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Speaker 2: And Soon Chang is a doctor, he knows medicine, but

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Speaker 2: But what are you gonna do? Let's go to Californiaglobe

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Speaker 2: internet that is replacing traditional newspapers because they do regular journalism,

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Speaker 2: investigative journalism. We have Katie Grimes coming on with us

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Speaker 2: from California Globe and she has discovered that in Sacramento

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Speaker 2: Four hundred and seventy eight thousand dollars a unit, four

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Speaker 2: right now? Three hundred to four hundred per square foot,

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Speaker 2: it's seventeen hundred. Courtesy of the Sacramento Mayor, Darryl Steinberg.

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Speaker 2: Let's talk to Katie Grimes. Now, how are you, Katie? Hi?

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Speaker 2: Well, obviously this is nuts. How did this happen?

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Speaker 3: Oh, how does anything happen like this? It's other people's money.

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Speaker 3: I've been following this project because this particular building in

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Speaker 3: which the city did not help them do. But we

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Speaker 2: So they're spending four hundred and seventy eight thousand dollars

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Speaker 2: I mean, obviously that's almost a half a million dollars,

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Speaker 3: Well exactly. And one of the things we also did,

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Speaker 1: All right, who's making out on this?

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Speaker 2: Is there some kind of politically connected developer that di

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Speaker 1: So this has become a lucrative racket for everyone involved.

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Speaker 3: Oh this is the very definition of corruption, and I

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Speaker 2: They also never discuss the behavior of all these vagrants

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Speaker 3: That's why I said we're taking bets on how quickly

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Speaker 3: No restrictions. They're supposed to be getting help and coincidentally help. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Mayor Steinberg opened up a nonprofit his last year in

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Speaker 2: People in Sacramento, I know it's a really bad homeless

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Speaker 1: How long are they going to put up with this?

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Speaker 2: Because not only is it extremely unpleasant to have all

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it is. I don't see voters doing much different

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we've had him on. He's good. What's his name?

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Speaker 3: His name is ten Hoe Tinho, that's right.

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Speaker 2: No, Yeah, I hope he gets somewhere with these arguments

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Speaker 2: because somebody's got to fight back for the normal people.

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Speaker 2: This this has gone on way too long. Now, this

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Speaker 3: What our DA has pointed out that Sacramento, you know,

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Speaker 2: Elected, Right, I think Sacramento has the worst ratio of

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we do.

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Speaker 3: Yes, it's a atrocious.

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Speaker 1: Well Katie, thank you very much, you do great work.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, John, appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: All right, Katie Grimes from californiaglobe dot com. And you

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Speaker 2: to tell you about the Chinese Communist Party executive who

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

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Speaker 2: We have a room at the Moiceline in We have

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Speaker 2: All right, here's here's something that's hard to believe, but

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Speaker 2: His name is Chen Tian Kuo, and he's an executive

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Speaker 2: Has a twenty six million dollar state in estate in

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Speaker 2: Land Report, a magazine that focuses on private land ownership

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Speaker 2: to be purchased by our enemies. I mean, the Chinese

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Speaker 2: a national security issue, and that should have been the

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Speaker 2: Biden administration should have been aware of this. Well, for

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Speaker 2: Trump administration. Somebody allowed this to happen. His purchase does

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Speaker 2: not appear in government records. See, they keep track of

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Speaker 2: land ownership by foreign investors for obvious reasons. Right, you

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Speaker 2: don't want foreigners controlling our land. I mean, already it's

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Speaker 5: back when I was working for another radio station in town.

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Speaker 5: We're Steckle and I were doing a radio show while

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Speaker 5: the Lakers were playing Game seven's Boston or whoever it was,

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Speaker 5: and I said, nobody's listening to this, let's just put

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Speaker 5: the microphone near the TV and broadcast the game. And

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Speaker 5: evidently so he did twenty minutes of that, and evidently

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Speaker 5: I guess the NBA licenses that.

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Speaker 1: You didn't know that. I didn't know that.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I was aware of that. The next day, twenty

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Speaker 5: six million dollar lawsuit?

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Speaker 1: Is that right? Did they file a twenty six million dollars.

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Speaker 5: They wanted twenty six million dollars?

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Speaker 1: Oh, you don't have that. Well, I don't know.

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Speaker 6: No.

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Speaker 5: I fortunately a friend of mine works for the NBA

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Speaker 5: and he was able to run some interference.

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Speaker 1: I didn't know.

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Speaker 6: Wow, that's that's some gangster stuff going on there.

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 6: Million dollars, twenty six million dollar lawsuit. A friend of

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Speaker 6: mine just made it go away.

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Speaker 1: Wait, good friend, very good friend. Exactly how did that happen?

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Speaker 1: There's more to the story here.

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Speaker 5: Well, look, I'm not the only one that has been

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Speaker 5: going after legally for something they said on the air.

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Speaker 5: My dad was sued for twenty one million dollars for

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Speaker 5: for say, somebody's phone number on the air.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell her. Wow, I know we have time yet,

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Speaker 1: but I'll tell it's okay, all right. It's a criminal family. Yes,

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Speaker 1: it is the crime mom. Yeah, at least you know

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Speaker 1: their magic numbers.

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Speaker 5: Twenty million, which is how much this man makes when

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Speaker 5: he goes on a cruise and gamble.

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Speaker 1: That's true, I do big, big money on the cruise.

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Speaker 1: Have you ever taken a cruise with him? No, you

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Speaker 1: should do what we should though. That would be entertaining.

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Speaker 5: That really would you could share a cabin, you never

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Speaker 5: see each other. I know I would sit and watch

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Speaker 5: him lose all his money. That would be entertaining.

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Speaker 6: I would I changed my rhythm if John was with me,

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Speaker 6: I wouldn't spend as much time.

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Speaker 5: Have you ever gambled tiny bits? What's that ten grand

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Speaker 5: on a race compared to your network.

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Speaker 1: Ten dollars on a slot machine?

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Speaker 6: Oh?

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Speaker 1: Really? Oh no, I don't. I never do. I'll get you.

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Speaker 2: I get upset if I just blow ten dollars.

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Speaker 1: It bothers me. Is that right?

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Speaker 5: It really does something going on with you. They gotta

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Speaker 5: enjoy yourself more, Johnny, gotta enjoy yourself now.

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Speaker 1: Think this load is off your back. You can enjoy yourself.

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Speaker 6: Now that's gone.

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Speaker 1: That's right. That's probably what he's doing with his free time.

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Speaker 5: He's probably gambling. He enjoys himself. He goes, He goes

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Speaker 5: to ram games, he goes the sporting events. He gambles.

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Speaker 1: He lives, live a great life.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you know you you wake up to Deborah, you

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Speaker 5: work with Debora, and you go home to Deborah.

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Speaker 1: That's your life. You know. You have a point there.

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Speaker 6: I don't know if it ain't broke, though it seems

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Speaker 6: to be working.

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Speaker 4: Well.

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Speaker 1: I'll take you the track this weekend.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, one day I want to go with

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Speaker 5: you because I gotta go with your wife.

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Speaker 1: I want to watch him gamble. I want to go

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Speaker 1: with you to the track.

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Speaker 5: I want to see but your wife knows who's gonna win.

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Speaker 5: She's good to paying horses. She's almost psychic. Okay, yeah, okay,

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Speaker 5: Well Conways and Thompson's.

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Speaker 1: Here, so doctor Ray will join us. Take away there.

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Speaker 1: There's game tonight. That's right.

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Speaker 2: We have cars. You're live and they can't Fight. Hey,

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Speaker 2: you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You

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Speaker 2: can always hear the show live on KFI AM six

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Speaker 2: forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday,

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