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Speaker 1: good to have you on. Thank you for taking the time.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate you guys. So explain to people because people vote

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Speaker 1: so you have this ability to audit, to provide information,

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Speaker 1: Would you have any purview over the high speed rail FIASCA? Oh? Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: So high speed rail is an area of state spending

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Speaker 1: ordered treatment for those who were too mentally whacked out.

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Speaker 1: Seventy five percent of San Francisco City voters. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: they would be ninety five percent here. Well, yeah, it

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Speaker 1: probably is because this is common sense. I don't think

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Speaker 1: this is a hard sell to say you want more

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Speaker 1: police when crime is raging out of control. I don't,

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Speaker 1: I don't, I don't think. I don't think it's it's

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Speaker 1: a hard sell for people saying, hey, no open air

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Speaker 1: drug dealing and drug taking. Who. I don't know anybody

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Speaker 1: whoever would want anything like this. Everybody I know who

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Speaker 1: is liberal in their politics, they enjoyed living in nice, clean,

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Speaker 1: safe areas. I don't know anybody who wants to live

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Speaker 1: in a tenderloin district or a skid row district or

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Speaker 1: next to the encampments. Most people don't. So this is

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Speaker 1: what was really head scratching about it all is somehow

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Speaker 1: these whack job progressives got into office and created this,

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Speaker 1: this dystopia, this hell, all that none of us want.

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Speaker 1: All Right, when we come back speaking to the police,

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Speaker 1: what do you know, Lela City Council, with the exception

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Speaker 1: of one council member, voted on a large new budget

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Speaker 1: which actually increases money to the police department. Right Johnny

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Speaker 1: Ken Show and Debor Mark lad twenty four our Cafe newsroom.

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Speaker 1: The man accused of rushing comedian Dave Chappelle if the

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Speaker 1: Hollywood Bowl has pleaded not guilty to a charge of

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Speaker 1: attempted murder for a stabbing in December, isaially this particular program,

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Speaker 1: this particular nonprofit that's getting money, what are they actually

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Speaker 1: doing with it? So to me, the challenge with the

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Speaker 1: homelessness crisis right now is the lack of transparency into

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Speaker 1: the flow of funds, where it's going in real time,

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Speaker 1: figuring out what's happening. And then yeah, I think there's

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Speaker 1: a backward looking component as well. Something that. I know

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Speaker 1: a lot of people call programmatic auditing, which basically means

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Speaker 1: instead of just going back and seeing where the money went,

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Speaker 1: you're actually looking back and going and saying, hey, how

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Speaker 1: effective was that spending? Like, wouldn't it be great, guys

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Speaker 1: if we could have a letter grade that just said,

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Speaker 1: here's a program, here's how much we've spent on it,

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Speaker 1: here's what you promised the program would do. How's it

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Speaker 1: actually performed against that benchmark, and then just give it

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Speaker 1: letter grade ABCD so people can figure out, hey, what's

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Speaker 1: actually happening. Well, just you know, using my own eyes,

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Speaker 1: I could see a lot of these homeless programs are

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Speaker 1: not working because we end up with more and more

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Speaker 1: people on the streets. But maybe some of the programs

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Speaker 1: are working, but who knows which ones. I mean, somebody's

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Speaker 1: got to come up with a better way. But maybe

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Speaker 1: it's one out of ten or one out of four.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, there's no information to judge. Right, Well,

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Speaker 1: that's a big problem, and so yeah, I talk to

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Speaker 1: people about it who say, well, I want to solve

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Speaker 1: the homelessness problem. It's like, yeah, I get that, that's

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Speaker 1: really important, and so how about we spend money on

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Speaker 1: programs that actually work. I know it's a novel concept

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Speaker 1: in California, but how about we spend money on stuff

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Speaker 1: that actually works? And so you guys mentioned the La

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Speaker 1: Times endorsement. You know the reason the La Times endorse

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Speaker 1: me is they said, first of all, we need someone

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Speaker 1: who's going to tell us what's working and what's not

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Speaker 1: so we can actually fund priorities in a reasonable and

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Speaker 1: thoughtful way. But second of all, the only way you're

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Speaker 1: going to do that is with a controller who is

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Speaker 1: from a party that is different and the party in

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Speaker 1: charge they actually embrace that notion because that's the only

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Speaker 1: way you're going to have true independence and somebody actually

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Speaker 1: asking the questions, could you also have an effect on

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Speaker 1: all the money that's spent on public school districts that

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Speaker 1: are horrendous? Yeah, so k through twelve districts. Any money

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Speaker 1: they spend that comes from the Feds or that comes

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Speaker 1: from the state, you can audit as controller. But here's

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Speaker 1: an interesting thing about something school districts are not doing. Now.

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Speaker 1: You know, seventy six percent of school districts are not

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Speaker 1: telling the Controller's office they're supposed to at this point

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Speaker 1: in time. They're supposed to tell the controller's office how

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Speaker 1: much they spend on pay and benefits for administrative staff.

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Speaker 1: Seventy six percent of districts are not telling the controller

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Speaker 1: what they're spending, and that's a very basic place to start.

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Speaker 1: It's like, hey, how about you tell us how much

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Speaker 1: in pay and benefits you're dolling out to administrative officials.

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Speaker 1: And then beyond that, we all know during the pandemic,

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Speaker 1: tens of billions of dollars have come in from the

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Speaker 1: Feds to help public education in California. Where's that money

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Speaker 1: actually gone? They kept saying, We're going to use it

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Speaker 1: to improve facilities and pay teachers more and get new equipment.

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Speaker 1: Has that actually happened? We got to figure that out,

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Speaker 1: and so the controller can absolutely be in the middle

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Speaker 1: of determining the flow of funds to figure out where

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Speaker 1: that money's actually gone, what are we spending it on.

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Speaker 1: I mean, these are questions people to their answers to

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Speaker 1: Where can people go to find out more about your campaign?

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Speaker 1: Go to chen for California che n f O R

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Speaker 1: California dot com and check it out. We've got lots

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Speaker 1: of ideas on there, lots of plans and a little

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Speaker 1: bit more about me and what we're trying to do.

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Speaker 1: All right, Land, He thanks for coming on, Thanks thanks

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Speaker 1: for having me. Guys appreciate it. A candidate for a

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Speaker 1: state controller on your budget, on your ballot or Republican.

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Speaker 1: We got more coming out, John and Ken Schell, and

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Speaker 1: we'll take a look at how things change big time

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Speaker 1: in just two years. People were taking a knee, screaming

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Speaker 1: defund the police after the death of George Floyd in

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Speaker 1: May of that year, taking a knee, take it a knee.

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Speaker 1: Now they just passed to budget with an increase in

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Speaker 1: money for the Los Angeles Police Department. Garcetti pushing it

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Speaker 1: big time nonsense. I will tell you more about that

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Speaker 1: after thirty. We told you yesterday that the effort to

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Speaker 1: recall Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascone has passed

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Speaker 1: the four hundred and fifty thousand dollars signature level. They

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Speaker 1: need to get to about five hundred and seventy thousand,

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Speaker 1: but they'll need a margin of vera. I was reading

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Speaker 1: an opinion column today by a guy that specializes john

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Speaker 1: and analyzing recalls, and he says the normal bad signature

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Speaker 1: rate is somewhere in the twenty to thirty percent range.

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Speaker 1: That's what most of them come out to be, including

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Speaker 1: the recall against Gray Davis, the recall against Newsom. So

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Speaker 1: you can see what kind of margin they're going to need.

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Speaker 1: If we can expect somewhere between twenty twenty five percent. Yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: the signatures collected will not be considered valid. Well funded

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Speaker 1: campaigns will get an auditing firm to pre that the signatures,

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Speaker 1: and you might have a better might have been. I

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Speaker 1: think that's what they did with the Newsom recall. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think they did. I don't think they did as

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Speaker 1: much with the Bonnen recall as you know that. No,

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Speaker 1: well that was a shoestring budget. Yeah, yeah, but I

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Speaker 1: think this is really well funded. And if they got

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Speaker 1: six million dollars, it just seems like a lot of

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Speaker 1: money to recall gascon. Good news from a pole out

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Speaker 1: of San Francisco. The San Francisco Chamber of Commerce has

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Speaker 1: released a poll that found sixty seven percent of Zity

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Speaker 1: city voters will vote to recall the San Francisco DA

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Speaker 1: Chase CHESSI botin sixty seven. I would be earth shattering

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Speaker 1: if that happens, because you don't expect I mean, they

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Speaker 1: recalled a couple of school board members twelve months ago.

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Speaker 1: But this would be a harbinger of what can happen here.

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Speaker 1: And that's why we're watching this. Yeah, and you know't

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Speaker 1: the same type of person. You know why because because

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Speaker 1: what Chessa Botin and Gasconner doing is not what most

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Speaker 1: people want, including the normal people, including Democrats, liberal Democrats.

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Speaker 1: Most people don't want to live this way. I've been

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Speaker 1: maintaining this since the beginning of these controversies, that these

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Speaker 1: guys snuck in and talked in bland platitudes and nobody

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Speaker 1: had any idea what they really meant to do. I mean,

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Speaker 1: the things they've done are so extreme. They didn't campaign

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Speaker 1: broadly on this stuff. They came in because of the

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Speaker 1: George Floyd death and this whole idea of to fund

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Speaker 1: the police. They're like, well, now is my moment to

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Speaker 1: stop incarcerating people, to change the whole criminal justice system.

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Speaker 1: And idiot voters did not read this, right, Dan. I

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Speaker 1: think that to some extent, those voters who thought that

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Speaker 1: these left wing progressive philosophies were a good idea saw

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Speaker 1: them in practice over the last few years and realized,

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Speaker 1: oh I was wrong. No, I don't want this. This

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Speaker 1: is not what I met. This is not what I

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Speaker 1: thought was going to happen. Because we're a look at

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Speaker 1: in this story that in this poll, seventy five percent

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Speaker 1: of city voters, at least seventy five percent of city

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Speaker 1: voters want to enforce existing laws that prohibit open air

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Speaker 1: drug dealing, which means they don't want the Tenderloin district.

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Speaker 1: They want more cops on the streets and the high

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Speaker 1: crime areas. They want more police officers on the street

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Speaker 1: and busy areas. They want to expand conservatorship aha court

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Speaker 1: ordered treatment for those who are too mentally whacked out.

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Speaker 1: Seventy five percent of San Francisco City voters, Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: they want would be nine percent here. Well, yeah, it

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Speaker 1: probably is because this is common sense. I don't think

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Speaker 1: this is a hard sell to say you want more

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Speaker 1: police when crime is raging out of control. I don't.

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Speaker 1: I don't, I don't think. I don't think it's it's

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Speaker 1: a hard sell for people saying, hey, no open air

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Speaker 1: drug dealing and drug taking. Who I don't know anybody

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Speaker 1: whoever would want anything like this. Everybody I know who

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Speaker 1: is liberal in their politics, they enjoyed living in nice clean,

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Speaker 1: safe areas. I don't know anybody who wants to live

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Speaker 1: in a tenderloin district or a skid row district or

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Speaker 1: next to the encampments. Most people don't. So this is

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Speaker 1: what was really head scratching about it all is somehow

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Speaker 1: these whack job progressives got into office and created this,

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Speaker 1: this dystopia, this hell, all that none of us want.

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Speaker 1: All Right, when we come back, speaking of the police,

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Speaker 1: what do you know, Lela City Council, with the exception

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Speaker 1: of one council member, voted on a large new budget

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Speaker 1: which actually increases money to the police department. Right, John

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Speaker 1: and Ken show. There's a documentary that's gonna be on

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Speaker 1: Fox eleven next Wednesday titled Los Angeles City of Homeless

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Speaker 1: and I'm in it. It's an hour and a half

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Speaker 1: from six to seven thirty. You're homeless behind there on

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Speaker 1: the bunter. They caught me laying face down one night Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: May twenty five, from six to seven thirty. I guess

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Speaker 1: my little clips are sprinkled throughout. It's also going to

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Speaker 1: stream on YouTube to be Foxoul Foxla dot Com, but

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Speaker 1: it'll be on the main Fox eleven channel Wednesday, twenty fifth,

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Speaker 1: six to seven thirty. If you go to the John

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Speaker 1: and Kenn Instagram page, and I think also on Facebook,

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Speaker 1: there's a ninety second trailer clip you could watch to

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Speaker 1: get the ideas going to be a very powerful documentary

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Speaker 1: from what I've seen. Date of California budgets about three

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Speaker 1: hundred billion dollars. The City of Los Angeles budget which

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Speaker 1: just got approved, his nearly twelve billion. Here's the thing,

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Speaker 1: they put eighty seven million dollars of more money for LAPD.

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Speaker 1: Who to have known who to thunk when two years

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Speaker 1: ago all we were here and is to fund the police.

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Speaker 1: The police are killers, didn't go SETI say that, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he called them killers. We had the George Floyd incident,

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Speaker 1: the murder by the way though a second year of

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Speaker 1: historic spending them over a billion dollars on homelessness. But

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Speaker 1: you notice just down the toilet, how it's presented. It's historic,

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Speaker 1: which means, because that's the trick, we should approve. See,

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Speaker 1: we're spending money, therefore we're fixing the problem. No, we

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Speaker 1: should be happy. Well, there isn't anything that explains where

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Speaker 1: the last billion went, the last history making a spending debacle,

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Speaker 1: What was the outcome? What got better. It didn't. Well,

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Speaker 1: back to the police. It's an eight and a half

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Speaker 1: percent increase to the LAPD operating budget because these dopey

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Speaker 1: politicians are aware that crime is on the minds of people.

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Speaker 1: It's horrific out there, and we got probably seventeen gangs

642
00:34:54,360 --> 00:34:57,560
Speaker 1: engaging in these street robberies. We've got a DA who

643
00:34:57,600 --> 00:35:01,160
Speaker 1: doesn't care it, doesn't like bail, doesn't like to charge

644
00:35:01,160 --> 00:35:05,359
Speaker 1: people with enhancements. This is what we're stuck with. So

645
00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:09,440
Speaker 1: this budget passed with the exception of one council member

646
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Speaker 1: who voted no. Well, let's look around and guess. Oh,

647
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Speaker 1: Mike Bonnen, Yeah, that's where the stink is coming from.

648
00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:19,680
Speaker 1: And his main objection was to LAPD getting more money.

649
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Speaker 1: Didn't like that. He is He is weird and sick,

650
00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:29,399
Speaker 1: isn't he the least he's going away. Minority men are

651
00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:34,960
Speaker 1: getting killed by the dozens and dozens, and Bonnen does

652
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:39,319
Speaker 1: not want to fund the only, the only agency that

653
00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:43,479
Speaker 1: could slow this down. Why is that? Does he want

654
00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:46,680
Speaker 1: them dead? Does he want the shootings and the killings

655
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Speaker 1: to continue? If you don't use the police, who are

656
00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:53,840
Speaker 1: you going to use? He wants therapeutic fans did you

657
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Speaker 1: read this quote. How do we grow so that our

658
00:35:57,200 --> 00:36:00,560
Speaker 1: summer youth programs jobs program is fifty and instead of

659
00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:03,080
Speaker 1: a thousand kids? How do we do our gang reduction

660
00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:05,560
Speaker 1: and youth development program? Get it everywhere in the city,

661
00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:08,160
Speaker 1: or have the therapeutic vans everywhere instead of in five

662
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Speaker 1: or six? But I guess vans drive around with therapists.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I have not seen what that is.

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Speaker 1: But he's referring to therapeutic vans. Now again, nobody sits

665
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Speaker 1: down and says, explain to me how this works. Where

666
00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:26,640
Speaker 1: has it worked? What city has? Van drives out? The

667
00:36:26,640 --> 00:36:28,960
Speaker 1: therapists jump out, They talk to you, They fix it.

668
00:36:29,040 --> 00:36:31,600
Speaker 1: You don't commit crime when you have simple John. You're

669
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Speaker 1: not getting here. What do you have a bunch of

670
00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:36,200
Speaker 1: young guys with a lot of testosterone and weapons on them,

671
00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:40,640
Speaker 1: and they're fighting over turf or drugs or you know

672
00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:45,520
Speaker 1: whatever stuff they've stolen or try and of fence. They

673
00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:48,200
Speaker 1: start shooting at each other. What's the therapist in a

674
00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:50,800
Speaker 1: van going to do? Just explain to me how it works.

675
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Speaker 1: All right? Therapist shows up, jumps out of the vans.

676
00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:57,960
Speaker 1: They jump out of the van. Bullets are flying over.

677
00:36:58,000 --> 00:36:59,879
Speaker 1: They start talking to the gang member. Let's go back

678
00:36:59,840 --> 00:37:01,439
Speaker 1: to your child. The next thing you know, their watch

679
00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:04,239
Speaker 1: is stolen. They're concked over the head. I think that's

680
00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:08,880
Speaker 1: what would happen, Like everyone else, sitt your phone, give

681
00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:12,480
Speaker 1: me a watch, get out of cartoon. Oh oh you're

682
00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:14,920
Speaker 1: a city therapist. What a crappy watch? Would you get

683
00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:22,759
Speaker 1: that Walmart? Uh? Meanwhile, uh, look at Garcetti actually wants

684
00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:27,319
Speaker 1: to get LAPD staffing. Uh. He wants to get it

685
00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:29,880
Speaker 1: up to nine thousand and seven and thirty five. I

686
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:32,040
Speaker 1: remember the magic number. I don't know why there's always

687
00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:33,960
Speaker 1: been ten thousand. Have you heard that as ten thousand

688
00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:37,279
Speaker 1: police officers? Because it's a big round number. I guess

689
00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:39,840
Speaker 1: it's just remember Eve when Tony Vlaar was may or,

690
00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:42,320
Speaker 1: they would always talk about that Carusal wants eleven thousand.

691
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Speaker 1: I don't know what this. I don't know what the

692
00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:50,560
Speaker 1: optimum number is per person in LA We are are

693
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Speaker 1: per square mile in La too. We actually are on

694
00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:56,719
Speaker 1: the low side among big cities. We don't want a

695
00:37:56,719 --> 00:38:00,960
Speaker 1: lot of police officers, right. We also have a square Also,

696
00:38:01,160 --> 00:38:06,200
Speaker 1: it's lopsided because much of the crime is in a

697
00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:11,799
Speaker 1: smaller geographical area. Up until recent years and now it's

698
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:14,239
Speaker 1: spreading all over the place. But it used to be

699
00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:17,239
Speaker 1: we didn't need much of a police presence in a

700
00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:20,600
Speaker 1: good chunk of the city, and now we do, so

701
00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:25,040
Speaker 1: you know, I think we should dramatically increase the police presence.

702
00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:28,640
Speaker 1: And another thing is is the demonizing has to end

703
00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:32,840
Speaker 1: and the restrictions on them have to end because they're

704
00:38:32,880 --> 00:38:38,279
Speaker 1: having trouble finding candidates to apply. Because who wants to

705
00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:41,920
Speaker 1: be hung out to dry by Mike Bonden when you

706
00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:45,360
Speaker 1: try to execute a dangerous arrest and you have to

707
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:52,440
Speaker 1: shoot and then you're turned into some monster. Yeah, I mean,

708
00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:54,200
Speaker 1: if that's the way you're going to be treated, then

709
00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:56,640
Speaker 1: who wants that job? And a lot of a lot

710
00:38:56,680 --> 00:39:00,880
Speaker 1: of people don't anymore? All right? When we come back

711
00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:06,080
Speaker 1: speaking to the other side of this, new tax documents

712
00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:09,840
Speaker 1: have come out about the Black Lives Matter Global Foundation

713
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:14,960
Speaker 1: and they're fundraising ninety million dollars. The co founder, Patrese

714
00:39:15,080 --> 00:39:18,280
Speaker 1: Colors went on MSNBC and admitted that was white guilt

715
00:39:18,320 --> 00:39:23,040
Speaker 1: money George Floyd's death. They ain't got a windfall or

716
00:39:23,120 --> 00:39:25,399
Speaker 1: we'll play some of her comments. Because people are still

717
00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:28,360
Speaker 1: scrutinizing the real estate deals that were done with some

718
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:30,640
Speaker 1: of that money John and Ken show Cafe. I had

719
00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:32,759
Speaker 1: to figure this would happen. Who's been in the news

720
00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:35,680
Speaker 1: allot the last couple of weeks saying things about Biden,

721
00:39:36,080 --> 00:39:39,000
Speaker 1: saying now now he's probably going to vote Republican, saying

722
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:42,520
Speaker 1: how messed up to things? It's Elon Musk. Yeah, he's

723
00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:46,040
Speaker 1: in the headlines tonight. It's alleged he paid a space

724
00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:49,960
Speaker 1: X flight attendant two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to

725
00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:55,240
Speaker 1: settle a claim that he propositioned her for sex, exposed himself,

726
00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:58,320
Speaker 1: and oddly offered to buy her a horse in exchange

727
00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:03,040
Speaker 1: for a massage. Allegedly, she was paid off to leave

728
00:40:03,080 --> 00:40:05,879
Speaker 1: the company and never tell the story. This is a

729
00:40:05,920 --> 00:40:11,919
Speaker 1: friend who's submitting the papers, friend of the flight attendant. Yes,

730
00:40:12,880 --> 00:40:16,160
Speaker 1: because I guess the flight attendant got confidentiality. This is

731
00:40:16,160 --> 00:40:19,200
Speaker 1: a twenty sixteen allegation offered to buy her a horse.

732
00:40:20,200 --> 00:40:26,279
Speaker 1: That's an odd detail. Maybe he's horse he wanted a

733
00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:32,399
Speaker 1: little more at a massage. Yeah, and he said I'll

734
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Speaker 1: give you a horse if you give me a little Yes,

735
00:40:35,680 --> 00:40:38,400
Speaker 1: a little tug. She says. She reported the incident and

736
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Speaker 1: then they paid her two hundred and fifty grand as

737
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Speaker 1: part of a severance agreement. All right, here's your response.

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Speaker 1: Is you think that if I did this that in

739
00:40:45,040 --> 00:40:47,000
Speaker 1: the last thirty years, stuff like this would come out.

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00:40:47,040 --> 00:40:49,320
Speaker 1: That was kind of part of his response. She worked

741
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Speaker 1: as a member of the cabin crew for SpaceX's corporate

742
00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:58,080
Speaker 1: jet fleet. She accused Musk of exposing his erect member

743
00:40:58,120 --> 00:41:01,640
Speaker 1: to her, rubbing her leg with without consent, and offered

744
00:41:01,640 --> 00:41:04,080
Speaker 1: to buy our horse in exchange for an erotic massage.

745
00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:08,560
Speaker 1: The flight attendant allegedly did admit she does ride horses,

746
00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:11,480
Speaker 1: so that was part of the conversation. Makes the horse

747
00:41:11,520 --> 00:41:13,600
Speaker 1: thing a little more and she doesn't ride musks, though,

748
00:41:15,360 --> 00:41:19,000
Speaker 1: you wonder he was yea, well, you know, yeah he

749
00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:22,120
Speaker 1: whipped it out. It wasn't ever apparently at a moment,

750
00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:26,920
Speaker 1: it's just like I can't get over the horse. Oh.

751
00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:31,160
Speaker 1: It says um um that that Musk asked her to

752
00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:33,080
Speaker 1: come to his room during the flight. I guess he

753
00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:36,080
Speaker 1: has a private room on this corporate jet and wanted

754
00:41:36,080 --> 00:41:39,280
Speaker 1: a full Budnye body massage, and she found him completely

755
00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:42,000
Speaker 1: naked except for a sheet covering the lower half of

756
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:44,520
Speaker 1: his body. I see, he probably had a little tent

757
00:41:44,560 --> 00:41:46,839
Speaker 1: pole going there. He says, it's a hit job. They're

758
00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:51,600
Speaker 1: coming after me. Did it not happen or I don't know,

759
00:41:53,280 --> 00:41:57,399
Speaker 1: I wasn't there. Oh, these powerful men we turned out

760
00:41:57,440 --> 00:42:01,120
Speaker 1: to black lives out of the co founder Patrisells went

761
00:42:01,160 --> 00:42:05,560
Speaker 1: on MSNBC we can play with a small clip. Um,

762
00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:11,640
Speaker 1: she was talking about, well, the tax details just came

763
00:42:11,680 --> 00:42:15,240
Speaker 1: out about the Global Network Foundation. She was the former

764
00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:18,040
Speaker 1: executive director. She resigned after it came to light that

765
00:42:18,040 --> 00:42:19,839
Speaker 1: they were buying a whole bunch of houses and then

766
00:42:19,880 --> 00:42:21,920
Speaker 1: the other day it came to light that they were

767
00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:23,960
Speaker 1: handing out a lot of money to friends and relatives.

768
00:42:24,520 --> 00:42:28,719
Speaker 1: Here's what she said in the interview on MSNBC's with

769
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Speaker 1: the Tremaine Lee. Yes, it was a major shock. It

770
00:42:33,120 --> 00:42:36,319
Speaker 1: was also a lot of like, oh wait, I did

771
00:42:36,360 --> 00:42:41,359
Speaker 1: not see that coming. Um. You know, contrary to what

772
00:42:41,560 --> 00:42:44,440
Speaker 1: you know has been reported, much of the funding that

773
00:42:44,480 --> 00:42:47,440
Speaker 1: who came in was for individual donors. That was a

774
00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:50,120
Speaker 1: lot of white guilt money with a lot of white

775
00:42:50,120 --> 00:42:54,040
Speaker 1: folks being like, we just got to put them give

776
00:42:54,120 --> 00:43:00,399
Speaker 1: us a lot of good. Yeah. And BLM was still

777
00:43:00,400 --> 00:43:04,080
Speaker 1: figuring out what is its infrastructure? You know, So I

778
00:43:04,120 --> 00:43:06,799
Speaker 1: was really called back in to help do whatever work.

779
00:43:06,920 --> 00:43:08,919
Speaker 1: And I did a lot of that labor. And you thought,

780
00:43:09,160 --> 00:43:12,839
Speaker 1: why don't we buy some mansion left, But hey, my

781
00:43:12,880 --> 00:43:16,600
Speaker 1: boyfriend has this business being built to figure out where

782
00:43:16,680 --> 00:43:19,640
Speaker 1: we go with this. And folks who are listening should

783
00:43:19,640 --> 00:43:23,520
Speaker 1: know this. There are groups that built infrastructure for three

784
00:43:23,560 --> 00:43:28,480
Speaker 1: to five years before they become public. Say, we had

785
00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:34,120
Speaker 1: the growing. The money came in so quickly. Second, stop, stop, stops.

786
00:43:34,120 --> 00:43:36,080
Speaker 1: She's a calm woman. She uses my favorite word in

787
00:43:36,120 --> 00:43:40,080
Speaker 1: this interview. Weaponized. It's been weaponized against all. Right. Eight

788
00:43:40,160 --> 00:43:42,840
Speaker 1: hundred and forty thousand dollars went to a security company

789
00:43:42,840 --> 00:43:47,239
Speaker 1: owned by her brother. Right, that's part of the infrastructure

790
00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:49,319
Speaker 1: they were working on that. I'm sure it was the

791
00:43:49,360 --> 00:43:51,440
Speaker 1: best man for the job whenever. That was the father

792
00:43:51,520 --> 00:43:56,319
Speaker 1: of one of her children. Was paid five His name

793
00:43:56,360 --> 00:44:00,360
Speaker 1: is Damon Turner. Was paid five times the amount that

794
00:44:00,520 --> 00:44:06,560
Speaker 1: BLM paid the Trayvon Martin Foundation. No, he was paid

795
00:44:06,680 --> 00:44:11,440
Speaker 1: nine hundred and sixty nine thousand dollars for production design

796
00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:14,000
Speaker 1: and media services. What would be those production services? What

797
00:44:14,080 --> 00:44:17,000
Speaker 1: do they built? Build a studio proof I can get

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00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:23,000
Speaker 1: out of here. Weaponized racket and everything's weaponizing, like that

799
00:44:23,080 --> 00:44:27,040
Speaker 1: word to weaponize. Yeah, ah, look who's here, ding Dong,

800
00:44:27,440 --> 00:44:31,560
Speaker 1: ding Dong. Hey. I'm a big good John and Ken fan.

801
00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:34,520
Speaker 1: You know, since you guys moved out here and started

802
00:44:34,560 --> 00:44:37,799
Speaker 1: on KFI, and I loved the opening of the show

803
00:44:37,840 --> 00:44:41,239
Speaker 1: today that I that you guys both went to the

804
00:44:41,280 --> 00:44:43,840
Speaker 1: same concert last Friday and you didn't find out until

805
00:44:43,880 --> 00:44:47,799
Speaker 1: six days later you were at the same concert. It's

806
00:44:47,880 --> 00:44:52,160
Speaker 1: so great observation. It's so classic. Right, But that's the

807
00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:55,680
Speaker 1: reason why you guys are still partners. Right. We don't

808
00:44:55,680 --> 00:44:58,440
Speaker 1: annoy each other, that's right. We keep on the area, right,

809
00:44:58,560 --> 00:45:01,239
Speaker 1: keep a little bit of distance. Right. It's been you know,

810
00:45:01,280 --> 00:45:03,239
Speaker 1: I was gonna Monday, I was gonna mention that I

811
00:45:03,280 --> 00:45:04,680
Speaker 1: was there. I just didn't think of it. And then

812
00:45:04,680 --> 00:45:06,239
Speaker 1: when he mentioned it today, I was like, holy crap,

813
00:45:06,239 --> 00:45:07,560
Speaker 1: I was here too. I was going to mention, but

814
00:45:07,600 --> 00:45:09,560
Speaker 1: I wanted to wait till Dever came back to tell

815
00:45:09,560 --> 00:45:15,000
Speaker 1: her about. Yeah, the vegan thing. I think it's great, man.

816
00:45:15,040 --> 00:45:17,279
Speaker 1: If you ever do a class we teach people to

817
00:45:17,360 --> 00:45:20,239
Speaker 1: stay and talk radio, I'd bring that up first. Don't

818
00:45:20,280 --> 00:45:22,000
Speaker 1: talk to it, don't annoy each other, and don't talk

819
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:23,960
Speaker 1: to each other, don't wear each other out. That's right.

820
00:45:24,400 --> 00:45:28,520
Speaker 1: I on ai a lighter note. Baby formula factories reopened

821
00:45:28,520 --> 00:45:31,000
Speaker 1: by maybe next week according to the FDA. Right, that's

822
00:45:31,040 --> 00:45:34,120
Speaker 1: kind of cool. And then Rihanna, your favorite is given

823
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Speaker 1: birth becomes her first baby with asap rocky or a

824
00:45:40,160 --> 00:45:43,840
Speaker 1: dollar sign ap rocky. See Chris Brown sent out his

825
00:45:43,880 --> 00:45:48,359
Speaker 1: congratschre no is that right? Wow, that's kind of Peter

826
00:45:48,520 --> 00:45:52,560
Speaker 1: up or something. Yes, he did right before the Grammys allegedly,

827
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Speaker 1: I don't know. But and also the man remember the

828
00:45:55,080 --> 00:45:59,160
Speaker 1: man who attacked Dave Chappelle, Well, he's charged with attempted murder. Yeah,

829
00:45:59,280 --> 00:46:01,719
Speaker 1: in an unrelated did stabbing of the roommate. Good thing

830
00:46:01,719 --> 00:46:05,040
Speaker 1: he wasn't charged with a felony for attacking God. That

831
00:46:05,040 --> 00:46:09,360
Speaker 1: would have been unfair, unbelievable. Man, these guys really have

832
00:46:09,400 --> 00:46:11,279
Speaker 1: to watch it. If I if I was, if I

833
00:46:11,320 --> 00:46:13,640
Speaker 1: was doing stand up comic comedy, would I would be

834
00:46:13,719 --> 00:46:16,919
Speaker 1: Lyria working in LA Because no one's going to charge anybody, no,

835
00:46:17,680 --> 00:46:20,000
Speaker 1: not only now the ideas in every whack job's head,

836
00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:23,360
Speaker 1: there's no consequence, right exactly. And you hear it, and

837
00:46:23,480 --> 00:46:25,760
Speaker 1: Steve Gregory talking about these people on the train burning

838
00:46:25,800 --> 00:46:28,560
Speaker 1: each other, you know, throwing gas and lighting people on fire,

839
00:46:29,040 --> 00:46:31,279
Speaker 1: wild and then not being charged for that. You know

840
00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:34,560
Speaker 1: that there are being minimal minimally charged, right, no enhancements

841
00:46:34,560 --> 00:46:37,359
Speaker 1: for using fire as an attack, Like, isn't that crazy? Right?

842
00:46:39,640 --> 00:46:41,759
Speaker 1: It sounds like we're doing a comedy routine. This is

843
00:46:41,920 --> 00:46:45,799
Speaker 1: nail right, right. It sounds like we're exaggerating. It's like, no,

844
00:46:45,880 --> 00:46:48,799
Speaker 1: you could set somebody on fire on the train and

845
00:46:48,920 --> 00:46:52,759
Speaker 1: probably nothing's going to happen. It's incredible, right, yeah, all right,

846
00:46:52,880 --> 00:46:58,680
Speaker 1: so Conway is on the track. Dang all right, I

847
00:46:58,719 --> 00:47:00,960
Speaker 1: don't see if can get through the Crozier's got the

848
00:47:01,040 --> 00:47:04,799
Speaker 1: news KFI, KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County Live

849
00:47:04,840 --> 00:47:07,920
Speaker 1: everywhere on the iHeartRadio Boom. Hey, Ken, did you know

850
00:47:07,960 --> 00:47:10,400
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