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Speaker 2: At how much water do you need to get? You

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Speaker 2: need rice?

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Speaker 1: I need rice? Yeah, I'm not particularly hungry now.

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Speaker 3: No, it's for your phone. You show up, yes, yes, No,

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Speaker 3: you better John. You're just leaving your phone. You need

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Speaker 3: to go get some paper towels and wipe it down.

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Speaker 1: At least maybe my phone will short out and not

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Speaker 1: ring for the whole weekend. Okay, then there's that. All right,

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Speaker 1: let's get Michael Monks on here.

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Speaker 4: Let's not I'm not sure how things are going in

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Speaker 4: here today. Uh, you know, I get crazy and I

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Speaker 4: start It's Friday.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the La City Council approved a fourteen billion dollar budget.

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Speaker 1: Tracy Park had a fit, Yeah, which I I maybe

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Speaker 1: might have a clip of it, but I'm going to

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Speaker 1: play it its entirety later. And it seems like they're

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Speaker 1: cutting well, the fire department is getting cut in some way.

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Speaker 1: There seems to be a debate about that. But if

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Speaker 1: they're debating it, that's not good. The police department is

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Speaker 1: getting cut in a backward sort of way. Even Karen

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Speaker 1: Bass's Inside Safe program is getting cut. Talk about this.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So they approved the budget yesterday and it was

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Speaker 4: a very long meeting, a lot of back and forth. Now,

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Speaker 4: in the past couple of years, when the budget came

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Speaker 4: Democratic Socialist groups, the DSA endorsed politicians, the more progressive

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Speaker 4: members who voted no because of police funding. They wanted

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Speaker 4: less money for the police department. This year, there were

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Speaker 4: three council members again who voted against it. But it

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Speaker 4: wasn't those guys. It was, as you mentioned, council member

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Speaker 4: Tracy Park and she was joined by a council members

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Speaker 4: what you mentioned, the fire department and the police department.

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Speaker 4: To sanity caucus, you might call it that if if

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Speaker 4: you're in agreement with them, certainly. The city was facing

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Speaker 4: a pretty significant budget deficit, estimated to be about a

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Speaker 4: billion dollars, and in Mayor Bass's proposed budget that the

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Speaker 4: city council diestop and moved some money around, and she

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Speaker 4: was saying, we need to lay off about sixteen hundred workers.

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Speaker 4: So the budget committee over the past two weeks before

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Speaker 4: save as many jobs as they can. They think they've

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Speaker 4: had to make changes. Mayor Bass had wanted to see

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Speaker 4: the city hire another four hundred and eighty police officers.

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Speaker 4: The budget committee recommended, and the city Council adopted a

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Speaker 1: We already struggle with fewer police officers.

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Speaker 4: In the near future, it's projected that you will end

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Speaker 4: to the police department certainly. But the other thing to consider,

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Speaker 4: while now, and no matter who the chief is over

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Speaker 4: of chiefs come on this program and talk about various things,

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Speaker 4: and they've said, oh, we're struggling.

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Speaker 1: You know, we're struggling to hire.

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Speaker 4: They had the money to hire a lot of officers,

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Speaker 4: Have been it mudes around Police Georgia, but they have

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Speaker 4: those street lighting. Well, you know, we have a major

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Speaker 4: Criminals, Yeah, that's right. Killing, it's a circular firing squad.

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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, because we've got we've got garbage everywhere, we

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Speaker 4: Conversely, or similarly, the fire department, as you noted, they're

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Speaker 4: not being cut necessarily, but there are fewer new firefighters

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Speaker 4: coming compared to what Mayor Bass had suggested. You may

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Speaker 4: recall we had a pretty significant fire in Pacific Palisades

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Speaker 1: I've heard of it, and there was.

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Speaker 1: Did did their budget get cut, did it not? It

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Speaker 4: And a city as large as this that has not

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Speaker 4: added additional firehouses in deb gades. And so we may

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Speaker 4: see the city vote as soon as next year on

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Speaker 4: a bond measure that will allow for the construction of

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Speaker 4: more facilities, but that can't impact employees. We can't approve

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Speaker 4: part of this. So Mayor Bass had wanted about two

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Speaker 4: city council's budget that they adopted yesterday would expand that

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Speaker 1: Fifty eight, Well, that would have put out the fire

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Speaker 4: That's why you heard an impassioned speech from council Member

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Speaker 4: Every member took a turn to speak just before the vote,

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Speaker 4: cried over the budget. Over the budget, Yeah, what was

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Speaker 4: she crying about. She just envisions the police. She envisions

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Speaker 1: Make it illegal, yeah, make homeless people illegal, just like

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Speaker 1: all the other cities do. Go walk around Irvine, You're

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Speaker 4: I mentioned the circular firing squad or the defunding of

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Speaker 4: solutions in order to address problems. You see it a

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Speaker 4: yesterday cut your own budget, are still laying off hundreds

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Speaker 4: you're telling us to pay more to our workers when

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Speaker 4: we're in the same economic condition or worse than you are,

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Speaker 4: and we can't borrow money at the level that you

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Speaker 1: Read at the hotels that agreed to supply discount rooms

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Speaker 1: for the Olympics want to pull out of the deal.

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Speaker 4: Eight of them have so far. You might see more

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Speaker 4: the complaint from the supporters at city Hall about that

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Speaker 4: has become unaffordable.

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Speaker 1: We need we need a living wage for these folks.

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Speaker 4: But there's never any talk about any of the policies

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Speaker 1: Plus, if you let in a million illegal aliens that

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Speaker 4: It also would if there were more available, more houses built.

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Speaker 4: And they make it very difficult to build in this

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Speaker 4: city inside safe program. Yeah, they did cuts some money

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Speaker 1: I hear Judge Carter's going to have bas testifying that.

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Speaker 4: Stuff's not over yet either, the stuff over the homeless funding,

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Speaker 4: that's not over yet either. So they have managed to

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Speaker 4: this budget. They got a lot of problems ahead, all right, Michael,

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Speaker 4: very good, always a pleasure. Michael Monks KFI News covering

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Speaker 4: the dysfunction of the clowns and mental patients that run

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Speaker 1: All right, we come back. You got it. You gotta

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Speaker 1: hear Tracy Park. Tracy Park went off like I never

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Speaker 1: All right, just had Michael Monks on the clowns, the

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Speaker 1: buffoons LA City Council. There's only three sane people at

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Speaker 1: The rest of them really ought to be locked up

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Speaker 1: no sense. They want fewer cops on the streets, fewer firefighters,

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Speaker 1: and they're doing still doing nothing. But wasting money on

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Speaker 1: the budget vote. Let's play you this, enjoy it.

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Speaker 6: At the start of this budget process, we made a

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Speaker 6: promise to maintain core services and minimize impacts to Angelino's.

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Speaker 6: But this budget doesn't reflect those promises. It's bloated with

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Speaker 6: homeless spending, a bottomless pit and taxpayer boondoggle that doubles

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Speaker 6: down on failure year after year, and frankly, at this point,

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Speaker 6: it's just embarrassing. Hundreds of millions of dollars on bridge

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Speaker 6: which ones aren't, or how.

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Speaker 1: Many beds we have.

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Speaker 6: Spending a million and a half.

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Speaker 4: Dollars per door to.

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Speaker 6: Build micro units of housing to give away to homeless

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Speaker 6: employees can never afford a condo at that price. LASA

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Speaker 1: That's the state of.

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Speaker 1: Isn't that great? Just brilliant?

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Speaker 2: Everything she said, I'm going to take my news hat off.

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Speaker 1: Yes, second, all right, can I hold it?

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Speaker 3: you catch it, all right? Everything she said makes perfect sense.

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Speaker 3: And if the whole city council was on her side

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Speaker 1: They held the vote after her speech. They voted twelve

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not the homeless spending, it's not a bottomless pit.

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Speaker 1: It's not a boondoggle. It is. Everybody says, so all

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Speaker 2: And she's right.

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Speaker 3: No more money should be spent on the homeless problem

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Speaker 3: until we fix the broken system. All this money, the

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Speaker 2: That money going? We can't find the other money, so

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Speaker 1: It just disappears. They steal it. The nonprofits and the agencies,

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Speaker 1: I've seen the soal I've seen how much they get.

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Speaker 3: But again, no matter what you say, because I've talked

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Speaker 2: Nobody can understand why would you not want to help

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Speaker 1: Do they know that none of this is work? Though

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Speaker 1: it's one thing to say, Okay, I agree, big problem.

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Speaker 3: Now everything got worse because people will cite other statistics

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Speaker 1: So they allow this infrastructure to waste all the money,

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Speaker 1: other cities don't have this problem. I'll walk around Beverly

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Speaker 1: We're on We're on the radio from one until four

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Speaker 1: o'clock and then after four o'clock John Cobelt Show on

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Speaker 1: demand on the iHeart app. So we were talking right

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Speaker 1: before the news we played a really wonderful cliff Tracy

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Speaker 1: force is gonna shrink, the fire department is going to shrink,

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Speaker 1: and she said the homeless spending is a bottomless pit

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Speaker 1: according to the statistics, I hear things are getting better.

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Speaker 1: Much of the money's been stolen, and that's been proven

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Speaker 1: admits twenty four billion dollars is missing. They don't know

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Speaker 1: Karen Bass tried to block an audit. She doesn't want

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Speaker 1: I mean, look at the clips we've played in Newsom

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Speaker 1: they can. It's and then you tell them, we'll look

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Speaker 1: everything they're doing is broken. Well, I mean what Tracy

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Speaker 2: Oh it's no big deal.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but people will hear the first reports I launch

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Speaker 1: So all the policy, no, no, they didn't work.

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Speaker 1: I use my eyes. You go drive to Oh jeez,

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Speaker 1: He showed me photos. He showed me photos of, you know,

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Speaker 2: They were cleaned up at one point, and they're back again.

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Speaker 1: Right, They move them around and say look they're gone,

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Speaker 1: that if it was a wild success. It's not a success.

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Speaker 1: And it's too expensive, and that's what Tracy said. It costs.

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Speaker 2: But so what what is the answer?

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Speaker 1: You make it illegal and they'll have to go elsewhere.

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Speaker 1: You say, if I told you you're getting arrested and

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Speaker 2: Well, I would go get treatment.

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Speaker 1: And if you wanted to stay on drugs, you'd leave town.

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Speaker 3: But a lot of these people, I'm convinced they don't

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Speaker 1: Well, that's why we'd have to have a system where

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Speaker 2: Then our jails are going to be.

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Speaker 1: So we build build up, build new jails.

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Speaker 2: Like you're homeless, the homeless people jail.

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Speaker 1: Right, exactly the homeless people jail and say, look, we

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Speaker 1: Building one, which is the mental health treatment, or Building

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Speaker 1: two that's the drug treatment, or you could stay here

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Speaker 1: in Building three. I don't think there's any other way

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Speaker 1: you could do this, or you have to leave town.

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Speaker 2: And how are they going to do that?

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Speaker 1: If we find that, well, you give them, you give

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Speaker 1: them a.

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Speaker 3: Bus ticket, and then we bust some other cities, bust

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Speaker 3: some other cities, and.

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Speaker 2: Then those cities are going to bust them right back.

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Speaker 1: Problem. I mean, did the other cis Charlotte, North Carolina

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Speaker 1: doesn't have this problem. Beverly Hills doesn't have the problem. Sarasota,

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Speaker 1: Florida doesn't have the problem. These are towns I've been

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Speaker 1: in in the last month. They simply don't.

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Speaker 2: Have the problem.

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Speaker 1: You go up, you go up the coast to all

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Speaker 1: the towns in Inturra County, it's no problem. Go to

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Speaker 1: Palm Springs. I went to Palm Springs a couple of

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Speaker 1: months ago, no problem. They don't exist. You get outside

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Speaker 1: of LA and they all disappears. It's like, you know,

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Speaker 1: six dollars gas that disappears too. It's all specifically this

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Speaker 1: government because they're woke progressives. They're destructive, and there is

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Speaker 1: something wrong with the majority of voters in this state.

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Speaker 1: I don't understand how they're willing because we don't just

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Speaker 1: have like one indignity, we have like ten of them. Okay,

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Speaker 1: We've got lots of crime, We've got lots of homelessness,

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Speaker 1: we have extremely high taxes. We have this this gas

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Speaker 1: car mandate, this ban that's that's been implemented, and maybe

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Speaker 1: now it's been overturned. We've got we've got the highest

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Speaker 1: gas taxes and the highest income taxes, and the highest

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Speaker 1: sales taxes, the highest gas prices, the highest electricity prices.

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Speaker 1: I mean, what are we doing here?

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Speaker 6: John?

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Speaker 2: Why are we still here?

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Speaker 1: We have the worst school systems. No, I know, I

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Speaker 1: can't defend staying here. I really can't much of many

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Speaker 1: of the people I know who who've got the money

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Speaker 1: to move somewhere else. They've moved at least half the

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Speaker 1: time somewhere else.

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Speaker 2: But it's hard and it's unfair.

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Speaker 3: And the people we have our families here and we

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Speaker 3: don't want to move. We have our jobs and our friends,

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Speaker 3: and we like the weather.

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Speaker 1: Why are the people who are still here, why do

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Speaker 1: they keep voting for this crowd? How could you have

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Speaker 1: twelve at of fifteen pece people on the city Council

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Speaker 1: in Los Angeles vote to shrink the police department, shrink

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Speaker 1: the fire department, and continue spending well over a billion

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Speaker 1: dollars on the vagrants and the mental patients, even though

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Speaker 1: all the programs have failed miserably, and they failed for

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Speaker 1: ten years. These progressives had their run, they had it,

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Speaker 1: they had their way. For ten years, everything got worse.

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Speaker 1: Would anyone change their vote for anybody? Well?

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Speaker 3: I do know people that were pretty upset about the

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Speaker 3: fire and the palisades, and we're not fans.

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Speaker 2: Were fans of Karen Baths and are no longer fans.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so that that's what you need, You need seven

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Speaker 1: thousand buildings to burn.

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Speaker 3: Well, no, don't say that, don't put it out there.

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Speaker 3: We've had enough tragedy here.

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Speaker 1: All right, we come back. I got a story about

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Speaker 1: my favorite favorite cabinet member of the Trump administration. You

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Speaker 1: know her Christino. Yeah, former South Dakota governor who killed her.

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Speaker 3: Own killed her own dog. But she's she's very pretty

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Speaker 3: but not everybody's perfect. All right, Yeah, I know you

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Speaker 3: like the way she looks that the.

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Speaker 1: Dog was an obeying.

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Speaker 2: Please just a joke. I don't like that joke.

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Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty.

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Speaker 1: Coming up after three thirty, next hour, Carl Demayo, Come

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Speaker 1: is coming on. He's got more uh more, Newsom chakinery.

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Speaker 1: Newsom has wasted five million dollars on a no bid

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Speaker 1: contract to some left wing group that runs a fake

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Speaker 1: hate crime hotline and two years five million dollars that

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Speaker 1: hate crime hotline referred zero cases. We'll talk to Carl

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Speaker 1: Demayo about that. Coming up. Christine Nome is that Homeland

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Speaker 1: Security secretary. Don't look at me like that. And there

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Speaker 1: was a lawsuit filed by the ACLU against the Trump

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Speaker 1: administration ten detained illegal immigrants and they were going to

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Speaker 1: be sent to Guantanamo Bay, and the AHLU sued, and

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Speaker 1: then they withdrew the lawsuit because several of the illegals

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Speaker 1: were already deported, while the others just wanted to drop

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Speaker 1: out of the case, figuring there's no sense pissing off

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Speaker 1: Trump anymore. So Christine Nome posted the withdrawal in the

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Speaker 1: legal document, and then underneath that post she wrote, suck

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Speaker 1: it great, that's what I want to hear from the

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Speaker 1: gift from these Gummer and officials, the AHLU and your

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Speaker 1: stupid lawsuits. Suck it. Nothing else to debate.

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Speaker 2: I'm still not a fan of her murdering her puppy.

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Speaker 1: I know you're never going to get over them. No,

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Speaker 1: you're not going to get around them. It's like one

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Speaker 1: dead disobedient dog. I mean, all right, I understand.

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Speaker 2: We all have our you know, values and opinions, and

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Speaker 2: you have your boundaries and boundaries.

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Speaker 1: Now, the big question Debora and I both have when

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Speaker 1: we get out of here is will the traffic be easier?

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Speaker 4: Now?

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Speaker 1: I know today's holiday weekend, but much of that traffic

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Speaker 1: goes to the west. We're going to go to the east. Yes,

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Speaker 1: we're going to be going to the west. And for

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Speaker 1: the last four and a half months it has been impossible,

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Speaker 1: excruciating driving west down the one one to try to

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Speaker 1: get to for me, the west side, for Devera, the

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Speaker 1: West Valley because of all the extra traffic since they

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Speaker 1: closed PCH.

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Speaker 2: It's unbearable.

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Speaker 3: Every day I get home and I'm so angry. I

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Speaker 3: get to work and I'm angry.

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Speaker 1: They also closed to Panga Canyon Road yep at times?

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Speaker 1: Is that still.

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Speaker 2: Closed that as well?

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Speaker 1: So you couldn't access Malibu from two out of the

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Speaker 1: three different different directions. Right, you can't access Balibu from

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Speaker 1: the ocean, but the three other ways, two of the

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Speaker 1: three were blocked, and so people would go on these

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Speaker 1: tortuous routes, you know, going down pH to the ten,

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Speaker 1: up the four h five to the one on one.

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Speaker 1: And these are thousands of people every day just to

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Speaker 1: go to work or go home. And now they've opened

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Speaker 1: up the closed stretch on PCH. It was eleven miles

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Speaker 1: and today's the first day. I have two lanes in

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Speaker 1: each direction. I thought it was going to be one lane.

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Speaker 1: So this is better than I thought. Yes, and they

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Speaker 1: have patrol cars everywhere, and most drivers were abiding by

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Speaker 1: the twenty five mile an hour speed limit, but there

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Speaker 1: were a few trying to race through. You know, this

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Speaker 1: is why, you know, there this eternal fight to try

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Speaker 1: to make PCH safer. It's not the highways, the people. Yes,

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Speaker 1: that's the problem.

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Speaker 3: And you know what, it's such a beautiful You have

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Speaker 3: the beach, right, you have the beautiful ocean.

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Speaker 2: Why do you need to speed?

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Speaker 1: There's there's just too many rich jerks on the west side.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know they're driving their Ferraris, and you.

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Speaker 1: Know, I listen to you. You got that fancy convertible,

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Speaker 1: you go flying. I don't have a Ferrari, but if

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Speaker 1: you could, you would. Of course.

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Speaker 3: I'm just a little jealous, but I would be flying

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Speaker 3: down pch.

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Speaker 2: I'd be respectful and I would be mindful.

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Speaker 1: You're always under the speed limit, not always flying with

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Speaker 1: the top down.

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Speaker 2: I try to be careful and safe.

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Speaker 1: If she's not, she's looking at her phone, looking at

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Speaker 1: the light.

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Speaker 2: No, that was one time.

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Speaker 1: But no, why me, you can't.

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Speaker 3: I tell you every day I see people staring at

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Speaker 3: their phones driving, or people like John Kobel who are

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Speaker 3: driving in the carpool lane that are not supposed to

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Speaker 3: and they don't get pulled over, but I do.

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Speaker 1: It's amazing how much you can drive in the carpool

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Speaker 1: Lane's because we don't. We've hardly any police. Well, I

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Speaker 1: know now it's gonna be worse. They're sending all the police.

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Speaker 1: They came out apparently with the bass. We were ripping

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Speaker 1: on her yesterday. We'll see if this plan works. She's

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Speaker 1: got a plan to uh set up checkpoints all over

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Speaker 1: access to Pacific Palisades from Malibu from Sunset Boulevard because

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Speaker 1: the National Guard is gone.

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Speaker 3: But you know, also John Summer's right around the corner,

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Speaker 3: and we have all these graduations schools out, so the

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Speaker 3: traffic is going to be light anyway. So it's going

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Speaker 3: to be hard to tell if it's because of pch

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Speaker 3: and to pangabein.

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Speaker 1: Open yeah, but if it's if it's just ten percent better,

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Speaker 1: that's gonna be huge. Yes, let me see what We've

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Speaker 1: got a text on this yesterday, sixteen checkpoints and one

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Speaker 1: hundred and thirty LAPD police officers twenty four to seven

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Speaker 1: along with CHP and forty eight private patrol cars, so

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Speaker 1: that they're going to try to keep the bad guys

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Speaker 1: from looting what's left of the Palisades and from squatting

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Speaker 1: there and having gangs set up encampments. All right, we

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Speaker 1: come back. We got two rounds of the moistline coming up.

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Speaker 1: Carl Demio on this five million dollar no bid contract

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Speaker 1: to some left wing group to run a hate crime

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Speaker 1: hotline that came up with zero cases in two years.

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Speaker 1: Debra Mark is live in the KFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey,

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