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Speaker 2: up every minute, every hour, and now there are egg

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Speaker 2: crimes increasing around the country. In fact, it was quite

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Speaker 2: an entertaining one in Seattle. And Alex Stone is on

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Speaker 2: the egg theft beat don on Done Eggs. Yeah, I

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Speaker 2: mean it's like bank heis going on right now. You

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Speaker 2: remember the one hundred thousand eggs that were stolen in

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Speaker 2: Pennsylvania last week and that truck that had forty thousand

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Speaker 2: have no idea who took those eggs. So now Seattle

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Speaker 2: is the next one where there was an egg heist

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Speaker 2: from a cafe. About five hundred and fifty eggs were stolen,

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Speaker 2: and they stole some other breakfast foods as well, a

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Speaker 2: little bit of bacon, but it's mainly eggs and liquid eggs.

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Speaker 2: And they loaded up a white van. They took off

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Speaker 2: in hot pursuit when they came back and tried to.

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Speaker 1: Do it again.

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Speaker 2: This is David Park, the general manager of Luna Cafe

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Speaker 3: We saw the guy with the van and then we

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Speaker 3: try to block them, and then they just like almost

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Speaker 2: I mean they tried to block them with their vehicles,

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Speaker 2: with their cars, and then they busted through and took

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Speaker 2: And the cafe, like a lot of cafes, relies on eggs.

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Speaker 1: They do breakfast service and getting new eggs.

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Speaker 2: He says it has been tough to do and because

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Speaker 2: they lost all of their eggs, everything was taken in

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Speaker 2: the form of an egg, and he says they've been

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Speaker 2: doing everything they can new egg We couldn't.

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Speaker 3: Like order any egg, so we had to drive herround

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Speaker 3: all the markets to get the egg. But you know,

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Speaker 3: if you go to Costco or you know.

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Speaker 1: Some grocery store.

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Speaker 5: It's hard to get me.

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Speaker 4: So it was very difficult.

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Speaker 2: And then John thattt heist in Pennsylvania of eggs. They

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Speaker 2: don't know where they went, probably onto the black market.

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Speaker 2: But we're hearing now from the owner of that company

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Speaker 2: that had those eggs stolen, the forty thousand dollars worth.

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Speaker 2: And I mean like they're locking up gold or money.

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Speaker 2: He says, they're beefing up security to watch their eggs.

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Speaker 1: It's additional security on the ground.

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Speaker 2: It's making sure that we're just we have better lighting

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Speaker 2: in our facilities, maybe some additional cameras.

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Speaker 1: Stuff.

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Speaker 2: You've got eggs in your fridge at home, watch out

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Speaker 2: because the bad guys may come a knock in. Then

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Speaker 2: I was going to say, I mean, we got enough

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Speaker 2: fluting going on in Los Angeles. You don't imagine during

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Speaker 2: that's what the looters would have been going in to get. Man,

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Speaker 2: there's so many bad guys. Do people steal anything? I mean,

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Speaker 2: I mean, how much money can you make you got.

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Speaker 2: I mean, that's a low even for looting that that's

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Speaker 2: got to turn them around. Really quick. It's not yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's not gold. Who's gonna buy black market eggs? I

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Speaker 2: guess restaurants who want to buy off the black market maybe,

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Speaker 2: how long they've been out in a hot car maybe,

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Speaker 1: They're going to go bad pretty quickly. Today.

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Speaker 2: Trader Joe's they're implementing a limit now one carton of

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Speaker 2: Costco says many of its stores are doing the same thing.

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Speaker 2: Sprouts announce that they are all the has been doing it.

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Speaker 2: But the problem is that people have been going in

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Speaker 2: Wait, wait, the toilet paper you can keep till the

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Speaker 2: end of time, right, you can't keep eggs very long

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Speaker 2: but maybe they've got some outlet from it.

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Speaker 1: There's got to be some black market.

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Speaker 2: And I think it's human nature that people are told

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Speaker 2: I went to a Rouse during the pandemic and people

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Speaker 2: What some of that is going on with eggs now

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Speaker 2: And that's why Costco people are complaining that they go

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Speaker 2: back into the dairy cooler at Costco and everything's gone,

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Speaker 2: all the eggs are gone. And so Costco says that

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Speaker 2: I think some of these people are restaurants that are

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Speaker 2: They own a diner in Indianapolis, and they say that

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Speaker 2: they've got to go and buy them like everybody else,

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Speaker 2: because they can't get them through a restaurant supplier anymore.

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Speaker 4: I mean, that's what we have to do to survive.

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Speaker 4: I don't want to have to pay those kind of prices.

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Speaker 4: It's nice to have them delivered, but you know, it's

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and even from their supplier that she was telling

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Speaker 4: We were quoted one hundred and ten dollars for fifteen.

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Speaker 2: So that makes them about seven bucks a dozen. And

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Speaker 2: she says she it's cheaper if she goes to Sam's

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Speaker 2: but Costco is saying, you can't do this anymore. You

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Speaker 2: can get one carton, two cartons of the you know,

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Speaker 2: fill up the whole cart People are just hysterical, dumb animals,

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Speaker 2: you know they are, Yeah, all right, well, very good, Alex,

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Speaker 2: thank you, all right, come out, thanks don a right,

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Speaker 2: that's Alex Stone, ABC News. Now we come back. Got

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Speaker 2: a lot of good stuff here. This is this is great.

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Speaker 2: There is so much filth and rot going on in

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Speaker 2: our government in Washington, d C. And it's going on

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Speaker 2: here in La and Sacramento too. And I swear to God,

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Speaker 2: if you have some like naive, childlike belief that all

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Speaker 2: these government workers, these bureaucrats, well they're still trying to

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Speaker 2: do good their civil servants, you know, you really got

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Speaker 1: What the these.

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Speaker 2: These are grifters, criminals, the leeves. At best, they're lazy

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Speaker 2: slobs who can't get fired from do nothing jobs. But

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Speaker 2: it's just fascinating. All this is fascinating what Musk and

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Speaker 2: Trump are doing. It's what has to be done when

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Speaker 2: you're thirty six trillion dollars in debt. You have to

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Speaker 2: do a line by line audit of every single department,

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Speaker 2: every agency, every contract, every expense.

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Speaker 1: This is what you have to do.

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Speaker 2: This is what you do in your house if you

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Speaker 2: find yourself going bankrupt. And now they're doing it, and

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Speaker 2: they're fighting a lot of garbage, and the bureaucracy and

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Speaker 2: the Democrats who've been running things for twelve of the

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Speaker 2: last sixteen years are all screaming bloody murder. It's like,

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Speaker 2: what are you talking about? They're thirty six trillion in debt.

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Speaker 2: Something's got to get caught. Why not start with all

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Speaker 2: the criminal activity? Tell you about it when we return.

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Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI.

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Speaker 1: All right, so there you've probably heard the constant.

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Speaker 2: Brattlings coming from Washington in the news about all the

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Speaker 2: trillion dollars in debt, thirty six trillion in debt. Obviously

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Speaker 2: don't know what happens when you get excessive debt, but

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Speaker 2: in two thousand and eight with the mortgage meltdown. There

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Speaker 2: everything was fine, and then suddenly, boom, something happens and

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Speaker 2: everybody's life is turned upside down forever. This will happen

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Speaker 2: one day with the excessive debt that the country has,

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Speaker 2: but just nobody knows exactly what. And when you obviously

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Speaker 2: can't run up thirty six trillion in debt, that's just absurd.

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Speaker 2: So what Trump and Musk are doing is appropriate. You start,

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Speaker 2: and first of all, you track every single dime to

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Speaker 2: see what's going on here. And reading one of Musk's

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Speaker 2: posts that he put on X, what he's describing is

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Speaker 2: something that is happening here in California, in Sacramento and

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Speaker 2: also in Los Angeles. It is the same. It is

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Speaker 2: the same fraudulent tactics are being used. When I read

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Speaker 2: what Musk was writing about this weekend, I thought, wait

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Speaker 2: a second, this sounds familiar and is very much what

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Speaker 2: they found when auditors started investigating high speed rail and

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Speaker 2: when auditors started investigating the homeless industry here in LA

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Speaker 2: the billions of dollars we spend on homelessness. And here's

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Speaker 2: what Musk wrote with the DOGE team and the US

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Speaker 2: Treasury have jointly agreed makes sense. And here's what they've discovered.

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Speaker 2: When you make a payment, when the government makes a payment,

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Speaker 2: all right, this is outgoing payments. They have to have

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Speaker 2: a payment categorization code, which is necessary to pass financial audits.

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Speaker 2: In other words, you put down that, hey, we're paying

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Speaker 2: this twelve thousand dollars bill, and there are codes for

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Speaker 2: different kinds of expenditures. Well, what they found is on

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Speaker 2: Send Ukrainian models and fashion designers on junkets. Your tax

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Speaker 1: All right, we continue with what are they cutting in Washington?

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Speaker 2: Why Why all the screaming, why all the squealing going on?

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Speaker 1: Well we told you that.

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Speaker 2: And this is where if you if you get hysterical

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Speaker 6: Can you believe we're cutting aid to the to Ukraine

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Speaker 2: flagged this ridiculous research. Imagine this enhancing, enhancing a deadly

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Speaker 2: This is what the elected officials do. People scream about

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Speaker 1: That's right, every.

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Speaker 2: Penny that the US government made, we lost two point

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Speaker 2: And everybody in the government, including Karen Bass, knows this.

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Speaker 2: They know what the game is. There just hasn't been

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Speaker 2: a Musk or a Trump to bust through and convince

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Speaker 2: the public that you're being scammed for billions of dollars

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Speaker 2: and make it. And of course they'd want to make

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Speaker 2: the problem worse. Of course they want homelessness to go

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Speaker 2: up because then they have a justification to tax you

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Speaker 2: for more. I mean, they got you to vote for

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Speaker 2: homeless tax just three months ago, right November in La County.

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Speaker 2: They got you to vote to increase the homeless tax

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Speaker 2: the sales tax. It's by design, they're scamming everybody.

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Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am

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Speaker 5: six forty.

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Speaker 2: Coming up after three o'clock, we're going to talk with

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Speaker 2: Katie Grimes again from California Globe dot com. She went

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Speaker 2: on a walking tour in Pacific Palisades and she was

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Speaker 2: with Rick Grennell, who is Trump's special envoy overseeing what's

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Speaker 2: going on with the recovery effort here and the federal

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Speaker 2: government's role and also the EPA had Lee Zelden met

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Speaker 2: with residents. They did a walk on Friday and FEMA

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Speaker 2: was there, the Army Corps of Engineers, various La County

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Speaker 2: political hacks. We'll talk to Katie Grimes about what that was,

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Speaker 2: what all that was about. One more note on Musk

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Speaker 2: and people squealing over what is he doing. Imagine every

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Speaker 2: time somebody says, hey, you know, to balance the budget,

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Speaker 2: you're gonna have to cut Medicare, and people say.

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Speaker 6: Oh my god, you're gonna be cutting money from the elderly.

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Speaker 1: There's sick and they're die.

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Speaker 6: You're cruel.

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Speaker 2: Well, Musk says that the there are some employees in

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Speaker 2: the Department of Treasury US Treasury Department who told him

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Speaker 2: that there are currently over one hundred billion dollars a

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Speaker 2: year of entitlement payments going to people who don't have

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Speaker 2: Social Security numbers or even a temporary ID number. You

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Speaker 2: got that one hundred billion dollars a year in medical

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Speaker 2: care and similar programs. And this is from employees in

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Speaker 2: the Treasury Department who are interested in doing the cuts,

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Speaker 2: but their bosses have never been. You see, you could

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Speaker 2: be you could be inclined to want to run a streamlined,

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Speaker 2: honest agency, but often your bosses don't want to go there.

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Speaker 2: Maybe some of their friends are involved in the fraud.

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Speaker 2: But one hundred billion dollars a year of entitlements to

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Speaker 2: people with no Social Security numbers or temporary ID numbers,

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Speaker 2: and Musk wrote, if accurate, this is extremely suspicious. When

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Speaker 2: I asked if anybody at the Treasury Department had a

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Speaker 2: rough guess for what percentage of that number is unequivocal

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Speaker 2: obvious fraud, the consensus in the room was about half

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Speaker 2: fifty billion dollars a year for sure fraud, A billion

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Speaker 2: dollars a week, A billion dollars a week for sure fraud.

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Speaker 2: This is utterly insane and must be addressed immediately.

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Speaker 1: Uh. I mean, I don't know how anybody argues with this.

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Speaker 2: This is what when I when I see people squealing

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Speaker 2: on television, including a lot of political a holes, It's like,

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Speaker 2: what are you squealing about? Do you want to keep

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Speaker 2: giving a billion dollars a week to criminals? Give your

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Speaker 2: tax money and it's not not my tax money. I

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Speaker 2: didn't know how anybody. I don't know how anybody who

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Speaker 2: dollars a week going to Medicare fraud. And and then

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Speaker 2: and getting upset when Trump and Musk are trying to

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Speaker 2: root it out?

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Speaker 1: What's wrong with you? Why? Why?

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Speaker 2: Why didn't the Biden crowd or the Obama crowd do this?

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Speaker 2: So I don't understand. This is absolutely what has to

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Speaker 2: be done is both parties should be doing this.

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Speaker 1: I don't understand how one party could.

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Speaker 2: Be against rooting out a billion dollars a week in

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Speaker 2: fraud in just one agency. How could you be screaming

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Speaker 2: against that, protesting marching? What's wrong with you? Oh, maybe

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Speaker 2: you're getting a cut. Oh, I see, maybe you're getting

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Speaker 2: a piece of the action. That's what I assume. And

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Speaker 2: I see any political figures protesting these kind of cuts.

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Speaker 2: It's like, all right, how much are you getting from

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Speaker 2: the scam? Because no rational person would protest this stuff?

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Speaker 2: All right, We've got more coming up. In fact, we're

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Speaker 2: going to talk to Katie Grimes. We've got a group

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Speaker 2: of government officials walked around Pacific Palisades on Friday or

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Speaker 2: Thursday actually, and including Rick Grenelle, who's Trump's special envoy

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Speaker 2: here on the ground, and Lee Zelden, who's head of

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Speaker 2: the EPA, along with many other government officials from FEMA,

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Speaker 2: Army Corps of Engineers, and Katie Grimes from Californiaglobe dot

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Speaker 2: Com is gonna tell us what was happening.

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