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Speaker 3: We are on from three to six every day after

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Speaker 3: Hardly an hour goes by where there isn't a big

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Speaker 3: Trump headline. He fired Pam Bondi today the attorney General,

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Speaker 3: legal analyst Royal how are you.

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Speaker 1: I'm doing great, John, I guess so one question is

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Speaker 1: whether the President just felt like it's sennd to roll

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Speaker 1: So I think that's the reason that Pambondi was fired.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Trump wanted her to go after James Comey, former

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Speaker 3: And she's the one who carried that civil lawsuit that

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Speaker 3: Excuse me. And what I'm not understanding here is the

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Speaker 3: I mean, without getting too much in the weeds here,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, good point. So the deal is a lot of

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Speaker 1: You don't have the job like you Supreme Court justice,

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Speaker 1: aspect of the judge's rejections John. In addition, several of

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Speaker 3: Well as I'm saying, is it pambombi pam bondi. In

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Speaker 1: the criminal justice system filing phony actions against me timed perfectly.

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Speaker 1: You rolled out four indictments every few months in twenty

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Speaker 1: But there's no doubt as to why he's doing this.

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Speaker 3: There's no question that these are revenge prosecutions that Trump

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Speaker 3: Against her is, it looks like Pam BONDI can't come

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Speaker 1: Well, that's right, And from Trump's perspective, you should have

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Speaker 1: But you know, Jeff Sessions, he fired him, William Bob

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Speaker 3: But that's a dead end job though, to be the

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Speaker 1: It's like being a pearl divery. You know, there are

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Speaker 3: He's also upset because he wanted Bondie to find criminal

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Speaker 3: I mean he lost sixty times in court. I mean,

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Speaker 3: I just I can't believe he's still flogging that thing right.

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Speaker 1: Well, and you know, as you say, the prosexecutors don't

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Speaker 1: as you say, it happened sixty times on the election

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Speaker 3: Well, thank you very much, Royalis for coming on again.

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Speaker 3: ABC News Legal Analysts on Pam Bondi getting fired.

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Speaker 1: You bet, thanks, thank you.

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Speaker 3: All right, when we come back this this actually makes

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Speaker 3: These these tiny protest groups that are trying to get

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Speaker 3: You can't stop them. You can't stop AI from taken

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Speaker 3: over the world. But the data centers, boy, that's a

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Speaker 3: They don't suffer any consequences because Karen Bass lets tens

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Speaker 3: crazy people in Monterey Park, they don't want an AI

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Speaker 3: next hour. Now, there's something stupid going on because people

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Speaker 3: There's nothing you could do to stop the artificial intelligence revolution.

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Speaker 3: And because every company has to get in on this,

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Speaker 3: Well, there's two hundred of them, and they showed up

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Speaker 3: Data Center Authority, the aversion to California is pretty standard

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Speaker 3: It's absolutely impossible. Seven hundred billion dollars just this year.

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Speaker 3: This thing still has to be voted on in June.

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Speaker 3: But this you repeat the story all over the state

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Speaker 3: You ever go to Detroit.

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Speaker 3: I've never been Bolly jeez. I went there once years

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Speaker 3: ago after it had already crashed. I don't know parts

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Speaker 3: of it may be coming back now, but they died.

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Speaker 3: Detroit died about fifty yeah, over fifty years ago, in

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Speaker 3: the early seventies. And the stuff I saw it looked like,

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Speaker 3: looks like what probably parts of Iran look like. Now

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Speaker 3: tell you about this idea that La is already in

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Speaker 3: the Detroit spiral when we come back. It's because stupid

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Speaker 3: grips like this and stupid politicians.

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Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty.

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Speaker 3: We're on every day from three until six. Moistline is

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Speaker 3: how the idiots in Monterey Park, this group of about

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Speaker 3: two hundred people are trying to stop a data center

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Speaker 3: from being constructed, even though it'll provide a huge number

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Speaker 3: of blue collar jobs to construct the place. They're anti AI.

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Speaker 3: It's really these irritating you know. And the thing is

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Speaker 3: they're gonna wonder, They're gonna wonder why they're not making money.

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Speaker 3: They're gonna be resentful that they're not making money. And

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Speaker 3: it's because instead of embracing AI and embrace the economic

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Speaker 3: explosion that AI is going to bring to this country

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Speaker 3: and embrace the construction jobs that pay really well that

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Speaker 3: they want to show.

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Speaker 2: Oh oh, and it brings in lots of tax.

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Speaker 3: Money, and the tax moneys would fund all kinds of

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Speaker 3: services in Monterey Park. I mean, it's really just really

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Speaker 3: shooting yourself in the head. And I don't understand it.

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Speaker 3: And and they'll complain about lack of services in town

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Speaker 3: and income inequality and all this nonsense. The tech people

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Speaker 3: work for a living. You guys protest for a living.

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Speaker 3: Of course, they have a lot of money. You think

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Speaker 3: they waste their time shouting at public meetings like you

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Speaker 3: guys do. And the same things happen in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 3: They have chased out all the Hollywood jobs. And now

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Speaker 3: there's a headline in the California Post fears grow of

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Speaker 3: a Detroit white styled decline as Hollywood jobs evaporate. Back

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Speaker 3: in the nineteen seventies, some of you may remember the

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Speaker 3: Detroit auto industry collapsed and people moved out of Detroit.

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Speaker 3: It was taken over by criminals. A lot of it

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Speaker 3: had to do with greedy unions demanding too much money,

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Speaker 3: and the Detroit car companies couldn't be competitive with the

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Speaker 3: Japanese companies. Toyota was rolling and all the rest. And

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Speaker 3: now it's happened here. Other states, other countries offer much

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Speaker 3: lower costs. The unions here, the Hollywood unions, they went

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Speaker 3: on strike a couple of years ago, was the worst

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Speaker 3: thing they ever could have done. Shut down production, raised

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Speaker 3: the cost of production, no tax breaks, added Newsommer Bass,

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Speaker 3: and everybody said, we're going elsewhere.

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Speaker 2: There is an arrogance.

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Speaker 3: And I can't believe the arrogance persisted right up until

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Speaker 3: now that nobody would ever leave Canon because of the weather.

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Speaker 3: And it turns out there's literally millions of people who've

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Speaker 3: left California despite the great weather because they can't earn

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Speaker 3: a living, they can't own a house. Their industry is

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Speaker 3: getting destroyed. There's been a thirty percent drop in film

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Speaker 3: and TV employment since twenty twenty two thirty percent, and

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Speaker 3: the Wall Street Journal says that it looks like it

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Speaker 3: is going down the Detroit death spiral. As of March

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty six, we used to have four hundred and

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Speaker 3: fifty five thousand entertainment jobs. It's now down to three

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Speaker 3: hundred and forty four thousand, So it's lost over one

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Speaker 3: hundred thousand jobs, one hundred thousand jobs, one hundred thousand families. Maybe,

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Speaker 3: and Newsom recently gave a big tax break, it's too late.

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Speaker 3: He wouldn't listen the ninety three IQ. He's got a

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Speaker 3: ninety three IQ if he can't do math. And it

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Speaker 3: says since twenty twenty two, employment for below the line

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Speaker 3: workers is down forty five million hours. According to the Union,

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Speaker 3: the US's share of global production dropped from fifty two

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Speaker 3: to thirty eight percent. Most major studio movies, the big buck,

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Speaker 3: the big budget movies now shoot in the UK. Now

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Speaker 3: I left the country, not only left the state, they

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Speaker 3: left the country entirely. And they're shooting in Great Britain

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Speaker 3: and they're gone. And it happened in three years because

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Speaker 3: of stupid pigheaded politicians and stupid pigheaded unions, and everybody

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Speaker 3: thought will never happen, it will ever happen. Well, it's happened,

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Speaker 3: and it's not going to come back. People don't understand.

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Speaker 3: You live in a country with fifty states, fifty governments.

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Speaker 3: You're competing against the other forty nine states, you know,

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Speaker 3: on taxes, on regulations. In fact, I can't do that now,

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Speaker 3: I'll till later.

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Speaker 2: I have seen.

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Speaker 3: I know that a lot of people who listen to

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Speaker 3: this show moved to Georgia. And I'll tell you how

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Speaker 3: I know this next hour. But I was seeing, actually

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Speaker 3: watch in front. I could see it month by month,

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Speaker 3: people moving out of California and going to other states,

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Speaker 3: especially in one particular city in Georgia. For a reason

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Speaker 3: i'll talk about coming up Deborahmark live in the KFI

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Speaker 3: twenty four hour newsroom.

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Speaker 2: You've been listening to the John Cobelt Show podcast.

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Speaker 3: six six pm every Monday through Friday, and of course

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