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Fringey Mini: Whats the street outside of Nicholas Cage's house in Malibu up to? · Journey to the Fringe

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  Right. My, my mini. So. It's your mini. Chelsea.
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  Yeah. I found a emotions edition that I am quite
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  excited about because, you know, I'm just going
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  to read the title. This comes from the LA Times.
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  It is written by Fedora Zarkin. Okay. This sounds
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  promising. It is written on? Where's the date?
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  Why is it when you have the MSNBC, like, versions
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  of things, they don't give you the date? Anyhow,
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  doesn't matter. Oh, September 11th, 2026, article
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  title, At the Nicolas Cage Sinkhole in Malibu,
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  El Nino Fears Alter the Good Vibes Mood. I thought
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  this was a satire. Is it real? You would think.
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  Oh, it's very real. I didn't even read the article
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  because I saw it circulating and I was like,
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  sure, this is satire. It is not. And I realized,
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  like, I saw that and I was like, this is ridiculous.
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  And I was like, wait, technically this probably
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  falls into rich people's emotions. You're right.
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  And looking further into it, I thought I haven't
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  even looked at it. So I'm intrigued now that,
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  because no, that does make sense now that you
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  say it that way. Let's listen to the main. Especially,
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  Chelsea, I'm going to show you a photo of this
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  house at the very end. You'll realize, oh yes,
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  this is definitely a rich people's emotions one.
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  And how did this not happen sooner? Okay, I'm
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  excited. So, as the waves bashed the coast this
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  week, boulders smashed into the piles of Mitchell
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  Lib's Malibu home, plucking them like a guitar
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  string and shaking his house. That, along with
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  the news of a massive sinkhole opening up about
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  seven miles away, has the man worried about the
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  house he's lived in for ten years. Standing outside
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  a shopping center in Malibu on Thursday afternoon,
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  Lib, 67, checked a tide chart to see when the
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  water would be low enough for him to even be
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  able to see the damage to his house. After days
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  of high tides and the remnants of Hurricane Marie
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  battering his home, Lib said that his wife has
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  asked if they can sell the house and move elsewhere.
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  He's not entirely opposed. Quote, We're looking
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  to have peace and quiet in our lives, not fear.
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  End quote, Lib said. Fear is exactly what was
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  struck in some Malibu residents since early Tuesday
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  when the sinkhole opened up in front of a beachside
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  property owned by actor Nicolas Cage. By the
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  day's end, the hole was about 25 feet deep and
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  30 by 60 feet wide. Most residents on the street
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  have been ordered to evacuate with seven homes
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  red -tagged due to hazardous conditions and an
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  additional 24 red -tagged because emergency vehicles
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  wouldn't be able to access them in an emergency.
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  city officials have said not everybody appears
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  to be quite as worried as lib or at least not
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  everybody's showing it former malibu mayor andy
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  stern's house was one of those ordered to evacuate
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  because emergency vehicles can't access it stern
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  who is a real estate agent said he thinks the
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  sinkhole down the street was a one -off incident
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  caused by a combination of a burst water pipe
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  and the waves and not something that is necessarily
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  a harbinger of unsolved problems to come The
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  city of Malibu said the sinkhole was, quote,
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  caused by coastal erosion from high waves and
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  tides associated with Hurricane Marie, end quote.
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  Adding that the city is, quote, preparing for
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  potential strong storms, high surf, heavy rain,
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  mudslides, and coastal erosion with this winter
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  associated with forecast El Nino conditions,
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  end quote. The Malibu residents who live near
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  the beach but up on higher ground are concerned
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  for their neighbors and for the coastline as
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  a whole. Joe Geis, was in her home on the phone
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  with her insurance company for an unrelated reason
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  Thursday when she thought it wouldn't hurt to
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  ask whether her policy covered a sinkhole swallowing
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  her home. Not that guys thought there was much
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  of a chance. She and her husband live in a house
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  on a cliff above the ocean. Still, she couldn't
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  help but wonder, given those ordered to evacuate
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  included two of her friends. She's feeling pretty
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  good about herself. Yep. Guys said... She has
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  been monitoring the work contractors have been
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  doing. Why didn't she give us the answer? Oh,
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  she doesn't? No, apparently not, because there's
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  not that much left. Why the fuck wouldn't she
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  give us the answer? She saw a long line of concrete
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  trucks headed that way a few days ago, and a
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  contractor told her the concrete was to fill
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  in the hole. When she went to see the hole for
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  herself, it appeared unchanged, and the contractor
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  told her that the concrete had been washed out
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  to sea. What the fuck's up with this lady's story?
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  Malibu City Manager Joseph Irvin. Previously
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  said construction and repairs would take about
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  four weeks. Lib hasn't decided yet what all of
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  this means for the future. Quote, is this just
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  a one -time event or what we could call normal?
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  End quote, he said. Quote, or is this really
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  a reflection of a greater problem? End quote.
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  Also, end of article. And Chelsea, I just need
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  to share my screen for a second so that you can
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  see like what we're talking about here because...
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  I can't exactly wrap my head around. What exactly
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  this article was. When I saw this photo, this
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  is like, oh yeah, this is rich people emotions
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  right here. Okay, I'm waiting. Wow, they are
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  right in the ocean. And you can see the sinkhole
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  right there. Oh, yep, there it is. The houses
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  are literally in the ocean. Like, they get hit
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  by waves before the beach in this photo. I mean,
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  if I was a rich person... And I didn't think
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  the ocean was going to rise due to climate change
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  because I thought it was a joke. I think I would
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  like that. It would be picturesque living, yeah.
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  Yeah. But also, like, you're too close to the
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  beach to even use the beach. No, you definitely...
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  Like, you're over top of the beach. I wouldn't
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  consider that beach access unless it was like
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  considered diving. They have a diving board off
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  the dock or the patio. See, it's between that
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  and, you know, up in the hills where you can
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  still see the beach, I think might be a better
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  view. Still, I know I brought that up on a previous
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  mini. I still think that's a better view. Back
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  in the hills, overlooking. Yeah, the question
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  is, do you want to see the ocean or do you want
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  to be in the ocean? And I do agree. I think I
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  just want to see the ocean. I think I would just...
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  It's such a better view still, I think, because
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  you're seeing more than just open ocean. You're
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  seeing... Yeah, and I guess the difference...
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  I live near a lake. You know, the difference
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  between lake living and ocean living is there's
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  another side to the lake, and it's beautiful.
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  Yeah. On the ocean, there's not another side
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  to the ocean that you're going to see anytime
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  soon. Yeah. So, like, even where you are, like,
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  the view... From Lakeview versus up in the mountains
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  is a very different view. I prefer the mountains.
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  You're going to see a lot better. Personally,
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  this is me as a non -rich person having rich
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  people emotion. So maybe don't trust me. You
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  don't understand that you're going to have somebody
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  else pay for the damage that's going to be done
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  to your house. And that's the real rush that
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  the rich people want, I assume. Well, here's
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  what I'm thinking. buy a house and probably I
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  have mental illness when I buy that house. To
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  be fair, being rich is a mental illness. I think
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  we can agree on that. That's at least the podcast
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  official position. Nicholas Cage, eh? And I gotta
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  love that they did not get a quote from Nicholas
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  Cage on this. I love that as well. It really
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  had nothing to do with him other than it was
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  his house that has a sinkhole. Yeah. And you'd
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  really think that that would mean, like, they
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  even said, like, Nick Cage was reached out to
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  and did not comment. No. But no. It doesn't feel
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  like they even... We had to talk to the guy seven
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  miles away. Yeah. Who is now a little worried.
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  Who asked their policy if they recovered, but
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  we don't know. Yeah. We don't know for sure.
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  I would have liked that for me. And then people
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  aren't worried because it just had to do with
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  waves. Yep. Good people of Malibu. Smart enough
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  to separate from the city of Los Angeles because
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  they didn't want to pay taxes for other people.
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  Now reaping what they sowed. So it's a feel -good
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  story, it sounds like. Bit of a feel -good, but
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  we'll see. Because, again, rich people's emotions.
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  And that doesn't stop the state of California
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  from making them whole. Plus, it does sound like
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  there's upper emotion Malibu and lower. Yes.
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  It depends where on the cliffs you are. Yes,
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  exactly. And it feels like the upper people may
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  be feeling quite, what's the word, cocky about
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  themselves currently. I hope that bites them
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  in the ass. Did you take that as a gloat when
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  she asked the insurance company if they'd be
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  covered for a sinkhole and they were up on a
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  cliff, like up on a mountain? No, but she did
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  seem to really like... gloat about the fact that
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  my friends are losing their house should i worry
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  about this yeah no i got from it that she was
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  like i'll ask but i don't feel like it'll ever
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  happen to me because i am much higher up as if
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  it's a higher status to be on a higher cliff
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  rather than right in the ocean that's what i
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  took okay that's how i heard it okay maybe it
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  was the way you read it okay And hey, you guys
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  got 48 hours. Would you live oceanfront or up
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  in the hills if you were rich? And importantly,
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  would you like snobbingly call your insurance
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  company and rub it in your rich friends on the
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  oceanfront's face if you were up in the hills?
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  Even though they would have no way of knowing
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  what you had said. Yeah. You guys got time to
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  figure it out. Bye. Yeah. 48 at least. Bye.