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Speaker 1: Now, let's get to this poll that came out this

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Speaker 1: morning from Madison McQueen's. That's the company that did the polling.

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Speaker 1: We're going to talk to Owen Brennan in just a moment.

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Speaker 1: They have done a poll over if LA voters would

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Speaker 1: And would the voters of La County or city ever

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Speaker 1: just once.

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Speaker 2: Just to see what happens. Well, we have these.

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Speaker 1: Answers and and other questions as well with Owen Brennan

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Speaker 1: and Owen welcome, How are you?

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Speaker 3: Hey? Thank you so much for having me. John. I've

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Speaker 1: Yes, that was the head on a stick era. Now

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Speaker 3: We did. We had a in twenty twenty four. We

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Speaker 1: So the first question, do you approve or disapprove of

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Speaker 3: Fifty four percent of our respondence disapproved of Karen Bass

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Speaker 3: good for Karen Bass. People are like really being champions

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Speaker 1: Now she's seventeen points under water. There disapproval fifty four

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Speaker 3: These are some interesting numbers. Rick Cruso that forty three

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Speaker 3: So this is a really insane number, fifty approval rating

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Speaker 1: I don't want fifty of those polled approved of Newsom's

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Speaker 3: We all have thirty four strongly approving, now strongly approving.

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Speaker 3: To the polster about this and he said, listen, you're

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Speaker 1: And I guess they're pro fire. Huh yeah, they're in

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Speaker 1: Whether should Newsom should resign or be recalled?

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Speaker 1: After all this, more than half of the states still

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Speaker 3: you know? Would you call for electively? It's the resign

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Speaker 1: So if you if you bring up something specific that

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Speaker 1: I mean the hydrant said that that water reservoir is unforgivable.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, I mean absolutely, And for her, for her not

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Speaker 3: Part of my background was a speechwriter for Mayo Giuliani.

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Speaker 3: I was with him on nine to eleven I rose

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Speaker 3: are a lot of Angelinos who are hurting, and she

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Speaker 1: Yeah, how long is a flight from Ghana? She had

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Speaker 1: A fascinating stuff on how resistant people are to considering

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Speaker 1: there's some hope, there's some hope. The Caruso numbers are

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Speaker 2: Now so man, But if we.

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Speaker 3: Get through Cruso, who was on real time with Bill

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Speaker 1: Madison McQueen disapprove of Karen Bass's handling the wildfires fifty

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Speaker 1: four percent, thirty seven percent approve. And as far as

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Speaker 1: Owen Brennan, thank job. All right, President of Madison the Queen.

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Speaker 4: six forty.

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Speaker 1: Rick Caruso is going to be on the phone to

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Speaker 1: talk about the Palisades. And he has donated five million

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Speaker 2: To rebuild as quickly as possible.

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Speaker 1: And we just told you about the poll that a

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Speaker 1: looks like people would rather have him as mayor in

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Speaker 1: the city of Los Angeles by a forty three to

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Speaker 1: regarding the fire is up to fifty four percent. And

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Speaker 1: I have no idea why thirty seven percent of the

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Speaker 1: And her performances at the press conferences have been dreadful

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Speaker 1: Now, let's get to Rick Carroso Uh the developer behind

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Speaker 5: I'm great, John, thanks for having me on the show.

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Speaker 1: Tell me what this nonprofit, with this organization you've set

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Speaker 1: Well, the two stories they did on the reservoir, and

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Speaker 5: Well, what Well, what I said was, we're going to

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Speaker 5: We're staffing it up, We're going to use all our

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Speaker 5: You go ahead, yeah, well, getting us water, getting his power,

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Speaker 5: of quote unquote do the right things. We've we've all

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Speaker 5: seen now this new general manager and the interview she

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Speaker 5: was doing rather than saying, we're going to be the

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Speaker 5: best engineered department in the country to deliver water and

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Speaker 5: power at the lowest possible cost. And that used to

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Speaker 5: be the driving force when I was there under Bradley

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Speaker 5: and under Reardon's totally we didn't have these problems. No,

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Speaker 5: we didn't have these problems then.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, you know, government at its very basic,

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Speaker 1: it's it's it's what are power, fire, police roads, That's

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Speaker 1: what we're paying the taxes for. And we're getting none

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Speaker 1: of that right now.

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Speaker 5: You're getting none of it right now. But you know what,

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Speaker 5: it can change. So the good thing is out of

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Speaker 5: this crisis. I think it's going to change because I

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Speaker 5: think people have really seen unfortunately too heavy over a

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Speaker 5: price to pay that You've got to have the right

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Speaker 5: people in office so we can change it and we

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Speaker 5: can turn it around in this city, can get back

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Speaker 5: to where it needs to be. Did you see what

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Speaker 5: I believe?

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Speaker 1: Did you see the poll that came out today, there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of people looking at you good to be

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Speaker 1: mayor forty three thirty six over Karen Bass according to

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Speaker 1: this poll.

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Speaker 5: I did see it. I'm honored by that but now's

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Speaker 5: not the time for politics in my opinion. Now's the

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Speaker 5: time to get the rebuilding started. And I hope that

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Speaker 5: Trump and Gavin Newsom, you know, work out a deal.

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Speaker 5: I'm confident they will. I think they want to do

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Speaker 5: the right thing. Let's get the federal services in here.

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Speaker 5: It's been two weeks. We've got to get FEMA and

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Speaker 5: they're cleaning all of this toxic waste job. I mean,

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Speaker 5: I don't know if you've been through the Palisades. I'm

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Speaker 5: going to go out to Altadena next week because they

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Speaker 5: have the same exact problems out there. You got to

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Speaker 5: start cleaning this place up. It's all toxic, I know.

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Speaker 5: And that's eema, you know. So we need the federal govern.

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Speaker 1: Well, anytime you need to come on and talk about

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Speaker 1: this further. If you want people to become aware of

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Speaker 1: all the challenges ahead, just let us know.

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Speaker 2: You always have a form here.

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Speaker 5: I love it. I appreciate it very much. We share

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Speaker 5: all the best, which all the people that are victims

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Speaker 5: in all toa data and the Palisades, all the best start. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: the Crusoe family's hard is with them because we you know,

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Speaker 5: my daughter lost her house, my son house is completely damaged,

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Speaker 5: probably can't be moved into. So we understand the pain

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Speaker 5: of that, and it's tough.

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Speaker 1: All right, Rick Caruso, thank you for coming on. We'll

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Speaker 1: talk again soon.

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Speaker 5: Thanks, John, Take care.

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Speaker 1: Rick Caruso. Let's continue at three o'clock. We've got we're

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Speaker 1: going to talk with the former State Guard Commanding General

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Speaker 1: Jay Hogan about a state wildfire fighting team that Gavin

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Speaker 1: Newsom disbanded last year that could have helped fighting the

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Speaker 1: Palisades Fire the Altadena fire. We will talk with Jay

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Speaker 1: Coggan coming up after three o'clock.

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

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Speaker 1: It'll be amusing to see how much attention Trump pays

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Speaker 1: to Gavin Newsom, who's supposed to be landing in Los Angeles. Well,

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Speaker 1: Trump is landing in Los Angeles at about three point thirty,

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Speaker 1: that was the schedule anyway, and Newsom has been trying

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Speaker 1: to finagel away to meet him. Trump was giving him

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Speaker 1: the stiff arm. Trump's staff not inviting Newsom to greet

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Speaker 1: Trump when he lands here, and not inviting Newsom to

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Speaker 1: tag along at the various stops Trump is going to make. Finally,

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Speaker 1: the Trump crowd agreed to let news greet him at

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Speaker 1: the airport. I guess when Trump comes off the plane.

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Speaker 1: So Trump really clearly thinks Newsom is a boob. And

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Speaker 1: I remember there's one thing about about Newsom, he's he's

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Speaker 1: he's a dishonest character. And I think that was born

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Speaker 1: out when he ran off to the French laundry when

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Speaker 1: he told that Pacific Palisades woman that he was on

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Speaker 1: the phone, literally on the phone with Joe Biden at

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Speaker 1: that moment, that he was lying. He wasn't on the phone,

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Speaker 1: he wasn't trying to call him. And he often makes pronouncements.

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Speaker 1: He announces commissions and Blue ribbon panels and special sessions

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Speaker 1: for funding and nothing comes of it. And going through

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Speaker 1: the stories on Newsom and how he's managed the forests here,

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Speaker 1: there's a story in Politico that and you know, usually

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Speaker 1: they're very pro Democratic, but they do admit that California

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Speaker 1: Democrats would not thin the forests, they would not clear

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Speaker 1: the overgrown brush and the trees, because the Democrats have

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Speaker 1: been aligned with all these environmental groups and they're against

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Speaker 1: forest thinning, and they're against anything being touched, even dead

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Speaker 1: debris at the bottom of the forest.

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Speaker 2: It's true.

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Speaker 1: I tell this to people and they don't want to

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Speaker 1: believe it, but it's true. They have like a zero

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Speaker 1: tolerance policy these environmental groups, and I guess they give

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Speaker 1: a lot of money to new them and the Democrats.

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Speaker 1: And only now in recent years has been Newsome reluctantly

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Speaker 1: been cleaning the forests.

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Speaker 2: And as I'm.

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Speaker 1: Going through looking for more information on that particular angle

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Speaker 1: of the story, I found a link to this.

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Speaker 2: Do you remember this?

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Speaker 1: This is June of twenty twenty one, and it says

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Speaker 1: when Newsom had his first full day in office in

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Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, first thing he did he declared war on wildfires.

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Speaker 1: He was wearing jeans and sneakers. I bet you're very

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Speaker 1: tight jeans, and he had emergency responders around him, and

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Speaker 1: he said everyone has had enough, and he'd signed a

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Speaker 1: sweeping executive order overhauling the state's approach to wildfire prevention,

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Speaker 1: and we have to confront these fires year round now

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Speaker 1: because of climate change. Well, in twenty twenty one, CAP

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Speaker 1: Radio it's a radio group and NPR's California Newsroom found

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Speaker 1: that the governor had really grossly misrepresented his accomplishments. The

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Speaker 1: investigation found that Newsom overstated by an astounding six hundred

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Speaker 1: and ninety percent the number of acres treated with few

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Speaker 1: breaks and prescribed burns. He had claimed that they had

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Speaker 1: enacted fire prevention work on ninety thousand acres. It was

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Speaker 1: eleven thousand acres. He exaggerated by almost seven hundred percent.

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Speaker 1: Just flat out lied because who would know, right, You

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Speaker 1: don't know if they've done work on eleven thousand acres

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Speaker 1: or ninety thousand acres. How would you find that out?

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Speaker 1: He flat out lied because he didn't follow through, never

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Speaker 1: did the work, and after an.

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Speaker 2: Initial jump.

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Speaker 1: In clearing brush in the forests, CAP Radio on NPR

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Speaker 1: investigated and showed that Calfire's fuel reduction had dropped by

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Speaker 1: half in twenty twenty. It was lower than Jerry Brown's

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Speaker 1: final year in office, and Newsom slashed one hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifty million dollars from cal Fire's wildfire prevention budget. And

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Speaker 1: that is why when I see, like the poll we

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Speaker 1: talked about earlier, that Newsom gets good, good grades for

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Speaker 1: handling the wildfire, he gets an he should get an

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Speaker 1: F for the rest of his life. He's a liar

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Speaker 1: and he's a defunder. He actually defunds wildfire projects. I

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Speaker 1: may he defunded one hundred million dollars from fire projects

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Speaker 1: around the state just in the last year. That's the truth,

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Speaker 1: but that's not the kind of Hey, you've been listening

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Speaker 1: to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear

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Speaker 1: the show live on KFI Am six forty from one

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Speaker 1: to four pm every Monday through Friday, and of course

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Speaker 1: anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Informational nugget that

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Speaker 1: gets widely distributed. They'd rather vote on his hair and jawline.

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Speaker 1: All right, we come back. Another aspect of this is

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Speaker 1: Governor Gavin Newsom has an Office of Emergency Services and

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Speaker 1: they had something called the State Guard Emergency Response Command

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Speaker 1: and it was supposed to fight wildfires one hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifty volunteer members. And we're going to talk to the

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Speaker 1: commanding General, Jay Coggan, who started the command in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty one, and it looks like it's been disbanded, not

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Speaker 1: just defunded, disbanded. It was called Team Blaze. We'll discuss

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Speaker 1: that with Jay Coggan coming up. Deborah Mark live in

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Speaker 1: the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.

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Speaker 2: Hey, you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast.

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Speaker 1: You can always hear the show live on KFI Am

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Speaker 1: six forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday,

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Speaker 1: and of course, anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app