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

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Speaker 2: The Michael Very Show is on the air.

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Speaker 3: They fashioned themselves on social media as this legion of superheroes,

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Speaker 3: this incoming administration.

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Speaker 2: Selsey Gabbard, Robert F. Commedy Junior, et cetera, et cetera.

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Speaker 4: I'm still going a speeding bullet more powerful than a lookomotive.

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Speaker 2: Av Pelip Paul buildings at a single bound up in

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Speaker 2: the sky. It's a first Yes, it's super strum.

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Speaker 5: We will very quickly make America great again. The fire

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Speaker 5: we had in Los Angeles and that was a moment

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Speaker 5: where people realize, Oh, the mayor's a whack job.

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Speaker 2: Karen Bass do you know that was?

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Speaker 5: That was Biden's choice to be his vice presidential a

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Speaker 5: mad He wanted her instead of kamalaw But they had

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Speaker 5: some problems with socialism in Cuba and some comments she

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Speaker 5: had made as part of a youth.

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Speaker 2: Activism communist group.

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Speaker 5: She was part of little whack job revolutionary wannabes, and

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Speaker 5: they had her on the record saying all those things.

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Speaker 2: But he really wanted Karen Bass.

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Speaker 5: He knew he wanted a black woman because Biden Biden

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Speaker 5: is old school white democrat. You got to throw those

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Speaker 5: minorities one of their own.

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Speaker 2: For you to get to be king.

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Speaker 5: You buy their support, you bribe their support, and you

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Speaker 5: give them one of their own. And that way you

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Speaker 5: say of the Remember he said to Trump, I've committed

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Speaker 5: a black woman will be my vice president.

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Speaker 2: And Donald Trump won't do that. He won't say he'll

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Speaker 2: have a black woman. Remember that. Well.

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Speaker 5: Karen Bass, the mayor of Los Angeles, and in her

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Speaker 5: Looney fire chief, if you remember all that, they they

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Speaker 5: were put on display because here was a real crisis

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Speaker 5: Palisades fires. Well now, the LA Times says that she

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Speaker 5: altered the fire report to downplay her failures and the

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Speaker 5: city's failures. A story from KTLA in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 1: It was the most destructive and one of the deadliest

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Speaker 1: fires in LA City history. An after action report was

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Speaker 1: supposed to answer hard questions about how the Palisades fire

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Speaker 1: exploded out of control on January seventh, twenty twenty five,

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Speaker 1: but according to The La Times, early drafts were far

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Speaker 1: more blunt than what the public ultimately saw. Sources familiar

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Speaker 1: with the process tell the Times the original report pointed

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Speaker 1: to operational decisions by the Los Angeles Fire Department, including

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Speaker 1: staffing and deployment choices that may have contributed to the

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Speaker 1: fire's rapid spread. According to the Times, those sources say

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Speaker 1: Mayor Karen Bass raised concerns about how the findings were

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Speaker 1: framed and push for revisions language that was later softened

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Speaker 1: or removed entirely. The final version released last fall avoided

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Speaker 1: direct conclusions about mistakes and instead described broad challenges faced

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Speaker 1: during the response. Mayor Bass strongly disputes that account, her

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Speaker 1: office issuing a statement saying Mayor Bass.

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Speaker 2: Has been unequivocal for months.

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Speaker 1: She reviewed an early draft of the report and only

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Speaker 1: asked the LAFD to make sure it was accurate on

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Speaker 1: issues like weather and budget.

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Speaker 2: She and her staff made no changes to the drafts.

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Speaker 6: As many of you are aware, it is now clear

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Speaker 6: that multiple drafts were edited to soften language and reduce

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Speaker 6: explicit criticism of department leadership in that final report.

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Speaker 1: LA City Fire Chief Jime Moore says editing occurred prior

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Speaker 1: to his appointment as chief and November twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 1: He spoke with KTLA last month just after the one

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Speaker 1: year anniversary of the fire.

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Speaker 7: It's important that the public understand there was no malice.

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Speaker 7: I don't believe that the people who made those and

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Speaker 7: I don't know exactly who participated in the editing of

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Speaker 1: But critics say the Times reporting raises serious questions about accountability,

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Speaker 1: especially after a fire that killed twelve people and destroyed

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Speaker 1: more than sixty eight hundred homes.

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Speaker 2: The public isn't stupid.

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Speaker 8: They know that mistakes have been made, but they can

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Speaker 8: be forgiving if government is open and admits mistakes. And

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Speaker 8: I would say that the mayor's biggest mistake is not

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Speaker 8: admitting openly, honestly, with transparency, that mistakes were made.

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Speaker 5: This is what the cities of America have become. America

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Speaker 5: once had the best big cities in.

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Speaker 2: The world New York, Chicago, La.

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Speaker 5: Houston, New Orleans, Baltimore was a great big city, Detroit, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Miami, Phoenix.

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Speaker 2: Now every one of them.

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Speaker 5: Taken over by a caball of thugs, bribers, convicts, social activists,

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Speaker 5: none of them concerned about the delivery of services.

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Speaker 2: None of them.

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Speaker 5: You know, when Kwame Kilpatrick was the mayor of Detroit,

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Speaker 5: his dad, a good for nothing convict got this decided

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Speaker 5: he was a lobbyist. So he got himself hired by

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Speaker 5: over it. And so nobody cared about the quality of

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Speaker 5: water the people of Detroit were drinking. It was about

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Speaker 5: how much can we siphon off for ourselves, So there's

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Speaker 5: never any concern for the actual policing and fire and

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Speaker 5: water and roads bridges that are supposed to be the

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Speaker 5: contract for ourselves. And then what you see is these people,

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Speaker 5: the staffing they put in there. They don't care if

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Speaker 5: a person knows how to run a fire department. Let's

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Speaker 5: find the fattest lesbian with purple hair and bone through

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Speaker 5: her nose who was born a man. I mean, it's weird,

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Speaker 5: it's creepy, it's freaky, it's wrong, and you better speak

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Speaker 5: out about it, and you better get comfortable with that

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Speaker 5: because it's going to invade every aspect of your life.

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Speaker 5: It's never going away. It's only emboldened. It's entered the classroom,

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Speaker 5: it's entered the church, it's entered the police department, the

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Speaker 5: fire department, it's entered the woke companies. There are a

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Speaker 5: lot of Americans, a lot of Americans moved out of

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Speaker 5: They've moved out of their church because their church weren't

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Speaker 5: weird or woke, however you want to call it. They

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Speaker 5: to deal with it there. They've gone, They've left working

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Speaker 2: Because it's so creepy, so weird, so wicked.

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Speaker 5: That they say, if I got to live like the

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Speaker 5: Amish in order to avoid the nonsense, I will, And

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Speaker 5: guess who loses. Society loses because now you don't have

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Speaker 5: the input of reasonable, responsible Christian Americans because they just

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Speaker 5: don't want to be around any of it anymore. White

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Speaker 5: people don't't be around it anymore. Black people that don't

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Speaker 5: Immigrants don't want to be around it. And that that's

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Speaker 5: not one city in American any lot. That's every major

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Speaker 5: city got to have a black mayor. You got blacks

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Speaker 5: that will only vote for a black mayor no matter

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Speaker 5: how bad things get. They don't want a good mayor.

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Speaker 5: They just want somebody who's black and loud. And that's

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Speaker 5: that's happening at every level everywhere.

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Speaker 4: Oh yes, yes, yes, yes.

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Speaker 2: One of the.

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Speaker 5: One of the trends that is causing people to flee

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Speaker 5: large cities is the living habits of other people and

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Speaker 5: it begins to encroach upon your life.

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Speaker 2: And you're told, oh, you're a.

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Speaker 5: Racist, that you don't want this, or that you don't

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Speaker 5: you don't want loud music at one o'clock.

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Speaker 2: You keep complaining about it.

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Speaker 5: I do, well, it's black people are Mexicans that are

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Speaker 5: doing it, and you must.

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Speaker 2: Not black like black people in Mexicans.

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Speaker 5: No, I don't like loud music at one or two

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Speaker 5: o'clock in the morning while I'm trying to sleep. We

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Speaker 5: never had that problem before. Oh yes, the blacks moved

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Speaker 5: in and you don't like it. I just don't like

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Speaker 5: the loud music. I also don't like the cars on

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Speaker 5: the front drive. I also don't like firing off good.

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Speaker 5: I don't like any of that. No, you're right, I

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Speaker 5: don't like any of that. I wouldn't like it if

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Speaker 5: white people did it either, but I don't like it.

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Speaker 5: And the fact that this black people doing it doesn't

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Speaker 5: make it any better. Well, here's one for you in Houston.

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Speaker 5: This was from the Houston Chronicle. Ten bedrooms one roof

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Speaker 5: new co living town homes seek to lower costs for

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Speaker 5: Houston renters. They're basically building dormitories ten bedrooms. You know what,

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Speaker 5: This sounds like a halfway house. It sounds like a

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Speaker 5: half way house from hom The professionally managed units resemble

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Speaker 5: a grown up version of an adult dorm. The third

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Speaker 5: Ward town Home is among roughly thirty three new co

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Speaker 5: living properties recently built or undeveloped or under development in

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Speaker 5: Houston by investors working with Passive Income Network ROUTE, a

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Speaker 5: Houston based real estate investor network. The properties are spread

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Speaker 5: across the Third Ward and University of Houston area. Guess

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Speaker 5: what that's going to be a huge problem for renters.

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Speaker 5: Affordability is often the biggest appeal across the Houston metro.

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Speaker 5: Average PAD split rents are about seven forty four a month,

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Speaker 5: though newer purpose built pad split rooms often cost around

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Speaker 5: one thousand dollars. They say the model can still undercut

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Speaker 5: traditional apartment costs once utilities, furnishings, and upfront movement expenses

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Speaker 2: How is that going to be? Now?

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Speaker 5: They got situations where where one of the people rents

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Speaker 5: his room and then he airbnb's the room.

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Speaker 2: So you're sitting in the living room and.

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Speaker 5: One of your cop living neighbors whose door stays locked

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Speaker 5: or has a keypad on it, somebody starts hauling their

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Speaker 2: Go in that room. Hey, who are you? Oh, I

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Speaker 2: rented this room for the next two weeks? Who are you?

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Speaker 5: Don't be racist? So that's again people don't want to

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Speaker 5: live this way. Ten bedrooms, one roof. What do you

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Speaker 5: think that's going to look like? What could possibly go wrong?

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Speaker 5: What could possibly go wrong? Kind of reminds me that

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Speaker 5: George Lopez bit we spoil man.

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Speaker 4: We can load a car up like nobody's been this man.

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Speaker 4: We should go to the Dodger games and they'd be

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Speaker 4: like twenty five people going. I get to my grandma's house.

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Speaker 4: There's one car and the driveway.

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Speaker 2: Hey, grandma, who's going all of us waking?

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Speaker 4: There's only one car, but you only twenty five people

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Speaker 4: are going to. Then they get mad at you. Then

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Speaker 4: don't go, Then don't go, Then don't go. Ruddy get

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Speaker 4: out of.

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Speaker 2: The astrak coming on here and going sit over here.

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Speaker 4: And anytime you suggest anything different, they think you've sold out.

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Speaker 5: Man.

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Speaker 4: You know, just a simple thing like hey, I said, grandma,

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Speaker 4: why don't we take two cars?

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Speaker 2: Time minut my chain on, Let's take your car, mana.

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Speaker 2: They don't pick you for this prior. Let's take two cars.

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Speaker 4: We're not going to a federal We're going to a

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Speaker 4: baseball game. If they took time, governa, we don't have

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Speaker 4: two cars?

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Speaker 2: How about that?

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Speaker 4: Why don't we fed up with guests? I'm in.

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Speaker 5: Oh the joys of urban living. You go visit a

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Speaker 5: foreign country as a tourist. You got your fanning pack,

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Speaker 5: You're on an adventure. You're going to embrace what is

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Speaker 2: Oh, this is so interesting. I like this.

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Speaker 5: They're very efficient with the space. They got people crammed

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Speaker 5: in here like a like an ant mound. It's really neat.

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Speaker 5: Back in the US, we're so I'm embarrassed to say

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Speaker 5: as a white man from America, we're we're so.

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Speaker 5: You know, we think, oh, everybody needs their own house

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Speaker 5: We're destroying the environment and these big house all this

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Speaker 2: You know, you feel a real sense of community. We

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Speaker 2: It's alive, It's alive, you know. Back home.

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Speaker 5: You know, you go for a you go for a

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Speaker 5: It was real fun until it came to your neighborhood

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Speaker 5: Mexican hat dance at one o'clock? Okay, oh great, we're

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Speaker 5: I really like to leave that down there where I visit.

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Speaker 5: possibly go wrong? Degrees from schools like Harvard, Princeton or

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Speaker 2: That used to be true. It's not anymore because it's

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Speaker 5: So that's supposed to make those degrees more valuable to employers.

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Speaker 5: So the inverse must be true. Right, If you go

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Speaker 5: to a school that takes anybody regardless of their academic prowess,

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 5: This brings us to California's annual Black College Expo.

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Speaker 2: ABC ten News in San Diego.

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Speaker 3: With the report, and it's by the MLK Center at

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Speaker 3: the Baby Baptist Church where thousands of students from across

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Speaker 3: San Diego County are getting in line to take the.

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Speaker 9: Next step towards their college careers.

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Speaker 10: So today is about elevations, about inspiration, It's about feeling

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Speaker 8: Knowing that you matter.

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Speaker 3: This is the ninth annual San Diego Black College Expo.

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Speaker 3: It's organized by doctor Theresa Price with the National College

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Speaker 2: I'm an old man.

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Speaker 10: Over one hundred colleges, these colleges, many of them are

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Speaker 10: accepting on the spot, waving application fees, given away scholarships

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Speaker 10: on the spot. We are close to probably over two

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Speaker 10: million dollars already that we're given away in scholarships.

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Speaker 3: The students were advised to bring ten copies of their transcripts.

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Speaker 3: Pricess Students only need a two point oh GP or

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Speaker 3: better to qualify for scholarships, and even students with lower

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Speaker 3: to your colleges.

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Speaker 10: A lot of people so like the world is not

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Speaker 10: designed for them. When you were step in here, there

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Speaker 2: Around the world.

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Speaker 3: College applicants like Dmitri Wade says there's no limit to

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Speaker 9: He's mainly looking for the right scholarship.

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Speaker 11: I'm excited to be here, you know, because I don

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Speaker 11: need those scholarships for colleges, and you know, I got make.

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Speaker 9: A big Many parents attended the college fair, as well.

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Speaker 10: A hundred and forty thousand dollars scholarship.

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Speaker 3: Today Roman boy Isaia young Blood says he's only known

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Speaker 3: about CSUS and UCS and that he came here to

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Speaker 3: learn more about historically black colleges and universities.

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Speaker 2: So it's a great opportunity to see what's really out there.

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Speaker 12: And the fact that they're like offering us money on

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Speaker 3: The xpo also featured seminars teaching about financial aid, career pathways,

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Speaker 9: When the students went outside through a sense.

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Speaker 3: Of community, it makes me feel connected, as the future

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Speaker 9: Meeting people and be out here.

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Speaker 2: And so everybody wondering.

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Speaker 9: About leave you back to church standings years.

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Speaker 5: Nothing more embarrassing and insulting than people trying to the

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Speaker 5: soft bigotry of low expectations and using black people as pets.

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Speaker 5: Inside the Black College Expo is schools. And they got

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Speaker 5: when they're done collecting all this money, all they have

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Speaker 5: to do is not mug nobody. They come outside and

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Speaker 5: they got they got all the music and rappers, yes,

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Speaker 5: even Jah Rule. They got music. They can identify with

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Speaker 5: because that's a sense of community. Do you understand they

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Speaker 5: are talking about these people like they're on an African safari.

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Speaker 5: See this species over here. They like to get over

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Speaker 5: here and throw poop. We don't have no problem with

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Speaker 5: that because throwing poop is what they do, see, so

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Speaker 5: We don't judge them, see because we've had running water.

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Speaker 5: But they're the native species over here, and sometimes they

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Speaker 5: we think it's fine. So we created a safe space

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Speaker 5: for them to do that too, and we don't ask

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Speaker 5: we give some music so that they'll feel happy like

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Speaker 5: they're in their own habitat. Here is some music for

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Speaker 5: a sense of community, because that's what the black people like.

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Speaker 2: That's how that's pitched.

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Speaker 5: There are a lot of black people who see through

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Speaker 5: Now you're when you move to cut a welfare program,

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Speaker 5: you will be met by Democrats who will say and

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Speaker 5: the media who will say, that's racism. Well, n Rous's

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Speaker 5: welfare was black people's support. Well, if you cut welfare,

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Speaker 5: you'll hurt black people the most. So how do we

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Speaker 5: is that we have created an environment, just like we've

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Speaker 5: what human beings need is not just a place to

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Speaker 5: They need to be aspirational. They need the opportunity to succeed,

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Speaker 5: and that will mean many will fail. But without the

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Speaker 2: And that's what we've done.

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Speaker 5: We have created an environment where people don't know how

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Speaker 5: to get out of this morass, and so the more

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Speaker 5: government scam programs, the more money you throw at it,

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Speaker 5: the more unhappy people become.

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Speaker 2: Ain't that crazy? Shouldn't work that way, should it.

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Speaker 5: Two men from Philadelphia admitted to traveling to Minnesota for

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Speaker 5: the sole purpose of owning the state's housing Stability Services program.

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Speaker 5: Prosecutors say it's a case of fraud tourism. They came

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Speaker 13: Federal prosecutors call them fraud tourists. Two men, both from Philly,

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Speaker 13: accused of traveling here to Minnesota to exploit holes in

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Speaker 12: These defendants came here not to enjoy our lakes, her

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Speaker 12: beautiful summers, are warm people. They came here because they

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Speaker 12: knew and understood that Minnesota was a place where taxpayer

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Speaker 13: Federal prosecutors filed wire fraud charges against Anthony Jefferson and

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Speaker 13: Lester Brown Back in December. They are now scheduled for

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Speaker 13: Jefferson's attorney, Tonguey Fox nine and investigators he is prepared

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Speaker 12: My understanding is they lived in Philadelphia, and they came

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Speaker 13: Prosecutors alleged the two men rented an office here and

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Speaker 13: Housing Stabilization Services program. That is a taxpayer funded medical

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Speaker 13: assistance benefit to help people, including the elderly with disabilities,

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Speaker 13: mental health issues, as well as substance use disorders.

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Speaker 2: To find and maintain housing.

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Speaker 13: The state actually shut the program down last summer after

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Speaker 13: two men from Philadelphia build Medicaid for three and a

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Speaker 13: half million dollars to bogus and inflated billing practices. Prosecutors

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Speaker 5: I've been getting flooded with emails from our listeners complaining

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Speaker 5: terrible they are. It is constant. So we decided, well,

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Speaker 5: what if we just did a mashup. What if a

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Speaker 5: guy who's actually not a bad guy decided he was

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Speaker 5: going to run for office. See, we don't like this.

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Speaker 5: It makes us un comfortable. We like to assume that

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Speaker 5: They're all horrible people and we'd like to have good people,

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Speaker 5: why don't you run? And I couldn't do it. I'm

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Speaker 5: not a horrible person. Oh I see, So the reason

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Speaker 5: or the other one. This is the faux humilion. I

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Speaker 5: a second, aren't you the guy that loves it? When

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Speaker 5: They'll say, oh, I won't vote for him. He had

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Speaker 5: who's supposed to run for office? People who've managed to

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Speaker 2: Who's supposed to run?

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Speaker 5: I mean, somebody ever asked these questions, who's supposed to

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Speaker 5: and you say, well, I couldn't run for office.

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Speaker 2: I have too much wrong with me.

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Speaker 5: So you want to leave office holding to people who

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Speaker 5: never got caught doing anything wrong. You think that's the best.

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00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:05,520
Speaker 5: You think that's always the best approach. You think that's

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Speaker 5: how you're going to get the most representative people if

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Speaker 5: most people have a failure or too in their lives.

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Speaker 5: But we won't allow you to be in public office,

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Speaker 5: because we'll just pound that fact. If you're running for office,

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00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:25,119
Speaker 5: they almost kept you from getting to vote for Donald Trump.

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00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:29,280
Speaker 5: That should tell people, wait a second, maybe I'm not

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Speaker 5: going to let him do that.

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Speaker 2: To me again.

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Speaker 5: Maybe that was wrong. You didn't let him do that

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Speaker 5: to you in twenty sixteen or twenty twenty or twenty

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Speaker 5: twenty four. And most people don't regret their Donald Trump votes.

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Speaker 5: But the establishment tried to keep you from those votes,

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Speaker 5: didn't They he's a bad guy. They convicted him three

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Speaker 5: dozen times. They raided his wife's panty drawer at mar Lago,

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Speaker 5: they put fat Fanny on it. In Atlanta, they put

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Speaker 5: Jack Smith on it. In DC, they sent the third

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Speaker 5: highest ranking persons Department of Justice to help fat Alvin

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Speaker 5: Bragg prosecute him. There they had Letitia James big Tish

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Speaker 5: bringing mortgage fraud cases against It. Turns out she was

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Speaker 5: engaged in him herself. They had that woman claiming a

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Speaker 5: rape case. They'll throw thing at him. The difference is

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Speaker 5: he's built the Sturner stuff and he hung in there.

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Speaker 5: What about just the nice guy who's a deacon of

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Speaker 5: the church who runs for state rep had a bankruptcy

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Speaker 5: two years into his business, and he would actually represent

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Speaker 5: the district.

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Speaker 2: He wouldn't sell out.

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Speaker 5: But the guy who has sold out, he sold out

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Speaker 5: for enough money to hire a good consultant who ran

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Speaker 5: a background check against a really good guy. The independent

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Speaker 5: guy doesn't have all that money. And so now the

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Speaker 5: sellout guy who's got all the money. Because the people

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Speaker 5: that want to own you, the people that want to

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Speaker 5: own you, they send you the Epstein girls. They take

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Speaker 5: you to Epstein Island, so they own you, and they

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Speaker 5: will pay for the ads they'll write them, they'll run them.

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Speaker 5: You'll never have to know about it. And they'll say

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Speaker 5: that your your opponent's.

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Speaker 2: A bad guy. He declared bankruptcy.

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Speaker 5: Because your business failed two years in, because the crop failed,

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Speaker 5: or because your wife was dying, and.

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Speaker 2: They'll say the most awful things, and.

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Speaker 5: It'll work because the voters will say he must be

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Speaker 5: a bad guy.

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Speaker 2: He must be a bad guy, because they told me.

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Speaker 2: I get emails every day. Hey Michael, Hey, Michael, will

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Speaker 2: will you answer this? I heard it. Jesus Christ is

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Speaker 2: a bad guy. That's what they're saying. I got an

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Speaker 2: ad says the bad guy. What was it saying? Say

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Speaker 2: he was a Jew? He was? Say he's a bad guy.

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Speaker 2: See he never got married, never got married. Michael, Okay,

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Speaker 2: so you want me to do it? Can you answer

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Speaker 2: this question?

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Speaker 1: Michael?

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Speaker 2: Can you answer for it? Because they brought it up?

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Speaker 2: Tell you what?

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Speaker 5: Why don't you give me your full name? I'll have

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Speaker 5: my PI run your background. I bet you I can

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Speaker 5: find something on you, and then I'm going to call

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Speaker 5: you up and go, hey, Tim, what happened there?

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Speaker 2: You didn't pay that that book? Fine, library says you

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Speaker 2: stole that book. I lost the book I bought the book. No, no,

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Speaker 2: they say you stole it. Say you're a thief. You're

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Speaker 2: a thief.

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Speaker 5: Calm down, relax and understand you're being played. Okay, if

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Speaker 5: you've ever served on a jury, you understand that the

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Speaker 5: role of the prosecutor in a criminal case is to

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Speaker 5: tell you he did it. There's no way he didn't

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Speaker 5: do it. Here is the best evidence, and here are

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Speaker 5: the best expert witnesses to show you that he did it.

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Speaker 5: And by the way, look at him, he's sitting over there.

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Speaker 5: Would he be sitting in here if he didn't do it, No,

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Speaker 5: he'd be out working.

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Speaker 2: He's not, is he He's sitting over there. He did it.

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Speaker 2: And then the defense attorney, Oh, they're a good one.

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Speaker 2: A good one's fun to watch. He'll say he didn't

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Speaker 2: do this. He's a United States Marine, he serves his country.

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Speaker 2: He's not a bad guy. They're bad guys.

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Speaker 5: They're just picking on him for being a marine. By

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Speaker 5: the way, he's married. He loves his wife. She loves him.

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Speaker 5: You heard her say so. And we got experts, and

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Speaker 5: our experts say he didn't do this. He's a good guy.

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Speaker 5: And they go back and forth and back and forth.

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Speaker 5: And you struggle what am I to believe? Especially in

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Speaker 5: a Republican primary. You can't just say Democrat bad, Republican good.

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Speaker 2: So what do you do?

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Speaker 5: It's a tough job, but you got to decide. That's

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Speaker 5: what self governance looks like. But do you ever wonder

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Speaker 5: what if.

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Speaker 2: A guy is a good guy? What if he's actually.

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Speaker 5: A good guy and the other side is trashing everything

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Speaker 5: he does and there's no way. See a lot of

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Speaker 5: people like to believe. Well, they wouldn't say it about

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Speaker 5: you if it wasn't true. They can take everything about

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Speaker 5: you and twist it.

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Speaker 2: Just listen.

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Speaker 11: My name is Steve McCracken, and I'm running for your locals,

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Speaker 11: and it's sid Now. I'm a simple man, and I

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Speaker 11: grew up on this farm, raised by my grandparents. I

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Speaker 11: never knew my parents, but my grandparents raised me. I

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Speaker 11: was there. Oh, Steve McCracken comes from a broken family. Now,

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Speaker 11: the Second Amendment, that is something I cherish. Why my

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Speaker 11: grandpappy gave me my first twenty two rifle, told me

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Speaker 11: to help him get rid of those pesky squirrels that were.

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Speaker 2: Eating on his to made feet. McCracken murdered innocent squirrels

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Speaker 2: for pure pleasure.

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Speaker 11: Now I walk that dirt road right over there every

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Speaker 11: day to school, and in sixth grade I met that

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Speaker 11: pretty Sally bought cha feet.

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Speaker 2: McCracken preyed on innocent children at a young age.

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Speaker 11: Oh, Sally won my heart, and when we were nineteen,

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Speaker 11: I proposed to her right over there in that field.

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Speaker 11: What Steve McCracken isn't telling is that while proposing to Sally,

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Speaker 11: his knee crushed a group of blue bodies, murdering the

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Speaker 11: Texas State flower. Now, we didn't have much money, so

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Speaker 11: that summer I worked three jobs, made just enough to

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Speaker 11: build us a chapel that you see right over there.

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Speaker 11: Steve McCracken is religious radical with no respect for separation

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Speaker 11: of church and state, building a church on his own land.

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Speaker 11: By the grace of God, we had two beautiful children,

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Speaker 11: turned our little chapel into a church with a growing

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Speaker 11: congregation of two hundred praising the Lord every Sunday. Steve

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Speaker 11: McCracken is the leader of a cult. My name is

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Speaker 11: Steve McCracken, and I proved this message.

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Speaker 2: Of course he does.

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Speaker 11: Steve McCracken, the ultimate narcissist, els has

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Speaker 2: Thank you and good night