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Speaker 2: I am six forty. You're listening to the John Cobelt

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Speaker 2: Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We are on every day

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Speaker 2: from one until four o'clock. After four o'clock, John Cobelt's

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Speaker 2: about Santa Monica because Santa Monica is just in a terrible,

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Speaker 2: frightening shape. When I moved to Los Angeles, Santa Monica

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Speaker 2: was one of my first favorite places to go, to

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Speaker 2: Third Street Promenade, And now I live near Santa Monica

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Speaker 2: and I kind of can't avoid being there frequently. And

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Speaker 2: there are parts of it that are so frightening because

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Speaker 2: and they're allowed to roam free. They've ruined a park

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Speaker 2: that my wife and I used to like to walk

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Speaker 2: in all the time. She won't go in there. We

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Speaker 2: can't park in the parking garages because there's homeless people

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Speaker 2: living there and urinating and defecating walking the blocks are scary,

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Speaker 2: And last time I walked down the Santa Monica streets

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Speaker 2: at night, absolutely terrified and said never again. I mean,

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Speaker 2: while we were I think we were at the entrance

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Speaker 2: to a store. We were going to get something to

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Speaker 2: eat on the promenade and a crazy homeless guy ended

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Speaker 2: up getting tackled by the police across the way. There's

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Speaker 2: all this pushing and shoving and yelling. There's a commotion.

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Speaker 2: They've destroyed the Third Street promenade. They've destroyed a shopping center.

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Speaker 2: Nordstroms is the anchor. And again there's like seventy percent

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Speaker 2: of the stories moved down. It's almost entirely due to

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Speaker 2: homelessness and the crime connected to homelessness. John Alley's been

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Speaker 2: on our show many times, Santa Monica businessman, and now

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Speaker 2: the latest we read a story on the West Side

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Speaker 2: Current is that the library are uninhabitable because there's so

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Speaker 2: many crazy drug addicts and mental patients and vagrants in there.

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Speaker 2: Let's get John on. He was quoted in the story,

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Speaker 2: how are you good?

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Speaker 3: It's an honor. John's good.

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Speaker 2: It's good to have you on. Let's talk first about

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Speaker 2: that Westside Current story about the libraries, which I'm sure

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Speaker 2: most people in the world think are still sanctuaries if

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Speaker 2: you don't mind the term, where children and everybody else

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Speaker 2: can come and read, or learn to read, or you know,

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Speaker 2: engage in you know, intellectual activities, right, peaceful activities, and

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Speaker 2: what I've got in there now and the stories that

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Speaker 2: I've done on it, it's filled with creepy guys watching

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Speaker 2: pornography on computer screens. They're in the bathrooms bathing themselves.

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Speaker 2: They're using their needles and leaving the needles everywhere, and

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Speaker 2: they're just terrifying people there. There's fights outside. Why are

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Speaker 2: they allowing this? Well, and I know it's been going

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Speaker 2: on for many years, and everybody keeps asking why.

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Speaker 3: Well, Jamie's peace was spot on. We think the media

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Speaker 3: is hiding these stories often from the residents and the businesses,

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Speaker 3: and it's too bad. It's not only that the boards

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Speaker 3: and the commissioners and the city council people are at fault,

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Speaker 3: but the vendors are at fault. The vendors are getting

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Speaker 3: contracts longer than the terms of the city council members

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Speaker 3: staff looks at them right now. We've got a guard

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Speaker 3: service we've talked about inside the libraries, just outside getting

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Speaker 3: in even on a day of a special retreat on

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Speaker 3: a Saturday at eight o'clock in the morning, when the

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Speaker 3: city Council was there, the city manager, all department heads

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Speaker 3: and residents and voters were asked to come and listen.

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Speaker 3: It was impossible to enter from the main entry doors,

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Speaker 3: so what the staff did was open the side stairwell

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Speaker 3: and everybody went up that way and sidetracked three homeless

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Speaker 3: people who Jamie tagged in her in her article. But

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Speaker 3: that happens on a daily basis. There's parking on the

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Speaker 3: side and good Guard security is the latest. The last

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Speaker 3: one was allied. Universal Time magazine did an article about them.

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Speaker 3: They interviewed me. I told them I wasn't working. I

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Speaker 3: And the cars are ghost cars. They're getting out, they're

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Speaker 3: of their ships and leave. And we're seeing this as recently,

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Speaker 3: John as yesterday we saw two guys on mes in

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Speaker 3: and to income. They're cartel members. They work with their cartel,

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Speaker 3: their vendors. They come from the pier, they were finished

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Speaker 3: for their job and they flat out told us that Sinaloa,

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Speaker 3: that gang and MS thirteen is deeply involved in Santa

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Speaker 3: and they're coming from the carts a Park west Lake

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Speaker 3: and you can see them in various areas of Paletatees Park,

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Speaker 2: And they're from the drug cartels, from the drug cartels.

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Speaker 3: They've told us. We've had long conversations with them, and

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Speaker 3: able to eat, and that's how they're able to make money.

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Speaker 3: They're not even buying food. They're they're admittedly walking in

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Speaker 2: And are they and they're reselling it under those umbrellas.

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Speaker 3: No that that's that those items are given to them

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Speaker 3: by the cartel. There are warehouses around the city that

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Speaker 3: they're using, but they get paid their share and they

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Speaker 3: they can't carry much. They've just got enough to last

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Speaker 3: for the rest of the day or evening. But we've

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Speaker 3: brought this up to the library board. You spoke about

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Speaker 3: the main librarian as far back as March and eight

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Speaker 3: and March. In April this year, we contacted them and

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Speaker 3: we said, we'd like to speak at your meeting. We

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Speaker 3: see your agendas. The agendas are great, but nowhere on

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Speaker 3: the agenda is are there a topic of safety or crime.

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Speaker 3: Safety and crime are never mentioned. And you can't even

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Speaker 3: get into the library without seeing some sort of altercation.

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Speaker 3: And we've asked the guards there and they're very frank.

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Speaker 3: There's guards in the library lobby and forty five to

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Speaker 3: fifty percent of the people there coming during the day

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Speaker 3: are men. And those same men have told us they're

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Speaker 3: coming to charge their phones, charge their computer, charge their phone,

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Speaker 3: usually use the bathroom and stare forty five and fifty

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Speaker 3: five year old woman. Not really healthy for kids, And

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Speaker 3: that's what we're trying to take notice.

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Speaker 2: Let me ask you something. I'm making a leap here.

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Speaker 2: Do the people in city government know everything that you're

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Speaker 2: telling me. The people at the libraries know, and they're

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Speaker 2: afraid of angering the drug cartels, so they've turned over

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Speaker 3: You'd believe that, we'd believe that we, the librarians and

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Speaker 3: even the park maintenance people are afraid to speak up

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Speaker 3: because under our former city manager they would be reassigned,

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Speaker 3: put on leave, and in areas and expertise that they

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Speaker 3: weren't familiar with. So there was a lot of repercussion

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Speaker 3: and the city council said they couldn't do anything about it.

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Speaker 3: They needed five votes out of seven. So the San

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Speaker 3: Monica Coalition did something about it. Through pr we exposed

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Speaker 3: the fact that in one of his most recent last jobs,

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Speaker 3: the city manager had used illegally several funds and he

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Speaker 3: retired it. We did something the city council couldn't get done.

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Speaker 3: And this isn't the first time. This has been going

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Speaker 3: back for four or five years. Again under the same librarian.

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Speaker 3: About four years ago, there was a porn shot at

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Speaker 3: Ocean Park Library inside during the day, in the children's

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Speaker 2: Come on, wait a second, l they were shooting porn

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Speaker 2: videos and the city looked the other way. Really, you

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Speaker 3: We never found out who gave him permission to shoot

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Speaker 3: inside how they got inside. Police then under the former chief,

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Speaker 3: promised to investigate, but as usual, the public never was

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Speaker 3: given any of the results. Never There was an independent

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Speaker 3: newspaper that did a freedom of information request and much

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Speaker 3: what they got was redacted. Names were oute. It was

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Speaker 3: just very bland, very vanilla, and it was forgotten. And

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Speaker 3: this is how Santa Monica works. It's a microcosm of

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Speaker 3: a big city LA.

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Speaker 2: All right, can you hang on the line. I want

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Speaker 2: to continue with this in just a moment. By the way,

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Speaker 2: the director of the Santa Monica Library system is Erica

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Speaker 2: by you again, and people should know that this woman

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Speaker 2: is allowing this to go on. She's allowing porn to

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Speaker 2: be shot inside a Santa Monica library, among all the

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Speaker 2: other things that John Ally is talking about. He's with

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Speaker 2: Santa Monica Coalition. People just have no idea. And now

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Speaker 2: to know that the park that my wife and I

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Speaker 2: have been walking through for years is actually controlled by

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Speaker 2: Mexican drug cartels. This is so heartbreaking and overwhelming.

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Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM

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Speaker 4: six forty.

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Speaker 2: Somebody asked to do this from one to four o'clock.

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Speaker 2: Then after four o'clock If you miss stuff, John cobelts

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Speaker 2: show on demand on the iHeart app. We continue with

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Speaker 2: John Alley, Santa Monica businessman, Santa Monica Coalition. We were

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Speaker 2: discussing first the story on the West Side Current about

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Speaker 2: the horrific conditions in the library with homeless people and

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Speaker 2: mental patients and drug addicts, and people shooting pornography videos

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Speaker 2: in the library and everybody looking the other way, and

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Speaker 2: drug cartel members controlling Palisades Park and other areas. John

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Speaker 2: is and I only got a few minutes. It Is

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Speaker 2: there any response from the public. Are they all cool

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Speaker 2: with this? They must be afraid. There must be a

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Speaker 3: Well, they recognize it. A portion of the grand money

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Speaker 3: that they received the library, for instance, comes from the Feds.

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Speaker 3: The Feds have the history museum in the main library.

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Speaker 3: They get money for that. They don't want this to

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Speaker 3: But the city council members, most of them have truly

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Speaker 3: become agents of chaos, doubling down on stupid. Our Vice

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Speaker 3: mayor in December announced during a city council meeting the

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Speaker 3: necessity to trump proof the city. That's what we're dealing with.

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Speaker 3: We just don't demand accountability from leaders.

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Speaker 2: So how did these people, How did these people, assuming

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Speaker 2: I'm assuming they were normal at some point in their life,

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Speaker 2: how did they start to embrace all kinds of deviant, dangerous,

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Speaker 2: sick behavior by so many people in so many places

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Speaker 2: that used to be safe family spaces. How I mean,

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Speaker 2: it's almost like that they've caught some kind of tech

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Speaker 2: rrible viral disease in their brain.

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Speaker 3: Selfish and political and financial. The city is run by SMUR.

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Speaker 3: That's what's that short for Santa Monica for renters Rights.

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Speaker 3: It started forty five years ago, and that was when

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Speaker 3: rent control was the major issue. Rent control is not

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Speaker 3: going anywhere. It's like social security in Santa Monica at least,

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Speaker 3: it's not going anywhere. And every election they make that

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Speaker 3: the cornerstone of who they should vote for. So they

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Speaker 3: have the majority on the city council and groups on

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Speaker 3: these boards.

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Speaker 2: But that's separate from allowing all the mental patients and

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Speaker 2: the drug addicts taking over the parks and the libraries

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Speaker 2: and the beaches. Why do they want that. It's got

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Speaker 2: nothing to do with rent control.

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Speaker 3: Well, it didn't seem to bother them when we lost

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Speaker 3: the Beach Volleyball. It didn't seem to bother them when

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Speaker 3: we lost the American Film Institute for three weeks, millions

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Speaker 3: and millions of dollars. They just don't care, all right.

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Speaker 2: At the inside, political people, I get it, they got

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Speaker 2: a winning organization there. They're probably all profiting from from

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Speaker 2: their group. What about just regular homeowners, just people. I

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Speaker 2: know a lot of people in Santa Monica who are

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Speaker 2: Okay, John Ally, thank you. We'll have you on again.

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Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM

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Speaker 2: Ron every day one to four o'clock. After four o'clock

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Speaker 2: John Cobelt's show on demand on the iHeart app, and

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Speaker 2: you could hear what you miss. San Francisco has come

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Speaker 2: in last. It's the worst run city in the country.

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Speaker 2: According to wallet hub. They did a study. They ranked

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Speaker 5: Congratulation great, thanks so much, and a belated happy birthday

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Speaker 5: to you as well.

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Speaker 2: Oh, thank you very much. You actually reside in San Francisco.

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Speaker 2: How does it feel to live in the worst run

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Speaker 6: Oh at two years in a row? Yeah, Detroit two

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Speaker 5: Yeah. But you know what when I went through this report.

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Speaker 2: But you got to look at see.

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Speaker 5: Why why are we one forty eighth out of one

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Speaker 5: That is a positive. Yes, So if that's a worry,

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Speaker 2: Didn't think they were I didn't think they were making

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Speaker 5: And it surely shows what happens when you have sanctuary

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Speaker 2: This is the end of civilization. Yeah, well, it really

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Speaker 2: You can do this so much damage if you dropped

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Speaker 5: Absolutely. And you know we also rank at the bottom

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Speaker 2: So they can't and they can't do math, and they're

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Speaker 5: And settled with the longest long term debt.

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Speaker 6: Yes, and wow, you know, yeah, what do you do?

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Speaker 3: You know?

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Speaker 5: People they I travel a lot and people ask me,

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Speaker 6: Know, we have the natural beauty.

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Speaker 5: We've got pretty clean air in terms of in California.

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Speaker 5: As opposed to air pollution quality down at showing down

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Speaker 2: Have the worst roads. Aha, we have the worst roads,

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Speaker 6: Well, it's only off by three. I'm look at the

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Speaker 5: All right, well that would really.

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Speaker 2: We're going to be number one by ourselves next year. Richie,

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Speaker 2: I gotta go. Thank you for coming on again.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, my pleasure anytime.

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Speaker 2: John Richie Greenberg, writer and commentator up in San Francisco.

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Speaker 2: San Francisco worst city in the nation according to a

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Speaker 2: wallet hub study, coming in one hundred and forty eighth

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Speaker 2: out of one hundred and forty eight city studied. Oakland

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Speaker 2: he's right tied with Long Beach in Anaheim, we are

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Speaker 2: they're not going to spend it on the roads. The

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Speaker 2: Got the state the nation with the highest gas taxes

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Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobbels on demand from KFI Am sixty.

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Speaker 2: We're on from one until four every day. In Great Britain,

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Speaker 2: they call the news anchors on television news presenters.

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Speaker 7: I like that you can call me that you.

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Speaker 7: Well, I'm a new I'm a radio news.

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Speaker 2: Radio news presenter. Yes, this woman works for the BBC.

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Speaker 2: Her name is Martine Croxel. She's been there for over

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Speaker 2: thirty years. And you know sometimes you get bad copy

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Speaker 1: which says that nearly six hundred heat related deaths are

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Speaker 7: Well I caught that.

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Speaker 2: aged is old people. It's like two separate categories. I

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Speaker 2: know you don't like agent.

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Speaker 7: I don't No, I don't know. It's just it sounded very.

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Speaker 8: Pregnant, too prong aged pregnant people, I mean aged pregnant women.

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Speaker 7: Whatever, it's it's weird. That was written, very strange.

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Speaker 2: That is very bad, badly written by all counts. Uh

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Speaker 2: she she rolled her eyes and uh she she'd seen

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Speaker 2: this on the on the teleprompter. Uh. It was research

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Speaker 2: from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical The British

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Speaker 2: used the English language, but they don't use it in

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Speaker 2: the same way we do. And the newscast went viral

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Speaker 2: on social media, with most people happy that she corrected.

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Speaker 2: That is the worst phrase I've ever heard in my life.

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Speaker 2: Pregnant people. I don't think taken like the most sacred

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Speaker 2: thing that women are capable of doing. I mean, the

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Speaker 2: just the single thing, the very top thing that separates

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Speaker 2: men from women. They have the ability to reproduce and

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Speaker 2: make a new human being in their womb. Yeah, and

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Speaker 2: they won't give it. Credit to the to the to

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Speaker 2: the sex, to the species that can pull this off.

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Speaker 2: There is no person who gives pregnant, who gives birth

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Speaker 2: to a child who's a man. That's another thing. It's

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Speaker 2: not a thing. Oh, I was giving a list of

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Speaker 2: stuff that's not a thing here in California. How California

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Speaker 2: thinks it's its own nation. No, it's not. You can't

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Speaker 2: violate all these laws, you can't violate the Constitution. This

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Speaker 2: is another one. Pregnant men, not a thing doesn't exist.

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Speaker 2: I started. You know, occasionally I look up stuff on

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Speaker 2: the internet, medical sites, big medical sites, you know, the

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Speaker 2: Male Clinic, the Cleveland Clinic. Right, might be some medical

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Speaker 2: issue I hear about my family, or there's a story

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Speaker 2: that has a medical issue, and I go to these

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Speaker 2: medical sites to see what they say. And I run

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Speaker 2: across these bizarre, woke phrases like sex assigned at birth,

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Speaker 2: not boy or girl, whatever, sex assigned at birth, that

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Speaker 2: there's no such thing. You're born a certain sex. It's

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Speaker 2: not a sign to you. There isn't a committee of

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Speaker 2: sex assignment experts. And this is part of the crap

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Speaker 2: that that's just like a sewage system of garbage phrases

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Speaker 2: and garbage concepts. That's total nonsense. You were a pregnant woman, Yes.

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Speaker 7: I'm still a woman. I'm no longer pregnant.

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Speaker 2: That would have been a long overdue biase.

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Speaker 7: Yes, it would. That story went somewhere. I never thought

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Speaker 7: it would.

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Speaker 8: I thought it was going to be about you know,

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Speaker 8: when you're heavy and you ask somebody, hey, are you pregnant?

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Speaker 7: You're not sure if they're heavy or they're pregnant.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought, Yeah, anybody ever grab your your pregnant belly?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I think there were people that touched me.

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Speaker 2: It became like a public Yeah.

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Speaker 7: I didn't like that.

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Speaker 2: My wife was in a restaurant once in Malibu and

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Speaker 2: first baby, she looked really pregnant, right, and a woman

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Speaker 2: actually walked up to her and grabbed your belly and

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Speaker 2: shook it and said, God, are you having triplets?

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Speaker 7: Oh geez.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, Oh what'd your wife do?

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Speaker 7: Did you kick her?

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Speaker 5: No?

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Speaker 2: She might have tilted. She might have tipped over.

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Speaker 7: That's crazy. I don't understand.

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Speaker 4: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Apparently if you stick out far enough people think that

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Speaker 2: it's uh no, don't touch out of the public space,

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Speaker 2: all right, Debora Mark Lyden, Oh we come back. Did

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Speaker 2: you know that Gavin Newsom helped his mother commit suicide?

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Speaker 8: And you're not supposed to say commit suicide? You have

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Speaker 8: to say died by suicide. Uh huh, that's that's the thing.

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Speaker 2: Where'd you get that one?

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Speaker 7: The deed Hirsh Mental Health Center?

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Speaker 8: And I mean, but it's it's it's definitely because when

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Speaker 8: you we used to say you commit suicide, and it

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Speaker 8: makes it seem like it's a crime.

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Speaker 7: Oh so they like, so it's not.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, Well we'll get into the Newsom situation

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