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Speaker 1: Caf I Am six forty.

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Speaker 2: You're listening to the John and Ken Show on demand

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the first pictures are emerging of the little bag

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Speaker 3: of cocaine that was found in the White House.

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Speaker 1: Oh I saw that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this was a big story a few months ago,

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Speaker 3: and of course everyone believed, well Hunter Biden put it there.

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Speaker 1: It was July second.

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Speaker 3: There was a brief evacuation and a hasmat team responded

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Speaker 3: because they weren't sure what the substance was, and it

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Speaker 3: turned out to be just a little tiny plastic bag,

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Speaker 3: the sea through bag of cocaine that was in a

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Speaker 3: storage locker. When you're a visitor, you can use these

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Speaker 3: storage lockers to put things you're not allowed to bring into,

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Speaker 3: you know, other parts.

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Speaker 1: Of the White House. So that's what they were used for.

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Speaker 3: And I guess one day somebody opened up the storage

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Speaker 3: locker after people left and they saw the tiny bag of.

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Speaker 1: Cocaine in there. That became a huge story for a

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks, it seemed.

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Speaker 2: Now the picture of the real bag has been published

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Speaker 2: on all these use.

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Speaker 3: Sites locker number fifty one gram of the white pottery

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Speaker 3: substances in the small baggie that was left there. And

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Speaker 3: they said they don't have enough evidence to prove who

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Speaker 3: it was, surveillance evidence, physical evidence.

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Speaker 1: They don't know. I don't believe that either. They like

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Speaker 1: if they knew it was Hunter Biden.

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Speaker 2: Do you think they'd held the press conference and announce

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Speaker 2: it in press charges, Right, of course they'd do that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you think it's all part of the Biden cover

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Speaker 1: up story.

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Speaker 4: Huh.

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Speaker 2: Everything is covered up now, everything, everything is light about,

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Speaker 2: everything is covered up.

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Speaker 1: There is no truth anymore.

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Speaker 3: We are awaiting, supposedly in five minutes, a news conference

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Speaker 3: featuring gavinism and they are Karen bass Wow to bring

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Speaker 3: us the latest on the ten freeway closure. It's a

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Speaker 3: very busy area just east of downtown Los Angeles. They

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Speaker 3: got the five, there sixty other freeways all coming together.

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Speaker 3: So this was a big deal with this fire that

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Speaker 3: broke out early Saturday morning.

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Speaker 2: So what we know up to now is that it

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Speaker 2: was a wooden palette storage yard, but there's also a

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Speaker 2: lot of people living under the freeway, and there was

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Speaker 2: a lot of other companies subleasing the storage a lot,

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Speaker 2: but this was eight acres of fire here.

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Speaker 1: So why would you.

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Speaker 3: Let anybody have anything underneath a freeway that's that busy

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Speaker 3: and important where anything could happen.

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Speaker 1: I this is just what I understand. Caltrans wanted the money.

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Speaker 1: Caltrans is a bad, bad, bad agency. Okay.

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Speaker 3: They are why all the roads suck, right, They're the

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Speaker 3: reason why the freeways are in darkness because they grab

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Speaker 3: all the.

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Speaker 1: Gas tax money.

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Speaker 2: Yeah right, yeah, they steal all the gas tax money

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Speaker 2: and then I think they all go to Las Vegas

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Speaker 2: and get booze and hookers. Nothing useful gets done. They're

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Speaker 2: the reason the PCH is so dangerous in Malibu because

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Speaker 2: they refuse to make it any safer.

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Speaker 1: They've made it clear they're not going to. And also.

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Speaker 3: You would normally have and this is the city too,

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Speaker 3: the city of La Colchans in the city of La

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Speaker 3: should be inspecting that area constantly, especially since homeless people

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Speaker 3: lots of freeways. What we learned from NEWSOM is they've

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Speaker 3: they've been in litigation with whoever this less e is,

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Speaker 3: with these palettes. They've been in litigation with them, but

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Speaker 3: as you point it out. If that's a hazard, you

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Speaker 3: just go down there, remove everything and let that sort

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Speaker 3: itself out. Later, he kept saying during yesterday's press conference, Well,

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Speaker 3: we sent them citations, so yeah, that's effective. You might

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Speaker 3: as seek the paper, send them lunch sails. Look at

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Speaker 3: this paper here. You see this paper. You go in there,

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Speaker 3: and this is Karen Bass's fault too. I'm sorry, it

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Speaker 3: is Newsome and it's Karen Bass's fault. It's their responsibility.

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Speaker 3: You send it inspectors. You see the danger, and you

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Speaker 3: get uniformed men in there, firemen, police and remove those dangers.

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Speaker 3: You can work out the violations in court, find them,

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Speaker 3: jail them, whatever regulation or law that they're violating. But

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Speaker 3: to get the homeless out of there immediately. There's no

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Speaker 3: constitutional right to live under an overpass amidst all and

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Speaker 3: they had RVs there, and of course the vagrants were cooking,

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Speaker 3: and there's these these containers of mystery chemicals that were

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Speaker 1: I mean, it was a really real.

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Speaker 3: Stew under there. Now, how that falls under Newsom's responsibility

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Speaker 3: period and Karen Bass's responsibility period?

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Speaker 1: Full stop period full stop two could play at this game.

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Speaker 1: It's important we see period full stop. You have a

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Speaker 1: full stop, We've got a full stop. Let's see.

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Speaker 3: The Times just posted an update massive fire being investigated arson.

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Speaker 3: Oh oh hm, well had They had a lot to

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Speaker 1: May not have been an accident. Is that what you're

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Speaker 3: And what would be the purpose of arson underneath a freeway?

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Speaker 3: It's not like you're trying to burn down a business

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Speaker 4: What is it?

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Speaker 1: Is this vagrant wars down below? One vagrant angry at another.

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Speaker 2: That's happened. I mean that happened around the corner from

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Speaker 2: my house. Listen to this update.

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Speaker 3: In addition to the pallets hand sanitizer accumulated Tony, the

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Speaker 3: COVID nineteen pandemic was stored under the overpass and helped

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Speaker 3: fuel the flames. Hand sanitizer. Yes, that's when it says sanitizer.

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Speaker 1: Yes. Remember they bought so much of it they didn't

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Speaker 3: It's not kidding you, this is real. This is the

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Speaker 3: Times update. They just posted a three on one. Was

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Speaker 3: this that's got alcohol in it? That'll burn?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Did that belong to the state or over one

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Speaker 1: of these. It's not clear. Let's see if I can

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Speaker 1: see you, and that's flammable.

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Speaker 4: What the hell?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, a mitigation of has these materials that the site

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Speaker 3: was ongoing, but most of the site's been cleared for

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Speaker 3: structural engineers and maintenance critical out there. Remember Newsom was

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Speaker 3: spending billions of dollars. I'm sure they bought too much stuff.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, on masks and gloves and sanitizer, and.

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Speaker 2: They yeah, they didn't have anywhere to put it all. No,

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Speaker 2: so they put it on the freeway under the freeway.

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Speaker 2: Did they lease with this or did col Trench do

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Speaker 2: say this?

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Speaker 3: This company that this property with the wooden pallets took

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Speaker 3: on the sanitizer.

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Speaker 1: That's a weird. I don't understand.

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Speaker 2: How come they have barrels of flammable liquid they have

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Speaker 2: they have hand sanitizer, they've got wooden palletts.

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Speaker 1: You can't make the sound.

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Speaker 2: I got vagrants. I read there's or RVs under there.

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Speaker 2: It looked like there were vehicles under there based on

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Speaker 2: the video that you sent me, Yeah, oh that was yeah.

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Speaker 1: That video it's from unseen TV, I guess.

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Speaker 3: And you could see how massive this fire was and

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Speaker 3: the firemen are lined up just like you was expecting,

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Speaker 3: with their hoses, just trying to extinguish whatever they could.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but this took a few hours to get into control.

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Speaker 2: I want to see what the inspection record is for

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Speaker 2: that cal translot. And Newson was claiming he was there

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Speaker 2: a year ago doing some one of his fake silly

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Speaker 2: photo ops. What was the reason he was there a

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Speaker 2: year ago? Remember he said it was he was at

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Speaker 2: the adjacent yard, right, it was a vagrant cleanup, right, yes,

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Speaker 2: and he was he was he was preening over his

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Speaker 2: vagrant cleanup photo op. So they knew people lived there,

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Speaker 2: and they know people always go back no matter how

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Speaker 2: many times you clean it up.

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Speaker 1: Man, this is massive negligence. And now three two hundred

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Speaker 1: thousand cars a day on that free.

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Speaker 3: Wooden pallet yards are common along the ten Freeway in

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Speaker 3: the industrial center near downtown.

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Speaker 1: It says in the story they're common. There was a

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Speaker 1: wood palette.

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Speaker 3: Fires of these from deliveries, these wood palettes.

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Speaker 1: What are you why? Why? I think, yeah, for like

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Speaker 1: truck deliveries, right, like to bring stuff to downtown LA.

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Speaker 3: I don't know the flower market or the vegetables of produce.

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Speaker 2: It's like cargo containers, you know, they stack up. But

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Speaker 2: I remember there was a big wood palette fire, I

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Speaker 2: don't know, some months ago, a year ago, something like that,

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Speaker 2: and it was big fire that burned for quite a while.

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Speaker 2: But again, you don't store that under an overpass because

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Speaker 2: if the fire gets hot enough, you can have it melt.

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Speaker 2: There was an accident underneath an overpass or a bridge

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Speaker 2: and collapsed because of the heat of the fire. Well,

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Speaker 2: it's like you said, we've had traffic reports over the

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Speaker 2: last several years of somebody homeless encampment fires underneath the freeways,

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Speaker 2: even though we don't know if that's what this was,

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Speaker 2: but you can see the similarity.

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Speaker 1: This is dangerous. You can't have anything under these freeways.

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Speaker 2: And that's no companies storing sanitizer and no homeless people.

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Speaker 2: And that is criminal incompetence on the part of the mayor,

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Speaker 2: the govern coltrans whoever is supposed to do the fire inspections.

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Speaker 2: Just criminal incompetence. You can't have the major artery that

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Speaker 2: is one of the busiest interchanges in the nation and

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Speaker 2: you you have all this this, this, this, this underground,

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Speaker 2: hell underneath it.

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Speaker 3: Hey, all right, we're gonna take a break. Okay, are

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Speaker 3: we still doing the commercial break here? I thought I'd

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Speaker 3: just go right into the news conference, but sometimes these

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Speaker 3: things don't show up on times.

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Speaker 2: Somebody, you know, I'm watching looking for the news conference

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Speaker 2: and there's just nothing.

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Speaker 1: Now three point fifteen. Now they're never on time.

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Speaker 3: All right, Yeah, why don't we take a break and

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Speaker 3: also maybe give people a chance to win that money.

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Speaker 5: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from KFI

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Speaker 5: AM six forty.

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Speaker 3: All right, so you probably know we're expecting a news

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Speaker 3: conference to begin starring Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass to

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Speaker 3: talk about the ten Freeway closure due to that fire

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Speaker 3: early Saturday morning. What I've been doing during the break

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Speaker 3: is I'm just researching anyway, if you don't know.

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Speaker 1: Say it again that we had some disruption there.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I've been researching wooden palettes, ah, to see what

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Speaker 3: they're used for. As you know, they're like they got slats,

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Speaker 3: so there's openings between the palettes. I mean, most people

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Speaker 3: are familiar, but if one apparently uses they're they're durable planters, right,

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Speaker 3: some people use them for uh, they can be easily

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Speaker 3: cut down to make chopping boards or shells for different

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Speaker 3: parts of the home or Christmas trees. Because The Times

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Speaker 3: just posted a story that there's a lot of these

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Speaker 3: palette yards along the Den Freeway near downtown La Wooden

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Speaker 3: pallet yards are very common, and they talked to one

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Speaker 3: guy who owns one of these palette businesses, Jazz Palettes,

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Speaker 3: which sits along the railroad tracks near Santa Clara Street,

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Speaker 3: and that's close to where the fire broke out. He

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Speaker 3: says he installed fire extinguishing here.

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Speaker 4: Today we are here.

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Speaker 6: We's going to needen of course, the last few days

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Speaker 6: to do some periodic updates. Yesterday, in our press conference,

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Speaker 6: As I mentioned yesterday, we assigned an unlawful detainer in

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Speaker 6: they're out of compliance, and as was stated yesterday.

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Speaker 4: And we could stay with more clarity and conviction today.

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Speaker 6: They have been subleasing this site to at least five,

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Speaker 4: There is a review committee that includes the State Fire Marshal.

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Speaker 4: We thank them for moving quickly we're doing.

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Speaker 6: you're seeing on site twenty four to seven, seven days

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Speaker 6: But all of our Caltrand leases, making sure the inspection

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Speaker 6: What was legally afforded this less see and recall they have.

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Speaker 4: An unlawful attainer for a reason was the.

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Speaker 4: But again there were multiple.

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Speaker 4: This is not unique to California.

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Speaker 6: It is important the mayor will reinforce this that we

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Speaker 4: That's not enough, but two.

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Speaker 6: Hundred and thirty one of them were cleaned up within

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Speaker 4: Again, it's not enough.

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Speaker 6: But the reason we were out here in August of

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Speaker 4: So that's the broad strokes overview. We've set up.

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Speaker 6: that's my honor, our great partner, Mayor us.

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Speaker 4: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Let's see what this is.

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Speaker 7: Good afternoon, everyone. Let me first and foremost thank the governor.

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Speaker 7: The governor and his team.

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Speaker 8: Make sure that we get through this crisis.

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Speaker 7: As Angelino's we have been through Crisises before. Just a

444
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Speaker 7: couple of months ago, we were here preparing for what

445
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Speaker 7: we thought.

446
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Speaker 8: Was going to be a hurricane.

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Speaker 7: What happened was our city came together united, and if

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Speaker 7: any other time we need to be united, it is

449
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Speaker 7: right now.

450
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Speaker 8: We need to make sure that.

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Speaker 7: As Angelino's we never ever turn on each other. So

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Speaker 7: I want to be iterate what the governor said. We

453
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Speaker 7: know that the origin of this they do not know

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Speaker 7: other information. There is no reason to assume that the

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Speaker 7: origin of this fire, or the reason this fire happened

456
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Speaker 7: was because there were unhoused individuals nearby. I want you

457
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Speaker 7: to know that we are working urgently to address this body.

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Speaker 7: On Saturday, we activated our Emergency Operations Center to coordinate

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Speaker 7: a response. I've been in touch with our federal and

460
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Speaker 7: of course, our state partners. I want you to know

461
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Speaker 7: that the White House Secretary Buddha Judge called immediately as

462
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Speaker 7: the governor said, the Federal Highway Administration was here. The

463
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Speaker 7: administration has made it clear that they are ready to

464
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Speaker 7: do whatever is necessary to get Los Angeles hold again.

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Speaker 7: We're making sure that Angelinos are informed. Last night, we

466
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Speaker 7: sent a wireless emergency alert to ensure that all Angelinos

467
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Speaker 7: would be able to plan ahead and mitigate risk on

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Speaker 7: their commutes. Over three hundred thousand people travel through this

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Speaker 7: freeway every single day. We've urged Angelinos to stay on

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Speaker 7: the freeways, not get off onto the side streets, because

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Speaker 7: the side streets cannot withstand three hundred thousand people. To

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Speaker 7: pay attention to your apps, whether it's Google, Google Alert,

473
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Speaker 7: or Ways to pay Attention, because we are giving that

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Speaker 7: information to those apps. We're also posting on next door

475
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Speaker 7: but to reach communities directly, but you can also visit

476
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Speaker 7: Emergency at Emergency dot Lacity dot gov. Losing this stretch

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Speaker 7: of the ten Freeway will take time and money from.

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Speaker 8: People's lives and businesses.

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Speaker 7: For commuters, were still exploring ways to open up faster

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Speaker 7: and more effective routes of communication. We would also encourage

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Speaker 7: people to take Metro. Metro has increased the number of

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Speaker 7: trains and buses available and have alternative routes for you

483
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Speaker 7: to take, whether you are talking about traveling to and

484
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Speaker 7: from work, or your childcare plans and the flow of

485
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Speaker 7: goods of commerce. We know that this will disrupt the

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Speaker 7: lives of Angelinos, but we will not settle for anything

487
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Speaker 7: other than a rebuilding a repairing plan that prioritizes safety

488
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Speaker 7: and gets our freeways up and running.

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Speaker 8: So we're taking a three prong approach.

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Speaker 7: Number One, ensuring that we are coordinating a comprehensive plan

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Speaker 7: from the city's traffic center and our Emergency Operations Center

492
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Speaker 7: to address the traffic impacts of this closure with our local,

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Speaker 7: state and federal partners.

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Speaker 8: Number Two, we're getting the ten Freeway.

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Speaker 7: Up and running as fast as possible and bring accountability

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Speaker 7: to that effort. And finally, providing updated and detailed information

497
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Speaker 7: to ensure that our communities and commuters are well informed

498
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Speaker 7: every step of the way. I assure you that we

499
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Speaker 7: will not stop until the job is done. To Angelino's,

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Speaker 7: the most important thing you can do is stay informed

501
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Speaker 7: about the commutes. Unless you have to enter downtown, stay

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Speaker 7: on the freeways.

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Speaker 8: If it is possible, tell a commute.

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Speaker 7: We all learn during the pandemic we don't have to

505
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Speaker 7: be in the workplace every day. If you have to

506
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Speaker 7: go onto surface streets, make sure you visit again Emergency

507
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Speaker 7: dot Lacity dot gov to be aware of the surface

508
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Speaker 7: street routes that we have established to move traffic in

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Speaker 7: the best way. Again, Angelinos, in this time of crisis,

510
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Speaker 7: in this time of emergency, we need to pull together.

511
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Speaker 7: Being stuck in traffic is something that makes Angelina angry.

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Speaker 7: We will do everything we can and work twenty four

513
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Speaker 7: hours a day until we settle this. But this is

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Speaker 7: a time to turn toward each other, not against each other.

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Speaker 8: Whether you are housed or whether you are on housed.

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Speaker 8: We can do this.

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Speaker 7: We have been here before and we will be able

518
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Speaker 7: to get past this, and we will get past this united.

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Speaker 7: Let me now bring up the supervisor from this area.

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Speaker 8: Supervisor.

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Speaker 1: He'ld us all, no, no, we're gonna drop out here.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, questions.

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Speaker 4: To our governor and to the elected officials, what are

524
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Speaker 4: you going to do?

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Speaker 1: Actually, okay, let's drop out.

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Speaker 3: I want to review the important points here because they

527
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Speaker 3: came mostly from Newsome, the first speaker. He is saying

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Speaker 3: that there are parallel paths. Parallel path yes, whether or

529
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Speaker 3: not they're going to repair right and then reopen the

530
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Speaker 3: freeway or they're gonna have to demo, demolish and then redo.

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Speaker 3: They don't know yet, he thinks within the next twenty

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Speaker 3: four hour. Because he said, the one good thing is

533
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Speaker 3: it was they did the testing and stronger than they thought.

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Speaker 2: It would be, but that doesn't mean it's safe. That

535
00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:09,360
Speaker 2: was the guy you saw walking on the top. He

536
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Speaker 2: didn't fall through.

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Speaker 3: I did see a guy in the importing news that

538
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Speaker 3: was the talking on the freeway, the closed portion of

539
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Speaker 3: the freeway.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. He was kind of husky.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, try, Hey, let's get the feed jumped up and down.

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Speaker 3: Nine to ten columns were damaged. Now this part Apex

543
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Speaker 3: Development Inc. Is the name of the company that was

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Speaker 3: the less sea that had that storage yard underneath the freeway.

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Speaker 3: And again k Newsom touchdown the litigation with them. I

546
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Speaker 3: guess they haven't even paid the rent. He said they

547
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Speaker 3: haven't made the least payments, but that they were in

548
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Speaker 3: litigation with them. Well, because how does this happen when

549
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Speaker 3: it's something as important as a freeway that could be

550
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Speaker 3: damaged by anything that could go wrong. You got to

551
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Speaker 3: get in there quick and get them out of there.

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Speaker 3: The stuff that was stored under the freeway that was

553
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Speaker 3: an extreme fire danger.

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Speaker 1: And so what he's the Times is now saying their

555
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Speaker 1: sanitizer was under there.

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Speaker 8: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Right, So so the.

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Speaker 2: Thing is, notice this, this is this, this kind of

559
00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:08,320
Speaker 2: misdirection is really subtle. But they get away with it

560
00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:11,560
Speaker 2: because you have to really concentrate as you're listening to him.

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Speaker 2: He's talking about obviously there were dangerous things that could

562
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Speaker 2: burn and bring down the freeway. Right, So he's talking, Well,

563
00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:20,880
Speaker 2: we're in litigation, we've been litigation for quite some time,

564
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Speaker 2: and they hadn't paid their rent in a year and

565
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Speaker 2: they leased it out to six other companies.

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Speaker 1: And that's against the lawn.

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Speaker 2: But well, you didn't do anything about it. WHOA, We

568
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Speaker 2: set them violations. We sent them side notices, right notices. Wait, wait, wait,

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Speaker 2: let's go back.

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Speaker 3: Dangerous storage of a lot of flammable stuff.

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Speaker 1: Obviously, why was it there?

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Speaker 2: Why didn't a fire inspector clear that out first week?

573
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Speaker 2: There should be a fire inspector every week under all

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Speaker 2: the freeways because, like he said, there's a lot of

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Speaker 2: encampments under the freeways.

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Speaker 1: Is this now, who would be responsible?

577
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Speaker 3: Because this is Caltrans properties, they have to send the

578
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Speaker 3: state fire inspector or could the city of la in there?

579
00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:03,800
Speaker 3: Either one both? There should be fire inspectors. Do you

580
00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:06,880
Speaker 3: think it's another one of those they had a problem with.

581
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Speaker 3: Who's in charge of the property or in charge of the.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to hear that it's like, there's dangerous

583
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Speaker 2: stuff under the freeway. Declare it a safety emergency. That's

584
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Speaker 2: what you do, fire emergency. You clear everything out. If

585
00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:22,760
Speaker 2: people want to fight in court, go ahead, but everything's

586
00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:23,160
Speaker 2: gotta go.

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Speaker 3: He didn't do that. Caltrans didn't do that. Their bass

588
00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:29,440
Speaker 3: didn't do that. The LA Fire Department did do that.

589
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Speaker 2: Nobody did the basic job of getting all the dangerous

590
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Speaker 2: stuff out from under. I mean, hey, he went through

591
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Speaker 2: all this legalistic bs that's gone on. You know, I

592
00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:44,680
Speaker 2: guess months and years, Well, what good is that? Oh,

593
00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:47,920
Speaker 2: you know, we filed them, more complaints and more paperwork,

594
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Speaker 2: and you know, in February we're gonna go. We're gonna

595
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Speaker 2: be in court February. It's November. That's three more months.

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Speaker 3: And then on that subject, to edit another great piece

597
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Speaker 3: of jogging from the tech world. We're going to do

598
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Speaker 3: a deep dive into all these properties that could be

599
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Speaker 3: in this situation, a deep dive.

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Speaker 1: We also heard best practices. We did. Yes, Whenever I

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Speaker 1: hear somebody say that, it's like, okay, that's we're going

602
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Speaker 1: to do best practices. And he referred in the APEX

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Speaker 1: part to corpus. I like that. He's like a real

604
00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:21,560
Speaker 1: legal term, the corpus. I know this is what he does.

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Speaker 3: He throws in complex words and jargon words and Latin

606
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Speaker 3: words to try to make it look like he's intelligent,

607
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Speaker 3: but he completely avoids the major issue.

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Speaker 2: And damn the press if they don't nail him to

609
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Speaker 2: the wall on this. What was that stuff doing under there? Uninspected, unremoved?

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Speaker 3: We'll be right back, Johnny KENKF I am six forty

611
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Speaker 3: live everywhere iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 2: And what was the point of the arson vagrant start

613
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Speaker 2: fires all the time? Just because Arson doesn't mean it

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Speaker 2: wasn't a vagrant, that it wasn't some kind of the

615
00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:01,960
Speaker 2: showdown going on between two?

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Speaker 1: It could be was it an accident or could it be?

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Speaker 1: I don't know. That's that's what Arson means that they're investigating,

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Speaker 1: is not an acces.

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Speaker 2: Somebody who wanted to take out the Palette storage company?

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Speaker 3: All right, what are we doing? We're taking a break,

621
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Speaker 3: but not no break to the break has been canceled.

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Speaker 2: I well, we just spent ten minutes reviewing the whole

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Speaker 2: What we can do now you don't have any commercials

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Speaker 2: to play? We can play another clip?

625
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Speaker 3: No, no, no, we should stay on this story. That's yeah,

626
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Speaker 3: we'll stay on the story. Are they well, I'll ask this.

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Speaker 3: Are there reporter questions going on now? Because that does

628
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Speaker 3: interest me? All right, well I'll bring it up.

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Speaker 9: Let's see, No, infidently determined that the fire was caused

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Speaker 9: by Arson. Now I have no doubt that you all

631
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Speaker 9: want additional details on how we got there, but I

632
00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:01,840
Speaker 9: have to stress well, we have determine what started the fire.

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Speaker 9: We are still working to determine who or who multiple

634
00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:09,760
Speaker 9: people may have started the fire, and so our work

635
00:35:10,080 --> 00:35:12,480
Speaker 9: is not done. In fact, investigators today, while we were

636
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Speaker 9: able to conclude our work of sifting through the rubble

637
00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:20,399
Speaker 9: in search of valuable evidence, our investigators had been paired

638
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Speaker 9: up with the Los Angeles Fire Department, Thank you to

639
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Speaker 9: Chief Crowley with the Los Angeles Police Department, canvassing the area,

640
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Speaker 9: talking to potential witnesses, talking to local business owners that

641
00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:34,160
Speaker 9: are open today, trying to get access to footage, working

642
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Speaker 9: to try to get additional information that will collaborate what

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Speaker 9: we already believe to be again malicious and willful intent

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Speaker 9: of starting a fire. That is what separates Arson from

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Speaker 9: any other type of accidental or negligent start of a wildfire.

646
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Speaker 9: But it's really important, and again I have no doubt

647
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Speaker 9: that there will be questions on that. We have to

648
00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:59,920
Speaker 9: keep the integrity of this investigation strong and so our

649
00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:03,680
Speaker 9: ability to give additional details right now beyond the cause.

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Speaker 1: We have to wait.

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Speaker 9: But as the Governor stressed, we need the public's help

652
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Speaker 9: in order for us to track down who may have

653
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Speaker 9: started this fire. We need valuable information. The governor did

654
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Speaker 9: a much better job of remembering the arson tip line,

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Speaker 9: so thank you governor the number.

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Speaker 4: He said.

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Speaker 9: If anybody has any information, as small as it is

658
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Speaker 9: and as maybe meaningless that you think it is, you

659
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Speaker 9: can stay anonymous. But we need that information that will

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Speaker 9: help us track down the person or persons who we

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Speaker 9: believe started this fire and then more importantly, get a

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Speaker 9: conviction in court. Again, I have to stress the work

663
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Speaker 9: of the Los Angeles Police, Spiring and Fire Department and

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Speaker 9: our arsen and bomb investigators will continue potentially for several

665
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Speaker 9: more weeks, but that will really, timeline wise, be dependent

666
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Speaker 9: on how quickly we get additional information from the public

667
00:36:57,600 --> 00:37:01,680
Speaker 9: or from witnesses who may have seen or heard any

668
00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:05,840
Speaker 9: valuable information over the past forty eight hours. And then, lastly,

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Speaker 9: as the Governor said, we have committed as well to

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Speaker 9: assist cout Trans in their assessment of additional less ores

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Speaker 9: underneath our freeways, and we will continue to assist cout

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Speaker 9: Trans as we have now for several years, to make

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Speaker 9: sure that those leasing or even subleasing land from the

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Speaker 9: state are held to California's rigorous fire code and building

675
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Speaker 9: code elements. And so we will continue to participate in

676
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Speaker 9: that analysis as well. We'll now turn it over to

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Speaker 9: our Secretary of Transportation.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's we can drop that of this now,

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Speaker 1: all right.

680
00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:45,880
Speaker 2: So, according to CBS, the Lost Angeles Fire Department says

681
00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:50,200
Speaker 2: that eighty percent of downtown fires are started by the homeless.

682
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Speaker 1: Eighty percent now, but not necessarily arson.

683
00:37:54,520 --> 00:37:56,720
Speaker 3: You see, they are playing around with the open flames

684
00:37:56,760 --> 00:37:58,040
Speaker 3: and it just gets knocked over.

685
00:37:57,920 --> 00:37:59,920
Speaker 1: Right, But why wouldn't some of them be are?

686
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Speaker 3: Well, I'm just saying some of them probably are not

687
00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:05,600
Speaker 3: because people are trying to stay warm. They're they're kind

688
00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:07,080
Speaker 3: of clumsy and careless.

689
00:38:07,160 --> 00:38:10,640
Speaker 2: Yes, not all homeless fires are arson, but an arson

690
00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:12,920
Speaker 2: fire can be started by a homeless person.

691
00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:15,400
Speaker 3: Maybe that's what they're going to find out. Although, like

692
00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:18,440
Speaker 3: you know, mayor bass, don't don't don't set this up

693
00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:19,920
Speaker 3: as a housed against the unhoused.

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Speaker 2: I am I'm pitting Angelino against Angelino here, I'm pitting

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Speaker 2: the house again.

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Speaker 1: You're part of the house.

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00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:27,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean, all right, we've got an eighty

698
00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:31,239
Speaker 2: percent chance that this was started by a homeless person here.

699
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Speaker 3: So now, what would be let's say it's let's say

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Speaker 3: it's a housed person, a normal person. What would be

701
00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:39,200
Speaker 3: the motivation just.

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00:38:39,040 --> 00:38:41,560
Speaker 1: To go to this property? Right instead of fire? You're

703
00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:42,480
Speaker 1: under a freeway.

704
00:38:42,560 --> 00:38:45,200
Speaker 3: Maybe they were angry with the with the unhoused underneath

705
00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:47,080
Speaker 3: the overpass and said I'm going to burn their homes down.

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00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:50,520
Speaker 2: Yeah maybe, but I mean maybe we don't know. But

707
00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:52,640
Speaker 2: I mean, that's a weird place to start a fire.

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00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:55,880
Speaker 2: You know, at twelve twenty in the morning on a

709
00:38:56,120 --> 00:38:57,720
Speaker 2: you know, on Friday night, a Saturday.

710
00:38:57,800 --> 00:38:59,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was Saturday morning, right early.

711
00:39:00,239 --> 00:39:03,359
Speaker 3: Some guy stops and intentionally starts a fire underneath an

712
00:39:03,360 --> 00:39:07,120
Speaker 3: overpass amidst all these wooden pallets and all these garbage

713
00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:10,280
Speaker 3: and all these homeless creeps running around.

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Speaker 1: What's the purpose of that?

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00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:15,000
Speaker 3: And it's know this quickly, it's a couple of days

716
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:17,839
Speaker 3: that it's arson. They must have found like accelerant evidence. Right,

717
00:39:17,920 --> 00:39:21,960
Speaker 3: somebody put gas down. Maybe it's a mental patient, homeless person.

718
00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:24,360
Speaker 3: I guarantee you this guy is a record.

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Speaker 2: I don't think this guy was, you know, living in

720
00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:30,160
Speaker 2: Tarzana with a wife and three kids. And he suddenly

721
00:39:30,239 --> 00:39:32,839
Speaker 2: drove and saying, I'm gonna set this lot on fire

722
00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:35,320
Speaker 2: underneath the underneath the ten freeway.

723
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Speaker 3: It's gotta be Sometimes we find out it's like a

724
00:39:37,360 --> 00:39:39,840
Speaker 3: dispute between homeless people just gets really angry.

725
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Speaker 2: That happened around the corner for me, in front of

726
00:39:42,239 --> 00:39:45,719
Speaker 2: the VA that Mike Bonnet encampment one night that ran

727
00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:48,000
Speaker 2: people over. There was that, and then there was a

728
00:39:48,040 --> 00:39:52,200
Speaker 2: guy setting another man's tent on fire. Oh I've seen

729
00:39:52,239 --> 00:39:52,520
Speaker 2: it all.

730
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Speaker 1: I tell you have seen it all.

731
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Speaker 5: Right, conways here, Hey, now, hey, John, when you said

732
00:39:58,080 --> 00:39:59,600
Speaker 5: we're not going to find out that this guy is

733
00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:03,600
Speaker 5: a husband in Tarzana with three kids, that may not

734
00:40:03,680 --> 00:40:08,080
Speaker 5: be the best reference. Oh that's right, that's right, murderer, right,

735
00:40:08,160 --> 00:40:09,000
Speaker 5: that's crazy guy.

736
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Speaker 1: That's how did he pick that? Yeah, that's weird he

737
00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:13,960
Speaker 1: picked that. They're everywhere everywhere, these.

738
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Speaker 5: Crazies, you know, Yes, well, I mean he chopped up

739
00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:20,160
Speaker 5: his family, chopped up his fans with certain I say,

740
00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:25,520
Speaker 5: prison for life, Yes, prison for life, but no, you're

741
00:40:25,560 --> 00:40:28,399
Speaker 5: not going to Okay, let's talk about that. I said,

742
00:40:28,480 --> 00:40:30,920
Speaker 5: let's talk about the freeway. Okay, Okay. First of all,

743
00:40:30,920 --> 00:40:35,000
Speaker 5: I like to talk about Ken Champeau f the freeway. Well,

744
00:40:35,040 --> 00:40:37,040
Speaker 5: I started listening to you guys when you first got

745
00:40:37,040 --> 00:40:40,520
Speaker 5: out here, and this is a major deal for for

746
00:40:40,640 --> 00:40:43,520
Speaker 5: me and for a lot of listeners that that Ken

747
00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:47,200
Speaker 5: is decided to move on. Yes, and you know, we

748
00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:51,520
Speaker 5: shared a lot in common with Sports Vegas. I. You know,

749
00:40:51,760 --> 00:40:53,920
Speaker 5: he's got a great sense of humor. Uh, and he

750
00:40:54,040 --> 00:40:56,200
Speaker 5: coordinates the show as well. But the one thing I

751
00:40:56,280 --> 00:40:59,319
Speaker 5: got to say, when you started a new job at

752
00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:02,560
Speaker 5: a new station him, it's really cold and really tough

753
00:41:02,560 --> 00:41:04,279
Speaker 5: to get in with the guys who've been there for

754
00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:06,919
Speaker 5: a long time. But you and Ken never ever made

755
00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:09,200
Speaker 5: me feel anything but family.

756
00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:12,440
Speaker 1: And I appreciate that. I appreciate that. Yeah, because we

757
00:41:12,480 --> 00:41:13,440
Speaker 1: haven't done I will.

758
00:41:13,239 --> 00:41:16,799
Speaker 3: Tell the audience that when we were summarily dismissed from

759
00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:19,399
Speaker 3: a radio station in the year two thousand, you called

760
00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:21,439
Speaker 3: us in to be interviewed on your FM radio show.

761
00:41:21,520 --> 00:41:23,120
Speaker 1: It was very nice. I forgot about that.

762
00:41:23,480 --> 00:41:25,160
Speaker 3: I remember we showed up and he had to sit

763
00:41:25,239 --> 00:41:26,560
Speaker 3: down and we did like a half an hour with

764
00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:27,319
Speaker 3: you and Doug.

765
00:41:27,520 --> 00:41:30,319
Speaker 1: Well, you know what that that's great. I remember. And

766
00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:31,359
Speaker 1: there was another.

767
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:33,400
Speaker 5: Guy that got fired here and we had him on

768
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:38,840
Speaker 5: the show. The guy used to follow you right, whose.

769
00:41:38,719 --> 00:41:41,680
Speaker 3: Name shall not be said out lap right, it starts

770
00:41:41,680 --> 00:41:44,360
Speaker 3: with a Z last.

771
00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:48,040
Speaker 5: Wow, that's two today that John's about to walk out,

772
00:41:48,080 --> 00:41:52,120
Speaker 5: I don't show So we had him on over a

773
00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:52,960
Speaker 5: kls X.

774
00:41:53,280 --> 00:41:53,560
Speaker 1: Yeah.

775
00:41:53,600 --> 00:41:56,040
Speaker 5: And then when I started here, Robin got pissed that

776
00:41:56,120 --> 00:41:58,839
Speaker 5: I did that. So why would you have that guy on?

777
00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:02,040
Speaker 5: You know, this, this, this and this, And I said, look,

778
00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:03,879
Speaker 5: I only had him on for a half hour.

779
00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:08,480
Speaker 1: You hired him and that did not warm me up

780
00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:11,080
Speaker 1: to management here, I guess not at all.

781
00:42:11,680 --> 00:42:14,200
Speaker 5: It's still contentious, like I'm going to get a call

782
00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:15,160
Speaker 5: about that story.

783
00:42:15,239 --> 00:42:19,040
Speaker 3: I just well, well, you were probably the first person

784
00:42:19,040 --> 00:42:21,680
Speaker 3: to follow us caf I that actually was a listener

785
00:42:21,680 --> 00:42:22,719
Speaker 3: of our show and knew our show.

786
00:42:22,760 --> 00:42:22,960
Speaker 1: Well.

787
00:42:23,080 --> 00:42:25,640
Speaker 5: I knew every beat of it, man, every beat. When

788
00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:27,839
Speaker 5: you guys came out, it changed the landscape of LA

789
00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:31,319
Speaker 5: Radio and this place. You think it's an asshole now

790
00:42:31,400 --> 00:42:34,000
Speaker 5: if you guys weren't here for last thirty years, this

791
00:42:34,040 --> 00:42:38,400
Speaker 5: would have been on fire because look how many changes,

792
00:42:39,640 --> 00:42:43,560
Speaker 5: how many changes you've made and gotten people properly fired

793
00:42:43,640 --> 00:42:46,280
Speaker 5: or dismissed or were you know, thrown in jail or whatever.

794
00:42:46,440 --> 00:42:48,320
Speaker 1: You know. Yeah, yeah, well look.

795
00:42:48,160 --> 00:42:50,040
Speaker 5: It takes balls to go out there and go after

796
00:42:50,080 --> 00:42:52,279
Speaker 5: these child molesters. And you guys go out to Lake

797
00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:55,240
Speaker 5: Los Angeles and are unafraid to do that kind of stuff,

798
00:42:55,520 --> 00:42:57,200
Speaker 5: and that's a big that's a big deal in LA

799
00:42:57,239 --> 00:42:58,440
Speaker 5: because nobody else is doing it.

800
00:42:58,640 --> 00:43:00,479
Speaker 3: And just to be clear, I usually made where John

801
00:43:00,520 --> 00:43:02,160
Speaker 3: is the one that actually went in there with the bullhorn.

802
00:43:02,200 --> 00:43:04,000
Speaker 3: I just stayed outside and reported on the damage.

803
00:43:04,080 --> 00:43:06,160
Speaker 1: Right, But who else is doing it? kN X doesn't

804
00:43:06,160 --> 00:43:06,400
Speaker 1: do that.

805
00:43:06,719 --> 00:43:08,680
Speaker 5: They don't have guys going out there and yelling at

806
00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:10,080
Speaker 5: you know, child molesters.

807
00:43:10,080 --> 00:43:10,879
Speaker 1: They don't do it at all.

808
00:43:11,440 --> 00:43:16,239
Speaker 5: Murderers, yeah, right, murderers, child molesters, pile killers, people that

809
00:43:16,520 --> 00:43:18,880
Speaker 5: you know are are big musicians who go off, you know,

810
00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:22,359
Speaker 5: off the lower politicians. That's right, everybody, and and I

811
00:43:22,400 --> 00:43:24,239
Speaker 5: hope it, I hope it, you know, continues on that

812
00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:28,120
Speaker 5: level because seriously, people in politics are afraid of the show,

813
00:43:28,160 --> 00:43:28,799
Speaker 5: and they should be.

814
00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:31,440
Speaker 1: Remember when you guys. Have you know a guy I.

815
00:43:31,520 --> 00:43:33,880
Speaker 5: Remember who it was from the Sheriff's department walked in

816
00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:36,719
Speaker 5: here like he was gonna own you lee baka, and

817
00:43:36,719 --> 00:43:39,239
Speaker 5: then the other guy, little guy right all to knock

818
00:43:40,640 --> 00:43:42,800
Speaker 5: and man oh man, he left here shaking.

819
00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:45,799
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was one of my don't forget what's her name?

820
00:43:45,840 --> 00:43:48,479
Speaker 1: It ran for governor Meg oh Meg Whitman. Yeah.

821
00:43:48,520 --> 00:43:51,120
Speaker 5: She comes in alone and and uh, you know, and

822
00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:53,200
Speaker 5: leaves and I think she went straight to the hospital.

823
00:43:54,040 --> 00:43:57,080
Speaker 3: She was beat redwood. She was unbelievable. I said, what

824
00:43:57,160 --> 00:43:59,400
Speaker 3: happened to that woman? Didn't she She was glaring at

825
00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:02,239
Speaker 3: her aids. Yeah, but nobody else does that.

826
00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:04,560
Speaker 5: Man and so ken, I hope you know, you know,

827
00:44:04,680 --> 00:44:06,680
Speaker 5: as you you know, sit back and do nothing for

828
00:44:06,719 --> 00:44:08,280
Speaker 5: the next three, four or five years whatever.

829
00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:11,040
Speaker 1: But can I die? Yeah, But he's giving you five

830
00:44:11,120 --> 00:44:13,120
Speaker 1: years to say good to give you five years to

831
00:44:13,160 --> 00:44:15,319
Speaker 1: little I see in three or five years, are going

832
00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:17,120
Speaker 1: to get back into this business. I'm gonna come back

833
00:44:17,120 --> 00:44:18,239
Speaker 1: because you can't hang. You can't.

834
00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:20,399
Speaker 5: You're not gonna be able to tolerate your stupid friends. I'm

835
00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:22,200
Speaker 5: going to the track, man, Okay, we'll go to the

836
00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:25,200
Speaker 5: track together. But you may you and Ken. John and

837
00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:27,759
Speaker 5: Ken made a huge, huge difference in this town and

838
00:44:28,080 --> 00:44:29,959
Speaker 5: I and I think a lot of listeners are saying,

839
00:44:29,960 --> 00:44:31,040
Speaker 5: I agree with that kid.

840
00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:32,759
Speaker 1: I'm talking to me.

841
00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:38,080
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you're the kid trying to follow. You can

842
00:44:38,120 --> 00:44:42,840
Speaker 3: make me take dog a right, all right, you're the

843
00:44:42,880 --> 00:44:45,279
Speaker 3: best man. Remember I'm still around three more weeks. Let's

844
00:44:45,320 --> 00:44:47,359
Speaker 3: not get carried away the first day. I'm doing this

845
00:44:47,400 --> 00:44:47,919
Speaker 3: every day.

846
00:44:47,960 --> 00:44:50,839
Speaker 2: He's coming in for the next three weeks, and give

847
00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:51,600
Speaker 2: you a send off.

848
00:44:52,040 --> 00:44:54,719
Speaker 1: I dig dog, big dog with you. Conway Kerser is

849
00:44:54,719 --> 00:44:57,879
Speaker 1: the news wive in the can't Hey, you've been listening

850
00:44:57,920 --> 00:44:58,959
Speaker 1: to the John and Ken Show.

851
00:44:58,960 --> 00:45:01,400
Speaker 3: You can always hear us live on kf I Am

852
00:45:01,520 --> 00:45:05,080
Speaker 3: six forty one pm to four pm every Monday through Friday,

853
00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:08,720
Speaker 3: and of course anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.