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Speaker 2: Our next guest sent a photo. I'm looking at it

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Speaker 2: right now. It looks like downtown Culver City. It's actually striking.

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Speaker 2: It looks like he's already on the air. Eric, could

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Speaker 2: you please take care of that. Okay, thank you. It's

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Speaker 2: got a red bike lane. It actually says it's a

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Speaker 1: It's actually it's actually two thirds because there's only one

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Speaker 2: To two to eliminate the protected bike lane to add

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Speaker 2: is Daniel Ryan. He's our guest who sent us this photo.

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Speaker 2: the specifics of this decision. Hid, Welcome to the show.

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Speaker 3: How are you, hey, guys, Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: All right, Yeah, so, what's what's the history? What's the history?

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Speaker 2: You said you sent the photo for context, so explain

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So, we you know, we had a big council meeting.

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Speaker 3: This whole stretch of one point three miles is the

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Speaker 1: We are wait, wait, hold on, wait, bike only, my

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Speaker 3: Seriously correct, So where where we originally were here you

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Speaker 1: Actually in a normal world all three would be car lanes.

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Speaker 1: Okay, but when when they take over two thirds of

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Speaker 3: And I think that they would agree with you honestly

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Speaker 1: That's what they're after because you and I know and

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Speaker 1: Eight because they're all stuck in traffic. Because ninety eight

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Speaker 3: Well, what we need to do is make it worthwhile

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Speaker 1: And it's not gonna help it. It's never gonna happen. Oh,

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Speaker 1: I would never take a bus. I would never take

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Speaker 1: Buses are really slow, really slow. There's a lot of

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Speaker 3: No. Never in Culver City. If if I could get

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Speaker 1: What's the market for it? See what? I don't mean

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Speaker 3: So let me clarify, eighty forty percent of that wants

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Speaker 1: Well that's great progress, Daniel. You ought to be congratulated.

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Speaker 2: It's Culver City Council and Dan O'Brien excuse me. They

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Speaker 1: By the way, there's forty thousand people in Culver City,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, show me the numbers.

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Speaker 2: Those are those people these percentages, So yeah, centagers can

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Speaker 2: The real world, and the real world people have to

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Speaker 2: I remember rides here Thursday, Yeah nobody. You know, if

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Speaker 1: Do you hear that phrase anymore?

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Speaker 1: going to change human nature. You should accommodate cars. One

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Speaker 2: But we all roads, it's all will be. Just build

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Speaker 2: The reason why is right, she can't get a charging station.

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Speaker 1: We've been telling you this for years. There are no

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Speaker 1: Most of them are slow charging stations. You have to

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Speaker 1: Most of them are slow chargers. Then you have fast

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Speaker 1: Is nothing better than a gas powered card, nothing and

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Speaker 2: You know there's talking about AM radio being removed from

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Speaker 2: Then why do we read these if we're running them

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Speaker 1: Because we're all in danger here. That's why this is

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Speaker 2: Well, a text to learn your phone, it's not a

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Speaker 2: Congress to keep AM radio on all cars and trucks

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Speaker 1: Hell with the emergency services AM radio provides us. You

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Speaker 2: But think if there is an emergency, how many more

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Speaker 2: people be flocking to KFI as AM survives what the

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Speaker 2: other is can't will be the last one's left. All

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Speaker 2: the Internet is broken? Yeah, everybody's little apps are broken,

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Speaker 2: that's right. You know, podcasts are broken.

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Speaker 1: One electromagnetic pulse from the Chinese military of that all

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Speaker 2: That's right. Then when we get nuked by Putin. But

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Speaker 1: Our big throbbing tower and Lamarada will still be standing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but if that goes over, Oh, there's a backup.

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Speaker 2: There was actually a memo years ago about where we

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Speaker 1: out of there once.

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Speaker 2: All right, Well, here's another chapter in homeless encampments and

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Speaker 2: neighborhoods and how really wild it can get. We take

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Speaker 2: you to the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. If

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Speaker 2: you're not familiar, we're talking an area near downtown, around

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Speaker 2: Little Tokyo and Chinatown. It is the council district of

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Speaker 2: one Unices Hernandez totally. We tore her on the dumpster

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Speaker 2: last week. She is the worst, the one that thought

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Speaker 2: electric vehicles had catalytic converters. Ah, this is about a

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Speaker 2: homeless guy. I don't think you want. It's one thing

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Speaker 2: to see the drugs, and but you see a guy

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Speaker 2: wander around the neighbor of an Axe.

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Speaker 1: Here we go.

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Speaker 2: This report comes from KTLA reporter Annie Rose Ramos.

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Speaker 4: I want to give you a little bit of better

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Speaker 4: idea about where I'm standing. I'm standing on Marmion Way.

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Speaker 4: It is a small residential street in this neighborhood of

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Speaker 4: Highland Park. On one side the street is completely lined

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Speaker 4: with homes. On the other side is the Metro rail line,

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Speaker 4: and you can see one of the stations is behind me.

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Speaker 4: Further up this street on Marmion Way, there is a

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Speaker 4: green space a park in between the Metro station and

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Speaker 4: those homes, and it is there that residents say a

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Speaker 4: homeless encampment has been built up, and recently one of

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Speaker 4: the men living in that encampment has been wielding a

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Speaker 4: machete walking around the area trying to chop down trees

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Speaker 4: in the homes of this area.

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Speaker 1: We're trying to.

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Speaker 4: Chop down trees of some of the homes in the

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Speaker 4: front yards, and at one point recently it was all

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Speaker 4: caught on camera, that video being shared with us. We

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Speaker 4: want to take a look at some of that surveillance video.

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Speaker 4: A resident here saying they wanted to show it with

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Speaker 4: us because they really had no other option. They didn't

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Speaker 4: know what else to do in order to see a change.

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Speaker 4: Now you can see in the video, you can see

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Speaker 4: a man with a machete in his hand trying to

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Speaker 4: cut down those trees in the front yard. Residents telling

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Speaker 4: us he also brings along a drum set too, making

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Speaker 4: noise and disturbing the neighborhood at all hours of the

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Speaker 4: day and night. Home Owners say they've called the city's

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Speaker 4: three one one hotline of help repeatingly asking for help,

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Speaker 4: but nothing's been done. The woman who lives in the

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Speaker 4: house where the video is coming from. Her name is Tracy.

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Speaker 4: She says she can't live comfortably in her home or

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Speaker 4: neighborhood knowing this armed individual is out there. Here's more

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Speaker 4: of what she had to say.

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Speaker 2: As a woman, I'm worried about walking through my neighborhood

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Speaker 2: because I don't know what kind of mood this person

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Speaker 2: would be in, and I know that he's armed, walks up.

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Speaker 4: And down the street screaming profanity, and he does have

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Speaker 4: multiple weapons such as hammers.

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Speaker 3: Macheties, things like that. So does a safety issue all right?

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Speaker 4: We did hear back from the council member who represents

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Speaker 4: this area, a Unie sis Hernandez in a statement, she writes,

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Speaker 4: in part quote, our office is aware that there is

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Speaker 4: an encampment in this area and has been working with

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Speaker 4: the city departments and service providers to coordinate service delivery

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Speaker 4: and schedule cleanings here. Now, the frustrating reality is that

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Speaker 4: there is a huge gap in housing services and resources

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Speaker 4: available to meet the current needs. Back you're live the

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Speaker 4: neighbors in this residential area, they tell us that in

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Speaker 4: the past year, that homeless encara.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's not really built up. Stop. I can't

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Speaker 1: take this woman. You know, how come the reporters don't

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Speaker 1: call out the bs because chopping somebody's tree down on

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Speaker 1: their property is a crime. You could arrest them and

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Speaker 1: put him into jail, all right, he just needs wood

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Speaker 1: whacking a drum set all hours of the day and night.

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Speaker 1: That's a crime. Put him in jail.

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Speaker 2: What mental that they don't get control of?

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Speaker 4: What is this un is?

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Speaker 2: Hernandez says that you know we're making all efforts.

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Speaker 1: No you're not.

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Speaker 2: He's gonna be her first part of her statement, we

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Speaker 2: want to enjoy everyone in my district, housed and unhoused,

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Speaker 2: to feel safe and secure. That's right, and and so

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Speaker 2: First of all, the unhoused are not part of your

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Speaker 2: community or your neighborhood.

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Speaker 1: No, this, this, this, this crazy vagrant is waving an

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Speaker 1: axe around and he's chopping trees down, and he's about

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Speaker 1: five minutes away from chopping somebody's hat off, and Unices

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Speaker 1: Hernandez won't do anything about it. I don't think people

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Speaker 1: understand they've elected a woman here who lets a guy

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Speaker 1: with an axe run around and the police are told

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Speaker 1: to stand down. It says the police were called and

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Speaker 1: they talked to the guy. The thing is, I looked

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Speaker 1: at this what channel was that? Five? Five? Okay, that's

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Speaker 1: that's that's the script I have here. But I was

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Speaker 1: reading the Daily Mail or out of England and they

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Speaker 1: had a reporter there and it says on Tuesday, Daily

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Speaker 1: Mail saw the man roaming the area with self made sandals,

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Speaker 1: strapped with tape to his feet and nose plugs in

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Speaker 1: his nostrils attached to some sort of head dress. He

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Speaker 1: was brandishing his axe and chopping off branches of trees.

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Speaker 2: Sounds like a ritual.

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Speaker 1: Now, did this this TV reporter not see that or

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Speaker 1: had he taken on taken out the nostril plugs and

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Speaker 1: the head dress. See this explains how insane he is,

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Speaker 1: even more vividly than what Channel five discovered. Right, and

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Speaker 1: there's a picture of him with his nostrils plugged and

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Speaker 1: his head dress. One of the women, Tracy in the neighborhood,

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Speaker 1: says she has called the three one one hotline dozens

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Speaker 1: of times, but nothing has happened. That is one woman

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Speaker 1: is called dozens of times, but Karen Bassetti and this

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Speaker 1: loan bag Unices Hernandez refused to do anything about it.

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Speaker 1: He gets to run around chopping people's trees down with

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Speaker 1: his machete. He gets to do that. He gets to

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Speaker 1: play his drums all night, and you can call three

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Speaker 1: to one one until a comet hits our planet and

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Speaker 1: knocks us out of orbit. And Karen Bassetti and Hernandez,

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Speaker 1: and I'm glad we have these compassionate women running the city.

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Speaker 2: The Unices. Hernandez is one of the socialist Democrats. This

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Speaker 2: is not an issue for them. No, the unhoused need

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Speaker 2: our help and support. This is why they keep I mean,

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Speaker 2: that's what we've got. You really wound up with. We

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Speaker 2: don't have the services to meet the demand.

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Speaker 1: Yes you do. It's called a jail cell. It says. Here,

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Speaker 1: another homeless man is seen sitting with what appeared to

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Speaker 1: be a makeshift sword. This is a second guy. A

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Speaker 1: second guy. Oh is it really Yeah? Yeah, the guy

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Speaker 1: who with the weapon. Another local woman, Linda, says she's

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Speaker 1: been disappointed by the official response so far.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, who did you vote for?

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Speaker 4: These?

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Speaker 1: These are Karen.

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Speaker 2: Bash You just gotta do this Snande. She just got

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Speaker 2: to that that was Garcetti seat. I think does anybody

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Speaker 2: think Garcetti I meant to Gil Sidio?

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Speaker 1: Does anybody think that if Rick Caruso was sitting home

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Speaker 1: last night and saw the axe guy with the headdress

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Speaker 1: and the and the nostrils plugged Sidney.

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Speaker 2: Would communicately have something done.

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Speaker 1: That the police would not have taken him away immediately

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Speaker 1: and locked him up somewhere. But instead you get this babbling,

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Speaker 1: driveled diarrhea from units of Sernandie's. You know, we want

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Speaker 1: the house and the unhounsed to both feel sick. Oh

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Speaker 1: my god, I can't believe you people put up with this.

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Speaker 2: The world is so upside down, and we allow people

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Speaker 2: to just wander into neighborhoods and suddenly they're a part

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Speaker 2: of the community, And we have to care for them.

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Speaker 1: And people when did that happen? And people called three

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Speaker 1: one one thinking that someone's going to do something, that's

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Speaker 1: what's a riot. They they constantly promote three one wrong. Yes,

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Speaker 1: styles three one one, dial three one one, you call

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Speaker 1: three one one. You might as well ask your dog

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Speaker 1: to do something about it.

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Speaker 2: In fact, your dog might might do more. Y all right,

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Speaker 2: we got more coming up. Johnny KENKFI AM six forty.

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Speaker 2: We're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 5: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from KFI

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Speaker 5: AM six forty.

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Speaker 2: The Moist line is coming back day after tomorrow, so

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Speaker 2: we are collecting messages. We have the nets out there.

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Speaker 2: We're rounding up the messages. One way to do it

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Speaker 2: is the iHeartRadio app. Use the microphone icon. A lot

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Speaker 2: of people do that nice clear sound on the on

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Speaker 2: the air. Well you call the toll free number one

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Speaker 2: eight seven seven moist eighty six one eight seven seven

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Speaker 2: six six four seven eight eighty six. Couple of things

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Speaker 2: we're gonna cover next hour. Pretty important. We're still feeling

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Speaker 2: the fallout from the huge unemployment fraud that cascaded over

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Speaker 2: California back in twenty twenty into twenty one. I think

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Speaker 2: even into twenty two, thirty billion dollars in more stolen.

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Speaker 2: In the end, someone has to pay for that. That

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Speaker 2: someone might be a whole lot of employers will explain

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Speaker 2: what that means.

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Speaker 1: You run a small business. Bend over.

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Speaker 2: After three o'clock, and we're also going to have Brian

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Speaker 2: Claypool on the air. He's a tireless attorney who often

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Speaker 2: represents the children and child abuse cases. And wow, this

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Speaker 2: one out of Santa Monica is almost hard to believe.

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Speaker 2: But apparently a man got away with sexually abusing children,

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Speaker 2: mostly boys, for nearly three decades. It says here he

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Speaker 2: was a civilian employee with the Santa Monica Police Department.

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Speaker 2: Eric Uhler was considered a standout public servant who won

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Speaker 2: awards for his technological innovations. But apparently he was a

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Speaker 2: volunteer in the police activity police acalytic that's called the

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Speaker 2: police atiletically, No, it's police activities.

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Speaker 1: Oh, police activities.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, see, I thought it was paled to it. I

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Speaker 2: think that's a New York City thing. Pal is pale

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Speaker 2: is Police Activities League, or or they changed. Uh He's

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Speaker 2: been working since the eighties with boys and girls and

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Speaker 2: guess what happened and those guys who volunteered decades to

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Speaker 2: reveal he was his sexual predator. Brian Claypool will have

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Speaker 2: more on that story also in the Big three o'clock hour.

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Speaker 2: It's a little late in the afternoon for lunch, But

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Speaker 2: would anybody care to partake in a word salad? Anybody? Anybody?

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Speaker 2: Anybody interested?

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Speaker 1: Is it a Kamala Harris word salad? It sure is.

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Speaker 1: Let's set this up correctly.

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Speaker 2: We didn't even mention yesterday when Biden put out that

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Speaker 2: video announcing he's running for reelection, who appeared with them

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Speaker 2: Kamala Harris?

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Speaker 1: You know, it didn't even occur to me. He did.

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Speaker 2: He wants to make it clear that she's.

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Speaker 1: On the ticket.

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Speaker 2: God, when they sent her right out there to make

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Speaker 2: a speech at Howard University, that's she's an alumni about abortion,

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Speaker 2: because that's going to be her big thing. Yeah, because

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Speaker 2: they're trying to figure out a way to increase her

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Speaker 2: poll numbers because they're pretty poor and not.

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Speaker 1: Enough has been said about abortion. More needs to be said.

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Speaker 2: Well, I guess that Supreme Court decision kind of brought.

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Speaker 1: It back big time. Well, yeah, but it's said out

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Speaker 1: of the new settlement issue though, Well, you said that

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Speaker 1: with the last decision Roe v. Wade, you thought that

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Speaker 1: settled issue. Have you said that on the air? It

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Speaker 1: did for fifty years, Okay, nothing forever. That isn't settled.

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Speaker 1: That's like life without parole. They're still getting released now.

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Speaker 1: It's settled until the next Supreme Court mix maybe fifty

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Speaker 1: years from now.

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Speaker 2: What we have to have is a couple of Supreme

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Speaker 2: Court justices bend over and die that Biden replaces them.

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Speaker 2: Then we could have a whole completely different decision in

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Speaker 2: a year, and you know what's going to change the

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Speaker 2: course of that. Whatever Kamala Harris says about it, Well,

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Speaker 2: that brings us to another This one's really good word salad.

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Speaker 2: We have about thirty seconds her speech about abortion rights.

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Speaker 6: So I think it's very important, as you have heard

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Speaker 6: from so many incredible leaders for us at every moment

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Speaker 6: in time, and certainly this one, to see the moment

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Speaker 6: in time in which we exist and are present, and

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Speaker 6: to be able to contextualize it, to understand where we

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Speaker 6: exist in the history and in the moment as it

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Speaker 6: relates not only to the past but the future.

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Speaker 2: The circular talk she now engages in this fascinating.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't get any better, it doesn't change.

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Speaker 2: It does not. But she's been on this run for

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Speaker 2: the last six months where she's doing this circular thing.

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Speaker 2: We were laughing because she giggles a lot and she's

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Speaker 2: excited number by electric school buses. But this thing she's

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Speaker 2: in now, she talks in bizarre circle and.

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Speaker 1: She's in coherent. So we've got a president and vice

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Speaker 1: president who are incoherent. Neither one of them can speak

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Speaker 1: a short paragraph them. That's why they don't speak a

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Speaker 1: lot well because yet because they can't communicate.

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Speaker 2: Now, he stays in the basement, then he heads the

677
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Speaker 2: Delaware every weekend, and she's pretty much kept under wraps.

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Speaker 1: He's senile. But what's it with her? I'm thinking, I

679
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Speaker 1: really do think it's drugs.

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Speaker 2: You know, when she was attorney general and senator for California,

681
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Speaker 2: there wasn't a lot of coverage of her speaking.

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Speaker 1: So we gotta find some old clips because it's not

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Speaker 1: hard to find clips from Biden just a few years

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Speaker 1: ago where he's really strong and focused and he's talking

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Speaker 1: a blue streak, right, Yeah, yeah, it's always it's really

686
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Speaker 1: clear that his his brain has rotted out. Kamala Harris,

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Speaker 1: I got it. I'm gonna I'm gonna do that tonight.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go look for old speeches of hers to

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Speaker 1: see if she always talked this way. I don't remember that.

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Speaker 1: First time I noticed her speaking was when she became

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Speaker 1: senator and she was grilling the UH Supreme Court candidates,

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Speaker 1: and I thought she was actually kind of scary sharp.

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Speaker 1: I really did, and I briefly thought that, yeah, she

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Speaker 1: might be a formidable candidate. And I even during the

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Speaker 1: debates why she made some bad decisions, like when she

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Speaker 1: decided to go after Joe Biden for being a racist.

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Speaker 1: Right that was like the busting the busting thing, she

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Speaker 1: still was coherent about it. This started after she became

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Speaker 1: vice president. As far as my memory goes, maybe.

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Speaker 2: We've touched on two different things because the examples you cited,

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Speaker 2: she's kind of talking off the top of her head.

702
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Speaker 2: But in this case, she's trying to give a speech.

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Speaker 2: Somebody's writing this for her. I don't think so it's

704
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Speaker 2: hard to believe that someone's writing this for her. I

705
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Speaker 2: think she's taking a theme and trying to expand on it.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I want to read these words because it's

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Speaker 2: almost hard to believe this is what we just played

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Speaker 2: for you. So I think it's very important if you

709
00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:52,479
Speaker 2: have heard from many incredible leaders for us at every

710
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Speaker 2: moment in time, and certainly this one, to see the

711
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Speaker 2: moment in time in which we exist in are present,

712
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Speaker 2: and be able to contextualize it, to understand and where

713
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Speaker 2: we exist in the history and the moment as it

714
00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:05,160
Speaker 2: relates not only to the past but the future. That

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Speaker 2: is unbelievable. I'm not even sure that could come out

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Speaker 2: of somebody had lived. I don't know how you do

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Speaker 2: that except the brain gets stuck on something. It's all

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Speaker 2: about the past, the future of the present, that kind

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Speaker 2: of thing.

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Speaker 1: Unless you're stoned and you're trying to be poetic.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it does sound like somebody, doesn't It sound like

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Speaker 2: like I had an all night or and it's just

723
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Speaker 2: standing in the middle of the room, just kind of

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Speaker 2: hey man.

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Speaker 1: Like college students, right, trying to be heavy and deep

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Speaker 1: and profound. I don't know. I was never that guy,

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Speaker 1: So I wasn't in college. I never got stoned like that.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I'd always been the stereotype that some

729
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Speaker 1: people would get stoned and then try to be metaphysical

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Speaker 1: about the world.

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Speaker 2: I'm trying to look at the faces behind her while

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Speaker 2: she speaks here to see if they're confused. But they're

733
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Speaker 2: holding signs. It's reproductive freedom signs. Yeah, and they're just

734
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Speaker 2: kind of politely smiling, just like Biden and his sinility.

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Speaker 2: Everybody stands there and pretends nothing's wrong. They no, Both

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Speaker 2: of their people usually tune out speeches. They're also boring.

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Speaker 2: It's like listening to your college professor lecture. Half of

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Speaker 2: them are sleep they're missing good laughs. All right, when

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Speaker 2: we return. This is important, particularly if you're a small

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Speaker 2: business owner. Something has to be done because California is

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Speaker 2: in a heavy, heavy debt to the federal government over

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Speaker 2: unemployment money. You can probably guess where a lot of

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Speaker 2: that came from, all the fraud that took over the

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Speaker 2: California employment system back in twenty twenty into twenty one,

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Speaker 2: even into twenty two, thirty billion dollars plus stolen. We'll

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