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Speaker 2: and maybe you missed it. The show today we had

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Speaker 2: Michael MChE on talking about how Trump is now going

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Speaker 2: to be taking over the oil and gas policy in California.

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Speaker 2: They're they're gonna start pumping oil off the coast of

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Speaker 2: Santa Barbara, and USC professor Michael Machey explained what that

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Speaker 2: that's about.

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Speaker 1: You should listen to that right now.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna talk to Jamie Page from the California Post.

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Speaker 2: This story keeps popping up, and every time it pops up,

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Speaker 2: it gets worse and worse. Karen Vass has spent twenty

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Speaker 2: million dollars of your tax money here in Los Angeles

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Speaker 2: on a on an old Ramata inn on Washington Avenue.

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Speaker 2: It's near Venice Beach. It's supposed to be homeless housing

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Speaker 2: twenty million dollars. Nobody is in it still. It's been

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Speaker 2: over five years. Thirty one thirty West Washington Boulevard. Let's

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Speaker 2: it's supposed to be interim housing. Let's get to Jamie

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Speaker 2: Page on Jamie, how are you good?

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Speaker 3: How are you John?

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Speaker 1: What? What is this? Keeps?

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Speaker 2: Every few months we do this story and every few

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Speaker 2: months the price tag is higher and there's still nobody there.

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Speaker 2: And according to your story, it's now costing about six

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Speaker 2: hundred and twenty five thousand dollars per room per room.

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Speaker 3: And you know, we always like to hold the mayor accountable,

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Speaker 3: but this isn't Mike Bonnen special. This was in twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty and he had actually pushed this deal through without

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Speaker 3: doing it correctly, and that's why it's sitting empty still.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, twenty two million dollars and facility we can't use.

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Speaker 1: And what's the big hold up?

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Speaker 3: The I mean the hold up basically is that they

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Speaker 3: bought a facility that doesn't meet the standards that are

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Speaker 3: required in our city for homeless. There's a checklist that

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Speaker 3: you need to go through. And when we bought the facility,

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Speaker 3: they basically had to gut the entire thing and renovate it.

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Speaker 3: And that's what we're doing right now.

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Speaker 1: And they didn't do this inspection before they bought it.

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Speaker 3: They didn't and it might be too much in the weeds.

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Speaker 3: But when he bought it, this was during COVID when

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Speaker 3: we were putting all the homeless in hotels.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you remember that that was.

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Speaker 3: Room key, right, So we were Mike Bonnan actually had

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Speaker 3: them removed from the hotel, kicked out the homeless so

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Speaker 3: that he could start these renovations.

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Speaker 2: Oh wait wait, so we had homeless in the Ramada

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Speaker 2: in and he tossed him back out in the street

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Speaker 2: to renovate the Ramada.

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Speaker 2: And five years later, more than five years later, they're

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's still not finished. I mean they have to

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Speaker 3: the entire building had to be redone restructure, they needed

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Speaker 3: to put kitchenettes, basically make these facilities that are like

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Speaker 3: you know, in the process of renovating it. Path Ventures,

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Speaker 3: who was on the hook to get this, basically said

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Speaker 3: they don't have the money to put into this, so

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Speaker 3: we just keep the city and county and some state

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Speaker 1: This is crazy.

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Speaker 2: All they had to do was take a tour of

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Speaker 2: the building, right before they signed the papers.

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Speaker 3: Right, and you know we're working on a follow up store.

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Speaker 3: But this is not the only facility, as you know,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but they don't care, do they. And it's not

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Speaker 3: And six d and twenty five thousand dollars a room,

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Speaker 3: but six hundred and twenty five a room, not for

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Speaker 2: In most of the country, you could get a pretty

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Speaker 3: I'm from the Midwest, that'd buy you a nice house

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, but buy a nice house in New Jersey too.

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Speaker 2: And even so, there's only thirty two units, So they're

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Speaker 1: Twenty two million dollars and they're gonna end up helping

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Speaker 3: Thirty two people. It's it's mind bobbling. This is why

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Speaker 3: we have a homeless crisis in Los Angeles because we

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Speaker 3: don't think through projects like these. This was it just

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Speaker 3: of projects that we have in Los Angeles, as you know, and.

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Speaker 2: You wrote that even the permits took twenty months. Now

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Speaker 2: now they they're issuing permits to themselves here. How does

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Speaker 3: The head scratcher, isn't it. It's a I don't have

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Speaker 3: an answer for you for that when I wish I

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Speaker 3: did just following the money and trying to keep track

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Speaker 3: of everything. You know, I think a lot of times

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Speaker 3: this city and the county are their own worst enemies

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Speaker 3: when it comes to budding money getting things done.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's not that hard. I mean, there's I get

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Speaker 2: you know. I I spent some time in Florida. There's

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Speaker 2: construction going up left and right, up and down the block.

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Speaker 2: It's booming like crazy in all the cities in Florida,

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Speaker 2: and they don't have it every Every time I go

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Speaker 1: They're buildings so quickly. What do we do here? We

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Speaker 1: can't even hammer and nail into into a tub by four.

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Speaker 3: Well that and you know there's a lot of lawsuits

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Speaker 3: out there too that get us caught up. Yes, there's

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Speaker 3: again where we're owners. Wouldn't own the worst enemies when

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Speaker 3: it comes to trying to figure this homeless crisis out,

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Speaker 3: and we can't. As comes a woman Tracy Park says,

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Speaker 3: this is in her district. We can't spend our way

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Speaker 1: This is stupid, This is incredibly stupid. Well, Jamie, thank

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Speaker 1: you very much for the story.

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Speaker 3: Always a pleasure.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Jamie Page for the California Post. At the moment,

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Speaker 2: it's costing US six hundred and twenty five thousand dollars

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Speaker 2: to build or renovate an old Ramada in thirty two units.

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Speaker 1: And I guess it's the size of the hotel room.

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Speaker 2: And they're adding a kitchenette, twenty two million dollars of

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Speaker 2: This is so wasteful, so stupid, so incompetent, so corrupt.

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Speaker 2: Mike bonn In, Mike bon In enters a deal that's

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Speaker 2: going to cost this twenty two million, and he never

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Speaker 2: be complying with all the idiotic rules.

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Speaker 1: They've created what a bozo.

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Speaker 2: What they're still there's still forty percent of the people

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Speaker 2: he ran again.

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Speaker 2: Forty caf I AM six forty more stimulating talk radio.

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Speaker 2: I've said from time to time that Gavin Newsom is

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Speaker 2: a narcissistic psychopath. He's a compulsive, pathological liar. I've got

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Speaker 2: an example. I played this earlier in the show. Well

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Speaker 2: you know what, I'm gonna play it in just a moment.

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Speaker 2: But first Trump went off on today, listened to about

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Speaker 2: a minute of Trump disemboweling Newsomb.

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Speaker 5: Do you know in California, if you ask a person

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Speaker 5: to show their identification, they have the right to put

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Speaker 6: If you're an official and you said, man.

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Speaker 5: Plaee your identification, you're subject to.

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Speaker 6: Going to jail. That's how crazy it's gotten with a

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Speaker 6: low IQ person. You know, because Gavin Newscomb has admitted

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Speaker 6: that he is a that he has learning disabilities.

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Speaker 5: Honestly, I'm all for people with learning disabilities, but not

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Speaker 5: for my president.

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Speaker 6: I don't want I think a president should not have

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Speaker 6: a learning disabilities.

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Speaker 5: Okay, and I know it's highly controversial to say it's

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Speaker 5: such a horrible thing. The President of the United States,

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Speaker 5: Gavin Newscomb, admitted that he has learning disabilities, dyslexia, everything

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Speaker 5: about him is dumb.

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Speaker 6: But then he looked at the audience said said, but

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Speaker 6: pretty similar.

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Speaker 5: So now, on top of everything else, I call him

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Speaker 6: I will tell you this.

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Speaker 5: I think it was the worst interview I've ever seen

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Speaker 5: of any human being in my life.

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Speaker 2: Okay, he actually said I'm dumb like you. It was

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Speaker 2: Biden who said to a black audience, I'm smarter than you.

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Speaker 2: But either way, we do have a problem because Newsom

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Speaker 2: has a ninety three IQ and that's what a nine

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Speaker 1: You can look it up yourself.

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Speaker 2: Just take a nine to sixty SAT score, go ask, go,

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Speaker 2: ask any of the uh I went up. I put

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Speaker 2: he's not that bright. And I'll prove to you he's

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Speaker 2: this at a podcast at the south By Southwest conference

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Speaker 7: We have the most progressive tass rates in America. Texas

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Speaker 7: the most regressive. Texas taxes poor folks more than we

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Speaker 7: tax are riches. The question for you is who's the

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Speaker 7: higher tax state, California or Texas.

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Speaker 8: Who are you for? Are you just for the one

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Speaker 8: the other regressive tax state.

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Speaker 7: Your middle class paying more taxes in Texas than our

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Speaker 6: It's a great mythology.

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Speaker 7: It's just the richest and the rich come here because

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Speaker 7: they can avoid paying a damn penny.

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Speaker 2: That's a complete lie. He followed up online with a

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Speaker 2: real high tax states. Well, Jeremy paddiwork who we've had

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Speaker 2: in the Palisades. He did the breakdown of where California, Texas,

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Speaker 2: and Florida ranks for taxes fifty thousand dollars that level, right,

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Speaker 2: You make fifty thousand a year, California has the fourth

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Speaker 2: highest tax rate, Texas is thirty fourth, and Florida is

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Speaker 2: taxed to the higher rate. Huge lie, But again, it's

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Speaker 2: what a low IQ person does. Ninety three IQ. You've

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Speaker 2: botched up so many things in California. You just have

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Speaker 2: up and do the calculation. So you're making fifty grand

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Speaker 2: California fourth highest tax Texas thirty fourth, Florida forty third.

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Speaker 2: At one hundred thousand dollars a year income, California is fourth,

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Speaker 2: Texas thirty fourth, Flordalorida forty third. Let's say you're making

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Speaker 2: say you make a million, California highest taxes first, Texas

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Speaker 2: Florida and Texas mostly in the forties. That's the truth.

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Speaker 2: Then part two of this is, well, what is he

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Speaker 9: He's just lying and gas lighting as he is on

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Speaker 6: And doctor Oz is absolutely right.

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Speaker 9: We need cooperation with the federal government when I'm governor,

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Speaker 1: And what are they doing about it?

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Speaker 3: Nothing?

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Speaker 9: Because they have total contempt for taxpayers. They don't consider

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Speaker 2: You got that four hundred thirty four billion dollars. According

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Speaker 2: waste going on. Only somebody with a ninety three IQ

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Speaker 2: can create this particular type of financial health for all

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Speaker 2: of us and then go out out to Texas and

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Speaker 2: lie about it. We're coming up.

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Speaker 2: We're talking about Governor ninety three IQ and how he

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Speaker 2: has just blatantly lied at the South By Southwest Festival

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Speaker 1: Total lie.

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Speaker 2: California is somewhere in the top four in all the

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Speaker 2: Texas are mostly in the forties in the state ranking.

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Speaker 2: All right, so it's a total lie, and he attracted

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Speaker 2: a lot of bad people to work with him. We've

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Speaker 2: told you about Ian chowdri That a loser who runs

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Speaker 2: high speed Rail, who has has a girlfriend, and he

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Speaker 2: four million dollar contract with an accounting firm, and like magic,

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Speaker 2: Ian Chowdery's girlfriend is working for them. And then you

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Speaker 2: have his former chief of staff, Dana Williamson. Well, she

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Speaker 2: claiming she stole two hundred and twenty five thousand dollars

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Speaker 2: to be a state official. She also claimed a million

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Speaker 2: in luxury handbags and travel as business expenses on her

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Speaker 10: Are you kidding?

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Speaker 1: No, No, don't do that.

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Speaker 10: I don't have anything. Oh geez, I hardly have anything. John.

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Speaker 2: She had a million dollars and luxury handbags and travels.

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Speaker 10: So jealous.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and she just doesn't look like that fashionable type girl,

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Speaker 2: if you know what I mean, if you take a

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Speaker 2: look at her right now. She also drinks a tremendous amount.

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Speaker 2: She blew out her liver and she got a successful

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: And should she be on the top of the list

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Speaker 2: there considering all these charges against her, they have two

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Speaker 2: hundred and eighty thousand pages of discovery.

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Speaker 1: Why did I bring her name up?

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Speaker 2: There was a reason for this because, accurring to the

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Speaker 2: Los Angeles Times, Dana Williamson, the chief of staff, was

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Speaker 2: giving a big payout as she left fifty two thousand

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Speaker 10: Oh you kidding?

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Speaker 2: Yes, fifty two thousand dollars for unused vacation time, thirty

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Speaker 2: thousand for previous time unused, then twenty two thousand for

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Speaker 2: the hours that she left behind at the time.

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Speaker 1: She quit.

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Speaker 2: Right when she quit, she had the before time and

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Speaker 2: she had the current time. It added up to fifty

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Speaker 2: two thousand dollars. Then she gets arrested for federal corruption charges.

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Speaker 2: Now she only spent two years on the job as

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Speaker 2: his chief of staff. You know how many hours of

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Speaker 2: hundred and sixty two hours of vacation time, and I

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Speaker 2: guess personal days and whatever they whatever else they call it.

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Speaker 10: In two years, I'm in the wrong business.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know what you do.

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Speaker 10: Look what am I doing.

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Speaker 1: She's got the luxury handbags.

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Speaker 2: Yeah I know.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, she's flying around.

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Speaker 10: Yeah I'm not.

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Speaker 1: Well, you are, but you land and you destroy the countries.

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Speaker 10: You land not flying around that much.

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Speaker 2: Last year, this is a this is a problem throughout government.

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Speaker 2: Eighty state employees took home God, eighty state employees took

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Speaker 2: home a quarter of a million dollars last year an

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Speaker 2: This does not go on in the private sector. Nobody

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Speaker 2: a quarter million dollars. I mean, I know here, after

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Speaker 2: You have a hard limit, and if you go over

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Speaker 10: You have new some hiring.

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Speaker 2: Hey, he's got a campaign. You should be his campaign spokeshole.

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Speaker 1: She won't last very long with that, because I don't

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Speaker 1: think his campaign will be too long. No, I know

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Speaker 1: that'd be a short term gig, but I'd still have a.

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Speaker 10: Lot of unused vacation time. And he paid.

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Speaker 2: The state paid out, Oh my god. In twenty twenty four,

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Speaker 2: the state paid out one point two million dollars to

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Speaker 2: a prison dentist unused time off. Not making that up

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Speaker 2: one point two million for a dentist.

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Speaker 10: Well, they have to go into all those mouths.

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Speaker 1: All those criminal mouths. Well he never took a day

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Speaker 2: You think he'd be one of the if I had

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Speaker 2: to go into a criminal's mouth every day.

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Speaker 10: For other day.

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Speaker 1: Instead, he took no vacation time.

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Speaker 10: He's dedicated.

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Speaker 2: He had a million dollars waiting for him. The state

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Speaker 2: owed in twenty twenty four five and a half billion

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Speaker 2: dollars for unused vacation and other leave benefits. Last year,

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Speaker 2: the winner was an assistant fire chief with the California

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Speaker 2: working the Palisades fire. He got six hundred and fifty

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Speaker 1: This is really so.

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Speaker 2: This woman got fifty thousand dollars and she's up on

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Speaker 2: all kinds of federal charges, tax charges, stealing money from

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Speaker 1: She got a free new liver.

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Speaker 10: I'll take her handbags and all of that.

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Speaker 1: You don't what the liver.

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Speaker 10: I think mine's okay.

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Speaker 2: Now, according to the story I read, she drank like

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Speaker 2: then you know you really got some issues. So a

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Speaker 2: gas disaster. Trump is now going to be dictating some

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Speaker 2: of the oil policy. He has reopened oil pumping and

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Speaker 2: They've got oil and storage. They can pump more oil.

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Speaker 2: And because we're in desperate need of oil here in California,

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Speaker 2: It will be talking more about it in the coming days.

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Speaker 2: You know about the hospice fraud here in California that

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Speaker 2: Newsom is allowed.

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Speaker 1: This is so exhausting.

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Speaker 2: We got several investigations that have all come to the

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Speaker 2: same conclusion. CBS News, Fox News, a Republican assembly Woman

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Speaker 2: Alexandria Messdo, and the Health and Human Services as well.

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Speaker 2: It's the Medicare and Medicaid director, doctor Memdo's four different

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Speaker 2: investigations and they all found that in Van Nuys there

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Speaker 2: The hospices don't really exist as a physical entity. There

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Speaker 2: Daily News. So this is the fifth investigation. They found

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Speaker 2: that there are forty hospices registered to an address in

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Speaker 2: van Nis fourteen five four five Friar Street. They build

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Speaker 2: Medicare for thirty eight million dollars in twenty twenty three,

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Speaker 2: and in fact, there is a building that has eighty

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Speaker 2: nine hospices registered there. And this is a newsom production.

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Speaker 2: He just they just don't follow up on. So all

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Speaker 2: the bad guys know you can. You can create these

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Speaker 2: And it's all run through California. One hospice administrator told

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Speaker 2: received letters now asking for patient records. This is the

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Speaker 2: doctor Oz investigation. So now these tenants have gotten lawyers

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Speaker 2: Combe's Morabi and he says now he's not getting paid

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Speaker 2: rent and he's angry that the government is sending these

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Speaker 2: it's negatively impacted our business operations and reputation. Well, somebody

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Speaker 2: ought to tell combi's to visit these offices and they'll

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Speaker 2: find that there are no businesses there. There are no hospices,

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Speaker 2: they don't have any patients, they don't have any dead bodies.

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Speaker 2: Most of the people who go to a hospice nearly

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Speaker 2: all of them come out deceased. Yeah, the Daily News

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Speaker 2: story went through all the other investigations for doctor Oz video.

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Speaker 2: CBS News on March tenths as LA is ground zero

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Speaker 2: and identified the Friar Street building as the most extreme

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Speaker 2: the same Friday Street building. One hundred and ninety seven

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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, CBS said, there's five hundred and a

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Speaker 2: three mile ratus radius. There's one hundred and thirty seven

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Speaker 1: Newsom keeps putting out.

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Speaker 2: Posts saying, well, we cracked down on this in twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty one. He crackdown on it twenty twenty six. Now

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah.

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