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Speaker 1: get him online at gatesfourag dot com. Michael Gates, welcome.

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Speaker 5: Thank you for having me.

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Speaker 1: All right, I want to start out by talking about

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Speaker 1: going on right now in Oakland, where former Oakland Mayorsheng

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Speaker 1: cutting deals right now with the Feds, including a councilman

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Speaker 1: Warrez is the name of the guy who wrote the letter.

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Speaker 1: We recently this week had a bombshell report in the

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Speaker 1: in those compromising positions. We know that the Attorney General

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Speaker 1: of California, Rob Bonta, spent hundreds of thousands of dollars

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Speaker 1: that investigation. All of this leads to the obvious question,

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Speaker 1: the Attorney General of California, that have been used to

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Speaker 1: It seems like an obvious question to me at this point,

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Speaker 5: Yeah, so that's a great question, and I'm glad you

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Speaker 5: Not only are they just loose connections and political connections,

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Speaker 5: So these are really, really bad connections. These are bad actors.

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Speaker 5: And I actually put a post on my social media.

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Speaker 5: is I have more friends who have been federally indicted

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Speaker 5: it's a serious situation, but he has a number of

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Speaker 5: he spent over half a million, or nearly a half

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Speaker 5: has got a lot of problems, a lot of baggage,

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Speaker 5: It could be the videos, it could be other things.

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Speaker 5: very concerning, and I think as long as voters in

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Speaker 5: and return California to law and order. In the state

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Speaker 5: of California, we certainly can't depend on our current Attorney

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Speaker 5: General Robanta to return California to law and order. He's

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Speaker 5: needs to change. But thank you for educating the voters

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Speaker 1: It's an odd position to be in for you to

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Speaker 1: that's do not pass, go, do not collect two hundred dollars,

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Speaker 5: Well, and frankly, you're really hitting on something very important.

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Speaker 5: First of all, the media is covering through Robonta. We

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Speaker 5: your point too, you know, Remember, Rob Bonta is going

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Speaker 5: So everybody who's looking to Rob Bonta to run, it's

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Speaker 5: because of this very story, exactly what you're talking about

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Speaker 5: this race can be won. I can beat Rob Bonta.

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Speaker 5: All of this baggage is going to come to light.

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Speaker 5: The voters will learn about it. They're hearing about it

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Speaker 5: We have sixty five percent of respondense to post date

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Speaker 5: We have a candidate like Rob Bonta who's running for

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Speaker 5: He has been not only beholden to people who are

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Speaker 5: And so Rob Bante is compromised in any way. You

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Speaker 5: Now, well, there is a real sense of urgency and

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Speaker 5: That's independence, Democrats and Republicans all supporting it. Right, So

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Speaker 5: Kamala Harris did the very same thing with Prop eight

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Speaker 5: The voters passed the traditional marriage at marriage equals a

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Speaker 5: a whole lot at stake, John, I mean, yes, the corruption, Yes,

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Speaker 5: detriment of the taxpayer, but also the laws. Our Prop

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Speaker 5: the governor's race. I'm telling you right now, ladies and gentlemen,

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Speaker 5: much at stake. Even our laws, what we pass at

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Speaker 5: I can get all of the work that I need

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Speaker 5: I have independent authority under the California Constitution as the

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Speaker 1: Let's go back to Voter ID for a moment, because

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Speaker 1: Rob Bonta is trying to rig that election by purposely

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Speaker 1: giving it a title and summary that is not what

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Speaker 5: Yeah, So, actually Rob Banta approved a valid title in

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Speaker 5: And now it's subject to litigation. But this is exactly

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Speaker 5: The proposition is going to be labeled what it is.

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Speaker 5: I'm not going to deceive the voters. I'm not going

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Speaker 5: We have a lawless Attorney General right now in Prop

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Speaker 5: He's got to go. I am a real lawyer. I've

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Speaker 6: Place. Lori Parra's reports on an unconventional team getting a

435
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Speaker 6: whole lot of attention right now. Locals either love them

436
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Speaker 6: or hate them.

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Speaker 7: We want the best for our community, and we knew

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Speaker 7: that we can step in and help.

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Speaker 8: For three years now. Bobby Luna says he's dedicated his

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Speaker 8: life to making Venice, his hometown, safer and better. It's

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Speaker 8: a story first reported in LA Material in twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 4: Okay, I got to say it once again, and we

443
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Speaker 4: got to have some of these reporters on LA Material

444
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Speaker 4: is like the hottest new news website in the city

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Speaker 4: of Los Angeles. Some of the reporters used to work

446
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Speaker 4: at the LA Times and now the shackles are off

447
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Speaker 4: and they're doing real reporting. They did the George gascon

448
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Speaker 4: lawsuits from all the people he retaliated against. They also

449
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Speaker 4: did Katie Porters Yelp reviews.

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Speaker 1: Hell, well, someone should tell him about Bob Bonta.

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Speaker 4: Oh, something tells me that they know.

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Speaker 8: Bob Bonta co founded what he describes as kind of

453
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Speaker 8: a professional neighborhood watch group. Ten guys Venice Natives on

454
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Speaker 8: Call who will come to your home or business and

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Speaker 8: get encampments or people living on your sidewalk or doorstep.

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Speaker 4: Or it's like squatter removers, but for the bums.

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Speaker 1: Okay, if there was a service, if your neighborhood was

458
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Speaker 1: taken over by homeless encampments and there was a service

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Speaker 1: where you could hire gang members to go rough up

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Speaker 1: the homeless to get him out of your neighborhood, would

461
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Speaker 1: you pay him? Well, yes you would, of course. That's

462
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Speaker 1: the biggest no brainer on planet Earth. Hey, do you

463
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Speaker 1: guys need to do any marketing?

464
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Speaker 4: We could promote you have, give you a block show

465
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Speaker 4: right here on KBC.

466
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Speaker 8: Yard to Leave. He's public about the fact he and

467
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Speaker 8: others on his team are former gang members and addicts,

468
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Speaker 8: but says they use that not in the way you

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Speaker 8: probably think they.

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Speaker 4: Do, Shoulder, No, I think they do it in the

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Speaker 4: way we think they do.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they have a certain way about being very persuasive

473
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Speaker 1: when they want something.

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Speaker 7: Them that there's hope, because they want to talk to

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Speaker 7: someone who's been there.

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Speaker 4: He gave us one exam that's not what you're doing.

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Speaker 4: But sure, let's say that.

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Speaker 1: Well, the truth may not look good on television.

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Speaker 8: Sample of talking to a person living in an RV

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Speaker 8: near a school.

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Speaker 7: We just say, hey, look, this is the scenario. There's

482
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Speaker 7: fentanyl and there's needles where these kids are playing. It's

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Speaker 7: not the right thing to do. Can we figure a

484
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Speaker 7: solution out? And he was like, well, I don't care

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Speaker 7: about anybody in this area. I don't care about the

486
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Speaker 7: cops and all that, but I would do you guys

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Speaker 7: a favorite because I know you guys so long.

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Speaker 4: That's not what that conversation was.

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Speaker 1: Who is believing this?

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Speaker 4: This conversation went a little more like, you can either

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Speaker 4: leave town right now or we're going to a very

492
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Speaker 4: shallow grave.

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Speaker 1: Ever been to the Lake Mead?

494
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Speaker 7: And we've known this guy since we were in elementary.

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Speaker 8: With more than three hundred and fifty clients, goes.

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Speaker 1: No, they've known that guy since they were in elementary school.

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Speaker 1: So they've known them through the crack cocaine epidemic all

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Speaker 1: the way through fetanyl.

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Speaker 4: You know it's a protection racket when literally people have

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Speaker 4: signs that my home is protected by the protection racket.

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Speaker 1: And it's called ghost town.

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Speaker 8: Yes, consultants is now everywhere and their customers rave about them,

503
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Speaker 8: saying Ali and kamt Minson sidewalk settlers that once held.

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Speaker 4: Them doing the job that the city of LA won't do,

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Speaker 4: scaring the homeless into getting the hell out of there.

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Speaker 1: My only worry would be getting sued if things got,

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Speaker 1: you know, messy.

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Speaker 4: Well, we know that's what happened to our buddy that

509
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Speaker 4: was busting up the squatters in the Bay Area. He

510
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Speaker 4: hired the wrong guy who pulled out a gun. And

511
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Speaker 4: now there's some issues, but it was just Sam Swords.

512
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Speaker 4: It was fine hostage.

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Speaker 9: And then when I come out, I sometimes would deal

514
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Speaker 9: with people who they start accusting me or like trying

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Speaker 9: to get.

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Speaker 8: In are gone.

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Speaker 9: I can call them immediately. They ask you to step away.

518
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Speaker 9: They don't want you to talk to to anybody. And

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Speaker 9: the way they deal with everybody is it's really amazing

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Speaker 9: and beautiful and very human to human.

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Speaker 4: But not everyone sees it, yes, because they chase them

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Speaker 4: away with brooms.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I'm gonna go ahead and say it right now.

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Speaker 1: I love the story and I'm happy we're doing it

525
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Speaker 1: because it's an interesting tale. They should not be on television.

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Speaker 1: This is something you got to keep under the radar.

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Speaker 10: It that way, I call it thug security.

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Speaker 4: Oh boy, the homeless advocates are here. Everybody, it's time

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Speaker 4: to hear both sides for this story.

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Speaker 8: Eggie Kennedy is a long time homeless advocate Venice, who

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Speaker 8: says it reflects a movement of vigilanteism.

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Speaker 10: And I have experience where they came up to me

533
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Speaker 10: and harassed me. Even sure they might be local guys,

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Speaker 10: that might be true, and yeah, they might have some

535
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Speaker 10: connections with people, but I think the connection is, you know,

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Speaker 10: here's some cash and if you come back, we'll get you.

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Speaker 1: That sounds like my kind of service.

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Speaker 4: I full throatedly endorse this service.

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Speaker 2: Sort of thing.

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Speaker 4: So get the hell out of Venice.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, I'm glad that this local group

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Speaker 1: is doing this because it seems like they're getting results.

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Speaker 1: But if I could hire l Chapo to do this,

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Speaker 1: I do that too, you know, And.

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Speaker 10: People on the street to understand.

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Speaker 8: That Luna vehemently denies that characterization of what they do

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Speaker 8: or how they do it.

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Speaker 4: I'm sure that's what you're gonna say.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, if it were me, wink right at the camera.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, we're doing everything above board. You just trust me.

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Speaker 1: Not even close.

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Speaker 7: Never has that happened, And we don't operate like that

553
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Speaker 7: we do not talk to people disrespectfully, we do not

554
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Speaker 7: put our hands on anybody, and we always offer help.

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Speaker 8: Whatever their methods. Homeless advocate mel Tilla Carratne says he

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Speaker 8: has concerns ghost Towns employees are still in the process

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Speaker 8: of getting state certification and licenses so their workers.

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Speaker 1: Can legal So that might be a problem.

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Speaker 8: We carry guns and provide security.

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Speaker 4: Okay, So now ghost Town, the team of former gang members,

561
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Speaker 4: they want to be legally packing.

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Speaker 1: As opposed to what they're probably will never mind. Well

563
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Speaker 1: they wanted to put their hands on anybody, because all

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Speaker 1: they do is open up the jacket, point to the

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Speaker 1: piece and say, so you're gonna leave now, right? You

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Speaker 1: think the state's going to allow them to carry guns

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Speaker 1: with them?

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Speaker 4: One, this is not a state sanctioned agency. To they're

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Speaker 4: operating in public places.

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Speaker 11: Three where do these people go?

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Speaker 8: He and other critics see what ghost Town does. That's

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Speaker 8: their problem, simply and literally moving the problem down the road.

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Speaker 4: You don't, yeah, moving into Katie Yaroslavsky's district.

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Speaker 10: Care what happens to the people as long as they're

575
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Speaker 10: not in front of you.

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Speaker 1: Yep, you got it, lady.

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Speaker 10: Displacement is not a permanent solution.

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Speaker 8: The thing is for some not in front of them,

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Speaker 8: is a solution or not.

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Speaker 4: That is the only solution.

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Speaker 1: It's the only thing it can do.

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Speaker 4: You make life uncomfortable for these people until they accept

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Speaker 4: the vast amount of services that are out there. Nobody

584
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Speaker 4: gets to sleep outside necessarily, you know, solving the problem

585
00:30:56,600 --> 00:30:59,160
Speaker 4: in a big picture, but day to day I think

586
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Speaker 4: it's a a better way to approach it than.

587
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Speaker 5: Any kind of confrontation.

588
00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:10,360
Speaker 4: So there you go, the reformed gang members that are

589
00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:15,920
Speaker 4: shoving the homeless out of Venice.

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Speaker 1: And they are getting results. If you're looking for fresh

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Speaker 1: new content to consume over the weekend, Randy, that would

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Speaker 1: be the Accountability Podcast.

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Speaker 4: The Accountability Podcast with John Phillips and Randy Wang, which

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Speaker 4: if you just want to listen to it, you can

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Speaker 4: search for Accountability Podcast on Apple Podcasts or iHeartRadio. But

596
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Speaker 4: if you want to watch it, we have all five

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Speaker 4: episodes playing now at Johnny Dontlike dot Com. It's the

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Speaker 4: first thing you see under the live feed that you

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Speaker 4: just watched now, all five episodes of the Accountability Podcast.

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Speaker 4: We would really appreciate it. If you haven't checked it

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Speaker 4: out yet, We've got to get those numbers up because

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Speaker 4: well then we can sell it and we really really

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Speaker 4: really like doing this show and if we get you know,

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Speaker 4: this thing going, we'll even do more of them. So

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Speaker 4: check it out the Accountability Podcast. It's very simple. Watch

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Speaker 4: all five episodes this weekend at Johnny don't like dot com.

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Speaker 1: All right, I know it's Friday. I know everyone is

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Speaker 1: ready for the weekend to begin. It's going to be

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Speaker 1: a scorcher here in the Southwest. But Randy, we have

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Speaker 1: one more gift. Actually we have two more gifts because

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Speaker 1: the two o'clock hour we're replaying two of our most

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Speaker 1: popular interviews over the last month. But now we have

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Speaker 1: an update on one Shang E Tao.

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Speaker 4: It's time for another crack at the pinata, everybody. There's

615
00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:41,960
Speaker 4: not a whole lot of new information here, but we

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Speaker 4: do have legal analysts on their take on the new

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Speaker 4: allegations from the FEDS about one Shang E Tew. Absolutely

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Speaker 4: absolutely so, without further ado, here is NBC in the.

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Speaker 10: Bay and we still got our Oakland A's Baby.

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Speaker 8: No you don't bribery, fake job, secret records.

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Speaker 1: And just the combo platter.

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Speaker 8: Huh, interaction with hookers. Those are just some of the

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Speaker 8: new allegations.

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Speaker 4: This might be your favorite story of all time.

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Speaker 8: It might be my federal prosecutors in the corruption case

626
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Speaker 8: involving former Oakland mayor Shank Tau, her boyfriend, and two

627
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Speaker 8: business owners.

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Speaker 4: The new details and Bob Bonta.

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Speaker 8: Come months before that trial is set to begin. NBC

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Speaker 8: Barry's Willina Jones dug through the new court documents.

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Speaker 5: This is what she has for you.

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Speaker 2: Ahead of an October federal corruption trial.

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Speaker 1: Look at you, Shang Ye. She's sporting new shades. I

634
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Speaker 1: wonder how she got the money for those.

635
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Speaker 2: Prosecutors are revealing new details, and is.

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Speaker 4: She trying to dress older than her age?

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Speaker 1: I don't know. She kind of looked like Amelda Marcos. There.

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Speaker 12: The alleged played a pace scheme involving former Oakland mayor

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Speaker 12: Shang Tao, her partner Andre Jones, and California Waste Solutions

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Speaker 12: executives Dave and Andy.

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Speaker 4: Dwom And right there on the filing you can read

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Speaker 4: Andy Dong's full name. I'm just gonna leave that there

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Speaker 4: for a second for everyone to see.

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Speaker 11: This is reading like a true crime novel, not your

645
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Speaker 11: traditional pay to play bribery scheme.

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Speaker 12: The most shocking details center around a twenty twenty three

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Speaker 12: Vietnam trip. Prosecutor Setao became angry and worried about her

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Speaker 12: political future after learning a reporter was asking about alleged

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Speaker 12: drug use and activity involving prostitutes.

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Speaker 4: Brian Assevito had the best weekend of his life, followed

651
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Speaker 4: by the worst weekend of his life every weekend after that.

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Speaker 4: They should do a movie about that trip and just

653
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Speaker 4: make it the Hangover for well, you can get Danny

654
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Speaker 4: Glover to play himself. Why was he there?

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Speaker 12: Former San Leandro Council member Brian Azevito while on the trip.

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Speaker 12: Court filing The Dwongs later paid are Reporters Associate ten

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Speaker 12: thousand dollars to stop the story from being published.

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Speaker 11: The jury is going to have a very different picture

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Speaker 11: of the former mayor when they hear about this information and.

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Speaker 4: That, I don't know, the jury's already got quite a picture.

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Speaker 4: Let's not forget. Before she was indicted, she was recalled

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Speaker 4: by sixty six percent of them.

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Speaker 11: Absolutely, absolutely, she was associated with these individuals and continued

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Speaker 11: to associate with them.

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Speaker 4: I mean, you're at a point where you cannot separate

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Speaker 4: Shang and Dong.

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Speaker 1: No, you can't. They go together like peanut butter and jelly.

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Speaker 5: Even after some of this evidence came to light.

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Speaker 12: As a Veto has pleaded guilty to conspiracy in a

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Speaker 12: separate case and is expected to testify at Taos trial.

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Speaker 12: Prosecutors also alleged how shared sensitive city council information with

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Speaker 12: Andy Dwong and falsified records of a one hundred and

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Speaker 12: fifty thousand dollars job for Jones to secure their wies.

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Speaker 4: That's the stuff that the Dongs are trying to say

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Speaker 4: is not relevant to the case. That Shang has been

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Speaker 4: working on their behalf since at least twenty nineteen, and

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Speaker 4: their original alleged bribe that got them this contract for

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Speaker 4: the Oakland trash Services goes all the way back to

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Speaker 4: twenty fourteen, and we sure wonder who they did bribe

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Speaker 4: for that.

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Speaker 12: Additionally, they claimed Junks received ninety five thousand dollars part

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Speaker 12: of the three hundred thousand dollars promised in return for

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Speaker 12: providing the Duongs with city contracts. Legal analyst Stephen Clark

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Speaker 12: says the new details only help the prosecution if it's

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Speaker 12: allowed into evidence.

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Speaker 11: They're going to argue this is in furtherance of a

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Speaker 11: conspiracy to commit this bribery.

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Speaker 12: Prosecutors also claim Andy Dwong secretly recorded politicians in compromising situations.

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Speaker 4: You mean, like what Mario Waas said the Dongs had

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Speaker 4: on Bob Bonta.

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Speaker 1: I'm telling you that story. The fact that that hasn't

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Speaker 1: been on the front page of one of the big

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Speaker 1: newspapers in the state is beyond my ability to comprehend.

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Speaker 4: I will give our local news credit, especially our local

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Speaker 4: Bay area TV stations, because ABC seven has covered it,

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Speaker 4: kpix has covered it, KRON for KTVU, and NBC in

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Speaker 4: the Bay. They've been all over this stuff, and of

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Speaker 4: course us at KSFO, we've been on it since day one,

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Speaker 4: or until we started broadcasting live on KSFO two years ago, or.

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Speaker 2: Possible political leverage.

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Speaker 12: His attorney says he was not charged in relation to

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Speaker 12: the new allegation, saying, in part, the motion does not

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Speaker 12: concede the veracity or characterization of the government's allegations at issue,

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Speaker 12: which will be contested at trial.

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Speaker 11: Now that evidence that they gathered is going to be

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Speaker 11: used again, I.

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Speaker 4: Feel like there's gonna be It would be a very

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Speaker 4: very very strange decision for the judge to say that

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Speaker 4: all of the black mail videos on Andy Dong's phone

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Speaker 4: are not relevant to this case about blackmail.

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Speaker 1: And keep in mind this is not conjecture, this is

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Speaker 1: not speculation. The San Jose Mercury News, in their bombshell

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Speaker 1: report from earlier this week, confirmed that they do exist.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, including a video where Andy and Brian Assevito

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Speaker 4: are talking about all the prostitutes at the massage parlors

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Speaker 4: they played with the night before while they were doing

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Speaker 4: who knows what kind of drugs.

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Speaker 11: It's them and it really backfired and that's going to

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Speaker 11: be very difficult for them to explain.

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Speaker 12: The new allegations are part of a fight over what

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Speaker 12: evidence Dures will be allowed to hear. The defense argues

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Speaker 12: much of it is unrelated to the charges.

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Speaker 4: Will the evidence be allowed of the bodycam footage of

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Speaker 4: the FBI officers as they broke down the door to

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Speaker 4: Shangy's home.

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Speaker 1: I want to know what she was doing in Vietnam

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Speaker 1: when the guys were bouncing from one massage parlor to

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Speaker 1: the next. I haven't seen one picture of them doing

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Speaker 1: any sight seeing. The only thing I've seen is the

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Speaker 1: karaoke bars and the massage parlors.

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Speaker 12: Tao Jones and David and Andy Dwong have all pleaded

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Speaker 12: not guilty. We request a comment from all of the defendants,

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Speaker 12: but only heard back from Andy Dwong's attorney in Oakland,

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Speaker 12: Fellina Jones, NBC Bay Area News.

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Speaker 4: There she is Shangy Tao. The bell tolls for thee.

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Speaker 4: The trial is supposed to start when Johnny goes on

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Speaker 4: vacation in October, but we're gonna try. I have the

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Speaker 4: feelers out and we're gonna try to see because the

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Speaker 4: trial is definitely going on for another week. If that

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Speaker 4: last week in October, maybe the last Friday in October,

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Speaker 4: we can do a remote from Oakland to revel in

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Speaker 4: all the shanginess of it. If you got any contexts

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Speaker 4: with any venues in Oakland that would like to host us,

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Speaker 4: put in contact with us. Email Johnny don't like dot com,

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Speaker 4: Johnny don't like show at gmail dot com.

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Speaker 1: All right, we've got one more hour coming up on

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Speaker 1: The John Phillips Show. Don't You Go Anywhere