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Speaker 1: This is hard to believe. How many times do I

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Speaker 2: I was going to say, if you've taken the bus

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Speaker 2: in Los Angeles, maybe you noticed, except nobody takes the

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Speaker 2: bus in Los Angeles except criminals, mental patients, drug addicts.

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Speaker 1: And illegal aliens. But I think it's.

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Speaker 2: Safe to say that in our specific, specific targeted audience,

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Speaker 2: nobody's taken the bus in LA. If you did take

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Speaker 2: the bus in LA, odds are you'd run across people

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Speaker 2: doing the number two right there on the seat on

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Speaker 2: what it's like to be a bus driver. There is

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Speaker 2: no amount of money in the world. I'd rather be

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Speaker 1: It goes and I'm.

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Speaker 2: Not exaggerating, it goes on so much that they actually

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Speaker 1: Report it. And Jamie Page broke.

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Speaker 2: This story for the California Post and now everybody else

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Speaker 1: But we have Jamie right here. How are you, Jamie,

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Speaker 3: I was wondering what the setup for this.

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Speaker 2: Would be, but this we got word of this last night.

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Speaker 1: And have you on.

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Speaker 2: Tell us how you discovered this, because I don't think

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Speaker 3: Either, or I'm just interested in public safety in general,

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Speaker 3: as you know, it's one of my beats. So I've

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Speaker 3: been taking the bus working on a story about public

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Speaker 1: And it's a cartoon.

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Speaker 2: And I've seen somebody took because they've pulled the videos

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Speaker 2: seen somebody took a video of you that was your video, okay.

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Speaker 2: So you could see this cartoon trying to get this

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Speaker 3: They used pictures, the cartoon pictures. And this morning I

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Speaker 3: as well too, and a mom and her young kid

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Speaker 3: were watching the loops for entertainment on the bus. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And so that's hard, that's that's hard. That's our tax money.

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Speaker 1: That went into our tax money.

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Speaker 2: Somebody had to design the cartoon and produce it and.

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Speaker 3: Yeah mao, And it was a good idea. I think

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Speaker 1: You're gonna have to burn your clothing.

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Speaker 3: I actually then went and read some articles that the

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Speaker 3: because of the cloth that they were using on our buses.

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Speaker 2: No, no, yeah, wait yeah, what are wait wait wait?

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Speaker 2: What were they using on the buses?

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Speaker 3: The cloth that they used, they couldn't keep up with

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Speaker 1: Should on the seats.

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Speaker 3: Oh, and the the bus I was on did have

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Speaker 2: Did anybody with the Llie Department of Transportation talk to

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Speaker 3: I got an email this afternoon. They responded they didn't

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Speaker 3: the bus campaign. So it is a campaign?

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Speaker 1: Is a campaign?

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Speaker 2: Well because it's crazy people, right, it's all these homeless

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Speaker 2: by now that you're not supposed to take a dump

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Speaker 2: help here. These people are living in their own fantasy world.

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Speaker 2: Their brains have been destroyed by drugs. They're not going

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Speaker 3: One bus had to pull over when we were taking

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Speaker 2: So nobody got back to you at all. I don't

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Speaker 2: I mean, I've lived in New York, I lived in Chicago,

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Speaker 2: I took public transit. I do not remember anti pooping

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Speaker 3: Maybe there I'm from Chicago as well. We took the

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Speaker 3: remember a campaign. Nor are people defecating on the bus.

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Speaker 3: It was not a problem, and.

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Speaker 2: They don't try to stop this behavior and enforce the law.

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Speaker 2: If you start putting people in jail, which is what

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Speaker 2: they used to do with people who would defecate publicly,

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Speaker 2: you go to jail, and instead they play them cartoons.

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Speaker 3: That scratcher, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: Are you sure this is real? You didn't make this

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Speaker 3: Real, I did not make this one up, all right,

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Speaker 3: the reporting of it.

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Speaker 2: So they pulled it off the website, but they still

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Speaker 2: I guess they're still running these videos on the buses themselves.

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Speaker 3: I went back on this morning it was running. You know.

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Speaker 3: My questions were, as well, we're laughing at this, but

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Speaker 3: we what are the desired results of these videos? As

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Speaker 3: you said, we should just be pulling the bus over

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Speaker 1: To have any effect. These people are insane. You're not

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Speaker 3: By the way, the other cartoons don't drink and there's

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Speaker 3: like these people who had the you know, exclamation points

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Speaker 3: I mean, all the obvious that you just don't do

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Speaker 2: I see a screen shot in one of the news stories.

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Speaker 2: They used a poop emoji with two eyeballs and like

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Speaker 2: what you should not leave on the bus.

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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, this is this is our city. Taxpayers, you've

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Speaker 2: And they have a no pooping symbol where they've got

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Speaker 3: I just don't want to be known as the poop reporter,

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Speaker 3: but it counds to be interesting, nonetheless, But this is

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Speaker 2: This is the funniest story of the year. Jamie Page,

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Speaker 2: thank you for coming on.

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Speaker 3: Thanks John, Take care from.

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Speaker 2: The California Post. Now, I went on the Department of

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Speaker 2: of all these uh low IQ bureaucratic bozos. Some of

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Speaker 2: these people must have signed off on this. I don't

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Speaker 2: them because nobody stopped this nonsense. You're supposed to kick

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Speaker 2: what you do. You don't play them cartoons. We'll do

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Speaker 2: that next. How about the bed bugs on the bus?

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I don't see you're taking a bus anytime.

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Speaker 2: And today's story is that the LA Department of Transportation,

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Speaker 2: it's a city agency, runs videos on the buses trying

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Speaker 2: to cajole people into not taking a dump on the bus,

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Speaker 2: not pooping, not defecating. And they have a program called

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Speaker 2: see Something, Do Something. In other words, if you see

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Speaker 2: report him. Yeah, that's a good idea.

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Speaker 5: Oh, I thought you wanted me to wipe for him. Well,

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Speaker 5: you know, I said do something. I don't know what

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Speaker 5: do something mean? Baby, that's what they meant. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Who's responsible for this. We're gonna name names here.

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Speaker 2: Well, here's a winner, the general manager of the Department

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Speaker 2: of Transportation. She's in charge of the buses, and she

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Speaker 2: thinks it's okay to let people defecate on the bus.

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Speaker 2: You you don't throw them off the bus, you don't

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Speaker 2: have them arrested. You run an instructional video hoping that

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Speaker 2: the hint, because you know why they had poop emojis

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Speaker 2: thought we could get some audio for this, and there

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Speaker 2: isn't any real audio. You're supposed to just watch the

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Speaker 2: cartoon and if you follow the cartoon and right, and

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Speaker 2: if you're whacked out on meth, I don't think you

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Speaker 2: could follow the cartoon. You got your own cartoons playing

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Speaker 2: in your head. If you get if you're schizophrenic, it's

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Speaker 2: the same deal. But her name is Laura Rubio, Cornejo.

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Speaker 2: Of course, a hyphenated name. It's always a highphenated name.

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Speaker 2: Laura Rubio Cornejo. What a brilliant woman.

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Speaker 1: This is.

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Speaker 2: Everybody, since the beginning of time learns how to hold

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Speaker 2: it in. I had three boys, there was a lot

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Speaker 2: of toilet training, okay, a tremendous amount of toilet training.

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Speaker 2: And there were diapers in case there's a problem. Right,

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Speaker 2: I had elderly parents.

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Speaker 6: What about explosive diarrhea? Can't always hold that in?

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Speaker 2: What's with the impossible questions today?

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Speaker 1: All right?

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Speaker 2: The chief of staff, here we go, Yessenia Ris. Yes,

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Speaker 2: Senia Ris, chief of staff. I'm sure she was in

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Speaker 6: Or next we're going to put million dollar toilets on

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Speaker 2: Or they were Actually they pooh in their seats and

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Speaker 6: Else are they doing it? Just they're going to just

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Speaker 2: Please re elect her when we come back. You may

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Speaker 2: have heard Ebber doing this news story. I've just read

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Speaker 2: More proof that Karen Bass and the Los Angeles Fire

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Speaker 2: I don't have enough time to do everything today. I

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Speaker 6: But who are they going to say something to?

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Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know if there's can you imagine.

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Speaker 6: If you say something to the pooper, then the pooper

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right, you're they got a weapon there.

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Speaker 6: Okay, that one you really can't control it usually right.

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Speaker 2: Usually, yeah, oh god can smell vomit?

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Speaker 1: Is that the worst?

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Speaker 1: All right, you got your choices here, you got you

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Speaker 2: You're in a vomit which is the one that's worse, Well,

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Speaker 2: And they wouldn't tell Jamie Page the cost of this

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I'm sure there's like a fifty two percent and.

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Speaker 6: Poop and vomit on these buses. Are they really gonna

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Speaker 1: They're looking up there and you got it. Decode it too.

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Speaker 2: Because there it's it's not it's not there's no verbal

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Speaker 2: pooping is not legal on the bus. I'll hold it

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Speaker 2: if yeah, do they now do they have a cartoon?

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Speaker 2: If somebody try to hold it it, this is what

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Speaker 2: you do. I could go on all day. But something

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Speaker 2: and boy, they should get they should get a shelf

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Speaker 2: full of Pulitzer Prizes for the reporting they've done. Paul

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Speaker 2: Pringle and a lean check median. They have another one.

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Speaker 2: They found a Los Angeles Fire Department confidential memo designed

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Speaker 2: to protect Karen Bass from reputational harm. That is the quote,

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Speaker 2: reputational harm related to the Palisades fire. And remember, the

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Speaker 1: Remember this, we're.

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Speaker 5: Closer to learning who ordered down this report, and you

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Speaker 7: So, just like the mayor's State of the City address,

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Speaker 7: I think we need to look forward.

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Speaker 1: We need to look for what's ahead, that's behind us.

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Speaker 1: Wasn't kind of want those answers?

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Speaker 2: Well, I understand that, but they have to understand what

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Speaker 1: I've taken ownership.

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Speaker 2: Yes, that response was written by a public relations company

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Speaker 2: And this is going to go on for quite some time.

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Speaker 2: We'll be back all over this on Monday as well,

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Speaker 2: so you don't miss anything, all right, and do go

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Speaker 2: to the podcast. They had a lot of good stuff today.

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Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobbels on demand from KFI A sixty.

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

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Speaker 2: Say Kashani, an attorney from the Palisades who lost his home.

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Speaker 2: He's one of the few people who shows up at

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Speaker 2: put on another cover. Seriously, they're closing it for a

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Speaker 2: that the La Fire Department issued plans to protect Karen

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Speaker 1: Why are they worried about that?

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Speaker 2: Who in the LA media does tough questions and answers?

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Speaker 2: I could think of two, but most of me I'll

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Speaker 2: never forget at Steve Gregor is here and he played

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Speaker 2: all the LA Times reporters there were, and some of

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Speaker 2: the other media reporters, we're all really young women. And

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Speaker 2: the way they approached Garcetti, who of course was making

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Speaker 2: all kinds of horrific decisions involving the COVID shutdowns, they said, well.

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Speaker 7: Mister mayor, thank you very much for your time. I

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Speaker 7: know you're really busy, and I can't tell you how

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Speaker 7: much I appreciate you spending time with us.

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Speaker 1: That was the tone of the questioning.

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Speaker 2: So I don't know what they were afraid of exactly,

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Speaker 2: but they decided they had to have efforts to minimize

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Speaker 2: tough question and answers. They wanted closed door briefings with

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Speaker 2: the Fire Commission and the city Council. Close door briefings.

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Speaker 2: UH October ninth, email from LA spokesol Captain Eric Scott.

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Speaker 2: We're paying him. Any additional interviews with the fire chief

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Speaker 2: would depend on the mayor's guidance. That was when Ronnie

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Speaker 2: Vanaweva was the fire chief. By the way, he's not

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Speaker 2: talking at all. Regarding a press conference, I would be

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Speaker 2: cautious as it could invite a high volume of challenging questions,

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Speaker 2: and this would be contingent on the mayor's direction. Everything

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Speaker 2: they've done for the last year is avoid telling the truth.

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Speaker 2: Everything they've done is to avoid responsibility. Everything they've done

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Speaker 2: is to deny all the victims of the fire and

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Speaker 2: all the taxpayers who pay for this nonsense, any truth

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Speaker 2: at all about how bad a job they did. All

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Speaker 2: they want is to keep their paychecks going, keep their

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Speaker 2: pensions intact, and past wants reelection, and they couldn't care

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Speaker 2: less that twelve people died in the fire, and they

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Speaker 2: couldn't care less that thousands of people, thousands of families

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Speaker 2: lost their homes. They couldn't care less that these families

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Speaker 2: can't get permits to build new homes. They couldn't care

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Speaker 2: less that the insurance companies we won't play fair and

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Speaker 2: issue checks to cover the losses. They don't care. They

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Speaker 2: just have these hacks like himI Moore coming up with

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Speaker 2: these convoluted answers that evade and dodge and avoid. They

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Speaker 2: don't speak English anymore of these people, and they get defensive.

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Speaker 1: It's like, well, why do you want to know anyway?

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Speaker 1: You're just gonna blame us.

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Speaker 2: It's yeah, we're just gonna blame you, blame you, sue you,

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Speaker 2: jail you. How about that, blame you, sue you, jail you.

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Speaker 2: And what are you gonna do? Because we talked with

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Speaker 2: Roger Bailey yesterday and he's the lead attorney for the

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Speaker 2: Palisades attorneys. You can't avoid this forever. The judge is filing,

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Speaker 2: uh is making decisions to let all the lawsuits go forward.

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Speaker 2: You got depositions company coming. You got to tell the

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Speaker 2: truth under oath or or is bass going to hire

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Speaker 2: her fifteen taxpayer paid attorneys again to avoid telling the

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Speaker 2: truth under oath about the fire, the way she avoided

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Speaker 2: telling the truth under oath about the two billion dollars

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Speaker 2: in homeless money that's missing, and some of that, for

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Speaker 2: sure was taken by her friends. Why are we living

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Speaker 2: like this? We don't have to live like this. Why

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Speaker 2: are we living like this? Why in God's name hasn't

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Speaker 2: she been forced out of office? Why in God's name

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Speaker 2: are people going to vote for her or even worse,

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Speaker 2: Nythia Rahman, Why are people doing what they're doing. I

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Speaker 2: don't understand all this. These are bad people. They have

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Speaker 2: no morality, they have no conscience, They're sociopaths, some cases psychopaths.

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Speaker 2: These are dark, dark, destructive, selfish people. And Karen bass

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Speaker 2: is at the top of the list. Well, we're going

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Speaker 2: to keep on top of this thing, that's for sure.

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Speaker 2: And the public relations companies, there's a there's a one

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Speaker 2: PR company called Lead L E. DE and apparently they

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Speaker 2: were involved in some of this, some of this nonsense.

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Speaker 2: I thought the cover up is worse than the crime.

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Speaker 2: That's what they always said. Why why why are these

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Speaker 2: people not not out of office? Why are they not

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Speaker 2: in jail. Why are they not in jail? All Right,

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Speaker 2: we come back, sayed Kashani, the attorney from the Palisades.

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Speaker 2: He went to the DWP meeting. Those clowns and Bozo's

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Speaker 2: are gonna, are gonna are The Tantis Reservoir is gonna

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Speaker 2: be empty for a year again.

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Speaker 1: They're getting a new cover.

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Speaker 2: Seriously, Deborah Mark live in the CAFI twenty four hour Newsroom.

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