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Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio

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Speaker 2: app Moist lines eight seven seven, Moist eighty six, eight

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Speaker 2: coming on Ethan Weaver.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you haven't heard of him.

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Speaker 2: He's the LA deputy deputy city Attorney and he is

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Speaker 2: running for city council against Nythia Ramen, who is a socialist,

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Speaker 2: proud socialist, belongs to the DSA Democratic Socialist of America.

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Speaker 2: They're practically communists. They're strongly anti police and really pro

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Speaker 2: chaos and pro anarchy because in her district homelessness has

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Speaker 2: gone crazy, lots of crime. We've had more people calling

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Speaker 2: from Nythia Ramen's district in our audience than almost any

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Speaker 2: other city district because it encompasses the Valley Sherman Oaks,

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Speaker 2: this several times in promoting Ethan Weaver's appearance. But some

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Speaker 2: unforgivable stuff like the homeless encampment in front of the

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Speaker 2: school in Las Phelia's where the gang members were selling

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Speaker 2: drugs and weapons out of the tents and Nythia Ramen

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Speaker 2: him by this homeless guy, and the restaurant owner actually

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Speaker 2: confronted Nythia Ramen on television, took a Fox eleven reporter

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Speaker 2: to where Ramen was appearing, and she was so angry

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Speaker 1: How dare she be challenged?

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Speaker 2: Well, last night was a big candidate event between Ramen

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Speaker 1: Let's get Ethan Weaver on Ethan. How are you.

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Speaker 3: I'm doing great, John, thanks for having me on your show.

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Speaker 2: Well, thank you for running against Nithia Rahman.

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Speaker 3: You are welcome.

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Speaker 2: I think part of the problem is reasonable, intelligent people

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I totally hear you that I never

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Speaker 3: wanted to run for office. That was never part of

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Speaker 3: I've been a prosecutor with the City Attorney's Office, and

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Speaker 3: five years ago I had the opportunity of a lifetime

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Speaker 3: I started to see the absolute breakdown with the current

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Speaker 1: Right, So you've seen this, You've encountered this personally every

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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, I mean a great example this was just

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Speaker 3: Is a safety hazard? Dis encampment was so bad a

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and then a few minutes they're anarchists and they're racist.

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Speaker 3: It was dumbfounding. I've never heard a city staff's staff

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Speaker 3: that encampment. It's like their church, we.

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Speaker 3: I have never been dumbfounded on a call before, but

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Speaker 2: No, that's the thing. You cannot discuss these things. You

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Speaker 1: All you have to do.

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Speaker 2: The other thing you do is remove them. I mean,

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Speaker 2: hope people understand that that that that Nthania Raman absolutely

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Speaker 2: you're the guy to replace her. Because this, this this

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Speaker 3: It is so crazy to me because I'm not politician.

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Speaker 3: I've never done this before. And when I'm out meeting

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Speaker 3: is just speaking with common sense. The things I want

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Speaker 3: that's why I'm running. Let's just restore a little bit

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Speaker 2: I just want to bring back the normal way we

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Speaker 2: not going back to the nineteen fifties here. I'd be

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Speaker 3: Yes. I just finished this afternoon a walk on Vanuy's

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Speaker 3: And these small business owners have to keep their doors

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Speaker 2: No, Sherman Oaks has gone through a lot of bad

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Speaker 2: and it's true for all the communities in your district.

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Speaker 2: What was it like last night at this forum, Because

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Speaker 3: No, they they were not. And you know, I've been

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Speaker 3: Absolutely absolutely. But also, you know something that is very

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Speaker 3: And what is the real kicker is that the surrounding community.

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Speaker 3: They didn't find out about this from their city council office.

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Speaker 3: They found out about it when the Al Segundo Times

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Speaker 2: we get close to election day, because I would love

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Speaker 2: Nithia Rahman. Thank you for coming on in.

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Speaker 2: First thing is uh, Donald Trump Junior went on News Nation,

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Speaker 9: We offered a bill, we have offered that there would

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Speaker 9: To address this issue, and Senate Republicans support it. So hey,

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, I get a headache listening to that.

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Speaker 2: Build the freaking wall. Throw these people back to their

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Speaker 2: They just blow gas, don't they That's all they do.

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Speaker 2: And right now the House are representatives. The Republican speaker

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Speaker 1: So there's your solution. How about that, do a severe crackdown.

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Speaker 2: That's what the House Republicans want, and they'll give you

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Speaker 1: Enough of this.

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Speaker 2: Okay, these woke progressives had their run, they had their day.

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Speaker 2: They created a lot of anarchy and chaos. Life is worse.

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Speaker 2: Nobody's happy with this. Let's fix it. Let the normal

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Speaker 1: You know the fentanyl thing.

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Speaker 2: Oh we come back, another fentanyl story here in California. Boy,

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Speaker 2: if you work in an elections office, be careful when

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Speaker 2: you open the mail.

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Speaker 1: And I gotta believe this.

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Speaker 2: this time tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: You know this, This.

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Speaker 2: Is just so so depressing, so soul sucking. There's there's

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Speaker 2: a story that Karen Bass is not in Los Angeles

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Speaker 2: this week. She's gone to Washington. To moderate a homeless forum. Really,

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Speaker 2: this is what they do. What she should be doing

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Speaker 2: is be walking on the street supervising the removal of

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Speaker 2: these encampments. Instead, she flies to Washington, d C. They

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Speaker 2: have a US Conference of Mayor's Winter meeting three days

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Speaker 2: in Washington, and she's going to focus on addressing the

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Speaker 2: challenge communities face around homelessness and get get the big

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Speaker 2: idea here. And this is what makes me whack my

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Speaker 2: head against the wall. We're going to have a task

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Speaker 2: force convening. We're going to have a task force to

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Speaker 2: do what the only thing that's ever going to work.

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Speaker 2: And when they have limited success, it's because they do this.

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Speaker 2: They go up to mister, mister insane drug addict, mister

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Speaker 2: mental patient and say, you can't be camped here anymore.

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Speaker 2: You have to go somewhere else. We have a place

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Speaker 2: for you. Now come. What they should do is you

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Speaker 2: are going to go to jail because defecating and urinating

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Speaker 2: in the street is a crime, and we will we

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Speaker 2: will not send you to jail if you go for

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Speaker 2: mental patient treatment or drug addiction treatment until they do that.

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Speaker 2: By the way, you don't need a task force and

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Speaker 2: a six hour meeting. You need to write a few

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Speaker 2: lines on a paper. Here's the policy. The policy is,

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Speaker 2: you get up and move. We'll give you a place

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Speaker 2: and you have to go to treatment, because we're not

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Speaker 2: dealing with you running off one night from your new

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Speaker 2: little hovel and then we'll find you on the street

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Speaker 2: again with a needle sticking out of your arm and

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Speaker 2: you're doing drugs. But the Task Force we want to

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Speaker 2: meet with the administration. We need the things done administratively.

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Speaker 2: Some things need to be legislative. But we just finished

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Speaker 2: our second Task Force meeting. We're trying to organize the

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Speaker 2: delegation to advocate for specific changes in policy. We need

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Speaker 2: to address the hundreds of thousands of Americans or you're

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Speaker 2: sleeping on the streets every night. They're all they're on fentanyl.

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Speaker 2: Fentanyl killed eight. Do you know how many people died

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Speaker 2: of an overdose in San Francisco last year? Eight hundred

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Speaker 2: and six that they were able to count, eight hundred

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Speaker 2: and six. That's life in California. There's fentanyl everywhere, there's

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Speaker 2: dead bodies everywhere, There's homeless people whacked out on fentonyl

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Speaker 2: or a meth everywhere. So you have to put them

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Speaker 2: in jail. You have to send them to treatment centers.

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Speaker 2: You have to seal the border. There's your there's your

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Speaker 2: task force. Speaking of fentanyl, an elections office worker was

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Speaker 2: exposed to fentanyl after opening an envelope. It had a

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Speaker 2: suspicious white powder. This happened yesterday in Yuba County, which

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Speaker 2: is north of Sacramento. It's a rural area and the

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Speaker 2: tests turned up traces of fentanyl. It was mailed to

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Speaker 2: the elections department in Yuba County. Oh, you know, there's

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Speaker 2: going to be a lot of this going on because

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Speaker 2: all the crazy people are angry with the elections departments

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Speaker 2: around the country. The envelope did not look suspicious at

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Speaker 2: first and seemed to come from a verified agency whatever

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Speaker 2: that means. Why don't they speak English? That was a

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Speaker 2: verified agency. The worker opened the package notified police after

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Speaker 2: finding powder inside. Election offices have faced harassment since twenty twenty,

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Speaker 2: you know what, and the threats tend to occur in

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Speaker 2: small rural counties. Election officials in Nevada and Shasta Counties

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Speaker 2: have to have security, extra security, and the Yuba office

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Speaker 2: actually has the lock zone. That is the treatment for overdose. Well,

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Speaker 2: it's an overdose reversal medication. Right, So they're so afraid

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Speaker 2: of getting fentanyl sent to them that they have the

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Speaker 2: lock zown in the office in case one of the

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Speaker 2: workers opens up an envelope and poof, the powder goes

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Speaker 2: up their nose. They've had fentanyl laced letters sent to

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Speaker 2: a number of election offices in California and elsewhere.

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Speaker 6: Conway's here, Hey, no, yeah, that fentanyl is a bad deal. Yes,

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Speaker 6: that's my that's my.

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Speaker 1: Take on it. Don't be careful opening the mail, that's right.

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Speaker 6: But they, you know, they keep saying there's that you know,

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Speaker 6: eight million pills that came over the border could kill

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Speaker 6: one hundred and sixty million people.

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Speaker 1: Like really, well, we're I mean, I don't know if

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Speaker 1: that's true or not.

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Speaker 6: Where all the dead people? Where the one hundred and

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Speaker 6: sixty million dead? That's right, I don't know, but eoretic.

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Speaker 6: But you know what it is, you know who it's killing.

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Speaker 6: It's not killing uh, seasoned drug users. It's killing the

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Speaker 6: first timers. Yeah, you know, because the guy whos been

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Speaker 6: on coke and crack and math, those those are potato

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Speaker 6: chips for him. You know, he can down those meth

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Speaker 6: pills or not meth pills, the fentanyl pills. Yeah, like

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Speaker 6: it's cereal. It's the guy. The people, the young kids

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Speaker 6: who've never had it before. That's what gets They don't

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Speaker 6: know they're taking it. Yeah. Anyway, so we have the

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Speaker 6: Starlink launch might be tonight, but it's cloudy outside, so

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Speaker 6: I'm not gonna be We're not being able to see that.

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Speaker 6: Dean Sharp is coming in or he's gonna be on

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Speaker 6: the phone. He's great. And then a new addition under construction,

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Speaker 6: lax ahead of the major sporting events. We've got the

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Speaker 6: World Cup coming in, We've got the NBA All Star

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Speaker 6: Game coming in. We also have the what else is

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Speaker 6: coming the Olympics, and then we also have the Super

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Speaker 6: Bowl coming back.

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Speaker 1: So LA is going to be.

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Speaker 6: The hub of the entertainment world over the next ten years.

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Speaker 1: NBA All Star Game two, Yeah, that's I think I

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Speaker 1: said NBA.

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Speaker 6: Oh no, maybe I did an NBA All Star Game

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Speaker 6: at the at the New Clippers Arena.

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Speaker 1: Yep.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, that's gonna be this year or whatever the next,

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Speaker 6: not this one, but the one after them. So all right,

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Speaker 6: but that's a big deal. I mean, we are the

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Speaker 6: center of the entertainment in you know universe. So if

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Speaker 6: you live out here and you own a home, it's

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Speaker 6: going to increase in value. I know everyone's talking about

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Speaker 6: the home price or going the toilet.

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Speaker 2: Not here, oh, not here. It's directly connected to the

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Speaker 2: NBA All Start.

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Speaker 1: That's exactly right.

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Speaker 6: The NBA All Stars are going to come out here

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Speaker 6: and buy your house.

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Speaker 2: I say, okay, all right, conways an economic analysis, that's.

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Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, take it from me.

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