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Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 2: Just like every day, we're on from one until four

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Speaker 2: listen on the podcast John Cobel's show on demand on

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Speaker 2: the iHeart app as well. Just a short time ago,

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Speaker 2: a plane flipped upside down after it landed. It's belly up,

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Speaker 2: roof down in Toronto. It's fly a Delta plane flying

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Speaker 3: No, I'm watching CNN and I cannot even believe it.

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Speaker 1: No, it's the strangest thing to look at.

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Speaker 3: Eight injured, they say, one in critical condition.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it seems like everybody should be injured, right, you

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Speaker 2: would think. But I guess you got the seat belt on.

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Speaker 2: They you know, you're just hanging upside down. Oh it's

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Speaker 2: so We're it's all snowy, all at nine inches of

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Speaker 3: What the heck with these plane crashes all the time now?

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Speaker 1: And they h and I guess they didn't clear the

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Speaker 2: Shouldn't be lan I mean, everything on that runway looks

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Speaker 2: snow and ice covered, right, So you shouldn't be landing

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Speaker 4: Should be diverting them to another runway where it isn't

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Speaker 4: so snowy, or where you have had time to clean

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Speaker 2: Mess, like in Miami. That'd be a good place to

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Speaker 2: divert that plane. Yeah, but people people flying from Minneapolis

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Speaker 2: because they wanted colder weather in Toronto.

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Speaker 1: That's that's that's quite a sight.

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Speaker 2: If anything anymore comes to the story, we will tell

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Speaker 2: you about it obviously, But right now there's eight injured,

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Speaker 3: Now that's all we have right now.

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Speaker 2: Boy, if there was somebody in the in the restroom

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Speaker 2: at that moment, yeah, but you're.

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Speaker 3: Not supposed to be in the restroom when.

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Speaker 1: You're landing, I know. But you know what people always do.

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Speaker 2: In fact, as soon as they announce that they're going

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Speaker 5: I've got to go.

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Speaker 2: I'll be quick, okay, And if I was the flight attendant,

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Speaker 2: I would buddy, it's up to you totally. You's trying

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Speaker 2: to end up with your head sticking out of.

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Speaker 3: The toilet and here right this waiver right.

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Speaker 2: Uh, Well, we've got some a lot of interesting stuff today.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna have at two o'clock. Chad Bianco on Chad

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Speaker 2: Beyanco is the Riverside County sheriff, and he's been on

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Speaker 2: with us a number of times and as long rumored.

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Speaker 2: In fact, he alluded to it last time he was

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Speaker 2: on the show. Uh, he is going to run for governor.

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Speaker 6: Uh.

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Speaker 2: He had fifteen hundred supporters at an event and he said,

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Speaker 2: I'm running for governor because our beautiful state, which I

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Speaker 2: absolutely love, is headed down the wrong.

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Speaker 1: Track and has been for years. You know.

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Speaker 2: I I hope he gains traction because this is an emergency.

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Speaker 2: When I saw the poll last week that Kamala Harris

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Speaker 2: gets fifty seven percent of the Democratic vote among you know,

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Speaker 2: about ten candidates that they have listed, this would be

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Speaker 2: you know, for a Democratic primary. I saw that and

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Speaker 2: I just like clutched my face in horror.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this was like.

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Speaker 2: This, This was horrific, idea imaginable, and I do not

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Speaker 2: know what's wrong with people. I mean, she just thoroughly

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Speaker 2: embarrassed and disgraced herself running the silliest, emptiest campaign imaginable.

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Speaker 2: And I understand that there's a sizeable number of people

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Speaker 2: who hate Trump and would vote for a potted plant.

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Speaker 2: She's pretty much a potted plant. And I hate to

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Speaker 2: insult potted plants with that comparison, but really, in the

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Speaker 2: absence of Trump running for governor, there is no there's

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Speaker 2: no reason in the universe to pick Kamala Harris for

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Speaker 2: goodness sakes, I mean, there is nothing going on there.

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Speaker 2: That candle is long blown out, and you look around

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Speaker 2: and see what's happened and to this state and what's

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Speaker 2: I yet go to Miami. I mean, this is just ridiculous.

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Speaker 2: So we'll talk to Chad Bianco because he's a fireball,

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Speaker 2: and you know the thing is he articulates things. Well

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Speaker 2: I'm not going to name names, but there's been about, oh,

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Speaker 2: I'd say, uh, really, almost twenty years of bad candidates

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Speaker 2: And with all the horrific policies that are sinking the

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Speaker 2: you know why, we got to do better, we got

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Speaker 3: Well, don't you say?

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Speaker 4: I think that it would be important that he would

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Speaker 4: talk about, Hey, guys, we don't have gas going anymore. Right,

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Speaker 4: they got rid of people in San Francisco. Right, they're

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Speaker 4: trying to clean up the mess in San Francisco and

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Speaker 3: I mean, he has a lot of things he.

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Speaker 1: Can work with. Yeah, he does.

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Speaker 2: I mean, if you don't see now that we need

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Speaker 2: a complete change in philosophy, I don't know what to

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Speaker 1: But I was talking.

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Speaker 2: We're wandering around over the weekend, and we were talking

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Speaker 2: had friends when Caruso was running. They said, no, he's

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Speaker 2: too conservative. I said, well, what do you mean he's

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Speaker 2: too conservative? He wants to get the homeless off the street.

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Speaker 2: That's not a political issue. It shouldn't It shouldn't be.

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Speaker 2: It's like, you can't live with seventy thousand homeless on

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Speaker 1: That that's not that's not politics.

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Speaker 2: That's just you can't live with seventy thousand drug addicts

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Speaker 2: vomiting all the time. How did that become conservative? Using

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Speaker 2: how about that?

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Speaker 3: You know that Marabas admitted that going to Africa was

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Speaker 3: a mistake.

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Speaker 1: Yes, we actually have clips of that.

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Speaker 3: Okay, coming up, I have I have one too if

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Speaker 2: Have it, but no, I've got I've got several here.

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Speaker 2: We'll do that next. Conan Nolan from NBC. He's a

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Speaker 2: good guy and he got Bass to sit down. I've

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Speaker 2: heard some of this, but not all these so this

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Speaker 2: this should I got three of them, so this should

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Speaker 2: be fascinating, Karen Bass admitting.

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Speaker 1: She but but she took how many weeks has it been? Six?

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Speaker 2: Took six weeks to say I shouldn't have gone Africa? Really,

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Speaker 2: I mean what, I will see that better late than ever. Yeah, yes,

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Speaker 2: it doesn't really help very much. You know, she needed

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Speaker 2: to make that decision on a January second, when they

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Speaker 3: John, she needed to process the situation.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well all right, so let's play that when we

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Speaker 2: come back, because I got a few of these, and

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Speaker 2: we'll see what else goes on with this Delta plane.

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Speaker 5: six forty.

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Speaker 2: Now, remember those of you might get unnerved by this.

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Speaker 2: This is the department of blame, finger pointing, second guessing,

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Speaker 2: and Monday morning quarterbacking. I find zero value in identifying

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Speaker 2: Imagine that the people who want to say, well, now,

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Speaker 2: or it's parties and supporters of the person who's to blame.

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Speaker 2: So your opinions are discredited and disqualified.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to hear it. Shut up. Okay.

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Speaker 2: When you decide you're going to run for office and

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Speaker 2: you take an oath, you're supposed to be there and

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Speaker 2: your number one priority is keep the residents safe as

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Speaker 2: best as possible, which means when the National Weather Surface

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Speaker 2: knowing the history, knowing that what the sant Anawins can do,

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Speaker 1: What do they call that? Shelter in place?

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Speaker 2: So on January second, we always have to go back

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Speaker 2: had quite a few days for Karen Bass to reconsider

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Speaker 2: I think a this is from a Sunday morning show,

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Speaker 7: You came under a lot of criticism. That's for being

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Speaker 7: Tell us a little bit about that if you don't mind,

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Speaker 7: and do you is your mission now to try to

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Speaker 7: regain confidence that may have you know, eroded.

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Speaker 6: Absolutely it is, and I think that I have to

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Speaker 6: demonstrate that every day by showing what we're doing, what

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Speaker 6: is working, what are the challenges, and to bring Los

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Speaker 1: Stop, stop stop? What did I get?

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Speaker 2: How long did I get through of her speaking? Was

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Speaker 2: ten twelve seconds? About ten seconds? Yeah, right here we go.

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Speaker 2: How are we going to move Los Angeles forward?

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Speaker 6: Oh?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, she doesn't, she doesn't want to address this at all.

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Speaker 2: This is the time to sincerely apologize and sound like

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Speaker 6: Open up the one stop center. Today, we're opening up

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Speaker 2: They are whole.

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Speaker 2: by one stop shop. Well, the rights to our neighbors

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Speaker 2: But has there been NonStop talk about how if you

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Speaker 2: Does Karen Bass understand anything in Capital letters about how

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Speaker 3: Can you imagine you lose your home and you're going

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Speaker 2: Get a jackass who has a home, whose salary you're paying,

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Speaker 2: joining us, we played you a clip of Karen Bass

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Speaker 8: Right?

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Speaker 2: Just lapsed into this this nonsense speak that these idiot

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Speaker 7: You've had a lot of criticism. We saw Rick Caruso,

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Speaker 6: I don't.

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Speaker 8: And you know what, I am focused on one thing

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Speaker 6: That's my focus, that's my mission, and that's what I'm

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Speaker 2: That's not a person. I insist that that is a robot.

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Speaker 2: Somebody check her battery back. Well, there's like not a

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Speaker 1: Yes, that's my.

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Speaker 6: Wow, and that's what I'm going to do every day.

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Speaker 2: Good voting, excellent voting, everybody. Wow, here's another cut Tonrolan

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Speaker 1: How how she get along with Kevin Newsom?

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Speaker 6: Oh no, that's not the case. We've been working lockstep.

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Speaker 1: He stepped up.

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Speaker 2: She pulled the National Guard from the checkpoints at the Palisades.

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Speaker 1: They got they got some say over how you operate.

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Speaker 2: You know, smart people it's a whole different story because

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Speaker 2: In this case, she just doesn't have it because she

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Speaker 2: this decision A is better than B, and here's why

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Speaker 2: it's better. And then if you make a mistake, you

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Speaker 2: can quickly pivot and go to decision B. It's like, okay,

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Speaker 2: here's why that was a mistake. But just got no

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Speaker 2: capability for that.

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Speaker 1: Trust me.

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Speaker 2: I warned about not electing her for the last three years.

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Speaker 2: I said, don't do it. Caruso does this in a sleep.

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Speaker 2: He builds things. I you know, there should be a

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Speaker 2: new wave of people as long as you know, we're

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Speaker 2: finally getting out of the di I business. Not just merit,

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Speaker 2: not just you went to the right school that you

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Speaker 2: have certain capabilities which are important to government work. If

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Speaker 2: you're building stuff, that's really good to take those skills

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Speaker 2: into government, because building things is complex because you yourself

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Speaker 2: have to be successful at dealing with all the government

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Speaker 2: agencies and you know intimately how bad and arbitrary they

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Speaker 2: are and how ridiculous their rules are. Most of these

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Speaker 2: rules are in place only to give power to the

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Speaker 2: little pissant. Who's got that, you know, a tiny bit

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Speaker 2: of control over your life. You know, double digit IQ people,

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Speaker 2: that's what government is filled with, double digits.

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Speaker 1: You know, eighty five ninety, that's it.

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Speaker 2: And if you are accomplished in life, odds are you know,

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Speaker 2: you've got another twenty or thirty points And it's uh,

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Speaker 2: it's it's you know, it's like it's like talking to

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Speaker 2: a goldfish. I mean that that the gap is just

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Speaker 2: so wide. Did I play all these?

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Speaker 1: Yes?

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Speaker 2: I played the lockstep thing. Oh that's another thing. She's

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Speaker 2: either locking arms, who she's in lockstep. She's just got

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Speaker 2: a bunch of there's no depth to her intelligence the

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Speaker 2: way she speaks. All right, when we come back, all right,

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Speaker 2: good Chad Bianco coming up after two o'clock. Chad is

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Speaker 2: going to run for governor as a Republican Riverside County sheriff.

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Speaker 2: He's really good and we will talk to him next.

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Speaker 2: He announced today in front of fifteen hundred fans. That's

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Speaker 2: after too.

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Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM

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Speaker 5: six forty.

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Speaker 2: We're on every day from one until four o'clock. After

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Speaker 2: four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand. The podcast on

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Speaker 2: the iHeart app coming up later in the show, since

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Speaker 2: we have spent a lot of time this hour on

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Speaker 2: Karen Bass's interview with Conan Nolan on NBC four and

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Speaker 2: her bag of stupid cliches. She'll admit, you know, I

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Speaker 2: was looking for like a heartfelt. I would feel so

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Speaker 2: bad because you know, she should have had extensive meetings

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Speaker 2: in the days before for the fire, and then they

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Speaker 2: should have had the fire engines right placed all over

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Speaker 2: the Palisades and other areas well. Los Angeles Times, and

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Speaker 2: you know how I feel about the LA Times, but

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Speaker 2: they've really really been doing a lot of great stories.

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Speaker 2: And maybe next hour, maybe after we finished talking to

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Speaker 2: Chad Bianco, I'm going to tell you about exactly how

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Speaker 2: former assistant chiefs of the Los Angeles Fire Department have

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Speaker 2: said that, yes, they should have had ten engines patrolling

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Speaker 2: the Palisades Hills. This is from the former assistant chiefs

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Speaker 2: for LAFD. Because there's this whole courus and I don't

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Speaker 2: know if these people are trolls or you know, they're

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Speaker 2: just kiss ass dummies who were into the woke movement

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Speaker 2: and the Democratic Party and they, you know, they just

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Speaker 2: do kind of a reflex defense of whatever stupid politician

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Speaker 2: is getting criticized. But everything is all their responses are well,

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Speaker 2: it really wouldn't have mattered. It really wouldn't have battered

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Speaker 2: having a reservoir empty. It really wouldn't have mattered if

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Speaker 2: you had all the fire engines up there. It really

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Speaker 2: wouldn't have mattered. If you had a thousand firefighters up

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Speaker 2: in the hills. It really wouldn't have no, no, no,

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Speaker 2: would have changed everything. And I'll explain why. Then these

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Speaker 2: fire chiefs are saying so, and the residents are saying

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Speaker 2: so because they lived through other fires and other fired risks.

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Speaker 2: All right, that's coming up after we talked to Chad.

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Speaker 2: Chad Bianco. We've talld you many times about the massive

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Speaker 2: fraud in California. At least fifty billion dollars went out

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Speaker 2: the door under Gavin Newsom during the COVID emergency when

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Speaker 2: they had the unemployment money that they were handing out,

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Speaker 2: people couldn't work, and they did not do any vetting

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Speaker 2: of people's applications if you applied. They say the money

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Speaker 2: they gave fifty billion dollars to fraudsters, and eighty five

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Speaker 2: percent of those fraudsters lived outside the country. Well happened

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Speaker 2: in other places too, according to federal prosecutors, one woman

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Speaker 2: in Las Vegas prepared and filed false tax returns and

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Speaker 2: others at a rate of nearly eighty per month. It

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Speaker 2: was a COVID tax credit scheme sixteen months starting in

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Speaker 2: June of twenty twenty two. The woman named Candy's good McCoy.

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Speaker 2: It's a hyphen Candies, that's not a name. She filed

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Speaker 2: twelve hundred tax returns to fraudulently claim COVID nineteen tax

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Speaker 2: credits of nearly one hundred million dollars, and she's finally

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Speaker 2: pled guilty. She managed to get the Iras to pay

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Speaker 2: out about thirty three million. She took a million three

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Speaker 2: of that herself, and they got another eight hundred thousand

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Speaker 2: dollars from those who she for whom she prepared the

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Speaker 2: false returns, so she skimmed from both sides. She facilitated

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Speaker 2: about thirty three million dollars out of the IRS and

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Speaker 2: kept about two million from both ends. She could get

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Speaker 2: as much as ten years in prison. Guess what she

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Speaker 2: did with the money. Did She donated to care for

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Speaker 2: puppies and kittens, No, maybe sick children. She used the

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Speaker 2: money to gamble at casinos, take vacations, and buy luxury cars.

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Speaker 2: Remember she's from Las Vegas. She also purchased clothing from

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Speaker 2: Dulce and Gabana, Gucci and Louis Vatan.

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Speaker 3: Very expensive.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean, if you engineered a COVID tax scheme,

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Speaker 2: that's where you'd be shopping.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Sure.

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Speaker 2: According to prosecutors, good McCoy prepared taxes, they were not

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Speaker 2: eligible to receive the credits that she got, and they

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Speaker 2: were part of See, they were part of trillions of

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Speaker 2: dollars in money that got shoved out the door in

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Speaker 2: Washington during the post COVID frenzy. It's you know, this

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Speaker 2: is why inflation skyrocketed, is because you had trillions of

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Speaker 2: dollars fleshed into the market, and people like this woman

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Speaker 2: had so much money. She started buying all kinds of stuff,

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Speaker 2: which just drives up the prices. Right, the more buyers

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Speaker 2: you have for an item, the higher the store can

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Speaker 2: charge for that item. You just you keep raising the

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Speaker 2: price as long as the buyers have the money. Here

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Speaker 2: are the names of the companies that she created to

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Speaker 2: facilitate these fake tax claims, the Changing Lives Movement, Exclusive Flavors,

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Speaker 2: Queen Smith Professional Corporation, and Candy's King Elliott. She had

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Speaker 2: software to remotely file twelve hundred and twenty seven forms.

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Speaker 2: None of the people or businesses she applied for had

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Speaker 2: been eligible for those tax credits, so she either made

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Speaker 2: up or used over twelve hundred people in businesses to

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Speaker 2: get them these and of course she kept much of

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Speaker 2: the money. Government investigators have struggled to keep up with

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Speaker 2: the pandemic fraud focusing on large, multimillion dollar cases. See

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Speaker 2: if you just had a if you were a small

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Speaker 2: time right and you just committed you know, two three

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Speaker 2: four frauds were happy with maybe a few hundred thous dollars,

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Speaker 2: You're gonna get away with it because the government never

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Speaker 2: bothered to check to begin with, and now they're so

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Speaker 2: overwhelmed with fraud cases, big ones like this lady, that

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Speaker 2: they're never going to come after you. And now Musk

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Speaker 2: and Trump are clearing out the all the departments anyway, So.

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Speaker 1: You won.

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Speaker 2: When we come back after Deborah's news, Chad byonco seriously,

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Speaker 2: look at Chad Bionco to be your next governor. He's

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Speaker 2: the Riverside County sheriff and he's going to run as

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Speaker 2: a Republican. And you know, something's got to give here.

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Speaker 2: We cannot continue with this idiocy and nonsense. Deborah Mark

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Speaker 2: Live the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been

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Speaker 2: listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always

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