying about what was going to happen with

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my limited understanding at that age of
in the Middle East. But it was

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always a constant. Yes, there
was the threat and thought and worry about

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nuclear war because I was a Cold
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there was also the issue with Iran
and the Middle East, which was a

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constant as well. And as I
got older, it never went away,

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and it got to be more real, as they say, with the war

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in Kuwait, because my friends were
going away to war people I knew people

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in my age group, my friend
circle who were serving. Some did not

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come back, which made it much
more real. And it's been kind of

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constant ever since then. In the
broad sense we talk about America having war

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fatigue. Going back to Kuwait,
We've been in this constant state of war

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and military involvement in the Middle East, and it seems like, or I

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should say, it feels like we're
moving back to that again. It feels

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like whether it gets back to that. I don't know, but for me,

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as someone who's lived through everything post
Vietnam, this feels like one of

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those similar moments prior to nine to
eleven. You're listening to Later with Moe

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Kelly on demand from KFI AM six
forty. Before we get out of here,

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I just want to formally check in
with you Mark if there were any

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new updates regarding Iran and Israel.
There's some conflicting information now, there certainly

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is, as you've been able to
see in the camera. I've been scrambling

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all evening and not really been able
to chime in like we usually do.

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But yeah, we started the evening
thinking one thing. Now we don't know.

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All we have is A says one
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so that's what we have to report. And we're waiting for the for the

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picture to solidify here and it's been
very confusing. Well that's the part of

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breaking news that you know, some
people may not understand. You're you're flying

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along and you're taking in information as
it comes and hopefully you try to corroborate,

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You try to verify as much as
you can, either through trusted news

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sources or trusted sources you have separate
and distinct from those news sources, and

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you go from there and hopefully you'll
get more information over the course of the

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evening to fill in that picture and
to make that picture as accurate as possible.

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Yeah, and this is this really
goes to reaffirm what we were talking

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about earlier about be careful what news
sources you choose and make sure that they're

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legit new sources, because tonight,
among all nights, when we don't really

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have a one hundred percent clear picture
of what's going on, you want to

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go with a legit news source that
you can trust, not somebody from your

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own echo chamber or whatever side that
may be on, but legit news professionals.

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And as we know more, that
will definitely shape the discussion tomorrow.

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We were talking about what has been
happening on college campuses. When we get

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a better sense of exactly what transpired, what degree of damage there was,

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were there any fatalities, if there's
going to be any further escalation from around

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when we know that, then that
will greatly dictate what happens here in America.

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As we talk about the connectivity of
all this, None of this is

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is separate and distinct. None of
this is in a vacuum. None of

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this happens on its own. There
will be a reaction on some level,

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be it here in a rhetorical sense, how we discussed it on college campuses,

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be it how our president and government
may respond, or hopefully we were

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watching CNN and CNN had on their
ticker that Iran has vowed not to respond.

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We don't know what that means because
we don't know who is making that

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particular statement. No, we don't. And it's such a complex and nuanced

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situation, and so much is interconnected. I mean, you've got Israel and

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Gaza and Hamas and then Iran and
Hesbalah and Libya, and it's enough to

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make your brain bleed. Well,
we'll find out more tomorrow, so just

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