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Speaker 2: We're going to get right into it because just a

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Speaker 2: few minutes ago, the city council meeting turned down Kristen

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Speaker 2: Crowley's appeal. She is fired by the mayor, Karen Bess.

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Speaker 2: She did speak to the council at length, and we're

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Speaker 2: going to go to Michael Monks, who witnessed all this.

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Speaker 1: Michael, how are you.

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Speaker 3: I'm well, good afternoon. Yes, it was a busy day

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Speaker 3: here at City Hall. A big turnout. I haven't seen

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Speaker 3: anything like this in the year that I've been covering

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Speaker 3: La City Hall. A big media event, but also a

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Speaker 3: big crowd. I mean there was capacity. They had to

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Speaker 3: block off the council chamber at one point and stop

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Speaker 3: allowing people in. It got so crowded. Took about ninety

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Speaker 3: minutes of comments from the public. You heard people speaking

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Speaker 3: in favor of Chief Crowley. You heard a lot of

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Speaker 3: people speak in favor of Mayor Bass's decision, and ultimately

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Speaker 3: it did not go former Fire Chief Crowley's way, as

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Speaker 3: at this moment she remains the former fire chief.

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Speaker 1: Thirteen to two. Is that the vote.

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Speaker 3: It was the final vote. It seemed to be a

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Speaker 3: strange procedural vote. Rather than coming up and saying, let's

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Speaker 3: vote on whether to you know, vote in favor of

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Speaker 3: her appeal or vote against it, they do something called

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Speaker 3: receive and file with a lot of basic reports that

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Speaker 3: come out of various departments. And that is what the

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Speaker 3: motion ended up being for this, to receive it and

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Speaker 3: to file it, and that means basically literally that let's

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Speaker 3: take it, let's put it on the shelf, and then

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Speaker 3: there's nothing left to do with it. And that vote

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Speaker 3: was thirteen to two, okay, So there's no further vote

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Speaker 3: on this.

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Speaker 1: No further vote on this.

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Speaker 3: She had needed ten to vote in favor of her appeal.

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Speaker 1: She got two people to speak.

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Speaker 3: In her favor alt right, Monica Crowley and Tracy Park,

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Speaker 3: members of the council here. Other council members who did

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Speaker 3: not vote her way did speak favorably of her that

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Speaker 3: they had worked with her well in their districts, but

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Speaker 3: they ultimately believed the mayor had this right and that

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Speaker 3: it would not be right to have those two work together.

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Speaker 1: Again.

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Speaker 2: We've got some clips of Crowley defending and explaining herself,

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Speaker 2: but to give everybody a rundown, what was her general defense.

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Speaker 3: Her defense was an expansion on what we've heard her

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Speaker 3: say before that the Los Angeles Fire Department is undermanned,

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Speaker 3: it is under equipped, and it was not set up

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Speaker 3: in the Palisades. And she says that's because of decisions

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Speaker 3: made at city Hall by people outside of this department.

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Speaker 3: And we know four factors. I reported last year that

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Speaker 3: every department across the city except for the police department,

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Speaker 3: suffered cuts and they did not get the funding they want.

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Speaker 1: Police did get it, but.

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Speaker 3: Firefighters spoke out last year that we're not getting what

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Speaker 3: we need. And that's been the point that she hammered

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Speaker 3: home again today, albeit in a lengthier, more formal fashion. Look,

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Speaker 3: you don't give us the money, you don't give us

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Speaker 2: And this was the result of that, and that's that's

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Speaker 2: all true. And they get cut from a very low

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and the city is already in financial dire straits anyway.

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Speaker 3: So now with all of this attention turning to the

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Speaker 3: former Chief Crowley, anyway, they've got to come up possibly

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Speaker 2: Well, they're blowing a lot of money on many other

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Speaker 1: We'll get to that later. They get they can redirect.

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Speaker 2: A lot of money and and stop defunding the fire department.

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Speaker 1: That's true.

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Speaker 3: And keep in mind Kristin Crowley, when she was fired,

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Speaker 3: So she still works within the city. There is an

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Speaker 2: And do we know what she does now? Because I

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Speaker 2: read I read not been reassigned yet. Yeah, I read

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Speaker 2: a comment that day. It means that she's counting paper

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sure there's a variety of reasons in her

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Speaker 3: if she looks to call this some sort of retaliatory action.

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Speaker 3: And La City Council is notorious approving a settlement here,

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Speaker 3: a settlement there, and these lawsuit settlements over the course

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Speaker 3: of the last fiscal year or why they're broke.

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Speaker 2: Oh well, yeah, exactly, and there's more to come. I mean,

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's incredible how much money is blown on

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Speaker 2: lawsuit settlements. So did any official admit that the funding

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Speaker 2: for the fire department is horrible and that they bear

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Speaker 2: some of the responsibility a lot of the responsibility for

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Speaker 2: the lack of the firefighters and equipment being available for this.

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Speaker 3: Crowley found some sympathy in that argument from Counseloman Monica

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Speaker 3: Rodriguez and Councilwoman Tracy Park basically said, look, we don't

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Speaker 3: have the full report on what led to the disaster

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Speaker 3: and the palisades, yet we don't have a full accounting

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Speaker 3: for the preparation and the response and how we've handled

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Speaker 1: So to fire.

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Speaker 3: Kristin Crowley now really didn't make any sense to her,

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Speaker 3: and I'm sure those budgetary concerns would definitely be part

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Speaker 3: of any all encompassing review of the city's response to that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a questions raise.

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Speaker 2: There's like three aspects to this, Like there's nobody to

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Speaker 2: that's been going on for a lot of years with

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Speaker 2: Bass being absent and allegedly unaware. Although I think that's

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Speaker 2: a big lie. Kristin Crowley made a lot of bad

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Speaker 2: underfunded and understaffed by any national measure by measuring it

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Speaker 2: against any other major city. They have chosen specifically not

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Speaker 2: to fund the fire department, and between us being a

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Speaker 2: fourteen thousand of them a year. We're in the worst

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Speaker 1: Let out, let alone on up to the responsibility of it.

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Speaker 3: Not only to speak to the position that the city

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Speaker 3: finds itself in and combating fires in general. But that

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Speaker 3: term particularly dangerous situation. We get fire warnings all the time.

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Speaker 3: We know that wildfires happen, they're devastating around here, but

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Speaker 3: not to this scale. When we got that warning, we

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Speaker 3: that the response to it was limited because of the

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Speaker 3: winds anyway, And I think that's why a council today

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Speaker 3: you did hear arguments like we need a full examination

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Speaker 3: of what happened that day, including those conditions on the ground,

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Speaker 3: as to why things went the way they did.

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Speaker 1: Is anyone going to do that?

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Speaker 3: Well, the city is doing one, the state is doing one,

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Speaker 3: and we'll see what comes of that. There's supposed to

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Speaker 3: be independent investigations. The county is also doing one, so

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Speaker 3: there's a lot of investigating that is going on right now,

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Speaker 3: but it would probably take a while to gather all

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Speaker 3: of that necessary information. And now that you've got some

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Speaker 3: of the leading players at each other's throat, how honest

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Speaker 1: All right, Michael, thank you, good stuff. Always a pleasure.

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Speaker 1: All right.

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Speaker 2: Spent all day so far at city council meeting, which

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Speaker 2: is really cruel and unusual punishment. Michael monks KFI News.

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Speaker 2: When we come back, the La Times uncorked whopper this morning.

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Speaker 2: It looks like yes, Mayor liar Karen Bass Boy. She

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Speaker 2: keeps claiming nobody told her that the bad fire was coming. Well,

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Speaker 2: there was an email from the Emergency Management Department that

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Speaker 2: one hundred people in La Government received one hundred of them,

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Speaker 2: including Bass's top aids, and none of those people.

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Speaker 1: Spoke with Bass.

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Speaker 2: This was all before she went on her jetplane to Ghana.

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Speaker 1: You're not going to believe this. It's coming up next.

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Speaker 2: coblt Radio. So the news just broke minutes ago. Kristin

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Speaker 2: Crowley lost thirteen to two. Her firing has been upheld.

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Speaker 2: Kristin Crowley did a bad job that day. I know

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Speaker 2: the LA Fire Union disagrees, and Tracy Park disagrees, or

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Speaker 2: at least Tracy thinks it's premature to make that to

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Speaker 2: make that call, but there are too many things went wrong.

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Speaker 1: But ultimately, you know what the root of all.

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Speaker 2: This is is the city council and Karen Bass and

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Speaker 2: Eric Garcetti before Bass, because with the exception of Tracy

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Speaker 2: and maybe one or two others over the years, the

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Speaker 2: city council is such an incompetent, stupid disaster. You will

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Speaker 2: never find a dozen stupider people than what's usually on

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Speaker 2: the La City Council. And I've told you for years

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Speaker 2: that the main constituents for the majority of the politicians

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Speaker 2: in California, there's three major constituencies, and it is criminals, vagrants,

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Speaker 2: and illegal aliens. And that's where a lot of discretionary

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Speaker 2: money goes. If there's one hundred bucks available, it's going

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Speaker 2: to criminals, it's going to vagrants, it's going to illegal aliens.

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Speaker 1: It does not go to the fire department.

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Speaker 2: There is a national fire organization that makes recommendations for cities.

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Speaker 2: What is the best you know, they like to use

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Speaker 2: terms like best practices. What is the best practice for

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Speaker 2: staffing a big city fire department?

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Speaker 1: Do you know what it is?

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Speaker 2: Two firefighters per thousand population, two per thousand. Do you

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Speaker 2: know what we have here? Zero point nine? Zero point nine.

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Speaker 2: Now not every city is at two, but maybe they're

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Speaker 2: at one point eight one point six. You know they're

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Speaker 2: they're in the neighborhood getting closer. We're at less than half.

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Speaker 2: And that's the conversation stopper. It doesn't Bass Crowley. They're

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Speaker 2: both incompetent. Genie kone is the idiot DWP executive. What

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Speaker 2: matters though, the root cause, the original sin is they

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Speaker 2: only have half the funding and half the personnel and

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Speaker 2: half the equipment, and a lot of the equipment they

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Speaker 2: have is broken because they don't have the mechanics and

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Speaker 2: they have firefighters available, but there's nowhere for the firefighters

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Speaker 2: to sit. Seriously, so how and we're in a city

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Speaker 2: that has two issues that many other cities don't have.

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Speaker 2: Number one is there's a big wildfire component that affects

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Speaker 2: a large part of the city on the north and

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Speaker 2: and then along from Pacific Palisades out to Hollywood, right,

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Speaker 2: And there's been many fires over the years and everybody

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Speaker 2: He's the city council president, he was the acting mayor

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Speaker 2: Fire Department's not controversial. Fire department is purely life saving.

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Speaker 2: There's no political fights really about the fire department. It's

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Speaker 2: It's hey, there's a fire, the guys show up and

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Speaker 2: kind of emergency procedure. It's much easier to explain. It's

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Speaker 2: a much more basic need. So what's the controversy why?

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Speaker 2: And I swear nobody talks about this out loud. Nobody

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Speaker 2: In fact, Freddy Escobar, who's the head of the firefighters

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Speaker 2: probably in January, and he came on the show and

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Speaker 2: That's that's before more than half the people in LA

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Speaker 1: Really, we don't have one more fire station than that.

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Speaker 2: And back then we had about two and a half

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Speaker 2: now we have I think five times as many calls

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Speaker 2: this is what should be loudly.

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Speaker 1: In fact, it shouldn't be debated.

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Speaker 2: Every dollar that goes to the homeless, sorry, goes to

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Speaker 2: the fire department. Every dollar that goes to illegal alien nonsense,

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Speaker 2: fire department, period, end of story. Oh, I bet they

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Speaker 2: want to do it now, right, Wait till the lawsuits

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Speaker 2: come in. They thought they were saving money chinting on

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Speaker 2: absolute morons, imbeciles, idiots. There's no other way to describe it.

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Speaker 2: Who funds a fire department at fifty percent? Who doesn't

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Speaker 2: in my head increases by sixty percent.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that would be it.

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Speaker 2: So the population goes up sixty percent, the amount of

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Speaker 2: I don't understand this. Are they trying to kill us?

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Speaker 2: And we come back? I'm gonna play it. Oh jeez,

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Speaker 2: I didn't even get This is going to go on

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Speaker 2: go on for a while because I got to go

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Speaker 2: through the big lie that Karen Dass is telling and

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Speaker 2: the La Times. And I want to give full credit

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Speaker 2: to the La Times. First time in years they have

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Speaker 2: done a superior job. They should I would approve of

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Speaker 2: a political prize for their coverage. Mostly they published nonsense,

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Speaker 2: but this has been great stuff. So aids to Karen

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Speaker 2: Bass received weather warnings before she flew to Ghana. For sure.

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Speaker 2: The warning came out on Friday, January third. In the email,

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Speaker 2: one hundred people got it, including some of Bass's top lieutenants.

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Speaker 2: Will give you their names, we'll tell you what their

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Speaker 2: Karen Bass wants to sume me have at.

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Speaker 5: It well, If it's true, then they all should be fired,

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Speaker 5: just like Prowley.

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Speaker 1: Right, they should all be fired. That's the thing.

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Speaker 2: You're right, there's nobody to root for here, but nobody

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Speaker 2: own people. But you shure everybody should go out of this.

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Speaker 2: Most of the city council ought to go too. They're

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Speaker 2: incompetent boobs. They don't know what they're doing, and they're dangerous.

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Speaker 2: They destroyed thousands of homes and businesses. They killed people.

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Speaker 2: This city council and this Bass administration and this fire

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Speaker 2: chief and this.

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Speaker 1: DWP looney tune.

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Speaker 2: They killed people and destroyed thousands of homes and businesses.

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Speaker 2: And Kristin Crowley's the only one who's going to get fired. Really,

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Speaker 2: that's the way it looks right now. But of course

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Speaker 2: most people at home are sitting like potted plants and

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Speaker 2: they're busy scrolling and texting, and they don't know what

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Speaker 1: What happened?

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Speaker 2: Well, while you were scrolling and texting the last ten years,

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Speaker 2: they defunded the fire department.

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Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobel's on Demand from KFI AM

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Speaker 2: There's just so much to the story, not just the

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Speaker 2: not just you know, it happened in Los Angeles, and

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Speaker 2: a lot of people listening don't live in LA didn't

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Speaker 2: directly affect their lives, but it is symptomatic of what's

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Speaker 2: got well she the firing is now a real done

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Speaker 2: deal because the city council voted against her by thirteen

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Speaker 2: to two. And I want to play clips of what

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Speaker 2: went on today. But the incompetence and the dishonesty, and

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Speaker 2: Kristin Crowley didn't know what.

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Speaker 1: She was doing that day.

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Speaker 2: There's nobody to root for here, but Karen Bass is

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Speaker 2: so dishonest and so despicable in the way she's handled this,

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Speaker 2: and the city council they're now trying on a cover

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Speaker 2: for Bass. We have terrible people were running not just

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Speaker 2: Los Angeles, but there's terrible people running the state. There's

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Speaker 2: terrible people in Washington, d C. All these years and

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Speaker 2: we're starting now to dig out from under it all,

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Speaker 2: all the corruption, all the wasted money, all the crime.

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Speaker 2: Just out now crime, I mean, any of the stuff

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Speaker 2: goes on in the private sector.

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Speaker 1: You're behind bars.

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Speaker 2: Let's talk about the big why, the big lie capital letters.

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Speaker 2: In fact, if they do a Karen Bass biopic, it's

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Speaker 2: going to be entitled the Big Lie, because she's claiming,

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Speaker 2: impossibly that she had no idea the fire is coming

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Speaker 2: when she left on January fourth, she you know, well,

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Speaker 2: according to the La Times, Dakota Smith and David Zandeiser,

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Speaker 2: who by the way, usually are do do hack work

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Speaker 2: covering up and defending all the miscreants in the city government.

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Speaker 1: But I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I don't know how soon Jon called these people in

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Speaker 2: and said, all right, time to do stories and tell

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Speaker 2: the truth. I don't know where the directive the directive

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Speaker 2: came from. Well, they write the day before Karen Bass

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Speaker 2: left for Ghana, her aides received an email from the

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Speaker 2: city's Emergency Management department warning of a high confidence in

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Speaker 1: That means a high confidence in the forecast.

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Speaker 2: That is, on January third, the mayor nevertheless went on

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Speaker 2: the trip to go to the inauguration for the President

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Speaker 2: of Ghana as well as a US Embassy cocktail party

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Speaker 2: on January seventh, exactly the moment the fire was breaking out.

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Speaker 2: Among the people who got the email were twelve bass aids,

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Speaker 2: twelve staff members, including two of her top aids. In fact,

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Speaker 2: one hundred people got this email. One hundred people. All

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Speaker 2: this was obtained by the La Times through a public

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Speaker 2: records request, and it showed that the Emergency Management Department

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Speaker 2: was advising mayoral staffers of the weather in the January

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Speaker 2: the forecast grew increasingly dire. More than a dozen bass

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Speaker 2: age received the January third email, which included multiple attachments

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Speaker 2: from the National Weather Service. You know what that attachment was?

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Speaker 2: That was ten pages. An EMD official also wrote that

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Speaker 2: a tentative calendar invite to the Monday meeting would follow.

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Speaker 2: One aid is named Anya Anyaqua and explicably the La

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Speaker 2: Another aid is Jacqueline Sandoval, who is the Mayor's policy

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Speaker 2: director for Emergency Management. Now this is on January thirty.

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Speaker 2: Are you telling me. The mayor's director for emergency management

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Speaker 2: the director of emergencies. They were sent zoom links for

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Speaker 2: the Monday meeting. The Monday meeting was formerly known as

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Speaker 2: an Adverse Weather Coordination golf. Theyways got to come up

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Speaker 2: with three, four or five words when one will do

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Speaker 2: I'm missing a page here. The deputy mayor is named

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Speaker 2: Zack Sidell. Zack Sidell always says the opposite of what

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Speaker 2: is true. I look at her, at his statements, and

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Speaker 2: he's one of these little weenie guys. Politics is filled

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Speaker 2: with little weenie guys, and they tweet all day and

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Speaker 2: they print out statements and they just make stuff up.

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Speaker 2: They say the opposite of what is true, the opposite

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Speaker 2: of what everyone else can see. Zack Sidell received the

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Speaker 2: email too. He oversees communications for bass. He oversees communications

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Speaker 2: for a bass, so he didn't talk to bass either.

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Speaker 2: He downplayed its importance, saying it did not suggest immediate catastrophe.

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Speaker 1: This is not a.

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Speaker 2: Warning of disaster that sends the opposite message. Because the

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Speaker 2: doesn't mean the disaster was tentative. This is what they do.

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Speaker 2: This is why Zack Sidell got a college education. Well,

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Speaker 2: everybody learned from Bill Clinton to start dicing and splicing

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Speaker 1: He knows what he says. He knows.

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Speaker 2: That was a warning that very bad things might happen.

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Speaker 2: That's why they were going to call the meeting. The

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Speaker 2: January third email was sent at two point thirty by

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Speaker 2: Jillian de Vela. She's with the Emergency Management Department to

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Speaker 2: an internal group called Emergency Management Department adverse Weather.

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Speaker 1: You know who's on this list? A hundred people.

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Speaker 2: One hundred people, which includes firefighters, police officers, the d

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Speaker 1: Unified employees. Oh here we go. I mentioned this woman's name.

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Speaker 2: I finally found her for his name, No, his name

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Speaker 2: Christopher and Yaquo. He is Bass's executive officer for Emergency Operations.

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Speaker 1: Executive officer.

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Speaker 2: Executive Officer see Jacklin Sandeville is the policy director for

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Speaker 1: Neither one of them.

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Speaker 2: Talked to Bass about the big firestorm, and they still

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Speaker 2: get paid.

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Speaker 1: He's on the list.

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Speaker 2: More than another more than a dozen other Bass aides

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Speaker 2: are on the list. The mayor and her chief of

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Speaker 2: staff not on the list. Now, why is that you're

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Speaker 2: sending out a hundred a hundred people an email saying

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Speaker 2: Nobody called the mayor and said, Karen, you going to Africa? Still,

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Speaker 2: I don't think we should. Ten page attachment with the

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Speaker 2: There was like drawings for the slow witted government employees

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Speaker 2: to follow a large red flame icon, and the headline

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Speaker 2: said critical fire conditions. That when you're in critical condition,

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Speaker 2: that's the worst condition, right, yes, next stop is death?

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Speaker 1: Correct? Correct? Is there something more than critical critical? Well? Death, death, yes,

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Speaker 1: but that's it. As long as you're alive, critical is

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Speaker 1: the worst.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Well this was critical fire conditions, which means next

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Speaker 2: stop death. The graphic said wind gus could reach eighty

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Speaker 2: miles an hour starting. Oh, look at that January seventh, Tuesday.

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Speaker 5: And actually the wind gusts were ninety miles an hour

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Speaker 5: plus in some areas.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so they undershot it.

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Speaker 2: That combined with low humidity, very dry vegetation, and created

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Speaker 2: a major fire risk for LA said there's one hundred

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Speaker 2: LA employees with this information on the Friday before the fire,

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Speaker 2: and out of one hundred people, none of them told

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Speaker 2: Karen Bass, including her executive officer for emergency operations, including

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Speaker 2: the policy director for Emergency Management. Really Sidell in an

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Speaker 2: email to the Times. Now, this is the spokeshole, this

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Speaker 2: is the professional. I make things up, even if it's preposterous.

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Speaker 2: Sidel said, no one from Bass's staff told her about

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Speaker 2: the information in the January third email. One hundred people,

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Speaker 2: twelve fifteen of her top staffers, and nobody told her.

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Speaker 1: Why is that?

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Speaker 2: I don't believe that that's a lie. That's not possible,

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Speaker 2: that's not true, that can't be. He repeated Bass's assertion

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Speaker 2: that Crowley should have called Bass. So the fifteen people

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Speaker 2: in Bass's staff didn't contact her, but Crowley is the

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Speaker 2: one who gets fired.

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Speaker 3: Well.

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Speaker 5: And then also the National Weather Service extreme fire weather

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Speaker 5: and particularly dangerous situation wind event prompts increased wildfire risk

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Speaker 5: for La County communities. Remember we did not get that

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Speaker 5: type of warning in years.

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Speaker 1: This was unusual.

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Speaker 2: It was this was fourteen years, yeah, fourteen years, that

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Speaker 2: Zoom meeting. They had two people from the Mayor's office

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Speaker 2: participated in the zoom meeting. Sandoval and the Press Secretary

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Speaker 2: Gabby meris Bass should should be forcibly removed from office

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Speaker 2: by I don't know why we don't seem to have

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Speaker 2: a procedure for that. There should be some kind of

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Speaker 2: instantaneous impeachment, instantaneous emergency firing ejection process.

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

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Speaker 4: six forty.

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Speaker 2: We're going through the wild day at city Hall. The

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Speaker 2: firing of Kristen Crowley is going to happen. She lost

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Speaker 2: thirteen to two and I haven't even played any of

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Speaker 2: her clips yet. We've spent a lot of time on

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Speaker 2: the LA Time story that Karen Bass. Amazingly, one hundred

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Speaker 2: people who work for the city government, a hundred got

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Speaker 2: an email warning from the Emergency Managed Department on Friday

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Speaker 2: the third, remember the fires. Tuesday the seventh, one hundred people,

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Speaker 2: including the way I account about fifteen Karen Bass staff members.

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Speaker 2: They all got the email saying bad fire coming, windstorm coming,

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Speaker 2: critical fire conditions, complete with a National Weather Service ten

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Speaker 2: page attachment with the Weather Service supplying a graphic with

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Speaker 2: a red flame.

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Speaker 1: And I just noticed this.

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Speaker 2: On Sunday, January fifth, the weather forecasters replaced the red

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Speaker 2: flame with a purple one.

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Speaker 1: The fire risk was now at the highest level extreme.

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Speaker 2: I didn't know. I had just seen the red flame warnings.

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Speaker 2: When it's really, really, really bad, it goes purple. And

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Speaker 2: somehow the Karens staff missed the purple flame warning.

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Speaker 1: Wow. So anyway, her whole staff knew, which means she

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Speaker 1: must have known.

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Speaker 2: I cannot imagine she made a decision that she wanted

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Speaker 2: to go to Ghana and nothing was going to stop her.

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Speaker 2: And I think it goes back to that clip we

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Speaker 2: played by that by the AID who worked in international

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Speaker 2: relations who was defending why Bass went to Ghana. She

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Speaker 2: wanted to get a consulate for the nation of Ghana

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Speaker 2: here located here in Los Angeles. She was very serious

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Speaker 2: about strengthening relations between America and African countries, and she

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Speaker 2: wanted to do her apart really meant a lot for

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Speaker 2: her and it was just more important to her. And

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Speaker 2: that AID said, Hey, we didn't think there was anything

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Speaker 2: we can do about it. Alexander Bobs was his name.

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Speaker 2: Alexander Boss said something to the effect that, well, there's

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Speaker 2: nothing we could do about it.

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Speaker 1: So they gave up and then.

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Speaker 2: Looking and yesterday we read you all the text messages

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Speaker 2: that Channel seven uncovered between all the people involved, including

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Speaker 2: the idiot Marquise, Harris Dawson, Genis Quinonez, and none of

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Speaker 2: them knew going on all day. Harris Dawson showed up

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Speaker 2: at three o'clock in some control center, going, anything I

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Speaker 2: can do to help. No, that's all right, that's right.

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Speaker 2: Marquis Palisades is already gone. And then Jennie Kenian says,

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Speaker 2: you know, we gotta get some equipment installed. We're gonna

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Speaker 2: run out of water in two hours. Oh is that

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Speaker 2: because you didn't fill up the one hundred and seventeen

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Speaker 2: million gallon reservoir, Genie Marquise. So anyway, if you read

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Speaker 2: the LA Time story, there's extensive details about these National

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Speaker 2: Weather Service warnings. When you get ten pages, you get

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Speaker 2: a ten page attachment in your email, you're getting a

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Speaker 2: purple flame.

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Speaker 1: Oh nobody told me.

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Speaker 2: And then she blames Crowley, you know, and Crowley isn't

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Speaker 2: any good at her job either. None of these people

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Speaker 2: got hired because they were good at anything. And I

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Speaker 2: just feel so bad. I mean, I read every day

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Speaker 2: I go on the next door app. I read people

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Speaker 2: from the Palisades, and I'm telling you some heartbreaking posts

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Speaker 2: that people are still sharing after two months because the

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Speaker 2: pain never goes away. You wake up every day and

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00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:19,799
Speaker 2: everything you know is gone, and tomorrow everything you know

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Speaker 2: is gone. And let me tell you the sociopaths on

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Speaker 2: the city council, the sociopaths and the mayor's office. All

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Speaker 2: these sociopaths. Because they're sociopathic, they have no empathy, no remorse,

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Speaker 2: no feeling. They have to look at other people and

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Speaker 2: try to mimic what empathy and remorse is, but they

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Speaker 2: don't actually feel it, which is why they're able to

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Speaker 2: do this sort of thing, and they just shrug it off.

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Speaker 2: I heard Michael Monks this morning, though he was Alwa

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Speaker 2: Shannon saying that Bass is basically tweeting her way through it,

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Speaker 2: and she is. She just tweets nonsense about all these

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Speaker 2: other issues or some raw, raw thing about l a Strong.

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Speaker 1: She doesn't care.

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Speaker 2: After two months, it's clear she doesn't care, and there

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Speaker 2: has to be a way to force her out of office.

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Speaker 2: This can't go on all of them. Marquise Genice Crowley's

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Speaker 2: Gone Boy. You talk about classic in case you didn't

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Speaker 2: know what escapegoat is.

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Speaker 5: You know, John, there's another effort, you know, to try

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Speaker 5: and recall Bass, and Bass's political strategist says that that

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Speaker 5: recall effort is nothing more than another extreme right wing

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Speaker 5: political stunt. That's their narrative of why people want to

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Speaker 5: recall her.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well they'll let the guest going and Mike Bonden

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Speaker 2: use the same line.

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Speaker 1: That's the.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because you know, Los Angeles is just crawling with

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Speaker 2: extreme right wingers exactly because that city council. What the

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Speaker 2: extreme right wing voters have produced?

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Speaker 5: Your West side people?

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, Brent Wood, Oh my god, palisades.

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Speaker 1: All right, come back.

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Speaker 2: We'll play some clips from this disaster, including the woman

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Speaker 2: who sang in support of Kristin Crowley.

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Speaker 1: Did you hear this one? She actually sang a song.

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Speaker 5: Oh I didn't hear that.

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Speaker 1: No, Well, maybe we'll start with that.

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Speaker 2: Debor Marcus led in the KFI twenty four hour News A. Hey,

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Speaker 2: you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You

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Speaker 2: can always hear the show live on KFI AM six

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Speaker 2: forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday,

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Speaker 2: and of course anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app,