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Speaker 1: It's that time. Time time, time, luck and load.

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Speaker 2: You Michael Verie show.

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Speaker 1: Is on the air readings and welcome. Great to have

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Speaker 1: you hearing. It's Rush limp body.

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Speaker 3: I mean hi, this is Amy from Ohio and I

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Speaker 3: want to give a shout out to my adoptive dad,

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Speaker 3: Rush Limbaugh. He taught me more about my civic duty

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Speaker 3: than anyone ever could, and for that I'm grateful.

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Speaker 4: Conservatives about opposed to regulation, but regulation has to be

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Speaker 4: based on the fact that the individual is best left

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Speaker 4: alone to take care of himself in the pursuit of

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Speaker 4: daily aspects of life, education, job, or whatever. We don't

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Speaker 4: make the assumption we look at some people because of

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Speaker 4: their race, sex, cret to what.

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Speaker 2: We don't say that.

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Speaker 4: Person can't do it, that person needs us, that person

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Speaker 4: because that's not really what those people are after. They're

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Speaker 4: after power and control over those people's lives, making them

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Speaker 4: as dependent as possible. The reason why this matters to

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Speaker 4: me is I want a greater country. A country is

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Speaker 4: made up in great people pursuing excellence, doing the best

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Speaker 4: they can. It is the people who makes the country work,

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Speaker 4: not government programs.

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Speaker 5: Hey, Michael, this is Rusty from San Antonio.

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Speaker 2: Out here.

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Speaker 6: I'm a trucker with my German shepherd river Man.

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Speaker 3: I really love that guy and miss him, miss him steel,

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Speaker 3: and I'm glad that you get it, and I'm glad

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Speaker 3: that you honor him. I wish we could build a

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Speaker 7: Ex cept accept the exception to the rule is what

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Speaker 7: American exceptionalism is.

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Speaker 1: And because of this liberty and freedom.

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Speaker 7: That our country exists, because the founders recognized it comes

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Speaker 7: from God.

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Speaker 1: It's part of the natural yearning of the human spirit.

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Speaker 1: It is not granted by a government.

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Speaker 7: It's not granted by Pulltin, it's not granted by Obama

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Speaker 7: or any other human being.

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Speaker 1: We are created with the natural yearning to be free,

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Speaker 1: and it is other men and leaders throughout.

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Speaker 7: Human history who have suppressed that and imprisoned people for

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Speaker 7: history of the world where a government was organized with

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Speaker 1: Unlike it had ever happened.

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Speaker 7: That's American exceptionalism.

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Speaker 6: Hey Michael, it's Michael in sayin Texas. I remember listening

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Speaker 6: to that final Christmas Eve of Russias, and I remember

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Speaker 1: Has anybody ever heard of Barack Hussein?

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Speaker 6: Do you remember Russia?

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Speaker 8: He used to call it.

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Speaker 7: It's say, ladies and gentlemen, today we'll be talking about Barack,

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Speaker 7: who say Obama?

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Speaker 8: That was Rush.

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Speaker 6: We miss Rush, we miss Rush.

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Speaker 9: We got the Presidential Medal of Freedom that beautiful night.

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Speaker 1: Do you remember that blooms Rush Rush? We need you

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Speaker 1: Rush folks, thank you so much.

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Speaker 7: I wish there were a way to say it other

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Speaker 1: You're just the best. My family is just the best.

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Speaker 9: Yesterday was Rush Hudson Limbaugh the Third's seventy fourth birthday,

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Speaker 9: And even though we lost Rush. February seventeenth, twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 9: I think an email I received from a listener named

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Speaker 9: Mark George after our morning show earlier today sums it up.

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Speaker 9: Thank you for honoring the best friend I ever had

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Speaker 9: that I never met in my Greek Orthodox faith, we

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Speaker 9: recognize those not with us any longer with the phrase

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Speaker 9: may their memory be eternal, May their memory be eternal?

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Speaker 9: There would be no Am dial populated with powerful talk

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Speaker 9: Well here's a SoundBite that didn't age very well. This

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Speaker 10: epidemics come along so rarely that it's easy to be incompetent.

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Speaker 10: You know, earthquakes, fires, they come more off of forms

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Speaker 1: Are you putting farts in there or did Well? I

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Speaker 9: I really want people to hear Bill Gates saying the

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Speaker 9: at the same time allocating three billion dollars to give

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Speaker 9: free healthcare to illegals. You see, folks, it's called opportunity cost.

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Speaker 8: For all the.

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Speaker 9: People who say, well, we should do this, it would

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Speaker 1: When you do that, there is an opportunity cost.

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Speaker 9: There are things that won't be done, that can't be

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Speaker 9: veteran who doesn't get proper health care, the road that

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Speaker 11: Well, the thing is for sanctuary cities and states. They

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Speaker 8: They want to show you California.

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Speaker 11: As of yesterday, California has added a healthcare.

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Speaker 8: Benefit for migrants.

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Speaker 11: They are now going to extend free healthcare to migrants

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Speaker 8: Of twenty six and forty nine.

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Speaker 11: That's going to cover seven hundred thousand additional people and

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Speaker 1: Personnel and policies matter.

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Speaker 9: It's a luxury that rich white liberals have to be

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Speaker 9: able to say, we're going to elect a mayor who's

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Speaker 9: going to travel the world, redistribute the wealth, do awful things,

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Speaker 9: and put awful people in office. Because we're so rich,

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Speaker 9: we don't need good city government. We don't need police

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Speaker 1: Until you do. And isn't it interesting?

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Speaker 9: Even the rich residents of Pacific Palisades of Brentwood, even

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Speaker 1: Right, they can have their own.

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Speaker 9: Private everything until the city's on fire and the terrible

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Speaker 2: Guitars, cigars, and a few thoughts from Bizar.

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Speaker 9: I'm going to read to you an article that was

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Speaker 9: like Kevin like Kevin Bass. Kevin Bass played center field

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Speaker 9: for the Houston Astros. It's a great baseball player for

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Speaker 9: the Houston Astros. Baseball squad of years ago. Karen Bass,

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Speaker 9: not Kevin Bass. Kevin Bass was great, Karen Bass. What

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Speaker 9: he'd probably be a good mayor. He'd probably be a

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Speaker 9: How you end up with a Karen Bass as a mayor?

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Speaker 9: And it's about how David Axelrod used ad industry, advertising

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Speaker 9: And the thesis if you can't hang around to hear that,

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Speaker 9: when that person's agenda is the destruction of the city. Well,

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Speaker 9: it became the case that he was able to convince

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Speaker 9: Rather than in say Los Angeles, Rick Caruso, who could

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Speaker 9: bass I voted for the black woman. I'm a good person.

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Speaker 9: And part and parcel of that is saying and you're

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Speaker 9: It did there's a lot of the why people. Same

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Speaker 9: Did you get it? Because if you didn't, look at me?

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Speaker 9: Virtue signal. Rich white liberals love the virtue signal, and

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Speaker 9: rich white liberals love a Gavin Newsom. In Texas, we

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Speaker 9: got another Gavin Newsom. His name is Beto o'rour. We've

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Speaker 9: seen this type before. California's governor, Gavin Newsom was asked

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Speaker 9: be hosting the World Cup. That's a big internet, I

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Speaker 9: they will have a Marshall Plan to rebuild the city.

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Speaker 9: Of course, you remember the Marshall Plan. Was the rebuilding

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Speaker 9: he's asked, Okay, what does that plan look like? And

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Speaker 9: We haven't even started to think about it. Well, then

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Speaker 9: why did you say you were going to have one over?

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Speaker 12: Of course, the next several years, Los Angeles will be

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Speaker 5: My humble position, and it's it's it's it's not just

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Speaker 5: being naively optimistic. That only reinforces the imperative moving quickly

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Speaker 5: doing in this spirit of collaboration, cooperation. President of the

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Speaker 5: get it down here in LA and we thank him

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Speaker 8: This is an opportunity for him.

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Speaker 13: To shine, for this country, to shine, for California and

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Speaker 13: this community to shine. The opportunity with all of that

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Speaker 13: but also the opportunity, I think, to rebuild at the

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Speaker 13: same time. And that's why we're already organizing a Marshall plan.

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Speaker 13: We already have a team of looking and reimagining LA

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Speaker 13: two point zero, and we're making sure everyone's included, not

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Speaker 13: just the folks on the coast, people here that were

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Speaker 12: You just said you're organizing a Marshall plan for the

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Speaker 8: What is that marshall for this marriages.

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Speaker 2: Starting to lay out.

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Speaker 5: I mean, we're still fighting these fires. So we're already

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Speaker 5: talking to city leaders. We're already talking to civic leader,

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Speaker 8: We're starting to.

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Speaker 5: Organize how we can put together a collection of individuals

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Speaker 8: That missing disinformation.

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Speaker 8: I'm very familiar with them.

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Speaker 9: Yes see, that's always the thrust. Donald Trump is not nice.

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Speaker 5: Well, I asked you, We've got to deal with this misinformation.

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Speaker 2: And it's very damaging as well. But we're here to

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Speaker 1: Yep, Russell, we're here. We're gonna roll up our sleeves.

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Speaker 9: That's always doing. We're gonna roll up our sleeves and

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Speaker 9: Gavin Newsom said he would like Donald Trump to approach

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Speaker 9: Donald Trump is not a nice man. How many times

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Speaker 9: She is a hired hitman for the Obama mindset. That's

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Speaker 9: how she goes from being the person who lied to

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Speaker 9: the press every day behind the lectern I guess technically

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Speaker 9: was a podium because it was elevated on behalf of

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Speaker 9: the evil Democrat president. She went so far on her

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Speaker 9: show as to say that Donald Trump and Elon Musk

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Speaker 9: are lying about the Los Angeles fires to score political points. Now,

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Speaker 9: why are they worried about Donald Trump while people are

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Speaker 9: burning to death and the city is burning to the ground.

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Speaker 9: They're worried because Trump is saying what no one else

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Speaker 9: will say. This was avoidable. This is what you should

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Speaker 9: be doing. This is the reason they don't want. You're

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Speaker 9: supposed to say, let's keep everyone in our prayers.

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Speaker 1: You're supposed to.

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Speaker 9: Read off the script like they did at the NFL

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Speaker 9: games this weekend. We here at the NFL feel very bad.

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Speaker 9: Our hearts are broken, and if you watched all the games,

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Speaker 9: you know they read from the same script. Our hearts

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Speaker 9: are broken for the people of Los Angeles. So please

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Speaker 9: join us in a moment of reflection. In fact, we're

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Speaker 9: going to go to such an extreme that we're even

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Speaker 9: going to air the singing of the national anthem.

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Speaker 1: What will the players be taking a knee this time.

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Speaker 9: I can't believe just the one, just the white people's

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Speaker 9: national anthem, not the black one. Today.

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Speaker 1: The only reason Donald Trump and Elon Musk and all

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Speaker 1: the rest of us for.

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Speaker 9: That matter, are pointing out all of this is we

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Speaker 9: want to score political points. It isn't because we care

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Speaker 9: about the people who are our fellow Americans.

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Speaker 1: No, no, no, only they care.

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Speaker 9: The only reason we're complaining, only reason is to score

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Speaker 9: political points. And what might those points be? You mean

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Speaker 9: people might realize that not having water in your hydrants

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Speaker 9: is a problem and that people should be blamed. You mean,

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Speaker 9: people might realize that having a bunch of dei hire

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Speaker 9: fat lesbian women that can't do anything except complain up

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Speaker 9: and down the chain of the fire department might not

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Speaker 9: be the best approach when the inevitable wildfire breaks out.

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Speaker 1: Those are the are.

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Speaker 9: The points we're scoring, because you wouldn't be scoring points

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Speaker 9: unless what you're saying is popular, unless what you're saying

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Speaker 9: is received by an audience that says, ah, that's interesting.

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Speaker 9: Because you see, Trump has access to information and perspective

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Speaker 9: that the average person doesn't and that the media won't

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Speaker 9: share it, and Elon is.

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Speaker 1: A problem solver, whatever one may think of him. He

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Speaker 1: made electric vehicles mainstream.

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Speaker 9: He created a company and a stock that was the

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Speaker 9: largest thing on the stock market. He created wealth like

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Speaker 9: you wouldn't believe. He can send people to space when

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Speaker 9: our government can't. He can bore underground in a way

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Speaker 9: that no company before that could. He's created this starling

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Speaker 9: that there's internet service when our government couldn't. You know

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Speaker 9: how big our government is. He's kind of a problem

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Speaker 9: solving dude. But yeah, he's just trying to score political points.

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Speaker 15: And with these fires still burning, we were facing important

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Speaker 15: questions about how to mitigate and prevent disasters like this

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Speaker 15: in the future. Fact is, leaders will need to confront

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Speaker 15: a very complicated and challenging reality moving forward.

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Speaker 1: But right now that is.

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Speaker 15: Not exactly what is happening. Instead, Donald Trump and his

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Speaker 15: allies are injecting half truth and misinformation and flat out

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Speaker 15: lies in some cases in order to score a version

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Speaker 15: of political points. I suppose we saw something similar play

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Speaker 15: out just this past October and the aftermath of Hurricanes

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Speaker 15: Helene and Milton, when Trump repeatedly lied about femas spending

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Speaker 15: disaster relief funds on migrants which didn't happen, also basically

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Speaker 15: claiming that the Biden administration was absent and incompetent in

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Speaker 15: delivering aid despite what elected officials of both parties.

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Speaker 8: On the ground said.

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Speaker 15: Those lives were then and amplified by the richest man

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Speaker 15: in the world on the social media.

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Speaker 1: Site that he owns. So I guess some of us

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Speaker 1: should have been shocked this week.

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Speaker 15: When Elon Musk posted that the Los Angeles Fire Department

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Speaker 15: prioritize dei over saving lives and homes. That's an exact

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Speaker 15: quote that appeared to be a disgusting dig at the

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Speaker 15: city's fire chief, Kristin Crowley, who has served in the

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Speaker 15: department for decades, rising through the ranks to become the

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Speaker 15: first female and LGBTQ chief in LA's history. Musk also

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Speaker 15: amplified a post this week from conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.

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Speaker 15: Yes that guy, he's still around. Alex Jones wrote that

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Speaker 15: Los Angeles fires are part of a larger globalist plot

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Speaker 15: to wage economic warfare and the industrialized the United States

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Speaker 15: before triggering total collapse.

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Speaker 1: I mean not sure that guy's okay.

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Speaker 15: Musk responded by to that post by writing true, Yes,

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Speaker 15: just to repeat here, that's just the richest man in

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Speaker 15: the world and the best friend of the incoming president,

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Speaker 15: confirming to his two hundred million followers that he thinks

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Speaker 15: that devastating wildfires are a part of a globalist plot.

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Speaker 15: And so now we're back in this vicious cycle where

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Speaker 15: Trump and his new best he push lies about a

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Speaker 15: natural disaster, and then right when media runs with him, I'll.

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Speaker 1: Fade out law.

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Speaker 7: They have no intention of putting off these fires.

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Speaker 5: All these people were focused on pronouns shish you kenny,

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Speaker 5: you know, scrubbing white people from the fire department.

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Speaker 15: Dei, as Elon Musk said, can actually mean dee.

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Speaker 2: In the events like this, you sort of look home.

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Speaker 2: Is it on purpose?

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Speaker 5: I can make all kinds of horrible theories up in

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Speaker 5: my head, conspiracy theories and everything else.

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Speaker 1: But it just seemed a little convenient that there was

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Speaker 1: no water, and.

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Speaker 5: That the wind conditions were right, and that there are

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Speaker 5: people ready and willing and able to start fires.

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Speaker 2: And are they commissioned to do.

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Speaker 1: So or are they just acting on their own volition?

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 15: That's a conspiracy theorist all out on TV and nobody

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Speaker 15: questioning him.

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Speaker 9: How about that conspiracy theorist lady who ran up to

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Speaker 9: Governor Newsom and he claimed he was on the phone

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Speaker 9: when he wasn't because her house burned down and she

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Speaker 9: was furious.

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Speaker 1: Is she a conspiracy theorist too?

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Speaker 13: Jen