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This is Gary and Shannon and you're
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Gary and Shannon Show on demand on
the iHeartRadio app. We saw Boeing agree

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to plead guilty to criminal fraud tied
to the seven thirty seven Max crashes.

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This decision now means Boeing is a
fallon, but obviously allows it to avoid

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a trial while it tries to turn
the page from these safety crises the manufacturing

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issues that they've had. So Boeing
would face a fine of up to four

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hundred and eighty seven million dollars.
The Justice Department recommended that the court credit

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Boeing about two hundred and forty million
of that paid under a previous agreement,

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so the new fine would be half. That would be two forty three point

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six million. Internationally, there was
a major missile attack Russia attacking Ukraine today.

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At least thirty one people have been
killed one hundred and fifty four injured.

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One missile struck a large children's hospital
in Kiev. This said it was

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an unusual time because it was a
daytime barrage that targeted five different cities in

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Ukraine. More than forty missiles of
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public infrastructure as well. Sports wise, Cubs beat the Angels five nothing yesterday.

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Texas Rangers will come to Anaheim tonight. Dodgers get the day off.

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They lost to the Brewers ninety two
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You do all the heavy lifting.
Thanks for all that. It's the speaking

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of Yes, yeah, it's this
rundown. Are you a fan of the

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heat? Are you a fan of
the heat? Ah? No, I'm

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not a fan of when it gets
this hot. And when I say that,

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I mean I'm in West LA,
so it doesn't really get that hot.

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But I'm on their seventies. Is
your limit? Well? As a

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runner, as I call myself,
I don't do well in the heat.

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I did run over the weekend,
it was in I think low eighties.

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That's just because I started late.
It's not comfortable. It's also it's gonna

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be more humid where you are.
The first world problem, right could be

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yeah, more humid. But I'm
on the cal Fire website right now and

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there are almost twenty active wildfires that
are just eating up our state. Lake

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fire is Santa Barbara. We've talked
about that that's at more than twenty thousand

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acres, But you just go on
here and you see it says one hundred

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and fifty thousand plus acres have burned. I think that's through this year.

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One hundred and thirteen structures damaged,
total thirty four damage, seventy nine destroyed.

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It's terrible what these firefighting folks have
to go through. Speaking of when

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I say first world problems, for
me out there on a run, these

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firefighters are just they're absolute heroes.
I was just down recently on a shoot

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with Orange County Fire Authority and I
put on all the gear and I went

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through some of you know, their
training exercises with the gear and with the

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heat and all of that, and
I don't know how they do it.

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And that's why you see so many
heat related injuries oftentimes, Yeah, often

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amazingly, there have not been especially
in this last week. There have not

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been a lot of heat related injuries
and obviously nothing serious. But still the

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Lake fire in Santa Barbara, like
you said, twenty thousand plus acres,

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it's only at about eight percent containment
right now. That has that's the fire

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that had spurred evacuations out in the
Sandy and Neez Valley near Zaka Lake.

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Is anything Friday afternoons before four o'clock
is when it started. So they've had

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to evacuate people along Figaro Mountain Road
near Neverland win Ranch. Everybody remembers that

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one. So they said Fox and
Canyon Road is specifically where this fire is

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burning. There are more than a
dozen vineyards up there. Several wineries north

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of Los of Evos were closed yesterday
because fire officials cut off access to that

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road. Why you'd want to be
out there in the smoke anyway, It's

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not that doesn't lend itself to a
fine wine tasting experience. No, but

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what if you already had it on
the books right for the July fourth holiday

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and you just watch the movie Sideways
and you like a nice smoky flavored wine.

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There you go. Now we're talking
Amy deep Red of some kind,

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perhaps the there was another fire.
The largest fire is the Basin Fire right

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now that's burning in Fresno County that
started last month. It's burned at about

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fourteen thousand acres. I should say
that the largest fire before this one,

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the French Fire, also began on
the fourth of July near Yosemite National Park.

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That's under one thousand acres. But
like you said, I mean there

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are thousands of acres that are currently
burning throughout the state. That one in

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Santa Barbara is by far the one
that's perhaps most worrisome. I don't know

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if that's the word that they would
use. And we saw the records continue

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to grow, continue to be broken. I should say at least two dozen

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places throughout the state broke daily records
last week. San Jose, Fresno,

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Oakland, Merced, Livermore, sanra
Fel, Passa, Robles. I think

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Passo got up to one hundred and
fifteen, one hundred and sixteen something like

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that. In reading, it got
to one hundred and nineteen degrees, which

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that doesn't surprise me. Redding can
get very very hot during the summer.

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But Kaya Yukaya tied it's all time
high of one hundred and seventeen degrees.

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That doesn't surprise me either though.
Really now, I mean we grew up

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nearby Yea, and Yukaya was always
exceptionally warmer than you know, Healdsburg I

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felt, or Santa Rosa. It's
right there. It's adjacent too. Yeah,

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a National Weather Service saying that temperatures
are fifteen to thirty degrees above normal

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basically across the board. And what's
significant about this latest heat wave, and

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we talk about this on Fox eleven, is that it's lasting this long.

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Yeah, it's just day after day
after day after day. I don't think

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we get any relief potentially until this
coming weekend. My air conditioner went off

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last night for the first time in
a day and a half. Like it

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stopped it. I shouldn't say it
stopped working, but it finally achieved the

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temperature that my wife set and finally
went off. Probably I'm not doing that

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again. Well, I woke up
at two am and I said to my

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husband John, oh my gosh,
it's so hot. And we did have

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the AC on, and he said, yes, it is. And I

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said I need a solution. I
said I need a solution right now.

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And I was too tired to up
and he said okay, and I said,

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can you turn up DC? He
did, good, Husbands, thank

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you. I was able to go
back to sleep till the aw That's great.

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We're going to talk more about the
Newport Beach robbery from last week.

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We have found so much out about
the guys who should be in jail,

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who are not in jail and are
out and able to commit crimes like this.

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And I said this last week.
I feel like the saving grace,

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unfortunately, is that this was Orange
County. Because I'm GA, Todd Spitzer

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and the prosecutors there, Todd Spitzer
leading the DA's office, They're not going

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to hold back on these guys.
No, but all three of them.

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We'll talk more about it, but
all three from La County. And we

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reached out to Gascon on Friday for
comment. I don't think i've heard back

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yet or we the station anyway.
We'll get into that in a little bit,

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but you're right. Five to two
decision. The Board of Education decided

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that they're going to ban cell phones
starting in January because they want to try

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to have an impact on the behavior
of students in clawing back what we've lost

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when it comes to kids and cell
phones and the impact that cell phones have

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not just on like attention span.
This isn't the old conversation about music videos

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are going to rot our brain.
There is a specific and clear connection between

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cell phone use, smartphone use,
especially when it comes to social media,

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and the impact that that can have
on young people. I think girls are

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more heavily impacted when it comes to
the social media aspect of it. Boys

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are probably more affected when it comes
to just the attention span issues that develop

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as a result of this. So
we talked about it. I'm hugely in

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favor of this a lot. I
do not agree with the concern about emergency

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notifications. How would a kid let
their parent know that the something something happened

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at school, And I just feel
like there are ways that we can easily

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work around that. Well, history
shows we did, okay. I mean,

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you never had an emergency at school
that you had to contact your parents

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immediately, And I mean that's I
I say that facetiously, and I don't

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want I don't want to offend anybody
who's emotionally invested in this, and I

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completely understand the idea that you desperately
want to have contact with your kids in

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the event of an emergency one thousand
percent. What I was saying was,

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we didn't have the cell phone option
growing up in school. So if there

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was an emergency, and I you
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We didn't have a huge emergency where
I grew up. But if anything

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bad happened, parents would be contacted
by the district office, or if it

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was physically happening to you, you
could go to the office and call,

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or the teacher would call. I
mean, those things are not we can't

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we can't ignore that. We've worked
through the problem in the past. No.

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But also the one thing, of
course is the proliferation of mass shootings,

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which we did to have that,
which is also understandable, absolutely,

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But there's a such a much better
chance. I don't know. That doesn't

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sound right because I don't want to
put a positive spin on it. There's

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a much greater chance that your kid
dies in a car crash on the way

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to school. I mean that kind
of and again I understand the emotional connection

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that we had. We want to
know and have information about our kids when

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you ask students themselves. Though I
think this is kind of funny because the

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La Times did Angelica as Amora Rees, a seventeen year old at downtown Magnet's

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High School, says she can't wait
for the ban. She was among the

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dozens of LA students who were inter
viewed an expressed relief about this. She

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got an iPhone as a birthday gift
three years ago, and she said she

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was excited because she was one of
the last in her group to get one,

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and over time she saw the pros
and cons. She took the public

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bust to an internship this summer,
was able to text her parents along the

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route let him know that she was
safe. She has an Instagram account.

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She watches YouTube videos, including campus
tours of students at USC and Harvard.

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Those are dream colleges for her.
She watches con Academy for the math tutorials

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and things like that. So there
is an x There is a very positive

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impact that these phones can have.
But even she says, girls in her

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school can be obsessed with social media. They compare their clothes, their weight,

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their followings with their likes, the
you know who's how many people are

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following and liking well, and then
how quickly you get lost in your phone,

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So she says, by you know
a late afternoon, she had already

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been on her phone for two and
a half hours. It showed her screen

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time and that's just by mid afternoon. So she is relieved, But then

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there is the la times talk to
another I think he was a senior who

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said this isn't fair, and he
gets good grades, so he shouldn't have

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to give up his phone. See, And I wish that there was a

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way for us adults to say to
kids, the friendships and the relationships that

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you build through your phone are not
real. I had the conversation with my

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own son who who liked video games, and at night, when he was

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done with all of his stuff,
he was allowed to play games, and

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I would hear him speaking every once
in a while, and I know he's

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in there alone, and I'd walk
up to his room and I'd say,

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who are you talking to? And
he'd he'd say, I I'm talking to

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my friends. And some of them
were, in fact people that he knew

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from school, but a lot of
them were just rando people that he'd never

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physically see, didn't know anything about
other than they had this shared thing.

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Now that there is something to be
said about that kind of a connection,

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but it is not a real connection. No, And that's one of the

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things that we've seen too where people
they don't actually talk on the phone anymore.

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You don't have actual conversations. What
does this do for socialization? So

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on and so forth, as opposed
to looking at somebody the eye, having

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a conversation and not just a text
message. As well, President Biden has

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sent a message to Democrats that demand
that he drop out of the race.

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He attacked the press, insisted Democratic
Party voters want him as their candidate,

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despite the polls telling him otherwise.
He wrote a letter to Congressional Democrats today

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and said, quote, I am
firmly committed to staying in this race,

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to running this race to the end, and to beating Donald Trump. Of

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course, this is going to be
a big week for the president because Congress

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is back in session today after their
fourth of July holiday, and a lot

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of people are saying that his best
opportunity to prove any of those doubters wrong

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about his abilities will be a NATO
press conference coming up on Thursday. But

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that it's Thursday, it's not today. I mean that there's some of these

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opportunities perhaps that they could have taken
early on immediately after the debate. Performance

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were not taken. I mean,
he did go out and campaign the day

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after the debate. He spent time
in the campaign trail. He had his

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interview with ABC News on Friday,
which it didn't really I don't think helped

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his case very much. It didn't
make the needle. I don't think it

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stopped the bleeding. But there has
been some reporting that international leaders have already

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been meeting with the Trump team.
Yeah, well that and I know that

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Trump has reached out, like he
reached out out to the new prime Minister

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in Great Britain soon after that election
on the fourth of July. So he's

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making his he's making his presence known. How's that. Yeah, and it's

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already been known. But now so
these international leaders are saying we better prepare

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for a Trump administration. We think
that in one year from now is going

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to be a lot different. So
what does that mean for the world stage?

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Sports wise? Six Dodgers head into
Arlington next week for the All Star

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Game. Tyler Glass, now,
Will Smith, Moogie Bets, Freddie Freeman,

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Taoscar Hernandez, and Shohe Otani.
Of course, last week we told

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you about the botched robbery at Newport
Beaches, Fashioned Island, in which a

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sixty year old woman from New Zealand
was killed. She was dragged nearly sixty

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five feet by a car during a
robbery, and police were able to get

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the three guys, the three suspects
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La County. But we once you
look him up, found out that these

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guys probably should have been in jail
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at some point in their lives.
There's three suspects, a twenty six year

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old and then two eighteen year olds. Yeah, and it's a twenty six

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year old who, by the way, was the one driving the vehicle that

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ran over sixty eight year old Patricia
McKay and killed her. He has three

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felony convictions already, all from La
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burglary in twenty eighteen, criminal threats
in twenty twenty, and robbery last year

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and twenty twenty three, and apparently
he got probation. And then he is

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also convicted of being a narcotics addict
in possession of a firearm that happens to

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be illegal. That was last year
as well. On top of the those

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charges, all of those felony convictions, he is now charged with killing Patricia

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McKay and the commission of a robbery
the felony enhancement of causing the death of

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a person over the age of sixty
five. The expectation is kind of understanding

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where Todd Spitzer is coming from.
It's likely that they're going to ask for

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the death penalty. Although we haven't
put we haven't executed a prisoner in California

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in eighteen years. I think,
well, and there's a moratorium and the

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moratorium on the death penalty. So
in addition to the murder charge, one

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of the eighteen year olds also faces
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personal use of a firearm, as
well as felony enhancement of that personal

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discharge of a firearm. What happened
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tossed Patricia to the ground as she
held several shopping bags and then dragged her

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into the street in front of the
Toyota Camri that they were driving while trying

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to grab the bags, and then
Douglas McKay, Patricia's husband, jumped in

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front of the vehicle an effort to
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but the twenty six year old again
drove it forward, pushing him out of

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the way, running over the woman, dragging her body under the car.

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Somebody else tried to intervene and gave
chase, and another one of the eighteen

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year olds who was back inside the
car, fired three shots at this good

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samaritan, and that's when they went
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I was in the newsroom when this
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pursuit, and we got word that
this was potentially connected to the Fashion Island

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shooting that we had just heard about
through the scanners, and we were sending

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a whole crew down there, of
course, which we did. And then

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it was soon after, but they
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They were making their way back home, if you will, and they were

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stopped. They made a run for
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to them, thank goodness. Now. Ellie can District Attorney put out a

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statement asking in response to explaining the
lack of prison time for the twenty six

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year old, McCrary of the DA's
office says the case against him had significant

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problems with proof. As a result
of these issues, the management team at

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the airport Court authorized a plea offer
that allowed mister McCrary to be placed on

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probation with the suspended state prison sentence. The statement goes on to call these

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latest crimes reprehensible. Todd Spitzer,
of course, points to Gavin Newsom.

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At least some of the blame should
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because his quote was, our shopping
centers in malls have become hunting grounds for

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criminals who are stalking innocent shoppers who
rob them blind because our governor and our

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legislature refused to hold anyone accountable for
their actions. It seems like this is

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another one of those examples. And
it's not even just it's not even just

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picking and choosing. And I know
that that's one of the criticisms that people

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have is they say, oh,
you only find those crimes where somebody does

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have a criminal record. Well,
this is a pretty egregious crime. This

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is not something that's you know,
I wouldn't have said the same thing if

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he was shoplifting, if he took
an iPhone from an Apple store without asking

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right, and then we see that
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evading, driving recklessly, felonies for
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I mean, there's reasons why there
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somebody has multiple felony convictions on their
record. They're telling you what they're going

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to do. They're telling you that
they have a pattern in their life that

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is not going to stop until you
stop them. No, and to your

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point from La County, they drive
clearly targeted to go to Fashion Island,

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Yeah, which is a gorgeous place
to be. And this is the result.

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And by the way, you know
the fallout in New Zealand and what

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that makes us look like. And
this guy the husband, he was business

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executive who served for several years as
chaired of the Bank of New Zealand,

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in three years as the first chief
executive of the Auckland Council. What a

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shame. What we get what we
vote for, it's what we get.

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Alec Baldwin is supposed to head to
trial for the movie shooting. You remember

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it was October twenty first, twenty
twenty one. Alec Baldwin was rehearsing a

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shot or a scene is probably the
better, more appropriate word, and discharged

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a live bullet that killed the cinematographer
Helena Hutchins and wounded the movies director.

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That weapon was supposed to have been
loaded with inert rounds that could not fire,

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not necessarily blanks, but inert.
He then went on, if I'm

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not mistaken, he did this interview
with George Stephanopolis, also you felt shocked,

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you felt anger, you felt sadness. Do you feel guilt? No,

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no, I feel that there is
I feel that someone is responsible for

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what happened, and I can't say
who that is, but I know it's

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not me. I mean I honestly, God, if I felt that I

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was responsible, I might have killed
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I don't say that lightly. The
ego would never allow him to do that,

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But the announcement that they were going
to bring charges against him was kind

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of a shock for a lot of
people because of the consideration that on set

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safety, especially when it comes to
weapons like that, would be the responsibility

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of the weapons expert, the armorer
in this case, and Hannigutierre's read.

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The armorer was convicted of involuntary manslaughter's
serving eighteen months right now as a result

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of this case. And there's two
there's two school of thoughts, and one

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of them is, Okay, well, she's already been found guilty, so

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that's good enough, and this will
help Baldwin's case if in fact it goes

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through, right And then the other
school of thought is, well, if

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she's guilty, then he's guilty as
well well. And I feel like because

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of his role he's got it's not
just as easy as saying that he's the

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actor, because he was the producer
on this as well, and overall overarching

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has responsibility for hiring the right people
to make sure that it is a safe

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set. The actor part of him, I don't think is going to be

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found guilty. I mean, if
there's a way for them to delineate between

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the two, because he has to. I mean, just general standards and

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practices in the industry would not have
an actor checking to see if a gun

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is safe. When when this happened, I remember listening to a bunch of

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people who said, if I was
an armorer on a set and my responsibility

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is to hand to you a safe
weapon, you start messing with it.

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You start doing your own Oh,
I'll check it, but I have to

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take it back and I have to
recheck it because I don't know what you're

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doing. I don't know what you've
If the responsibility lies with the armorer,

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then that's where it lies. It
should not be given to the actor in

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that case. Now, I don't
know what sort of uh experience Alec Baldwin

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has with guns that are real,
not you know, not just movie set

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guns. And I don't know if
he would be comfortable even saying to the

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armorer, I know you checked it. I'm going to do my own check.

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I don't even know if because what's
the point then of the armorer?

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And there were grumblings initially when this
happened, and I know that's all part

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of the investigation where it was not
a safe set that it was being that

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there was a lot of unhappy people. They were sort of cutting corners.

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So if he is not just an
actor but an executive producer and had anything

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to do with that, that doesn't
necessarily bode well from him. But the

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defense is just going to argue that
he cannot be found guilty because he had

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no reason to believe that the gun
had been loaded with a live bullet.

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He was told it was a cold
gun, which means it didn't contain live

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ammunition. And to your point,
why would you think it would The thing

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about the gun issue and the place
that this is taking place, you know

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this is going to be in New
Mexico. Jery selection is supposed to start

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tomorrow. People in New Mexico.
I assume know that you're always supposed to

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treat a gun like it's loaded,
regardless if you're on a movie set,

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you're in your backyard, you're clean
it, whatever, You're always supposed to

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treat it like it's loaded. And
one of the things that they said about

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Alec Baldwin was that's not how he
treated the guns that he was using on

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this, that he would use him
as pointers in the in between scenes,

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or that he would use it to
call out the word cut. I mean,

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just he was not treating it with
the respect that a firearm deserves to

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be treated. So I wonder if
that will play into it, and if,

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depending on who sits on the jury, how they would see that,

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and if he will actually take the
stand as well. Again, we saw

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this anybody driven by an ego,
there is a chance that they do take

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the stand because they believe they're better
than you, and the ego seems pretty

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strong in that guy. You've been
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