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Speaker 1: So I'm looking at this editorial which actually appeared early

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Speaker 1: today by the Elsa Gundo Times editorial Board. It's about

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Speaker 1: Karen Bass's homelessness emergency state of emergency over homelessness. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and it does delineate more of what you know quote

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Speaker 1: can be done with this declaration. But it's all about

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Speaker 1: housing first. First, she can activate an emergency's operations team yeay,

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Speaker 1: and act as its director. So there you go. More

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Speaker 1: bureaucracy is what I read. First, expedite development permits, contracting,

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Speaker 1: procurate and hiring, suspend certain rules and regulations, and let

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Speaker 1: affordable housing projects already allowed by law skip the lengthy

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Speaker 1: additional reviews by city departments and city and area planning commissions.

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Speaker 1: Nobody thought of this before. It's the same old stuff,

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Speaker 1: which was her argument against her, because she was just

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Speaker 1: going to repeat all the loser policies from the Garcetti era. This.

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Speaker 1: You can't tell me in all these years you've had

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Speaker 1: this homeless problem, Nobody ever said, well, you know, we

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Speaker 1: can't get these affordable housing projects done because there's too

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Speaker 1: many reviews, too many rules and regulations. That's what he

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Speaker 1: said five years ago. It's the same thing because they've

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Speaker 1: got the whole thing backwards. It's it's the drug addiction

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Speaker 1: and the mental illness of the homeless people who are

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Speaker 1: never going to go into these structures. Even if you

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Speaker 1: find the motels or you build something for them, they're

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Speaker 1: not going to go in there. Go back to Sam

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Speaker 1: Canona as the writer last week. When you take too

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Speaker 1: much math, for example, you lose your instinct for self preservation.

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Speaker 1: You have no interest in shelter. And the people who

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Speaker 1: are have been out there trying to get these people

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Speaker 1: to come indoors will tell you that's true that many

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Speaker 1: of them are highly resistant. I mean, it's just shocking

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Speaker 1: how in saying they are. Karen Bass is insane that,

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Speaker 1: after all this time, this is what she produces on

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Speaker 1: day one, this is the emergency, the same old warmed

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Speaker 1: over Garcetti gruel. Yeah. This will allow her to identify

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Speaker 1: all city owned properties that can be used for housing.

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Speaker 1: It can speed up the leasing and purchase of motels, hotels,

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Speaker 1: and apartment buildings for a homeless house. I feel like

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Speaker 1: I've read this story. She wants to extend project room key.

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Speaker 1: I've read this story fifty two times. I bet you

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Speaker 1: if you did like some sort of like Google comparison.

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Speaker 1: You know how they have these software programs to see

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Speaker 1: if college kids have to deal with this, to catch plagiarism.

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Speaker 1: Like professors have a software program that if you write

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Speaker 1: an essay, they can run it into the program and

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Speaker 1: you could see if it matches any websites, because there's

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Speaker 1: like professional essay writing people who have websites where you

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Speaker 1: could use boilerplate essays, right to fool the professors. And

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Speaker 1: that's what this must be here. This They must open

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Speaker 1: up Garcetti's death drawer and said, oh, here's a homeless plan,

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Speaker 1: something about Project room Key. Later on in the editorial,

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Speaker 1: it says, well, an emergency declaration, though won't necessarily help

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Speaker 1: with other crucial areas, such as securing more mental health

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Speaker 1: than drug treatment support. Yeah, no kidding. That's where she'll

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Speaker 1: work with the La County supervisors. She'll need to use

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Speaker 1: her talent for coalition building. Oh boy, oh boy, I

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Speaker 1: don't understand. We have the most diverse city council. We

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Speaker 1: have a female mayor, we have five females in county government.

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Speaker 1: All this diversity, all these women, how come nobody has

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Speaker 1: any good ideas on how to take action. Where's all

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Speaker 1: the maternal compassion for these people dying in the streets.

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Speaker 1: They're just political hacks, like all the white guys we

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Speaker 1: had all these years. It's the same thing. Maybe their

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Speaker 1: ethnicity is different, their color is different there, their gender

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Speaker 1: is different. It's the same people. It's the same dead

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Speaker 1: end loser philosophy. Then now we have some numbers. At

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Speaker 1: this point, Supposedly the city of la has forty two

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Speaker 1: thousand homeless people. She has declared she has pledged to

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Speaker 1: get seventeen thousand off the street in a year seven.

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Speaker 1: And you know, a year from seventeen thousand, you know what,

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Speaker 1: a year from now, when we go back and review

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Speaker 1: that pledge, here's what we're gonna hear. Oh, more people

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Speaker 1: are falling. We did get seventeen thousand people off the streets,

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Speaker 1: but more people are falling into homelessness every day than

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Speaker 1: one up from forty two thousand to like fifty thousand.

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Speaker 1: But that's we took seventeen thousand off the streets. It's

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Speaker 1: just that many more came in. You know what, Garcetti's

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Speaker 1: and then after week they get bored and leave. Next

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Speaker 1: week they count them though, as being housed. Right. So

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Speaker 1: every week five were sent in. They then after a

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Speaker 1: found them shelter. He did pull that game. A couple

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Speaker 1: of journalists caught him on that one too. Yes, well,

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Speaker 1: what they're doing. They are trying to fool you. They

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Speaker 1: have no Karen Bass has no interest in fixing this.

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Speaker 1: She does know how to make it sound like she cares,

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Speaker 1: and she's not going to put up with it anymore.

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Speaker 1: Darth City used to do that too. It's a magic trick.

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Speaker 1: It's a misdirection, all right. So, of course, the big

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Speaker 1: City council member Kevin Deleone. He showed up Friday at

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Speaker 1: the LA Council meeting. This created chaos as the mob

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's that many protesters were left, maybe

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Speaker 1: then de Leone leaves. Later that night, one of the

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Speaker 1: activists caught up with Kevin di Leone at a charity event.

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Speaker 1: It was a whole holiday theme. They were handing out toys.

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Speaker 1: Deleone had the Santa's hat on. The activists looks like

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Speaker 1: they may have been about five of them come into

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Speaker 1: a resign? He tries to get away, and eventually there's

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Speaker 1: and let's play clips Clip four with some of the

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Speaker 1: sound of the altercation. What are you doing, Harry? Christmas kids.

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Speaker 1: Toys were being handed out. They're handing out toys. They

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Speaker 1: were playing Christmas songs. This is where you go to

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Speaker 1: confront somebody. And first of all, that's a pre either

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Speaker 1: you're the definition of a dope mob. You don't get

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Speaker 1: to decide who resigns. Well, we represent a diverse coalition

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Speaker 1: It's pretty much the same group that's been showing up

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Speaker 1: This happened before. Actually Deleone bumped with this guy a

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Speaker 1: disrupting political events and meetings. That's what he does. It's

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Speaker 1: an industry. Now, this is another one of these industries.

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Speaker 1: If Kevin di Leone is going to be driven from office,

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Speaker 1: it'll have to be a recalled in an election, or

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Speaker 1: he decides on his own he's had enough of this,

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Speaker 1: and I think that's what they're trying to do. If

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Speaker 1: give up and quit. If he does, he does, but

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Speaker 1: I don't know the specifics. And you know, they don't

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Speaker 1: the transgenders? Yes? Oh that's what it. Yes, that's what

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Speaker 1: a little curious, sir. And this, of course, we're talking

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Speaker 1: Now we learned last week in twenty sixteen, this guy,

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Speaker 1: Another close friend said in a text in California, she's

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Speaker 1: too many romantic difficulties. I'm going to go get this

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Speaker 1: but actually was going to go get the team? Oh no,

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Speaker 1: opening distribution centers in states to the east of US,

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Speaker 1: like Pennsylvania and North Carolina to lessen their dependence on

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Speaker 1: the California seaports. Abercrobbie and Fitch is moving more merchandise

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Speaker 1: through New York and New Jersey to avoid the West

431
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Speaker 1: Coast bottlenecks. You figured that this would happen. We also

432
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Speaker 1: talked about this port. The Port of La is got

433
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Speaker 1: no technology, there's no automation there. They've got a very

434
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Speaker 1: powerful union that's always demanding something because it says you're

435
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Speaker 1: in the story. Some of them worried about more work stoppages.

436
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Speaker 1: Now that the shipping bottleneck is faded a bit, there's

437
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Speaker 1: still problems and they're starting to rethink using LA and

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Speaker 1: Long Beach as the ports. Yeah, you can't. You can't

439
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Speaker 1: trust the LA port and they're never going to modernize

440
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Speaker 1: because that would mean job losses for the union guys.

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Speaker 1: So they they set a template here probably decades ago,

442
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Speaker 1: and the unions have always caused called the shots. And

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Speaker 1: I know for a fact that Garcetti was terrified of

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Speaker 1: the port unions terrified. Yes, he was terrified, and he

445
00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:31,359
Speaker 1: really would hide under his desk. He was always promising

446
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Speaker 1: to negotiate things, to act as a mediator, and then

447
00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:36,639
Speaker 1: when the time was to really push for a deal

448
00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:40,760
Speaker 1: that would help the port, Garcetti was nowhere to be found.

449
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Speaker 1: He was hiding in a closet somewhere. The share of

450
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Speaker 1: US containerized cargo handled by LA and Long Beach fell

451
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Speaker 1: for the first ten months of the year to combined

452
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Speaker 1: twenty five percent. That's the lowest level nearly two decades,

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Speaker 1: down from a height of thirty three percent of all

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Speaker 1: containerized cargill. So you can see that was the dent

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Speaker 1: of its Well, do you remember the backups. Oh, they're

456
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Speaker 1: stretching up miles into the ocean that they were. They're

457
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Speaker 1: out there for months now. If you ran a company

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Speaker 1: that depended on quick shipments, regular shipments, why would you

459
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Speaker 1: pick Los Angeles? Why would you run it through light

460
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Speaker 1: And it's gonna cost you more to swing them around

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Speaker 1: to the East coast, but at least you know the

462
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Speaker 1: stuff is going to get to the destination. You can

463
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Speaker 1: start selling it. It sits out on the Pacific Ocean

464
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Speaker 1: for two months. It's cheaper, but there you end up

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Speaker 1: with nothing to sell. Well. Yeah, and we also learned

466
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Speaker 1: that we are one of the most under automated ports

467
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Speaker 1: in the world, Los Angeles and Long Beach. It's still

468
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Speaker 1: very heavy manual labor, very expensive dock workers. It's like

469
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Speaker 1: an antiquated system. So between that and the bottlenecks, I

470
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Speaker 1: think some of these companies just said, we got to

471
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Speaker 1: figure out a different option at at at the at

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Speaker 1: the worst point, there were one hundred and nine shipping

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Speaker 1: vessels backed up in Los Angeles. One hundred and nine. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that was at the highness of the supply chain crisis.

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Speaker 1: Whatever it's like now, I guess it's yeah, it's down considerably,

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Speaker 1: all right, we got more coming up. Johnny ken KF

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Speaker 1: I am six forty live everywhere the iHeart Radio app. Well,

478
00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:24,879
Speaker 1: you know, sometimes when we look at executions outside of

479
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Speaker 1: the United States, we look at a place like Saudi Arabia,

480
00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:31,040
Speaker 1: which they like to do beheadings, and sometimes they do

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Speaker 1: beheadings in like stadiums or arenas to get to get

482
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Speaker 1: public attention to the fact that we're doing this, so

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Speaker 1: you don't do this. We're executing this person. It's to

484
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Speaker 1: send a lesson. It's a deterrent. Now we move to

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Speaker 1: another country in the Middle East, which apparently has a

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Speaker 1: different method of executing people, at least in high profile cases.

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Speaker 1: Execution by crane. Yeah, those condemned are alive. They are

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Speaker 1: attached to a crane which lifts them off their feet,

489
00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:06,760
Speaker 1: hanging by a rope. You struggle to breathe before you

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Speaker 1: asphyxiate or your neck breaks. And the reason they do

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Speaker 1: it by crane is to make it so everyone in

492
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Speaker 1: the city can see you're hoisted up there hanging like well,

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00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:22,440
Speaker 1: that's that's you don't need a stadium for that. That

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Speaker 1: can be seen probably for miles by people who can

495
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Speaker 1: see a huge crane in the middle of We have

496
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Speaker 1: to do is invest in the crane. It's a one

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Speaker 1: time purchase and dual purpose too. Sure, sure, say a

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Speaker 1: weekend where it's not needed for construction, all right, it's

499
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Speaker 1: available for to execute somebody, to hang them from the

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Speaker 1: crane top. Where is this being done. It's Iran. They

501
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Speaker 1: haven't done this for a while. I was gonna guess

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Speaker 1: a country in the Middle East. I don't know why.

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Speaker 1: I think it was a picture remember Afghanistan, and we

504
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Speaker 1: thought they were doing the same thing, although it wasn't

505
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Speaker 1: clear from the picture exactly whether or not it was

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Speaker 1: an execution or what it was, or remember that story

507
00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:11,040
Speaker 1: from during the whole Afghanistan. I thought the Taliban was

508
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Speaker 1: already in people from cranes or from high places. This

509
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Speaker 1: person that they killed in Iran, this is apparently the

510
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Speaker 1: unrest that's going on there, the demonstrations, the protests. They

511
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Speaker 1: say that they executed him because he killed he stabbed

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Speaker 1: a couple of officers. He was convicted over crimes committed

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Speaker 1: during the nationwide protests challenging the country's theocracy. His name

514
00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:52,960
Speaker 1: was Maja Driza Ravananard. He allegedly fatally stabbed two members

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Speaker 1: of a paramilitary force after purportedly becoming angry about security

516
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Speaker 1: forces killing protest and a lot of the words in

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Speaker 1: here are a legend and purportedly because a trial in

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Speaker 1: that country is probably, even though we hate our justice

519
00:31:08,120 --> 00:31:11,440
Speaker 1: system here, probably not quite the same as having a

520
00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:16,040
Speaker 1: trial in the United States. Activists warned at least a

521
00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:19,440
Speaker 1: dozen people are already been sentenced to death in these

522
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Speaker 1: closed door hearings. At least four hundred and eighty eight

523
00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:26,920
Speaker 1: have been killed since the demonstrations began in mid September.

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Speaker 1: And some of this is over the woman that died

525
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:33,160
Speaker 1: in police custody because he wasn't wearing a jab properly, right,

526
00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:36,640
Speaker 1: That's where it all comes from. That apparently that's where

527
00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:39,840
Speaker 1: the protests really kicked up. A couple of gears after

528
00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:44,440
Speaker 1: that woman died and other people like her. Can you believe?

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's hard to imagine how crazy these religious

530
00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:54,520
Speaker 1: rulers are in Iran. It's over what a woman was

531
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Speaker 1: wearing or not wearing on her head. And he believe

532
00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:02,720
Speaker 1: in the traditional book, what does it say in scripture?

533
00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:04,920
Speaker 1: We have to live our life by that, all these

534
00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:08,240
Speaker 1: all these books, because this all the existence on earth

535
00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:12,600
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. It's about honoring God and you know the

536
00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:17,520
Speaker 1: heavenly reward. Boy, it really is easy when you have

537
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Speaker 1: a child to convince them of almost anything, isn't it.

538
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Speaker 1: And the only reason all these people believe this is

539
00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:28,520
Speaker 1: it was pounded into their head throughout their childhoods and

540
00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:32,200
Speaker 1: they grow up and they're so emotionally invested they get crazy,

541
00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:35,000
Speaker 1: angry and are willing to murder if they see any

542
00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:38,480
Speaker 1: violation of the rules. It's like, what does it tell

543
00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:42,480
Speaker 1: you about the human brain doesn't explain why, Like everything

544
00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:45,360
Speaker 1: is a disaster. It's actually amazing the world works as

545
00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:48,719
Speaker 1: well as it does, considering that's what we have up

546
00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:52,680
Speaker 1: here where that's susceptible. Religion is very powerful because it

547
00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:57,440
Speaker 1: gives people a reason to understand even if it's insane,

548
00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:02,680
Speaker 1: totally arbitrary. It's saying absurd, cruel, ridiculus. I think the

549
00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:05,640
Speaker 1: danger is to, yeah, rely on religious books or written

550
00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:07,680
Speaker 1: thousands of years ago. Who know if they're real or not,

551
00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:10,840
Speaker 1: or true or not, but they're based on when probably

552
00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:13,560
Speaker 1: man was much more primitive, when people were making stuff up.

553
00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:16,560
Speaker 1: Usually guys were making stuff up in order to keep

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00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:19,800
Speaker 1: the women in line. That's what most religions are about.

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00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:22,640
Speaker 1: That's yeah. There was not one where major religion crea

556
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Speaker 1: in the Middle East where the whether Yeah, Christianity was

557
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:29,080
Speaker 1: like that too, Saudi Arabia and the Catholicism. Yeah, yeah,

558
00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:31,880
Speaker 1: I know, I get. I get the idea. Here a

559
00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:35,920
Speaker 1: bunch of guys put on robes, got together and hypnotized everybody,

560
00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:37,560
Speaker 1: and it's like this is the way, this is what

561
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:39,520
Speaker 1: this is the way it has to be. That's right,

562
00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:41,280
Speaker 1: and then we can bring all the young boys and

563
00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:48,480
Speaker 1: young girls too. Are our sanctuaries all right? Conway's here?

564
00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:51,120
Speaker 1: Hey now, hey, now, hey now, so we're gonna talk

565
00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:55,320
Speaker 1: about p. Twenty two for four hours. That that celebrity

566
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Speaker 1: mountain line. Oh the mountain, Yes, we got four hours

567
00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:01,840
Speaker 1: on it, hours on it right, taking calls. Yeah, some

568
00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:04,960
Speaker 1: calls in the later hours from the most too, mostly

569
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:07,080
Speaker 1: just from people who've seen him and we want to say, hey,

570
00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:08,680
Speaker 1: so how was it. You want to fill an hour?

571
00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:13,520
Speaker 1: Call called Debra up. Yes, you can go if you

572
00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:16,520
Speaker 1: can take a smoke, a nap. Oh she's hand ranging

573
00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:18,840
Speaker 1: over the mountain lions and the coyotes because they're killing animals.

574
00:34:19,480 --> 00:34:22,040
Speaker 1: You know, we can't. I heard you you guys talk

575
00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:23,839
Speaker 1: about it. You need to have a twelve foot fence

576
00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:27,759
Speaker 1: around the yard. Uh, yes, I guess that's what Debora said.

577
00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:30,160
Speaker 1: Nobody has that? No, Well, would you all be living

578
00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:34,080
Speaker 1: in a caged environment? Right? So we have coyotes that

579
00:34:34,160 --> 00:34:35,920
Speaker 1: come up and down the street. And there was a

580
00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:39,840
Speaker 1: woman walking her her baby in a stroller and I

581
00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:41,560
Speaker 1: yelled her. I said, hey, there's a coyote about four

582
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Speaker 1: feet behind you, and she laughed. She thought I was kidding,

583
00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:45,239
Speaker 1: you know, because I'm that guy in the block that

584
00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:47,879
Speaker 1: would bust people's balls jobs. I mean, I can see

585
00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:51,840
Speaker 1: you have that reputation. So she turned around and saw

586
00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:55,799
Speaker 1: the coyote, and the coyotes still walked towards her. It

587
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:59,359
Speaker 1: did not turn around. So yeah, right, and so I

588
00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:01,400
Speaker 1: went in. I slammed the door in time. I'm not

589
00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:06,640
Speaker 1: getting involved with this. And I looked through the window

590
00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:09,920
Speaker 1: and that kyote took off after a while. Really like

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Speaker 1: how you abandoned the look. I'm I'm I've had a

592
00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:16,320
Speaker 1: nice run, but I need a couple more years. You

593
00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:18,080
Speaker 1: to see a couple of Super Bowls, a couple of

594
00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:20,480
Speaker 1: World Series. It's always something. You know, who's gonna win

595
00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:26,000
Speaker 1: the Stanley Cup. May Karen Bass declares emergency and on homelessness.

596
00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:28,520
Speaker 1: So there you go. It's over. I guess it's over,

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00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:33,600
Speaker 1: and it's over. Yeah. In her speech today, I checked

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Speaker 1: there was no mention of meth or fentedel. Is that right?

599
00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:40,080
Speaker 1: That's right? Wow, that's that's over too. I checked the

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Speaker 1: only times editorial cheering around, not one mentioned the meth

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Speaker 1: or fent I did go through it a search of

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Speaker 1: the transcript from that speech, and she mentioned four times.

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Speaker 1: She mentioned p. Twenty two dig Dog all right, think alright,

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Speaker 1: tig Dog, come on, Cafi Campist to ht T Lost

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