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Episode #3971 The New Phil Hendrie Show Radio Archive Hour · The World of Phil Hendrie

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Speaker 1: Hour with me, Phil Hendry, from our Radio Hall of
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Speaker 1: Fame show at philhendryshow.com. This is from March of 2000,
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Speaker 1: and we were only a few months into our national syndication,
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Speaker 1: but we had at that time our great and popular
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Speaker 1: Dave Oliva, the aspiring LAPD police officer, even while he
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Speaker 1: was doing some kind of.
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Speaker 2: I don't know what he was doing, man. He was
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Speaker 2: answering phones for Sears or something. But anyway.
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Speaker 1: Dave came on to talk about the fact that a
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Speaker 1: little kid in London, England had gotten an official LAPD
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Speaker 1: badge from the Los Angeles Police Department. This little boy
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Speaker 1: had a brain tumor and was quite frankly, you know,
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Speaker 1: dying from that. But the Los Angeles Police Department gave
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Speaker 1: this little guy a honorary badge because it's something that
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Speaker 1: he wanted to make a wish. Dave didn't feel that
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Speaker 1: was fair. Dave wanted one too. Dave basically said the
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Speaker 1: badge would do more good with him rather than giving
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Speaker 1: it to a little kid That had a tumor. So
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Speaker 1: he said, why waste it on the kid? It was unacceptable.
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Speaker 1: Dave said he wasn't terminal, but he did have what
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Speaker 1: he called attention syndrome. He said he had the syndrome.
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Speaker 1: So Dave, he just couldn't let it go, man. Dave Oliva,
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Speaker 1: he needs that badge. Here he is, folks, getting that
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Speaker 1: honorary badge and really kind.
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Speaker 2: Of bugged by the kid with the brain tumor. Good God.
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Speaker 1: We have a law enforcement student from L.A. Pierce College
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Speaker 1: on the line with us, Dave Oliva. Dave, you take
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Speaker 1: law enforcement at Pierce, and you eventually do have an
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Speaker 1: eye toward joining the Los Angeles Police Department in the L.A.
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Speaker 2: Police Academy. Is that correct?
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Speaker 3: First of all, Mr.
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Speaker 4: Ernie, I want to say thank you very much for
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Speaker 4: having me on your program to talk about this.
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Speaker 2: You're welcome.
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Speaker 4: But I want to say that I do eventually want
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Speaker 4: to become a Los Angeles Police Department, a member of
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Speaker 4: the LAPD, because I do feel the LAPD is the most,
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Speaker 4: I mean, it's the best police department, you know, in
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Speaker 4: the world. I mean, if you look at, even with
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Speaker 4: the Rampart stuff that's going down right now.
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Speaker 2: I was going to say, they're not getting very good
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Speaker 2: publicity these days, are they?
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Speaker 4: No, they're not getting good publicity, but the police are
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Speaker 4: always getting bad publicity, and the LAPD always seems to
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Speaker 4: me like getting some pretty bad publicity. But I will
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Speaker 4: say this to all of the people listening to your
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Speaker 4: broadcast tonight. LAPD is the best police, even with all
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Speaker 4: of the problems that they have, is the best police
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Speaker 4: department in the world. It has always been my dream
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Speaker 4: to be a member of LAPD. And someday, you know,
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Speaker 4: God willing, I mean, you know, in the Virgin Mary,
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Speaker 4: you know, I hope someday that I will be a
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Speaker 4: police officer.
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Speaker 2: Now, you are taking law enforcement at L.A. Pierce College.
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Speaker 2: That's a junior college?
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Speaker 4: Yes, sir. That's a two-year program. And then I want
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Speaker 4: to go into the L.A. Police Academy and hopefully, you know,
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Speaker 4: be LAPD.
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Speaker 2: At the L.A.
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Speaker 1: Police Academy, they train officers for municipalities throughout California, correct?
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Speaker 4: That is my understanding. Various small cities, small police forces
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Speaker 4: around the city of Los Angeles, they send their officers
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Speaker 4: there to, I mean, prospective officers there to train, to
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Speaker 4: be police officers at the L.A. Police Academy. academy that
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Speaker 4: they have there. But I want to be LAPD.
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Speaker 2: Now, you do not want to join any other force.
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Speaker 4: That's correct. And the reason why I wanted to speak
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Speaker 4: with you tonight, I heard about this young boy who
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Speaker 4: has a brain tumor. And I'm really sorry to hear
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Speaker 4: that the boy is sick. And I'm also sorry to
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Speaker 4: hear that, you know, that it's life-threatening or whatever.
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Speaker 2: Well, it's a terminal illness.
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Speaker 4: That is correct. That Make-A-Wish Foundation does that for kids.
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Speaker 4: But My life, I've always wanted to be LAPD. And
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Speaker 4: when I read about that.
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Speaker 2: You had some problems?
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Speaker 4: Yes, sir, I did.
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Speaker 2: Tell us about it. Because I know you contacted my
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Speaker 2: producer before we went on the air.
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Speaker 4: Well, I mean, not to interrupt you, Mr. Henry, but
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Speaker 4: I've always felt that, you know, I mean, that's like
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Speaker 4: a knife to my heart. You know, a kid who
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Speaker 4: is over in, like, England, who has a brain tumor
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Speaker 4: that's not good... But he gets to be LAPD? I mean,
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Speaker 4: I don't understand that. All of my life, I've come
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Speaker 4: up a very tough way.
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Speaker 1: Now, this is what you were saying to Mike before
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Speaker 1: we went on the air.
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Speaker 2: You've had a tough life, too. You don't come from
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Speaker 2: a rich family.
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Speaker 4: No, sir, I don't come from a rich family. I
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Speaker 4: come from, you know, working-class people in Monterey Park, California.
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Speaker 4: And nobody has given me an LAPD badge. Nobody has
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Speaker 4: allowed me to be honorary LAPD. But some little kid
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Speaker 4: in England, because he has a brain tumor, gets to
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Speaker 4: be LAPD. And that, you know.
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Speaker 2: Does it frustrate you?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it frustrates me. It makes me angry. Like I said,
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Speaker 4: I didn't have the greatest life either. You know, I
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Speaker 4: did not have a brain tumor, nor do I have
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Speaker 4: one now. But I have always... I mean, I had attention...
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Speaker 4: What do you call it? Attention syndrome? ADD? I'm sorry?
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Speaker 2: Attention Deficit Disorder?
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Speaker 4: The syndrome for it?
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Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
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Speaker 4: That's the one that I had.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's called attention deficit syndrome, attention deficit disorder?
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Speaker 4: That is correct, yes. I had serious blemishing.
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Speaker 2: Did you have acne?
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Speaker 4: No, I didn't have acne, but I had serious blemishing
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Speaker 4: along my back and everything, which is not good. You're
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Speaker 4: a teenage boy, stuff like that.
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Speaker 2: I mean, okay, but what you're basically saying is that
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Speaker 2: you had.
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Speaker 4: And there was no make-a-wish foundation for me, you know?
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Speaker 4: There was no make-no-wish foundation for me, okay? But some
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Speaker 4: little kid who's not an American, he lives over in
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Speaker 4: another country, and he gets to be LAPD? That was
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Speaker 4: like somebody taking a steak knife, you know, just like
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Speaker 4: a meat cleaver, man, and burying it in my neck.
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Speaker 4: And for me, that... Okay, and that's.
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Speaker 2: Why you've contacted members of the press. Let me say this.
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Speaker 2: You're how old?
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Speaker 4: I'm 19.
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Speaker 2: You're 19 years old. You feel that this kid, there's other.
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Speaker 1: Reasons beyond the little boy in England with the brain
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Speaker 1: tumor getting this badge. You feel there are other reasons
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Speaker 1: why it shouldn't happen?
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Speaker 4: Well, first of all, you have to understand something, Mr. Henry,
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Speaker 4: and everybody knows this who has ever had an honorary
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Speaker 4: badge for the police. That makes you an official police officer.
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Speaker 4: You have arrest power, you have detention power, you have search,
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Speaker 4: and you have some seizure power. That is the most
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Speaker 4: insane thing that has ever happened to me, to see
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Speaker 4: this kid, who's eight years old with a brain tumor,
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Speaker 4: he is technically... You're saying technically he's a cop? Technically, yeah.
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Speaker 2: Isn't an honorary badge.
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Speaker 4: No, no. Look what happened to L.A. County Sheriff, man.
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Speaker 4: They gave out honorary badges to some dudes... These dudes
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Speaker 4: are going around with guns and stuff. You give out
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Speaker 4: an honorary badge to some little kid in England who has, like,
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Speaker 4: a brain problem, that's insanity, okay? That's number one. Number two,
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Speaker 4: for whatever reason may be, that kid has arrest power
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Speaker 4: and he has search and seizure power, too. That means that,
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Speaker 4: you know.
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Speaker 2: Well, you're not saying the kid's going to come to L.A.
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Speaker 2: and arrest.
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Speaker 1: I understand the nature of an honorary appointment, okay? Most
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Speaker 1: of these people are incapable of being police officers, right?
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Speaker 4: But I'm saying technically.
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Speaker 2: You're saying technically that kid can arrest somebody.
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Speaker 4: Right. He technically can do that. So if you want
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Speaker 4: somebody to technically be able to arrest somebody who has
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Speaker 4: had a bad life or who had difficult things happen
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Speaker 4: to him, you could do it for me.
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Speaker 2: And that is your point, right?
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Speaker 4: That is my point, because I've had a difficult life, too.
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Speaker 4: I would like to be honorary LAPD, too. And on
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Speaker 4: top of that, I could make arrests and not be
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Speaker 4: no kid... You know, with no brain tumor, messing it
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Speaker 4: up or whatever.
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Speaker 2: Well, I mean, he's a little boy.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, but I mean, a kid with a
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Speaker 4: brain tumor is bound. He'd mess it up. I don't
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Speaker 4: see how no kid with a brain tumor could not
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Speaker 4: mess up.
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Speaker 1: Well, I don't think that that boy is going to
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Speaker 1: be making any arrests. I mean, the little boy has
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Speaker 1: a life-threatening illness.
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Speaker 4: No, no, I understand that. I don't mean to say
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Speaker 4: nothing bad about him, but I'm saying it's a bad thing, man,
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Speaker 4: to give a kid with a tumor... a badge or something.
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Speaker 4: So that's why I contacted the press. That's why I'm
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Speaker 4: saying to you, I want to be LAPD, too, but
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Speaker 4: I got no honorary badge. Okay, Dave, hold on, all right?
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Speaker 4: I'm sorry?
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Speaker 2: Hold on, okay?
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Speaker 4: Yes, sir. All right, hold the line there, Dave.
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Speaker 2: That's Dave Oliva.
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Speaker 1: He is a student at Pierce College in the Valley,
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Speaker 1: and his lifelong ambition is to be a member of
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Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Police Department. He's a little bit upset
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Speaker 1: that the LAPD has given an honorary badge to a
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Speaker 1: little boy, an 8-year-old boy in England who has a
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Speaker 1: brain tumor. And he's on our air tonight talking about it.
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Speaker 1: And we're letting him talk about it and taking your comments, too.
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Speaker 2: The Phil Henry Show. Phil Henry Show.
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Speaker 1: 1-800-449-8686.
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Speaker 5: 1-800-449-8686.
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Speaker 2: We have an aspiring L.A.
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Speaker 1: Police Department officer on the line, I guess is what
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Speaker 1: we could call you, David, although you are still in.
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Speaker 2: School, correct?
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Speaker 4: As yet I don't have the honor to call myself.
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Speaker 2: So you're not an LAPD officer?
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Speaker 4: No, sir, I'm not, but I hope someday very deeply
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Speaker 4: that I will. And one of the reasons why I called,
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Speaker 4: because of this kid.
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Speaker 2: All right, now let me reset for the audience, okay?
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Speaker 4: I'm sorry?
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Speaker 2: Let me reset for the audience.
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Speaker 5: You.
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Speaker 2: Found out about a young boy in England, this young
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Speaker 2: man in England, by the name of, excuse me.
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Speaker 4: Stephen Coombs.
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Speaker 2: Stephen Coombs, yeah, thank you.
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Speaker 1: He got a badge, honorary position with the Los Angeles
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Speaker 1: Police Department, because he is with Make-A-Wish and because it
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Speaker 1: was his dying wish.
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Speaker 2: Right. And you feel that you would like the honorary badge, too?
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Speaker 4: Well, I don't want it to sound like I don't
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Speaker 4: want no sick kid to be a cop, but an
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Speaker 4: honorary police department badge, man, that's like almost official... And
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Speaker 4: I had bad stuff happen to me as a kid,
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Speaker 4: you know.
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Speaker 1: Okay, I understand that, but you're saying that you feel
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Speaker 1: you would like to publicly be sponsored for something like this.
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Speaker 4: Yes, sir, I would.
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Speaker 2: Okay. David, I'm just getting a background. I'm not criticizing.
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Speaker 2: You understand that?
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Speaker 4: No, no, I understand that, but that's why I called in,
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Speaker 4: because I wanted you to be, what do you call it,
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Speaker 4: like a sponsor or something.
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Speaker 2: Okay, I understand that. I'm going to talk to you
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Speaker 2: about that in a minute. I'm going to take a
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Speaker 2: phone call, all right?
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Speaker 4: I'm sorry?
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Speaker 2: I want to take a phone call. You having a
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Speaker 2: hard time hearing me?
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Speaker 4: No, no, no, I can hear you pretty good, but
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Speaker 4: I didn't hear the last thing you said.
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Speaker 2: Okay, I'm taking a phone call. Here is Gainesville on
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Speaker 2: the Phil Henry Show. Hello?
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Speaker 4: Yes.
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Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
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Speaker 6: In reference to the honorary badge, I guarantee that little
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Speaker 6: eight-year-old boy would trade places with that guy in a heartbeat.
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Speaker 6: I mean, you can go to any cop store and
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Speaker 6: get yourself a badge.
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Speaker 4: I would trade places with him in a heartbeat.
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Speaker 6: So you would die for a badge?
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Speaker 4: I would have to. If I became LAPD, maybe I
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Speaker 4: would have to die. You know what I'm saying?
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Speaker 2: No, what the man's saying is you'd rather get a
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Speaker 2: terminal illness?
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Speaker 4: No, I don't want to have no brain tumor or anything,
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Speaker 4: but my life was bad, too, you know? Why does
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Speaker 4: a kid from England get to have it?
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Speaker 6: I'm sure he's arresting a lot of people in England
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Speaker 6: with his honorary badge.
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Speaker 4: Technically, though, he does have arrest power, sir, and that's
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Speaker 4: something you have to think about.
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Speaker 6: And I guarantee he's not going to come over to
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Speaker 6: California and arrest somebody on his bicycle.
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Speaker 4: But technically he does have that. And all I'm saying
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Speaker 4: is that if they give me an honorary badge, I
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Speaker 4: live in Los Angeles. I can go to the Hollenbeck
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Speaker 4: Division or whatever and go over and get the badge. Okay?
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Speaker 4: And I could be much more effective as an honorary
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Speaker 4: police officer than some kid, you know, of the Make-A-Wish
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Speaker 4: Foundation does. Okay, sir. Okay.
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Speaker 2: Thank you for your call tonight. Here is Jacksonville on
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Speaker 2: the Phil Hendry Show.
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Speaker 4: Hello.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, hey, how you doing?
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Speaker 2: Fine, sir.
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Speaker 3: You know, what kind of police officer or aspiring police
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Speaker 3: officer is going to be envious or jealous of a
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Speaker 3: little kid whose last dying wish wants to be an LAPD?
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Speaker 3: I mean, kind of Make-A-Wish program is there to establish
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Speaker 3: the last hopes and dreams of a dying child who
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Speaker 3: won't even... grow up to be 19 years old.
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Speaker 4: No, but I'm saying that my life... Do you.
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Speaker 3: Really think that you'd be a good police officer without
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Speaker 3: compassion for others, compassion for this little boy that has
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Speaker 3: a brain tumor or dying wishes? to be an honorary
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Speaker 3: police officer.
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Speaker 7: They did not have to make him know.
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Speaker 3: How can you even compare yourself to this kid who's dying?
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Speaker 4: They did not have to make him know.
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Speaker 3: I grew up with ADHD, buddy. I know what it's like.
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Speaker 3: I made my life.
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Speaker 4: I know what I am. I grew up with attention syndrome, too.
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Speaker 4: I got attention syndrome, too.
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Speaker 3: I don't hand out my handout saying, hey, give me
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Speaker 3: this because everybody else has given it, man.
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Speaker 4: Do you have a syndrome?
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Speaker 7: You can get yourself on the welfare line and hold
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Speaker 7: your hand.
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Speaker 4: Out like this.
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Speaker 3: It seems like you want everything given to you.
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Speaker 4: Do you have the syndrome? Get educated.
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Speaker 3: Learn the English language and don't put double negatives.
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Speaker 7: I ain't got no brain.
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Speaker 4: Do you have the syndrome or do you not? Do
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Speaker 4: you have the syndrome?
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I do have ADHD.
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Speaker 3: I've had it all my life. I'm quite a successful
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Speaker 3: business person right now.
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Speaker 4: Okay, I don't know what that is, but I had
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Speaker 4: attention syndrome, okay?
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Speaker 3: Well, dude, that's the same thing. Evidently, you're not educated
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Speaker 3: enough to realize ADHD is the same thing. ADHD has
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Speaker 3: a hyperactivity DD with it.
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Speaker 2: ADHD is what, sir?
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Speaker 4: Attention deficit hyperactive disorder.
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Speaker 7: It's the same thing as ADHD, just I'm a little more.
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Speaker 4: Hyperactive than the other people are. No, but I didn't
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Speaker 4: have no hyperactive, man. But what I did have was
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Speaker 4: the attention syndrome disorder. What you have is a simple excuse.
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Speaker 3: That you're trying to rely on to try to get
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Speaker 3: yourself ahead and say, oh, why me, why me?
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Speaker 4: No, no, man.
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Speaker 3: Do you want to be a cop, be self-reliant, say,
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Speaker 3: I can do this, and get off your lazy can and.
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Speaker 7: Go ahead and do it?
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Speaker 4: Hey, I'm doing it. I'm taking law enforcement right now.
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Speaker 4: I'm taking law enforcement right now, man. No, I'm taking
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Speaker 4: law enforcement right now. And someday I want to go
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Speaker 4: to the LAPD Police Academy, which is in Elysian Park, California, okay?
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Speaker 4: But how come some little kid gets to have arrest powers?
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Speaker 4: And I don't, okay?
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Speaker 3: Dude, he's got an honorary badge.
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Speaker 7: Yes, he has a capability, I'm sure, of arresting somebody.
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Speaker 3: He's a nine-year-old kid with a brain tumor.
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Speaker 4: Yeah. He's lucky to be able to go outside and
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Speaker 4: play a little.
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Speaker 1: What's the odds that this kid is going to be
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Speaker 1: able to go out and arrest somebody, all right?
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Speaker 2: What are the odds?
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Speaker 4: Technically, he can, though. Okay? Technically, he can.
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Speaker 3: Technically, you have the ability to grow up and be
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Speaker 3: a person. Technically, this kid doesn't.
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Speaker 4: Hey, man. Is that fair? Hey. Is that fair?
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Speaker 3: Okay.
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Speaker 4: What about me?
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Speaker 3: You get to grow up and be an adult and
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Speaker 3: he doesn't?
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Speaker 4: How come I got all bad stuff happen to me?
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Speaker 4: I don't get no badge.
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Speaker 3: You're still alive, aren't you?
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Speaker 4: You can make the best of.
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Speaker 3: What you have for the rest of your life, don't you?
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Speaker 4: I don't think you understand.
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Speaker 3: You don't have nothing bad that happened to you yet, man.
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Speaker 3: I had blemishing. You ain't got nothing even to cry about.
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Speaker 4: No, but I'm saying that when I was a kid,
16:09
Speaker 4: I had serious blemishing and I had the syndrome of attention.
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Speaker 3: You had a skin condition. So other people get skin conditions,
16:16
Speaker 3: they grow out of them.
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Speaker 4: Serious blemishing? Did you ever see that? I don't think so.
16:20
Speaker 4: I don't think so.
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Speaker 3: Sir, I've seen a number of things.
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Speaker 4: You've seen blemishing? Sure. Okay, like... It ain't nothing but
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Speaker 4: a thing.
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Speaker 7: Did you grow out of it?
16:28
Speaker 4: But... Do you know.
16:29
Speaker 7: Did you grow out of it?
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Speaker 2: Did you grow out of having blemishes, Dave, didn't you?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, but it was on my back. Do you have
16:34
Speaker 4: it anymore? What?
16:35
Speaker 3: Stop your bloody whining.
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Speaker 6: Get off your butt.
16:37
Speaker 3: Go back to college. Earn your badge the way you
16:39
Speaker 3: want to. Or just get yourself a brain tumor and
16:41
Speaker 3: ask for one. Don't stand in a welfare.
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Speaker 7: Line and say, hey, you gave this kid one.
16:46
Speaker 4: I want one, too, okay? Man, I don't think you
16:47
Speaker 4: understand where I'm coming from. I don't think you understand
16:50
Speaker 4: where I'm coming from. That's all I'm saying, you know. No,
16:51
Speaker 4: you don't understand where being a mature adult comes from.
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Speaker 3: And having compassion for a child with a brain tumor.
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Speaker 4: 1-800-449-8686.
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Speaker 2: We'll be right back on The Phil Henry Show.
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Speaker 1: Phil Hendry Show, 1-800-449-8686. On the line with me from
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Speaker 1: Monterey Park, California, is Dave Oliva. He is an aspiring
17:15
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Police Department officer, but you're not. You're in
17:18
Speaker 1: school taking law enforcement, Dave, and you're also on the
17:21
Speaker 1: air here. A lot of people are hearing you complaining
17:23
Speaker 1: about this kid who got an honorary badge. He was
17:25
Speaker 1: with the Make-A-Wish Foundation, this little Stephen Coombs.
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Speaker 4: No, no, I don't want to sound like I've got
17:31
Speaker 4: a problem with a kid with a brain tumor, okay?
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Speaker 2: Well, a lot of people are saying that, and that's
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Speaker 2: what it's sounding like.
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Speaker 4: Well, if I'm saying that, then I apologize. All I'm
17:41
Speaker 4: saying is, Mr. Henry, I would like it if you
17:43
Speaker 4: would sponsor me for the Make-A-Wish, you know, so that
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Speaker 4: I could get the honorary badge.
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Speaker 2: Well, number one, there's a couple of things wrong with that.
17:52
Speaker 4: What?
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Speaker 1: Well, number one, you're old. You're 19. Number two, I
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Speaker 1: don't think you have a life-threatening illness.
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Speaker 4: No, but what I'm saying is because of your... role
18:02
Speaker 4: in the media as a talk show host, people will
18:06
Speaker 4: be on my side, you know?
18:08
Speaker 2: No, I don't know.
18:10
Speaker 4: Because you have a radio show and you're a talk
18:12
Speaker 4: show host, you're influential in the community and around the country, too.
18:16
Speaker 4: People will see my side.
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Speaker 2: That you should get a badge from the LAPD.
18:23
Speaker 4: Because I deserve, because my life has been tough, and
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Speaker 4: because I would be a better honorary cop.
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Speaker 2: Because you've had blemishing and you have attention?
18:30
Speaker 4: I have attention syndrome. of the deficit. You know, and
18:35
Speaker 4: like that dude who called a few minutes ago about
18:38
Speaker 4: hyperactive or whatever, I'd never heard of nothing like that.
18:40
Speaker 4: I don't know of nothing like that. But when I
18:43
Speaker 4: was a kid, I was diagnosed with the deficit syndrome,
18:48
Speaker 4: and my mother could not afford for no medication.
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Speaker 1: All right, I understand that, and I know that growing
18:54
Speaker 1: up that way is probably tough. That guy had something
18:56
Speaker 1: called ADHD, which is attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and you
19:01
Speaker 1: had ADD?
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Speaker 4: I had, yeah. That's what I had.
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Speaker 2: ADD.
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Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
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Speaker 2: Okay, here is Lenore on the Phil Henry Show.
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Speaker 4: Hello.
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Speaker 5: Yes, I'm 19 years old myself, and I've had a
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Speaker 5: difficult life, too. However, you know, you and I, for
19:16
Speaker 5: the guy who's got a problem, we've had the privilege
19:18
Speaker 5: of growing up. You know, at least we have... we
19:21
Speaker 5: have the ability to go out and make something of ourselves.
19:23
Speaker 5: And we're not an eight-year-old boy who is, you know,
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Speaker 5: sitting here every day knowing that he's going to die.
19:29
Speaker 5: You know, if you have a problem with his power
19:30
Speaker 5: to go out and arrest, you know.
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Speaker 4: That's what I mean.
19:33
Speaker 5: You have the power for citizen's arrest. If you see
19:35
Speaker 5: someone doing something wrong on the street, you know, you
19:38
Speaker 5: can call the cops. That is, you know.
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Speaker 4: Well, all I'm saying is.
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Speaker 5: Or you can arrest yourself as a citizen's arrest, you know?
19:43
Speaker 4: No, you can't. No, I've studied law enforcement. You cannot
19:46
Speaker 4: do no citizen's arrest unless you have a police officer... there, okay?
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Speaker 5: Well, then you tell the cops, you know?
19:53
Speaker 4: Well, look, okay, do you feel safe in your bed
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Speaker 4: at night knowing some little kid with a tumor is
19:59
Speaker 4: going to be arresting people?
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Speaker 1: The kid's not going to arrest anybody.
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Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
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Speaker 5: You are 19 years old.
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Speaker 4: Yes.
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Speaker 5: And this little boy is what, 18? That means you've
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Speaker 5: already got 11 years that he's never going to have.
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Speaker 5: You know, and who knows how many more.
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Speaker 4: Wait a minute. I think your math is off. It's 19. What?
20:16
Speaker 4: She said what?
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Speaker 2: He's got 11.
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Speaker 5: 11 plus 8 is 19. Am I not correct?
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Speaker 4: Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah, you're right. Okay. I thought I
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Speaker 4: was dead.
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Speaker 5: You know, if you've got such a problem with a boy,
20:25
Speaker 5: why don't you get an education? Because you obviously can't add.
20:28
Speaker 5: Your grammar is terrible. And instead of making fun.
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Speaker 4: Okay, Miss Ernie, you know, I'm not here to be
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Speaker 4: laughed at tonight, you know.
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Speaker 2: And I'm sorry, but the lady made a point, you know.
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Speaker 2: Eleven plus eight is what?
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Speaker 4: Nineteen. Nineteen, okay, I'm sorry. But what I'm saying.
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Speaker 5: Let me ask you something. If this boy's got a
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Speaker 5: brain tumor, do you really think he's going to hop
20:45
Speaker 5: out of his bed and arrest people?
20:46
Speaker 2: That's the point, okay?
20:47
Speaker 4: He's going to take his.
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Speaker 5: Hospital gown, make it into a cape, and fly out
20:50
Speaker 5: the window to arrest people.
20:52
Speaker 4: I agree with you, but I'm saying technically he has
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Speaker 4: the right to place you under arrest and detain you.
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Speaker 5: Come on! I have the right to go blow someone's
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Speaker 5: brains out, but it doesn't mean I hop on the
21:07
Speaker 5: bandwagon to do it.
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Speaker 4: Hey, what is that, man? Is that like a washing
21:12
Speaker 4: machine or something? Hello?
21:14
Speaker 5: Maybe in your head, but not on my phone line.
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Speaker 2: What did you hear, Dave?
21:19
Speaker 4: I heard some kind of weird thing. Okay, I just
21:20
Speaker 4: want to say something to the lady, all right? A,
21:24
Speaker 4: I agree with you that the kid has a brain tumor. B,
21:27
Speaker 4: I'm sorry that he's not going to live, but I
21:30
Speaker 4: am going to live, okay? What about the people that
21:33
Speaker 4: are going to live? Don't we get to have no badge?
21:35
Speaker 5: See, you do get to have a badge, but since.
21:37
Speaker 2: You also get to.
21:39
Speaker 5: Make an example out of yourself by going to school
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Speaker 5: and getting an education, which is something that little boy
21:45
Speaker 5: cannot do, so you make an example for yourself. By
21:48
Speaker 5: earning your badge. And when you do earn that badge,
21:50
Speaker 5: then you talk about a little boy getting a badge
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Speaker 5: for free.
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Speaker 1: Well, that's the point, Dave. You know, you're going to
21:54
Speaker 1: go to school. You're going to go to the LAPD
21:57
Speaker 1: Police Academy. You'll eventually graduate in the Los Angeles Police Department.
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Speaker 1: Why can't you just wait to get your real badge
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Speaker 1: rather than an honorary badge?
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Speaker 4: Because my whole life I had attention syndrome, attention, deficit
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Speaker 4: attention syndrome.
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Speaker 2: Attention Deficit Disorder.
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Speaker 5: Okay, and I'm overweight, so that means that, oh, wait,
22:23
Speaker 5: I'm overweight. Why don't the LAPD give me an honorary
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Speaker 5: badge since I've had a rough life because I'm fat?
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Speaker 4: Is it terminal, or, I mean, you know, are you
22:30
Speaker 4: going to die from it? If you are, they should
22:32
Speaker 4: be able to.
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Speaker 5: I very well could.
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Speaker 4: It's not fair that that kid can arrest people now,
22:36
Speaker 4: and I can. I've waited long enough. When you've got
22:39
Speaker 4: detention syndrome, 19 years is a long time. Because I've
22:43
Speaker 4: had to pay attention, you know, for 19 years, man.
22:45
Speaker 4: If that little boy.
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Speaker 5: Did arrest somebody, do you think that the law enforcement
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Speaker 5: people in London or England, wherever he's at, do.
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Speaker 3: You think they're going to take that seriously?
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Speaker 2: Well, first of all, he doesn't have arrest powers in England.
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Speaker 2: He only has arrest powers in Los Angeles, yeah.
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Speaker 5: And, you know, he's sick. I kind of doubt they're.
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Speaker 4: Going to hook up his body. Well, what's wrong with Mr.
23:05
Speaker 5: Henry?
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Speaker 4: What's wrong with Mr. Henry sponsoring me?
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Speaker 1: I don't know that I want to sponsor you, man.
23:09
Speaker 1: You're not terminally ill. You're a healthy, strapping young guy.
23:13
Speaker 1: You're in school taking law enforcement.
23:15
Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 4: But if you did, then they would let me do it.
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Speaker 5: Do you know what would be a good sponsor for you?
23:20
Speaker 4: A job. What?
23:20
Speaker 5: Because that's how America works. You get a job and
23:24
Speaker 5: you work for the things that you want in life.
23:27
Speaker 5: Then you can point your finger at someone who hasn't.
23:28
Speaker 4: What are you doing?
23:28
Speaker 2: What are you doing for money?
23:30
Speaker 4: Right now I work on a consumer hotline for Sears.com.
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Speaker 4: Two days a week.
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Speaker 5: Maybe that's why you're so good on the phone, you know.
23:39
Speaker 4: Well, thank you. I mean, I try very hard.
23:41
Speaker 2: I think she's being sarcastic.
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Speaker 5: Yes, I was.
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Speaker 4: Well, what's the point of him having an LAPD badge
23:46
Speaker 4: in England if he can't use it, okay?
23:48
Speaker 5: What's the point of you talking on the phone when
23:50
Speaker 5: people can hardly understand your English?
23:52
Speaker 4: I work for Sears. I take orders about people's washing
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Speaker 4: machines and stuff like that.
23:56
Speaker 5: That's why you're hearing washing machines in your head.
23:59
Speaker 4: You know what? You're pretty funny, you know? I'd like
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Speaker 4: to meet you, and maybe, you know, we could have
24:03
Speaker 4: a beer or something and talk about it. But until
24:05
Speaker 4: that time comes, until you're lucky enough to have that date.
24:08
Speaker 5: We're not old enough to have a drink. I don't
24:11
Speaker 5: want to.
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Speaker 4: Meet someone like you. Check you out. You're 19, man.
24:13
Speaker 4: You're not going to have a beer or nothing?
24:16
Speaker 5: If you want to deny a little boy an honorary badge,
24:20
Speaker 5: then there is no female in this country with any dignity...
24:24
Speaker 5: who is going to want to meet you, talk to you,
24:25
Speaker 5: or whatever.
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Speaker 4: Well, let me ask you something. How come you got
24:28
Speaker 4: so tight-ass you don't have no beer at 19? What's
24:31
Speaker 4: up with that?
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Speaker 5: Well, Ben, you know that I am familiar with the
24:34
Speaker 5: laws of this country, and I do not want to
24:36
Speaker 5: be a police officer, but.
24:37
Speaker 4: I do have the laws of work.
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Speaker 2: You want to be a cop, you can't have a
24:41
Speaker 2: beer at 19. Exactly.
24:42
Speaker 5: If you look at the rules, you can't drink at 19.
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Speaker 4: Oh, come on, man. My older brother could go out
24:47
Speaker 4: and get a sixer or a Lucky Lager or something
24:49
Speaker 4: or some Falstaff or something. What's wrong with that?
24:52
Speaker 5: And, right, when you're arrested for drunk driving, you kill
24:54
Speaker 5: somebody before you get your badge.
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Speaker 2: When's the last time you saw Lucky Lager in a store,
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Speaker 2: by the way?
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Speaker 4: They sell it in Monterey Park. They sell it in
25:01
Speaker 4: two stores in Montebello.
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Speaker 2: Okay, fine. Thank you, ma'am, for your call.
25:05
Speaker 5: Thank you.
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Speaker 2: Thank you very much. Lucky Lager in Falstaff.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, my uncle has a distributorship in Montebello.
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Speaker 2: Of Falstaff?
25:13
Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Wow, okay.
25:16
Speaker 1: Here is, well, I'm getting to like you more and more, Dave.
25:18
Speaker 1: Here is West Palm Beach on the Phil Henry Show.
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Speaker 4: Hello.
25:21
Speaker 3: Hello?
25:22
Speaker 2: Yes, hello, ma'am.
25:23
Speaker 8: How are you doing tonight?
25:24
Speaker 2: Fine, thank you.
25:25
Speaker 8: I hope you can understand me. I'm getting over a cold.
25:27
Speaker 2: Bear with me. Yes, we can understand you fine.
25:29
Speaker 8: Okay, great. I want to tell you something.
25:32
Speaker 4: Is she talking to me?
25:33
Speaker 7: Yes, I'm talking to you.
25:35
Speaker 2: She's going to make a statement.
25:37
Speaker 8: I'm speaking with you, Dave.
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Speaker 4: Okay.
25:39
Speaker 8: I'm the mother of an 18-year-old.
25:40
Speaker 4: Yeah?
25:41
Speaker 8: And I'll tell you right now, if you ever got
25:43
Speaker 8: on this phone, as you did tonight, with your attitude
25:47
Speaker 8: and your character, I would take you six foot... 256-pound
25:52
Speaker 8: rear end to the shed.
25:54
Speaker 4: Period. What are you talking about, man? I'm talking about
25:57
Speaker 4: dignity for me.
25:59
Speaker 8: Dignity for me, me, me, me, me. Get a life, kiddo.
26:04
Speaker 4: You got an outhouse or something? You take your boy
26:06
Speaker 4: to an outhouse? Is that what you said?
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Speaker 8: No.
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Speaker 1: She said she'd take him out to a shed, which
26:15
Speaker 1: is the good old-fashioned way of disciplining kids.
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Speaker 4: What do you do? What do you do with them
26:19
Speaker 4: out there?
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Speaker 2: You spank them.
26:22
Speaker 4: That sounds like the most perverted thing that I've ever
26:25
Speaker 4: heard in my life, man. You take a kid out
26:28
Speaker 4: to a shed and take his pants down.
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Speaker 8: It's a figure of speech, young man.
26:33
Speaker 4: Well, okay. You know, the Viet Cong used to lock
26:36
Speaker 4: people up in sheds, ma'am, because I know my uncle was.
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Speaker 8: Dave, you're missing my point. What I'm trying to say is.
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Speaker 4: That's torture.
26:43
Speaker 8: You're not of much character. I don't know what your
26:46
Speaker 8: upbringing was.
26:47
Speaker 9: Right.
26:48
Speaker 8: And I have no idea. And you know what?
26:51
Speaker 4: My mother cleaned houses, okay? All I can say is you're...
26:53
Speaker 4: My mother cleaned houses, okay? And my father.
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Speaker 7: I don't care what... I don't care if you built
26:57
Speaker 7: the Empire State Building.
26:58
Speaker 4: If my father worked for the Earl Scheib Auto Painting
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Speaker 4: Company for 20 years.
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Speaker 8: That's a nice thing.
27:02
Speaker 4: Okay.
27:02
Speaker 7: Then you are not so deprived.
27:04
Speaker 8: Both your parents fed you, correct?
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Speaker 4: No, but I had a tension of the syndrome.
27:08
Speaker 7: So what?
27:09
Speaker 8: There's 5 million kids in this country with it.
27:12
Speaker 4: Well, I... And they're not crying. But I'm talking up
27:16
Speaker 4: for myself.
27:17
Speaker 8: I know what you're talking about. I've been listening to
27:18
Speaker 8: you driving home for half an hour.
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Speaker 4: I'm speaking up for myself. I was so disgusted. I'm
27:23
Speaker 4: speaking up for myself to say, this kid in England
27:27
Speaker 4: who's got.
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Speaker 8: No, you want a handout.
27:29
Speaker 4: A handout? I'm asking for an honorary badge. I could
27:32
Speaker 4: use it. Use it for what? To the betterment of
27:34
Speaker 4: the people of L.A. What?
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Speaker 5: Then work for.
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Speaker 8: It, my dear.
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Speaker 2: Go to school. Get your badge.
27:42
Speaker 4: Okay, so there's one wasted badge out there right now.
27:45
Speaker 4: Some little kid who's got a lump in his head.
27:46
Speaker 8: It's not a wasted badge.
27:48
Speaker 4: Get over it. It's a waste of a badge. Get
27:50
Speaker 4: over it. Arresting people and protecting the people of Los
27:53
Speaker 4: Angeles City.
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Speaker 8: Young man, if any police department is listening to you
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Speaker 8: right now, they wouldn't hire you in a heartbeat.
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Speaker 4: If you have an honorary badge, you can make arrests.
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Speaker 2: We got it already, man. We understand.
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Speaker 8: The police department was listening to you. After listening to
28:08
Speaker 8: your comments tonight, they wouldn't hire you anyway. So you
28:11
Speaker 8: better look for a different career.
28:13
Speaker 4: Let me ask you a question, okay? Mr. Henry is
28:15
Speaker 4: the talk show host. If he said that he would
28:17
Speaker 4: sponsor me for Make-A-Wish Foundation, you'd write them letters saying yes.
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Speaker 8: If he does, I'll never listen to his show again.
28:23
Speaker 4: No, that's wrong. He has influence as a talk show
28:27
Speaker 4: radio man. You have to do what he says.
28:29
Speaker 8: I have influenza, too, and my children. Apparently, you didn't
28:31
Speaker 8: have the right kind.
28:32
Speaker 4: Can I ask a question? If this kid has a
28:34
Speaker 4: lump in his head, why is his wish to be
28:36
Speaker 4: LAPD and not to get a lumpectomy?
28:38
Speaker 8: It's all he's got to think about.
28:40
Speaker 4: Why doesn't he get the lump taken away? Yeah, you
28:44
Speaker 4: can't answer that, can you?
28:45
Speaker 8: Do you understand what terminal means?
28:47
Speaker 2: It's a terminal illness, okay? They can't take the lump away.
28:50
Speaker 4: Bull crap, man. They have, like, laser surgery.
28:53
Speaker 8: Now do you want to be a brain surgeon?
28:55
Speaker 2: Now you're a doctor?
28:57
Speaker 4: Ain't you seen the laser surgery that they got? They take, like... Like,
29:02
Speaker 4: how old are you, ma'am? How old are you, ma'am?
29:05
Speaker 8: I'm old enough to be your mother.
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Speaker 4: Okay, they could take lasers and make you look, like,
29:10
Speaker 4: good and stuff. They have all kinds of stuff.
29:11
Speaker 8: Well, I look just fine, my dear.
29:13
Speaker 4: Well, whatever.
29:14
Speaker 5: I mean.
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Speaker 3: I'm a businesswoman.
29:18
Speaker 8: I'm not an idiot.
29:19
Speaker 4: Well, they can do a lot of stuff.
29:20
Speaker 8: But you're acting like one.
29:21
Speaker 4: They could lift your face, anything you want, man.
29:24
Speaker 8: I don't need a facelift.
29:25
Speaker 2: All right.
29:25
Speaker 4: We're getting off the subject, Dave. Right.
29:29
Speaker 2: We have to take a break, ma'am. Thank you very
29:30
Speaker 2: much for your call.
29:31
Speaker 8: I appreciate it.
29:31
Speaker 3: Thank you.
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Speaker 1: Dave Oliva, a student at L.A. Pierce, law enforcement major
29:47
Speaker 1: and an aspiring Los Angeles police officer.
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Speaker 2: You have managed here, Dave.
29:52
Speaker 1: When you contacted my producer to come on the show
29:54
Speaker 1: and talk about how you would like an honorary badge
29:56
Speaker 1: from the LAPD, I didn't think you'd manage to earn
29:59
Speaker 1: the enmity of.
30:00
Speaker 2: The people calling in.
30:02
Speaker 1: But holding up this little boy, this 8-year-old boy who
30:06
Speaker 1: got an honorary badge from the LAPD, even though he
30:10
Speaker 1: has a terminal illness, I think is a little sad,
30:14
Speaker 1: and I think a lot of people are seeing that.
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Speaker 4: Well, I did not want to come on and earn...
30:20
Speaker 4: the men the menity of the people okay what i
30:23
Speaker 4: wanted to say was i am uh uh uh dave
30:28
Speaker 4: oliver i love the lapd lapd is the greatest police
30:32
Speaker 4: department in america and the world possibly even better than
30:37
Speaker 4: the london england police department you know but no wonder
30:41
Speaker 4: that kid wants to have an lapd badge but by
30:44
Speaker 4: the same token why don't he want to have no
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Speaker 4: london pd badge okay See, that's what I don't get.
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Speaker 1: Because he likes the LAPD. Because there ain't no TV
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Speaker 1: shows with the London cops in it.
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Speaker 4: What about that one that I've seen?
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Speaker 2: Oh, who cares, man? Let me take a phone call, okay?
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Speaker 2: What do you mean? Which one did you see?
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Speaker 4: The one with the woman, man.
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Speaker 2: What, Prime Suspect?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the one. That's pretty good. That's about the
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Speaker 4: London PD.
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Speaker 2: Okay, that's... I don't know.
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Speaker 1: They got a lot of TV reruns in America, in Britain,
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Speaker 1: that have American shows, okay? Maybe the kid, if it
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Speaker 1: wasn't that, he'd want to be running down a beach
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Speaker 1: in Santa Monica.
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Speaker 4: Yeah. A kid with a tumor, man? I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I'm just saying maybe he would with all of the
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Speaker 1: TV shows. Here's Albany on the Phil Henry Show.
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Speaker 2: Hello.
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Speaker 4: Hi. Doesn't make any sense to me.
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Speaker 2: Yes, ma'am, you're on the air.
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Speaker 5: Yes, hi.
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Speaker 9: My name's Megan.
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Speaker 2: Hi, Megan.
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Speaker 9: And I want to respond to Dave. Dave, it really
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Speaker 9: upsets me and saddens me. A man who is, you know,
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Speaker 9: around my age, you make my age group a disgrace.
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Speaker 4: What did I do?
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Speaker 9: What did you do?
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 9: I really respect that you want to be a part
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Speaker 9: of the LAPD. That's great and all. This kid is
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Speaker 9: eight years old, and he's going to die.
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Speaker 4: I know. So what does he need to be LAPD for? Okay.
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Speaker 1: You know what?
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Speaker 9: You hear yourself. You're so uneducated.
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Speaker 4: Just because I'm Mexican doesn't mean that.
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Speaker 5: I worked my butt off.
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Speaker 9: To get where I am, and I got a 3.3.
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Speaker 9: I'm finishing my high school diploma and a community college degree.
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Speaker 9: And I have aspirations. And I'm not asking for a handout.
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Speaker 9: I don't want anyone to give me my career choice because,
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Speaker 9: you know, I had a horrible, you know, experience in
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Speaker 9: high school. And, you know, life treated me a little
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Speaker 9: bit unfairly. That's not how life works. Right.
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Speaker 4: But if life treated you unfairly, you should get an
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Speaker 4: honorary badge, too, or something.
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Speaker 9: Oh, so everyone in the world who has something bad
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Speaker 9: happen to them, they should get an honorary LAPD badge
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Speaker 9: or have, you know, what they want in life just
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Speaker 9: handed to them.
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Speaker 4: No, no. But seriously, what happened to you in high school?
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Speaker 9: Um, I got made fun of. I got, I had
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Speaker 9: teachers tell me I'm going to fail. You know, when I,
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Speaker 9: I mean, I had a teacher tell me I was
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Speaker 9: a liar and I have no friends and that I'll
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Speaker 9: never amount to anything.
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Speaker 4: Did you, did you fail?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I did.
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Speaker 4: Well, see, that teacher knew what she was talking about.
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Speaker 6: No, wait a second.
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Speaker 2: She worked her way back from that, okay?
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Speaker 4: But you didn't even graduate from high school, right?
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Speaker 9: No, but I'm in college finishing my high school there.
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Speaker 9: That's a pretty tough thing to do.
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Speaker 4: You know what I'm doing right now? What about you?
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Speaker 5: Okay.
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Speaker 4: Okay, that's fair enough.
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Speaker 9: You're talking about being a part of the LAPD, but
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Speaker 9: are you? No, you're not.
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Speaker 4: I'm saying that you deserve the badge, too.
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Speaker 9: And wanting to get a handout.
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Speaker 4: You should get the badge, too. Thinking, oh, poor me.
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Speaker 9: It's such a poor life.
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Speaker 4: No, I'm saying you should get the badge, too. Not me.
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Speaker 9: I don't want a badge.
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Speaker 4: I want to feel... You don't want LAPD?
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Speaker 9: I want to feel gratified for my hard work.
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Speaker 4: Where do you live? Where do you live?
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Speaker 9: I live in New York.
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Speaker 4: And you don't want no LAPD badge?
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Speaker 1: Why would she want an LAPD badge?
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Speaker 2: She lives in New York.
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Speaker 4: Well, you don't want no NYPD badge? Because that's nothing, man.
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Speaker 4: LAPD is the best badge. Is that the one you want?
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Speaker 5: Hey, I want to hear.
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Speaker 2: Whatever, man. She didn't even call in to ask for
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Speaker 2: a badge.
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Speaker 9: I want to hear one reason why it's so important
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Speaker 9: for you to be in the LAPD.
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Speaker 4: Because all of my life, ever since the first time
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Speaker 4: I flipped on the tube and I seen Martin Milner...
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Speaker 4: And Kent McCord, man, on Adam 12. I went, yeah, man.
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Speaker 4: I seen him on the reruns one time. And they
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Speaker 4: were driving down the street. I said, those two dudes,
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Speaker 4: that's what I want to be. And then I went out.
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Speaker 5: You're missing the point, buddy.
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Speaker 9: The whole point of being a police officer is.
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Speaker 4: To make our community.
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Speaker 9: A better place. It's not to be like the guys
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Speaker 9: on TV and be all big, bad.
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Speaker 4: And tough.
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Speaker 9: It's about helping the people that we live with every day.
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Speaker 9: It's about helping that eight-year-old who has a tumor. It's
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Speaker 9: about helping, you know, the person you live next to.
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Speaker 9: It's not about looking good or being on television.
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Speaker 2: That's great, man.
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Speaker 4: I also love Robert Urich and SWAT.
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Speaker 1: And are you listening to anything she's saying? Are you
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Speaker 1: hearing what she's saying? Being a cop is about helping
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Speaker 1: the community.
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Speaker 4: No, man, it's not. It's about arresting people. That's what
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Speaker 4: it's all about.
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Speaker 5: You know what?
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Speaker 9: I feel nothing but.
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Speaker 4: Sadness for you. Did you ever see Colors with Robert
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Speaker 4: Duvall and Sean Penn? You are such a disgrace.
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Speaker 9: To my age group.
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Speaker 4: What? What did I do?
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Speaker 9: You are such a disgrace.
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Speaker 4: What did I do? You are, I mean, I hate
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Speaker 4: to say it, but you're an idiot. I'm an idiot?
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Speaker 4: You're an idiot.
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Speaker 9: You're missing the whole point of life.
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Speaker 4: You didn't graduate from high school. What do you mean
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Speaker 4: I'm an idiot? I'm not an idiot. I'm actually, I'm
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Speaker 4: in high school.
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Speaker 9: I'm just doing it at a college.
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Speaker 4: And right now, I'm going to be LAPD as soon
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Speaker 4: as I get out of L.A. Pierce College.
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Speaker 8: Oh.
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Speaker 4: Did you see Robert Duvall die in college? Tell me
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Speaker 4: that wasn't right on. Okay, that's what I'm talking about. Oh, man.
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Speaker 4: Let me catch my breath, and then I'll be ready
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Speaker 4: to roll. I feel bad that you had such a bad.
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Speaker 9: Upbringing, because you really did.
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Speaker 4: Let me catch my breath, and I'll be ready to roll, man. Hey,
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Speaker 4: let's roll on that one. You know what cops say
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Speaker 4: all the time? They say, let's roll on it, man.
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Speaker 4: That's what I want to do. I want to roll
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Speaker 4: on something.
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Speaker 9: Cops are there to help.
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Speaker 4: Not to.
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Speaker 9: You want to.
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Speaker 4: Get together and roll? not to arrest people. I can
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Speaker 4: roll on you, baby.
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Speaker 9: They're trying not to arrest people. They're trying to help people.
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Speaker 4: Well, that's no fun.
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