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Speaker 1: All right, Full coverage coming up later on this hour

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Speaker 1: of the chaos and anger and tears that was seen

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Speaker 1: later on this hour, but of course the headline is,

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Speaker 1: none of these three council people who were heard on

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Speaker 1: the leaked audio with their racist comments and their homophobic

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Speaker 1: slurs and whatever else, has actually resigned from the Los

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Speaker 1: Angeles City Council. None of them, even after this morning.

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Speaker 1: I wondered, if you know they were gonna buy afternoon

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Speaker 1: and say, Okay, I give up. Everybody's screaming for our heads.

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Speaker 1: Let's get out of here. They want the money. Like

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Speaker 1: you said, they have no other jobs. They have no

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Speaker 1: other jobs. They can't be hired anywhere. No, I don't

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Speaker 1: think Nori Martinez is on the ballot. No, she's not.

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Speaker 1: I don't think the leone is either. No. I don't

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Speaker 1: or not. Right, all right, Now we turn our attention

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Speaker 1: to a story from a couple of months ago, and

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Speaker 1: that was the announcement by the La County Registrar of

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Speaker 1: Voters that the effort to recall LA County District Attorney

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Speaker 1: George Gascone had failed did not reach the number of

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Speaker 1: Steve Cooley on, the former Los Angeles District attorney who

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Speaker 1: was one of the leaders of this recall movement. Steve, welcome,

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Speaker 1: How are you, Steve? Can you hear us? Oh? We

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Speaker 1: are in cell phone? Hell aren't we? He yes? Oh

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Speaker 1: he's bad self. I can hear you now? Yes, talk again.

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Speaker 1: Sorry about that, guys, that's okay. Talk to us about

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Speaker 1: what your findings. The legal challenge? Oh yeah, what's the

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Speaker 1: legal challenge? Sir? All right? Hang on, come on, screeners,

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Speaker 1: Make sure. Maybe maybe Steve moved after he I don't know. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's a busy guy. So I try again. Now, Steve,

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Speaker 1: don't move anywhere. Now this isn't working. Oh god, what

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Speaker 1: all right, we'll try to before I start cursing. Um,

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Speaker 1: we'll give you the headline here. The claims are that

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Speaker 1: they have uncovered evidence that valid names were rejected. And

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Speaker 1: we talked about this a bit yesterday at the end

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Speaker 1: of the show, and then another thing. Voter rolls were inflated,

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Speaker 1: all right, So valid names rejected, And that's what I

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Speaker 1: wanted to ask Steve about because when we got this

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Speaker 1: bad news a couple of months ago, the bulk of

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Speaker 1: the signatures rejected were just people who were not registered

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Speaker 1: A County. Remember that. And now there's other claim, which

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Speaker 1: I think is a pretty good one, because we've heard

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Speaker 1: that Ella County is particularly guilty of having people on

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Speaker 1: the voter rolls who don't belong there. They either died moved.

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Speaker 1: That's what they mean by inflated voter rolls, and that

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Speaker 1: the issues tie you in. Well, in a city of

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Speaker 1: All right, let's get Steve on Steeve, how you doing.

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Speaker 1: I'm doing great, hoping hear me. Now, Yes, I can

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Speaker 1: give us the outline of the case that you're bringing

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Speaker 1: identify those signatures that were invalidated, that were indeed valid.

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Speaker 1: Our efforts suggest that there are fours that were valid

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Speaker 1: I just want to clarify my question a little more.

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Speaker 1: go away, Well, we're not going to wait. Just give

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Speaker 1: Daily News. Independent nonpartisan data analysts have estimated that LA

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Speaker 1: But we're having a lot of bad breakups. It's a

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Speaker 1: We'll talk more John and Ken caf I am six

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Speaker 1: forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app All right, coming

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Speaker 1: up as soon as we come back after the news

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Speaker 1: at four thirty. We do have lots of audio to play.

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Speaker 1: It was quite a gathering today at the La City

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Speaker 1: a meeting they had with the president of a powerful union,

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Speaker 1: the La County Federation of Labor. They did not know

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Speaker 1: they were being recorded. We still haven't learned how this happened,

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Speaker 1: but it was at the Federation's offices about a year ago.

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Speaker 1: And in those conversations, which was about redistricting, there were

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Speaker 1: In fact, just today the La Times had more comments

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Speaker 1: the boundaries where as the Armenian populations, he can get

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Speaker 1: enough in there for this guy to win. And then

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Speaker 1: and then later on Martinez described Nazarian as the guy

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Speaker 1: with one eyebrow. Oh. When Martinez asked what his last

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Speaker 1: name was, the leon said it ends an I An.

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Speaker 1: I bet you yeah. She said she didn't know whether

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Speaker 1: or not Nazarian could get elected and quote a pretty

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Speaker 1: white district. Now, I don't think Adrian get selected if

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Speaker 1: a white, reputable, white businesswoman was in that district. It's

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Speaker 1: still pretty white. But that's on them. I'm not I'm

435
00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:10,840
Speaker 1: not cutting a deal with anybody because I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I don't know that he can win. Right, so's she's

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Speaker 1: not going to make some concession to per Korean just

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Speaker 1: to get his guy elected because she doesn't he may

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Speaker 1: not win. That's right, right, This is all they do.

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Speaker 1: They all they do is they look at people's skin

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Speaker 1: color and ethnicities and decide that that's how all the

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Speaker 1: voting is going to go. And so they'll make their

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Speaker 1: plan accordingly here on how to screw the other at

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Speaker 1: this leason the other races. All right, when we come back,

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Speaker 1: we'll begin playing some of the audio that came out

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Speaker 1: of this La City Council meeting today, which got delayed

447
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Speaker 1: quite a while because of the chaos and the anger.

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Speaker 1: Most people just yelling resign, sometimes with expletis. We'll bring

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Speaker 1: it to you, John and Ken Cafe. I am six

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Speaker 1: forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Yeah. Oh, just

451
00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:04,200
Speaker 1: for the record, Ray texted me this earlier today. Twenty

452
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Speaker 1: four people picked Angela Lansbury and the Google pull twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty two for the John and Ken Show. That's a

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Speaker 1: that's a pretty high number. She did pass away at

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Speaker 1: the age of ninety six, so probably people have picked

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Speaker 1: her for years one point for all of you. Congratulations. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know what they do. I notice about the world

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Speaker 1: in general, you can see people living longer. How many

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Speaker 1: times have I looking at obituys people are in ninety seven,

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Speaker 1: ninety six, ninety eight. It used to be there'd be

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Speaker 1: a seventy eight or eighty or oh my god, I

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Speaker 1: know that bothers. You imagine being ninety seven, Well, what

463
00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:38,119
Speaker 1: was the last time you met somebody who was I

464
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Speaker 1: think Dick Van Dyke is ninety seventy still kind of

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Speaker 1: strolls around. He's the one guy having fun. That's exactly

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Speaker 1: my point. Every time you see him, it's like, oh

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Speaker 1: my god, look at look at it. Look how active

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Speaker 1: he is at ninety seven. It's like, yeah, he's the

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Speaker 1: only one. All right, we're gonna start playing the audio

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Speaker 1: the craziness today at the La City Council chambers. They

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Speaker 1: did have their usual Tuesday meeting. It comes just a

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Speaker 1: couple of days after the news broke about the leaked

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Speaker 1: audio involving three council members, the council President, Nouri Martinez,

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Speaker 1: good Old Gill Sadio and Kevin Dillone diss and everybody

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Speaker 1: as they talked about redistriccing with a powerful labor union

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Speaker 1: president who, by the way, resigned last night because basically

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Speaker 1: his union told them to get out. I belie didn't

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Speaker 1: have any choice. Yeah, Nouri Martinez has just taking a

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00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:29,359
Speaker 1: leave of absence, and the other two haven't said anything.

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Speaker 1: They showed up today and left. But as we as

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Speaker 1: I we're talking right now, they're still hanging on to

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Speaker 1: their positions. So we'll start with the member of the

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Speaker 1: city council that spoke first, and it's I guess understandable.

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00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:47,280
Speaker 1: It's Mike Bonnen because of all the people dissed on

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Speaker 1: this audio recording picking on his son. Yeah, well probably

486
00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:55,120
Speaker 1: was really awful. This is what sent the whole story

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00:28:55,160 --> 00:28:57,920
Speaker 1: into the stratosphere. Yeah, they could take it on a

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00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:04,360
Speaker 1: little three year old kid specifically because of his color. Yeah,

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00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:06,760
Speaker 1: it was. And then and then how many times that

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00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:10,080
Speaker 1: they've had this conversation where it wasn't recorded, right, right,

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Speaker 1: That's that's that's the lesson. It just sounds like it's

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Speaker 1: something familiar to them. The way they're talking about It's like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that kid acted up on the Barraine float. That guy, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and that's the point I wanted to make before. The

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Speaker 1: first thing Nuri Martinez did with her apology was lie

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Speaker 1: and say, well, it was just a heated moment. I

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Speaker 1: I that it was not a heating. Oh it's so offhanded.

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00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:33,040
Speaker 1: You can tell, Oh, that is such a lie, and

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Speaker 1: that that really shows you what a what a well

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Speaker 1: I was going to call her a bad word, but

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00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:40,640
Speaker 1: oh good, then you'll be in the news and then

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00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:42,360
Speaker 1: I'll be in the news. Yeah. No, that that's because

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Speaker 1: that's what she is. She's anything Polish, She conspue. You know,

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00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:48,720
Speaker 1: this is what's funny. When I was a kid, published

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00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:51,880
Speaker 1: jokes were really common, and I just never remember getting

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Speaker 1: upset about it. I just I don't have that gene

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00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:58,960
Speaker 1: in me. I just I never got offended that. It

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00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:01,560
Speaker 1: wasn't really common for people to be offended back then. No,

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00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:04,320
Speaker 1: I know, But that's the thing. It's like, it's because

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00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:06,600
Speaker 1: there was there was a lot of ethnic people that

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00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:09,080
Speaker 1: grew up in my town, and there were Italian jokes,

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Speaker 1: and there were Irish jokes, and there were published jokes

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00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:14,040
Speaker 1: and whatnot, and Jewish jokes, and I just that was

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00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:16,360
Speaker 1: just part of life, and nobody got mad. Kids would

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00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:20,360
Speaker 1: just tell them to each other. We'd all laugh. But

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00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:22,880
Speaker 1: now it's anybody, there's no laughter. I don't know. I

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00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:25,959
Speaker 1: hung out with a diverse group, but I don't remember

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Speaker 1: making jokes about anybody's ethnicity. Well I grew up blue collar.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I guess your Your dad wore a button

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00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:35,040
Speaker 1: down shirt to work. Big difference. So blue collar people

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00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:39,000
Speaker 1: like to put each other down. Yes they do. They

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Speaker 1: can find any advantage, right, if it's race, they'll use it, right. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but we we had an all white town. Oh all right,

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Speaker 1: so you have to go with the European races. That's right.

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Speaker 1: So it was the Europeans, the Italians, the Irish, that's right.

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Speaker 1: They were on there with the Those are the three

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Speaker 1: that were picked on back then. Well right, because the

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Speaker 1: Wasps and the Germans were on top. I see, all right.

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Speaker 1: Well we'll start with Mike Boden, who got pretty emotionally

530
00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:09,480
Speaker 1: took to the microphone to well, here he is saying

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Speaker 1: his piece. It kills us to know this is going

532
00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:14,160
Speaker 1: to happen a lot sooner than we like. When he

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00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:17,920
Speaker 1: does a Google search and he reads the actual words

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00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:22,440
Speaker 1: that were said, you know, and it's not my place

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Speaker 1: to forgive the slurs and the treatment of the Wahakanyo community,

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Speaker 1: or the Api community, or the Jewish community. It's not

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00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:34,160
Speaker 1: my place to forgive the coded comments against the gay community,

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00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:42,280
Speaker 1: or forgive the overwhelming, casual, joyful anti black racists of

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00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:46,560
Speaker 1: the entire conversation. And it's not my place to forgive

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Speaker 1: that coordinated effort to disenfranchise all these communities and all

541
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Speaker 1: these people. Don't get me wrong, I want. I want

542
00:31:58,640 --> 00:32:00,920
Speaker 1: to be able to forgive the fences against me and

543
00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:04,800
Speaker 1: my family, and I want to lead with with love

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00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:09,800
Speaker 1: and generosity and model the world we need to create.

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00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:14,360
Speaker 1: And I promise you'll try. You know what, It's really

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00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:16,400
Speaker 1: hard for me to sit and listen to him, and

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00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:18,800
Speaker 1: I I'm holding back. I mean, the thought bubble in

548
00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:20,840
Speaker 1: my head is different than what I'm going to express.

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00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:25,120
Speaker 1: Oh darn, I'm gonna see if I can read the bombing.

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00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:27,440
Speaker 1: I express part of what I'm thinking, not all of it.

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00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:31,320
Speaker 1: And I understand it's it's very, very hurtful that his

552
00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:37,920
Speaker 1: kid was attacked like this publicly. Um, but he's he's

553
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:41,160
Speaker 1: he's done so much damage want and lead to other

554
00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:44,320
Speaker 1: people's lives with his policies on the West Side and

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00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:48,040
Speaker 1: he's been brutally rude to so many people who've tried

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00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:50,280
Speaker 1: to come to him and say, hey, Mike, can you

557
00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:55,600
Speaker 1: make life better? And and you know it, there need

558
00:32:55,680 --> 00:33:00,200
Speaker 1: there always should have been some way, some way to

559
00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:06,640
Speaker 1: get to get him out of office. And it's just

560
00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:09,400
Speaker 1: hard for him to talk about the sensitivity and how

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00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:11,360
Speaker 1: he wants to make this place a better world. And

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00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:14,320
Speaker 1: this is what he worked for. Because he didn't, he

563
00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:18,360
Speaker 1: made his district much worse and a lot of people

564
00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:21,360
Speaker 1: were in a lot of pain and a lot of fear,

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Speaker 1: and there's been a lot of death from all the

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Speaker 1: criminals allowed to run him off. I don't think it's

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Speaker 1: an accident that he got picked on by these three

568
00:33:30,120 --> 00:33:33,400
Speaker 1: because I don't think he's liked by his fellow council members. No,

569
00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:36,520
Speaker 1: because he is abrasive. Yeah, I admitted that up front.

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00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:39,360
Speaker 1: He says, I probably brought a lot of this on.

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Speaker 1: But Dan had veered into his son and that gave

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00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:44,880
Speaker 1: him a moral high ground. You know that he does.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you can't take that from him because of

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Speaker 1: what happened. But it's hard to feel a lot of

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00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:52,080
Speaker 1: sympathy too, because of my personal feelings about him and

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00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:56,080
Speaker 1: his personality and just his manner. Yeah, and to me,

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00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:58,000
Speaker 1: there was a little bit of soaking this in. That's

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00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:01,200
Speaker 1: just how I looked at it today when I heard him. Yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: I mean that's that's kind of was the message from

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00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:09,759
Speaker 1: Di Leone and Nuri Martinez and Sadio is that he

581
00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:15,600
Speaker 1: likes to posture and that he likes to virtue signal. Yes,

582
00:34:15,680 --> 00:34:18,560
Speaker 1: of course, they took it too far, and they accused

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00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:20,960
Speaker 1: him of using his son as a way of posturing

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00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:23,560
Speaker 1: and virtue signaling. And I remember even when they were

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Speaker 1: attempting the recall against him, he even seemed sort of

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00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:28,240
Speaker 1: proud of that. He likes to kind of be the victim.

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00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:30,120
Speaker 1: They're trying to recall me the John and Ken's show

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00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:33,560
Speaker 1: when their proponents. So I'm kind of living that up.

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00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:37,520
Speaker 1: You know, I'll sympathize him to the point that it's

590
00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:40,640
Speaker 1: his son, but you know, the other ninety nine percent

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00:34:40,719 --> 00:34:45,319
Speaker 1: of his existence has just been horrific as far as

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00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:48,040
Speaker 1: the people on the West Side are concerned. All right,

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00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:49,879
Speaker 1: when we come back, we'll play the clip where he

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00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:55,120
Speaker 1: curses apparently drops him. Yeah, and he actually takes one

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00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:58,799
Speaker 1: of the words from the recording and uses it in

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Speaker 1: a context. That's Mike Bunning. We're talking about more coming

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Speaker 1: up calf I Am six forty live everywhere, on the

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Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app, Debrah Mark Live in the twenty four hour

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Speaker 1: Calfine Newsroom