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

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Speaker 2: You have a new podcast when you're looking to transition

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Speaker 1: And then yet you have everybody arguing and angry.

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Speaker 3: John even you don't have that.

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Speaker 1: I don't have that. Keavin Newsom's that's far out done

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Speaker 3: Wow, And how many years have you been doing that?

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Speaker 2: Too many years? And it never could do what Gavin

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Speaker 2: Newsom did in one hour. He is a formable, a

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Speaker 2: All right, we'll get to more of that later because

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Speaker 2: it's actually quite funny.

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Speaker 1: All the the.

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Speaker 2: Entire trends industry is now against him. Let's uh, let's

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Speaker 2: let let's talk about something serious here.

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Speaker 1: Snapchat.

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Speaker 2: You know, you never know if people are on up, up,

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 2: Snapchat's been around for years. It's a social media platform.

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Speaker 2: A lot of teenagers use it. You get a video

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Speaker 2: message from your friend, and then a minute later, the

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Speaker 2: thing disintegrates, disappears. And drug dealers use this and they

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Speaker 2: contact teenagers and offer them drugs, often painkillers like percocet

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Speaker 2: to experiment, not knowing that actually they're getting sent to

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Speaker 2: nil and then they die. And sixty families are suing

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Speaker 2: Snap for allowing drug dealers to sell the pathentical pills

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Speaker 2: and allowing these these drug dealers to kill their sons

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Speaker 2: and daughters. Sixty families are suing. We're going to talk

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Speaker 2: to the attorney representing these parents, Matthew Bergman. Matthew, how

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Speaker 2: are you welcome? Well, thank you for coming on. You

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Speaker 2: might you must have heard a lot of really sad,

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Speaker 1: Huh.

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Speaker 4: Yes, Just today I got an email from another family

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Speaker 4: who lost a kid to fentanol. It's the largest killer

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Speaker 2: I didn't know that. That's pretty scary. Can you explain

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Speaker 2: in detail how this whole system works. How do these

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Speaker 2: drug dealers find these teenagers to sell the pills? Because

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Speaker 2: obviously they don't know who the kids are. They don't

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Speaker 2: These are random meetings online. How does it work?

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Speaker 4: Well? Snapchat really functions as an open air drug market.

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Speaker 4: It provides opportunities for drug dealers to meet kids, many

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Speaker 4: times kids who aren't even looking for drugs, and through

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Speaker 4: The way the algorithms work is they connect drug dealers

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Speaker 4: demographic issues. And then Snapchat provides an opportunity for drug

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Speaker 4: dealers to provide a veritable menu of available drugs for kids,

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Speaker 4: typically a weed or percocet or oxy or something like that.

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Speaker 4: And then it provides an opportunity to use geolocating so

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Speaker 4: and most significantly, the way the snipchat product is designed,

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Speaker 4: all the evidence of this crime is automatically disappeared, both

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Speaker 4: essentially allows drug dealers to sell their products at scale,

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Speaker 4: like put a put a great big billboard down down

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Speaker 4: in this town square. But do so, Sarah Tipps, surreptitiously,

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Speaker 4: so that the the the evidence of their of their

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Speaker 4: benevolent crime is is deleted. And of course, kids being kids,

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Speaker 4: they make bad decisions. We don't in any way condone

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Speaker 4: kids purchasing prescription drugs online. But they're not seeking front nyl.

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Speaker 4: But the drugs are contaminated with fetanoyl. Kids make you know,

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Speaker 2: So they actually the drug dealers run ads on Snapchat.

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Speaker 4: Actual ads. Yes, they're called menus, and they use the

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Speaker 4: are you typically manufactured in such a slipshot fashion, or

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Speaker 4: that the feentanyl, which is four hundred times more powerful

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Speaker 1: This is really horrible.

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Speaker 2: And so these these drug menus that the dealers send

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Speaker 4: Know the nature of the quick ad features allows drug

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Speaker 4: dealers to identify likely customers based on age, geography, demographic

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Speaker 4: characteristics and then apply apply them with advertisements for drugs.

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Speaker 4: In some cases kids are looking for drugs, in some

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Speaker 4: cases they aren't. But in all cases, Snapchats facilitates the

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Speaker 2: How long do you think Snapchat has known that this

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Speaker 4: Well, we have seen records going back to twenty eighteen.

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Speaker 1: And have they ever?

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Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, I'm sure people complained very early

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Speaker 2: you ingest that kind of fentinel that you were discussing.

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Speaker 4: Act, not appreciably, no, I mean they And indeed, you know,

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Speaker 4: we have cases where a child has died of fentanyl poisoning,

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Speaker 4: the parents have informed law enforcement of the exact identity

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Speaker 4: of the drug dealer, and eight months later, the same

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Speaker 4: loses his life as well. Snapchat claims that it's doing

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Speaker 4: a lot. In fact, it's doing very little. It could

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Speaker 2: They want the traffic so bad that they don't care

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Speaker 2: if this kills hundreds or thousands of their customers teenagers.

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Speaker 4: I can't speak to their motivation, but what I can

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Speaker 4: to drug dealers. They're not doing that. One of the

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I was saying. It's like they want

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Speaker 2: you know, that's a price of doing business.

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Speaker 1: They don't care. It's not their kid.

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Speaker 4: Well, until recently, they've never had to bear legal consequences

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Speaker 4: for their decisions. We're trying to change that.

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Speaker 2: What what's the status of the court case.

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Speaker 4: So Snapchat sought to dismiss the case out of the box,

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Speaker 4: claiming that under American law that they had absolute immunity,

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Speaker 4: and the trial court considered both sides arguments rejected That

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Speaker 4: allowed the case to go forward. But before it could

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Speaker 4: it back to the trial court. So the cases are

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Speaker 4: getting are starting to get worked up for trial, and

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Speaker 4: both sides are exchanging information and there'll be many more

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Speaker 4: battles ahead. The only certain thing about this lawsuit is

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Speaker 4: it's going to be a long, hard slog, but you know,

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Speaker 4: when you talk to these parents who've lost kids, they

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Speaker 4: don't care. I've never had clients less concerned about money

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Speaker 4: that reason, it's an absolute honor to be representing them

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Speaker 4: in what is very difficult that I can worth while struggle.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, in nineteen ninety six, Congress passed the law it's

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Speaker 2: called Section two thirty, the Communications Decency Act, and platforms

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Speaker 2: like Snapchat or Facebook or Twitter, they have immunity against

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Speaker 2: we're just like the phone company. We're just passing along

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Speaker 2: And they've had pretty ironclad protection because of that section

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Speaker 4: Well, what we're saying is that they you know, first

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Speaker 4: that we don't you know the fact that the third

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Speaker 2: Well, well, good luck with this, and you know we'll

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Speaker 2: for at least sixty families suing Snap, the good people

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Speaker 2: Snap in Santa Monica. Congratulations, it's pretty nice. You get

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Speaker 1: Wonderful. Hope you get your bonuses.

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Speaker 1: I feel like I'm going insane.

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Speaker 3: I feel the same way, John.

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Speaker 2: I have. I'm getting there. I'm driving there, but I

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Speaker 2: think your car got there first. This is breaking news

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Speaker 2: that came out just moments ago. I'm looking at two

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Speaker 2: separate articles that were just released. The much anticipated audit

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Speaker 2: of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority I've told you

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Speaker 2: entire homeless operation in la is nothing but a racket

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Speaker 2: and they've blown billions and billions of dollars.

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Speaker 1: Listen to UH These preliminary audit.

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Speaker 2: Results significant gaps in financial oversight, data tracking, and accountability

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Speaker 2: in the city's homelessness programs. Karen Bass has been running

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Speaker 2: these homeless programs for two years two years. LASA is

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Speaker 2: an agency that is works for the county and the city.

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Speaker 2: It's some some joint agency. And you, if you lived

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Speaker 2: This past November sales tax went up again, and I

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Speaker 2: Nearly half of program participants exited back into homelessness, only

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Speaker 2: Right, let me let me go back to actually what

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Speaker 2: And every single person in government, in city government and

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Speaker 1: And you can't shame them.

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Speaker 2: You can't argue with them, you can't convince them, you

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Speaker 1: You're paying for it.

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Speaker 2: In fact, idiot, LA voters agreed in November to increase

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Speaker 2: That's the organization my husband works for. Is one of

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Speaker 1: Sure, I'll sign it.

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Speaker 2: Ge, why do you think most of the money can't

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Speaker 2: They must have been conjured up a fractured, ineffective system

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Speaker 1: You know what negligible means? Almost nothing?

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Speaker 2: They have almost no good results, severe financial mismanagement, leaving

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Speaker 2: the fire. Remember, yeah, those disaster people. The homeless agency

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Speaker 2: that they send billions of dollars of our money to

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Speaker 1: Gee.

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Speaker 2: Why is the city broke? Why is the county? There's

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Speaker 2: another story I wanted to get to. Maybe I'll do

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Speaker 2: that next. The counties broke. So the city's broke, the

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Speaker 2: counties broke, and they have billions of dollars in homeless money.

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Speaker 2: We still have tens of thousands of homeless people littered

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Speaker 2: about human debris and there's no accounting for this. Why

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Speaker 2: did you let Karen Bass again?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, demographics, right, she had special demographics. Do you think

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Speaker 2: in the decades that Rick Caruso has been running many

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Speaker 2: different business organizations that there has ever been an audit

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Speaker 2: that described his company plagued by poor oversight, lack of coordination,

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Speaker 2: negligible results, fraud, waste abuse, severe financial mismanagement. In the

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Speaker 2: history of all the companies that Rick Caruso has been

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Speaker 2: involved in for let's say the last forty years, do

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Speaker 2: you think there's one audit that has that kind of analysis?

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Speaker 1: So why'd you vote for Karen bassagan.

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Speaker 2: Us All right, let me tell you about the county

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Speaker 2: going bankrupt when we come back. They've also blown billions

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Speaker 2: of dollars on this homeless crusade.

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Speaker 1: I said this the other day. I'm standing by it.

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Speaker 2: As much corruption and waste and fraud they're finding in Washington,

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Speaker 2: D C. Mosk and Trump, I think on a proportional basis,

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Speaker 2: there's far more going on here in the city and

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Speaker 2: county of LA. By the way, and all the articles

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Speaker 2: I've read so far, no reaction from any elected official.

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Speaker 2: They hope it's a one day story and it blows over,

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Speaker 2: just like they hope the fire was a one day

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Speaker 2: story and would blow over.

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Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A

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Speaker 5: six forty.

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Speaker 2: Dever's got the news in a few minutes, and then

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Speaker 2: we're going to talk to some of them in Bill

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Speaker 2: Saley from the Inland Empire, and he wants Gavin Newsom

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Speaker 2: to support his bill to on transgenders playing girl sports.

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Speaker 2: California enacted a law in twenty fourteen so that trans

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Speaker 2: athletes can compete in girls and women's sports, and a

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Speaker 2: Sale's bill would reverse it, And today it looks like

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Speaker 2: the governor reversed himself on the issue. He called out

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Speaker 2: the unfairness of men competing in women's sports.

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Speaker 1: So we're gonna talk to.

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Speaker 2: Bill a Sale because we're going to play you the

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Speaker 2: Newsome clip on his debut iHeart Media podcast that he

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Speaker 2: did today and he renounced about a half a dozen

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Speaker 2: different woke stances all in one podcast.

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Speaker 3: So now you like him now, Jean.

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Speaker 1: We're finding common ground.

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Speaker 3: You know you're gonna vote for him when he runs

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Speaker 3: for president.

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Speaker 2: Well, let's see, let's see, he's got more ground to

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Speaker 2: cover here.

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Speaker 1: The ground is not common enough yet.

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Speaker 2: I was just telling you that the last half hour

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Speaker 2: that the there's a judge who demanded an audit, a

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Speaker 2: federal judge, and they have found that the Los Angeles

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Speaker 2: Homeless Services Authority, which is a city in county production

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Speaker 2: is a complete disaster and that most of the money

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Speaker 2: cannot be accounted for. They don't know where it went.

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Speaker 2: And what good it did. We've had about four of

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Speaker 2: these audits for State City County. Yeah, it's all is

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Speaker 2: that they're wasting the money. They're stealing the money. That's

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Speaker 2: all you got to know. Meantime, La County government is

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Speaker 2: going broke. It has a hiring freeze. Its budget is

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Speaker 2: forty five billion dollars a year, forty five billion dollars,

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Speaker 2: and it is facing, according to the La Times, enormous

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Speaker 2: pressures because the wildfires, a flood of sex abuse lawsuits,

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Speaker 2: sex abuse lawsuits, and of course Trump is threatening to

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Speaker 2: slash funding. We have a CEO in La County. I

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Speaker 2: never heard of this woman. Her name is Fesha Davenport Fbsia.

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Speaker 2: You know how to pronounce that. I never remember seeing her.

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Speaker 2: She's the chief executive and I've never seen her name

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Speaker 2: in the news. Fesha or Fesia Fisia. She's warned the

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Speaker 2: county supervisors that the situation could devolve into a financial crisis.

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Speaker 2: Do you know the county has one hundred and seventeen

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Speaker 2: thousand budgeted positions. One hundred and seventeen thousand, thirteen thousand

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Speaker 2: of these positions are unfilled. I bet you you and

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Speaker 2: I could get a county job. I'm sure we qualify

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Speaker 2: for two. Yeah, of the thirteen thousand empty positions.

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Speaker 3: Well, I get paid more.

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Speaker 1: You won't have to show up for work, you know.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't have to deal with traffic.

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Speaker 3: I get paid more.

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Speaker 1: And you could sit home in your bathroom.

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Speaker 3: My bathroom, my leopard bathroom.

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Speaker 1: And your your leopard fuzzy slippers.

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Speaker 3: I have those, and that s yes, I do. I

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Speaker 3: have about three parents.

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Speaker 2: Well, you got to come to work, county workers do. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it says uh. You know, they got two billion dollars

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Speaker 2: from Biden after the pandemic. All that money's gone, and

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Speaker 2: they changed the statue of limitations for victim of victims

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Speaker 2: of child sex abuse, and so now thousands of sex

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Speaker 2: abuse victims have sued over sex abuse in the county's

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Speaker 2: juvenile facilities and foster care system. The liability for those

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Speaker 2: lawsuits could be billions of dollars. Why do foster families

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Speaker 2: sexually abuse the kids they're supposed to take care of?

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Speaker 2: What is that the reason that their foster parents in

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Speaker 2: order so they have a free shot. What percentage of

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Speaker 2: foster parents are in that particular line of work in

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Speaker 2: order to sexually abuse the kids. Anybody have an answer

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Speaker 2: on that? Well, I guess, I guess there's thousands. I

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Speaker 2: mean there's thousands of lawsuits. Sales, tax revenues are going

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Speaker 2: to be down because of all the businesses that have

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Speaker 2: been shut down.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you had the pandemic.

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Speaker 2: You know, there a lot of rioting going on like

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Speaker 2: in Santa Monica in LA and a lot of businesses

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Speaker 2: closed permanently because they allowed those George Floyd riots. Then

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Speaker 2: they shut down because of the pandemic. And then Karen

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Speaker 2: Bass was in Africa when the fire broke out. Well,

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Speaker 2: property taxes are down, are going to be down in

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Speaker 2: the Palis Aides area. Bit don't you think all those

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Speaker 2: homes destroyed, all the homes destroying now to Dina because

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Speaker 2: the so Cal Edison had malfunctioning equipment because they never

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Speaker 2: buried the power lines. I got a lot of stuff

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Speaker 2: on that I haven't gotten too yet. And oh, downy

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Speaker 2: unions want a big Hey, you've been listening to the John.

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Speaker 1: Cobalt Show podcast.

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

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

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