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Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty.

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Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 2: Today we've got Trump getting inaugurated and issuing a blizzard

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Speaker 2: of executive orders, including many about the border. We went

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Speaker 2: through all the border executive orders, but just to sum

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Speaker 2: it up in a sentence, for the moment, the border

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Speaker 2: is effectively closed between the US and Mexico. The ports

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Speaker 2: of entry are shut down. We will go through it

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Speaker 2: again later in the show, but a massive, massive change

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Speaker 2: in border and immigration policy.

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Speaker 1: We also.

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Speaker 2: Talked about there's rumblings in the Palisades that some people

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Speaker 2: say maybe it's time to separate from the rest of

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Speaker 2: Los Angeles since they were left not underserved, unserved as

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Speaker 2: the wildfire exploded and wiped out thousands of homes and nobody.

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Speaker 2: There was nobody running city hall. We'll go through that

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Speaker 2: because remember there was a deputy mayor to Karen Bass,

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Speaker 2: who was recently put on leave because he was accused

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Speaker 2: of phoning in a bomb threat. He was the deputy

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Speaker 2: mayor who oversaw the fire department. So not only he

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Speaker 2: didn't have Karen Bass, but he didn't have the number

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Speaker 2: two deputy mayor, who oversees the fire department, and then

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Speaker 2: you had the fire chief saying that they've been severely

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Speaker 2: underfunded and recently cut and Pacific Palisades residents are going

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Speaker 2: wait till I tell you how much how much in

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Speaker 2: taxes they collectively pay, And if you were there, you'd

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Speaker 2: want out too.

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Speaker 1: I mean this really, this really is the final straw.

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Speaker 2: We should break up into pieces, and the sections of

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Speaker 2: the city that can take care of themselves should be

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Speaker 2: allowed to take care of themselves. They shouldn't be held

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Speaker 2: hostage by these woke progressive ninnies in downtown LA and

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Speaker 2: city Hall. All that coming up. Let's go to Susan

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Speaker 2: Shelley from that Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, because now we

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Speaker 2: have thousands of people in the Palisades and now toa dina,

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Speaker 2: they don't have homes they want to rebuild. Are they

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Speaker 2: going to end up with a big tax increase because

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Speaker 2: their new home is going to be worth more than

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Speaker 2: the old home. Let's get Susan on here. How are you, Susan?

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Speaker 3: I'm good, Thank you for having me.

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Speaker 1: John, Okay, it's good to be here.

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Speaker 2: Now I'm going to make up numbers just so people

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Speaker 2: understand what we're talking about here. So let's say somebody

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Speaker 2: twenty years ago about a home in the Palisades for

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Speaker 2: two million dollars, burns down to the ground, they build

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Speaker 1: The new home, because the.

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Speaker 2: Old price increase is inflation, is now worth four million dollars.

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Speaker 2: Are they paying the tax on the original two million

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Speaker 3: Their tax bill will not change from what it was

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Speaker 3: before the disaster. That's the good news. And there's more

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Speaker 3: good news. You can file a form called misfortune or

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Speaker 3: calamity reassessment and you can they'll actually this automatically in

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Speaker 3: this situation, which has happened to so many people. But

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Speaker 3: anyone who has a misfortunate or calamity that damages the

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Speaker 3: house more than ten thousand dollars can get a reassessment

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Speaker 3: while it's in that damaged condition, so that your taxes

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Speaker 3: go down until you rebuild. And once you rebuild, you

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Speaker 3: are still protected by Prop thirteen. Every property in California,

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Speaker 3: no matter when it was purchased, is protected by Prop. Thirteen.

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Speaker 3: And after you rebuild from a calamity, you get your

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Speaker 2: All right, so you could it'll be taxed at a

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Speaker 2: lower amounts while it's damaged, right, But then when you

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Speaker 3: Right. You'll have the tax bill that you would have

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Speaker 2: If it takes two years to build. During those two years,

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Speaker 2: you are taxed at this damaged.

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Speaker 3: Rate, right exactly. And you could still be paying property

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Speaker 3: But the value of the land may have decreased in

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Speaker 3: you won't be paying more than the land is worth.

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Speaker 3: While this is going.

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Speaker 2: On, we were just talking, and I want to get

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Speaker 2: Pacific Palisades pay a tremendous amount in taxes, not only

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Speaker 3: You know, that's a really good question. One of the

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Speaker 3: things that really is disturbing is the city has this

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Speaker 3: They keep saying things about equity, that they're going to

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Speaker 3: do everything through an equity lens. And what does that mean?

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Speaker 3: Does that mean when if the city gives them any assistance,

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Speaker 3: Does that mean they're going to say, well, now that

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Speaker 3: that for the city because equity. Is that what they're

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Speaker 3: People should just be made whole. They should have expedited permits.

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Speaker 3: They should be helped through all the government red tape

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Speaker 3: to rebuild. They shouldn't have a year long delay to

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Speaker 3: clear the debris until the Department of Health, Barbara Farer's

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Speaker 3: department decides it's safe to clear the debris. They should

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Speaker 2: I also wonder if it's so easy for Newsome to

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Speaker 2: declare that all these regulations be suspended, environmental regulations, things

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Speaker 2: that nature. Why do if they can snap their fingers

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Speaker 2: and suspend them all, why do they exist?

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Speaker 1: To begin with?

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Speaker 3: Why do people have to be really good questions?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean for some reason, now, all those regulations

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Speaker 2: But I wonder why do they matter at all? I mean,

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Speaker 2: obviously there's a few regulations that you need, but but

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Speaker 1: Possible, like to build new new housing here in California.

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Speaker 3: Yes, it is. Well, part of that is the climate agenda.

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Speaker 3: You can't build housing in outlying areas because the government

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Speaker 3: the position that driving is bad for the climate, and

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Speaker 3: so they're not building housing in new communities in California

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Speaker 3: where land is more affordable. They're not doing it because well,

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Speaker 2: California, which is driving up the housing prices, driving up

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Speaker 3: And another thing that's really caused a lot of this

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Speaker 3: You probably heard about the LAEDWP getting finned two million

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Speaker 3: So you have that, and then you have these smoke

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Speaker 3: The prescribe turns to get rid of the extra the

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Speaker 2: All right, You've got two commissions there that nobody elects,

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Speaker 2: the Coastal Commission protecting the milk Vetch plant because the

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Speaker 2: They also wanted to pave a fire road and that

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Speaker 1: For a milk Vetch plan. It sounds like a joke,

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Speaker 1: like a gag.

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Speaker 2: And then you talked about the regulations from the what's

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Speaker 2: the other agency that you mentioned there? They were resources,

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Speaker 2: another unelected board. How do we get out of this

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Speaker 2: mess because to some extent, politicians are afraid of getting

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Speaker 2: kicked out of office. But you can't kick the Coastal

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Speaker 2: and they're the ones that are choking you know, the

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Speaker 2: average citizen more than anybody.

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Speaker 3: Well, there's two ways out of it. One is for

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Speaker 3: the legislature to change the law and cut back the

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Speaker 3: powers of these agencies, which they can do because these

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Speaker 3: agencies are creations of the legislature. And if they won't

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Speaker 3: do that, the second plan that might work is President

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Speaker 3: Trump coming in seeing some of California's special waivers for

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Speaker 3: extra tight air quality regulations which they have used to

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Speaker 3: to do. They were intended for air pollution, but they're

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Speaker 3: and that will cut back the power of agencies like COBBS.

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Speaker 3: So that's the second way it could happen.

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Speaker 1: Well, he's got to do that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I mean, we need we need some

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Speaker 2: when when they when they when they invoke policies that

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Speaker 3: Exactly, it's going to be a way there. There is

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Speaker 3: a way out of it's the Supreme the Court has

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Speaker 3: situations where the whole economy is being held hostage. Our

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Speaker 3: government has to take action on it. But look, the

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Speaker 3: Supreme Court told our cities that they could enforce an

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Speaker 3: anti camping ordinance. Have you heard Karen Bass make a

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Speaker 3: haven't heard that.

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Speaker 2: No, she's been defined about it. Yeah, that's a great thing.

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Speaker 2: That you brought up there too. You're giving me like

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Speaker 2: a whole show is worth of topics, just talking to

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Speaker 2: you spontaneously here, Susan, I got to run, got to

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Speaker 2: do the news. Thank you for coming on.

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Speaker 3: Thank you. John. Great to be with you all right.

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Speaker 2: And Susan Shelley, she's with Howard Jarvis Taxpayer's Association.

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

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Speaker 4: six forty.

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Speaker 2: The city, meaning Karen Bass's administration that failed all of

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Speaker 2: us and failed the fire department, is still in charge here.

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Speaker 2: They're still running things and we could see how in

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Speaker 2: comp they are. So we're in a lot of trouble

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Speaker 2: here because we don't have anybody intelligent running the city

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Speaker 2: and the city's response and what's frightening is right now well,

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Speaker 2: as of noontime, the National Weather Service has announced that

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Speaker 2: there's powerful and damaging Santa Ana winds coming.

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Speaker 1: I'm looking at their warning.

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Speaker 2: Peak wind speeds on the coast and in the valleys,

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Speaker 2: the gusts are fifty to seventy miles an hour. In

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Speaker 2: the mountains and foothills, it's sixty to one hundred miles

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Speaker 2: an hour. That's for the rest of today and tomorrow

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Speaker 2: until ten am. So we're looking now at about twenty

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Speaker 2: hours of extreme of extreme winds fifty to seventy miles

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Speaker 2: order by Karen Bass to get all the bums off

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Speaker 2: That we're going block by block and we're getting these

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but the winds weren't blowing that that much this morning.

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Speaker 2: Now, why are they allowed to live and water around

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Speaker 1: Does each encampment need its own set of firefighters?

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Speaker 2: It's really true now after two full weeks, they don't know.

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Speaker 2: They threw out a story about maybe it's the kids

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Speaker 2: But I mean, does that hold up a week later?

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Speaker 2: Did the fire really reignite? Shouldn't they have figured that

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Speaker 2: is never to admit to homeless fires. Well, can you man,

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Speaker 2: billions of dollars that we spent, how hard do you

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Speaker 1: They never admitted that it was homeless fire.

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Speaker 2: Imagine if in a couple of years we had a

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Speaker 2: and we're still spending billions of dollars and nobody wants

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Speaker 2: could be potentially really destructive. Why isn't there an emergency

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Speaker 2: where I think all the homeless ought to be rounded

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Speaker 2: in the uh in the brush area in the wild lands. Right,

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Speaker 2: that's worth it. Wouldn't you do that to save the

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Speaker 2: next Palisades? What's the next town that has to be

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Speaker 2: completely wiped out for the sake of the homeless to

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Speaker 1: They're doing living up in the hills.

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Speaker 5: And it's really cold at night lately.

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Speaker 1: Yes, it's really great.

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Speaker 5: So they're going to be heating themselves.

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Speaker 1: Yes, they're called warming fires. Heard that term the other day.

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Speaker 2: So they have their their they got to cook dinner,

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Speaker 2: they got to heat breakfast, they.

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Speaker 1: Got to warm themselves.

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Speaker 2: And tens of thousands are living in public areas like this.

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Speaker 2: There is no city wides and Newsom should be declaring

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Speaker 6: And we've known about these wins since last week, we

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Speaker 1: That's right.

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Speaker 2: So how much they're still unprepared, they're still not taking action.

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Speaker 2: All they do is hope everything goes away, that the

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Speaker 2: I'm talking about Bass and Newsom, and there's a long list,

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Speaker 2: but I can't mention the long list every time I

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Speaker 2: Bass should be haunted for the rest of her life

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Speaker 2: for this, so should Newsom. They should not have political careers,

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Speaker 2: they should not be in office anymore. I think that's clear. Well,

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Speaker 2: somebody's got to do something.

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Speaker 2: Radio and all the social media.

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Speaker 5: Hey, John, had a little bit of a breaking news.

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Speaker 6: The LAPD has apparently taken into custody a suspected arsonists

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Speaker 6: in connection with that fire, the Griffith Parks fire.

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Speaker 1: The Griffith Park.

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Speaker 6: Yes, wow, yeah, it happened in the lowest feeless neighborhood,

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 2: No other details on it yet, not yet. All right, Well,

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Speaker 5: I just found that out. I don't broke in while

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Speaker 1: Don't keep secrets. I'm not all right.

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Speaker 2: Uh yeah, arsonists and crazy homeless people warming themselves, feeding themselves,

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Speaker 2: and I don't see any citywide effort to address that

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Speaker 2: thousands of encampments around the city and around the county

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Speaker 2: that are unregulated. Let's say all these homeless people, all

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Speaker 2: these vagrants, and they had matches, they smoke cigarettes, hot,

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Speaker 2: they've got their grills, They have their campfires that they

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Speaker 2: set to warm themselves, to feed themselves. It's just astonishing

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Speaker 2: and heard I hadn't heard any executive orders about this

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Speaker 1: Here's another one after fourteen days.

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Speaker 2: What's the story with the LA deputy mayor Brian Williams.

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Speaker 2: He was the guy who was the deputy mayor in

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Speaker 2: He was one of Bass's top lieutenants. And then Bass

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Speaker 2: was from September. Now it's January. Had this massive fire.

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Speaker 2: We have this half funded fire department and the fire

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Speaker 2: too late. Well, who's this Brian Williams? And if Karen

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Speaker 2: well who was in charge? Who was in charge to

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Speaker 2: call up Kristin Crowley, the fire chief, and say, hey,

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Speaker 2: what do you have there? How many extra firefighters are there? Oh,

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Speaker 2: well we have a thousand from the first shift. Well,

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Speaker 2: let's keep him over with the second shift. How about

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Speaker 2: Kristen Crowley reports to Bass, and Bass has all these

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Speaker 2: who was. Williams was appointed in February twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 2: He was given the job of overseeing public safety in

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Speaker 2: the fire department. I think most people don't know this.

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Speaker 2: Most people don't know there's a deputy mayor who oversees

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Speaker 2: the police and fire department. It's not just the police

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Speaker 2: as well as the Police Commission and the Fire Commission.

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Speaker 2: Like there's a whole bureaucracy here. I don't know exactly

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Speaker 2: that was the one who sent out all the phony warnings.

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Speaker 2: How many of those did we have? By the way,

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Speaker 2: there was a severe looting situation all over the West

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Speaker 1: Who was the replacement?

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Speaker 2: How come we don't know this? What did they do

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Speaker 2: And we're really standing in for the mayor since there

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Speaker 2: imagine what the title would be. Fox News called everybody up,

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Speaker 2: and nobody's commenting. Nobody wants to They're desperate that this

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Speaker 2: you watch television today and it's Walter wald Trump. Media

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Speaker 2: is not good at follow up stories, investigative stories anymore.

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Speaker 2: They don't have the budget, so they're just going to

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Speaker 2: new fires. But as far as this colossal human failure

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Speaker 2: and the rest of them. They want you to forget

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Speaker 2: it ever happened that they had anything to do with it.

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Speaker 2: And you know, just like I said before, it hits

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Speaker 2: of the country really celebrating the new administration and Trump

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Speaker 2: shutting down the border ten different ways just with a

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Speaker 2: stroke of a pen.

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Speaker 1: That's the power that Biden always had. And I'm thinking, man,

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Speaker 1: why do we have to live like this?

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Speaker 2: Why have we had to live the way we've lived

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Speaker 2: for the last five years? Why it was all damaging, unnecessary?

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Speaker 2: These fanatical, tyrannical, woke, progressive rulers, we've had nothing, nothing,

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Speaker 2: nothing makes sense. So we're going to keep the spotlight

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Speaker 2: on it here because I don't think anybody else is

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Speaker 2: going to. I think the fire department should be doubled

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Speaker 2: in size and double funding and get the money from

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Speaker 2: the homeless because all that money that we're spending on

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Speaker 2: the homeless is not working anyway. And the police department

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Speaker 2: is underfunded, and the police department is missing probably a

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Speaker 2: couple of thousand officers.

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Speaker 1: Wow, that should be remedied too.

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Speaker 2: If they can find anybody they can find some recruits,

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Speaker 2: and we ought to stop demonizing police and stop demonizing firefighters.

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Speaker 2: I think that this this whole era has to be

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Speaker 2: shut down.

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Speaker 1: Enough. Nobody wants to live this way.

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Speaker 2: A lot of damage the progressives did and they're still

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Speaker 2: doing it and they're still in power.

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

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Speaker 4: six forty.

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Speaker 2: They're running on most stations all day coverage of the

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Speaker 2: Trump inauguration. He's gone to the Capital One Arena. I

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Speaker 2: guess that's where they play hockey and basketball Washington.

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Speaker 1: D C. And he's sitting there next to Milania and JD. Vance.

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Speaker 2: There's a university marching band performing and I understand there

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Speaker 2: they have like a stage with a desk, and he's

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Speaker 2: going to go to the desk and sign executive orders

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Speaker 2: in front of the crowd. It's uh, that's unique. I've

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Speaker 2: never seen you haven't seen anybody do that before. There's

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Speaker 2: a lot of executive orders. We're going to go through

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Speaker 2: the immigration ones. If you haven't heard many immigrant The

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Speaker 2: border is effectively shut down right now, and that stupid

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Speaker 2: border app that allowed illegal aliens to get in by

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Speaker 2: making a reservation in advance before they crossed, so they

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Speaker 2: wouldn't be counted as illegal. That thing doesn't work anymore.

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Speaker 2: They have disconnected that system. That app no longer is operable.

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Speaker 2: So we'll talk all that, all about that after three o'clock.

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Speaker 2: I couldn't believe this. There's a writer for the La Times,

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Speaker 2: Tony Barbosa. He's been covering City Hall for a long time.

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Speaker 2: And on Tuesday that they had a council meeting and

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Speaker 2: they had many, many motions, and they had many votes

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Speaker 2: in order to authorize the beginning of a recovery phase

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Speaker 2: for the palisades, right, and it was going very quickly.

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Speaker 2: There'd be motions and votes, and motions and votes. Do

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Speaker 2: you know how the reporters are supposed to follow the

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Speaker 2: motions and the votes, keep track of the news. They

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Speaker 2: have to go to a bulletin board. They actually have

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Speaker 2: a bulletin board glued to a wall at City Hall.

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Speaker 1: It's seven feet high.

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Speaker 2: And it's the only way to figure out in real

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Speaker 2: time what the council is doing. They took a thumbtack

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Speaker 2: and they stick paper onto the bulletin board, and all

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Speaker 2: the reporters crowd around, craning their necks trying to see

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Speaker 2: what it says, and they pull out their phones and

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Speaker 2: snap pictures. For example, they had motions tagged to the board,

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Speaker 2: proposals to protect people displaced by the fires from eviction,

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Speaker 2: protect them from price gouging, speed up federal disaster relief assessment,

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Speaker 2: to assessing the risk of post fire debris flows, authorize

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Speaker 2: reports to be done so the reporters and anybody from

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Speaker 2: the public gather together in this crowd, reading and taking

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Speaker 2: screenshots of all this paper tacked. There's layers and layers

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Speaker 2: of paper tacked on top of each other. It's a

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Speaker 2: bulletin board, Eliza. It's like nineteen thirty eight. Trying to

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Speaker 2: keep track of what was proposed and voted on took

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Speaker 2: two La Times reporters. One of them had to snap

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Speaker 2: the photos and then catalog them in order and then

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Speaker 2: quickly read through them.

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Speaker 1: Twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 2: They don't have an Internet system, or if they have one,

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Speaker 2: they're not using it. They're passing around sheets of paper,

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Speaker 2: according to Borbosa, attacking them to a board and leaving

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Speaker 2: it to whoever to figure out what's going on.

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Speaker 1: This can't be How could this possibly be?

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Speaker 2: I this is the La City Council using bulletin board,

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Speaker 2: using bulletin boards and thumb tax to get the news out.

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Speaker 1: Well, how's anybody supposed to keep track of this?

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Speaker 2: All right, we come back, We'll go through Trump's executive orders.

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Speaker 2: I also want to give you an idea just how

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Speaker 2: much money the Palisades pays collectively in taxes and how

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Speaker 2: many homes there were, how much money the people make.

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Speaker 2: When you hear how much they're paying in taxes and

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Speaker 2: how little return they got, you're not going to wonder

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Speaker 2: why some people want to seceed. I mean on this,

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Speaker 2: this is is just just overwhelming. And you know Trump

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Speaker 2: is going to speak this afternoon too. They're having the

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Speaker 2: parade indoors. That's what's going on. That's why I'm there's

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Speaker 2: marching bands. I guess they created like a track that

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Speaker 2: the parade participants could march around inside the arena. Tebbermark

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Speaker 2: live in the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey, you've

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Speaker 2: been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You can

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Speaker 2: always hear the show live on KFI Am six forty

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

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