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And I just went down the hall to get some water. It was very touching that so many people chose not to work today in honor of my birthday.

I'm just really, really surprised and moved by all that. Just the whole place cleared out. I guess everyone's sitting home and partying to celebrate.

You know, years ago, is Anthony ready? Okay. Years ago, Anthony Smokovic was one of our producers.

And then he went on to spend many years at Fox 11, and he's still there working in their news

department. And then the other day, he made the news himself. He got pickpocketed at a bar.

They stole his phone. And that phone theft led to death threats. And we're going to get Anthony

on to explain this terrible situation. Anthony, how are you?

Hey, John. I'm good. How are you? It's good to hear from you again.

Happy pride, happy Juneteenth, and happy birthday. There you go. Got everything covered.

Well, what happened here? All right. So I went to this place in North Hollywood. It's called the bullet bar.

It's a divey kind of gay bar, but it can happen anywhere. I hear this is happening a lot in

West Hollywood and Hollywood as well. But I went out on a Friday night and I went to get a

couple of drinks and hang out with some friends. And at the end of the night, I realized my phone was gone.

And so I freaked out.

It was horrible.

You know, our whole lives are on our phone.

You had the addiction.

And they were like, yes, absolutely.

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