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Speaker 1: that vaccination against COVID nineteen does not prevent transmission. The

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Speaker 1: decision is not a commentary and the efficacy of vaccination. So,

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Speaker 1: I mean, the thinking was, well, some of these guys are,

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Speaker 1: as you said, just control freaks, that we don't want

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Speaker 1: these employees at work without the vaccine because they'll spread COVID. Well,

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Speaker 1: we all spread COVID vaccinated or not, we do well.

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Speaker 1: They in the past a lot of vaccines stopped the

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Speaker 1: spread of a particular disease, and they assumed that this

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Speaker 1: was going to work the same way. I thought it

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Speaker 1: was going to work the same way you did, you

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Speaker 1: were like, oh, it's gonna block well blocked me from

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Speaker 1: getting because well otherwise, why then the only reason to

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Speaker 1: take it is protect yourself against severe symptoms, right, But

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Speaker 1: the whole idea is like, you must take it because

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Speaker 1: otherwise you're putting other lives at risk. Well, well you're not,

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Speaker 1: because it does eerie. If you are vaccinated and you

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Speaker 1: get COVID, the virus is not going to produce as

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Speaker 1: well inside your body because the vaccine will counter at

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Speaker 1: to some extent. You'll still have symptoms, you don't get

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Speaker 1: as sick, right, So in theory, you won't be as

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Speaker 1: infectious to others. But we found out that there's just

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Speaker 1: so many people and so many of our vaccinated or

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Speaker 1: not vaccinated into such degrees of contamination that there was

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Speaker 1: no hard and fast rule here. Yeah, people were infectious,

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Speaker 1: and it turned out the vaccine that didn't entirely stop

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Speaker 1: you from getting infected, and then you had all these

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Speaker 1: different variants come and I know plenty of people that

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Speaker 1: that got vacxed and boosted and still ended up getting

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Speaker 1: pretty sick for about a week or ten days with

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Speaker 1: one form of COVID or another. So the truth was

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Speaker 1: is the science that we were lectured on. Yea, you

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Speaker 1: must follow this science or you're a science denier. It

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Speaker 1: turned out to be wrong in a lot of cases.

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Speaker 1: They were just wrong. Maybe not their fault. Maybe this

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Speaker 1: thing like oh threw us some curves, the things we're

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Speaker 1: learning as we go. Yeah, So it was beyond their capabilities.

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Speaker 1: It was stuff they didn't know. They made proclamations, and

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Speaker 1: what we had was a moral frenzy. We had a

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Speaker 1: moral panic, and that's what was driving the decisions and

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Speaker 1: the behavior and leading these government Nothing worse than government

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Speaker 1: control freaks in the midst of a moral panic, because

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Speaker 1: they're always going to say, well, if we could just

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Speaker 1: say one life, we don't care how much freedom we

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Speaker 1: take from people. That's our attitude, and it's in the

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Speaker 1: end it was to me it was kind of a

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Speaker 1: libertarian decision by this New York State Supreme Court because

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Speaker 1: they're saying, all right, if you choose not to be vaccinated, well,

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Speaker 1: if you get COVID, you might get very sick, you

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Speaker 1: could even die, but just like everybody else, you're gonna

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Speaker 1: be able to transmit it. If you do take the vaccine.

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Speaker 1: Now you may not die, you may not get very sick,

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Speaker 1: but you could still transmit the virus. So you can't

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Speaker 1: be firing people just because they won't be vaccine, because

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Speaker 1: they're making a decision for themselves and their own body,

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Speaker 1: of their own life. Yeah, and that's kind of what

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Speaker 1: they were saying. That. Look just in the last week,

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Speaker 1: and we predicted this two years ago that people are

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Speaker 1: going to look back on the ear We said this

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Speaker 1: in real time. People are going to look back on

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Speaker 1: this era and they're gonna say, what the hell was

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Speaker 1: going on? Little nutty Yet and this week everyone's looking

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Speaker 1: back at all the reading and math scores and they're

486
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Speaker 1: so so bad across the country. And now everyone's going, oh, well,

487
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Speaker 1: maybe we shouldn't have shut down the schools. And now

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Speaker 1: this judge is saying, yeah, maybe you shouldn't have fired

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Speaker 1: all those people. And there was a lot of stuff

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Speaker 1: done that was wrong. You shouldn't have shut down all

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Speaker 1: those I read that. I read that. Today they were

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Speaker 1: talking about all the reasons for inflation, and much of

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Speaker 1: the inflation has to do with all the business closures

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Speaker 1: around the world, the supply chain closures, and there was

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Speaker 1: this speculation that if you had another worldwide outbreak, nations

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Speaker 1: aren't going to shut down industry the way they did.

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Speaker 1: They're not going to shut down the same James, because

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Speaker 1: it's caused massive inflation around the world, and it's caused

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Speaker 1: a lot of shortages and dislocation and just chaos. Really,

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Speaker 1: he can I'm a chaos all right. We got more

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Speaker 1: coming up, the latest on the city hall trauma and

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Speaker 1: drama with the two council members who will not resign,

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Speaker 1: John and Ken kf I am six forty live everywhere

504
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Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app The latest in the La City

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Speaker 1: council madness coming up after three. I'll be talking with

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Speaker 1: the Daniel Gusts of the Guss Reports. See what he's

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Speaker 1: learning on the inside. They have set a special election

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Speaker 1: date to replace Neri Martinez. Supposedly it's very expensive. They

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Speaker 1: always say that. Also, we'll explain what happens to Kevin

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Speaker 1: Lyone if he doesn't show up for La City Council

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Speaker 1: hearings and he doesn't get a leave of absence. I'm

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Speaker 1: trying to figure out I'm sorry, John, I'm the accountant.

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Speaker 1: I was trying to figure out how this works in

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Speaker 1: terms of being paid or or being able to keep

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Speaker 1: the seat because he's not really there. You see what

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Speaker 1: I'm saying. Well, there is an explanation. We'll give it

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Speaker 1: to you in the three o'clock hour. You're under this

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Speaker 1: old fashioned idea that you have to show up for

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Speaker 1: work if you're getting paid. That's quaint. Well I don't

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Speaker 1: so yeah, right, I'm just talking here. Wait and I'm here,

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Speaker 1: not there, but I'm here. I don't see you anyway,

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Speaker 1: he did. He did another interview. And I'm looking at

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Speaker 1: the ratings for Los Angeles radio and I'm looking at

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Speaker 1: fifty plus stations. I can't find this station on the list.

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Speaker 1: It's getting any ratings. I can't I've never heard of it.

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Speaker 1: Why so, Kevin Leone, I'm saying, went on the radio

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Speaker 1: station that doesn't seem to exist. Well, what's when are

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Speaker 1: the call letters KBLA. It's it's black Los Angeles. It's

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Speaker 1: a black radio. I think it's way up on the

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Speaker 1: end of the AM dial. Okay, it just doesn't appear

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Speaker 1: if you look at the Nielsen ratings for Los Angeles

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Speaker 1: since member, I can't find it, and I got all

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Speaker 1: the way down to a station they got a point one.

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Speaker 1: Well that tells you that, and that's streaming KBLA. Has

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Speaker 1: a zero. Not streaming, but it's if you get a zero,

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Speaker 1: you don't get at radio. If you if you get

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Speaker 1: a zero, you don't get on the list. They don't

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Speaker 1: print the zeros. Oh, so they probably couldn't find anybody

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Speaker 1: listening to that station. No, Well, so he gave an

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Speaker 1: interview to no one. He's welcome on our show, isn't he? No?

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Speaker 1: Oh of course. Oh yeah, I'd love to go through

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Speaker 1: the rich history of his legislative career. Sanctuary bills, yeahs agree,

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Speaker 1: global warming bills. Yeah, there's been a Well, there's a

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Speaker 1: press release today from the people behind the effort to

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Speaker 1: recall La County DA George Gascone. I thought that was over, John,

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Speaker 1: I thought they didn't get enough valid signatures. Well, they're

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Speaker 1: challenging the decision by the La County Register Voters Dean

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Speaker 1: Logan's announcement that they didn't qualify to put it on

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Speaker 1: the ballot, and they have several reasons for that. Their

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Speaker 1: press release today is that they got a judge and

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Speaker 1: we've heard this name before, James Shelfant of the Superior

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Speaker 1: Court of La County. He is granting them an expedited hearing.

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Speaker 1: It's not until December. But he's not saying that their

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Speaker 1: arguments are correct. He's just going to give them an

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Speaker 1: expedited hearing to make their case that the La County

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Speaker 1: Registrar Voter is incorrectly throughout a lot of signatures. I

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Speaker 1: remember where he was lashed in the news. He was

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Speaker 1: the judge who threw out the restrictions on outdoor dining

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Speaker 1: in La County. Oh, that's right, that's where he's from. Right,

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Speaker 1: was that the Mark Arregus case or I don't remember

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Speaker 1: if Garagus was involved in that. He did, That's right,

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Speaker 1: that's what he did. Yeah, which I think was overturned

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Speaker 1: by another judge later on. But that would give you

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Speaker 1: an idea where his reasoning lies. Oh okay, well, it

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Speaker 1: says here that they were inclined to grant a substantial

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Speaker 1: number of the recall Committee's requests outline in its application.

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Speaker 1: See what this is about. They're claiming that the County

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Speaker 1: Registrar Voters is stonewalling them, preventing them from looking at

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Speaker 1: more signatures that were thrown out. They got a sample

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Speaker 1: back in September. They said they found a lot of

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Speaker 1: errors made by the Registrar of Voters, things like they

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00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:38,400
Speaker 1: apparently were throwing out signatures of people who actually were

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Speaker 1: clearly registered to vote, but declaring them unregistered to vote.

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Speaker 1: They said that signature is incorrectly validated as printed, even

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Speaker 1: when the voters signature on file was printed. So I

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Speaker 1: don't know what else you're gonna do there. If someone

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Speaker 1: decides their official signature is printed, then that's what it is.

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Speaker 1: And when that's on the petition for the recall, you

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Speaker 1: got to accept it. If that's true. They they can't

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Speaker 1: do that, So, well, what did we talk about before

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Speaker 1: you do it? And it's going to take a long

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Speaker 1: time to unravel it. Yeah, yeah, they're designed to unravels.

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Speaker 1: He may be up for election again anyway. Right, there's

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Speaker 1: twenty four. Their mission at the Registrar's office was to

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Speaker 1: block the Gascone recall, and of course they'd have to

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Speaker 1: do it illegally because clearly there was more than enough

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Speaker 1: people in this county who wanted Gascone recalls. Right, there's

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Speaker 1: no question there was. So what do you do? You

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00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:31,240
Speaker 1: have to do illegal stuff, and you do it, and

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Speaker 1: it's very difficult to unravel because all the existing laws

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Speaker 1: favors the registrar's office. It doesn't favor the recall group

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Speaker 1: because the recall group can't can't get their hands on

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Speaker 1: all the files, and then they can't inspect each signature

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Speaker 1: in a in a quick, a quick manner because of

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Speaker 1: all the restrictions. So they're trying to get a bigger

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Speaker 1: collection of signatures, I guess, mostly the rejected ones to

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Speaker 1: see if they agree or disagree with what the LA

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Speaker 1: County Registrar's office decided on them. And that's what they're

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Speaker 1: asking the judge to do in this hearing that they

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Speaker 1: yet moved up to December, still a month and a

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Speaker 1: half away, but and the point got something, and the

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00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:17,640
Speaker 1: pool of registered voters is wildly inflated because they have

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Speaker 1: a lot of dead people still listed and people have

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Speaker 1: moved away. Yeah, that's another argument that they didn't have

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Speaker 1: to collect as many valid signatures as were required because

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Speaker 1: the voter rolls are inflated by at least two hundred

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Speaker 1: and eight thousand, they believe possibly as much as five

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Speaker 1: hundred thousand. Yeah, there's hundreds of thousands of dead people

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Speaker 1: still registered to vote. Yeah, and it's tough to get

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Speaker 1: dead people to sign a petition. Yeah. One of the

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Speaker 1: ones that bothered me too in their arguments, if true,

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Speaker 1: is that they were invalidating what they considered to be

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Speaker 1: duplicate signatures without counting at least one of them. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so that they saw that you signed twice, they just

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Speaker 1: threw the whole thing out and you signed zero times.

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Speaker 1: That's also wrong. People could easily make the mistake of

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Speaker 1: signing the petition again because they forgot they signed it

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Speaker 1: six months earlier. A bunch of bureaucrat Democrats are not

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Speaker 1: going to recall a Democrat district attorney. They're all progressives.

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Speaker 1: What's the point of being in the tribe, being in

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Speaker 1: the cult if you're gonna cut the throat of your

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Speaker 1: fellow tribes member. They're not going to do that, right,

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Speaker 1: But you get caught doing that, and there are consequences

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Speaker 1: of not to them. Well, I mean maybe maybe they

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Speaker 1: could result in consequences, you know, in six months maybe

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Speaker 1: or who knows how long it'll take with the appeals.

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Speaker 1: Months down the road, maybe the recall committee wins the

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Speaker 1: appeal right and maybe they'll be an election, or maybe

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Speaker 1: it'll just roll over to the reelection in two years.

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Speaker 1: But nothing's going to happen to Dean Logan, who's the registrar.

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Speaker 1: He'll just continue on. He already survived. Uh really, but

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Speaker 1: what if there's fraud and then employees who were doing

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Speaker 1: the signature verification come forward and said we were told

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Speaker 1: by our higher ups to cheat, to lie and steal this. No, well,

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Speaker 1: only he could be ousted only if there's a criminal investigation.

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Speaker 1: And who would do the criminal investigation? It would be Guesscone. No,

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Speaker 1: he'd have to recuse himself because it's about him. No,

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Speaker 1: then it would go to Rob Bond, that would be

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Speaker 1: the attorney general. Oh well, then that would kill it,

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Speaker 1: just like he took the Sheila. He'll investigation exactly. They

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Speaker 1: for a while. Yeah, that's right. I think what you

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Speaker 1: said is true. Though, even if they get this judge

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Speaker 1: to grant something, they'll they'll appeal it. And this could

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Speaker 1: take a year or two to go through all the courts,

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Speaker 1: you know. I mean, it's worth it just to prove

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Speaker 1: that Dean Logan and that that department is hopelessly corrupt.

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Speaker 1: That that would be the big win there all right,

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