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Speaker 1: You don't want to miss Today. We start off with

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Speaker 1: the great news you heard it in Deborah's newscast. The

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Speaker 1: idiot Janie Kinoniez, the CEO and chief engineer of the LADWP,

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Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, has finally

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Speaker 1: been tossed out, finally been gone. Caravas is running for

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Speaker 1: reelection and she is cleaning out the bar and she

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Speaker 1: got the shovel and she shoveled up Jennie Kiez and

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Speaker 1: dumped her, dumped her out into a field where I

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Speaker 1: had there are probably majority high high percentage of incompetent

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Speaker 1: bureaucrats in all layers of government. But I tell you

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Speaker 1: this lady, this lady is first ballot Hall of Fame material.

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Speaker 1: Janie Koniez never filled the one hundred and seventeen million

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Speaker 1: gallon reservoir, the Santienez Reservoir in the Pacific Palisades. So

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Speaker 1: when the fire broke out and the firefighters showed up,

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Speaker 1: few of them, they didn't have one hundred and seventeen

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Speaker 1: million gallons of water because Janie Konez drained the reservoir.

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Speaker 1: They needed a new what amounted to was a pool cover.

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Speaker 1: And they should have done that in a month, and

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Speaker 1: it took Genie Kinnonez over a year. Now, mind you,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't need a pool cover. They claim it was

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Speaker 1: to protect the drinking water. The Centiendez Reservoir was created

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Speaker 1: for fire purposes. There was a terrible fire, the bell

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Speaker 1: Air Fire, in nineteen sixty one, and according to the

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Speaker 1: four edition of the paper, they built a reservoir to

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Speaker 1: address the lack of water which they needed for the

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Speaker 1: bell Air fire. And they said, if we have another

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Speaker 1: fire now we're gonna have reservoir. It was built. It

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Speaker 1: was built to put out fires. In addition, you could

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Speaker 1: use it for drinking water. But as we found out

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four, when the reservoir was empty for

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Speaker 1: a year, that did not impact drinking water supply in

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Speaker 1: the Palisades at all. It was completely unnecessary. Now, jenniese

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Speaker 1: Conunias was a diversity higher. Nobody rational, intelligent, reasonable would

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Speaker 1: ever look at Genese's Genie Canonia's resume for more than

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Speaker 1: thirty seconds without tossing it in the trash can. And

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Speaker 1: if you met her and heard her talk, you'd call

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Speaker 1: terminally stupid woman. Let me put it to you this way.

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Speaker 1: If there was a quiz to get the job right,

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Speaker 1: and the quiz had one question, fire season is approaching.

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Speaker 1: You have a one hundred and seventeen million gallon reservoir

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Speaker 1: sitting in a high fire danger region. Do you A

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Speaker 1: fill it up or B leave it empty? One question

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Speaker 1: you get the job. She would have picked be leave

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Speaker 1: it empty, which is what she did. But she not

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Speaker 1: only but she kept the job. Not only that they

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Speaker 1: found that there was thirteen hundred fire hydrants busted thirteen hundred.

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Speaker 1: Now she's got two jobs. It's DWP Department of Water

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Speaker 2: That's your main job.

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Speaker 1: And if there's a problem, you have to have a

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Speaker 1: backup supply coming from somewhere else, which they've installed. Now

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Speaker 1: just in case. Because Genie Quinonyez, after stupidly emptying the

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Speaker 1: she emptied it again and shut it down. The thing

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Speaker 1: is empty right now, after costing nearly seven thousand homes

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Speaker 1: all I don't know, eighteen hours.

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Speaker 2: It was over. They had no water.

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Speaker 1: Firefighters were standing all over the palisades with their hands

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Speaker 1: the fire hydrants are broken, and she kept their job

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Speaker 1: because when some one is hired for diversity purposes, they

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Speaker 1: She never told anybody either. As far as I know,

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Speaker 1: Of course they should have made their business to find

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Speaker 1: professional grave. What is she's actually getting another job, she's

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Speaker 1: taking over, She's taking over the in Puerto Rico, the

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Speaker 1: agency that provides electricity. She's going to take a leadership

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Speaker 1: role to help build Puerto Rico's electrical grid. Seriously, she's

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Speaker 1: to support the modernization and transformation of the electric grid.

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Speaker 1: That's what off Vass's office set. Because you know, they

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Speaker 1: Their plants are really old, they run on oil, they

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Speaker 1: And now they're putting her in charge of this. What's

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Speaker 1: She was too dumb to fix the hydrods. Oh, second

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Speaker 1: part of the fire catastrophe in the Palisades and everybody

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Speaker 1: forgets this, and this is on video. She never shut

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Speaker 1: The poles, the cross beam, the whole h fall down,

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Speaker 1: and that started another subfire and completely wiped out a neighborhood.

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Speaker 1: This was twelve hours after the fire started. This was

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Speaker 1: the night of January seventh. She never turned off the

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Speaker 1: ever been an executive in a position of a utility

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Speaker 1: that has ever done more damage, more quickly, with more

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Speaker 1: then after it happened, she never spoke about it. She

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Speaker 1: never made any public statements, never answered any questions, never apologized,

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Speaker 2: She just went on collected her two billion dollars. We

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Speaker 1: we got a couple of Genie Quonia's clips, not that

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Speaker 1: they're particularly important in and of themselves, but just to

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Speaker 1: give you an idea what she sounded like. She sounds

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Speaker 1: like an idiot, So play whatever you have there.

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Speaker 2: Cut number one.

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Speaker 1: You call it powered by equity, and I know that

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Speaker 1: it's been really important for the DWP to put an

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Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, and that's the number one thing that attracted

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Speaker 4: me to this role, coming from the communities that I

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Speaker 4: seeing what I've seen through my career and utilities and

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Speaker 4: through the military. I've been in the costcard nineteen and

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Speaker 1: WO congratulation, Thank.

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Speaker 4: You for your service, Thank you, thank you. It's important

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Speaker 4: to me that everything we do it's with an equivalents

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Speaker 4: and social justice and making sure that we right the

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Speaker 4: wrongs that we've done in the past from an infrastructure

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Speaker 4: perspective and that we involved the community in that process,

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Speaker 4: and this utility is serious about it, is authentic about it,

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Speaker 4: and so I'm just super excited to be part of

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Speaker 3: Do you hear that.

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Speaker 1: What attracted her to the job was that everything they

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Speaker 1: I don't know, reservoirs are filled, hydrants are fixed, electric

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Speaker 1: and diversity and the social justice. She had no business

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Speaker 1: running the DWP none, And she wasn't hired to run

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Speaker 1: they would get all aroused over social justice and equity

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Speaker 1: and diversity and inclusion and all that other rot well. So,

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Speaker 1: of course the palisades burned down. Of course, the reservoir

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Speaker 1: They were in meetings all day talking about equity and

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Speaker 1: were running some kind of bizarre social project. Ay yy God,

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Speaker 1: I forgot about that. What's uh, what's the other clip

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Speaker 4: My intent is to continue to that, continue to execute

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Speaker 4: the things that we need to make improvements on. To

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Speaker 4: serve our customers in an equitable way.

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Speaker 1: Equitable that was after the fire, right, that clip that

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Speaker 1: was after serve our customers in an equitable ray way. Well,

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Speaker 1: they were like religious zealots. Where does equity have to

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Speaker 1: do with anything? Keep the water flowing, keep the electricity flowing.

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Speaker 1: What's what's what's what's this equity? That is a word

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Speaker 1: I didn't even hear of five years ago. It just

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Speaker 1: You know, it was very equitable. She wiped out just

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Speaker 1: about the whole town. I'm she wiped out men, women, white, black, Hispanic,

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Speaker 1: you name it. The fire wiped everybody out. There's very

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Speaker 1: equitable fire. Like I said, I think she's below the

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Speaker 1: Newsom line IQ wise, that is sub ninety three, that

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Speaker 1: is below the Newsom line for IQ It's actually scary

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Speaker 1: listening to her because you realize that she really was

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Speaker 1: in charge. And I think la is the U is

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Speaker 1: Today? Seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year? This

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Speaker 1: That's what the I in DEI stands for, diversity, equity

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Speaker 4: Well, I'd like to start by highlighting the Commons Commissioner

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Speaker 2: You have to vote No.

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Speaker 1: One Karen Bass, and vote against Karen Bass, because she

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Speaker 1: The attorney for the guy who is charged with starting

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Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM sixty.

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Speaker 1: Yes, let's continue the celebration. I am six forty more

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Speaker 1: to six every day. Ah, the movez Ella's It signals

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Speaker 2: Again.

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Speaker 1: We have a podcast after six o'clock John Cobelt Show

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Speaker 1: We're in the middle of it right now. Yes, Jeniez

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Speaker 1: According to Karen Bass, it's part of a quote planned

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Speaker 2: Yes, the plan was, you got to get out.

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Speaker 2: What it took.

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Speaker 5: She took a significant pay cut to come to work

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Speaker 1: Right? Stop it there be Alex Michael said, a national search,

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Speaker 5: She chose A.

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Speaker 2: She sent everybody home.

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Speaker 1: But they were all diverse. Now I haven't heard these

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Speaker 1: Hack the Pali seeds had already burned down. Can I

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Speaker 2: Well? Amazingly he's still in charge of the city council.

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Speaker 1: And in the middle of the meeting, somebody informed that

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Speaker 2: And listen to the reaction.

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Speaker 6: Thank you so much, council Member Rodriguez. And we should

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Speaker 6: get busy because in the time we've been talking, the

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Speaker 1: IM a mistake.

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Speaker 5: I request to speak.

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Speaker 3: That was a.

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Speaker 6: Mistake, Thank you. I can't remember, Hernandez.

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Speaker 2: Is that serious a joke?

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Speaker 7: That's interesting news that we will have to deal with now. No,

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Speaker 1: Is that serious or is that a joke? Well, she

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Speaker 1: And we got another clip, right, and this is Marquis Harris.

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Speaker 6: Stausin announcements members right right, yeah, seeing no announcements. My my,

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Speaker 6: the leader of my legislative team is smiling because it

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Speaker 6: looks like our DWP leader is going to Puerto Rico,

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Speaker 6: I'm excited that we admit that connection.

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Speaker 1: She's really needed there, which is the island need to

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Speaker 2: You want to wipe that whole island out. She's needed there.

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Speaker 1: Ay ay, Oh, we can't forget this, our friend. Oh,

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Speaker 1: I'll read this when we come back. We're that far behind.

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Speaker 1: We're having too much fun today. This is like the

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Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI A.

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Speaker 1: John Cobelt's show and coming up, Well, what do we

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Speaker 1: got coming up? After three o'clock. Oh, we've been celebrating

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Speaker 1: Puerto Rico to destroy that island. They're putting her in

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Speaker 2: Nine or ten years ago.

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Speaker 1: We were playing Eclipse when the La City Council found

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Speaker 1: Let me tell you this lady is seriously overfed. I

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Speaker 2: I mean she just whoa.

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Speaker 1: I don't know they made them like that anymore. Jennie

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Speaker 1: Keinonia's got an award the La Times Studios Inspirational Women Awards.

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Speaker 2: You remember this. I'd forgotten this.

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Speaker 1: Daniel Guss our friend sent us this under the Education,

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Speaker 1: They put out videos that nobody watches. Is dedicated to

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Speaker 1: vision and purpose. She burnt down the palisades. She couldn't

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Speaker 1: all these panel discussions that created rich tapestry of perspectives

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Speaker 1: Why don'd you fill up the whole? Why didn't you

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Speaker 2: The La Time actually gave Janice QNONI is that award?

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Speaker 1: When we come back, there is another moron And I

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Speaker 1: thought this guy would be gone, but apparently he's coming back.

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Speaker 1: Another one involved in a couple in really one of

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Speaker 1: lesser scandals, and he's still coming back. Debora Mark live

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