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Speaker 1: get to the pole. The District attorney poll that we

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Speaker 1: started yesterday that just closed, and I realized, in the

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Speaker 1: modern world, you really can't do these things on Twitter anymore.

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Speaker 1: It was war of the bots for various candidates. We'll

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Speaker 1: explain the whole thing coming up in a few minutes.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to start with I thought, this is the

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Speaker 1: biggest news of the day for our purposes, especially since

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Speaker 1: we're covering the La County District Attorney's race so heavily

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Speaker 1: to get George Gascone out of office. Gascone is constantly

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Speaker 1: insisting that crime has gone down ever since he took

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Speaker 1: over because his progressive methods work well. Today, the big

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Speaker 1: news was shoplifting reports in Los Angeles surged by eighty

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Speaker 1: one percent in twenty twenty three, eighty one percent and

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Speaker 1: these are just the reported thefts. As we know, lots

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Speaker 1: of thefts are not reported. So can you imagine if

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Speaker 1: there's a way to count every time a shoplifter stole something,

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Speaker 1: what it would be. We're going to go down to

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Speaker 1: Blake Troley KFI News and he's got all the details.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, John, there's a lot of speculation that this number

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Speaker 2: is actually a lot lower than what the reality actually

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Speaker 2: is out on the streets. But yeah, last year there

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Speaker 2: were nearly twelve thousand shoplifting cases reported to the LAPD.

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Speaker 2: This is up from around sixty six hundred reports in

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty two. Now, if you go back to twenty fourteen,

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Speaker 2: see a big jump last year. Now, to break these

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Speaker 2: hundred and sixty seven. If you'll remember, John, this is

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Speaker 2: where that Nord Strumps was hit in a very high

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Speaker 2: profile smash and grab robbery that we ended up covering

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Speaker 1: Sure, and everybody saw that on television for several nights,

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Speaker 1: that video over and over again. So I guess all

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Speaker 1: the bad guys realized, Hey, Canoga Park is the place

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Speaker 2: I remember talking to people actually at that mall. I

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Speaker 2: that story, and people were telling me that shoplifting was

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Speaker 2: a real problem there. Downtown LA came in second, seven

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Speaker 2: Now I want to do I do want to point

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Speaker 2: this out. It doesn't appear that LA is alone. There

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Speaker 2: was a rally behind the bill recently, and this is

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Speaker 2: a bill that would have thieves on their third theft

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Speaker 2: conviction facing up to three years in jail. We heard

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Speaker 2: regional testimony both from the Inlet Empire and from Orange County.

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Speaker 2: Down in Orange County, a retail official said every single

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Speaker 2: city in Orange County is dealing with an uptick in

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Speaker 2: retail theft. In retail theft, and San Marino Police Chief

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Speaker 2: Darren Goodman says his city has not been spared by

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Speaker 3: Take a listen to these numbers.

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Speaker 4: In twenty twenty, we had four hundred and twenty nine

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Speaker 4: and forty percent. However, those numbers do not reflect the

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Speaker 4: true damage, since many of the victims have become hopeless

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Speaker 3: This morning, I also spoke to Assemblyman Bill A.

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Speaker 3: He says the same thing. He says, Look, these numbers are.

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Speaker 2: Probably a lot lower than what reality is based on

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Speaker 2: punishments for retail theft. He said, yeah, well, they might

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, because it's a systemic problem. Now to use

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Speaker 2: Sale says that in Riverside County, so this is under

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Speaker 2: his jurisdiction. Every single person that's in prison or sorry

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Speaker 2: another person. He said, they don't have the capacity to

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Speaker 2: that's different. Punishments alone are going to lead to no

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Speaker 1: They ruined the system several different ways. They had Prop

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Speaker 1: forty seven, they had Prop fifty seven, They had I

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Speaker 1: think it was called ABY one oh nine, and that

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Speaker 1: so they eliminated jail space. They intentionally overcrowded the county jails,

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Speaker 1: and they for all practical purposes, legalized retail theft. They

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Speaker 1: So this is what the progressive movement wanted to happen.

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Speaker 1: This was It's not a mistake, it's not a screw up.

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Speaker 1: This is the end result that they desired and their

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I would expect to see a lot Well,

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Speaker 2: one thing I want to point out here, John, and

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Speaker 2: I know this is something that you and Todd Spitzer

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Speaker 2: I believe have a date on next is it next week?

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Speaker 1: When are you going down for the Thursday, February twenty second?

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Speaker 2: I would expect to see a lot aimed at Prop

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Speaker 2: you know, Governor Newsom has called for stiffer punishments, including

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Speaker 2: adding up the value of several thefts to reach grand theft.

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Speaker 2: And right now as we are talking about your push

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Speaker 2: by the California District Attorney's Association to repeal parts of Prop.

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Speaker 2: Forty seven and among the measures taken, and I know

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Speaker 2: there's a lot on this list, but just to remind

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Speaker 2: shoplifting despite the value facing felonies. It also allows judges

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Speaker 3: It's really a new type of crime, and.

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Speaker 2: This proposed ballad initiative seems to take direct aim at

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's exactly the proposed referendum that we're going

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Speaker 1: Anaheim on Thursday, February twenty second. We're going to be

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Speaker 1: doing it along with Todd Spitzer and the Orange County DA.

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Speaker 1: In fact, I meant, I'm meaning this hour to get

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Speaker 1: and we can't have any more like new some running

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Speaker 2: But I talked to Bill A. Saley this morning. He

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Speaker 2: pointed to that as newsom, basically admitting that this goes

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Speaker 3: He witnessed that outpen himself.

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Speaker 2: You know, have you seen who's actually signed off on

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Speaker 2: that proposed ballad initiative. One of the names that stuck

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Speaker 1: A huge convert. And also the San Jose mayor I

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Speaker 1: forgot his name. He's another progressive and he is supporting

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Speaker 1: this new proposition. So, yeah, there's a lot of converts

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Speaker 2: Yeah, according to the website, I was reading a website

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Speaker 2: for that proposed ballot initiative and they're saying that seventy

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Speaker 2: I mean, we're seeing bipartisan support pretty largely for this push.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but going back to one of your original points,

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Speaker 1: we've got to open up space at the jails and

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Speaker 1: you could arrest these guys and charge them, but if

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Speaker 1: there's no consequence, they're gonna go and steal. There's not

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Speaker 1: even for an hour. The whole system was destroyed. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think we're gonna see a walk backwards. We're gonna

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Speaker 2: We've got to open up capacity. If this is the

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Speaker 1: Very good, Blake, thank you for coming on with all that.

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Speaker 1: All Right. Matt Mahon is the name of the mayor

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Speaker 1: We come back, though. We're going to play you some

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Speaker 1: recent clips of George Gascon, who says no crime is

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Speaker 1: to talk about Thursday, the twenty second, our big gathering

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Speaker 1: signature gathering to do a massive revision of Prop forty seven,

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Speaker 1: And also talk about the wacky online Twitter poll we

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Speaker 1: did yesterday for the LA County District Attorney race. A

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Speaker 1: lot to come here, oh oh. And Rick Sidahl is

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Speaker 1: o'clock Steve Garvey coming in and there was a debate

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Speaker 1: last night that he had against the three blockheads running

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Speaker 1: for US Senator. Exhausted already, I'm tired.

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Speaker 1: All right. We just had Blake Trolley on with this

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Speaker 1: shocking report. Yeah, I'm not shocked. I'm shocked anybody released

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Speaker 1: this thing. That's what I'm surprised about. Shoplifting reports in

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Speaker 1: given up. There was about sixty six hundred in twenty

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Speaker 1: That we do share those with us.

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Speaker 1: Coming up after two o'clock. Eric Saddaal coming into the studio.

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Speaker 1: after Denbor's news, Eric Saiddaal is going to come in.

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Speaker 1: Eric has been on our show many times. He has

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Speaker 1: That's that's basically their their union. We will talk to

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Speaker 1: Eric Saddhal coming up after two o'clock. Part of the

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Speaker 1: decay of Los Angeles and California in general is some

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Speaker 1: really famous some cases, iconic attractions or famous businesses are disappearing,

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Speaker 1: you know, like Hollywood Boulevard has become completely disgusting and

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Speaker 1: negative image. Talk to the people who spent a lot

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Speaker 1: going to the Hollywood Walk of Fame. What do you

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Speaker 1: think the reviews of that are? Well, the homeless crisis

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Speaker 1: is so bad that a historic music recording studio may

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Speaker 1: ABC seven reporter Sophie.

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Speaker 9: Flay tense around Sunset Sound, the legendary Hollywood recording studio.

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Speaker 1: We've been here sixty four years.

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Speaker 11: We've made some of the most iconic records that have

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Speaker 11: to deal with this homeless problem that is is potentially

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Speaker 9: Photo show the damage of two people breaking into the

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Speaker 11: It took a bunch of blank checks. Then we've had

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Speaker 9: In the last year, the building has been lit on

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Speaker 9: fire twice, burnmarks to prove it handicaps clients and folks

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Speaker 9: who live in the area can't use the sidewalk.

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Speaker 8: Right out front needles being laid just in plain sight,

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Speaker 8: people using the bathroom anywhere they need to, destroying property.

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Speaker 1: Taylor Swift was.

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Speaker 11: Down here and she made the mistake of going out

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Speaker 11: on the sidewalk and going to the seven eleven across

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Speaker 11: the street, got accosted, came back to my tenant and

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Speaker 11: told him I will never come back to Sunset Sound again.

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Speaker 11: This is really bad for business. Our councilmen kind of

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Speaker 9: There are roughly three thousand people experiencing homelessness in City

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Speaker 9: Council District thirteen, with just four hundred shelter beds. This

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Speaker 9: encampment sits across the street from Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church,

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Speaker 9: which gives out free hot meals Monday through Friday.

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Speaker 8: There's clients that have been coming here for forty fifty years, and.

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Speaker 11: They've been in Hollywood, and a lot of them are

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Speaker 10: Gone worse and worse and worse.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, Taylor Swift could have gotten killed at

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Speaker 1: seven eleven. Can you imagine? So now Taylor Swift is

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Speaker 1: rejected Hollywood because it's so filthy and foul. I'd be so.

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Speaker 4: Mad if I was the owner of that place, and

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Speaker 4: Taylor Swift says she's never ever coming back there again.

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Speaker 1: She's never coming back again.

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Speaker 8: Well, I think about you said, Hollywood Boulevard is just

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Speaker 8: completely trash. Now, think about all the awards shows that

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Speaker 8: much we've talked about the police going in and clearing

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Speaker 8: We didn't get to it last week, but obviously it

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Speaker 1: They were clearing out the homeless from the tunnels underground. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: which I know somebody who's been down there. She works

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Speaker 1: of inner circle of hell is underneath. Some of these

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Speaker 1: people actually have lost their eyesight because they haven't seen

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Speaker 1: daylight in months and years. Yeah, it's all underworld, and

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Speaker 1: they're all insane, and they're all armed with all kinds

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Speaker 1: of bizarre weapons and they're constantly trashing, thrashing and killing

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Speaker 1: each other. Yeah, and I was like, what stupid Newsom

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Speaker 1: in San Francisco. Yep, this is what they do. So

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Speaker 1: they didn't clear it that for cleaning up for Taylor

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Speaker 1: Swift coming in. Uh there. Now the villain here, the

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Speaker 1: La City councilman, Hugo Soda Martinez, total socialist. He's with

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Speaker 1: the Social Democratic Party and he's a complete socialist. He

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Speaker 1: embraces people living intents, living in the streets, embraces the

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Speaker 1: feces they live behind, the drug needles they live behind.

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Speaker 1: You heard Drew Dempsey, the marketing producer at Sunset Sound,

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Speaker 1: They're taking a dump right on the sidewalk, and Taylor

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Speaker 1: Swift looks at it and says, never again. Can you meg?

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Speaker 1: She got a constant to seven eleven. Can you imagine?

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Speaker 1: I mean, I've seen what hangs out at seven eleven,

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Speaker 1: even in nicer neighborhoods in La. Oh my god, I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's where that's where all the when the criminals came

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Speaker 1: they get hungry. They all go to seven eleven, and

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Speaker 1: that is really frightening. And Hugo Soda Martinez, like Karen Bass,

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Speaker 1: they don't care. I mean LA's legacy, one of LA's

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Speaker 1: big business legacies historic is the recording industry. All the

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Speaker 1: happened in Hollywood, and it's kind of hell. Now it's

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Speaker 1: drug addicts and mental patients dedicating all over the place.

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Speaker 1: We went from the biggest entertainment stars in the industry

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Speaker 1: to vagrants, most of whom were probably going to be

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Speaker 1: dead within a couple of years of fentanyl overdose. Now

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Speaker 1: they rule. Now they're in charge. And Hugo Soda Martinez,

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Speaker 1: who's practically a communist, embraces this. Of course, of course

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Speaker 1: he's called. He declines a non camera interview, of course

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Speaker 1: he does. But all these people are sociopaths. They're not

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Speaker 1: bothered in the least. They get lazy coverage. They know

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Speaker 1: in a minute and a half the story will be over.

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Speaker 1: People will forget about it. Most people have never seen it.

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Speaker 1: Not a big deal. Everybody can just go back to

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Speaker 1: urinating and defecating and injecting your drugs. It's okay, we

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Speaker 1: lose a recording studio, What does it really matter? But

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Speaker 1: it's Eric Sadal's coming up. Eric is a deputy district attorney.

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Speaker 1: He is running for La County District Attorney, good candidate

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Speaker 1: against George Gascon and he will be here in the

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Speaker 1: studio next And we're going to be live on Instagram too, right,

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Speaker 1: so get on Instagram. Yeah, you got to keep reminding

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Speaker 1: me of that. I got too many things here. Debra

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Speaker 1: Marc is live in the KFI twenty for our newsroom. Hey,

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