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Speaker 1: This is hard to believe.

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Speaker 2: Every morning I wake up, I'm sitting on a sofa

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Speaker 2: sometimes in beds early in the morning, about five thirty,

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Speaker 2: I start, you know, my phone starts digging with the

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Speaker 2: text messages from Deborah.

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Speaker 1: I'm glad. Every morning you wake up.

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Speaker 2: It's a victory. It's like, well, I'm up again. Sometimes

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Speaker 2: it's oh no, I'm up again. And every day I

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Speaker 2: start looking through the news and it's like, no, this

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Speaker 2: can't be no, this must be a hoax, a parody account, something.

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Speaker 2: Right now, here's the one that got me today. There's

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Speaker 2: twelve mentally ill accused criminals, including a murder defendant, fund

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Speaker 2: mental patience, to be released back into Orange County unsupervised

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Speaker 2: over the next two months. Because Orange County the government

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Speaker 2: does not have twelve treatment debts. Two of them could

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Speaker 2: be out on Friday. One of them is charged with

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Speaker 2: hacking a person to death with a hatchet. Good release him.

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Speaker 2: What Todd Spitzer, the Orange County DA is coming on here.

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Speaker 2: He's got a lot to say, Todd.

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Speaker 3: How are you well? I'm just as im bored as

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Speaker 3: you are, John. I mean, let's talk about the hatchet

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Speaker 3: murderer who is wearing tinfoil on his head earlier in

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Speaker 3: the day before the event and was howling at the moon.

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Speaker 3: Or the sexually violent predator who has been deemed a

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Speaker 3: and has been on the run. And then, of course

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Speaker 3: we have two cases tomorrow. One is a person who

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Speaker 3: was in violation of a restraining order when he was

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Speaker 3: been making sexual advances towards. He was caught with massage oil,

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Speaker 3: Or the individual tomorrow who was speeding down his street

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Speaker 3: him to death. These are the craziest of the craziest.

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Speaker 3: Mentally ill with some of the worst and most heinous crimes,

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Speaker 3: and the legislature keeps creating more and more diversion for

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Speaker 3: mentally ill. No one's responsible. Everybody needs a shrink, and

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Speaker 3: so all the beds in the state are full, and

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Speaker 3: the beds that we need for these people are unavailable, unattainable,

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Speaker 3: no funding, no beds, no mental hospitals, nothing and the law.

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Speaker 3: So my office, of course handles the criminal case. But

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Speaker 3: after two years of trying to restore these individuals the

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Speaker 3: if they are unable to be restored to competency, they

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Speaker 3: must be given a mental health bed for treatment, because

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Speaker 3: we then morphed them into a conservatorship that's handled in

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Speaker 3: my county by the public Guardian. I am not the

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Speaker 3: public guardian, and the public guardian does not and has not,

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Speaker 3: and for months, knowing this problem was coming, has not

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Speaker 3: No one pulled the fire alarm, no one called the

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Speaker 3: governor's office, no one worked with our state legislators like nothing,

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Speaker 3: And tomorrow the two I described could be released from

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Speaker 3: custody with no supervision. Outrageous John, Whose job.

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Speaker 2: Is it to call somebody in state government and say

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Speaker 1: Like, who's that person? What's their name?

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Speaker 3: So the public guardian in my county is supervised by

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Speaker 3: We had a horrible murder in the city of Orange

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Speaker 3: talking about it with a He executed three people, a

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Speaker 3: the conservatorship that I literally had a light of fire

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Speaker 3: under it was a different public guardian there. Then I

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Speaker 3: got that person transferred because of their incompetence. But literally

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Speaker 3: now the public is reliant on an unelected bureaucrat buried

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Speaker 3: you've had years to do this. You're going to have

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Speaker 2: What does this public guardian, this agency, what do they

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Speaker 1: In a bed for treatment.

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Speaker 3: What do they do then, John, I've been asking the

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Speaker 3: you about. I thought we had really circled the wagon

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Speaker 3: I have to camp out in front the governor's office,

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Speaker 3: say Governor, create emergency beds in your state hospitals. But

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Speaker 3: looks on he's closing prisons. They're passing legislation after legislation

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Speaker 3: and how many beds are giving us squat. The governor

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Speaker 3: is more concerned about Washington politics national issues. In California state.

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Speaker 2: The idiot went to Brazil to fight climate change. Today

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Speaker 2: they're having like a religious worship conference.

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Speaker 3: And a huge while my county and every other county

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Speaker 3: and she went on the news saying, I can't have

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Speaker 1: I mean, I only got another minute.

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Speaker 2: The Public Guardian is an agency, it's an office.

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Speaker 1: There isn't a specific person.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a person in an agency supervised under the

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Speaker 3: Is the name of this person, you've never met him,

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Speaker 3: I don't know. You don't know his name, I don't

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Speaker 3: I should find a john out of fairness to him.

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Speaker 3: I'm not going to do.

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Speaker 1: That, but I don't think anybody should be fair to him.

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Speaker 1: You got you gotta a murderer who hacked somebody to death,

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Speaker 1: and they're gonna be walking out in the street.

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Speaker 2: That whole agency ought to be identified. Everybody works in a.

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Speaker 3: Back on and I'll get that information. But on the murderer,

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Speaker 3: the hacker, we have until December nineteenth to get him

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Speaker 3: December nineteenth, he's going to be out on the street.

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Speaker 1: But you got two guys getting released tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: Well, I don't know we're going to court. I don't

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Speaker 3: because I'm still hoping. It's two fifteen on Thursday. I'm

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Speaker 3: It's twelve hands of the public guardian.

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Speaker 2: Oh for good that this is. This is so crazy

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Speaker 2: and it's so insane. It's so ridiculous. They ought to

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Speaker 2: put the public guardians and lock them up, get them

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Speaker 2: a mental health bed.

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Speaker 1: All right, thank you, Todd, and we will keep on

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Speaker 1: this day.

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Speaker 3: All right, Todd up you John, thank you, all right.

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Speaker 2: Todd Spitzer, the Orange County District Attorney. We'll have a

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Speaker 2: wet more coming up a two thirty. Michael Monks is

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Speaker 2: day how Newsome and cal Fart Lara, the Insurance Commissioner

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Speaker 2: the Palisades fire, and then that allowed the insurance companies

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Speaker 2: and there's a lot of people who were not covered

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Speaker 2: or they were thrown into the fair plan with minimal coverage. Well,

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Speaker 2: you know the story, predictably big deal the New York Times,

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Speaker 2: We'll tell you about it next.

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Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am

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Speaker 4: six forty.

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Speaker 2: We just had Todd Spitzer on the Orange County District Attorney.

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Speaker 2: He had a press release today. If you're just joining us,

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Speaker 2: you're not going to sit down. There's twelve mentally ill

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Speaker 2: criminals who are getting released back into Orange County communities

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Speaker 2: unsupervised in the next two months because the County of

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Speaker 2: won't certify that they're not mentally ill anymore, then the

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Speaker 2: DA has to do something, either getting a conservatorship with

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Speaker 2: the county Public Guardian, and that means they would end

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Speaker 2: dumped maybe into your town. They have mental illness. It

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Speaker 2: has not been cured. Now it's not going to be treated.

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Speaker 2: There's not going to be any oversight. And they've done

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Speaker 2: really bad things. And as he said, there's one guy

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Speaker 2: Send here beat his sixty five year old neighbor after

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Speaker 2: being told to drive more slowly. You ever yell at

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Speaker 2: do that, because this guy was brutally beaten for doing that.

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Speaker 2: And then Derek Real, he is the one that oh

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Speaker 2: he's the one that that Todd Spitcher talked about sixty

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Speaker 2: His zipper is down, not wearing underwear. Imagine seeing that

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Speaker 1: Huh.

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Speaker 2: So they sent him to a mental hospital. Judge says

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Speaker 2: he's incompetent and now he's going to get released. He's

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Speaker 2: gonna get released tomorrow along with the guy. Well, the

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Speaker 2: first this guy's Derek Real. He's the one who is

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Speaker 2: guy who brutally beat his neighbor. Both of them are

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Speaker 2: going to get released tomorrow. And Todd Spitzer says, well,

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Speaker 2: it's the Orange County Public Guardian. They're supposed to place

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Speaker 2: them in a mental hospital, but they just won't do it.

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Speaker 2: So I said, well, who's the public guardian? And he

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Speaker 2: didn't want to say. You know, Todd's got to work

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Speaker 2: with these people. I can say though, because I don't

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Speaker 2: give a crap. I can't stand this system. This is absurd.

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Speaker 2: So the Orange County Public Guardian is David Sanchez. He

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Speaker 2: was appointed by the Orange County boarder supervisor. Why do

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Speaker 2: they appoint this guy and then he doesn't put the

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Speaker 1: That's his job.

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Speaker 2: He was Deputy Public Guardian, Senior public Senior Deputy Public Guardian,

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Speaker 2: supervising Deputy public Guardian. So he's had all these public

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Speaker 2: And it's supposed to create conservator ships so they can

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Speaker 2: lock mental patients up in mental hospitals, lock them up.

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Speaker 2: They're the conservative of last resort. So David Sanchez is

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Speaker 2: the public guardian of the Orange County and until somebody

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Speaker 2: her and Derek Reel out tomorrow. Reel was the one

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Speaker 2: severely mentally ill. And then sand here beat up a

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Speaker 2: Fire survivors here in La want Newsom to ask for

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Speaker 2: if you missed anything on the radio show John Cobelt

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Speaker 2: Ricardo Lara decided to reform the rules and the regulations

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Speaker 5: Those survivors held a press conference today. I mean they're upset.

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Speaker 5: We don't want so many people relying because you're paying

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Speaker 5: That's exactly what the investigation found, and that is what

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Speaker 5: Palisades fire survivors pointed out in their detailed press release

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Speaker 6: Your Palisades constituentsy half your back. Now is the time

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Speaker 6: hell for its Serican Insurance Commissioner for texts families, not

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Speaker 5: She says that after the fire in the Palisades, she

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Speaker 2: I know she was being nice, but you actually believe

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Speaker 5: You know, there are people that support the governor or

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Speaker 1: I'm just astonished. Move Wow, But really he said that

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Speaker 5: She says, families can no longer buy or renew coverage,

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Speaker 2: I mean Ricardolara, you know Channel seven up in San

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Speaker 5: He was. I think that would have been some good ratings.

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Speaker 5: He was on my floor.

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Speaker 1: But the thing is nobody comments. I mean, I mean

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Speaker 2: And then Lara's gone into hiding. You got all these

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Speaker 1: They don't care.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, they actually feel very very alone. That's one of

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Speaker 2: Well, this is you voted for him. Thank you, Michael,

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Speaker 2: My pleasure. KFI News. What did you think? Don't you

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Speaker 2: people see? Don't you understand what a narcissistic sociopath is?

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Speaker 2: Look up those terms. They should put Gavin Newsom's photo.

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Speaker 8: In.

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Speaker 2: If Wikipedia has a page on narcissistic sociopaths, they should

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Speaker 2: have Newsom's photo there to illustrate it. He doesn't care,

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Speaker 2: He has no guilty, has no conscience, It doesn't matter.

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Speaker 2: He's fighting climate change in Brazil.

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Speaker 3: Today.

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

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Speaker 4: six forty.

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Speaker 2: Coming up at three o'clock. And here is the great

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Speaker 2: federal government screw up of the moment. They're gonna be

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Speaker 2: cutting about ten percent of the flights at forty major

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Speaker 2: and Trump and the administration should fix this, and they

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Speaker 2: and they're taking other jobs.

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Speaker 1: Some of them are resigning.

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Speaker 2: It's an unbelievable screw up, and it's dangerous and now

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Speaker 2: it's wildly inconvenient coming into Thanksgiving. And I don't care

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Speaker 1: No excuse, I don't want to hear it. Do your

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Speaker 2: I feel bad, so bad for the fire victims and

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Speaker 2: the idiot insurance commissioner calpart Lara and Newsom who's in

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Speaker 2: Here's what's going on in Malibu. ABC seven reporter Josh

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Speaker 8: The twenty eighteen Woolsey Fire destroyed four hundred eighty eight

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Speaker 7: The building process is complicated by design to slow development,

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Speaker 8: But from those who run the City of Malibu, a

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Speaker 9: If you want to rebuild the city of Malibu is here.

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Speaker 9: It's a difficult thing for homeowners to go through and

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Speaker 8: Before construction even begins on beachfront homes in Malibu, homeowners

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Speaker 8: That's expensive, along with reinforcing the sea walls to make

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Speaker 1: On their property.

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Speaker 8: Darren Graves's grandmother bought this beach front home back in

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Speaker 2: We want to come back as soon as possible and

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Speaker 2: ever been. Eleven permits in ten months. Eleven permits. That's

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Speaker 2: that's just incompetence, and they don't care. You remember you

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Speaker 2: streamlining of the permit process. And I know Malibu has

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Speaker 2: got issues that other towns don't have. But twenty percent

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Speaker 2: people are giving up and one more note in Alta Dina.

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Speaker 2: According to the La Times Today many of the standing

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Speaker 2: homes are still contaminated with lead and asbestos, even after

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Speaker 2: all the remediation efforts. It turns out the remediation techniques

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Speaker 2: that they use, that the insurance companies recommended the companies.

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Speaker 1: That were hired didn't work very well.

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Speaker 2: They tested fifty homes in the Burn area and downwind

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Speaker 2: and the remediation techniques pushed by insurance companies at public

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Speaker 2: health officials in La County have not worked very well.

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Speaker 2: There is still dangerous amounts of lead in asbestos, and

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Speaker 2: with asbestos you could get mesothelioma and other cancers. Lead

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Speaker 2: can lead to permanent brain damage, especially in children. There

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Speaker 2: is no safe level of lead and asbestos. If you

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Speaker 2: get exposed, and the insurance company and the county health

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Speaker 2: department screwed that up too, you are totally on your own.

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Speaker 2: It is almost it's incomprehensible that almost every facet of government,

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Speaker 2: every agency, every department, every employee is incompetent, uncaring, incompetent, negligent, dangerous.

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Speaker 2: But hey, you know, keep believing in government, keep voting

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Speaker 2: for more government, keep voting the way you're going. When

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Speaker 2: we come back now to the federal government, they're idiocy. Really,

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Speaker 2: how much money is lying around in Washington right now?

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Speaker 2: Air traffic controllers We're showing up for work. Federal government

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Speaker 2: won't pay them. They're stupid political dispute. I don't care.

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Speaker 2: I just want I got a My whole family's flying

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Speaker 2: this weekend. Are we all playing roulette? Are we all

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Speaker 2: going to have our schedules turned upside down? Talk about

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Speaker 2: it with Alex Stone, ABC News Next Stebra Mark Lid

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Speaker 2: MKFI twenty for our newsroom.

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Speaker 1: Hey, you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show.

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