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Speaker 2: I am six forty you're listening to the John Cobel

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Speaker 2: podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Welcome everybody. We are out

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Speaker 2: on the road for the first time in a long time.

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Speaker 2: It's kind of strange. We are in Anaheim at the

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Speaker 2: Honda Center in parking Lot number four, also known as.

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Speaker 2: And to get here you got to take the take

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Speaker 2: Ball Road and then right get to the intersection of

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Speaker 2: the end of Phoenix Club Drive. It'll lead right into

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Speaker 2: the Hanta Center Lot number four, where we have people

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Speaker 2: who are collecting signatures for a petition gets on the

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Speaker 2: ballot in November. This is going to do a major

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Speaker 2: rewrite of Prop. Forty seven, which is the scourge of

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Speaker 2: civilization here in California. It's I mean, I could trace

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Speaker 2: back a lot of the ills of the past decade

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Speaker 2: right to November twenty fourteen. When I mean you talk homelessness,

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Speaker 2: you talk crime, talk the retail thefts, the smash and grab.

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Speaker 2: Its roots are all in Prop fourteen at Prop forty seven,

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Speaker 2: and so we're going to fix that by getting the

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Speaker 2: signatures on the ballot to repeal it. Basically, I mean

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Speaker 2: it's going to be a major rewrite come November. And

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Speaker 2: one of the men spearheading the effort. By the way,

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Speaker 2: I just want to explain because the real purpose here

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Speaker 2: people at home or in the car, but it's also

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Speaker 2: to get the signatures. So you don't have to spend

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Speaker 2: much time here. You can drive up. They'll give you,

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Speaker 2: I guess a signboard, no, a clipboard, and you sign

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Speaker 2: where they tell you to sign, and that's it, and

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Speaker 2: you can be in and out of here in a

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Speaker 2: matter of a couple of minutes. In fact, now's a

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Speaker 2: good time because they just open up for signatures at

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Speaker 2: one o'clock, so the lines are short. Come now and

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Speaker 2: you'll get right through. We got a lot of people

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Speaker 2: standing around and watching us, which is always disturbing. And again,

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Speaker 2: Ball Road to Phoenix Club Drive. Just put that intersection

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Speaker 2: into your GPS borrowed Phoenix Club Drive and then you

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Speaker 2: go all the way to the end. It leads right

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Speaker 2: into the parking lot and follow the cones or whatever

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Speaker 2: the hell they have. All right, now, let's go to

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Speaker 2: Todd Spitzer and Todd is the Orange County District attorney

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Speaker 2: and we have had Todd on our show for decades.

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Speaker 2: For decades, you've been in various positions, aligned together, fighting

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Speaker 2: with each other. And former KFI employee many years ago

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Speaker 2: as well, that's right.

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Speaker 3: I used to screen for and produce Hand on the Law. Yeah, Mother,

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Speaker 3: Love Joe, Crummy Tom.

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Speaker 1: That all predates me.

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Speaker 2: That's right, because Danley hire crazy people at KFI, as

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Speaker 2: you can tell. But you have had an illustrious careers.

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Speaker 2: The Orange County District Attorney really one of the obviously

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Speaker 2: the best in the state.

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Speaker 4: Oh.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate that very much.

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Speaker 1: And you've helped set this up here.

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Speaker 2: And what I want you to do, since you have

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Speaker 2: all the legal knowledge and you could explain it most accurately,

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Speaker 2: is if Prop forty seven gets on the ballot and

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Speaker 2: pass what I'm sorry, this revision gets on the ballot

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Speaker 2: and passage, what changes about Prop forty seven?

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Speaker 3: Well, first of all, first and foremost, I want to

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Speaker 3: thank all the people for coming out. I want to

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Speaker 3: thank all the people for driving through. And what John said,

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Speaker 3: it's true, you can come here. We're extremely well organized.

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Speaker 3: It doesn't matter what county you're from. We can take

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Speaker 3: all counties. Today. We need everybody to sign this petition.

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Speaker 3: We're at about five hundred thousand signatures statewide. We want

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Speaker 3: to turn in about seven hundred and fifty thousand signatures.

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Speaker 3: This cannot be a mistake like the George Gascoon recall

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Speaker 3: on the ballot. So what's it about. It says that

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Speaker 3: if you use drugs and you get convicted multiple times,

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Speaker 3: You got to get treatment. We cannot have people who

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Speaker 3: So we're showing empathy, but we're not being dumb about it.

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Speaker 3: it leads to many other things, homelessness, use of drugs,

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Speaker 3: stealing property, theft. I am sick and tired of the

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Speaker 3: getting ripped off to high heaven. So this says, if

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Speaker 3: you are convicted more than twice for theft, we can

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Speaker 3: Because Goodness sakes these repeat offenders, we need to take

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Speaker 3: this idea that we're apologetic for incarcerating people is nonsense.

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Speaker 3: When people steal or hurt us or take our property,

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Speaker 3: they deserve to go to jail. That's what jails are for.

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Speaker 3: And lastly, fentanyl. Fentanyl is killed over one hundred thousand

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Speaker 3: people nationwide starting during the pandemic. China manufactures it, sends

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Speaker 3: our citizens. So this says, if you're a drug dealer

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Speaker 2: I am really happy that there's already five hundred thousand

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Speaker 2: maybe at a top month. But yeah, and it was

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Speaker 2: a three hundred and sixty thousand, and now it suddenly

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Speaker 3: Well let me tell you, John, why this why the

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Speaker 3: because we're doing so well and they know the numbers.

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Speaker 3: And what happened last week the Speaker of the State

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Speaker 3: to all of us is, oh, we have a handle

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Speaker 3: on this, right they don't. They're not saying we created

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Speaker 3: the problem. We're creating through our dumb laws, all the

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Speaker 3: ability to commit theft and now we're going to fix it.

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Speaker 3: The only reason they have the pressure to fix it

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Speaker 3: the petition. Lastly, their statutory fixes will not remedy Prop

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Speaker 3: forty seven. Prop forty seven was an initiative. It says

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Speaker 3: but you cannot increase penalties through the legislative process. You

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Speaker 3: have to go back to the voters. So their fixes

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Speaker 3: are not fixes at all. It's a sham. The only

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Speaker 3: You cannot fix it in the state legislature.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's good to know, because they are doing a

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Speaker 2: real song and dance and they're doing the old magicians

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Speaker 2: act of look over there slight of hand. Nothing they

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Speaker 1: Forty seven.

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Speaker 2: Only we can do it, as Todd says, So this

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Speaker 2: is the day to do it, because there's a lot

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Speaker 2: and it's in your hands. In fact, the way Prop

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Speaker 2: forty seven is written, it's the law to be in

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Speaker 1: Right. They created it, so only you can change things.

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Speaker 1: So this is the day to change things.

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Speaker 2: And I know everybody's tired of this what Todd went

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Speaker 2: worrying about eating outside on a restaurant's sidewalk, walking to

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Speaker 2: up with living like this and it's god one way

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Speaker 2: too long. Well, this is the day it changes. You

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Speaker 1: You go.

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Speaker 2: The easiest way to explain it is go to the

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Speaker 1: It leads you right into parking lot for of the

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Speaker 2: They'll give you the clipboard, you sign it, they'll take

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Speaker 3: And the reason it's so fast is because everybody knows

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Speaker 3: be interested in sign this initiative. We are here for

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Speaker 3: your signature, where you live, that you're registered to vote,

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Speaker 2: All right, thank you.

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Speaker 2: We're on from one until four, and then after four

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Speaker 2: To get there, put in your GPS the intersection of

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Speaker 2: asking me, what are we signing here. You're signing a

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Speaker 2: petition to do a major revision of Prop forty seven,

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Speaker 2: and Todd Spitzer last segment went through the specifics of

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Speaker 2: it periodically throughout the show. We'll explain again what it's about.

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Speaker 2: We've explained it a lot in the last few weeks,

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Speaker 2: but there's always new people listening and people listening and

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Speaker 2: you know, one of the quirks of the law is

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Speaker 2: you have to sign a petition that's in the County. Well, yeah,

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Speaker 2: you can sign it here, but it has to be

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Speaker 1: All right, now, who do we have here? Oh dude,

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Speaker 1: how are you? I'm great. I'm great. My name is

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Speaker 6: Yes, and I'm out here with the sign up crew

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Now, what have you seen happen in California and your

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Speaker 1: Last ten years? Ever since Prop forty seven beasts?

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Speaker 6: Well, one of the reasons I'm running for city council

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Speaker 2: Everything, whether it's shoplifters, people at the border, and everything

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Speaker 6: We need to make crime illegal again, what we need

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Speaker 1: That is a great slogan. I appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: I told yeah, well, you know what, you may get

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Speaker 2: bumper sticker. Make that your campaign theme, making crime illegal again.

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Speaker 6: Come yeah, get your segness on here. Let's get this

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you very much.

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Speaker 2: We already got a half a million signatures in the

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Speaker 1: They need to be off the streets, if not prison.

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Speaker 2: And one thing that this revision will do is if

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Speaker 2: Same thing with the drug possession. Third time you have

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Speaker 2: me talk to more people here, because you people have

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Speaker 1: There. How are you? Well, I'm fine. What's your name?

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Speaker 7: Money, Miss Georgia. And that's my my husband, Larry.

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Speaker 1: That's my day. I'm Georgia, Georgia.

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Speaker 7: Where you're from, Well, I'm from the La County, but

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Speaker 2: Yeah, don't go to La County.

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Speaker 1: I take my bodyguard. Now, I grew up over there.

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Speaker 1: But what have you said the state?

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Speaker 7: We just need an overhaul. It's a shame that you can't. Well,

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Speaker 7: you know what bugs me? The number one is that

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Speaker 7: I personally choose to stay here. There's nowhere I want

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Speaker 1: Oh. We have a terrible approval rating around the country.

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Speaker 7: Of our government because we're all too busy enjoying the

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Speaker 7: people who work for them get freebies, get off work

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Speaker 7: and get to go vote. My job I had for

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Speaker 7: forty years working for doctors hospitals. They didn't allow us

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Speaker 7: to leave to go vote. Oh yeah, we'll get you

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Speaker 2: It took it hour to drive traffics.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because somebody get the benefits. Sure, it's like a kickback.

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Speaker 2: Yes, And their unions donate to the governor's race and

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Speaker 7: It just needs to change because nobody needs to be

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Speaker 1: Isn't that crazy thing? Don't start me.

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Speaker 2: Well that's for another day, but thank you for coming on. Sorry,

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Speaker 2: that's Georgia. Oh my god, you know you know this

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Speaker 2: is what really makes me crazy. We're the most generous

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Speaker 2: all the people coming over the border right now, first

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Speaker 1: I don't know the numbers.

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Speaker 2: In Orange County, seventy thousand people, nearly all of them

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Speaker 1: Nothing is done. We spend billions of dollars.

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Speaker 2: Nobody has a bigger, more expensive homeless program than the

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Speaker 1: And what do you got? We got more homeless people.

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Speaker 1: Where do the homeless people come from?

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Speaker 2: Well, go back to Prop forty seven, which by the way,

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Speaker 1: And you're from La County.

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Speaker 2: I swear to God, I'm going to come over your

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Speaker 5: Okay, you're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI

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Speaker 5: AM six forty.

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Speaker 2: We are live in Anaheim, or yes, yes, you don't

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Speaker 2: make a lot of noise.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna make you leave.

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Speaker 2: We are here at Anaheim and the Honda Center parking lot,

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Speaker 1: Ready.

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Speaker 2: They're gonna hand you a clipboard, You sign the sheet,

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Speaker 2: and you're signing to get a major revision of Prop.

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Speaker 2: Forty seven on the ballot in November that we can

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Speaker 2: vote on. Already, the organizers have a half a million signatures.

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Speaker 2: They you need officially five hundred and forty six thousand,

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Speaker 2: but we need a lot more than that because you

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Speaker 2: we got to get to seven hundred and fifty thousand,

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Speaker 2: eight hundred thousand. It's happening rapidly because nobody wants to

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Speaker 1: We will talk more later on about the specific details here.

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Speaker 2: I just want you. We've got people lined up in

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Speaker 2: stand and watch us if you want, but it's easy in,

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Speaker 2: easy out. Just tell them what county you're from, because

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Speaker 2: we've got different clipboards for different counties. All right, we

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Speaker 2: have Debora Archer Letter here, Judge Deborah Archer Letter, give

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Speaker 1: All right.

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Speaker 2: She's an LA County superior or judge, and she's taken

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Speaker 2: County District Attorney. And I'll probably mention one hundred times

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Speaker 2: this afternoon. Not only is Gascing the most disastrous district

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Speaker 1: Wrote Prop forty seven.

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Speaker 2: So I can't think of another public figure that has

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Speaker 2: his law needs to be removed in November, and he

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Speaker 8: Welcome Deborah, Well, thank you for having me today. Yes,

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Speaker 8: I did bring a copy for those that wanted to

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Speaker 8: look at it, because it is called the Safe Neighborhoods

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Speaker 8: Are we safer now than we were three years ago?

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Speaker 8: Mister Cobelt, what's your answer to that question?

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Speaker 5: Oh?

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Speaker 8: Okay, Well that's why we're all here today, So thank

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Speaker 8: you for hosting this fabulous event.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know.

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Speaker 2: I just know from with my I gauge the safety

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Speaker 2: just to go out to dinner at night, just to

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Speaker 9: Well that's correct.

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Speaker 8: That's why we're here today, not only to get this

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Speaker 8: to also elect me as your next La County District Attorney.

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Speaker 8: So these things go hand in hand to take back

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Speaker 2: What do you think the worst aspects are of the

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Speaker 1: Like one of the things that you would, well.

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Speaker 9: How long is your show this afternoon? I mean not

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Speaker 2: Give us a rundown of what you would change right

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Speaker 8: Well, first of all, I would start enforcing the law.

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Speaker 8: make that happen. Are mentally all need treatment. We need

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Speaker 8: so many places to start between the quality of life

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Speaker 8: crimes that are affecting our small businesses, many of which

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Speaker 8: are immigrants owned in La County and in Orange County

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Speaker 8: and all over California, and then we need to deal

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Speaker 8: with the violet and serious repeat offenders. If you use

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Speaker 8: a gun and you're a criminal, you need to go

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Speaker 8: to jail. If you're selling fent and all, you need

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Speaker 8: to go to jail.

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Speaker 1: You actually have to say that out loudly. Now you

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Speaker 1: have to make the case for it.

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Speaker 2: And this is what's crazy is suddenly normal people are

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Speaker 2: on the defensive by saying these things should be crimes,

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Speaker 2: these people should go to jail, and we're.

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Speaker 1: Looked at and given the stink eye.

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Speaker 2: Well, and I don't know how that reversed in the

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Speaker 2: last ten years, but it's nuts.

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Speaker 8: Well, I've spent thirty five years in a court. My

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Speaker 8: last assignment was I was in the Edelman Children's Court, the.

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Speaker 9: Foster care court.

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Speaker 8: I was literally removing ten to fifteen babies per week

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Speaker 8: from their mothers at birth because these poor new boards

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Speaker 8: had fentanyl and methamphetamine in their system. So we're not

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Speaker 8: only killing teenagers and young adults with the fentanyl. These

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Speaker 8: babies are coming into their new life, their new world,

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Speaker 8: with methamphetamine and fentanyl in their system. What possible outcomes

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Speaker 8: in life can they have given those circumstances at birth.

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Speaker 8: So this is a whole, huge, overarching situation that because

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Speaker 8: of my unique experience, that I have a different perspective

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Speaker 8: and a view than many of the other candidates in

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Speaker 8: the race.

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Speaker 9: And I know that you're aware that I.

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Speaker 8: Recently came out second to Gascone in the latest Caruso

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Speaker 8: polling after only being in the race for four months.

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Speaker 8: So I have momentum and I'm on the upward trajectory

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Speaker 8: to take him out.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I did jumps to get an endorsement.

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Speaker 9: I did. I got an endorsement.

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Speaker 8: Well, they didn't call it an endorsement, they called it

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Speaker 8: a recommendation. Yes, by the LA Police Protective League LAPD.

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Speaker 9: I'm very proud of that recommendation.

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Speaker 8: And I law enforcement knows that I will have the

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Speaker 8: backs of their men and women who are out on

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Speaker 8: the streets every year day getting spit at, getting disrespected,

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Speaker 8: and not having their cases filed in the district Attorney's office.

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Speaker 9: So yes, that's huge for my candidacy.

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Speaker 2: You mentioned Fentinhel when Prop forty seven passed. I don't

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Speaker 2: remember Fentonhyll being a thing at all. I hadn't heard

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Speaker 2: of it, and that's and fentil came at the worst time.

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Speaker 2: Just as we relaxed the drug laws to the point

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Speaker 2: where anything goes in the streets, here comes fentanyl, and

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Speaker 2: it's killing thousands, tens of thousands of people.

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Speaker 8: We've lost more people to drug over doses in the

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Speaker 8: last twenty years than we have in all of the

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Speaker 8: wars that our country has fought combined. The wars are

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Speaker 8: now on the city, in the streets of California, Orange County,

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Speaker 8: La County, Ventura County. It's unacceptable and the only way

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Speaker 8: we can do this is as the voters is to

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Speaker 8: sign the petition and to vote in the March fifth election.

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Speaker 9: We need change. We need a new district attorney.

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Speaker 2: All right, Debora Archiletta is she's a judge and she's

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Speaker 2: running against George Gascon. Excellent candidate. Thank you for coming

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Speaker 2: on with us. It's nice to see you, nice to

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Speaker 2: see it. All right, So she obviously she knows what

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Speaker 2: she's doing and would make a great DA And we

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Speaker 2: are going to continue here live.

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Speaker 1: We're on Instagram Live. That whole thing was on Instagram Live.

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Speaker 1: I forget that. We're on all the time.

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Speaker 2: Honda Center Parking Lot four also known as the Red Lot.

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Speaker 2: Go to the intersection of Ball Road and Phoenix Club Drive,

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Speaker 2: make a turn, go to the end of Phoenix Club

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Speaker 2: Drive and you'll go right into a parking lot here

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Speaker 2: and you could line up and sign a petition. They'll

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Speaker 2: stick the clipboard right into your car. You sign it,

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Speaker 2: you get out. It's broken up by counties. Well, actually

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Speaker 2: you just tell them what county you're with and they'll

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Speaker 2: give you the proper clipboard and you'll be in and

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Speaker 2: out in a matter of just a few minutes.

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Speaker 1: Or you can stand around and watch this. We'll be

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Speaker 1: here to four o'clock.

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Speaker 2: They'll be accepting signatures till six, So if you don't

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Speaker 2: get out of work till late, you can still come

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Speaker 2: to Lot number four at the Honda Center and sign

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Speaker 2: these petitions.

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Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI A

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Speaker 5: six forty.

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Speaker 2: Ron from one until four and then after four o'clock John

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Speaker 2: Cobelt Show on demand, the podcast it's same as the

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Speaker 2: radio show.

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Speaker 1: Anything that you missed Today.

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00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:16,480
Speaker 2: We're out on the road Honda Center parking lot for

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Speaker 2: Red Parking Lot, Parking Lot four, and that's where we're having.

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Speaker 1: A petition signing going on.

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Speaker 2: We've got four lanes of traffic and they are driving

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Speaker 2: through and very quickly signing petitions to do a major

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Speaker 2: rewrite of Prop. Forty seven, which has helped ruin California

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Speaker 2: over the last ten years.

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Speaker 1: It's the main.

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Speaker 2: Driver of the ruin and it's something that George Gascone

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Speaker 2: was a co writer on and legalized retail theft, it

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Speaker 2: legalized drug use in possession, and now we've got fentanyl

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Speaker 2: and we have to fight the fentadel scourge.

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Speaker 1: So that's the.

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Speaker 2: Three issues that this referendum addresses. You'll have retail theft

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Speaker 2: become a crime again, You'll have drug use in possession

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Speaker 2: a crime, but you'll get a choice of going into

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Speaker 2: treatment or going to jail. This is very compassionate. And

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Speaker 2: third thing is Fentonel gets steeper sentences. And also if

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Speaker 2: you kill somebody, it's going to be a murder charge.

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Speaker 2: Now where are we How do you get to where

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Speaker 2: we are? If you're not familiar with the Honda Center?

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Speaker 2: What am I looking at there? Oh? Oh okay? You have

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Speaker 2: to go to the intersection of Ball Road and Phoenix

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Speaker 2: Club Drive and turn onto Phoenix Club Drive, go to

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Speaker 2: the end. It's a short short drive and then it'll

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Speaker 2: lead right into the parking lot. Okay, and then we've

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Speaker 2: got the four lanes of traffic, We've got four tables.

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Speaker 2: They'll hand you the petition, you sign it, and you

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Speaker 2: get out all right here in a big Silverado pickup truck.

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Speaker 1: What's your name? My name is Chris Carter. Chris. I'm

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Speaker 1: just gonna get out of the way of the echo here.

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Speaker 7: Y yea?

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Speaker 1: And where are you from?

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Speaker 4: Chris City, Orange, Orange County.

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Speaker 1: And you're here because because of you? Because of you?

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Speaker 2: Well, thank you, But why do you want to sign

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Speaker 2: the petition? What if you experience?

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Speaker 1: What have you seen?

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Speaker 4: You know, over the last years, we've we've seen things

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Speaker 4: decline as far as our quality of life in regards

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Speaker 4: to the homeless issues.

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Speaker 1: And the crime and things.

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Speaker 4: My personal experience is not deeply affected, but I see

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Speaker 4: it around me, and I think it's time that we

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Speaker 4: pay more attention to the civics and things that we're you.

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Speaker 2: Know, it's really a crazy experiment we've had for the

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Speaker 2: last ten years, and it's been an utter failure.

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Speaker 1: A total failure.

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Speaker 4: And I think people are waking up to that fact

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Speaker 4: more and more.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, thank you for doing your part and coming

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Speaker 2: out here and signing the petition.

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Speaker 1: We're doing your part.

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Speaker 10: Well.

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Speaker 1: We need we need eight hundred thousand people to do this.

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Speaker 1: We'll get it. You're one of them, Thank you very much.

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Speaker 1: And we do.

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Speaker 2: We need eight hundred thousand people. We got five hundred

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Speaker 2: thousand that have already signed. And where are we going next? Guys,

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Speaker 2: Let's let's talk over here. Hey, you showed up, so

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00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:07,360
Speaker 2: you're at our mercy. Now you're gonna have to talk. Ah,

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00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:09,680
Speaker 2: these two lovely ladies. Where are you from?

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Speaker 10: Hi, John, I'm from Anaheim, California. My name is Annie Chrisman.

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Speaker 1: And your friend here, Teresa Spenser.

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Speaker 9: She's very shy.

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Speaker 10: She doesn't like to tun.

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Speaker 1: That's all right, as long as you're going to sign

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Speaker 1: the petition.

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Speaker 9: We both are. I dragged her over here because we can't.

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Speaker 10: We can't tolerate this garbage anymore. We're leaving California.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, describe the garbage. Describe what you.

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Speaker 9: Can't tolerate, literally the garbage.

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Speaker 10: There's garbage around our house. We lived nearby the train tracks.

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Speaker 10: The homeless garbage is there. We can't buy anything at

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Speaker 10: Walmart or the stores without having to ring a bell

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Speaker 10: to have somebody come and open the cabinet for two days.

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Speaker 2: Isn't that No, I've experienced that. Isn't that insane? It's

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Speaker 2: it's and nobody ever comes. No, you can ring the

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Speaker 2: bell all day, no one's coming.

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Speaker 9: It's true.

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Speaker 10: We were trying to buy a dog harness for her

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Speaker 10: little dog and it took them twenty minutes to bring

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Speaker 10: a harness daddy.

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Speaker 2: Is is what's fascinating about this is that all the

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Speaker 2: Domino effects.

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Speaker 1: You know, they they sold.

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Speaker 2: Us that this was going to create safe neighborhoods and schools,

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Speaker 2: And what it did is it made it impossible to

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Speaker 2: go to a Walmart by a dog harness.

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Speaker 1: That's it, because so many people were stealing everything everything.

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Speaker 2: I walked into drugstore to get a bottle of advil

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Speaker 2: for my son.

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Speaker 1: I was gone for twenty minutes. Oh my god. I

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Speaker 1: come back and he.

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Speaker 2: Goes, what took twenty minutes? And he said, I said,

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Speaker 2: everything's locked up and no you ring, well, nobody comes,

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Speaker 2: that's it.

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Speaker 1: I was just flattergasted that.

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Speaker 2: It's come to us and that so many people are

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Speaker 2: putting up with it. There's still twenty percent in LA

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Speaker 2: that's going to vote for gascon in two weeks. I know,

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Speaker 2: I don't know why they want to live like this.

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Speaker 2: And the garbage, that's another thing. A domino effects all

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Speaker 2: the homeless people, brings all the garbage and then come

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Speaker 2: the rats. Yeah, it's just a well, I'm glad you

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Speaker 2: came to sign it.

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Speaker 1: Oh, thank you your friend.

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Speaker 2: At least to say hello one word on the radio coming,

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Speaker 2: can't be that shit. Just say hello, hi, y, all right,

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Speaker 2: very good, well, thank you for coming on, thank you

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00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:05,920
Speaker 2: for all right. Let me just all right, we're gonna

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Speaker 2: we're gonna have to go to Denbraah in just about

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Speaker 2: a minute. So I got enough time to tell you that.

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Speaker 2: We are in uh Anaheim at the Honda Center parking

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Speaker 2: lot for red parking lot. Put in your GPS the

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Speaker 2: intersection of Ball Road and Phoenix Club Road. Make the

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Speaker 2: turn and go to the end. It's a short drive

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Speaker 2: to the end. It dumps you right out to the

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Speaker 2: parking lot here and this follow the cones, follow the

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Speaker 2: orange and white posts. It'll lead you into four lanes,

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Speaker 2: four tables. They'll hand out clipperds.

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Speaker 1: You sign.

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Speaker 2: You sign on the dotted line there and we have

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Speaker 2: broken it up for counties La, Orange County, San Diego, Ventura, Riverside,

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00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:47,880
Speaker 2: San Bernardino. You just tell them what county you're from.

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Speaker 2: They'll give you the right clipboard. You sign it and

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00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:51,520
Speaker 2: then you can take off, or you can stick around

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Speaker 2: and watch us. It's your choice. You have freedom. We

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00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:56,760
Speaker 2: believe in freedom here. Hey, you've been listening to The

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Speaker 2: John Covelt Show podcast. You can always hear the show

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Speaker 2: live on KFI AM six forty from one to four

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Speaker 2: pm every Monday through Friday, and of course, anytime on

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Speaker 2: demand on the iHeartRadio app