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Speaker 1: on more detail. Gavin Newsom exposed oh Bill Saley, and

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Speaker 1: accused of sixty million dollars worth of fraud. Hospices, medical care, fraud,

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Speaker 1: fake patients, fake businesses. They just filled forms online. And

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Speaker 1: Newsom's responsibility, this is basic governance. You license these medical facilities,

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Speaker 1: these hospices, you vet them, and you make sure that

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Speaker 1: their businesses are real, that the patients are really patients,

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Speaker 1: that the hospice. You know, with hospices, people in most

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Speaker 1: certificates inspected. Right. Newsome did none of that. And I

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Speaker 1: don't care about all his high minded nonsense about climate

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Speaker 1: the time, but it's our money and it's in this

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Speaker 1: case sixty million dollars they're suspecting billions of dollars by

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Speaker 1: time they're done going through all the fraud cases in

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Speaker 1: various in various departments. We're really talk now with Megan Barth,

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Speaker 1: who writes for californiaglobe dot com. She's got a story

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Speaker 1: because this is classic Newsome. He does one of these

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Speaker 1: to spend twenty million dollars on a consulting group to

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Speaker 1: go after government, waste twenty million dollars on who. Well,

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Speaker 1: we're going to find out who. Megan Barth, welcome.

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Speaker 2: Well, thank you, good to be back with you.

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Speaker 1: Don Nice to have you here. I was at the

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Speaker 1: Lincoln Club in downtown LA today. They'd asked me to

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Speaker 2: Oh, they must not know me that.

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Speaker 1: Well, well that's what I thought. I just wanted to

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: You've got people there who apparently you've completely fooled. Wonderful

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Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom gave twenty million dollars to Who.

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Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom blew twenty million dollars on Boston consulting group,

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Speaker 2: which there which employs his former Cabinet secretary and Department

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Speaker 2: of Finance Director Anna J. Matto santos So, his former

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Speaker 2: finance director who oversaw I guess all the finances of

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Speaker 2: California has now been given twenty million bucks to come

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Speaker 2: in and investigate where all the money went. And originally

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Speaker 2: the contract was for or at least they believed they

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Speaker 2: were going to deliver two billion dollars in savings by

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Speaker 2: the fiscal year twenty twenty eight to twenty twenty nine.

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Speaker 1: But pump the.

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Speaker 2: Brakes because reality is that maybe perhaps eight hundred and

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Speaker 2: even half of what they promised to deliver is going

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Speaker 2: to be delivered in savings.

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Speaker 1: And I guess then honest entirely missed all the medicaid fraud.

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Speaker 2: Well, I guess so because BILLI Saley. One thing about

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Speaker 2: that operation. It was called Operation Never Die. And the

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Speaker 2: reason it was called Operation Never Die is because the

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Speaker 2: hospice patients never died. But she.

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Speaker 1: Right, well, there were doctor, there were there were no

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Speaker 1: hospice patients to begin so yeah, they could never die.

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Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, Ghosts don't die. And so when you look

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Speaker 2: at you know, I've been reporting now on California just

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Speaker 2: for a short time since September, But I lived in California.

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Speaker 2: I escaped in twenty fifteen.

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Speaker 1: I was not.

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Speaker 2: Aware of the controller's position within state government. This is

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Speaker 2: an elected position that the controller is authorized constitutionally to

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Speaker 2: root out all of this corruption, to audit these agencies,

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Speaker 2: to ensure that the money going to people are people

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Speaker 2: who actually exist in businesses who actually exist. Well, get this,

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Speaker 2: so herb Morgan, who is running to replace who is

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Speaker 2: running for controller to replace Controller Malia Cohen. Malia Cohen's

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Speaker 2: business in twenty twenty one has had its license suspended

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Speaker 2: by the Franchise Tax Board for failure to file TA

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Speaker 2: state controllers San Francisco condo went into foreclosure. I mean,

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Speaker 2: is this a resume of someone that should be in

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Speaker 1: She can't even pay the mortgage on her condo, and.

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Speaker 2: She can't even pay her taxes on her.

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Speaker 1: Business, and she's controlling the state finances.

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Speaker 2: Correct, She's the state controller, so.

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Speaker 1: She's supposed to pay all the bills, and she's supposed

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Speaker 1: to audit all the invoices and charges.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, sounds like she's just cutting checks like blank checks.

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Speaker 1: Well, I I've never heard of this woman. I heard

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Speaker 2: Right, And I hadn't either. But you know, again, I've

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Speaker 2: I'm not talking about bullet trained nowhere. But what I

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Speaker 2: cannot wrap my head around is you have an estimated

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Speaker 1: Can you hang on because I'd like to go through

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Speaker 1: the list that you put in your story today about

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Speaker 1: all the different categories of fraud. These numbers are so

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Speaker 1: overwhelming it is. Although you do have a couple of

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Speaker 1: good comparisons in here. You compare the stolen money to

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Speaker 1: We got Bagan Barth who writes for californiaglobe dot com.

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Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom having had nothing to do with the sixty

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Speaker 1: by Bill A. Saley and the Feds over hospices and

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Speaker 1: medical care facilities that are phony. He missed sixty million there,

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Speaker 1: as much fraud as they promised. They fined eight hundred

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Speaker 1: for californiaglobe dot com, and we're discussing another as stupid, Gavin,

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Speaker 1: youw some publicity stunts in the wake of all these

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Speaker 1: spend twenty million on a consulting group, the Boston Consulting Group,

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Speaker 1: twenty million dollars, and we're going to go after government waste.

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Speaker 1: They'll be spending twenty million to go after the government waste.

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Speaker 1: And he's hired the same company that employs his former

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Speaker 1: Finance Director Anna Metasentos. And in Megan Barth's story again

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Speaker 1: at californiaglobe dot com, she has a list in fact

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Speaker 1: you want, I think you should read this article and

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Speaker 1: print this out at home and memorize all this. This is,

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Speaker 1: this is because this is all your money. And Megan

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Speaker 1: go through the list of all these departments, all these

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Speaker 1: through fraud.

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Speaker 2: Here call it rearranging the deck cares on the four

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Speaker 2: hundred and thirty five billion fraud Titanic. It's four hundred

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Speaker 2: and thirty five billion dollars, which is identical to the

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Speaker 2: here is the break.

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Speaker 1: Our waste in fraud equals the GDP.

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Speaker 2: Of Colombia, Columbus, Columbia. So there's a enough waste in

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Speaker 2: fraud in the California government to run an entire mid

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Speaker 2: this is across major programs, medical ninety five to one

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Speaker 2: hundred and forty six billion dollars in fraud, Unemployment, insurance

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Speaker 2: otherwise edd thirty one to fifty five billion, Homelessness and

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Speaker 2: housing programs twenty five to thirty seven billions just disappeared.

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Speaker 2: Cal Fresh otherwise known as food stamps twenty to twenty

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Speaker 2: to nowhere twenty excuse me, thirty to fifty billion, and

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Speaker 2: then other miscellaneous programs, healthcare, welfare, et cetera. It adds

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Speaker 2: approximately three hundred and twelve to four hundred and thirty

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Speaker 2: five billion dollars in fraud.

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Speaker 1: Go through the forms of waste and fraud that it

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Speaker 1: Because people are hearing an overall number and they're wondering, Okay,

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Speaker 1: how is it wasted? How are is all this money

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Speaker 1: being defrauded out of the government.

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Speaker 2: Because there has sorry go ahead.

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Speaker 1: No, because I mean, because there's a process to all this.

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Speaker 2: Correct and because there has not been a watchdog. Here's

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Speaker 2: a good example, the hospice fraud that is Nick Shirley

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Speaker 2: has uncovered, the DOJ has uncovered, Federal agents have uncovered

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Speaker 2: that from in ten years hospice care increased fifteen hundred

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Speaker 2: percent in California or less than ten years, excuse me,

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Speaker 2: fifteen hundred percent. That should have been an automatic red

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Speaker 2: auditing these facilities. So what the scammers did, and we're

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Speaker 2: talking international theft rings, Russian theft rings, Middle Eastern theft rings,

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Speaker 2: you name it, international theft rings. No, because they talk, okay,

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Speaker 2: gangsters talk amongst each other. They have crews, so they're

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Speaker 2: just like, hey, I made you know, ten million dollars

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Speaker 2: on the hospice care down in Santa Monica. So his

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Speaker 2: open my own. That's why you saw the explosion of

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Speaker 2: fifteen hundred percent in hospice care in less than a decade.

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Speaker 2: I think it was five years, honestly. So those red

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Speaker 2: flags were completely ignored by elected officials and their related agencies.

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Speaker 2: And another thing I'd have to point out is California's

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Speaker 2: population only grew point four percent in the last decade,

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Speaker 2: zero point four percent, but the number of state employees

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Speaker 2: grew by nearly twenty five percent, and the total state spending,

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Speaker 2: despite the reduction in populate or the marginal increase in population,

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Speaker 2: grew by forty eight percent. So when you look at

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Speaker 2: and how bloated government bureaucracy enables the.

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Speaker 1: Fraud We got a story in LA this week about

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Speaker 1: an official with the Los Angeles Unified School District twenty

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Speaker 1: two million dollars of fraud stolen with a contract with

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Speaker 1: an outside vendor, and she got a kickback. She got

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Speaker 1: several million dollars of it. How much of this is

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Speaker 1: explained by the kickbacks that employees or our politicians are getting,

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Speaker 1: because there has to be an incentive for them to

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Speaker 1: allow all this to go on. There must be a

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Speaker 1: reward they're getting. Right.

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Speaker 2: So, in one instance that I can report from Bill A.

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Speaker 2: Siley's raid yesterday and Operation Never Die, is one fraudster

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Speaker 2: was giving her patients six hundred dollars in kickbacks, and

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Speaker 2: she was getting six thousand dollars per patient, so she

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Speaker 2: was giving them what you know, percent of the cut.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so ten percent went to the fake patient who

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Speaker 1: agreed to sign the paperwork.

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Speaker 2: Correct.

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Speaker 2: The and zero verification. If there's real verification then everyone.

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Speaker 2: Correct. And when when doctor Oz pointed that out on

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Speaker 1: Being a racist. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well no, it's an international crime ring.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I mean this, and it makes sense you'll have

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Speaker 1: All Right, Megan, good work making barth California Globe.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for coming on anytime. Thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: Matthew Seedorf report. He went and visited a homeless encampment

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Speaker 1: We'll tell you the whole story. Nobody did anything about

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Speaker 4: An investigation at a homeless encamment along the La River.

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Speaker 4: The same conditions still here, needles, drug paraphernilia, with people

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Speaker 1: They're not looking to leave.

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Speaker 4: I mean, would you want help and resources and to

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Speaker 4: Be on the river Across La County, more than six

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Speaker 1: By the way, the woman who is talking about what's

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Speaker 1: But they don't do that. They are still see they

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Speaker 1: Not only do they foul our parks. This is Griffith Park,

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Speaker 1: But I tell you Ramen is even worse because she'll

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Speaker 1: says Romen. We have the funding, Well where to go?

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Speaker 1: Canabass lost two billion and hired all those attorneys so

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Speaker 1: John Cobelt's show Moist line is coming up twice next

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Speaker 1: had new management. We'll see and along those lines. We

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Speaker 1: stop start mechanism on your car is no longer be

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Speaker 1: no longer going to be included. And this is really

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Speaker 1: and it was put into effect by the Obama administration. Well,

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Speaker 1: so that when you stopped at a lighter or a

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Speaker 1: it took a couple of seconds to kick back in.

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Speaker 1: It's incredibly annoying. It is in the top five list

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Speaker 1: of annoying progressive innovations, right up there with these flimsy idiotics,

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Speaker 1: You know, in twenty twelve, less than one percent of

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Speaker 1: it was fifty eight percent. Now there are ways around it.

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Speaker 1: My wife has this, her car goes into sport mode.

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Speaker 1: You put it into sport mode for some reason that keeps

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Speaker 1: heard of this years ago. There is a product called

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Speaker 1: Auto Stop Eliminator. You ever hear of this? Ninety nine

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Speaker 1: it'll disable the stop start button without drivers having to

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Speaker 1: lift a finger. And they have one guy hero who's interviewed.

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Speaker 1: They have a number of people in the story 're

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Speaker 1: He'd gotten a new car, he had the stupid stop

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Speaker 1: you know, his mother, brother, sister, and brother in law

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Speaker 1: would all agree with him, right, they could come, is

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Speaker 1: Why aren't people annoyed by things that are really really

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Speaker 1: annoying like that? I can't stand people who welcome government intrusion.

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Speaker 1: Stop start button. Literally, every time I forget to turn

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Speaker 1: trying to accelerate from a traffic light. I curse do

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Speaker 1: some to the gods, and I hope he rots in

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Speaker 1: hell for the stop start button. No wait, that was Obama, right,

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Speaker 1: Newsom's behind the grocery bags, the composting grocery bags, which

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Speaker 1: are impossible to use. But I cursed Obama for the

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Speaker 1: stop start Well, I cursed them both. Annoying little one.

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Speaker 1: Nanny's all right when we come back. You know, I

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Speaker 1: mentioned before you have a little luncheon talk today at

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Speaker 1: And I was thinking about what I was going to

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Speaker 1: talk about last night, and I came to some I

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Speaker 1: don't know, some meanderings, and I thought, you know, I

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Speaker 1: should talk about this on the air too, because you know,

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Speaker 1: we have a little window this year where things could

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Speaker 1: change a lot, depending how the elections go. We have

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Speaker 1: a lot of weird, quirky, unusual things happening at the

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Speaker 1: same time, and maybe if you pay attention and focus,

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Speaker 1: we can pull off some major change here. We'll talk

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Speaker 1: about it coming up after five o'clock, which is right

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Speaker 1: after Debor's news. You ready to go. I've been ready,

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