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Speaker 1: Welcome John Cobelt's show, and we are on live again

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Speaker 1: another day and Willy from three to six and then

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Speaker 1: after six o'clock and all weekend long John Cobelt Show

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Speaker 1: on demand the podcast and if you miss anything today

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Speaker 1: miss any of the other shows in the past week

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Speaker 1: enjoy them over the weekend. The iHeartRadio up that's the

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Speaker 1: home for all this stuff. Nick Shirley is coming on

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Speaker 1: the show. He is a busy guy, twenty three years

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Speaker 1: old and his primary outlet is YouTube and he's an

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Speaker 1: independent investigative reporter. There is a whole breed of these.

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Speaker 1: It's men and women, and they're mostly young. And you know,

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Speaker 1: with the media landscape shrinking, you may not have heard today,

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Speaker 1: but the CBS Radio News network is no longer with us.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what the exact end date is, but

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Speaker 1: the demise of that network, which should been around for

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Speaker 1: the last ninety nine years. One of my earliest memories

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Speaker 1: on I grew up in Jersey. I would just remember

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Speaker 1: the CBS Radio News all the little sounders they'd have,

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Speaker 1: roundup and all this classic radio program and it's all

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Speaker 1: over for CBS News. So the traditional media is shrinking rapidly,

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Speaker 1: and in its place, though, there is a vacuum, and

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Speaker 1: what's developing in its place is something better. It's these

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Speaker 1: independent journalists who now can carry around on iPhone and

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Speaker 1: start taking video. And they don't need approval from a

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Speaker 1: oh I don't know, a producer, a news director, an editor.

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Speaker 1: They don't need any of that. They don't need to

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Speaker 1: work for a network. They don't need to work for

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Speaker 1: a local TV affiliate or a radio fit. No, they

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Speaker 1: don't have to. They don't have to work for the

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Speaker 1: La Times. They can take their camera, their phone, their

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Speaker 1: microphone and go wander around and bring you all the

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Speaker 1: new stories that, for whatever reason, the regular old media

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Speaker 1: doesn't do anymore. And I don't even care why. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I have no interest in hearing a debate as to

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Speaker 1: how the media has failed. They failed. They're not interested

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Speaker 1: in recovering. They may never recover. They don't have the

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Speaker 1: money to so let these guys have at it. And

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Speaker 1: one of the stars of this new movement, and this

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Speaker 2: I could see more.

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Speaker 1: And the thing is, then you can put this on

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Speaker 1: YouTube and other social media channels and monetize it. You know,

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Speaker 1: he is getting millions of hits for his videos, Nick

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Speaker 1: Shirley is. And I mean, if I was starting out,

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Speaker 1: this is this is what I would do. I would

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Speaker 1: go this route. I would be sending audition tapes to

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Speaker 1: idiot program directors. You know, I'd get some equipment, go

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Speaker 1: who wants to hear from you. So anyway, I'm really excited.

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Speaker 1: He's twenty three years old. But what he's doing is

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Speaker 1: and it's a lot of money for him, and that's why,

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Speaker 1: you know, he's really interested in taking donations and having

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Speaker 1: you subscribe to his to his feeds. But you know,

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Speaker 1: it's it's really a car and his iPhone a microphone,

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Speaker 1: ropes of that particular whether it's the daycare industry or

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Speaker 1: the hospice industry, and they've done some of the research

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Speaker 1: online and has exposed all this And so anyway, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna we're gonna have Nick on coming up. And what's

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Speaker 1: really cool and I'm gonna play this in the next

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Speaker 1: segment is Nick Shirley's research is being backed up by

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Speaker 1: the main stream media for some reason this story because

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Speaker 2: But CBS News has done.

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Speaker 1: Two long pieces on it, and we're going to play

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Speaker 1: and and Fox News has done something. And Alexandra Alexandria Messdo,

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Speaker 1: who's a Republican assembly woman in central California, she's done

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Speaker 1: her own investigation. And doctor Oz as well, you know,

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Speaker 1: massive hundreds of fake hospices bilking California taxpayers and federal

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Speaker 1: taxpayers out of hundreds of millions, perhaps billions of dollars,

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Speaker 1: not only for hospices, but daycare centers and and other

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Speaker 1: And so now what happened is Gavin Newsom got back

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Speaker 1: is backed into a corner here because he has tried

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Speaker 1: You may have seen this, and his eyes are bulging

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Speaker 1: it's really disgusting, and everybody, Republicans, Democrats, all the media

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Speaker 1: saying what are you doing? What kind of filthy comeback

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Speaker 1: putting out that foul meme online instead of the truth.

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Speaker 1: Is everything Nick Shirley's reported on is true, and it's

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Speaker 1: being backed up by several major networks. And Newsom's not

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Speaker 1: responding to the fraud charge. But I think Nick surely

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Speaker 1: captured this really well. Let me play you a clip

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Speaker 1: he said. This is from news Nation, which is another

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Speaker 1: cable news network that has provided a lot of reports

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Speaker 1: for us. Why he thinks Newsom is doing this?

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Speaker 3: California Governor Gavin Newsom's press office posted this picture mocking

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Speaker 3: you for work undercovering fraud in his state.

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Speaker 4: What do you think?

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Speaker 3: Why do you think he's responding to you rather than

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Speaker 3: going to the same businesses and quotes and asking for

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Speaker 3: more documentation about what they're actually doing there and maybe

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Speaker 3: auditing their books.

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Speaker 5: Yeah. I think they're trying to intimidate other people from

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Speaker 5: doing what I did because they know the frauds so deep.

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Speaker 5: Unfortunately for them, it backfired very bad, and so I've

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Speaker 5: given them the opportunity and other posts. I said, let's

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Speaker 5: work together. If you think there's fraud, let's go do it.

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Speaker 5: And I mean, if I was the governor, I would

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Speaker 5: be happy that the fraud is exposed and then figuring

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Speaker 5: out how to crack down on this fraud. Instead, he

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Speaker 1: The one message from Gavin Newsom oant to me, thank

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Speaker 1: you Nick, We're gonna get rid of this problem. Thanks

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Speaker 1: for pointing the way we'd like to help. Instead, they

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Speaker 1: paint him as a pedophile and that meme has been

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Speaker 1: up there at least three days now, so Nusim is

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Speaker 1: standing by that. That's his strategy. He called doctor Oz

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Speaker 1: a racist, and he calls Nick Shirley a pedophile for

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Speaker 1: pointing out potentially billions of dollars of fraud. We got

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Speaker 1: a sick, sick psychopath running the state and it's it's intentional.

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Speaker 1: He wants to Now, you know, doctor Oz, Nobody in

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Speaker 1: the Trump administration cares.

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Speaker 2: About those stupid names like racist.

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Speaker 1: But you did this to a twenty three year old

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Speaker 1: guy who's just got started in journalism. You're sending out

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Speaker 1: the signal, Hey, you see what we're doing, Nick Shirley,

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Speaker 1: We're gonna do it to you, and that is to

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Speaker 1: silence everyone else, to scare them, and it's not gonna work.

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Speaker 1: It's incredibly stupid. But again, you got a governor with

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna let this go, and I don't think

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Speaker 1: most a lot of people in the media, because already

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Speaker 1: Fox has done something on this particular issue, the smear

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Speaker 1: News Nation did last night. When we come back, I'm

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Speaker 1: going to play a CBS News report from Adam Yamaguchi.

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Speaker 1: We played his first report last week on hospice fraud.

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Speaker 1: He was down in the same district Van Nuys Boulevard,

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Speaker 1: Victory Boulevard, and here is part two of his coverage.

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Speaker 2: By the way, tell him you've got to read the news.

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Speaker 6: I'm okay, mister Cordino. John's mad at me because I'm

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Speaker 6: not reading the news.

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Speaker 1: Anyway.

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Speaker 7: He's coming in to talk to you about Via Ragosa.

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Speaker 2: All right, you're listening.

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Speaker 8: To John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am six forty.

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Speaker 1: So Nick Shirley, the independent journalist who has exposed hundreds

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Speaker 1: of millions of dollars in hospice fraud, takecare fraud, not

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Speaker 1: only here in California, but also in Minnesota. He's really

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Speaker 1: did a lot of damage to Tim Waltz up there,

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Speaker 1: and now Newsom is getting it, and Newsom is responding

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Speaker 1: by trying to paint Shirley as a pedophile and everybody,

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Speaker 1: everybody thinks that's disgusting. But Shirley is in a good

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Speaker 1: company because other reporters have jumped on this story. We

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Speaker 1: Now a second report from CBS News Adam Yamaguchi on

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Speaker 1: hospice fraud in LA.

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Speaker 2: This is the moment your hair stops holding you back.

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Speaker 2: That doesn't sound.

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Speaker 9: Like This was what we referred to as ground zero.

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Speaker 10: That building is considered ground zero because it just was

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Speaker 4: Hospice patient advocate Sheila Clark has been raising the alarm

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Speaker 4: on this one building in LA for years. This building

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Speaker 4: our investigation found is home to eighty nine registered hospice companies.

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Speaker 4: It's called the Morabi Professional Medical Plaza and it's the

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Speaker 4: most extreme case of hospice clustering that we found.

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Speaker 9: And this particular building I noticed, I'm like, dang, how

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Speaker 9: can there be that many licensed and certified hospices in

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Speaker 4: We went to the vanni's address to find out what's

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Speaker 4: see what we can find. There's a directory hospice, home

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Speaker 4: health agency, hospice, hospice.

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Speaker 7: They didn't come back to talk back to.

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Speaker 4: Just looking at this director, you could see dozens of

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Speaker 4: hospice agencies coming up. The state and federal records for

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Speaker 4: hospice agencies tell you a lot. State auditors have identified

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Speaker 4: warning signs when they're looking for fraud, like multiple hospice

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Speaker 4: offices packed into one building, or caretakers whose patients who

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Speaker 4: are supposedly at death's door are discharged alive. According to

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Speaker 4: our analysis, seventy two of the eighty nine registered hospices

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Speaker 4: in Robbie Plaza have at least three of those potential

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Speaker 4: warning signs.

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Speaker 10: This isn't possible. This It made no sense, because I

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Speaker 10: know what a license and certified hospice looks like.

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Speaker 4: We weren't the first ones to come to this building.

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Speaker 4: Federal inspection records show that regulators visiting multiple suites and

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Speaker 4: Robbie Plaza between twenty twenty one and twenty twenty five,

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Speaker 4: and they found nearly four hundred violations. At one, a

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Speaker 4: nurse wrote that a patient's family was satisfied with the care,

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Speaker 4: but inspectors found no one from the hospice ever even

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Speaker 4: visited that patient. At another, the patient's chart listed medications

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Speaker 4: for malaria and diabetes, but the patient told inspectors he

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Speaker 4: wasn't taking either one. And at that same company, a

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Speaker 4: hospice social worker wrote about a family's grief when their

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Speaker 4: loved one had passed, but there is no evidence the

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Speaker 4: patient was actually dead. These hospices have been building Medicare

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Speaker 4: for rebursement with your tax dollars for years, Why are

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Speaker 4: we still seeing such, you know, rampant signs of this.

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Speaker 4: Why hasn't more been done.

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Speaker 11: We're committed to tackling the issue until we rooted out

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Speaker 11: and extinguished all fraud.

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Speaker 4: So who's working to fix this? Well, the state attorney

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Speaker 4: general is the one responsible for investigating the industry here

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Speaker 4: in California.

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Speaker 2: App Good News. Look at this another temporary win.

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Speaker 1: At least it looks like the release of this disgusting pervert.

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Speaker 1: double take. We had David Tangipa on earlier in the week.

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Speaker 7: Well it was, it was written before that, before they knew.

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Speaker 1: You're ruining your whole system. Oh, listen to this crap.

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Speaker 2: Get out his model in life.

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Speaker 1: Cisi puta that annoying phrase that Obama adopted and bodies

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Speaker 1: In nineteen ninety four, he was posthumously awarded the Presidential

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Speaker 1: Caesar Shavez, a common man with an uncommon vision for humankind,

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Speaker 6: Yes, it was very uh, it happened very quickly that

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Speaker 7: So how come this couldn't be fixed?

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Speaker 7: All you need is watues have been removed.

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Speaker 1: you sixteen months and you still don't get it. But

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Speaker 1: you want to tear down an embarrassing sign honoring Caesar Shavez.

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Speaker 2: I got that done real fast. Now.

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Speaker 1: Newsom inducted this new class along with the first partner,

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Speaker 1: which is the single most irritating phrase that I've heard

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Speaker 1: in a while. Jennifer Sybell Newsom, and just by chance,

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Speaker 1: somebody posted a two minute video of Jennifer side Bell

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Speaker 1: Newsom trying to explain what a first partner is and

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Speaker 1: how she worries will not be accepted by America. And

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Speaker 1: I'm telling you she gives Kamala Harris a run for

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Speaker 1: her money on this right.

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Speaker 2: Would you say, Eric, this is? It was?

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Speaker 1: It was quite painful recorded this. Sorry about that.

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Speaker 2: There. I gotta do what I gotta do.

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Speaker 1: I didn't realize how empty she was. I could have guessed,

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Speaker 1: but man, she she is. She is, She's Kamala. We'll

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Speaker 1: play it for you, we come back.

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Speaker 8: You're listening to John Cobbels on demand from KFI A sixty.

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Speaker 1: John Fleischman's coming on with us, the political Analyst.

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Speaker 2: So does it matter? Dot com is its website.

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles schools, the teachers union and the Service Employees

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Speaker 1: union are threatening a strike even though that even though

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Speaker 1: spending is up dramatically and roman is down dramatically, and

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Speaker 1: more than half the kids can't read proficiently when they graduate,

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Speaker 1: and almost eighty percent can't do math proficiently when they graduate.

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Speaker 1: And what I'm missing here anyway? John Fleischmann coming on. Okay,

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Speaker 1: here's a treat for you. We were just talking about

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Speaker 1: Jennifer Newsen, the first Partner. She's in the press release

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Speaker 1: today where she and Gavin were inducting the new Hall

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Speaker 1: of Fame class here in California, and this irritating first

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Speaker 1: partner title that she uses. Somebody dug out a video

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Speaker 1: where she was asked if she's going to keep calling

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Speaker 1: herself the first partner if Gavin becomes president, listen to

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Speaker 1: this huge bowl of word salad.

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Speaker 15: What I will say is that I don't know if

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Speaker 15: our country is ready for first partner. Okay, sadly, I

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Speaker 15: don't know if they are. I'd like to think, and

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Speaker 15: I'm going to work really, really, really really hard for

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Speaker 15: people to see what's been rendered invisible and devalued in

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Speaker 15: our society and to go, oh, that's actually important. It's

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Speaker 15: not always a woman behind a man, but the partnership

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Speaker 15: is what's important, and then partnership will make the world

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Speaker 15: go around. That said, I, you know, I have respect

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Speaker 15: for institutions. California is sort of this Petri dish of innovation.

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Speaker 15: I threw it out as a whim to everybody when

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Speaker 15: we were in the transition period, and they were like,

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Speaker 15: they kind of like liked it, they thought it was cool,

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Speaker 15: and I was like, okay, and so if not me,

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Speaker 15: hopefully somebody someday will continue to ascertain stand up so

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Speaker 15: that more people see the value of the partnership and

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Speaker 15: the value of the care and that that person, whether

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Speaker 15: it's a man or a woman, you know, gender and

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Speaker 15: not conforming individual, but they're critical to that person's success,

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Speaker 15: and that they're part of the other life, that other

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Speaker 15: life of theirs that allows them to lead, that allows

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Speaker 15: them to be successful. You know, just because you're giving

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Speaker 15: me an opportunity to just talk about two amazing first

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Speaker 15: ladies three Jill Biden, Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton have

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Speaker 15: demonstrated what's possible when you give a really strong, smart

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Speaker 15: and powerful woman freedom to be herself. I'm not saying

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Speaker 15: that actually Sexuary Clinton, or Michelle Obama or even Jill

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Speaker 15: have that much freedom, because I know there are a

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Speaker 15: lot of constraints on just women generally in leadership, but

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Speaker 15: especially a first lady. But I think that it is

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Speaker 15: exciting to see the partnership and the respect between two

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Speaker 15: individuals who bring something unique and different and are demonstrating

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Speaker 15: to the world the value of the feminine and the

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Speaker 15: value of the woman next to the man having a

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Speaker 15: voice and having a platform where she can help people.

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Speaker 2: Man no wonder he drinks so much tequila.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you want to soup with your salady. If

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Speaker 1: I came home to that at the dinner table every day,

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Speaker 1: I would just I'd jump off the bridge. Good lord, Wow,

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Speaker 1: you talk right. You talk about pompous and self important.

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Speaker 1: And I don't know what she was talking about there.

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Speaker 1: She thinks she's this innovator and groundbreaker with this first partner. Nonsense.

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Speaker 1: You know, first ladies don't do much. They just happened

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Speaker 1: to be married the guy who's president or governor. There's

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Speaker 1: no reason to inflate yourself. There's no reason to make

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Speaker 1: it sound like you're breaking down barriers and you're accomplishing

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Speaker 1: great works. All right. I can't take listening to her.

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Speaker 1: If somehow he weaseled into the presidency, that that's going

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Speaker 1: to be excruciating when we come back. We've got John

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Speaker 1: Fleischmann on. My brain is scrambled. There are certain people

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Speaker 1: when they talk, I can't go on. John's gonna come

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Speaker 1: on about the LA schools are going on strike. United

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Speaker 1: Teachers and the SEIU service workers, that's all the staff members,

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Speaker 1: and they want a big pay increase. And the Los

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Speaker 1: Angeles Unified is broke. It's not only broke. It has

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Speaker 1: far less students than it used to, it spends far

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Speaker 1: more money than it used to, and most of the

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Speaker 1: kids can't write and can't read at a proficient level.

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Speaker 1: So I don't know what the point of this is.

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Speaker 1: I don't know why they should be paid. They should

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Speaker 1: be paid a lot less. They A lot of them

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Speaker 1: ought to be fired because they're producing bad product. I

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Speaker 1: don't know why anyone else doesn't say that. Deborah Mark

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