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Speaker 2: you can listen to it. We've got Well, I'm driving in.

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Speaker 2: What I mean, it's obviously a miserable, miserable day today,

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Speaker 2: it really is, and it's gonna get worse.

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Speaker 1: Apparently the heaviest rain is coming.

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Speaker 3: But we're driving home, John, I know.

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Speaker 2: So you drive to the left, all right, I'll drive

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Speaker 2: to the right, okay, okay, So if you go skidting off.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'll be out of your way.

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Speaker 3: Oh thanks.

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Speaker 2: So I'm driving in and I'm listening to your news,

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Speaker 2: which is you know, very un enough.

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Speaker 1: No, I do every day.

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Speaker 2: And the first thing you play, it's a clip of

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Speaker 2: Karen Bass going through the Warner for mud slides and

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Speaker 2: flooding and all that. Well, let's play little clips. This

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Speaker 2: is me driving down down the one on one and

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Speaker 2: I hear this cut number three.

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Speaker 4: We expect these heavy rains to last through Friday morning,

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Speaker 4: which puts burn areas at particular risk for landslides, mud flows,

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Speaker 1: Okay, and I'm listening, Oh wow, look at this.

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Speaker 2: The mayor is giving out warnings in advance of a

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Speaker 1: And then she went on cut.

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Speaker 4: Three city crews have installed concrete barriers and sandbags to

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 2: And I'm thinking that must have taken some time, right

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Speaker 2: because I hear they're putting up like preposition prepositioning, the

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Speaker 2: Those are those heavy CEM k rails right that they

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Speaker 2: that takes a long time, right, because we have a

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Speaker 2: lot of burn areas, right. You got all the Palisades,

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Speaker 2: and then you've got that there was the Sunset fire

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Speaker 2: So there's there's there's a lot of heavy lifting that

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Speaker 2: and then she's got even more Cut five.

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Speaker 4: There are risks all across Los Angeles, from mudflows in

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Speaker 2: So it's a major weather event that's affecting everybody one

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Speaker 2: could have winds blowing down power lines, you could have

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Speaker 2: and landslides. And she's not even done, like cut six.

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Speaker 1: Your l e f D is oh wait, crowded, stop stop, Okay.

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Speaker 1: So that's Karen Bass's statement.

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Speaker 2: And I'm thinking, you know, I was here on January

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Speaker 2: I listened to the news every day, right, and I

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Speaker 2: don't remember any of the warnings about the extreme fire danger.

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Speaker 1: I don't remember any warnings only.

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Speaker 5: The National I think the National Weather Service was talking

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 5: I forgot the exact title of it, but basically, I

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Speaker 1: She didn't go on the radio and TV and go

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Speaker 3: She wasn't here.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's right, she wasn't here. Where was she again?

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Speaker 3: She was in Africa.

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Speaker 2: Africa. That's right, she was in Africa. What was she

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Speaker 2: doing there? Oh she was drinking. Yes, that's why she

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Speaker 2: was drinking at the President of Ghana's inauguration a cocktail party.

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Speaker 2: So that's why, even though the Weather Service had put

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Speaker 2: I was getting so informed. Now here's here's cut six.

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Speaker 6: Your LAFD is well prepared, fully prepared and ready to

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Speaker 1: That the morning of the fire, the fire department was

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Speaker 2: In fact, she sent a thousand firefighters home when she

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Speaker 1: It just struck me.

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Speaker 5: And that's what people are going to remember. Looks these

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Speaker 5: what we were prepared for mud and debrif flows.

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Speaker 2: Mud flows, debrief flows, landslides, were prepared for flooding. We're

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Speaker 6: Play cut seven helicopters are on standby for rapid reconnaissance

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Speaker 1: Sounds like a functioning city, doesn't it.

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Speaker 3: I was going to say, we have some amazing leaders.

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Speaker 1: But they are amazing, aren't they. Wow? I mean they're

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Speaker 1: Yeah, don't you.

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Speaker 2: Feel like all right, whatever happens, you know, nature's going

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Speaker 2: we're ready to go here. None of that on January second, third, fourth, fifth,

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Speaker 1: I don't know where Kristin Crowley was.

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Speaker 2: But boy, after the fact, they had all kinds of

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Speaker 1: I couldn't believe this.

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Speaker 2: Whoever spends their life defending Karen Bass, But well, you know,

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Speaker 2: it really wouldn't have made a difference. Well if it

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Speaker 2: a difference. Of course it makes a difference. You preposition

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Speaker 2: That imagine they snuffed out the fire in twenty minutes

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Speaker 2: I mean, this isn't good weather to fly it either,

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Speaker 5: John, Sometimes we need a tragedy to learn from so

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Speaker 5: that we can prevent another.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, apparently that's what it is. We just had to sacrifice.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, was have like eight thousand homes. I

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Speaker 2: mean I was actually getting mad while listening to your newscasts.

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry your your whole presentation was pissing me up.

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry I was. I was trying to be informative.

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Speaker 5: I was trying to let people know that that our

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, and that was good. You did, you did

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Speaker 2: Okay, good, you know, But in fact, it might be

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Speaker 2: might be fun to go back and listen to the

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Speaker 3: I I don't even want to talk about fires.

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Speaker 2: Let's see what wasn't discussed the morning of January sixth.

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Speaker 2: Who did not appear on the Debor news on January sixth,

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Speaker 2: All right, when, oh, by the way, because the scandals

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Speaker 2: never end. Susan Shelley, who writes for the Long Beach Press, Telegram.

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Speaker 2: was going to be Steve Soberoff's salary and his real

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Speaker 2: And they didn't mention the charities, and but Susan Shelley

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Speaker 2: So it's a fascinating story. I'll give you a key

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Speaker 2: I'll give you the headline. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass

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Speaker 2: has been busy shaking down businesses.

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Speaker 1: But look, I I was kind to her for about

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Speaker 3: I was very impressed. She's your new best friend.

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Speaker 1: Coming up after one pint thirty.

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Speaker 2: You know the theme of today, and I think the

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Speaker 2: much corruption in Los Angeles government and in Sacramento, overseen

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Speaker 2: by Bass and Newsom. And there is a public radio report. Well,

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Speaker 2: when public radio starts dumping on Bass and the homeless industry,

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Speaker 2: Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority. Billions of dollars passes through LASA,

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Speaker 2: as they call it. Her name is Lavicia Adams Callum,

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Speaker 2: Public Radio, signed Leavicia Adams Kellum signed a two million

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Speaker 2: Her husband is one of the executives. Her husband is

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Speaker 2: she did it. She signed the documents and this nonprofit

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Speaker 2: This is a filthy, disgusting racket. We'll talk about our

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: Nationally, Robert F. Kennedy was confirmed as Secretary of Health

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Speaker 2: and Human Services, and I think he's sworn in just

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Speaker 2: a story that Health and Human Services now they oversee

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Speaker 2: I believe, Medicare.

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Speaker 1: And Medicaid, among many other things.

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Speaker 2: And they also have an Office of Refugee Resettlement known

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Speaker 2: as o r R. Well, they ramped up the spending

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Speaker 2: And all this money was funneled through these questionable nonprofits

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Speaker 2: The International Rescue Committee six hundred million dollars, you know,

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Speaker 2: Now, there's so much corruption going on.

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Speaker 2: About nonprofits NGOs, non governmental organizations, these are the parasites

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Speaker 2: The money goes to LASA, and LASA then gives it

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Speaker 1: It's it's like a magic trick.

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Speaker 2: It's like, Wow, let's pour billions of dollars to get

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Speaker 2: But the more the more we put into homelessness, the

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Speaker 2: maybe these nonprofits are not doing anything to help the homeless.

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Speaker 2: Maybe they're just taking the money. And what does one

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Speaker 2: the chief executive of LASA is Lavichi Valicia.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how to pronounce this.

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Speaker 2: First word is va vah, second word is l e

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Speaker 2: Cia to be Valicia, Felicia sends softer, and she's got

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Speaker 1: So Va Lsi Adams Kellum. That's one person.

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Speaker 2: She is the CEO of Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority,

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Speaker 2: and her husband has just two names, and he works

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Speaker 2: So the way it works is we pay the tax money,

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Speaker 2: So Valicia works for LASA, is the CEO, and her husband,

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Speaker 2: but Valicia Adams Kellum signed a two million dollar contract

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Speaker 3: Yeah that can't be, can you?

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Speaker 1: I don't say? Okay?

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Speaker 2: In case you wonder how these organizations get the money,

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Speaker 2: and what did I tell you? The organizations are set

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Speaker 3: Taking That's how it's done.

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Speaker 2: That's how it's done. Okay, So Valicia Adams Kellum and

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 2: What's what's a homeless nonprofit going to do if they

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Speaker 1: Well, who do you know? My wife? My wife runs

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Speaker 1: Okay, those are the rules.

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Speaker 2: And uh, employees have to sign loss's Code of Ethics

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Speaker 3: Vendors, rulesoths. It cares about rules.

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Speaker 2: Edward Kellam is running one of these vendors. In fact,

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Speaker 2: We've been spending millions and millions of dollars on places

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Speaker 2: Last obtained the documents through a public records request. It's

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Speaker 2: her staffers mistakenly mailed them or sent them to her,

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Speaker 2: a lot of mistakes. Oh wow, the staffers send her

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Speaker 2: the contracts. I guess they don't read them. Hey, that's

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Speaker 3: Okay, so there's no conflict of interest there. It was

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Speaker 2: Even though where she signs her signature is very close

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Speaker 1: But that didn't jump out at her. Hey, isn't that

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Speaker 3: We all make mistakes.

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Speaker 2: John, Yeah, at the time that she at the time,

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Speaker 3: Does somebody forge her signature?

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Speaker 1: I owed some mistake.

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Speaker 3: I think it is.

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Speaker 2: Now since they found these contracts. Valicia Adams Kellum is

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Speaker 2: to any request for comment. So our two million dollars

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Speaker 2: Valsia signed over to Edward and they don't want to

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Speaker 2: talk about it anymore.

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Speaker 3: I would say, until they talk about it, they don't

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Speaker 3: get paid.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe the money ought to be deducted from their paychecks.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they're not going to discuss it. Right.

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Speaker 5: If it's taxpayers money, then no pay for you until

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Speaker 5: you ask your question.

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Speaker 2: She runs a budget of seven hundred million dollars, seven

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Speaker 2: hundred million dollars, so she signs a lot of contracts.

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Speaker 2: I wonder if she knows any of the other people

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Speaker 2: at any of the other nonprofits. Well, that's a great

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Speaker 2: term nonprofit. More coming up and after two o'clock, we

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Speaker 2: are going.

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Speaker 1: To talk to.

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Speaker 2: Oh, yes, from the Long Beach Press Telegram, the reporter

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Speaker 2: Susan Shelley, and we're going to talk to her about

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Speaker 2: Oh here's another one. Karen Bass shaking down businesses to

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Speaker 2: raise seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars to pay Steve

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Speaker 2: sober Off and his buddy to manage the recovery.

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Speaker 3: He's not packing, he's not taking any money now.

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Speaker 1: Right now, he's not. But a deal was done.

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Speaker 2: This is all that goes on in Los Angeles, just

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Speaker 2: all kinds of sneaky deals.

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Speaker 7: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM.

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Speaker 2: Six forty coming up after two o'clock. Were you wondering

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Speaker 2: what were the alleged charities that coughed up seven hundred

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Speaker 2: and fifty thousand dollars to pay Steve sober Off and

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Speaker 2: his partner Randy Johnson to work for ninety days heading

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Speaker 2: the recovery. Well, Susan Shelley from the Southern California News

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Speaker 2: Group has found out, and we're going to talk to

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Speaker 2: her coming up. Let me see read the headline again.

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Speaker 2: Karen Bass has been busy shaking down businesses. All right, now,

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Speaker 2: did do you think it's a sexist stereotype to say

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Speaker 2: that talk significantly more than men?

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Speaker 3: Yes?

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Speaker 1: You do.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well you're wrong. It's been scientifically proven that it's true.

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Speaker 5: Well, I'm a little sensitive to that because I told

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Speaker 5: you when I was five years old, I was told

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Speaker 5: to shut up that I talked too much.

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Speaker 3: Remember uh huh at a neighbor's father.

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Speaker 1: That doesn't surprise me, surprise you, Eric, and.

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Speaker 5: My dad used to get annoyed with me every time

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Speaker 5: we'd watch movies. My husband still does too, because they

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Speaker 5: tell me to you know, stop talking, you talk to them,

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Speaker 5: ask questions. I will I try the movie. I yell

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Speaker 5: at the TV, and then I ask questions. I don't

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Speaker 5: like to be confused, and so I asked questions.

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Speaker 1: You're confused by the movie?

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Speaker 5: Yes, because a lot of it doesn't make sense. And

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Speaker 5: I don't want to wait.

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Speaker 3: I don't want to have to think.

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Speaker 1: I want to spoof that it's in foreign language. I mean,

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Speaker 1: why do you get confused?

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Speaker 3: There's plenty But anyway, what does he have to.

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Speaker 1: Stop the movie and then answer your questions? Yes?

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Speaker 3: Annoyed?

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Speaker 1: And now you paid to talk?

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Speaker 2: I know.

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean I'm telling you my dad just kind

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Speaker 3: of real quick.

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Speaker 5: My dad, when I was in a sorority, he had

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Speaker 5: to come and talk about me, and he said, oh,

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Speaker 5: it doesn't surprise me that my daughter wants to be

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Speaker 5: a news anchor.

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Speaker 1: She never stopped talking. Yeah, she wants to be paid

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Speaker 1: for this. Well.

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Speaker 2: They did a study for thirteen years, and first of all,

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Speaker 2: they found out between two thousand and five and twenty eighteen,

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Speaker 2: the average number of spoken words dropped from sixteen thousand

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Speaker 2: to thirteen thousand because people started started spending so much

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Speaker 2: time texting on their phones that I wonder if in

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Speaker 2: like a thousand years, we will have losed lost the

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Speaker 2: ability to speak at all.

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Speaker 1: Oh wow, because we'll be so immersed in.

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Speaker 2: Texting and social media now for decades. According to this report,

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Speaker 2: the idea that women talk more than men has been

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Speaker 2: treated like common knowledge.

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Speaker 1: Do you think it's sexist? A lot of women get

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Speaker 1: their backs up.

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Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, because you guys. It's just because of what

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Speaker 3: you guys said.

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Speaker 2: Well, look, we have to listen to all this so

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Speaker 2: and we have to listen to you, well, not as much.

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Speaker 2: They analyzed six hundred and thirty one thousand recordings from

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Speaker 2: twenty one hundred people across four countries. All right, they

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Speaker 2: gave everybody a device that recorded, I guess everything you

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Speaker 2: said all day, and then they analyzed, imagine this, twenty

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Speaker 2: one hundred people, six hundred thirty thousand recordings, and they

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Speaker 2: found out that, yes, women do speak more than men,

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Speaker 2: and in fact, among adult adults twenty five to sixty four,

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Speaker 2: women speak almost twenty two thousand words a day and

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Speaker 2: the men speak eighteen thousand.

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Speaker 5: We just have more to say, well, yes, more important

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Speaker 5: things to say.

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Speaker 1: I don't know about that. I don't know about the content,

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Speaker 1: But I'm talking about volume.

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Speaker 2: About volume, you easily beat us here, And you know,

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Speaker 2: because they don't know why it became, when it became

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Speaker 2: fashionball that we're supposed to pretend that men and women

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Speaker 2: are the same and we're clearly not.

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Speaker 7: No.

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Speaker 2: But I thought, ever since I was a kid that no,

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Speaker 2: women really do talk a lot, because my mother could

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Speaker 2: could talk right. My dad never spoke. He just sat

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Speaker 2: in his chair, he'd grunt, he'd go oh, And partly

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Speaker 2: was is because he didn't speak English very well, okay,

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Speaker 2: which which I didn't realize until I was well into

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Speaker 2: adulthood and one of my sons, because I'd mentioned to

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Speaker 2: my sons, you know, my grandpa doesn't talk very much,

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Speaker 2: and my son says, well, that's because he doesn't speak English.

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Speaker 3: Dad to speak you that long to figure that out?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was like, I was like forty years old,

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Speaker 2: and its wow, Oh that's why he was quiet.

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Speaker 1: It didn't speak English. It's true.

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Speaker 2: When he spoke publish to my mother, he could really

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Speaker 2: rattle off there, but no, my mother blew him away

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Speaker 2: when it came to words per day and at my house,

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Speaker 2: even even accounting for all the words here on the air,

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Speaker 2: I don't come close to.

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Speaker 5: Well because us women, I think I maybe I'll just

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Speaker 5: speak for myself. Sometimes we don't feel like we're being heard,

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Speaker 5: so we need to repeat ourselves. So that's why we

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Speaker 5: end up speaking.

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Speaker 1: I see. Yes, you're right, we don't hear you.

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Speaker 3: You don't listen. You don't listen.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it's because you repeat yourself so much.

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Speaker 5: Have to repeat ourselves because we don't feel heard.

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Speaker 1: You don't feel heard.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I've heard that I'm not being heard. So I'm

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Speaker 2: going to say it again and again and again. Please, yes,

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Speaker 2: say it again?

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Speaker 1: All right?

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Speaker 2: We got coming up Karen Bass shaking down businesses to

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Speaker 2: get seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars for Steve sober

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Speaker 2: Off and his partner to oversee the recovery. Well, sober

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Speaker 2: Off is no longer getting the money, but who what

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Speaker 2: were the organizations that were willing to cough this up,

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Speaker 2: and what methods of shakedown were being used by Bass.

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Speaker 2: We're going to talk to Susan Shelley from the Southern

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Speaker 2: California News Group. Next Deborah Mark live in the CAFI

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Speaker 2: twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the

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Speaker 2: John Cobalt 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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