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Speaker 2: there's no excuse for not knowing everything that goes on here.

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Speaker 2: I want to start the show today with the last

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Speaker 2: thing that happened right before we went off the air,

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Speaker 2: In fact, probably you know, an hour after we went

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Speaker 2: off the air on Friday. It was it was quite

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Speaker 2: a thing to watch and to listen to to watch

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Speaker 2: because you had to see the facial expressions in the

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Speaker 2: body language of Karen Bass and Donald Trump. They had

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Speaker 2: a meeting in the Pacific Palisades. It was one of

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Speaker 2: those horseshoe shaped desks, and they had a number of

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Speaker 2: public officials, but at the center of the horseshoe was Trump,

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Speaker 2: and then just to his right Melodia, and next one

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Speaker 2: over is Karen Bass. And you talk about the opposite

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Speaker 2: ends of the competency.

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Speaker 1: Spectrum for something like this.

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Speaker 2: It was incredible, and so many things came to mind,

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Speaker 2: and I'm going to play you in just a moment

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Speaker 2: the three and a half minute clip, which really encapsulates

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Speaker 2: a lot about why people are attracted to Trump, what

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Speaker 2: executive strength is, why Karen Bass is such a miserable failure,

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Speaker 2: and how there's such a huge gap between having executive

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Speaker 2: talents and experience and being someone who chairs meetings and

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Speaker 2: sits on commissions.

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Speaker 3: That is a.

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Speaker 2: Gap the size of our solar system. And Karen Bass

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Speaker 2: looked and sounded out of her depth, over her head,

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Speaker 2: out of her league, just just really like junior level.

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Speaker 2: If that I mean I she clearly you know one

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Speaker 2: thing I'm be You know how immune systems get bolstered

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Speaker 2: based on how much how many germs your body encounters

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Speaker 2: when you're young. If you literally keep a kid in

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Speaker 2: a bubble protected from outside germs, he's going to get

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Speaker 2: whacked by the first germ that finds him, because the

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Speaker 2: immune system builds up its strength when it encounters germs.

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Speaker 2: You have to have germs to survive long term. You

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Speaker 2: have mild reactions as a child and it keeps you

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Speaker 1: Adult, but you need to be exposed.

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Speaker 2: And it's the same way with your your emotional system,

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Speaker 2: your your your mental system, your brain. You have to

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Speaker 2: be exposed to criticism. You have to be exposed to

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Speaker 2: severe challenges. If you spend your life in a meeting

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Speaker 2: immune system to deal with an adversary, to deal with

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Speaker 2: someone who's going to challenge you hard, to deal with

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Speaker 2: a news media if they're doing their job. And Karen

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Speaker 2: Bass has led this bubble life. She's always been predicted

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Speaker 2: by the demographics she represents, and nobody has ever dared

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Speaker 2: challenge her to see if she could perform under pressure,

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Speaker 2: if she really has any depth to her She has

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Speaker 2: skated on her demographic makeup all her life, and in

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Speaker 2: the weird culture we're in, that provides a shield against criticism,

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Speaker 2: so nobody dared. But there's a reason LA was not prepared.

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Speaker 2: There's a reason that LA's five department was not given

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Speaker 2: the tools to fight the fires. There's a reason that

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Speaker 2: in advance. There's a reason the that the reservoir was empty,

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Speaker 2: And I can go on and on, and it's because

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Speaker 2: you did not have a battle hardened chief executive running

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Speaker 2: experience in what can go wrong in life and has

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Speaker 2: experienced challenges and criticism, and instead you get this defensive

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Speaker 2: You're gonna play cut one. This is an exchange gets

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Speaker 2: a little tense between Bass and Trump. This is during

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Speaker 2: the meeting in the Palisades over the debris removal.

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Speaker 4: We're bringing our city departments together so that people don't

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Speaker 4: get caught in the loop of going from one room

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Speaker 4: the same room so that you can get busy rebuilding asap. Absolutely, yes, yes,

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Speaker 4: and we will clear the lots. Absolutely in the city

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Speaker 4: and in the county, we are working together. Both levels

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Speaker 1: Try eighty months not eighty months?

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Speaker 2: Is it, like we That's the answer that we.

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Speaker 1: Got and that's where we're all hanging months.

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Speaker 5: So if you're telling.

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Speaker 2: Us now, faster is it six months?

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Speaker 6: Is it?

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Speaker 5: I mean, all of our lives, rents, all this stuff

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Speaker 4: And the number one thing that we are going to

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Speaker 4: do immediately and you will see this happen, is to

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Speaker 4: clear out the debris. And you know, we're concerned right

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Speaker 4: now over the weekend because of the potential rain, but

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Speaker 4: we are going to move as fast as we can.

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Speaker 4: But we want you to be safe and we want

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Speaker 4: you to be in your homes immediately.

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Speaker 1: But the people are willing.

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Speaker 7: To clean out their own debris, it.

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Speaker 4: Doesn't cross, then.

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Speaker 7: You should let them do it because another time you

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Speaker 7: entire contractors, it's going to be two years. If a

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Speaker 1: And they can not that much left.

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Speaker 7: It's all incinerated, that's right, and you know it's just

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Speaker 7: going to take a long time. If you do, you

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Speaker 7: can do some of it, but a lot of these people,

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Speaker 7: I know that guy right there that's talking.

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Speaker 1: I know my people.

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Speaker 7: You'll be in that thing tonight throwing the stuff away,

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Speaker 1: And that's what he wants to do.

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Speaker 7: He doesn't want to wait around for seven months till

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Speaker 7: the city hires some demolition contract. It's going to charge

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Speaker 1: I think you have to.

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Speaker 7: You have emergency powers just like I do, and I'm

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Speaker 7: exercising my emergency powers. You have to exercise them also.

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Speaker 4: I did exercise them.

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Speaker 7: Because I look, I mean, you have a very powerful

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Speaker 7: emergency power and you can do everything within twenty four hours.

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Speaker 4: Yes, and if individuals want to clear out their property

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Speaker 4: they can we yes, but you know that you will

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Speaker 4: be able to go back soon.

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Speaker 1: We think within a week.

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Speaker 2: Every that's a long time.

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Speaker 7: A week, I'll be honest to me that everyone's standing

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Speaker 7: most week is alone.

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Speaker 1: People to be safe.

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Speaker 7: This safe, this safe?

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Speaker 1: You know what, They're not safe. They're not safe. Now

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Speaker 2: I thought that such a key moment and the way

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Speaker 2: it in a school marmie voice.

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Speaker 1: We almost be safe here. She could have.

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Speaker 2: She'd risen to the level of assistant principle at a

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Speaker 1: But to be the.

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Speaker 2: Mayor and not to have people already it's been three

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Speaker 2: weeks cleaning up their lots because you want them to

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Speaker 2: be safe. Last time I heard that we want you

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Speaker 2: what they want is to be able to control a situation.

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Speaker 2: And once you let the riff raff back onto their

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Speaker 2: lots to clear their rubble on their timeline, you're not

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Speaker 2: controlling things anymore. And the all encompassing excuse for why

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Speaker 2: people like her justified control is well, I want them

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Speaker 2: to be safe. If she wanted the people of Palisades

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Speaker 2: to be safe, she would have filled up the damn

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Speaker 1: Made people a lot more safe.

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Speaker 2: She would have fully funded the fire department instead of

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Speaker 2: half funding it. She would have been in America, in

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Speaker 2: La not Africa, to direct the fire response if she

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Speaker 2: wanted us to be more safe. But she did not

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Speaker 2: stay in Los Angeles. She went to Africa. She did

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Speaker 2: not have the reservoir filled up. It's still bone dry.

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Speaker 2: She did not fully fund the fire department. It is

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Speaker 2: half funded, and that is true. She could have directed

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Speaker 2: the fire chief to send out the extra thousand firefighters

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Speaker 1: She did not.

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Speaker 2: She could have. She could have funded the fire department

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Speaker 2: and so they would have fixed the hundred fire trucks.

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Speaker 2: They're busted because we don't have mechanics. She did not

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Speaker 2: do that. Now, all of a sudden, she's worried about

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Speaker 2: us being safe. She is completely full of crap. All

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Speaker 2: the important things that needed to be done months and

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Speaker 2: has the control to keep residents from entering their own lots,

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Speaker 2: if they want to wait six, eight or eighteen months

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Speaker 2: all of a sudden she's interested in safety. Really, there

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Speaker 2: wasn't a firefighter anywhere near.

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Speaker 1: The Palisades, and she had.

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Speaker 2: One, two, three, four days of warning. She didn't send

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Speaker 2: she put together. She put together this leadership staff. You know,

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Speaker 2: mis equity lens denis Quinone is to run the DWP. Well,

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Speaker 2: they're worried about diversity and equity. They forgot to care

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Speaker 2: about water in a reservoir, fire engines and firefighters. She

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Speaker 2: want us to be safe, she wants to control. It's

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Speaker 2: it's exactly the COVID mantra. As soon as I heard that,

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Speaker 2: very sensitized to that now, because that was that was

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Speaker 1: Oh, we just want you to be sick. No, you don't.

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Speaker 1: Remember their idea of.

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Speaker 2: Safe was to police the beaches, was to chase a

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Speaker 1: Remember that.

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Speaker 2: They weren't trying to keep that guy out in the

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Speaker 2: ocean safe. They wanted to control them. We come back,

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Speaker 2: we'll play more of this. But here Trump declare it's like, no,

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Speaker 2: week's too much, we should go tonight. What do you

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Speaker 2: got to wait a week for? What in God's name

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Speaker 2: do you have to wait a week for the fire

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Speaker 2: burned through? It's three weeks later. Let people go in

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Speaker 2: and do whatever they want to do. It's their property.

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Speaker 2: The ash and rubble is theirs.

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Speaker 1: They own it.

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Speaker 2: Well, so we opened, we opened the show. Last segment,

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Speaker 2: we played about two minutes of this exchange between Karen

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Speaker 2: Bass and Donald Trump Friday afternoon. It was a it

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Speaker 2: was a collection of politicians and bureaucrats was televised and

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Speaker 2: they were talking about what the response was going to be.

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Speaker 2: And a Palisades resident wanted to know when they could

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Speaker 2: And Trump thought they could get there immediately, there was

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Speaker 7: This if this safe, you know what, They're not safe.

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Speaker 7: And the permit's going to take him. Everybody said eighteen months.

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Speaker 7: You said eighteen months. You said eighteen months, and.

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Speaker 1: We can't even see our homes right now. We are

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Speaker 2: Bass's bureaucrats and bureacrats are going on, it's eighteen months

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Speaker 2: See if she was holding the press conference by herself,

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Speaker 2: Pretty bad fire, yeah, a lot of toxins there. Maybe

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Speaker 2: You're not going to die of anything. Wear one of

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Speaker 1: You'll live.

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Speaker 2: Because it's not about your safety. It's about them controlling

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Speaker 2: the process. They are born to control. Their control freaks.

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Speaker 2: They work. They could be your parents, they could be

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Speaker 2: Karen Bass is a classic control freak middle manager, loves

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Speaker 2: Trump sees a plot of land and goes, how quickly can.

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Speaker 1: We build a hotel? Here?

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Speaker 2: He sees this rubb, He goes, how quickly can we

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Speaker 1: Karen Bass doesn't see that. She's not wired that way.

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Speaker 2: She's not wired to say how quickly can we build

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Speaker 1: She's wired to say, well, not a son's time. We

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Speaker 2: We gotta get you know, we got the EPA in here,

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Speaker 2: are designed to take action, actual physical action. You know,

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Speaker 2: rent out a payloader and start scoop it up the dirt,

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Speaker 2: and hold public hearings, public meetings, blue ribbon panels, safety

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Speaker 2: She was interested in our safety. She would not have

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Speaker 2: emptying out the prisons and refusing to refusing to prosecute anybody. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: give me a break on safety. Since when did she

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Speaker 2: care about safety? She wouldn't have half funded the fire department,

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Speaker 2: for God's sake. She would have filled up the reservoir.

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Speaker 1: Safety.

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Speaker 2: Only time they bring up safety is when they're losing

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Speaker 2: know Gavin Newsom would not have done that because he

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Speaker 2: are you insane? Yeah, he is insane, but that's their mentality,

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Speaker 2: and we got to fight that. The stuff they should control,

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Speaker 2: like criminal. Hey, look I just lived through a week

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Speaker 2: of intense looting on my block. She wasn't concerned about

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Speaker 2: What they did is they shut They shut off all

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Speaker 2: listen to the curfew, and there weren't any police to

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Speaker 2: I'm onto this game. Trump's onto this game. This is nonsense.

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Speaker 2: All right, we come back. I'm gonna play. Trump calling

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Speaker 2: out Brad Sherman Brad Sherman, excuse me, a phony baloney,

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Speaker 2: Democratic congressman from the San Fernando Valley on the insurance

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Speaker 1: That's another big scandal.

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Speaker 6: You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI AM.

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Speaker 2: Six forty on from one until four after four o'clock.

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Speaker 2: John Cobelt's Show on demand on the iHeart app. You

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Speaker 2: continue with Trump's public appearance that he made in the

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Speaker 2: some of the clips with Karen Vass, who was overmatched

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Speaker 1: Now in the same.

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Speaker 2: In the same meeting, Trump called out on Congressman Brad Sherman,

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Speaker 2: the fire. This is over the insurance companies leaving the

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Speaker 2: state of California. This is another huge scandal in this

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Speaker 7: Percentage, I would assume bred like that, what are they

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Speaker 5: Go ahead, mister president, without your HILP, they're only going

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Speaker 5: even if they have a you know, they'll take something

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Speaker 7: Every insurance company in the country left California. That's why

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Speaker 7: People that think like you made it so impossible. And

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Speaker 7: at me, every insurance company, I don't know where you,

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Speaker 7: I'll tell you my thank you. I've never seen a

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Speaker 1: And I said, what happened?

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Speaker 7: And they said, like six months ago all left, and

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Speaker 7: two years ago they had different you know, quadrants, but

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Speaker 5: We had a lot of insurance companies pull out, but

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Speaker 7: Companies actually have been warning you. Now, I'm not a

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Speaker 7: big fan of insurance companies. Okay, they have their big

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Speaker 7: druwbacks too, but the insurance company I've been reading I

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Speaker 7: read the papers very well, and you know, they've been

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Speaker 7: So it's a tough.

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Speaker 1: Situation, absolutely right.

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Speaker 2: And this is because and I don't know what this is.

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Speaker 2: I've never encountered the childish thinking that I have encountered

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Speaker 2: There's a childlike make believe quality about a lot of

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Speaker 1: This is the way I wish life to be.

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Speaker 2: Insurance companies are a huge pain in the ass, believe me.

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Speaker 1: You know this.

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Speaker 2: Okay, this is not a defense of the insurance companies, right,

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Speaker 2: It's a really irritating industry. But what nobody wants to

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Speaker 2: and Ken and I years ago called him cal fart Lara.

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Speaker 2: He was a legislator in Sacramento, and the only legislation

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Speaker 2: and he wrote a law that that's with this provision.

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Speaker 1: So for years we called them cow fart Larra.

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Speaker 2: And you had to wonder in what state, in what

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Speaker 2: He's dumb, as dumb as a cow fart. Well, wouldn't

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Speaker 2: you know it? A few years later, what happens. We

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Speaker 2: State Farm says we can't afford this. This is crazy.

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Speaker 2: The state is run by lunatics. They will not thin

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Speaker 2: Now can you imagine a state like California, forty million people,

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Speaker 2: not in these high fire zone areas.

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Speaker 1: What does that tell you?

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Speaker 2: When Trump was saying the insurance companies were warning you,

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Speaker 2: of course they were warning you by pulling out coverage.

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Speaker 2: State Farm pulled out of coverage in the Palisades Malibu

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Speaker 2: area last year.

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Speaker 1: I believe, just said we're not renewing any more policies.

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Speaker 1: That was it.

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Speaker 2: There was nowhere else to go because I know people

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Speaker 2: who are on State Farm and they had nowhere else

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Speaker 2: to go. You can go with the fair Plan, which

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Speaker 2: is a state run plan, and that's going to be

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Speaker 2: bankrupt in about five minutes. I saw their assets are

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Speaker 2: some tens of millions of dollars and their potential liabilities

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Speaker 2: could be hundreds of billions of dollars. Forget it. Fair

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Speaker 2: Plan is another joke. So there's literally no insurance for people.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: Maybe it's because Ricardo Lara and the rest of the

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Speaker 2: knuckleheads that run this place will not let insurance companies

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Speaker 2: price the insurance in order to make a profit. If

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Speaker 2: they yet to price the insurance in order to make

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Speaker 2: the profit, then they'll stay here. They are not allowed to,

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Speaker 2: so eventually they all leave. And then you have a

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Speaker 2: big fire and we don't have water in the reservoir,

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Speaker 2: we don't have fire hydrants that work, we don't have

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Speaker 2: firefighters that are staffed, we don't have fire engines that

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Speaker 2: are fixed.

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Speaker 1: Just that alone.

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Speaker 2: If you're running an insurance company and they know this,

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Speaker 2: would you ensure here and then everybody bitches and complains

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Speaker 2: about the insurance company. No, you run an insurance company

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Speaker 2: for a day, you'd look at California and say this

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Speaker 2: is nuts.

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Speaker 1: We're all going to go bankrupt.

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Speaker 2: You go bankrupt and there's no insurance for anybody, and

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Speaker 2: there's nobody with any jobs at the insurance company.

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Speaker 1: See.

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Speaker 2: I mean it's so obvious here. But again, too many

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Speaker 2: people in California have been living in this alternate reality,

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Speaker 2: not facing some terribly destructive issues that we have here.

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Speaker 2: You know, we've agreed to let criminals run amuck, We've

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Speaker 2: agreed to let mental patients and drug addicts run amuck,

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Speaker 2: and they start more than half the fires. We underfund

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Speaker 2: the fire department by fifty percent. We defunded the police department.

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Speaker 2: What do you think is going to happen if you

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Speaker 2: don't fund the fire department, you don't do brush clearing?

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Speaker 2: Remember what I told you last week or a couple

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Speaker 2: of weeks ago. DWP wanted to put in a fire

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Speaker 2: road north of the Palisades. Pave a fire road they

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Speaker 2: wanted to put up I think it was steel poles

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Speaker 2: instead of wooden electric poles for the transmission lines. And

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Speaker 2: then some idiot botanist amateur botanist noticed that the milk

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Speaker 2: vetch plants were getting trampled by the DWP. Workers complained

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Speaker 2: to the state and the Coastal Commission. Find the DWP

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Speaker 2: two million dollars for stomping on the milk vetch plants,

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Speaker 2: which are endangered. Seriously, this happened so they couldn't build

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Speaker 2: the road, so they couldn't put in the steel poles

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Speaker 2: or concrete poles whatever they were going to do for

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Speaker 2: the electrical wires because of the milk fitch pan. And

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Speaker 2: guess what, we had a really bad fire. Now the

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Speaker 2: ole milk vetched plants are gone. Now they aren't. They've

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Speaker 2: got extinct up there.

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Speaker 1: Stupid, So of course this is going to happen.

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Speaker 2: I was thinking about this so much over the weekend,

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Speaker 2: and it's horrible and tragic. But I'm telling you, everybody

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Speaker 2: in the state has got to take a hard look

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Speaker 2: at themselves and your voting patterns and the things you

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Speaker 2: believe in, because you're living in some weird, childish fantasy world.

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Speaker 2: In the adult world, you have to fully fund the police,

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Speaker 2: fully fund the fire department, put criminals in prison and

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Speaker 2: keep them there. You don't let homeless people run around

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Speaker 2: starting fires. You allow insurance companies to charge a high

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Speaker 2: enough amount to earn a profit, or otherwise you have this. Now,

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Speaker 2: you tell me which is better, the progressive dream bubble.

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Speaker 2: I hope this is burst once and for all. Well,

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Speaker 2: but you cannot do that many stupid things that long

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Speaker 2: and not have this be the outcome.

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Speaker 1: This was destined to happen, and more coming up.

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Speaker 6: You're listening to John Cobelt on Demand from KFI AM

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Speaker 6: six forty.

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Speaker 2: Run from one until four and a half of four o'clock,

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Speaker 2: John Cobelt's show on demand on the iHeart app.

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Speaker 1: After two o'clock, we're going to talk with Joel Pollock.

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Speaker 2: He is not only a Palisades resident, he's also the

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Speaker 2: senior editor at large for Breitbartnews Breitbart dot com. And

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Speaker 2: since he has a home that he saved the Palisades,

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Speaker 2: he was at President Trump's appearance on Friday not only

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Speaker 2: as an interested citizen, as a journalist though. His idea

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Speaker 2: that he asked Trump about is to create a nine

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Speaker 2: to eleven style commission to watch over the federal spending

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Speaker 2: of all the money that's going to be dumped into

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Speaker 2: southern California. Let's play a clip of Joel Pollock.

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Speaker 3: Many of my neighbors lost their fire insurance in the

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Speaker 3: days before the blaze. So I asked my neighbors what

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Speaker 3: would they want to know? If I could ask the

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Speaker 3: President a question, and the number one thing was insurance.

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Speaker 3: Can you work with the insurance companies to get people

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Speaker 3: back to where they were before they lost the coverage

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Speaker 3: because of California's regulations? And can you make California change

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Speaker 3: its rules so that when we build again, we can

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Speaker 3: get fire insurance and we don't have to worry. And

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Speaker 3: there's one other point I want to make. I really

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Speaker 3: appreciate my Congressman a vocating for money. We need the

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Speaker 3: money from the federal government, but I also understand Americans

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Speaker 3: who are tired of spending money on California and disasters happen,

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Speaker 3: and the California government passes fifty million dollars to oppose

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Speaker 3: your policy, so they have fifty million for that, but

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Speaker 3: not for moving people into rental homes or helping people

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Speaker 3: relocate or rebuild. I would like to ask you to

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Speaker 3: follow the nine to eleven Commission precedent and appoint a

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Speaker 3: special Master to watch the money to make sure that

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Speaker 3: every federal dollar that gets spent here is spent on

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Speaker 3: fire relief and rebuilding and not on everything else.

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Speaker 1: Good idea.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a great idea, and it's something like that

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Speaker 2: has to be necessary because we've been telling you. You

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Speaker 2: look at the history of Gavin Newsom blowing federal money

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Speaker 2: that sent his way. He was given fifty billion dollars. Well,

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Speaker 2: he's given a lot more than that, but he got

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Speaker 2: fifty billion dollars for the for the COVID unemployment fund

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Speaker 2: that we had, and that fifty billion dollars was consumed

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Speaker 2: by the fraudsters all over the world. Eighty five percent

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Speaker 2: of the money accessed for COVID unemployment insurance went to

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Speaker 2: people out of the country, criminal gangs, and criminal organizations

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Speaker 2: from around the world. Fifty billion dollars of fraud, and

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Speaker 2: Newsom did nothing to stop it, not to mention ten

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Speaker 2: to fifteen billion dollars, and a lot of that was

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Speaker 2: federal money too, for high speed rail. He has no

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Speaker 2: record of where the fifty billion went to the fraudsters.

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Speaker 2: He has no record of where the ten to fifteen

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Speaker 2: billion dollars went for high speed rail that's never been built. Oh,

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Speaker 2: and then twenty four billion dollars on state homeless programs.

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Speaker 2: He has no record where much of that money has

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Speaker 2: gone and no evidence that any of it worked. You

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Speaker 2: add all that up together, you're getting close to one

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Speaker 2: hundred billion dollars and there's no there's no receipts, no invoices, no,

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Speaker 2: no nothing. Somebody I know was always saying, why isn't

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Speaker 2: there forensic accounting on this? You can't do forensic accounting

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Speaker 2: if there aren't any records. There are no records.

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Speaker 1: They don't know.

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Speaker 2: Oh, by the way, I know somebody whose place was

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Speaker 2: damaged by the fire, they filed for FEMA AID.

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Speaker 1: You know what they found out.

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Speaker 2: Somebody had already filed using their stolen Social Security number.

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Speaker 2: How about that palisadess resident happened to So the fraud's

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Speaker 2: already begun. So yeah, there ought to be a commission

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Speaker 2: to track this money. You give it to news, you

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00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:09,280
Speaker 2: give it to Karen Bass. Karen Bass has spent billions

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Speaker 2: on homeless. She doesn't know where it went either. And

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00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:16,080
Speaker 2: because there isn't an adversary political party in the state,

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Speaker 2: and because there isn't an adversarial media in the state,

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Speaker 2: nobody questions them. They never feel like they have to

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Speaker 2: explain or respond. And finally, when they're put on the

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Speaker 2: spot in a tragedy like Trump did to Karen Bass,

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Speaker 2: it's deer in the headlights time. They've never experienced this

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Speaker 2: she's what, she's around seventy years old. She's not going

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Speaker 2: to figure out how to manage a large scale repair

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Speaker 2: operation at seventy. She doesn't have the scale, she doesn't

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Speaker 2: have the experience, none of that. Not capable, Not capable.

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Speaker 2: Bad bad choice for mayor, very bad choice, especially now

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Speaker 2: with this disaster going on.

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Speaker 1: So when we come back.

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Speaker 2: Anyway, the man you heard asking the question was bright

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Speaker 2: Bart News Senior editor at large Joel Pollock, also a

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Speaker 2: resident there. We will talk to him and expand on

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Speaker 2: all this when we come back. Debora Mark is off

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