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CURTIS & LARRY OPENING SEGMENT 7-27-26 · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: This is a podcast from Woar Now and Larry Mente
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  Speaker 1: in the morning on seven ten.
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  Speaker 2: Woar Wow, seems every time I look at the news
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  Speaker 2: of late it's almost like the song fire by Ohio Players.
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  Speaker 1: Fire Everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: Fire, as you know we were dealing with coming down
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  Speaker 2: from Canada all across the northern part of their nation,
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  Speaker 2: Fire in California, fire in Oregon, fire in Washington, and
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  Speaker 2: now maybe the most serious fires of all, as three
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  Speaker 2: hundred thousand people on the border of Spain and France
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  Speaker 2: have been told to evacuate because firestorms are coming their way.
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  Speaker 2: One will be to the area Bordeaux, where there are
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  Speaker 2: all those vineyards and wineries that so many of you
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  Speaker 2: out there love so much. They're in danger possibly being
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  Speaker 2: turned into toast. And even the city of Madrid, although
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  Speaker 2: not as serious a situation, but fires are moving in
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  Speaker 2: the direction already. The fires have burnt three times the
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  Speaker 2: size of what Paris is and they're not showing any
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  Speaker 2: diminished capacity. There's strong winds and they're getting dry thunderstorms.
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  Speaker 2: Very much what we had discussed Larry when we were
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  Speaker 2: talking about Canada, that many of those fires with the
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  Speaker 2: result of a thunderstorm with no rain just lightning, and
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  Speaker 2: the lightning hits and it hasn't been rain there, and
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  Speaker 2: you have timber there and you have brushed there, and
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  Speaker 2: then all of a sudden, a firestorm takes place. And
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  Speaker 2: since May, as we know, we were discussing the heat
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  Speaker 2: waves first in Europe, before we even talked about how
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  Speaker 2: they clobt us here, how temperatures in many parts of
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  Speaker 2: Europe were over one hundred degrees. These ten thousand people
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  Speaker 2: died because they don't utilize air conditioning. It's only like
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  Speaker 2: ten percent of all of France that has air conditioning,
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  Speaker 2: a little more in some of the other countries, but
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  Speaker 2: still they haven't gotten upgraded. And it was the hottest
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  Speaker 2: June on record that Europe has ever had.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, this is much different than Canada. If you're wondering
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  Speaker 3: why a lot of people are paying more attention to
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  Speaker 3: this fire and not to Canada, because in France alone,
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  Speaker 3: almost two hundred and fifty thousand people have been displaced.
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  Speaker 3: So this is threatening homes and communities. And I remember
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  Speaker 3: in Canada in the northeast it's pretty desolate, and not
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  Speaker 3: only that, but it happens a lot. So that's why
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  Speaker 3: everybody is responding to this one. I mean, look at
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  Speaker 3: we're talking about major cities that are being threatened if
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  Speaker 3: this continues to go out of control. So the United
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  Speaker 3: States is going to help out all throughout Europe. They
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  Speaker 3: have equipment going there. They have to beat this down
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  Speaker 3: pretty quickly. Or here's the problem. At this point, there's
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  Speaker 3: there hasn't been death, but there's gonna be people dying.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, there's already people displaced. There's gonna be homes
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  Speaker 3: they're gonna be that are gonna be burnt to the ground.
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  Speaker 3: That's how That's where they're at right now. This is
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  Speaker 3: a dire situation. So if you're wondering about, oh, why
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  Speaker 3: are they talking so much about Europe and not what's
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  Speaker 3: going on in Canada, that's the reason this is extremely
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  Speaker 3: serious in Europe right now.
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  Speaker 2: And this happens on the cusp of Barcelona once again,
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  Speaker 2: the other side of the country saying no mas nomas,
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  Speaker 2: we don't want any more tourists. Two years in a
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  Speaker 2: row they've been overwhelmed with tourism. I never heard of
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  Speaker 2: a city Larry and oh my, they welcome tourists.
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  Speaker 1: Don't worry. It will have Airbnb, We've got hostels. We'll
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  Speaker 1: figure out a place for you to say because you're
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  Speaker 1: bringing money in.
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  Speaker 2: Apparently Barcelona is such a destination that people want to
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  Speaker 2: go that they're overwhelmed. And for the second year in
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  Speaker 2: a row in Spain, in Barcelona again on the other
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  Speaker 2: side of the country where the fires shit taking place,
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  Speaker 2: they have basically said, we don't want the cruise lines
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  Speaker 2: coming in, we don't want the airplanes coming in with tourists.
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  Speaker 1: We've had enough. We can't handle anymore.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the US State Department has a warning out as well.
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  Speaker 3: It's not up to red, but they have a warning
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  Speaker 3: to be careful going there, and a lot of the
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  Speaker 3: airlines have had to divert their flights around the smoke.
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  Speaker 3: I mean there's not even just going to Powis on Madrid,
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  Speaker 3: they have to divert around the smoke. So this is
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  Speaker 3: extremely serious and at this point they still don't have
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  Speaker 3: it under control, and so it's something that you know,
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  Speaker 3: we're kind of early on because it's not getting the
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  Speaker 3: coverage that it should be getting right now. But once
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  Speaker 3: this starts spreading, because right now it's not under control,
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  Speaker 3: if it keeps spreading it it's a more populated area.
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  Speaker 3: This is going to be the biggest story in the globe.
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  Speaker 1: You want it a weigh in Italy. No, I was
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  Speaker 1: just going to.
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  Speaker 4: Talk about Barcelona and how crazy it is with tourism.
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  Speaker 4: My son lived there for a month about a year
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  Speaker 4: and a half ago, for school, and he said that
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  Speaker 4: the residents there they you know, in the apartment buildings,
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  Speaker 4: they all have banners they hang from their windows, and
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  Speaker 4: you know, they're they're kind people, and they they didn't
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  Speaker 4: mind the tourism. They didn't mind you know Americans. But
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  Speaker 4: it was evident. First of all, it is packed.
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  Speaker 1: Well they've had demonstrations, yes, and you're all over, but.
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  Speaker 4: Just like the everyday people have signs in their windows
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  Speaker 4: about it.
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  Speaker 3: It's funny, Mike. As you know, my son and my
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  Speaker 3: wife were there last summer and they went to Spain
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  Speaker 3: and they went to Portugal. That's probably why they didn't
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  Speaker 3: go to Barcelona. They didn't go to Barcelona. Yeah, it
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  Speaker 3: was it was fascinating. They liked Portugal a lot. By
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  Speaker 3: the way, I.
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  Speaker 4: Know, I haven't been there. Everybody says it's wonderful it
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  Speaker 4: is to get there.
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  Speaker 2: I have guardian angels in Barcelona to deal with the
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  Speaker 2: pickpockets in the subways that.
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  Speaker 4: My son's friend standing next to him, great office his neck.
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  Speaker 2: They are everywhere everyone in Barcelona because they know it's
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  Speaker 2: the tourist trap and they know that they're going to
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  Speaker 2: be able to rob tourists and get away with it.
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  Speaker 2: But there's one factor that nobody's talking about with these fires.
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  Speaker 2: I understand maybe why they didn't mention it with Canada
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  Speaker 2: because it was so far north as they swept across
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  Speaker 2: the country. But this is Europe. These are populated areas.
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  Speaker 2: Three hundred thousand people are being told to evacuate between
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  Speaker 2: France and Spain. And I'm thinking back to the fires
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  Speaker 2: that consume the Palisades because of the area.
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  Speaker 1: In question of Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 2: Even though Los Angeles County has been hit with all
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  Speaker 2: kinds of fires before, nothing was comparable to this. Remember
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  Speaker 2: seven thousand homes destroyed, burnt to the ground, twenty five
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  Speaker 2: billion dollars in damages.
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  Speaker 1: And one thing there that took place.
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  Speaker 2: And I gotta believe it's happening in France and Spain
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  Speaker 2: in populated areas. Remember the pyromaniacs arsonists, you know, they
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  Speaker 2: get excited, they get a psycho sexual thrill in a
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  Speaker 2: stimulation when they see fire and then there are copycats.
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  Speaker 2: And I take this back to when I was growing
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  Speaker 2: up in Kanarsi and there were lots there before the subdivisions,
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  Speaker 2: and they'd always be one or two guys who would
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  Speaker 2: go out there and set the lots on fire, and
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  Speaker 2: they would be the ones to pull the old fire alarm.
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  Speaker 2: Remember how you had the fire alarm right on the
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  Speaker 2: telephone pole, And they'd be standing waiting for the fired
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  Speaker 2: trucks to come in. And then the fire marshals would
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  Speaker 2: come through the neighborhood afterwards and they'd say, hey, hey, hey, hey, kid,
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  Speaker 2: you see anybody standing by that fire alarm over there.
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  Speaker 2: You know this alarm was pulled? And I'd say, you
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  Speaker 2: know me, I rat them out right away. Oh yeah, man,
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  Speaker 2: that was Freddy. Man, it's like the third time Freddy's
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  Speaker 2: done this. So here it is. You get these pyromanniac
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  Speaker 2: pyromaniacs and arsonists. We know in California they've set a
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  Speaker 2: lot of fires and they wouldn't be setting fires in Europe.
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  Speaker 2: It's like they have pedophiles. We have pedophiles. They have rapist,
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  Speaker 2: we have rapish. They have pyromaniacs and archonists. We have
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  Speaker 2: pyromaniactions and archinists.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not always a pyromaniac though, even though most
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  Speaker 3: of these fires are man made. It's people camping out
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  Speaker 3: and not putting, you know, not dousing the fire, leaving
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  Speaker 3: the fire on. It's people throwing a cigarette into some leaves.
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  Speaker 3: It's people doing stupid things that many almost all of
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  Speaker 3: the wildfires in New Jersey that are hit in New Jersey,
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  Speaker 3: that's all from some idiot that's going out and didn't
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  Speaker 3: put out their campfire. By the way, in France there
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  Speaker 3: are the hospitals are being filled with people with breathing
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  Speaker 3: problems because the smoke. They have distributed two point five
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  Speaker 3: million face masks, and it's not unusual in many of
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  Speaker 3: the French cities to see people walking around with face masks.
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  Speaker 3: That's like apocalyptic stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, but remember the Palischeges fire.
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  Speaker 2: The guy who was caught and admitted, Jonathan rinder Mack,
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  Speaker 2: was thirty.
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  Speaker 1: He set the fire.
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  Speaker 2: On New Year's Eve, he admitted when he was caught,
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  Speaker 2: just remember this fire killed twelve people, destroyed seven thousand homes.
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  Speaker 2: He said it was me. You know, I have dual citizenship.
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  Speaker 2: I'm part French, I'm part American, I'm an uber driver.
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  Speaker 2: I have no family to go to on New Year's Eve,
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  Speaker 2: so I set a fire. Right slam done. He's admitted it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, guess what.
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  Speaker 2: He went on trial and a lot of people were
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  Speaker 2: paying attention to it because this was right in the
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  Speaker 2: midst of Spencer Pratt's attempt to become the next mayor
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  Speaker 2: of the city of Los Angeles. Remember he who lost
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  Speaker 2: his home along with his other neighbors, burnt to the ground.
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  Speaker 2: He was ready to plead guilty and do forty five years.
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  Speaker 2: His defense attorney said no, no, no, no, no, no, no no.
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  Speaker 1: And guess what he ended up. It was a hung jury.
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  Speaker 2: They said he reported the fire, which is true. But
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  Speaker 2: this is what pyromaniacs an arsonist do. Like I was
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  Speaker 2: telling you Freddy who pulled the fire alarm because he
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  Speaker 2: got excited watching the flames and the fire trucks come.
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  Speaker 1: A California jury was hung on this.
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  Speaker 3: You're saying it was hung. Do you know what the
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  Speaker 3: number was? No tan acquitting too guilty, so they got
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  Speaker 3: him on retrial. What you say to yourself, You've admitted
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  Speaker 3: to it.
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  Speaker 2: You admitted that you reported the fire, and you watched,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the fire, right except depleted, not guilty.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, And initially he said he did not do it,
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  Speaker 3: and they played over and over again that recording that
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  Speaker 3: he said he did not do it, claiming that he
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  Speaker 3: was framed.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god, California justice, you get no justice again.
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  Speaker 2: I thought we were bad in New York, right, but
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  Speaker 2: can you.
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  Speaker 1: Imagine that no intended to I mean, my god.
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  Speaker 2: And then other arsonist came out. Remember you had the
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  Speaker 2: guy in North Hollywood was riding around on his bicycle
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  Speaker 2: who was taking the uh, you know, the accelerant you
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  Speaker 2: use for your barbecue and sprinting, sprinting, you know, spritzing
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  Speaker 2: it on existing fires.
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  Speaker 1: And the citizens surrounded him.
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  Speaker 2: We were ready to rip them limb by limb until
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  Speaker 2: the police arrived to take him away.
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  Speaker 3: Oh man, I'll tell you what. We were both busy
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  Speaker 3: this weekend. Luckily nothing like fires, but both of us
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  Speaker 3: were busy.
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  Speaker 1: I was. I was.
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  Speaker 3: I was a pit boss. Not in Atlantic City. You'd
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  Speaker 3: think it was a different kind of pit boss, but no,
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  Speaker 3: I was running the pit.
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  Speaker 1: Crew Formula one. Formula one.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, d.
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  Speaker 2: Oh man, we gotta follow the trials and tribulations of
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  Speaker 2: Larry next. But meantime, we're gonna give you a chance
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  Speaker 2: today to see the Deep or to see deep purple
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  Speaker 2: and Kansas. That's at eight twenty five.
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