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Speaker 1: John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We're on every

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Speaker 1: day from one until four, and then after four o'clock

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Speaker 1: John Cobelt's show on demand on the iHeart app as well.

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Speaker 1: It's the podcast, it's the same as the radio show,

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Speaker 1: and so you could listen to what you missed. Rex

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Speaker 1: Paris is now coming on at two thirty, so mark

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Speaker 1: that down in your program. Rex Paris the mayor of

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Speaker 1: Lancaster who his solution of homelessness is give them free

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Speaker 1: fentonel all they want. He said, yeah, I'll take care

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Speaker 1: of the problem. Wouldn't I have a stack of stories here?

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Speaker 1: We started talking last hour with Michael Monks from KFI

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Speaker 1: News about the county workers, these lazy lard asses who

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Speaker 2: Days off, not working, not working to complain.

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Speaker 1: That they're not being offered more money. But LA counties

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Speaker 1: tapped out because they hired so many sexual perverts over

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Speaker 1: the years in the juvenile detention system that there's four

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Speaker 1: billion dollars that has to be paid out in sentiment claims.

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Speaker 1: Can you imagine, I mean, all these government workers engaging

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Speaker 2: That's what they did all these years.

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Speaker 1: Every once in a while I got an email, why

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Speaker 1: are you so hard on government workers? Hey, look, you're

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Speaker 1: the guys who were raping boys and girls. Cost me

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Speaker 1: and the rest of the taxpayer's four billion. Then I

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Speaker 1: got a story here about the La City budget sixteen

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Speaker 1: hundred and forty seven layoffs.

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Speaker 2: This is the city.

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Speaker 1: Apparently they got a huge They had a special hearing

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Speaker 1: yesterday and a huge uproar from city workers over the

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Speaker 1: budget cuts. It's like, again, do people do math? I

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Speaker 1: really hate to be so harsh? Am I being too harsh?

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Speaker 3: Not you, You're never too harsh.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: She's reading that off a card. There's just testing. No, seriously,

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Speaker 1: do math the City of La Maybe you don't know this.

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Speaker 1: They cannot print money. The federal government can print money,

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Speaker 1: and boy, do that right, thirty seven trillion in debt

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Speaker 1: because they just in fact, it's not even printing. What

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Speaker 1: they do is somebody at the Federal Reserve just calls

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Speaker 1: up a program on a screen and just types in,

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Speaker 1: how about another trillion dollars we'll send into the system, right,

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Speaker 1: and they send it out to all the banks.

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Speaker 2: Well, the city can't do that.

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Speaker 1: They have this committee, the City Council Budget and Finance Committee,

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Speaker 1: and they held the hearing and everybody showed up and complained.

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Speaker 1: April twenty fifth, there was hundreds of unionized city workers

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Speaker 2: Oh I guess I was off that day. Huh?

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Speaker 1: All right, So the county had their big protest, and

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Speaker 1: on the twenty fifth, the city workers protested, what are

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Speaker 2: Exactly?

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Speaker 1: We're out of money. Do you know what high taxes

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Speaker 1: are on us? You live here too, you know what

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Speaker 1: the taxes are? Like, what's wrong with you? We can't

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Speaker 1: keep paying this. We got the highest taxes in the

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Speaker 1: whole effing country and you want more money. You know

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Speaker 1: who you should be pissed at. You should be pissed

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Speaker 1: at all the money that's stolen by the homeless people

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Speaker 1: and the nonprofits. Of course, a lot of you are

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Speaker 1: working for the city and county homeless bureaucracy, so that's

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Speaker 1: why you speak out. That's where a lot of the

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Speaker 1: money is being wasted. That's why we have half a

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Speaker 1: fire department. We're paying billions of day to vagrants, We're

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Speaker 1: paying billions of dollars now to the victims of child rapists.

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Speaker 2: Look what we're blowing the money on.

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Speaker 1: How many millions of dollars were we spending on illegal

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Speaker 1: alien services? Why it's costing us billions of dollars? And

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Speaker 1: all right, the stupid asses that run the government, they

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Speaker 1: don't want to help the Trump administration catch the criminal

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Speaker 1: illegal aliens.

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Speaker 2: It's wrong with you.

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Speaker 1: There's no argument here, there's no other side to this.

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Speaker 1: This is not a political issue. This is like just

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Speaker 1: basic common sense. Stop hiring sex perverts in the detention center.

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Speaker 1: Stop giving away billions of dollars to criminal fake homeless nonprofits.

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Speaker 1: Stop allowing homeless people to live in the streets. Go

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Speaker 1: ship them to another city or another state. I told

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Speaker 2: But to other cities on the East Coast, they have

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Speaker 2: zero of this. Zero. Why there were warm weather cities.

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Speaker 1: Because we're idiots, Because we're run by destructive progressives. Destructive progressives.

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Speaker 1: After progressives get through a city, after they get through

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Speaker 1: they enable? They enable the child, They enable the child rapists,

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Speaker 2: And we're all supposed to work.

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Speaker 1: So we go to work every day and then and

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Speaker 1: then all we get is complaining. I mean, you got

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Speaker 1: they want more money. You got a group of city

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Speaker 2: Sorry. And these people don't even.

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Speaker 1: Shop for work, they don't even show up for work.

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Speaker 1: And here's the story about the state public employees. Okay,

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Speaker 1: it's the triple crown. Now we went through the county

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Speaker 1: of the city. I'll read this at out of californiaglobe

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Speaker 1: dot com Katie Grimes. Five years, five years after his

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Speaker 1: original lockdown order, Gavin Newsom has issued a get back

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Speaker 1: to the office order.

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Speaker 2: But it does better late than never.

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Speaker 1: You and I have showed up every single day for

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Speaker 3: He certainly did. And I came in a hazmat suit, John,

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Speaker 3: because I was afraid, just like everybody else, but I

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Speaker 1: But it was a fashionable of course, yes, and it

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Speaker 1: went with your fashionable purse.

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Speaker 2: And my shoes and your shoes. That's right. It's hard

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Speaker 3: Had really cute masks. Remember I had leopard.

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Speaker 1: You had leopard asks. A leather mask, Now that was

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Speaker 1: something else. Eric showed up every day. Ray showed up

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Speaker 1: every day. Ray bought brought COVID in with him.

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Speaker 3: A couple of times.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we all showed up. So you get the zero

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Speaker 1: empathy here, no sympathy at all. Complaining after five years,

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Speaker 1: good lord. So by July first, it will be five

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Speaker 1: years and three months. And even then Newsom is requiring

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Speaker 1: only four days a week. The order says all agencies

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Speaker 1: and departments have to update their hybrid telework policies. That

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Speaker 1: is the bureaucratic name for go lay around in your

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Speaker 1: I'm engaging in a hybrid telework policy. July first, labor

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Speaker 1: unions complained almost immediately they do you know? They filed

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Speaker 2: Ted Toppin he's the example. Am I reading this right?

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Speaker 1: Ted Toppen is the executive director of the professional engineers

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Speaker 1: in California government union, Well engineers, that's like a higher

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Speaker 1: level of worker than you know, the people who's just

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Speaker 1: just fill up their cubicles with their useless bulk. Ted

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Speaker 1: Toppin described the change as inexplicable and unnecessary. Oh he

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Speaker 1: represents Department of Transportation employees. Oh okay, you mean the

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Speaker 1: people who don't pay the roads, the people who don't

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Speaker 1: clear the homeless encampments off the uh off state property

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Speaker 3: I'll fix the sidewalks, don't fix the side.

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Speaker 1: It's really it really is trying to end a win

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Speaker 1: win situation. M hm, who's on the what side of

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Speaker 2: Are we on?

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Speaker 3: Not the winning side?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Uh, he has two sides, two of the sides winning,

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Speaker 1: But I'm not on either side.

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Speaker 2: Uh. See, everything I say is true.

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Speaker 1: Every once in a while, I get a I get

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Speaker 1: an email, or and my wife runs into a government worker.

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Speaker 1: Tell John not to be so hard on us. It's like,

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Speaker 1: I'm not hard enough. I can't tell you what I

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Speaker 1: really think. They'd carry me out of here. But we're

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Speaker 1: spending billions and billions of dollars and you people are

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Speaker 1: never satisfied, and you don't show up for work for

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Speaker 1: five years and then you go lay in the streets

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Speaker 1: and block traffic. I mean what, Go watch the news tonight,

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Speaker 1: go see these government workers, these big blobs laying down

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Speaker 2: What stop this Jesus?

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Speaker 3: And to do it in l A. Come on, people

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Speaker 1: I know, it's just you know what, they're there, they're

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Speaker 1: one day something bad is gonna happen. You stop laying

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Speaker 1: You know, if we had a real mayor who just

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Speaker 1: said zero tolerance on protests and shut down traffic. You

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Speaker 1: to do it early morning on a Sunday. That's it.

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Speaker 1: Rex Paris, the Lancaster may are coming up just after

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Speaker 1: two thirty to talk about his idea of giving up

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Speaker 1: free fentinyl to all the homeless people, which I think

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Speaker 1: is a terrific idea. In fact, you know, I'll help

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Speaker 1: them hand out the free fentinel. That's what that's what

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Speaker 1: that's basically what San Francisco and.

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Speaker 2: LA are doing anyway by allowing it to go on.

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Speaker 2: So you might as well just you.

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Speaker 1: Know, skip the middleman, skip the the Sonola Sineloa cartel

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Speaker 1: I think it was it was like like ten people

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Speaker 1: did everything short of handing out free fentonel and fantanel

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Speaker 1: nobody's been nobody's been arresting anybody. Uh the city and

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Speaker 1: their their outbursts. Now, we have been closely following the

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Speaker 1: Christine Noom situation department, normally security because she was out

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Speaker 1: joint and my mom never took us out for burgers

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Speaker 1: He's chatting on a cell phone. It was the fourth

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Speaker 3: Oh, he's gonna be in big trouble by you know,

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Speaker 3: stealing Christy Nomes four thousand dollars Gucci and all her stuff. Oh,

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Speaker 2: I heard they have a long list of federal crimes. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Well in New York after he stole the uh what

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Speaker 1: The progressives have really done a lot of damage. They

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Speaker 1: we gotta get we come back. Rex Paris from Lancaster.

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Speaker 1: He's the mayor there. He wants fentanyl, hand it out

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Speaker 1: made headlines last week. Let's play a short clip of

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Speaker 1: what he said. It sounds like you want to kind

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Speaker 4: To do is and I don't think, I mean, that's

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Speaker 3: I can't understand what you're saying.

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Speaker 2: You wanted to get with them what.

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Speaker 4: I want to give them all the fentanyl they want, That's.

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Speaker 2: What I want.

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Speaker 4: That was not kind.

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Speaker 2: Who said that. The ladies speaking to him at the meeting.

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Speaker 4: Mom.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for taking some time to come on the

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Speaker 4: Uh, people disagree, Oh, I.

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Speaker 1: If you ever set up a fentinel stand, I'll help

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Speaker 1: hand it out. I mean, basically, that's what the big cities,

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Speaker 4: Well, it's a little worse than that. I mean, we're

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Speaker 4: Where do you think that money goes we really would

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Speaker 1: Well why, I mean, I talk about this every day,

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Speaker 4: I think that's accurate. I mean, La County lost a

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Speaker 4: They rob people, they murder people. I mean in the desert,

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 4: I mean, at some point, we have to start prioritizing

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Speaker 1: You know, it's a good reminder of where a lot

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Speaker 4: I think that's accurate. I think that's absolutely accurate. You know,

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Speaker 4: We'll give you the money to eat the But you

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Speaker 1: It really is, I know, And most of the rest

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Speaker 4: I mean I've been to Japan because we're doing a

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Speaker 4: when you hurt somebody, expect to get hurt. In Lancaster,

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Speaker 1: What are you doing, Lancaster? I mean I haven't been

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Speaker 4: Our homeless problem is really nonexistent because everybody we offer

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Speaker 4: So how do I call them homeless? They do not

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Speaker 4: You know. You take the latest homeless initiative, they did

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Speaker 1: all these audits and investigations. Every one of them says

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Speaker 1: the same thing, and then the next day life just

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Speaker 1: goes on and they keep stealing the money.

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Speaker 4: It's you know, it's laughable simply because there is no

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Speaker 4: saying society that would tolerate what we're tolerating. This is

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Speaker 4: our money they're stealing. It's it's beyond belief. And what

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Speaker 4: I'm what amazes me is the people that want to

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Speaker 4: give more money away are the ones who get elected.

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Speaker 1: What do you think is wrong with a majority of

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Speaker 1: the voters, Because ultimately it comes to the people listening

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Speaker 1: now and voting. And I thought LA and Southern California

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Speaker 1: was a wonderful place, you know, for first twenty plus

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Speaker 1: years I was here, and especially especially like in the

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Speaker 1: last I don't know, six seventy eight years, it's gone

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Speaker 1: to hell, and everybody complains about it. Everybody's unhappy that.

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Speaker 1: I know, nobody votes differently. Why look what happened.

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Speaker 4: Look what happens when we say something. I mean, I

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Speaker 4: used to get elected with eighty percent of the vote,

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Speaker 4: it's you know now it was less than fifty. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: it's there's this tendency to want to please everybody and

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Speaker 4: say whatever you need to say so that you don't

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Speaker 4: make any enemies. You know, we need listen. I like Trump.

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Speaker 4: I think we need more Trumps. We need people that

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Speaker 4: are not afraid to make decisions that will improve the

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Speaker 4: well being of the families that live here. It makes

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Speaker 4: them unpopular for all, even if it makes them unpopular

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Speaker 4: for a while. I don't know. It's very frustrating it.

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Speaker 4: You know, we had we had dropped our homicide rate

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Speaker 4: to zero the third year after I was elected. Zero,

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Speaker 4: And then they started pulling the sheriff's deputies from us

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Speaker 4: because La County can't afford to hire deputies. You know,

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Speaker 4: I'm seventy deputies down, seventy deputies down. There are times

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Speaker 4: they cannot call back up because there's no backup to call.

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Speaker 4: It's reached, it's reached crisis proportions. That's why we started

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Speaker 4: our own police department to help the sheriff's department. We're

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Speaker 4: going really full boar and AI and technology. Last year,

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Speaker 4: we were the only city in America of over one

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Speaker 4: hundred thousand people that had one hundred percent solve rate

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Speaker 4: on every homicide. Can we do it with technology? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I wish, I wish I heard of Marral Los Angeles

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Speaker 1: talk the way you do. I got a run. It

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Speaker 1: was good having you on, Rex, Come on again soon.

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Speaker 1: Thanks all right, Rex, Paris Maril Lancaster.

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

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Speaker 1: Six forty Moistline is Friday, eight seven seven Moist eighty six.

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Speaker 1: Eight seven seven Moist eighty six. There's plenty of issues

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Speaker 1: to be commenting on here, so you can fill up

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Speaker 1: the moistline with all your ranting and nonsense. You're used

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Speaker 1: a talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. Eight seven seven

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Speaker 1: Moist eighty six. We spent some time yesterday on Karen

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Speaker 1: Bass's disastrous animal services department, which she was going to cut.

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Speaker 1: She was going to cut the number of animal shelters

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Speaker 1: by fifty percent from six to three. Now, Daniel Gus,

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Speaker 1: who we have on all the time, and he's got

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Speaker 1: a great substack news site, Danielgus dot substack dot com.

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Speaker 1: This is what he wrote today at six point thirty

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Speaker 1: five last night. Bass put on her Twitter accounts the

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Speaker 1: following there has been some confusion regarding funding for animal services.

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Speaker 1: My budget contains funding in two different areas in the

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Speaker 1: departmental budget, but another five million in the unappropriated balance.

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Speaker 1: Why did they have some stupid confusing terms unappropriated balance.

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Speaker 1: So this means all six shelters will be able to

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Speaker 1: stay open, blah blah blah. But what Gus writes, well,

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Speaker 1: what he wrote is confusion my ass in the past

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Speaker 1: few weeks, the city council, bass's chief of staff, her

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Speaker 1: top legal advisor, her deputies, her five animal service commissioners,

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Speaker 1: it's interim general manager, and hundreds of employees and their unions,

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Speaker 1: and the humane foundations and the rescue groups and the

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Speaker 1: volunteers and the deputy city attorney and the neighborhood council

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Speaker 1: budget advocates, who have all been complaining about the budget cuts.

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Speaker 1: He says, everyone got it wrong. No, everyone didn't get

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Speaker 1: it wrong. She cut the budget, got caught and fixed it,

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Speaker 1: and came up with some kakamami unappropriated balance provision in

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Speaker 1: the budget. You don't screw with animal people, that's right,

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Speaker 1: And so she got her head blown off here. And

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Speaker 1: so now she's scrambling around and saying, oh, no, no, you're

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Speaker 1: all confused. In fact, he says, many people spoke at

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Speaker 1: the start of a five hour City Council committee meeting

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Speaker 1: yesterday complaining about this publicly. So everyone, it's what he's

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Speaker 1: saying is almost everyone interested in the issue had the

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Speaker 1: same impression that she was cutting the budget and closing

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Speaker 1: three of the six shelters. And now it's six thirty five.

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Speaker 1: This is the condescending arrogance, you know, the dismissive Oh

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Speaker 1: oh no, no, no oh, you unwatched noisy people.

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Speaker 2: You're all confused.

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Speaker 1: I would never do such a thing, of course she would.

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Speaker 1: She caught the fire department and then lied about it.

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Speaker 1: She cut the fire department, and then there was a

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Speaker 1: lot of blowback, and it's like, well, I guess we

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Speaker 1: have we can get one of those supplemental unappropriated balance transfers.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I didn't cut it. Well, she's really got

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Speaker 1: her act down. Pat Nobody, Nobody publicly disputed that half

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Speaker 1: the shelters were going to be and cut until six

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Speaker 1: thirty five last night when Bass put it on Twitter.

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Speaker 1: Nobody and Gus also points out that ninety three percent

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Speaker 1: of the budget goes to salaries, and it steals donated

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Speaker 1: funds and uses them for everything for pizza parties to travel.

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Speaker 1: They abandoned animals on the street, they kill indiscriminately, they

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Speaker 1: have no thriving spay and neuter function or animal crueltine enforcement,

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Speaker 1: and the shelters are closed too often when it should

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Speaker 1: be open twenty four to seven. And the whole thing

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Speaker 1: needs a comprehensive restructuring and that's a point, because we're

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Speaker 1: talking about the cuts. We spend any time on just

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Speaker 1: what a huge disaster the animal shelter system in LA is.

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Speaker 1: To begin with, Will.

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Speaker 3: We new blood there?

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, No, it needs a bulldoze and a

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Speaker 1: complete rebuild. It needs a doging, definitely, all right. When

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Speaker 1: we come back after Debor does the news, the Santa

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Speaker 1: Inez reservoir back center stage because the company then installed

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Speaker 1: or tried to fix the new cover. It's got tears

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Speaker 1: and holes in it, and they refilled the reservoir to

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Speaker 1: twenty five percent level. It has to be drained again.

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Speaker 1: The cover has to be fixed again. It's at of

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Speaker 1: service till at least June. Say Ed Kashani. He's an

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Speaker 1: attorney who lost his house and he's been fighting almost

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Speaker 1: all by himself LEDWP. He's on next with us and

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Speaker 1: Deborah Mark is live in the CAFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey,

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Speaker 1: you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You

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