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Speaker 1: officials are reacting now to Karen Bass and her comments

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Speaker 1: last week with Alex Michaelson on Fox eleven and elsewhere where.

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Speaker 1: She claimed she frankly wasn't aware of the fire warnings,

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Speaker 1: among other things. She said. She then fired Kristin Crowley,

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Speaker 1: the fire chief, on Friday. And there are some people

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Speaker 1: and they can. There's fifteen members on the city council.

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Speaker 1: If ten of the fifteen agreed that Crowley's job should

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Speaker 1: to talk to Monica Rodriguez because she is trying to

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Speaker 1: convince other council members to do exactly that. She's a

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Speaker 1: council member of the seventh district. Monica, welcome, Thank you

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Speaker 1: for having me. What towns do you represent so people.

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Speaker 2: Know I represent the communities of North Hills, Mission Hills, Silmar, Pacoima, sure,

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Speaker 1: It wasn't a quiz. I just wanted people to know

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Speaker 1: what part of the city you represent. All right, Mamonica,

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Speaker 1: you you have. You're trying to get ten votes together

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Speaker 1: to overturn the firing. Why do you think Crowley's job

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Speaker 2: Well, first of all, the chief has to want to

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Speaker 2: But I just believe that the findings of what the

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Speaker 2: ating that for the safety of Angelinos that she made

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Speaker 2: this decision, I thought was really a terrible way of

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Speaker 2: trying to classify it. Frankly, Chief Crowley has been an

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Speaker 2: incredible fire chief, ascending the ranks of our world class

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Speaker 1: Another reason Bass gave is that Crowley has refused to

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Speaker 2: And frankly, I see no evidence of that. Frankly, an

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Speaker 2: introduced emotion requesting an independent after action report. Now that's

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Speaker 2: not something that occurs quickly. Those types of after action

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Speaker 2: But I want to remind the public that it was

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Speaker 2: So it's standard operating procedure, and I just thought that

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Speaker 1: What do you think about the La Times report that

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Speaker 2: Yes, sure, I've still not been It's not been made

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Speaker 2: we need another fire station.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but I think it's clear we need a lot

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Speaker 1: According to one of these national of fire agencies that

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Speaker 2: I don't disagree. In fact, the fire department still hasn't

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Speaker 2: I will tell you that also, the majority of call

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Speaker 2: I'm not mistaken, with eighty two percent of the call

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Speaker 2: that needs to be done. I actually introduced a motion

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Speaker 2: city fire station capacity or building fire service commensurate with

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Speaker 1: Well, what do you think of Karen Bass saying she

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Speaker 2: I mean, if she says that she wasn't aware, then

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Speaker 2: she wasn't aware, you know. We Well that's for her

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Speaker 1: Right, So I mean, how credible is that she would

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Speaker 2: Again, I can't see. That's for her to answer if

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Speaker 2: I will say that the obligation for notification of the

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Speaker 2: to all the city departments and the elected officials on

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Speaker 2: that primary function comes out of the emergency men.

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Speaker 1: Well, what do you think of a bassist statement that

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Speaker 1: Crowley never notified her and she has my cell number,

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Speaker 2: Protocol, and so I will say that the protocol is so.

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Speaker 2: For example, I had the cursed fire that erupted in

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Speaker 2: I said, yes, Chief, I'm already on my way to

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Speaker 1: On, tell me how these things work. I would think

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Speaker 1: how are we on extra crew, extra engines? Where should

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Speaker 2: Well, by the way, if you notice that map to

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Speaker 2: so you know you pre deployed the best of your ability. However,

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Speaker 2: And so the again procedurally, EMD coordinated with all the

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Speaker 1: I only have another minute because I'm running behind here.

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Speaker 1: I'll ask you one more thing. Shouldkaren Bash resign?

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Speaker 2: You know, I think you know, the mayor has a

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Speaker 1: A lot of people have lost confidence in her.

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Speaker 2: Well that's for that's for her to decide, all right.

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Speaker 1: Monica Rodriguez, councilwoman, thank you for coming on with us.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 3: All right, you're listening to John Cobelt on demand from

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Speaker 1: We just had, uh, we just had Monica Roberriguez on.

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Speaker 1: She's the councilwoman in seventh district. Covers a chunk of

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Speaker 1: at the end. Uh. I asked Rodriguez, do you think

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Speaker 1: And she also is taking issue with Crowley being blamed

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Speaker 1: she had to reverse, all the decisions where the rest

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Speaker 1: of the world looked and said, what the hell are

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Speaker 1: you doing? Like when she took the National Guard away

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Speaker 1: from the Palisades while the power was still out and

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Speaker 1: the looters were still running around. That was just one example.

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Speaker 1: This Steve sober Off thing a half million dollars to

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Speaker 1: him without telling anybody. I mean there's so many, you know,

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Speaker 1: when you see somebody in action in a pressure cooker

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Speaker 1: for two months, and every time she's done or said something,

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Speaker 1: it's made everything worse, where everything has been the wrong decision.

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Speaker 1: I mean last week, I think what she said I

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Speaker 1: wasn't aware of the warnings Laraka. That's it. You know.

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Speaker 1: We went out to dinner with a number of people

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Speaker 1: over the weekend and that was it. Nobody believes her,

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Speaker 1: Nobody wants to hear about it, Nobody wants to talk

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Speaker 1: about her anymore. Oh, somebody told me you heard this

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Speaker 1: that at LAX her voice comes on welcoming people to

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles and the airport erupted in booze. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: guess from the people trying to leave LA on the

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Speaker 1: way out. Karen Bass was the last voice they heard

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Speaker 1: when people are booing you at the airport when they're

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Speaker 1: booing your welcome message.

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Speaker 5: Yeah I haven't heard that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's over all right. I'll play of those clips

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Speaker 1: when we come back of some of Bass staff members,

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Speaker 1: one of them Alexander Bose, admitting, yeah, yeah, we knew

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Speaker 1: about the warnings. Of course you did. He's on violating

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Speaker 1: some kind of a secret protocol here. Of course you did.

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Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty.

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Speaker 1: James O'Keefe, the undercover journalist, had one of his reporters

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Speaker 1: do a secret recording of a Karen Bass employee, Alexander Bose.

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Speaker 1: He's got these international relations, he's from that department, and

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Speaker 1: he started talking about Bass knowing about the warnings. Listen

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Speaker 1: to this a little bit noisy background, but i'll translate

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Speaker 1: for you. Listen to this cut.

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Speaker 5: You haven't no idea of fire, was like the possibility.

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Speaker 1: Of course they didn't. The thing is that they're expecting

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Speaker 1: to make the data, but run fire warnings like it's

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Speaker 1: a big indication of fire and speed out. So the

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Speaker 1: first they did, of course they did. The thing is

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Speaker 1: there's nothing they can do when the reporter asked them,

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Speaker 1: didn't they notice the red flag warnings? So that's the

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Speaker 1: attitude in the Bass office. Red flag warnings, nothing you

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Speaker 1: can do. Not Let's talk to Kristin Crowley and let's

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Speaker 1: see if she's got a battle plan for the high

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Speaker 1: risk areas of the city. Do we have and remember

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Speaker 1: we're only fifty percent staffed with the fire department. You

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Speaker 1: have one hundred engines that are broken. They have the

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Speaker 1: government has completely neglected the fire department for many, many years,

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Speaker 1: and then they got the big one and it was

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Speaker 1: extremely tragic and they don't understand why they're being criticized.

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Speaker 1: The responsibility just is so overwhelming. Every day when I

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Speaker 1: think about this and a little more news comes out,

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Speaker 1: it's just incredible how irresponsible and uncaring Karen Bass and

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Speaker 1: the rest of them were. Here is more Alexander Boz

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Speaker 1: blaming the Palisades, blaming the Palisades residents.

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Speaker 2: I was that today with the fires and popping people.

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Speaker 4: It was loser blame.

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Speaker 1: It's just crazy, ecume because these people like they've literally

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Speaker 1: like they've lost everything.

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Speaker 2: Like people are like literally breaking.

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Speaker 1: Down into tears while we're like just we're trying to

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Speaker 1: sign them out, like or get from Michael service that

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Speaker 1: they need.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just.

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Speaker 4: Really good victims from Polisades or everybody as everybody.

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Speaker 1: But the other thing too at Yeah, it's.

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Speaker 3: Like a lot of these a lot of the houses

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Speaker 3: there and so like they were out of like three.

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Speaker 1: Yards were out of the outam.

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Speaker 3: Kelly, Like nobody gave me.

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Speaker 6: I don't know, like this is like a long time

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Speaker 6: like waiting to happen.

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Speaker 1: It is just like a taking time on bo. But

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Speaker 1: like the house is like they're supposed to be like

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Speaker 1: a certain amount of feet of hard too.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's just well you could stop it him.

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Speaker 1: He says their yards were out of code, like nobody

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Speaker 1: gave an f the houses like they're supposed to be

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Speaker 1: like a certain amount of feet apart too. It was

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Speaker 1: just like a ticking time bomb. But as if you're

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Speaker 1: supposed to be able to move your house, you mean

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Speaker 1: there is supposed to be a certain amount of feet apart.

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Speaker 1: What are you supposed to do if you're a hat?

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Speaker 1: Of course, fire departments in the hills when they got

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Speaker 1: the warnings, then none of this is necessarily would occur.

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Speaker 1: Why was bess in Ghana? Alexander Bose Moore of him.

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Speaker 4: So what wasn't your miss response when that when a

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Speaker 4: song happens like but because the mayor wasn't in town.

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Speaker 1: So here's the thing.

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Speaker 6: Here's the thing, and it's been so much completing because her.

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Speaker 1: So here's it. So we're trying to First of all,

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Speaker 1: she wasn't just out there like partying it out with

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Speaker 1: bad Bunny, you know what I mean. So she was

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Speaker 1: out there like doing more completing. Yeah, yeah, So right now,

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Speaker 1: Goan is trying to establish a pause with a Los Angeles.

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Speaker 1: One big plan of parts is to integrate like African

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Speaker 1: countries to get consolates out.

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Speaker 3: There, and it's not like their charity cases, like we're

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Speaker 3: not doing.

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Speaker 1: Using city funds to do this. And also a right

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Speaker 1: stop me stop. You know. Actually, if she was at

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Speaker 1: partying with that bad bunny, it would have been a

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Speaker 1: better decision. She has this big plan to get African

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Speaker 1: consulates in Los Angeles. That is, there is not a

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Speaker 1: single citizen that cares about any nation's consulate being in

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles. And this was a primary interest of her

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Speaker 1: and it she was going to go away for five

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Speaker 1: days over it, and that's why she couldn't stick around

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Speaker 1: for consulates she's got the wrong job. Conway's here. Hey now,

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Speaker 1: I got Alex.

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Speaker 6: Stone coming on tonight to talk about, well, what else?

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Speaker 1: Egg prices?

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Speaker 6: Right? People are constantly talking about eggs. I don't get it,

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Speaker 6: but I guess people like that. Also, Delta airliner return

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Speaker 6: bound for South Carolina had to go back to Atlanta

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Speaker 6: some either somebody was smoking or smoke out in the

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Speaker 6: cabin somehow, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: And then you don't seem to know much about it.

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Speaker 6: I don't really care Starbucks, this is more interesting than me.

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Speaker 6: Starbucks is gonna laugh a lot of people, and they're

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Speaker 6: gonna reduce their menu. I think they had to give

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Speaker 6: you another list, I think so. Hey, yeah, I could

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Speaker 6: care less. But let's talk about that trip you're going

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Speaker 6: on to. Is it Iceland? It's it is Iceland? And

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Speaker 6: when do you go? October seventeenth? Oh that's kind of cool,

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Speaker 6: Yeah it is.

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Speaker 1: Other slots still open, There are slots open, but many

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Speaker 1: of them are filled.

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Speaker 6: And what is it two weeks? One week for that?

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Speaker 6: And you're flying to Kevic or Rakeovic? Yes, and driving

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Speaker 6: around with listeners.

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Speaker 1: Uh yeah, we're gonna be driven around.

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Speaker 6: Oh that's kind of cool. Yeah, And what are you

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Speaker 6: gonna see volcano?

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Speaker 1: See the northern lights right and see volcanoes. We're going

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Speaker 1: to see mountains, glaciers. That's kind of cool.

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Speaker 6: How do people get a hold of that? Not that

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Speaker 6: I want to turn this into a library.

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Speaker 1: UKFI AM six forty dot com slash Iceland, Okay, And

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Speaker 1: I'd get it done soon.

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Speaker 6: Because they're gonna they're gonna sell out.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're gonna sell out, So I get it done.

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Speaker 1: There's still some seats left, but get it done. Make

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Speaker 1: your decision. There was a whole lot of people around

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Speaker 1: the fence and that's why we had the zoom meeting

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Speaker 1: last night. It's like, get off the fence, make a commitment.

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Speaker 1: I got a trip coming up in October. It's fifty

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Speaker 1: guys going to Vegas strip bars for a week.

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Speaker 6: Caf I listeners, Yeah, you magine different, different trip, different crap.

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Speaker 6: All right, dig dog with you Conway.

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