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Speaker 2: have Michael Monks from KFI News on. Looks like Proposition

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Speaker 2: one has passed by a very tiny margin and Gavin

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Speaker 2: Newsom is now celebrating because he's got about ten billion

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Speaker 2: dollars of your money to spend fighting homelessness. Yes, the

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Speaker 2: public did it again. They gave that that empty headed

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Speaker 2: buffoon ten billion dollars because he's gonna commission a task

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Speaker 2: force to fight homelessness. You'll see, we are our own

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Speaker 2: worst enemies. This is what we vote for. Let's going

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Speaker 2: to talk to Angela Marsden. Now, Angela, we had on

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Speaker 2: a number of times during the lockdown when idiot Garcetti

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Speaker 2: and the idiot LA County supervisors were shutting down all

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Speaker 2: the restaurants, indoors, outdoor eating, remember sure as the Pineapple

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Speaker 2: Hill Saloon in Sherman Oaks, And just the other day

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Speaker 2: there was a fire near Casa Vega, and I think

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Speaker 2: one of the owners said in a news story that

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Speaker 2: insurance coverage was getting difficult to get because why do

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Speaker 2: insurance companies want to want to cover all the threats

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Speaker 2: and all the risk of having all the criminals, all

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Speaker 2: the property crime, the homelessness, there's all kinds of things.

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Speaker 2: Insurance companies can lose money on insuring businesses in Sherman Oaks,

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Speaker 2: and Angela Marsden is coming on to talk about it.

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Speaker 1: Angela, how are you hey.

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Speaker 3: I'm hanging in there. Thanks for shining some light on it.

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Speaker 3: I don't think a lot of people realize what's really

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Speaker 2: Well, first of all, congratulations for surviving the Darsetti lockdowns

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Speaker 2: and the supervisor lockdowns. That's that's amazing. I stopped at

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Speaker 2: your restaurant once on my way to work, and you

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Speaker 2: have very good food there.

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Speaker 1: You weren't there.

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Speaker 2: I looked for you, thank you, but I was just

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Speaker 2: so happy to see you were still in business. And

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Speaker 2: now you're segueing into this talk about what life is like.

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Speaker 2: You're in Ventura Boulevard, I know, near Van Nuys Boulevard.

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Speaker 2: There's a shopping center there. What's life like running a business.

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Speaker 3: You would think once COVID was over that, you know,

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Speaker 3: the hell we are going through would be over. But ironically,

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Speaker 3: if anybody saw the La time, the title in December

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Speaker 3: was twenty twenty three, the year restaurants went to die

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Speaker 3: in La Now that wasn't COVID, that was this past December.

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Speaker 3: It is beyond brutal. They basically we guse you. Everybody

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Speaker 3: knows we have homeless everywhere. I have a trash in

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Speaker 3: my shopping center that's been letting. I've been set on

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Speaker 3: fire like three four times, but it's not near the

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Speaker 3: building because it's been a shopping center. We've got crime.

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Speaker 3: The crime be for the restaurants in From January to October,

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Speaker 3: there was seven hundred and seventeen restaurants in La County.

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Speaker 1: Robbed, seven hundred and seventeen robbed.

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Speaker 3: Nobody arrested. Fifteen people were arrested or were taken in.

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Speaker 3: Nobody's in jail. That was just from January to October.

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Speaker 3: I don't know what it is now. So it's NonStop crime.

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Speaker 3: It's not you know, I had some of the other

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Speaker 3: day go oh they found the naked homeless guy. Well,

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Speaker 3: I had a naked homeless guy in my parking lot.

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Speaker 3: For weeks on end. It couldn't get him arrested. I

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Speaker 3: I mean it's insanity.

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Speaker 2: And wait when you call the police department and say,

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Speaker 2: I got a naked guy, yeah, in the back of

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Speaker 2: my restaurant, and the police LAPD does not do anything.

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Speaker 3: They can't Their hands are hide Karen Karen Bass won't

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Speaker 3: let LPD arrest naked homeless guys in your parking lot. There. Now,

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Speaker 3: it's insane. It's insane what we're dealing with. But of

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Speaker 3: course now nobody wants to insure in California. So what

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Speaker 3: happened to Christy happened to me. In November, Maximum Insurance

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Speaker 3: said we're no longer insuring in California. They backed out.

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Speaker 3: I had to get a new quote. Get this, this

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Speaker 3: is just liability because I have to have Workmen's comp which,

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Speaker 3: by the way, Workmen's comp is doing the same thing.

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Speaker 3: So liability insurance went from sixteen thousand, I had quotes

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Speaker 3: thinking it was the broker, went to a new broker

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Speaker 3: and He's like Angela, I have an account in downtown LA.

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Speaker 3: They saw primarily all liquor. It was ninety one thousand

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Speaker 1: Ninety one thousand dollars.

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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, he could not tell me the name of

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Speaker 3: the account. I even heard that Frank Sinatra's son owned

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Speaker 3: the restaurant in Long Beach and he's called the mayor.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 3: I have told the Mayor's office this. I have told

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Speaker 3: call every two weeks with City Council on LAPB and

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Speaker 3: the Mayor's I do that. I don't get paid for

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Speaker 3: any of this. I do it because I want our

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Speaker 3: area to be better. And Christy joins and the restaurants

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Speaker 3: in sherman Osad really try to push back.

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Speaker 2: And you're talking about Christy Vega and she's the owner

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Speaker 2: of Casa Vega. So you guys are banding together. Now

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Speaker 2: hold on you when you go on this call. Is

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Speaker 2: your councilwoman Nathia Rahman?

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, oh Scott, she's a disaster. Can you believe

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Speaker 2: she got she got real lifted?

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Speaker 3: Imagine?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, can you imagine what is wrong with people?

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Speaker 3: What is can I just say this out to all

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Speaker 3: the Angelinos that are so set up with all this.

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Speaker 3: Why did only fifteen percent vote on March fifth? Why

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Speaker 3: why does nobody come out and vote, Like it's like

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Speaker 3: banging our head against the wall, Like all the mom

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Speaker 3: and pop businesses are going to be gone. It's going

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Speaker 3: to be empty spaces and corporations. You know, with the

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Speaker 3: twenty dollars hour minimum wage for the restaurants and now

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Speaker 3: the insurance, this insurance could kill my restaurant. Between workmen's

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Speaker 3: comp and liability, I could have up to eighty eight

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Speaker 3: thousand dollars of insurance, two insurances in one year. And

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Speaker 3: then people get mad because you know, like restaurants are

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Speaker 3: putting service fees and now the governor's trying to make

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Speaker 3: that illegal. I know some restaurants that we're going to

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Speaker 3: now they're barely getting by, but they're getting by because

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Speaker 3: of the service. See. So we as restaurant owners love

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Speaker 3: our community, love our community, and we make more money

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Speaker 3: the more people come in. So raising prices and doing

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Speaker 3: service fees are our desperate last ditch attempts to try

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Speaker 3: to survive under this craziness. That our politicians are creating.

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Speaker 3: They literally are passing on. What they're doing is not

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Speaker 3: their job, so they do not their job, they do

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Speaker 3: opposite of their job. And then, of course businesses with

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Speaker 3: the tax on to you. Guys, you go into a restaurant,

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Speaker 3: you have voted for a silent tax. The tax is

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Speaker 3: everything's going to cost ten times more.

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Speaker 2: I know, everybody I know is constantly talking about how

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Speaker 2: the price of eating out and not eating out at

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Speaker 2: fancy restaurants, just regular neighborhood places has exploded. It seems

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Speaker 3: This way, if you pay somebody twenty dollars an hour

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Speaker 3: to drop fries at the drop fries at McDonald's. And

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Speaker 3: by the way, that that board that Gavin Newsom, did

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Speaker 3: you know he gave his little buddy a car about

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Speaker 3: that board is intending to raise minimum wage for fast

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Speaker 3: food to twenty five dollars an hour within two years.

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Speaker 3: What do you think, my employee that makes your hamburger?

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Speaker 3: It is really good quality and he needs to know

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Speaker 3: how to cook it, he needs to know how to

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Speaker 3: handle it. What do you think he's going to want

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Speaker 3: to get paid? It all trickles down to the small businesses,

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Speaker 3: and this insurance is like the final blow. I told

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Speaker 3: Mayor Baths January. First, I handed her a list of

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Speaker 3: restaurants that did not get the restaurant relief grant, which

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Speaker 3: is something you wouldn't have to pay back. And they

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Speaker 3: were promised they would get it, but the funds federally

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Speaker 3: ran out. They never got it. I said, Mayor Baths,

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Speaker 3: come December, you're going to see businesses falling. They need help.

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Speaker 3: We need to freeze the sales tax, or we need

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Speaker 3: to freeze the minimum wage. We need to do something

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Speaker 3: real because these businesses we cannot Money doesn't grow out

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Speaker 3: of thin air. We can't just print money. We do

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Speaker 3: not have. I'm at poverty level according to the city.

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Speaker 3: That's what I make as an owner, and then I

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Speaker 3: take on all the liability, you know, And that's the

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Speaker 3: other thing. These insurance companies, you know, they don't if

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Speaker 3: they don't want to go to court because it's going

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Speaker 3: to cost him more. They just settle out, even if

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Speaker 3: it's a fraudulent claim and then what happens, that's a

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Speaker 3: point on your record and your insurance goes up.

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Speaker 2: All right, hang on, hang on? Well continue, can you

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Speaker 2: stand another segment? Angela Marsden, Pineapple Hill Saloon. This is

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Speaker 2: what it's like being a business owner in Los Angeles,

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Speaker 2: and I want to find out if you've got a

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Speaker 2: response from Mayor Bass when you told.

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Speaker 1: Her all this.

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Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM

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Speaker 4: six forty.

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Speaker 2: It is really difficult to run a small business in

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Speaker 2: Los Angeles, especially a restaurant. Angela Marsden is with us

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Speaker 2: again from the Pineapple Hill Saloon. She's on Ventura Boulevard

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Speaker 2: and Sherman Oaks. Good place, good food there. If you remember,

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Speaker 2: earlier this week we heard from owner Christy Vega from

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Speaker 2: that almost hit her grease trap and that would have

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Speaker 2: really caused a huge problem. And Christy on television now,

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Speaker 2: Angela just a few minutes ago on our show, has

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Speaker 2: quadrupling and worse. Let's get Angela back on here. You

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Speaker 2: said you were you're on some kind of I guess

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Speaker 2: a business person's council, and.

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Speaker 3: I started I personally with the little group. I started

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Speaker 3: a call that I started off once a week, but

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Speaker 3: it's every other week now. We meet with a representative

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Speaker 3: from Nthia Rahman's office, from LAPD, we meet from with

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Speaker 3: people from Mayor Baths's office, like Shannon from Circle came

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Speaker 3: out and we basically tell them what we're going through

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Speaker 3: try to you know, they give us updates on how

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Speaker 3: hard they're working or not working.

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Speaker 2: I've heard this nonsense about how hard they're working. They

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Speaker 2: constantly say that, and everything gets worse. But right before,

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Speaker 2: at the commercial break, you went through a litany of

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Speaker 2: all the things that you and other businesses are going

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Speaker 2: through there in Sherman Oaks.

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Speaker 1: What's the response.

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Speaker 2: Because you've got the homelessness, you've got the criminals, you've

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Speaker 2: got the fires, you've got the robberies, nobody's going to jail,

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Speaker 2: naked guy in the back not getting arrested.

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Speaker 1: There, you tell them all this and what do they say?

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Speaker 3: Listen, I've even invited Lindsay Horvath's office on this call

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Speaker 3: because the supervisors has always passed yes. Our board of

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Speaker 3: supervisors who backed gas going by the way she backed gascon.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, she is. She's a gascon girl.

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Speaker 3: Back Nithia Raman, mayor bas backntthew Rahman after we all

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Speaker 3: told her, no, don't. I mean, we're telling our city

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Speaker 3: council woman Nathia Rahman to vote to put more give

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Speaker 3: more money to the police because we they're so short,

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Speaker 3: I mean, LAPD's so short, and they're bound by no

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Speaker 1: It's like a Taco truck, except you.

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Speaker 3: Go buy mess. It's the city demes that they're living

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Speaker 3: But you got to catch him doing it, you know,

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Speaker 3: I want a supervisor. I'm willing to testify. Otherwise, which

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Speaker 2: So what Nathea Ram and Karen Bass have to do

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Speaker 1: Get it. Get out of this, get out of this neighborhood.

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Speaker 3: Now you go up on the street, make it illegal

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Speaker 1: It is. It is illegal. All this is illegal.

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Speaker 1: You have to arrest them and put them in jail.

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Speaker 3: We had, I will say, we had a smash and

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Speaker 2: go through a litany of all the da these that happened,

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Speaker 3: Nothing?

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Speaker 3: Started a legacy They started a legacy program and unfortunately

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Speaker 1: What is a legacy program?

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Speaker 3: See if your legacy business, you can apply and probably

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Speaker 3: It's a lottery system.

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Speaker 1: But to pay for the damage apply.

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Speaker 3: No, they don't pay for anything. We pay for the damage.

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Speaker 3: We pay for the liability. We are the ones that

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Speaker 3: The insurance company bends us over like no tomorrow. The

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Speaker 2: One up, one up, I got I got it, Angela,

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Speaker 2: I gotta go we'll talk again soon.

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Speaker 1: Okay, this this has got to come to an end,

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Speaker 1: all right. Thanks.

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Speaker 2: Angel Marsen from the Pineapple Hill Saloon. Please go there,

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Speaker 2: have lunch, have dinner, go there or enjoy yourself because

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Speaker 2: all these restaurants need business. This is this is, this

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Speaker 2: is ultimately Karen Bass, she said she was going to

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Speaker 2: fix this.

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Speaker 1: She didn't fix it. Everything's worse. You heard it.

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Speaker 2: This is, this is outrageous, Nathia Rahman is an outrageous

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Speaker 1: And she's right.

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Speaker 2: It's because they turn out was fifteen percent for the vote,

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Speaker 2: Coming up after three o'clock. Michael Monks from KFI News.

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Speaker 2: Proposition Boy. You know what people voted for and voted,

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Speaker 2: Can you believe that the stupid suckers actually voted to

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Speaker 2: give Gavin Newso access to about ten billion dollars to

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Speaker 2: and it is I mean, she went through the whole litany.

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Speaker 2: This is the truth. There's so many crazy homeless people

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Speaker 2: It was like fifty five fifty eight thousand, and then

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Speaker 2: For all the talk we've had over a few years

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Speaker 2: This is entirely, entirely the policies of Karen Bass and

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Speaker 2: before that, Eric Carcetti and the La City Council and

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Speaker 1: You simply can't do this. All right, If.

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Speaker 2: There's a naked guy in Orange County behind somebody's restaurant,

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Speaker 2: Well, maybe the next police chief will have a set

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Speaker 2: Well, there is a hearing that went on this week

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Speaker 1: Would you do? What would you have to charge?

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Speaker 2: And you know the thing is all the progressive a

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Speaker 2: said six hundred million dollars has vanished in LA's homelessness programs.

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Speaker 2: Six hundred million has vanished. Karen Bass's Inside Safe program

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Speaker 2: year's budget, and they need to audit that as well.

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Speaker 2: The city Controller, Kenneth Mahea, of course he is, he's

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Speaker 2: one of those democratic socialists, says he's going to do

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Speaker 2: an audit, so that would be two audits. The judge

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Speaker 2: is going to have another hearing tomorrow. We'll be on

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Speaker 2: top of it. He may announce an independent outside audit.

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Speaker 2: Of course that's going to take a while. Meantime, I

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Speaker 2: guarantee you that Karen Bass and her administration has blown

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Speaker 2: a lot of money on nonsense. They give really generous

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Speaker 2: contracts to friends and relatives running fake nonprofits who that

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Speaker 2: pay themselves six figure salaries. Very little of the money

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Speaker 2: goes towards removing the homeless, and even if it does,

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Speaker 2: it's ineffective. There's more than ever. You had one takeover

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Speaker 2: a metro bus last night and drive it into the Ritz. Carlton,

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Speaker 2: I'm this is just astonishing that nobody holds her. Nobody

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Speaker 2: ever held Garcetti either accountable. Garcetti and Karen Bass have

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Speaker 2: been running this place for ten years combined, and they

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Speaker 2: have destroyed the city in full view of everyone, and

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Speaker 2: nobody likes it. Nobody's happy, but nobody does anything about it.

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Speaker 2: All Right, more coming up.

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

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Speaker 2: Coming up after three o'clock. We got all kinds of

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Speaker 2: good stuff. We're gonna have Michael Monks on. Michael Monks

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Speaker 2: covered Gavin Newsom today. Newsom's ripoff proposition one, which we

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Speaker 2: told you to vote against. Nobody listens. It passed by

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Speaker 2: a very tiny margin. Newsom I was very nervous about this.

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Speaker 2: They were going to go after voters whose ballots had

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Speaker 2: been rejected because of signature issues. They were going to

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Speaker 2: go contact those voters and ask them to vote again

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Speaker 2: because you're allowed to. Because they thought they were going

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Speaker 2: to lose. And Newsom even delayed his State of the

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Speaker 2: State address twice because he wants to lead off by

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Speaker 2: bragging that he finally has money now to take on

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Speaker 2: homelessness and mental health clinics. He's going to build and

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Speaker 2: housing for the homeless and all this. It's going to

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Speaker 2: have access to ten billion dollars. Well, Michael Monks follow

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Speaker 2: him around today on that, so we'll get to it.

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Speaker 2: We're also going to get into the show. Hey Otani situation. Now,

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Speaker 2: we were just telling you about an interview we did

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Speaker 2: early this hour, and again I urge you to it

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Speaker 2: with Angela Marsden from the Pineapple Hill Saloon about what

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Speaker 2: life is like as a business owner. It's we're not

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Speaker 2: the only place, Okay. New York City is just as

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Speaker 2: nuts about this. They let anybody act act out in

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Speaker 2: any way. And there is a vagrant in Brooklyn who

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Speaker 2: has been terrorizing a Brooklyn neighborhood for almost a decade.

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Speaker 2: He's now thirty three years old, and he's got a long,

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Speaker 2: long rap sheet. He keeps getting arrested and they keep

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Speaker 2: letting him out. I mean, he's got a long list

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Speaker 2: of shoplifting, slugging women that's not even illegal anymore. Apparently,

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Speaker 2: you know, you can just walk up to a woman

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Speaker 2: and punch you in the face and just move on,

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Speaker 2: nothing happened. He's constantly threatening the local shop owners and

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Speaker 2: he's a registered sex offender on top of it. And

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Speaker 2: he gets to walk the streets of Brooklyn because Mayor

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Speaker 2: Eric Adams and the city council there are a bunch

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Speaker 2: of idiot, destructive progressives and this is how they want

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Speaker 2: to destroy life.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: This sex offender, a woman beater, shoplifter. His name is

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Speaker 2: Christopher Boissard. He has been such a long running threat

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Speaker 2: to the Green Point neighborhood that one shop owner keeps

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Speaker 2: a metal rod to chase him away when he shows

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Speaker 2: up at the door. The rod is especially for this guy.

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Speaker 2: He comes in the store screaming and tries to hit people.

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Speaker 2: Everyone's scared of the guy, and that's according to this

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Speaker 2: bodega owner named Babu Davnath Babu. Many times he's punched

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Speaker 2: women in the face inside the store and outside the

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Speaker 2: sidewalk many times. He punches women regularly. I see you shouting,

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Speaker 2: but your microphone stop. You've been cut off.

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Speaker 3: Okay, here I am.

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Speaker 1: You know I got myself so worked up. I didn't

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Speaker 1: put my own microphone on. It's my fog. Guy's not yours.

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Speaker 2: Punched women in the face inside and outside. He's very dangerous,

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Speaker 2: said baboo. Um. He's stolen from my store many times.

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Speaker 2: He steals beer, food, whatever he wants. This has been

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Speaker 2: happening for the last eight years, maybe more, NYPD says.

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Speaker 2: Boissard has been arrested by cops a dozen times since

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty two. He's sent to court to be arraigned,

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Speaker 2: and he's released every time. So the New York Post

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Speaker 2: checked this guy's rap sheet. He has been arrested thirty

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Speaker 2: nine times since twenty eleven, assault, robbery, criminal mischief two

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Speaker 2: dozen times. He was listed as an emotionally disturbed person.

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Speaker 2: He's a registered Level three sex offender for molesting a

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Speaker 2: nineteen year old woman. He is deaf and mute, so

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Speaker 2: they claim, and he does not know sign language, so

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Speaker 2: no one can communicate with him, so that's why they

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Speaker 2: keep releasing him. His language is to punch women in

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Speaker 2: the face or to sexually molest them. Then they bring

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Speaker 2: him into court and they don't know if he understands

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Speaker 2: the charges. So thirty nine times he's in, thirty nine

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Speaker 2: times he's out.

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Speaker 1: Most of the time.

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Speaker 2: These are misdemeanors which should give you a year perhaps,

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Speaker 2: but he never gets it. And often he's deemed unfit

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Speaker 2: for trial after psychiatric exams, so they have to drop charges,

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Speaker 2: but they never put him away.

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Speaker 1: In a mental institution.

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Speaker 2: Last July nineteenth, he walked up behind a woman in

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Speaker 2: a neighborhood and slugged her in the head. Should have

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Speaker 2: been charged with a felony, but he doesn't get felonies.

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Speaker 2: He suffers from numerous illnesses, and he received court ordered services,

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Speaker 2: but now he doesn't anymore. I don't know why. I

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Speaker 2: think everybody's given up. He snuck up behind a woman

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Speaker 2: once in twenty seventeen, slammed her against the wall and

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Speaker 2: groped her.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't like women.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, that's a two for one, Like he slammer

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Speaker 2: against the wall and then groped her. Yeah, they found her.

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Speaker 2: They found he had two switch blades on him. He

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Speaker 2: a few days later. Okay, this happened on January twenty third.

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Speaker 2: A few days later, on February thirty, was back on

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Speaker 2: the street. He spotted the woman again. Oh no, ran

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Speaker 2: towards her, stopped and stared. Later that year he pleaded

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Speaker 2: guilty to sexual abuse and forcible touching. Sentenced to alcohol treatment,

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Speaker 2: and he went to a program in Atlanta, was relapsed,

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Speaker 2: started drinking again, and expelled. He was supposed to serve

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Speaker 2: four years in prison.

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Speaker 1: Never did Who thought of this philosophy?

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Speaker 2: Like? Who decided this is a good idea to have

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Speaker 2: society terrorized. He's not the only lunatic out there, it's.

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Speaker 1: Just the one they profiled. We come back, Michael Monks.

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Speaker 2: He's covered the big empty fool, Gavin Newsom, who's celebrating

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Speaker 2: the passage of Proposition one. He is now billions of

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Speaker 2: dollars to waste on homelessness and mental health facilities and

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Speaker 2: all the other empty broken promises. Michael Monks on next, Hey,

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Speaker 2: you've been listening to The John Cobalt Show podcast. You

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Speaker 2: and of course anytime on demand.

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