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Speaker 2: President Trump has agreed to pause the implementation of planned
Speaker 2: tariffs on imports from Canada for at least thirty days,
Speaker 2: sort of an echo of what we saw with Mexico
Speaker 2: from the day before. In both cases, the pauses came
Speaker 2: after those countries agreed to take steps towards preventing the
Speaker 2: trafficking of deadly fentanyl into the United States. President Trump's
Speaker 2: also going to be hosting Benjamin Netanyahu at the White
Speaker 2: House this afternoon about to two o'clock. They're supposed to
Speaker 2: do two o'clock our time. They're supposed to do a
Speaker 2: news conference today.
Speaker 1: Can I have some scary music? Scary something, fearmonger music,
Speaker 1: something to ilicit fear in the hearts of men and women.
Speaker 3: Smart rabbitson going.
Speaker 4: That'll do it, Smokey talking about his orgasm. Yeah, that'll
Speaker 4: do it, my never mind, go on, Nope.
Speaker 1: Back to back atmospheric river storms are set to hit La.
Speaker 4: County this week.
Speaker 3: Could you like a rain gasm?
Speaker 4: No, No, it's not. We do need this rain.
Speaker 3: There are times when I say it, I wish I
Speaker 3: could take it. No, I can't take it back.
Speaker 1: Okay, there's nobody that understands that more than I do.
Speaker 1: They say, this is gonna obviously be beneficial because we
Speaker 1: haven't had rain since what last last March April something
Speaker 1: like that. Yeah, there is less than a five percent
Speaker 1: chance of significant debris flow, so let's pump the brakes
Speaker 1: on the fear mongering in terms of threatening landslides, mud slides,
Speaker 1: things like that.
Speaker 4: If the second storm strengthens, we.
Speaker 1: Could have some problems on I thought we were parking
Speaker 1: the car of the gasm over to the side.
Speaker 2: Every time I take a look, you.
Speaker 1: Get who conceptualized that song, and if it was Smokey
Speaker 1: Robinson himself, who gives him the green light? Or do
Speaker 1: you just at the green light when you're smoking Robinson
Speaker 1: for ridiculousness like this. Furthermore, I need to point out
Speaker 1: the fact that right after my father died, we're sitting
Speaker 1: in the backyard at my parents' house and my mom says,
Speaker 1: to turn this off while you say the story, Well,
Speaker 1: it gets worse. My mom was like, I'd really like
Speaker 1: to see Smokey Robinson, And I say, oh, Smokey Robinson's
Speaker 1: playing at the Orange County Fair. Oh, I'd love to
Speaker 1: come down and see that.
Speaker 4: Little did we.
Speaker 1: Know it was the Gasm Show and he just sang
Speaker 1: about sex for ninety minutes.
Speaker 3: Smokey Robinson probably knows what he's talking about.
Speaker 4: Would you like to sit with your mother?
Speaker 1: No, and and listen to gasm gasm.
Speaker 2: By the way, he's the credited writer on that song,
Speaker 2: only him.
Speaker 4: No one else wants finger prints on that crime.
Speaker 3: So they're consultants. Perhaps they were like, smoke.
Speaker 5: And let you take this, listen this, I gasm, get
Speaker 5: it and give me gasm gasm.
Speaker 6: Rain.
Speaker 4: As long as it stays cool.
Speaker 2: According to the National Weather Service, and we don't have
Speaker 2: more Santa Ana winds, we get a little bit of rain.
Speaker 2: This buys us time in February because they're actually saying
Speaker 2: that we're going to see a pretty dry condition after
Speaker 2: these two storms go through tonight and Thursday night, it's
Speaker 2: probably going to dry out significantly or like we've seen basically.
Speaker 2: And they're also saying that we could see some winds
Speaker 2: start from the inland areas to the north, affecting I
Speaker 2: five southern Santa Barbara County before it turns into a
Speaker 2: moderate Santa Ana wind event later over the weekend, which
Speaker 2: means that temperatures could potentially be warm. But you know,
Speaker 2: on Super Bowl Sunday you're talking about temperature somewhere in
Speaker 2: the upper sixties.
Speaker 3: For the most most of southern California. But we still
Speaker 3: need it.
Speaker 2: We have received less than twenty five percent of the
Speaker 2: typical rainfall for this point in the season. And we
Speaker 2: know that the Santa Ana wind conditions can last. They
Speaker 2: can come and go, but they can last through March
Speaker 2: in many places, or through March in many cases.
Speaker 3: I should say so.
Speaker 2: Two river storms, atmospheric river storms La Inventura Counties Tuesday night,
Speaker 2: lasting through midday tomorrow. The second storm expects Thursday night
Speaker 2: into Friday morning and again light to moderate rain.
Speaker 3: But just keep an eye on They have said that.
Speaker 2: Is one of their concerns till Panga was closed because
Speaker 2: of the last rain event, because of some debris flows, etc. So,
Speaker 2: like you said, it's not a very high chance. But hey,
Speaker 2: weather forecasting is a dangerous business. They changed change significantly.
Speaker 2: People get killed.
Speaker 4: When they make you think anybody can do what Henry does,
Speaker 4: You're wrong. You're wrong.
Speaker 2: I think It's funny that you're in making excuses for
Speaker 2: your husband's boyfriend.
Speaker 4: He wishes.
Speaker 7: He could never pull a come on, he could not
Speaker 7: pull Henry Carlos Well.
Speaker 2: Insurance companies are starting to starting here.
Speaker 3: It's so ridiculous, show their true colors.
Speaker 2: And in this case, State Farm who by the way,
Speaker 2: canceled many policies in fire zones just before the fires,
Speaker 2: now want to increase their fees by about twenty two percent.
Speaker 4: Of course they do. How are they going to pay
Speaker 4: for all that?
Speaker 1: You know, when you think about the Palisades being wiped out,
Speaker 1: and that's millions upon millions billions.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm going to go get my knife.
Speaker 3: Good IDEA.
Speaker 2: State Farm General, the largest home insurer in the state
Speaker 2: of California, is asking the state Insurance Commissioner for an
Speaker 2: emergency rate hike coming out to about twenty two percent,
Speaker 2: saying that the fires that burned through La last month
Speaker 2: have put the company in dire financial straits. So the
Speaker 2: company has received already eighty seven hundred rid claims and
Speaker 2: has paid out more than a billion dollars to its customers,
Speaker 2: and it expects to pay significantly more when you consider
Speaker 2: that these fires have been determined to be the costliest
Speaker 2: natural disaster in state history.
Speaker 1: State Farm says it's lost two point eight billion over
Speaker 1: the nine year period ending last year, including gains from
Speaker 1: investment income. So while you don't want insurance companies to
Speaker 1: be wildly profitable, they do need to be profitable. They
Speaker 1: can't be operating at a loss.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: See, that's the thing is, they will tell you one thing.
Speaker 2: A group called Consumer Watchdog, LA based advocacy group, says
Speaker 2: that State Farm General is not in financial trouble, that
Speaker 2: they made underwriting profits of one point four billion dollars
Speaker 2: over the last couple of years, and that the parent company,
Speaker 2: State Farm Mutual has about one hundred and thirty four
Speaker 2: billion dollars in the bank.
Speaker 1: Talked about how these insurance companies have canceled people, State
Speaker 1: Farm among them. In March, they said it would not
Speaker 1: be renewing seventy two thousand home apartment other property policies
Speaker 1: in California, citing reconstruction costs which are out of control, exorbitant,
Speaker 1: increasing wildfire risks, outdated state regulations. So basically they took
Speaker 1: the areas like the Palisades that are the most well
Speaker 1: high risk when it comes to when you look at
Speaker 1: the cost of the home and the urban interface wild
Speaker 1: land interface that exists there, and they.
Speaker 4: Just got rid of them.
Speaker 1: They just take the top high risk homeowners and they
Speaker 1: just slashed them.
Speaker 2: Well, and I wonder, I mean, when you look at
Speaker 2: the Palisades, you talk about homes that are in many
Speaker 2: cases multiple millions of dollars for homes, and there's a
Speaker 2: lot of them there.
Speaker 4: Think about rebuilding those now?
Speaker 2: Rebuilding them is yes, I mean, that's a completely that
Speaker 2: whole subject is ridiculous. But is it just those types
Speaker 2: of places that they're canceling their policies or are they
Speaker 2: saying California in general is too expensive and we're going
Speaker 2: to have to cancel them all up and down the state.
Speaker 1: Well, it's just right from what I've read in terms
Speaker 1: of what they've canceled so far, it's just those high
Speaker 1: risk properties, those expensive homes that are in the wild
Speaker 1: land urban interface like the Palisades.
Speaker 4: They haven't gotten some.
Speaker 1: Of the lower to some of the lower like Altadena
Speaker 1: for example. Sure, so who knows, and think about it,
Speaker 1: Like you said, multimillion dollar places in the Palisades, talk
Speaker 1: about rebuilding that, it's going to be three times what
Speaker 1: it costs to build it the first time at least.
Speaker 2: And some of those homes multigenerational right, Some people probably
Speaker 2: had homes that were purchased for eleven thousand dollars in
Speaker 2: nineteen fifty eight or something like that. This decision we
Speaker 2: talked about not renewing the seventy two thousand policies. Their
Speaker 2: decision of twenty three was to stop writing new business, homeowner,
Speaker 2: and other personal property and casualty insurance in the state.
Speaker 2: But last month, when they figured out how big this was,
Speaker 2: State Farm modified that decision said they would offer renewals
Speaker 2: to any policy holder affected by the Palisades Eaten or
Speaker 2: other fires whose policies had not lapsed before the fire
Speaker 2: start started. On January seventh, they said it would apply
Speaker 2: to about seventy percent of the residential policies that it
Speaker 2: had in the Palisades when it announced the non renewals
Speaker 2: last year. This is up to the insurance Commissioner.
Speaker 3: He will be.
Speaker 2: Guided, I suppose advised by the insurance commission about whether
Speaker 2: or not he's going to do this.
Speaker 3: This is also.
Speaker 2: On top of in June the company filing for a
Speaker 2: thirty percent increase for its homeowners policies, thirty six increase
Speaker 2: for condo owners, fifty two percent increase for renters, and
Speaker 2: that hike request is still pending. If your state farm,
Speaker 2: it's going to be crazy next couple of months as
Speaker 2: they figure out what in the world's going on now.
Speaker 2: While all of that is government, insurance companies dealing with
Speaker 2: the government in terms of trying to get their rate increases,
Speaker 2: there are things that government cannot do. They're just not
Speaker 2: good at it. That's not what they do well. And
Speaker 2: Rick Caruso has a new foundation called Steadfast LA and
Speaker 2: he has come in. He wants to help rebuild LA
Speaker 2: and he wants to do it with a business sense,
Speaker 2: not a government sense, which is very very important.
Speaker 3: Oh. He also alludes to his relationship with Mayor Bass.
Speaker 4: Oh, like what kind of well.
Speaker 3: He just says, I think it was.
Speaker 2: Alex Michaelson on Channel eleven asked him what his relationship
Speaker 2: was like, and he just kind of said, it's fine,
Speaker 2: it's fine.
Speaker 3: Well, she doesn't return my calls, but it's fine.
Speaker 1: Just because people disagree politically doesn't mean they're monsters to
Speaker 1: each other.
Speaker 3: Stories that we are following.
Speaker 2: Obviously, the rain is coming in later today, so we'll
Speaker 2: keep an eye on that late tonight into tomorrow. A
Speaker 2: second storm rolls in Thursday night into Friday. It's been
Speaker 2: raining pretty heavy over or up in northern California over
Speaker 2: the last seventy two hours. Mount tamil Pious, just north
Speaker 2: of San Francisco, received more than ten and a half
Speaker 2: inches of rain. A couple of unincorporated areas farther north
Speaker 2: in Sonoma County received seven inches Venado and occidental. Joe
Speaker 2: Biden signed with Creative Artist Agency. We'll talk about that
Speaker 2: a couple of minutes about him going Hollywood.
Speaker 1: Also, Americans moving in with strangers twice their age. They
Speaker 1: say rooms for rent are the new housing market in
Speaker 1: this country. We'll get into that. You should start running
Speaker 1: out your home to strangers.
Speaker 3: That's just like fun, just for the story, for the stories.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we did have it.
Speaker 3: We had somebody living there.
Speaker 1: I remember that couple years ago, and then she had
Speaker 1: a baby. The baby's out.
Speaker 2: Oh well there's one that one too. She's had multiple
Speaker 2: kids since then. Really, Yeah, that was a long time ago.
Speaker 2: That was four or five four years five years ago.
Speaker 4: Time flies.
Speaker 2: Yeah, But we had somebody else, a friend's friend, college
Speaker 2: student was in town. So she stayed with us for
Speaker 2: about six weeks a lengthy appeals process. But Major League
Speaker 2: Baseball has fired an umpire for sharing a sports betting
Speaker 2: account with a friend who was betting on baseball.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you can't do that, and.
Speaker 2: Then misleading investigators by intentionally deleting messages who were which
Speaker 2: were key to his conduct. Nothing has ever deleted, But
Speaker 2: this guy, Pat Hoburg was widely considered the best behind
Speaker 2: the plate umpire in Major League Baseball, too, the best
Speaker 2: ball and strike guy that they had.
Speaker 1: Luca John Chick says he was just as shocked as
Speaker 1: everybody else in the rest of the basketball world when
Speaker 1: the Dallas MAVs traded him to the Lakers. He's been
Speaker 1: in LA for two days as he's excited. That Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame voter, by the way, who you took umbrage with?
Speaker 1: Who I think everyone did. Who declined to select each
Speaker 1: hero remains a mystery still. All three hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: one voters who allowed their ballots to be made public
Speaker 1: today by the Baseball Raiders Writers Association of America selected
Speaker 1: each row, but the ballot that did not remains a mystery.
Speaker 1: Apparently it's up to the writers if they want to
Speaker 1: make their ballots known or not, and this writer did not.
Speaker 4: You could, obviously, somebody will do.
Speaker 1: The process of elimination exactly we'll find out.
Speaker 2: Rick Cruso did not get elected mayor of Los Angeles,
Speaker 2: and he's proving that that may have been a giant mistake.
Speaker 8: Hey, you have to have private enterprise involved in this
Speaker 8: because government alone can't do it.
Speaker 3: It's too big.
Speaker 2: He has launched a new foundation to spur the rebuilding
Speaker 2: efforts from our wildfires in Pacific Palisades and Altadena. He
Speaker 2: has put together an all star team when it comes
Speaker 2: to engineering and technology companies to really spearhead some of
Speaker 2: the private public teamwork that needs to take place. It's
Speaker 2: called Steadfast LA and he says, you really think about
Speaker 2: this as sort of the opposite of what government does.
Speaker 8: This is about a group of people who are incredibly smart,
Speaker 8: will resourced, that will roll up their sleeves and we're
Speaker 8: going to be issue driven.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because listen, public private partnerships, or the way I
Speaker 2: put it, the private public partnerships can really only go
Speaker 2: so far. Sometimes you need the private businesses to spearhead
Speaker 2: some of this stuff.
Speaker 8: We would love for them to come and say we
Speaker 8: have this problem, may tell me how your team can
Speaker 8: help fix it. We are very clear we want to
Speaker 8: work with you on this now. If we feel that
Speaker 8: there's a lot of fee dragging or there's a lot
Speaker 8: of red tape getting in the way, we want to
Speaker 8: be in a position and we won't be to push them.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So what is his end game? What is Rick
Speaker 4: Crusoe's endgame?
Speaker 1: So he spends an s ton of his own money
Speaker 1: to run for mayor and does not move the needle
Speaker 1: to where it needed to be, and is still involved
Speaker 1: with bettering things for people. It seems what's the endgame there?
Speaker 1: What does he want? It's just a good guy he
Speaker 1: can be. It's just wildly rare.
Speaker 2: Well, that's probably why people make that face when they
Speaker 2: talk about what he's doing, is because it is so
Speaker 2: rare for someone to be.
Speaker 3: Wouldn't you just feel that topic about Most people just.
Speaker 1: Go and enjoy their money, They go on yachts like
Speaker 1: Magic Johnson and live their lives. They don't sit around
Speaker 1: creating foundations to help people rebuild from the ashes.
Speaker 2: He talked to NBC, and he talked to Channel eleven,
Speaker 2: and one of the things that he said was Alex
Speaker 2: Michaelson asked him if he's running for mayor again or
Speaker 2: maybe governor again, and he said, listen, I don't have time.
Speaker 3: He said.
Speaker 2: He literally said that time stopped on January seventh for
Speaker 2: him because it was very personal.
Speaker 3: Not only does he love.
Speaker 8: LA this is personal because I obviously I love this region,
Speaker 8: but but it's personal because we lost three homes.
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know if that's the right message.
Speaker 4: Well, but it means that they lost her home.
Speaker 1: They lost a home, and I think somebody else like
Speaker 1: I think the family.
Speaker 4: I mean, I get it. Yeah, it does sound it
Speaker 4: sounds like, well, they have a lot, they have they
Speaker 4: have money, they have money.
Speaker 1: Just before I get hate for my magic, Johnson comment,
Speaker 1: I know that magic does things for the community. I
Speaker 1: don't mean to sound like Ronald Sterling or Donald Sterling,
Speaker 1: but why don't he done? He's got aids. I don't
Speaker 1: mean to be that person, but you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Rick Russo is sitting on a pile of money.
Speaker 4: Usually guys like this they like to go play. They don't.
Speaker 4: Maybe he's played enough and he wants to do something
Speaker 4: with it. And good for him, so.
Speaker 3: He has picked up.
Speaker 2: This is these these very intelligent, top of their game people.
Speaker 2: Andy Cohen not from Bravo. Andy Cohen is co chair
Speaker 2: of Architecture and Design Powerhouse Gensler, Kerry Smith, President CEO
Speaker 2: of Infrastructure Engineering, Giant Parsons, Ted Sarandos and his wife
Speaker 2: Ted Sarandos, and the CEO of Netflix and his wife,
Speaker 2: former Ambassador Nicole Avon Pallenteer co founder Joe Lonsdale, and
Speaker 2: then executives from banking, from insurance, from real estate, and
Speaker 2: private equity. The things specifically that he wants his group
Speaker 2: to tackle.
Speaker 8: We feel strongly that all the power lines should be underground.
Speaker 8: Ezra for example, who's one of members of the team.
Speaker 8: They've got the whole underground system already mapped, so we
Speaker 8: can get quickly in the streets. Working with DWP in
Speaker 8: the city, we can help design all the infrastructure, replace
Speaker 8: the water mains, replace the hydrants, underground the power and
Speaker 8: then upgrade the communication system. All the codes, all the
Speaker 8: building codes, drop them in an AI model, have building
Speaker 8: permits submitted through that, and have planned corrections turned around
Speaker 8: in hours, not weeks and months.
Speaker 2: Why why why is there nobody in our government who
Speaker 2: can have that same attitude.
Speaker 1: I think it's because in the statement, you just gave
Speaker 1: breath to people and government are not there for you,
Speaker 1: by and large, they are there from them themselves, and
Speaker 1: what can you do for them?
Speaker 4: Not what can they do for you?
Speaker 1: Tomorrow from JFK, I have a good story involving somebody
Speaker 1: who came out here to help with the wildfires. Okay,
Speaker 1: do you want to hear about it involves a dog? Yes, okay,
Speaker 1: you didn't. I didn't want to until you said it
Speaker 1: involves I know I could tell I need to sweeten
Speaker 1: the pot.
Speaker 4: We will get to Joe Biden going to Hollywood as well.
Speaker 1: But since we were talking about fires, I was reading
Speaker 1: this story this morning, and it does warm the cockles.
Speaker 4: Your cockles need warming.
Speaker 2: Oh, they're pretty cold right now. I don't know where
Speaker 2: those are, by the way.
Speaker 7: It's in your heart. The cockles of your heart. Oh, oh, okay,
Speaker 7: your heart cockles. They're probably rough ninety eight point six
Speaker 7: right now. I haven't checked. But actually I can check
Speaker 7: with my little super ring, I think, can't I everybody's
Speaker 7: standing by to hear my body's exture.
Speaker 4: Don't think that that's a thing.
Speaker 3: What the cockles of your heart?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Those are like mollusks that live in salt water.
Speaker 3: Cockles.
Speaker 1: Yeah, heart, cockles are edible. How come my mom used
Speaker 1: to always say the cockles of The phrase cockles of
Speaker 1: your heart refers to the heart's ventricles or chambers. The
Speaker 1: phrase warm the cockles of your heart means to feel
Speaker 1: deep contentment or to feel good. So there are no
Speaker 1: actual cockles in your heart. It's just a saying we
Speaker 1: have no cockles. Cockles are mollusks that we eat.
Speaker 2: I am so happy that we have straightened that out.
Speaker 2: Swamp Watch comes up at the top of the hour.
Speaker 2: But we're also next hour going to talk about this
Speaker 2: apparent agreement with El Salvador.
Speaker 3: Not only are they going to.
Speaker 2: Take they're bad guys back, they may take some of
Speaker 2: our bad guys, like in a private prison deal.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so there's that.
Speaker 4: I don't trust El Salvador.
Speaker 3: And then big orexia.
Speaker 1: Big orexia, Yeah, apparently it's a thing with the children,
Speaker 1: the boys.
Speaker 3: And I like that.
Speaker 2: There are a couple stories that we're following before we
Speaker 2: get to some of these talkbacks. One of them is
Speaker 2: a shooting in Sweden. This at a school, an adult school.
Speaker 2: They said about one hundred and twenty miles west of Stockholm.
Speaker 2: Police there have said that they believe there are around
Speaker 2: ten deaths four people. At least four people were injured.
Speaker 2: I had to be taking the hospital and have gone
Speaker 2: into surgery. So that's all we know so far.
Speaker 1: China slapping tariffs on US products and retaliation for Trump's tariffs.
Speaker 1: Beijing said overnight it'll charge extra tariffs of fifteen percent
Speaker 1: on cold liquefied natural gas, ten percent on crude farm
Speaker 1: equipment and some cars starting next week. Prescription drugs where
Speaker 1: we get an s ton of them and the chemicals
Speaker 1: or the makeup of prescription drugs from China as.
Speaker 4: Well, so we'll stay on top of that for you.
Speaker 4: Do you want to hear the story about the dog?
Speaker 3: Please? Okay?
Speaker 4: Can I have some music? Some storytime music?
Speaker 1: Eight years ago, there was a guy by the name
Speaker 1: of Paul who was moving across country from Massachusetts to Arizona,
Speaker 1: where he lives now. So he makes a pitstop in
Speaker 1: Oklahoma and Paul's dog, Damien in Oklahoma, gets loose from
Speaker 1: his leaf he runs off. Now, Paul is on the
Speaker 1: road trip with his dad and a friend and they
Speaker 1: looked for Damien until well after midnight that first night.
Speaker 1: They only stopped when they encountered a mountain lion there
Speaker 1: in Oklahoma.
Speaker 2: Did it have a little tough to fur around its
Speaker 2: mouth like it had just eaten Damien?
Speaker 4: No, no, it did not.
Speaker 1: They stayed in Oklahoma another week to look for Damien.
Speaker 1: Damien was beloved. You're not just going to leave your
Speaker 1: dog and continue on, I hear you. They searched high
Speaker 1: and low for Damien to no avail. For years afterward.
Speaker 1: Remember this is in twenty seventeen. Paul would put up
Speaker 1: posters with Damien's picture far and wide. Wherever he went,
Speaker 1: he put up posters of Damien, and he said, you know,
Speaker 1: it started to really affect me even more as the
Speaker 1: years went on. It just it hurt too much to
Speaker 1: see that missing poster one more time. So he kind
Speaker 1: of stopped sharing them because it hurt too much. It
Speaker 1: was devastating. Paul says, that dog got me through a
Speaker 1: lot of emotional things, family issues. Damien was always there
Speaker 1: as a companion. I was as everything as he was mine.
Speaker 4: Why are you laughing?
Speaker 1: This is awful? His everything, Yeah, his everything. You know,
Speaker 1: not everybody has a wonderful life. Sometimes people have struggles
Speaker 1: and their dog is their whole life.
Speaker 3: My dog helps make my life.
Speaker 4: Well, you're not everybody.
Speaker 3: He's not my everything.
Speaker 1: You're not everybody. There's some people. That's all they have, okay,
Speaker 1: and that was all Paul had.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 1: So mid January, Paul is driving to California to donate
Speaker 1: clothes and supplies to wildfire victims, because Paul is also
Speaker 1: that guy, unlike you. About an hour from the California border,
Speaker 1: Paul gets a call from an unknown number.
Speaker 4: He ignores it, like we all do. The number calls again.
Speaker 3: Bam risk.
Speaker 1: He gets a text on his Apple Watch and it says,
Speaker 1: your dog, Damien has been found eight years after that
Speaker 1: day in Oklahoma.
Speaker 4: Eight years?
Speaker 3: How old is this dog? Now?
Speaker 1: Turns out a woman in Oklahoma City had nearly run
Speaker 1: over Damien, but picked him up, brought him to say
Speaker 1: with her brother. Brother, took care of the dog for
Speaker 1: two weeks, took him to the vet, scan him for
Speaker 1: a chip, and boom Damien. So Damien was living there
Speaker 1: wild fruits that long.
Speaker 3: And they don't know.
Speaker 1: We don't know where Damien was. We just know that
Speaker 1: he ended up in Oklahoma City with that woman and
Speaker 1: her brother. So, uh, screw the wildfire victims. Paul turns
Speaker 1: the car around and drives fourteen hours straight to Oklahoma,
Speaker 1: gets there about six am the next day to pick
Speaker 1: up Damien.
Speaker 4: Older scruffyer.
Speaker 1: Damien is as you can imagine, but mondays, mundeniably is
Speaker 1: dog wagging the tail. And now, Paul says, every time
Speaker 1: he leaves the room, Damien's like.
Speaker 4: Where are you going now?
Speaker 3: Huh?
Speaker 4: Gonna be another eight years?
Speaker 2: Br Well, to be clear, he could turn around and say,
Speaker 2: you're the one who left the first time, Brah.
Speaker 1: You're gonna yell at the dog that's been missing for
Speaker 1: it and formed the dog about how I w everything?
Speaker 9: Okay, Smokey Robinson's chasm, Yeah, yeah, makes me have a spasm.
Speaker 9: And I'm telling you there's a huge chasm between my
Speaker 9: way of thinking and his. All right, but hey, I
Speaker 9: got a rasin and that's all I gotta say about that.
Speaker 3: Now, did you write all that stuff down?
Speaker 6: Urian Famine good Bows here from the OCI. Just wanted
Speaker 6: to let you know that today's show already is epic
Speaker 6: in the history of radio. Unbelievable.
Speaker 3: And that's before we even got to the first half.
Speaker 10: Rick Caruso is old school, wealthy, old school, wealthy, used
Speaker 10: to always help everybody when needed. I work for a
Speaker 10: client who's friends with him, and I've met him. He's
Speaker 10: just a really really kind human being, just a good person,
Speaker 10: and it's really unfortunate that Los Angeles did not elect
Speaker 10: him to be mayor. He can bring that city together
Speaker 10: and fix it and make it whole again.
Speaker 1: Well maybe I interviewed him once, and I was a
Speaker 1: reporter and we were going out to the Grove to
Speaker 1: interview him, and it was like kind of going to
Speaker 1: see the Wizard, like you were met by somebody. I
Speaker 1: was met by somebody right at the entrance of the grove,
Speaker 1: one of the entrances, and they walked me through and
Speaker 1: you went through like a little back alley and through
Speaker 1: like a fence door, and then up a staircase and
Speaker 1: up into up into one of these like secret rooms
Speaker 1: on the roof of one of the stores or whatever,
Speaker 1: and that was his office there at the Grove. But
Speaker 1: it was all very hidden and very clandestine, it was,
Speaker 1: and he was very cool, very down to earth, like
Speaker 1: smart guy, very you know, you meet people where you're
Speaker 1: just like you're a bad dude.
Speaker 4: He was the opposite. I mean, he was just a
Speaker 4: really good, genuine person.
Speaker 3: I've always heard great things about h Yeah. So, and
Speaker 3: then finally morning.
Speaker 4: Gary and Shannon. Well you're talking about cockles. What about
Speaker 4: that little.
Speaker 8: Nursery rhyme, you know, like when you would jump rope
Speaker 8: blue bills.
Speaker 9: Cockle shells?
Speaker 4: Yeah, how's that got to do with what you eat?
Speaker 4: Because it's a mollusc which.
Speaker 1: Linda has malusk has a shell and it's shaped like
Speaker 1: a art and that's where we get it.
Speaker 3: It'd be like a russil or clam or something like that.
Speaker 4: Cockles oyster exactly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, to each his home, to each his own.
Speaker 4: See look at you see I'm growth.
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