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Speaker 1: You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 1: There's some kind of news conference being held by the

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Speaker 1: county supervisors over this after action report about the county's

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Speaker 1: response to the bad fires and if we find out anything,

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Speaker 1: we will tell you. And the report did not cover

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Speaker 1: the city's response. So we still don't know why the

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Speaker 1: Palisades Reservoir was empty, why it was missing one hundred

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Speaker 1: know why Genie Canonia still gets to run the DWP,

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Speaker 1: among other things.

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Speaker 2: But we'll get to more of that later.

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Speaker 1: Right now, you know the big You know, we don't

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Speaker 1: have enough money for the fire department. We only funded

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Speaker 1: at a fifty percent rate, But god, do we have

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Speaker 1: the money to blow on stupid homeless housing ideas. Back with,

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Speaker 1: Mike Bonnen was still a councilman on the west side

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Speaker 1: of La There he had a project to convert a

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Speaker 1: Ramada in in It was called the Marina Delway RAMAA

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Speaker 1: converted to low income housing. So far, the city has

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Speaker 1: spent over twenty million dollars and nothing's been done. And

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Speaker 1: we're going to talk to Angela McGregor from Westside Current

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Speaker 1: dot com because she's been poking around trying to see

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Speaker 1: I guess what Bonding thinks of all this. Angela McGregor,

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Speaker 1: how are you.

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

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you talked to Mike Bonning about this disaster of

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Speaker 2: I mean this was his baby.

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Speaker 3: Oh no, didn't talk to him. He won't talk to us,

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Speaker 3: but we he did tweet about our article or post

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Speaker 3: on X. Someone asked him if he took responsibility for it,

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Speaker 3: given that it was his baby. As you say, he

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Speaker 3: got it built with no community quote whatsoever, got the

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Speaker 3: mortgage approved. And also, and I think this is important too,

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Speaker 3: after it had been opened at transitional housing for about

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Speaker 3: quote unquote renovated quote unquote immediately. That was three years ago.

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Speaker 3: It's still empty and there's been no work done. But

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Speaker 3: for the fact that it's been sitting empty at a

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Speaker 3: total cost of nineteen and a half million dollars, he

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Speaker 3: said no, that would be my successor. Her candency was

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Speaker 3: born out of her opposition to the project in her neighborhood,

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Speaker 3: and the project has languished unempty. I have no idea

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Speaker 3: what he means by that. During the entirety of her tenure. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 3: she's been shutting down shelters and blocking housing. So I

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Speaker 3: picked up on that for an off ed I published yesterday.

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Speaker 3: And obviously she's living rent free in his head, and

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Speaker 3: he's not going to take responsibility for her.

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Speaker 2: No, for this, he did. He never did for anything.

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Speaker 3: But but it made me think about, well, okay, what

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Speaker 3: is the real cause of this. I mean, I don't

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Speaker 3: think it's honestly, I don't think it's any one council member.

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Speaker 3: He obviously played a role in initiating the project Tracy

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Speaker 3: has for Tracy Park, to her credit, has you know,

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Speaker 3: she actually extended the tenure of the Venice Bridge housing

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Speaker 3: for six months in order to have someplace to put

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Speaker 3: she's been I've actually spoken to developers who talked about

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Speaker 3: how she's really championed their projects and got help to

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Speaker 3: to blame her for hating all housing or whatever it is.

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Speaker 3: But what I went into in detail in my off

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Speaker 3: it's it's just a really sick culture. It's it's a

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Speaker 3: collecting tax dollars for god knows what, they're holding all

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Speaker 3: with new ways to more funding, new sources of funding,

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Speaker 3: I'm not sure we can do this for twenty million dollars, right,

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Speaker 1: Oh well, I know, I know there's lots of Ramada

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Speaker 1: go night. So this sounds like massive corruption that everybody's

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Speaker 3: Well, we've had two audits, two really actually very interesting,

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 3: The the head of LASS rather famously, well, she she resigned,

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Speaker 2: Yeah Alicia Adams and.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Alicia, doctor Alicia Adams Kellum. And then and this

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Speaker 1: Yes on our inside safe on her safe inside safe numbers.

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Speaker 3: And these two women who were let go sued and

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Speaker 3: rather than taking it to court, where their accusations would

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Speaker 3: eight hundred thousand dollars basically to make this thing go away.

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Speaker 3: And that's the culture we're talking about here. I mean,

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Speaker 1: It's just chaos.

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Speaker 3: And Ramata is kind of like a oh, monument to

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Speaker 1: Bratically this motel Angela, thank you for coming on, excellent report,

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Speaker 1: and everybody should read the column she wrote in Westside

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Speaker 1: Current dot com bonding points fingers. Yet the Ramata boondoggle

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Speaker 1: for coming on. Who's who's going to bust this corruption

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Speaker 1: ring up here in Los Angeles? Who does the investigating? Uhen?

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Speaker 1: When do people start getting charged with crimes? There's crimes

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Speaker 1: going on here? This is this is the two billion

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Speaker 1: because she was on for almost the whole hour.

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Speaker 2: What you think of her? Coming on?

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Speaker 1: She?

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Speaker 5: What did I think of her? I mean, I thought

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Speaker 5: she was brave to take on you.

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Speaker 2: But were you satisfied with any of her answers?

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Speaker 1: Not really?

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Speaker 2: But I don't know, I don't know. Here's the thing.

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Speaker 1: I found that she blamed everybody else and that she

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Speaker 5: I'm not exactly sure what you can do to clean

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Speaker 5: up to clean up Santa Monica at this point, I mean,

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Speaker 5: because right, I mean so, And when she gave it,

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Speaker 5: she gave reasons why Santa Monica has issues. When remember

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Speaker 5: So it's it's almost like, well, okay, if you can't

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Speaker 1: The one thing she circled back to a couple of

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Speaker 1: The vagrants come from skid Row and all the other

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Speaker 1: Or why would you poison Santa Monica with all that?

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Speaker 5: But the reality is that's happened. So then what are

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Speaker 2: Now? Stop the train service? I think, I mean you could.

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Speaker 2: I think they should. They should stop it, But who's

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Speaker 1: Or that's what the county supervisors, the ones who have

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Speaker 1: influence on the metro board, all the governments, Metro board,

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Speaker 1: county city, everybody say we're gonna stop the vagrant train.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna stop a train full of mental patients and

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Speaker 1: drug addicts from being dumped into Santa Monica every night.

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Speaker 2: Isn't that obvious? You just stop it.

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Speaker 5: I don't think are going to do that, even though

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Speaker 5: I agree with what you're saying.

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Speaker 2: That's a solution, But Santa Monica is doomed. But they

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Speaker 5: If nobody goes and dines in Santa Monica and shops

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Speaker 5: in Santa Monica.

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Speaker 2: Then it's over. Then it's over.

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Speaker 1: It's over flat because she kept going back, and I've

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Speaker 1: heard she's not the first person to come on the

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Speaker 5: Well what about the third Street Praminade that you're allowed

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Speaker 5: to now walk around with drinks? I mean, how is

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Speaker 2: Yeah, as they were enforcing the alcohol law among the

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Speaker 1: It's a joke. The whole thing is a joke. And

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Speaker 5: Well, that's why I was saying. I mean, she was

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Speaker 5: Well, the homeowners have to do something because I mean,

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Speaker 2: Well, it's the vote, it's the voters, because she said

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Speaker 1: escaping me lanty landa no Gretty. So Lenin Gretti was

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Speaker 1: And Manhattan Beach doesn't have them. Well, good for them.

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Speaker 1: They kept them out. They fought and kept them out.

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Speaker 2: So I'll go to Benet.

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Speaker 1: Well, you know, when it's when it's Saturday night and

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Speaker 5: Say it's much closer.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's you know, I can get there in

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Speaker 5: I have an idea, since Newsom is running for president,

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Speaker 2: You want to do it, news Lady.

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Speaker 5: Sure, absolutely, I'm not afraid of any of these people.

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Speaker 2: All right, you're deputized. Go to it.

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Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI A six.

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Speaker 1: Forty after four o'clock. John Cobelt's show on demand on

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Speaker 1: the iHeart app. Just just one more thought. I mentioned

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Speaker 1: you don't have to do, like official boycotts.

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Speaker 2: Everybody's into light. Well, let's do an online boycott. You

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Speaker 2: know what. The market takes care of things.

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Speaker 1: Santa Monica is so found now that there's now thousands

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Speaker 5: I have gone there and I've shot there, and I've

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Speaker 1: But they had the mental patients and the drug addicts

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Speaker 5: It wasn't always like that.

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Speaker 2: The stairwells smell like a feces urine.

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Speaker 5: I told you I was there a few weeks ago

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Speaker 1: And if at one time I poked my head and

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Speaker 1: So I you know, there's no woman wants to get

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Speaker 2: It's just a now, you know, And I'm going to

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Speaker 1: Out because I've had it up to up to here

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Speaker 1: they're a tremendous failure. And here's an example. I want

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Speaker 6: It has become a site that is all too familiar

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Speaker 7: I just don't know how this can allow to continue.

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Speaker 6: Robert Lipkin owns two warehouses on Fourteenth Street and leases

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Speaker 6: them out to produce distributors. But the situation with the encampments,

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Speaker 7: There's raw sewage being dumped on the streets. They steal

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Speaker 6: NBC Four reached out to Councilwoman Isabelle Herado, who represents

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Speaker 6: but according to Robert, this hasn't happened.

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Speaker 7: I'll come down here and wait for them on the

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Speaker 6: Robert shared several emails he sent to Herado's office in

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Speaker 7: I tried to sell the property. I couldn't handle it

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Speaker 6: And Carolyn, Robert says, this truck was intact just a

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Speaker 1: That's NBC four Darsha Phillips reporting on that one. Well,

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Speaker 1: Robert Lipkin is stuck down with warehouses that nobody's gonna

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Speaker 2: The news media is going to print their lies.

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Speaker 1: And you're stuck with warehouses that are unusable because what

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Speaker 1: did he say? As soon as potential buyers see the neighborhood,

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Speaker 1: In seconds, Oh no, I can't do this isabel Herado

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Speaker 1: Same thing with Karen Bass. They don't care. The belief

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Speaker 1: We're the oppressors, so we have to concede the land,

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Speaker 1: say what they have to say. They'll do a cleanup

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Speaker 1: once in a while that everybody comes back. Same thing

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Speaker 1: Here in Burbank where we work, there's no problems. I

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Speaker 1: not making this up. That's what they say, that's what

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Speaker 1: Her statistic sticks or a load of crap. The people

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Speaker 1: report from NBC four. But all the TV stations could

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

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Speaker 1: We're on every day from one until four o'clock. Oh Moistline.

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Speaker 1: If you're really good, you can still get on the

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Speaker 1: the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. Gavin Newsom has

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Speaker 1: and these mirrors collect the heat on these towers the

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Speaker 1: cost over two billion dollars to build. They started constructing

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Speaker 1: to be closing. You believe this two billion dollars. Its closing.

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Speaker 1: It was it failed to efficiently generate solar energy. Obama

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Speaker 1: in solar energy, and now it's closing up. Jason Isaac

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Speaker 1: Ivanpah or Ivan Pah stands as a testament to the

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Speaker 1: waste and inefficiency of government subsidized energy schemes. It never

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Speaker 1: I guess you could. You can see this. I've never

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Speaker 1: and that heat's a fluid. It creates steam that spins

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Speaker 1: much energy, and now they're shutting it down just but hey,

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Speaker 1: you know the guys who built it, they all got rich.

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Speaker 1: They got a lot of money out of it. That

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Speaker 1: was our tax money. Another big green energy scam. And

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Speaker 1: when Trump says this, everybody scoffs at him and mocks him.

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Speaker 1: It's like right here in California, largest solar energy plant

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Speaker 1: in the world and big loser getting shut down. Didn't

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Speaker 1: make energy. Deborah arc live in the KFI twenty four

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