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Speaker 1: We're gonna jump right in in just a moment, Jim Ryan,

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Speaker 1: ABC News correspondent out of Dallas, because this is really

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Speaker 1: an entertaining circus. Now, normally I don't really give a

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Speaker 1: it's not my top one hundred or top one thousand,

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Speaker 1: How are you all right? So the Democrats in Texas

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, the Speaker of the Texas House gavel the

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Speaker 2: Well, now years later, the Justice Department comes down and says, hey,

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Speaker 2: So President Trump got with Governor Abbott. The Abbot called

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Speaker 1: The legislators in Texas, they're not full time, so most

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Speaker 1: Right, so they're out of the state. Abbot can't arrest

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Speaker 4: There are a lot of lonely people out there, John.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's one thing. If you're an obese, unwashed

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Speaker 1: You're worried that somebody is judgmental. Oh that stuff makes

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Speaker 1: Hey me, I still love you. The bod is judgmental,

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Speaker 1: I need to be validated.

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Speaker 5: Well, everybody wants to be validated, including you, mister coblt.

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Speaker 5: We all need a little pat on the back. Sometimes

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Speaker 5: pat on the back, though you'll me be told we're

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Speaker 5: doing a good job. What would we look nice today?

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Speaker 1: What if you're not doing a good job? And what

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Speaker 1: if you look like hell?

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Speaker 5: Okay, well, if you're not doing a good job, then

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Speaker 5: your boss should fire you or give you a warning.

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Speaker 4: And if you're not looking good, then just then you

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Speaker 4: don't need to say anything.

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Speaker 1: That's that's being judgmental. If they're constantly they're getting validated,

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Speaker 1: not being challenged, not learning to read social cues or

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Speaker 1: understand somebody else's perspective. They're not going to be adequately

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Speaker 1: prepared in the real world. I shouldn't already seen some

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Speaker 1: of that wander into the building here. Some of the

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Speaker 1: people have applied for jobs or actually gotten jobs. All right,

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Speaker 1: more coming up? All right, miss sensitive eat gentle this

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Speaker 1: is my gentle size. Oh god, yes, you bring up

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Speaker 1: my gentle side. Okay, you're listening.

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Speaker 3: To John Cobbels on demand from KFI AM sixty.

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Speaker 1: Caf I AM six forty live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 1: You can follow us at John Cobelt Radio at John

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Speaker 1: Cobelt Radio on social media and the moistline is eight

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Speaker 1: seven seven Moist eighty six eight seven seven Moist eighty six,

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Speaker 1: or you who can contact us with the talkback feature

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Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app. One of our rhetorical questions that

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Speaker 1: we both ask repeatedly is where'd the homeless money go?

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Speaker 1: Because we had another homeless tax. If you remember people

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Speaker 1: voted on back in November, it doubled the sales tax

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Speaker 1: that's geared towards homeless people.

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Speaker 4: That needs to be rescinded.

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Speaker 1: Yes, that needs to be completely abolished, wiped out, rolled

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Speaker 1: back is a remarkable waste of money and people just

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Speaker 1: here in California. And I'm telling you that's why I

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Speaker 1: keep bringing this up. It sounds like a broken record,

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Speaker 1: but it's because people spend all their time scrolling nonsense

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Speaker 1: on social media that they don't have the slightest idea,

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Speaker 1: and plus they get weird stuff in their feed. Because

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Speaker 1: my wife is on social media, you know about ten

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Speaker 1: thousand times more than I do and I see when

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Speaker 1: she scrolls and she shows me stuff, because she'll say

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Speaker 1: is this true? Is this true? And it's complete nonsense,

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Speaker 1: just stuff that's just flat out not true. But it's

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Speaker 1: made up by I don't know, partisan people, political activist groups,

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Speaker 1: maybe pranksters. But it circulates around and everybody can make

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Speaker 1: it look like a professional presentation and it's complete lies

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Speaker 1: and nonsense. And that's where people are getting their news.

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Speaker 1: You know. They say, well, you know, fifty eight percent

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Speaker 1: of the public now gets its news for social media. Well,

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Speaker 1: if they were reading, well, yeah, I was going to

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Speaker 1: say traditional news sources, but those lie all the time too,

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Speaker 1: all right, But this is even a step below that.

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Speaker 1: This is absolutely fabricated nonsense, not just slanted nonsense. So, honey,

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Speaker 1: we've blown all this money. And now we've doubled the

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Speaker 1: homeless sales tax in La County. Here's another one. Westside

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Speaker 1: Current Los Angeles collected seven hundred million dollars from the

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Speaker 1: mansion tax. Remember this thing.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, if you have a.

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Speaker 1: House that sells for more than five million dollars, that

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Speaker 1: money above five million is taxed at four percent. If

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Speaker 1: you sell a house for over ten million dollars, that's

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Speaker 1: taxed five and a half percent, and I know a

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Speaker 1: lot of people are going if those rich people. There

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Speaker 1: is always an appetite for people who don't accomplish things

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Speaker 1: to get angry with people who do accomplish things, and

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Speaker 1: the impulse is to take their money, not because you

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Speaker 1: deserve it or even need it, but because they earned it.

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Speaker 1: And it's not fair, all right, So you took their money.

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Speaker 1: You voted to take their money. And it's by the way,

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Speaker 1: revenues came in well below expectations. People just stopped selling

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Speaker 1: their properties unless they absolutely had to, and a lot

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Speaker 1: of them sold it before the tax kicked in to effect.

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Speaker 1: But now in about two years, they've collected seven hundred

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Speaker 1: million dollars and according to an update presented to a

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Speaker 1: citizen's oversight committee, the City Los Angeles, out of seven

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Speaker 1: hundred and three million dollars are you ready for this,

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Speaker 1: spent nine hundred and twelve thousand on new affordable housing

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Speaker 1: nine hundred and twelve thousand dollars out of seven hundred

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Speaker 1: and three million. There is one particular pot of money

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Speaker 1: called affordable housing programs, and there's one hundred and eighty

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Speaker 1: eight million sitting in that bank account unspent. Uh. Then

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Speaker 1: they spent money twenty five million on homeless pre programs,

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Speaker 1: rent relief, and eviction defense, and the city has projected

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Speaker 1: to spend thirteen million in administrative expenses. So there we go,

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Speaker 1: the bureaucrats getting rich. The city has spent fifteen times

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Speaker 1: more on running the program than actually building the housing

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Speaker 1: that it was intended to create. Can I say that

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Speaker 1: again for all you you, you brainstems, all you vegetables

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Speaker 1: out there. E screw those rich people who are going

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Speaker 1: to help the homes. Okay, you gave it to the

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Speaker 1: city of la which is filled with incredibly corrupt thieves.

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Speaker 1: So I'm going to say it again. The city has

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Speaker 1: spent fifteen times more on running the program than actually

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Speaker 1: building the housing. And people were told it's like, oh, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you steal the money from these rich people and it'll go,

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Speaker 1: it'll go. Or for housing. You ain't get the housing.

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Speaker 1: You can't get anything. You got thirteen million dollars in

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Speaker 1: administrative salaries. That's what you've got. People are just so

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Speaker 1: easily scammed or they're blinded by there. They're envy and

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Speaker 1: hatred for those who accomplish things they can't even see straight.

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Speaker 1: I know there are still lawsuits in progress. Maybe that'll

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Speaker 1: get rolled back too, because it ought to be all

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Speaker 1: rolled back, because all of the money is wasted. The

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Speaker 1: sales tax ought to be rolled back, the mansion tax

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Speaker 1: ought to be rolled back. And it doesn't matter what

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Speaker 1: you think about how homelessness ought to be funded and

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Speaker 1: how wealthy people ought to be punished. The money is

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Speaker 1: stolen and is given to these these thieving bureaucrats. So

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Speaker 1: on that basis alone, all right, when we come back.

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Speaker 1: So the big story in the last couple of weeks

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Speaker 1: is in a business world here in California is the

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Speaker 1: In and Out owner Lindsey Snyder announcing a move from

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Speaker 1: California to Tennessee. And this got like the news of administration,

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Speaker 1: all worked up and some people in the media who

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Speaker 1: kiss his rear end. But the truth is In and

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Speaker 1: Out is only one of hundreds and hundreds and hundreds

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Speaker 1: of businesses that have moved out of California in recent years.

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Speaker 1: We've had a net loss in recent years every year

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Speaker 1: of hundreds of businesses compared to those moving in. I'll

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Speaker 1: tell you all about it coming up. Debra Mark is

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Speaker 1: Live in the KFI twenty four Hour Newsroom. Hey, you've

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Speaker 1: been listening to The John Cobalt Show podcast. You can

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Speaker 1: always hear the show live on KFI AM six forty

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