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Speaker 1: Channel five yesterday the LA Assistant Fire Chief Joe Everett apologizing,

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Speaker 1: heartfelt apology to Pacific Palisades residents. Extremely extremely hard for

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Speaker 1: me to look you in the eye knowing that quite honestly,

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Speaker 1: let's get into business. Hey, that's all a lot of

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Speaker 1: people want to hear. Instead of Karen Bass giving us

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Speaker 1: kinds of excuses and defensiveness and denials, let's talk now

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Speaker 1: with Matt Himes. Matt Hymes is a writer and editor,

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Speaker 1: and his Pacific Palisades home burned down last week, and

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Speaker 1: he describes himself as a former liberal, former registered Democrat,

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Speaker 1: and this should be it. This has been the last

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Speaker 1: straw for a lot of people who might be leaving,

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Speaker 1: giving up on the Democratic regime that's been governing California

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Speaker 1: for so long. Let's talk to Matt. How are you, Matt? Well,

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Speaker 1: hold on, try try again. We had a distorted phone

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Speaker 2: How's that that's here now?

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Speaker 1: Yes I can Matt. Thanks for coming on, And I'm

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Speaker 1: really really sorry what's happened to your home? And I

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Speaker 2: Well, thank you. I mean, we're blessed to have lots

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Speaker 1: Yeah, just completely flattened large spots of it.

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Speaker 2: And I know Altadina is not doing very well either,

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Speaker 1: It's very similar there. You wrote a piece in the

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Speaker 1: before this fire, but this is the final, the final blow,

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Speaker 1: I think for a lot of people talk about it

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Speaker 1: about your current feelings and other people's feelings that you know, sure, well.

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Speaker 2: You know it's for me.

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Speaker 3: It was, uh, well, first.

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Speaker 2: I did not vote for Trump in twenty sixteen, and

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Speaker 2: I didn't particularly want to vote for Hillary, but I

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Speaker 2: believed all the propaganda that anything was better than Trump,

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Speaker 2: and it was. First, it was the reaction, the sort

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Speaker 2: but very soon it became about other things like white

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Speaker 1: Some people though, still seem resistant to realizing what our

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Speaker 2: I think in many ways, at least in California, it

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Speaker 1: Why would people be so enamored with Gavin Newsom that

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Speaker 2: contrition from from Newsome. It's almost been this kind of

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Speaker 1: Yeah, No, there's never an admission that they've done anything

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Speaker 2: I was in New York City during nine to eleven.

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Speaker 2: I you know, I wasn't directly effected. I was in Brooklyn.

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Speaker 1: You don't You don't really earn your pay for the

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Speaker 1: your pay when an extraordinary thing happens and you have

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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, that's egregious, and I agree. I tell us,

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Speaker 2: I don't understand it. It just seems like a stepping stone.

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Speaker 2: Maybe I'm unfair to Newsom, but I've always gone the sense,

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Speaker 1: Oh, he wants to be president. That's that's only ever

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Speaker 1: Is this the moment? Because I can't imagine a more

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Speaker 2: So, I think that'll be the silver lining. I mean, obviously,

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Speaker 2: this is bigger than politics. This is people, thank god,

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Speaker 2: that this people can wake up.

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Speaker 3: And I mean.

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Speaker 2: This is not even a partisan issues, just corruption and

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Speaker 1: House, Yeah, I mean really really flushed the system. Well listen, Matt,

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Speaker 1: really sorry, you have to go through all your all

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Speaker 1: you for coming on though, well it was my pleasure.

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Speaker 2: And and and keep it up. But I think the

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we're gonna we're gonna keep it up. Thanks

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Speaker 1: And you ought to read his piece of the New

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Speaker 1: and see what the bass Newsome regime has wrought. It's

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Speaker 1: It is time now. They're a very very mentally and

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Speaker 3: Thanks for calling the moistline. I'm so excited to hear

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Speaker 7: I would like to personally congratulate Mayor Boss because her

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Speaker 7: incompetence has been recognized, not just nationwide but worldwide. Smith's

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Speaker 8: When I hear Rachel Darvish go up against Newsom, I

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Speaker 4: Mayor Beth says only one thing on her mind, and

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Speaker 4: that's the upcoming World Cup. She's going to be the

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Speaker 3: I think every single taxpayer should go on strike.

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Speaker 9: Nobody should pay their taxes.

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Speaker 2: What are they going to do about it?

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Speaker 3: If all of LA or all of California for that matter,

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Speaker 4: These idiots get their together.

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Speaker 1: Everybody needs a swimming pool with a pump.

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Speaker 10: Our skate isn't mismanaged, it's unmanaged.

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Speaker 7: They were so busy concentrating on their green energy they

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Speaker 4: Never let a crisis go to waste. So I fear

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Speaker 4: not people of Pacific Palisade, because your governor just announced

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Speaker 4: that they're going to reimagine your community. That's code work

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Speaker 4: for small energy efficient, solar powered climate change homes, no

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Speaker 4: for high density, high ride, low income housing, homeless shelbeers

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Speaker 4: and rehab centers. He's right, Gavin Newsom has no idea

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Speaker 11: The government has failed us. They're only protecting their assets.

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Speaker 11: They're feeling the resources from us. I do not have

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Speaker 4: It hits the fat.

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Speaker 2: Keep ragging on these people.

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Speaker 4: Don't let it go.

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Speaker 8: Meat is so powerful they just want to point fingers

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Speaker 5: I'm listening right now to this bumbling fool talk about

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Speaker 1: Than God training and Howkman's Gasco would have padded all

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Speaker 3: There could be a major earthquake.

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Speaker 12: That Levantina is she burnt down part of California before,

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Speaker 8: That's why La is a third world country. We need

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Speaker 4: LA County in general is all up right now.

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Speaker 8: Therefore all the four de soup members are all up too.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that fire lady that wants to be rescued by

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Speaker 2: Possibility of Trump losing the election, and they're be at

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Speaker 3: They did for the fires.

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Speaker 13: Of course, starn Vass and Newsom are incompetent, but that's not.

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Speaker 3: The main part of the story.

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Speaker 4: They're on the take.

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Speaker 2: They make money off the homeless, they make money off

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Speaker 12: All this stuff, it's just self afflicted.

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Speaker 6: They want to control the narrative because they have no accountability.

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Speaker 13: How dare you ask questions of their behavior?

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Speaker 3: His nose in his own business.

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Speaker 4: They just cost hundreds of people their homes.

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Speaker 3: No human could have changed anything.

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Speaker 11: Thank you for loving.

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Speaker 1: Head's on a stick. Yeah, it's time for John cobilt.

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Speaker 9: To throw in a dumpster.

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Speaker 1: Don co belt show, can't I am six forty live

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Speaker 1: Her name Janie, Janie Kennyees. You know she's got a

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Speaker 10: She please correct me if I'm wrong, But we we

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Speaker 1: Into the dumpsterre here the Ukradian Ukrai mob go ahead

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Speaker 1: All Right, we come back, Debra's gonna have the news,

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Speaker 1: will be entertaining. iHeartRadio hosting a special California town hall

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Speaker 1: with Newsom Governor Newsom this Sunday at nine am, or

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Speaker 1: at least that won't interfere with the football games. Right,

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Speaker 1: good time for it across iHeartRadio's California stations, including of

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Speaker 1: course I AM six forty. So Newsom is going to

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Speaker 1: take questions from Californians who've been impacted by the recent fires,

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Speaker 1: and we'll discuss plans for the future of our state.

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Speaker 1: Maybe he'll announce that he's leaving so KFI This Sunday

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Speaker 1: morning at nine o'clock a special California town hall with

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Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom. Not in the morning, so eat your breakfast early.

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Speaker 1: It's time for round two of the Moistline eight seven

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Speaker 1: seven moist eighty six. If you want to be on

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Speaker 1: next week, let's go round two.

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Speaker 3: Hey it Sean, thanks for calling the Moistline. I'm so

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Speaker 3: excited to hear from you. To boat time.

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Speaker 8: Governor's two BC comforts in state and make sure that

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Speaker 8: all the illegal aliens are full sons it.

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Speaker 5: All these people are too afraid of hurting people's feelings.

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Speaker 8: Unhoused really it's homeless people.

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Speaker 3: Let's call it what it is.

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Speaker 13: You're John, I'm committed to streamlining and the processes and

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Speaker 13: then put in the flywheel in the throughput through an

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Speaker 13: equipless so we can smoot out the seque and anipa

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Speaker 13: as well as the ninas, the pizza, the set amara.

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Speaker 2: Whether that was in Africa or Antarctica, the result would

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Speaker 2: have been the same.

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Speaker 5: They said, the firefighters couldn't have done its damn thing.

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Speaker 4: And even if they had more water, couldn't have done

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Speaker 4: it damn thing.

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Speaker 3: Not so you know it made a difference.

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Speaker 8: You're just guessing John Cobalt for mayor of La or

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Speaker 8: governor of California.

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Speaker 3: Let's go.

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Speaker 5: The La City fire department is mismanaged, just like the

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Speaker 5: rest of the groups within the city and the county

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Speaker 5: and the state.

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Speaker 12: The fire would happened in California.

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Speaker 7: So the thing to do with.

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Speaker 12: Climate change, it has to do with the bureaucracy and

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Speaker 12: money and fundamental failures that were done. It's a string

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Speaker 12: of unfortunate events that happen because of bad management.

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Speaker 2: Now that the city filled up all the available hotel

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Speaker 2: space with the vagrants, where are the people that lost

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Speaker 2: their homes, the working people, where are they going to

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Speaker 2: stay now?

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Speaker 4: I think, don't they a place to stay so they

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Speaker 4: can keep working? Runsome Newscomb is nothing but a shiny

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Speaker 4: cuplink that makes me sick.

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Speaker 12: I know you're talking about Newsom and bath and no water,

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Speaker 12: but don't leave out the city manager of Los Angeles

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Speaker 12: and the county border supervisors.

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Speaker 8: The primary funding of our tax dollars are for public safety, roads, infrastructure,

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Speaker 8: and parks. That's government's job. Those areas are now the

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Speaker 8: first to be cut for all these social programs.

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Speaker 4: Now that is all collapsed, our tax.

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Speaker 8: Dollars will go to cleaning up the mess, hate, for

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Speaker 8: the lawsuits against the city, rebuild of infrastructure that was destroyed.

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Speaker 8: Bills will go up to pay for those lawsuits. And

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Speaker 8: if our homeowners insurance is dot counceled the rights of

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Speaker 8: skyrocket anyway you look at it, RISCOD, Thank you Mayor of.

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Speaker 12: Bass I think he's a good governor.

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Speaker 3: So stop it.

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Speaker 7: You're hurting my feelings and you talk about getting news

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Speaker 7: like that.

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Speaker 6: They're holding meetings for more reasons and one reason only

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Speaker 6: to have the same story so that when someone.

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Speaker 1: Ask them, oh, it's not my department, Oh there wasn't

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Speaker 1: approved by the supervisor.

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Speaker 3: Oh oh oh the hilaryism. Why they have their meetings

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Speaker 3: bro to cover there is right that's it. So they

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Speaker 3: have the same story.

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Speaker 14: So you can't get into.

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Speaker 1: The circle, or man trying to brush into the circle

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Speaker 1: ain't happening.

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Speaker 9: As an American citizen, I expect equal treatment from the

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Speaker 9: federal government independent of which way I vote.

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Speaker 5: If I lost one hundred bucks at work, I would

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Speaker 5: be charged for it. Newsome and Bass and all these

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Speaker 5: people have lost billions of dollars.

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Speaker 1: They can't account for it.

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Speaker 5: I guarantee you if they did a forensic level accounting,

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Speaker 5: they would find how much of this money went to

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Speaker 5: their friends and colleagues and how much of it got

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Speaker 5: kicked back.

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Speaker 7: Thank you for leaving your message, Please hang up, goodbye.

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Speaker 1: Eight seven seven moist eighty six for next week. Eight

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Speaker 1: seven seven moist eighty six. The last guy who mentioned

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Speaker 1: this phrase forensic accounting, which a number of people have

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Speaker 1: talked about. Why can't they go through line by line

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Speaker 1: and identify every dollar. I would have agreed with you

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Speaker 1: up until a couple of years ago, until we learned

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Speaker 1: about a number of audits that were done for high

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Speaker 1: speed rail and for the state and Los Angeles homeless programs.

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Speaker 1: And you know what they found out, There is no

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Speaker 1: record where the money went. You can only do a

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Speaker 1: forensic audit and identify every expenditure if they write it

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Speaker 1: down and they keep the paperwork, or they keep the file,

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Speaker 1: they keep the computer file. But what they do is

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Speaker 1: they pay out money and there are no records. I

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Speaker 1: remember with high speed rail they found out a lot

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Speaker 1: of money had gone to various contractors and the contractors

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Speaker 1: had had no invoices, the state had no records. The

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Speaker 1: money just evaporated. Same thing with the homeless payouts. With

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Speaker 1: these nonprofits, nobody writes down the transaction. No records are kept,

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Speaker 1: so you can't do forensicc counting. They just outright it's

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Speaker 1: outright theft. It's like doing for forensic accounting. After somebody

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Speaker 1: steals all the money in your bedroom, they don't leave

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Speaker 1: a receipt conways here, thank you.

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Speaker 15: That's why they fight so hard for these eighty thousand

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Speaker 15: dollars a year council jobs and supervisors, because they know

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Speaker 15: that if people get in there that aren't on that team,

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Speaker 15: that they're going to find everything out.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I was reading I think Michael Sellenberger wrote about this.

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Speaker 1: Is that you set up these homeless nonprofits and it's

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Speaker 1: staffed with friends and relatives of the council ends, and

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Speaker 1: so council members sends the money to that nonprofit and

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Speaker 1: then they friends and relatives pay themselves six figure salaries

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Speaker 1: and they give a cut to the Councilman.

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Speaker 15: Yeah, that's all big skin and it's just all cash,

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Speaker 15: cash under the table, and nobody ever looks at it,

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Speaker 15: no noo, and there's no records to look at. Alex

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Speaker 15: Michaelson's coming on with Chippy O's from KTLA as well,

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Speaker 15: and we've got cash to give away. We've got a

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Speaker 15: lot going on, plus a lot of big football games

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Speaker 15: this weekend. Yes, try to figure out who's going to

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Speaker 15: win these suckers. I don't have a TV to watch them.

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Speaker 14: But that's right, you're still out of electricity.

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Speaker 1: Whole week now. Wow man, yeah, man, seven break ins

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Speaker 1: on the block. Don't you have hotel money by now?

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Speaker 1: We don't want to leave everybody on the block who

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Speaker 1: left got broken into. I see what do you do

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Speaker 1: with lights? You put lights in the windows? How do

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Speaker 1: you tell people your home where? Yeah, we have lights

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Speaker 1: in the windows to signal that we're home. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I do. We have a very loud dog. And you

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Speaker 1: know what, the whole neighborhood has hired these security guys

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Speaker 1: armed doing patrols up and down the block. Oh is

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Speaker 1: that right? We're paying for the foot patrol guy, two

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Speaker 1: mobile security services that are driving around, and taxes for

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Speaker 1: the LAPD.

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Speaker 14: I told you years ago to move out of LA,

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Speaker 14: so I don't feel bad.

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Speaker 3: You were right. You were right.

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Speaker 15: I'll tell you I got three pretty good stories on

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Speaker 15: why I moved out of LA.

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Speaker 4: Look.

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Speaker 15: I know, if you're entrenched and you've been there for

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Speaker 15: forty years, you got kids and grandkids, you can't move out.

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Speaker 1: I get that.

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Speaker 15: But man, if you're brand new, you got the two

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Speaker 15: new kids, you want to move in LA. I don't

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Speaker 15: think twice about that.

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Speaker 3: Man.

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Speaker 14: That really would have a nice weekend.

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Speaker 1: Bob, thank you. I can't be any worse. Kruzer is

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Speaker 1: the News Conway Next Michael Kreuzer live in the twenty

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Speaker 1: four hour CAFI Newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the

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Speaker 1: John Covelt Show podcast. You can always hear the show

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Speaker 1: live on KFI AM six forty from one to four

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Speaker 1: pm every Monday through Friday, and of course anytime on

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Speaker 1: demand on the iHeartRadio app