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Speaker 1: and Ken Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Well,

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Speaker 1: the news came out Friday about Silicon Valley Bank and

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Speaker 1: then yesterday another bank running into trouble called Signature Bank.

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Speaker 1: This brings back scares. Of course, people want to go

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Speaker 1: way back to the Depression when there was a run

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Speaker 1: on banks, but even more recently in two thousand and

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Speaker 1: problems as well. So this is kind of a new

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Speaker 1: hitch in the whole economic picture. Let's bring on Alex Stone,

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Speaker 1: ABC News for KFI with more on these banks. Alex,

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Speaker 1: how did this start? Well? Yeah, so forty two billion

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Speaker 1: and a lot of that was people getting word that

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Speaker 1: things weren't going very well that Silicon Valley Bank. On Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: Tuesday and Wednesday last week, they said, you know what,

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Speaker 1: the interest rates so when they went up the securities

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Speaker 1: that they had went down to almost nothing, they were

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Speaker 1: they went insolvent, and it goes that quickly. Signature bank

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Speaker 1: over the weekend, they're related to the cryptocurrency they were

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Speaker 1: shut down. Other regional banks are saying whoa, whoa, whoa,

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Speaker 1: We're gonna be okay. First Republic putting out a note

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Speaker 1: Plus the government is now going to help out to

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Speaker 1: make sure these banks too. All right, But today you

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Speaker 1: before outside of Silicon Valley Bank getting from the FDIC,

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Speaker 1: the Federal Reserve, the Treasury all of their money out

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Speaker 1: now in this deal that was announced last night, that

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Speaker 1: it wouldn't be only what was insured the FDIC insurance

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Speaker 1: in the banking system. Richard Carver set up his fold

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Speaker 1: He said he was going to camp out there until

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Speaker 1: he got his money. Go in and get the guaranteed

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Speaker 1: little more than that. Can't be the only one who

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Speaker 1: wants to get their cash out of here. Yeah, within

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Speaker 1: fifteen minutes he walked in. He walked out with all

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Speaker 1: that is true. They did have police. They had police

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Speaker 1: But he got it, walking out with what I wanted,

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Speaker 1: my chair and go home. And for those who have

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Speaker 1: It's customers like Richard that are saying, look, the are

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Speaker 1: individual people, small startups. We talked to a woman named Lindsay,

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Speaker 1: What do we know about more of these banks popping up? Now?

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Speaker 1: But that what the government announced last night and details

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Speaker 1: excess cash that they put in these treasury bonds. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: wrong word or you leak out a little piece of gossip. Kramer, Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that was Idiotparently was touting SVB a couple of months ago. Well,

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Speaker 1: look at the failure of the Silicon Valley Bank, which

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Speaker 1: if you want to look for it, is who killed

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Speaker 1: Silicon Valley Bank? Apparently no one at the firm perceived

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Speaker 1: have to deal with the prices and the inflation as

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Speaker 1: it is today. It's always people that are usually better off.

430
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Speaker 1: They're sometimes called the coastal elites here in California that

431
00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:50,000
Speaker 1: are always thinking, Ah, don't worry about it, spend what

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Speaker 1: you have to spend to save the environment. Here's a

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Speaker 1: message to everybody in Santa Monica. Since I was in

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Speaker 1: Arizona last night. The last station before the California border

435
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Speaker 1: gas was three fifty nine. When I stopped in California

436
00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:07,200
Speaker 1: near my house, five o nine dollars. Could have figured

437
00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:09,440
Speaker 1: it out so you didn't have to take any California gas. No,

438
00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:13,320
Speaker 1: you couldn't do that. Well, you drive a guzzler, don't you. Yes,

439
00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:16,760
Speaker 1: I emptied. I emptied my tank. I got to my

440
00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:19,280
Speaker 1: neighborhood and that's when I filled up again. But I

441
00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:23,760
Speaker 1: blew out all Arizona gas over California. Oh yeah, right,

442
00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:28,159
Speaker 1: paid under four bucks a gallon in Arizona, and then

443
00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:30,280
Speaker 1: I refilled here for five h nine. So you know what.

444
00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:32,520
Speaker 1: I'm sick of these people, all right, because all their

445
00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:36,840
Speaker 1: non sends cost me a dollar fifty times twenty. But

446
00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:39,960
Speaker 1: that's thirty bucks I had to pay thirty bucks more

447
00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:42,520
Speaker 1: for my tank and gas. I could fill up on

448
00:24:43,040 --> 00:24:47,280
Speaker 1: like sixty bucks in Arizona, and I come here and

449
00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:50,399
Speaker 1: it's like ninety. It's like, get out. Enough of these people.

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00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:55,359
Speaker 1: So good for Joe Biden. It's Conico Phillips. It's three

451
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Speaker 1: well pads within the National Petroleum Reserve Alaska. It's a

452
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Speaker 1: twenty three million acre area. It's the largest expanse of

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Speaker 1: public land in the United States, which is why the

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Speaker 1: federal government controls what can happen there. Twenty three million acres.

455
00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:12,480
Speaker 1: We're going to dig up a tiny little corner and

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Speaker 1: get tons and tons and tons of oil. That is

457
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Speaker 1: three well pads. I mean. Oh, here's a picture of

458
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Speaker 1: the protesters have been fighting this on January tenth. They're

459
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Speaker 1: outside of the White House. Diffuse the Willow climate bomb,

460
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Speaker 1: Stop Willow Act on Climate Stop Willow. They're all holding

461
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Speaker 1: some other losers. I'm done with the losers. I'm done

462
00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:36,119
Speaker 1: with the guys who get paid by some wacky leftists,

463
00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:40,480
Speaker 1: woke tech millionaire and they got all day to wave

464
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Speaker 1: their stupid signs in the air. I'm done with those guys.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to hear about them. I don't want

466
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Speaker 1: to talk about them. It's like, this is what you

467
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Speaker 1: do be a grown up. You have to develop more

468
00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:53,560
Speaker 1: oil and more natural gas to keep America going, all right,

469
00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:57,320
Speaker 1: or the Chinese are going to overrun us. You don't

470
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Speaker 1: think they're looking at us as being silly and weak.

471
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Speaker 1: Oh you know, I'm just so worried about the climate.

472
00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:05,440
Speaker 1: They're not worried about the climate, and they have four

473
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Speaker 1: times as many people as we do. Oh. We had

474
00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:14,040
Speaker 1: mentioned this briefly before, but Silicon Valley Bank apparently was

475
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Speaker 1: working with more than one thousand, five hundred technology firms

476
00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:22,440
Speaker 1: on climate projects before it failed. So maybe solar hydrogen

477
00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:24,960
Speaker 1: and battery storage project, they'll all go out of business.

478
00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:28,960
Speaker 1: They issued them billions dollars in loans. But now, yeah,

479
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Speaker 1: those the loans maybe call back as they need to

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Speaker 1: pay their depositors. All right, We're coming up John and

481
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Speaker 1: Ken kf I AM six forty. We're live everywhere the

482
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Speaker 1: I Heart Radio app. You're listening to John and Ken

483
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Speaker 1: on demand from kf I AM sixty. Coming up after

484
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Speaker 1: three o'clock, We're going to go through another column from

485
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Speaker 1: a wonderful writer for the El Sagunto Times. This is

486
00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:56,919
Speaker 1: a man who actually wrote a long column had got

487
00:26:56,960 --> 00:27:01,000
Speaker 1: a lot of attention that you driving around Los Angeles

488
00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:05,120
Speaker 1: are racist. Yes, and you are killing people with your car,

489
00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:09,080
Speaker 1: killing people of color. That's correct. If you're killing people

490
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Speaker 1: in lower income communities of color. If you are white

491
00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:14,840
Speaker 1: and you're on a freeway right now, you are killing

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Speaker 1: people of color. That's according to us. This guy's named

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Speaker 1: Sammy Roth. Sammy Roth, where did they get these koops from?

494
00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:24,760
Speaker 1: He's kind of new on the radar. Saw a few

495
00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:26,919
Speaker 1: articles by him, but I didn't see this one. I mean,

496
00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:36,000
Speaker 1: this is this is an instant classic. They alright, this

497
00:27:36,119 --> 00:27:39,960
Speaker 1: one's the Robin Ebb Carrying Award for idiot a column

498
00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:42,800
Speaker 1: of a month. Well, they're good at drafting and recruiting.

499
00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:45,399
Speaker 1: They seem to always find a new columnist who can

500
00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:48,280
Speaker 1: be just as ridiculous and stupid as the previous guy. Yeah,

501
00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:51,159
Speaker 1: they have Anita Chabriya. She's a new Rookie of the

502
00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:54,760
Speaker 1: Year candidate. There's Sammy Roth. I mean, these are leftist,

503
00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:59,440
Speaker 1: woke lunatics finding racism. You could be sitting in a

504
00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:01,959
Speaker 1: car right if you are stuck in traffic right now

505
00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:05,920
Speaker 1: in the one ten freeway, you are a racist. You'll

506
00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:08,120
Speaker 1: find out exactly why you are. And this goes back

507
00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:13,000
Speaker 1: to that theory that was spewed by even Pete, the

508
00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:17,240
Speaker 1: Transportation Secretary, that freeways designs of freeways in general are racists.

509
00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:20,840
Speaker 1: Yeah right, which they laid down those freeways as far

510
00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:25,160
Speaker 1: back as the nineteen forties, right, you know, the whole

511
00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:28,600
Speaker 1: interstate system was done in the nineteen sixties. So here

512
00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:31,400
Speaker 1: we are in the twenty twenties, sixty to eighty years later,

513
00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:34,600
Speaker 1: and they're calling people who are driving on those old, crumbling,

514
00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:41,160
Speaker 1: dilapidated freeways racist just for existing. All right, well, we're

515
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Speaker 1: gonna give you an update on the San Bernadido Mountain communities.

516
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Speaker 1: Who what was the thing I heard yesterday? If the

517
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Speaker 1: heavy rains come tomorrow and they may not get snow there,

518
00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:52,080
Speaker 1: they may get rains, they're gonna get flooded, right because

519
00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:53,680
Speaker 1: all this snow is going to start to melt. For

520
00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:58,040
Speaker 1: that is the next scourge. Scourge. There were already communities

521
00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:01,480
Speaker 1: up in Norcaal that are getting heavily flooded from these storms.

522
00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:05,320
Speaker 1: I mean, whenever we get it's not anywhere near what

523
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Speaker 1: they're getting up in the northern California, the Bay Areas,

524
00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:13,040
Speaker 1: Silicon Valley and of course Sierra Nevadas. They're getting huge

525
00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:16,400
Speaker 1: amounts of rain and snow as these storms eventually make them.

526
00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:20,480
Speaker 1: These atmospheric rivers. Undone with that phrase too. I know

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00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:24,040
Speaker 1: they're rain storms. I wouldn't hear that term even about

528
00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:28,360
Speaker 1: three or four years ago. No normal person uses atmospheric river. Nobody,

529
00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:33,520
Speaker 1: only the weirdos on television in the media. You know,

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Speaker 1: I get up in the morning, my wife goes it's

531
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Speaker 1: raining out. She doesn't say, oh, there's an atmospheric river

532
00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:42,040
Speaker 1: gliding by, and then the Weather channel names them, right,

533
00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:46,440
Speaker 1: the storms. Yeah, it's it's it's all, it's it's it's

534
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Speaker 1: atmospheric river. Abraham. Today it's like get out. So this

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Speaker 1: story in the Southern California news groups begins. The Caltrans

536
00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:58,480
Speaker 1: post came like a victory announcement. After weeks of closures,

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Speaker 1: State highways running through isolated snowden communities of the San

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00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:06,920
Speaker 1: Bardino Mountains would finally reopen ten pm Saturday, March eleventh.

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Speaker 1: Workers and snowplows had finally cleared most major routs. Photos

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Speaker 1: of highways showed asphalt clear of ice and snow. Surely

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Speaker 1: a site would give some living in those hard hit

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Speaker 1: mountain communities relief. However, people up there are claiming that

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Speaker 1: a lot of the roads that were cleared, and it

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Speaker 1: would be the main highways eighteen one, thirty, eight, three

545
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Speaker 1: thirty were done to get people to the skiing resorts. Yeah,

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00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:36,240
Speaker 1: and people living in the off roads are still suffering

547
00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:39,040
Speaker 1: from the heavy snow that makes it impossible to get

548
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Speaker 1: any Who do you think contributes to the supervictor's campaigns? Exactly?

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00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:46,080
Speaker 1: And you know it is about the economy we gotta

550
00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:48,920
Speaker 1: get and people were anxious. You could imagine all the

551
00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:51,760
Speaker 1: people that enjoy skiing reading the stories about all the

552
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Speaker 1: snow that was jumped up in these mountain communities, just

553
00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:56,600
Speaker 1: dying to get up there. Right, it is now coming

554
00:30:56,640 --> 00:30:59,880
Speaker 1: on three weeks. It is any of these LA Counties

555
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:04,760
Speaker 1: supervisors even the tiniest bit embarrassed that they carted out

556
00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:07,640
Speaker 1: about a dozen bodies from these homes and that there

557
00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:10,960
Speaker 1: are still twenty twenty. I think I think I saw

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Speaker 1: a story over the weekend. Okay, they have been twenty deaths. Yeah,

559
00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:18,640
Speaker 1: some of them were old people in hospice situations, but still, um, yeah,

560
00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:20,280
Speaker 1: they might have lived a few more weeks, is what

561
00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:22,600
Speaker 1: I'm saying. To wasn't any snow, But I mean that

562
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Speaker 1: that's a tough way to go, freezing to death in

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Speaker 1: your home. No, it is a tough way to go

564
00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:30,320
Speaker 1: right right, But now but now they still and you

565
00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:32,400
Speaker 1: know what I noticed, And I knew there was something

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Speaker 1: suspicious when when the county announced that ninety five of

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Speaker 1: county roads had been cleared as if the end of

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Speaker 1: lact so and I go, hmm, there's a qualifier in

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Speaker 1: their county roads. I guess some other some of the

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Speaker 1: roads aren't considered county Poople don't live right on the

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Speaker 1: county roads. These homes are somewhere back in roads that

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00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:56,480
Speaker 1: they're leading out of the county roads. Yeah, little narrow twisting,

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Speaker 1: turning one lane roads. Those weren't plowed in. They had

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Speaker 1: no plans to right right. So apparently hundreds of local

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Speaker 1: residents took to the Caltrans Facebook post. Oh John, I'm

576
00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:13,880
Speaker 1: sure you're always checking out the Caltrans Facebook. Very exciting

577
00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:17,280
Speaker 1: place to go to criticize the reopening of roots to

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Speaker 1: their towns, which they said, we're still under siege from

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00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:22,240
Speaker 1: the piled up snow. Way to make it clear that

580
00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:24,640
Speaker 1: you have no idea the reality of what's happening up here,

581
00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:27,720
Speaker 1: said one terrible idea. Another said, people are still trapped

582
00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:30,640
Speaker 1: in their homes. Structures are still collapsing, there's no parking,

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00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:33,200
Speaker 1: we're down to one grocery store. We still have way

584
00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:35,320
Speaker 1: too much snow up here. This is not the time

585
00:32:35,360 --> 00:32:38,280
Speaker 1: to come play, because they're angry that they're trying to

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00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:40,320
Speaker 1: definitely get people up there to the ski resorts. And

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00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:42,080
Speaker 1: I heard them interviewed. A lot of people are excited

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00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:44,720
Speaker 1: to make their way through the roads. So those people

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00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:48,400
Speaker 1: don't roll right over grandma's body to get there. They

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00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:51,360
Speaker 1: grandma could be laying in the snow bank with one

591
00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:56,080
Speaker 1: little brittle hand sticking out. But apparently the reality was

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00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:58,480
Speaker 1: that some of the other roads, they're like one way

593
00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:03,640
Speaker 1: and they're hemmed in by walls of snow. Residents say

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00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:06,400
Speaker 1: they're still trapped under feet of snow. They have to

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00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:09,440
Speaker 1: walk to buy food, and they have to walk in

596
00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:11,920
Speaker 1: the street as cars go past them. Hey guess, but

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00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:16,040
Speaker 1: there's not one single employee at Caltrains who gives a crap.

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00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:19,760
Speaker 1: All right, nobody. They have zero interest in your email,

599
00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:23,320
Speaker 1: your phone call, any of your complaints. None. Well, I understand,

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00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:25,640
Speaker 1: once they've cleared these main roads. Why can't they just

601
00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:28,880
Speaker 1: start working on the roads to people's home. They're telling pets,

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00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:33,160
Speaker 1: they're telling people to hire a private snowplow guy, Go

603
00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:37,160
Speaker 1: find your own snowplow. Are those roads? Are those private roads?

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00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:40,360
Speaker 1: They're not really a county or a state maintained. Is

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00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:42,479
Speaker 1: that what they are? Because I don't know that community.

606
00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:47,200
Speaker 1: I don't know specifically. What I've heard is they're called

607
00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:51,600
Speaker 1: private roads and the county has no responsibility to clear them.

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00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:54,520
Speaker 1: Oh so that could be the reason why they're not

609
00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:57,520
Speaker 1: right trying to plow through there. So there's no there's

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Speaker 1: no charitable reaction here from the county. It's a freeze

611
00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:05,160
Speaker 1: and die. Sorry. A spokesman for Big Bear said the

612
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:07,960
Speaker 1: resort was not putting pressure on officials to reopen the area.

613
00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:11,200
Speaker 1: He noted that with restaurants and motels closed, there'd be

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00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:13,719
Speaker 1: few places for visitors to eat and stay once they

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00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:17,120
Speaker 1: get here, But the San Berdino County sheriff said the

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00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:21,200
Speaker 1: resorts have been good partners in the recovery effort. Look

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00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:24,960
Speaker 1: at that check that came in. Huh, that's the way

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00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:27,560
Speaker 1: to put in good partners. Yeah, partners. Well, I would

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Speaker 1: imagine that a number of people that live in these

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00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:32,279
Speaker 1: mountain communities do work at the ski resorts, so there

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Speaker 1: is part of the same. Partners is a financial term.

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00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:40,440
Speaker 1: It is my investment partner, my investment partner, all right

623
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Speaker 1: when we come back. It's really hard to believe. And

624
00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:49,840
Speaker 1: apparently this column was so uh not well received that

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00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:53,200
Speaker 1: it went viral and showed up in a number of

626
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Speaker 1: websites around the country. It's by a writer we haven't

627
00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:58,080
Speaker 1: talked about too much with the Elsa Gondo Times. His

628
00:34:58,239 --> 00:35:01,920
Speaker 1: name is Sammy Roth. The headline how white and affluent

629
00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:05,480
Speaker 1: drivers are polluting the air breathed by LA's people of color.

630
00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:08,279
Speaker 1: So did you know that? Did you actually pull your

631
00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:11,000
Speaker 1: car up into communities of color and just let the

632
00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:13,800
Speaker 1: exhaust run right outside people's windows? Is that what's happening?

633
00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:18,160
Speaker 1: You know? I try to map out my roots and

634
00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:22,120
Speaker 1: only drive in white people communities so I can ruin

635
00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:26,600
Speaker 1: their air. I'm very sensitive to this. How you think

636
00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:31,080
Speaker 1: I'm kidding? He actually he actually checked to see on

637
00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:34,840
Speaker 1: his route if he was going through white people or

638
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:37,799
Speaker 1: people of color towns, and this is what upset him.

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