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Speaker 1: Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. The fascinating thing is

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Speaker 1: working at one of the morning here at CAFI. It's

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Speaker 1: the same number of employees at one in the afternoon.

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Speaker 1: That's where we are. So yeah, I'm until three o'clock.

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Speaker 1: We're giving you twenty four hour fire coverage here and

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Speaker 1: Neil Savagril will come on at three to take over.

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Speaker 1: The NFL playoffs begin this Saturday. The Chargers are going

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Speaker 1: to take on the Texans in Houston. Wild Card Pregame

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Speaker 1: coverage begins Saturday morning at eleven thirty, kickoff at one

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Speaker 1: twenty five. Catch the game on either KFI AM six

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Speaker 1: forty or AM five seventy LA Sports. How about that?

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Speaker 1: So we got a playoff game Chargers game Saturday morning,

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Speaker 1: eleven thirty. Pregame kickoff at one twenty five KFI AM

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Speaker 1: six forty or AM five seventy LA Sports. And bolt up?

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Speaker 1: That's what is that? The phrase? This year's marketing phrase?

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Speaker 1: Bolt up? Okay, bill a sale's going to come excuse me,

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Speaker 1: going to come on with us because we were discussing

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Speaker 1: over the last hour about the tremendous lack of preparation,

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Speaker 1: bad management, misspent money in the city of Los Angeles,

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Speaker 1: in the state of California, epitomized by something that they

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Speaker 1: are never going to live down. When you have over

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Speaker 1: one thousand structures burned to the ground in Pacific Palisades

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Speaker 1: and seventeen hours after the fire started, LA Fire Department

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Speaker 1: says we're out of water. That's an indictment of everybody,

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Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom, Karen Bass, City council, county supervisors, everybody, because

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Speaker 1: they've had billions and billions and actually I mean trillions

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Speaker 1: either every day water infrastructure or for fire emergencies, and

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Speaker 1: sooner or later, when you make a lot and I

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Speaker 1: always tell us people when when When the public puts

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Speaker 1: in stupid people, and these stupid people are in charge

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Speaker 1: long enough and they make dozens and dozens of stupid decisions,

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Speaker 1: eventually something happens. The weight, the cumulative weight of all

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Speaker 1: those idiotic decisions causes something to shatter, some disaster to happen.

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Speaker 1: And that's what we've seen here in the last two days.

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Speaker 1: So let's get bill of sale he's the Republican assemblyman

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Speaker 1: from the Inland Empire. Bill. How are you ery?

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Speaker 2: Good morning John. You know, when they texted me, I

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Speaker 2: thought it was a typo when they said one am.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, usually he's not at one pm.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I know.

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Speaker 2: Here we are.

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Speaker 1: Everything's upside down. Yeah, well start with how he saund

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Speaker 1: you were involved in this particular story. You've sent an

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Speaker 1: official letter to Gavin Newsom, and you want a special

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Speaker 1: session on this wildfire disaster to talk about what led

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Speaker 1: you to send the letter to Newsom and what you're

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, this governor, he's mister special session. He made

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Speaker 2: us hold a special session to combat gas prices because

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Speaker 2: he thought the oil companies were price godging, and then

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Speaker 2: now he's making us hold a special session to trump

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Speaker 2: proof the state of California. So I said, hey, since

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Speaker 2: you're calling special sessions, how about we fireproof the state

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Speaker 2: of California instead of trump proof it. So that's what

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Speaker 2: I'm asking him to do. And the reason I called

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Speaker 2: for that, John, is because there's so this is a

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Speaker 2: policy failure. It's a fiscal failure. It's a policy failure.

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Speaker 2: I talked to the firefighters in my district. I said,

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Speaker 2: why are these fuel loads so high? And he said,

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Speaker 2: because we can't do the control burns. We have to

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Speaker 2: some of the fuel in these wildlands so that way,

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Speaker 2: when there is a fire, it doesn't spread so out

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Speaker 2: of control. I said, why can't you do and they said,

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Speaker 2: we have to comply with SEQUA. I said, are you

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Speaker 2: kidding me that? Yeah, they have to environmental impact study

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Speaker 2: the hell is going to do that. They don't have

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Speaker 2: the resources or the time to do that, so those.

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Speaker 1: Environmental reports take months and months, if not years.

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Speaker 2: Years, yes, and then they get some environmentalist shows up

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Speaker 2: do it. Well, guess what, all the birds are dead now.

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Speaker 2: So where's the logic in any of this? So there's

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Speaker 2: been multiple bills proposed to exempt the prescribe burning from SEQUA.

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Speaker 2: totally taken over this government. These Democrats will not. They

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Speaker 2: also funding. I had my staff pull the numbers. We

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Speaker 2: So he cut it by eighty percent in the last

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Speaker 1: Fire prevention by eighty percent.

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Speaker 2: Yes, And I always say a budget is a reflection

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Speaker 2: of your priorities. So we're spending five billion for illegal

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Speaker 2: immigrant health care in the state of California, god knows

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Speaker 2: how much on this bullet train, and two hundred million

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Speaker 2: for fire prevention. They don't give a damn John. They

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Speaker 1: Clearly they don't, and then a horrific fire happens because

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Speaker 1: they didn't do the prescribed burns. In fact, we had

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Speaker 1: and the prescribed burns in the wildlands north of Pacific Palisades,

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Speaker 1: same thing. They just wouldn't spend the money. But you know,

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Speaker 1: as we talked about last hour, we spent one point

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Speaker 2: By the way, I don't have any prove of this, John,

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Speaker 2: Someone's lighting these fires. I don't believe you start being

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Speaker 1: That's what I think too.

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Speaker 2: I'm very suspicious. I mean, the locations and the timing,

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Speaker 1: You have you know, the media tries to do the

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Speaker 1: extreme wind weather. But you know how that stirs up

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Speaker 1: there's pyromania is a real thing. Uh. They some of

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Speaker 2: Well, I think very few these are naturally caused.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, how how would they start?

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Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, I mean unless you have lightning?

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Speaker 1: There was no lightning.

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Speaker 2: Or the wind. Most times it's the wind blows a

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Speaker 1: When that happens, usually the power companies say right away, hey,

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Speaker 1: it's one of it's our it's our lines, it's our

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Speaker 1: sent off a spark. But when everybody goes silent, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's started by humans.

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Speaker 2: Including the mayor. Heard silent, including the mayor. She's got

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Speaker 2: a lost for words. I saw that clip today. What

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Speaker 2: an embarrassment? Do you think? What these liberals and the

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Speaker 2: Palisades voted for her. They do you think they thought

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Speaker 2: putting people in power who are total morons and idiots,

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Speaker 2: and this is the this is the leadership you get.

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Speaker 2: She's more interested in a dei police chief than a

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Speaker 2: This is the problem with what we have today.

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Speaker 1: I read today somewhere that they didn't do the fire

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Speaker 1: but it's not budget cuts, it's budget priorities. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know this better than anybody right in the Assembly.

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Speaker 1: You know what they decide to spend dollars on. And

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Speaker 1: when they spend it on the Holy Trinity, which is

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Speaker 1: illegal immigrants, homeless people, and criminals, there isn't much money

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Speaker 1: left for the rest of us, the taxpayers.

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Speaker 2: Well, even when there is money, John, I heard you

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Speaker 2: talking about the water The voters gave them the money

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Speaker 2: and the authority. There's no will. So you know, the

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Speaker 2: not issuing the permits. The agency, the governor's staff will

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Speaker 2: built because again it's these extreme environmentalists have totally will

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Speaker 2: these people, that's what drives me crazy. These people that

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Speaker 2: talk about democracy, they don't like democracy. They think they're

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Speaker 2: as they did with this bond, So we don't care

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Speaker 1: When the pala says is reduced to rubble, does that

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Speaker 1: please them? Now that the human beings are suffering and

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Speaker 2: Blame it on the They're going to blame it on

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Speaker 2: the climate change gods.

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Speaker 1: Right, you know, Yeah, so they got a perfect circle

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they do. It's very frustrating being up here. John

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Speaker 2: just walking around the Capitol today. These Democrats not bothered

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Speaker 2: at all. They're laughing, they're partying. It's the first week

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Speaker 2: back in session. They're acting like it's a high school

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Speaker 2: reunion up here, you know, first week of school. They

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Speaker 2: don't care. They don't Honestly, these people don't care. And

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Speaker 2: you know, the governor shows up, he puts his hand

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Speaker 2: in his pocket, kind of like, too little, too late, buddy.

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Speaker 2: I mean, where have you been for the last few years?

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Speaker 2: And John, we haven't talked about the insurance. The insurance

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Speaker 2: market's going to be done after this. This thing is

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Speaker 2: going to put it over the cliff.

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Speaker 3: Far.

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Speaker 2: Every day someone texts me that they're getting their insurance

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Speaker 2: canceled in the state California.

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Speaker 1: Well, from what I've read, seventy percent of state farms

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Speaker 1: policies were canceled a few months ago in the Pacific

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Speaker 1: Palisades area. And I know somebody that they're half burned

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Speaker 1: and they had no insurance because their policy was canceled.

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Speaker 2: Well, these insurance companies have sophisticated modeling, weather modeling and

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Speaker 2: fire modeling. I have a feeling they know what's coming,

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Speaker 2: and so I don't know if you know this or not.

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Speaker 2: But if you can't get a fire insurance, you go

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Speaker 2: into what's called the fair Plan, which is kind of

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Speaker 2: like this quasi government run insurance program. It's not funded,

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Speaker 2: so it's like a fake insurance policy you get and

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Speaker 2: It's kind of the same thing. They've got this fire

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Speaker 1: That's the bottom line is they don't care.

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Speaker 2: They care about illegal immigrants, yeah, being deported, criminal, leegal.

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Speaker 1: Emigrant, Yes, that's all the headlines is how do some

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Speaker 2: There was no more water in the system, or the

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Speaker 2: Government shouldn't be doing a lot of things. In my opinion,

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Speaker 1: No, No, it's it's the like the hard stuff that it's.

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Speaker 1: Can you imagine we spend a half a billion dollars

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Speaker 2: And I don't even know what they spend it on

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Speaker 1: They don't know either. They got me new some admitted someone.

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Speaker 2: Someone is making a lot of money off this. That's

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Speaker 1: I know that's a ridiculous saying. Bill is Salley, thank

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Speaker 2: Thank you, John enjoy being up late.

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Speaker 1: Well, they get tired tomorrow afternoon, and I'm going to

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Speaker 2: That sounds good, all right, I'll talk to you later.

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Speaker 1: Bill Saley, the simbleman Republican from the Inland Empire. And

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Speaker 1: you know he's right. He's talked about this before because

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Speaker 1: At Sacramento, they are all laughing this week. No, it

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Speaker 1: doesn't bother them that the Palisades is has been burned

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Speaker 1: be greatly mitigated. You can do prescribed burns. You can

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Speaker 1: We're gonna okay, you know, let's let's play Caruso next

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Speaker 1: of Gavin Newsom. Since Bill mentioned how he's demanding Newsom

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Speaker 4: Situation with water?

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Speaker 5: Obviously, in the pal Sage ran out last night and

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Speaker 1: The firefighter in this block they left because there were

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Speaker 5: The local folks are trying to figure that out. I mean,

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Speaker 5: just when you have a system there, it's not dissimilar

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Speaker 5: You have something at this scale. But again that's going

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Speaker 1: That's a non answer. That is gibberish. That's on This

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Speaker 1: because of all the uncleared brush, the unmaintained wild lands

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Speaker 1: And yeah, it is because they're worried about a random

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Speaker 1: They're religious fanatics. They worship nature, and nature wins out

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Speaker 1: Trump was asked if he'd work with Newsom, although he's

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Speaker 1: been trashing Newsom all this week. Let's play cut seven.

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Speaker 1: Give me your criticism of Governor Gavin Newsom. Are you

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Speaker 6: Profongs It takes well, it's her said, because I've been

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Speaker 6: trying to get Gavin Newsom to allow water to come.

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Speaker 6: You'd have tremendous water. They send it out to the

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Speaker 7: Called the smelt.

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Speaker 6: And for the sake of a smelt, they.

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Speaker 7: Have no water.

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Speaker 6: They had no water or the fire hydrants today in

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Speaker 6: to get that done. It's going to finally be done.

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Speaker 6: I got it done from the federal side, and he

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Speaker 6: They have plenty of water, they don't.

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Speaker 3: Have a drought.

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Speaker 6: They send it out to the Pacific and it's crazy.

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Speaker 6: So what's happening in California is a true tragedy. I

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Speaker 4: Nobody everything, I mean.

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Speaker 6: Virtually Beverly Hills and areas around Beverly Hills are being decimated.

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Speaker 4: I don't even know.

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Speaker 6: You know, you talk about a tax base. If those

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Speaker 6: good job. With that being said, I got along well

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Speaker 6: But what happened there, I don't think there is anything

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Speaker 1: They would ensure a lot of homeowners in the Palisades

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Speaker 1: I don't know what kind of crazy bureaucratic contraption they're

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Speaker 1: I mean, insurance company looks at California, It's like, why

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Speaker 1: a couple of days of shock and then people are

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Speaker 1: going to realize. I hope. Here's Anderson Cooper back on

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Speaker 1: CNN asking Newsom to respond to Trump. I hit to

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Speaker 4: You for days.

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Speaker 3: One can't even respond to it. I mean, it's yeah,

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Speaker 1: Oh god, this guy.

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Speaker 3: Wanted to politicize it. I have a lot of thoughts,

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Speaker 3: and I know what I want to say.

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Speaker 1: I won't.

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Speaker 3: I stood next to the President of the United States

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Speaker 3: and you have the bats of every single person in

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Speaker 4: Any of us.

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Speaker 1: He's crazy. He's praising Joe Biden. Seriously, we've got a problem.

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Speaker 1: They send the water out into the ocean. That's as

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Speaker 1: Biden would say, it's not a joke, true story. They

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Speaker 1: policies that Newsom has pushed and approved of that prevents

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Speaker 1: controlled burns from happening on state lands. The city doesn't

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Speaker 1: brush that we're responsible for. Rick Caruso talked about it.

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Speaker 1: We come back. We're going to just go right in

435
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Speaker 1: after the news into the Rick Caruso interview from this afternoon,

436
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Speaker 1: and you'll hear him because he knows this stuff. One

437
00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:02,560
Speaker 1: thing is you can't fool him when it comes to

438
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Speaker 1: construction building. He was a commissioner for the Department of

439
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Speaker 1: Order and Power. He's worked on the inside of the government,

440
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Speaker 1: is on the police Commission. He knows this stuff. Listen

441
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Speaker 1: to how he speaks compared to Newsom. Listen how he

442
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Speaker 1: speaks compared to the minute and thirty eight seconds worth

443
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Speaker 1: of silence from Karen Bass that we played for you.

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Speaker 1: That's coming up next. You're listening to John Cobels on

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Speaker 1: demand from KFI A six forty. This is special edition

446
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Speaker 1: continuing fire coverage here on KFI, and we're going to

447
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Speaker 1: be on here till three in the morning, when Neil

448
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Speaker 1: Savager comes in. We're going to play you a piece

449
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Speaker 1: of well, the whole interview that we did with Rick

450
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Speaker 1: Caruso this afternoon, and you are going to hear just

451
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Speaker 1: what a real smart guy sounds like. Imagine if he

452
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Speaker 1: was the mayor and instead of what we have now

453
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Speaker 1: in office, a woman who could not speak for a

454
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Speaker 1: minute and a half when a reporter asked her if

455
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Speaker 1: she owes an apology to the people of La for

456
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Speaker 1: being in Africa instead of here when the fire erupted. Listen,

457
00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:24,439
Speaker 1: listen to how smart he is and how detailed and

458
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Speaker 1: knowledgeable he is. So let's play this interview with Rick Caruso.

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Speaker 1: Pacific Palisades really has been devastated, and we're going to

460
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Speaker 1: talk now with Rick Caruso. You're well aware of him.

461
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Speaker 1: The developer ran for mayor last time around, owns Palisades village,

462
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Speaker 1: and his village and his family suffered quite a bit

463
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Speaker 1: of loss in these fires. And he has spoken out.

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Speaker 1: He was all over television last night about the fire.

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Speaker 1: Hydrants running drive, the water supply running out for the

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Speaker 1: fire department here in La. Let's get Rick on Rick welcome.

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Speaker 4: Hey John, how are you?

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Speaker 1: I'm fine, but how are you? I understand a couple

469
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Speaker 1: of family members may have lost their homes.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we love My daughter lost her home and we

471
00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:15,880
Speaker 4: lost another home. But you know, we're all together, and

472
00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:21,080
Speaker 4: we evacuated our home also, so but we're all together

473
00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:24,800
Speaker 4: and we're going to get through it and trying to

474
00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:27,880
Speaker 4: work very hard to support the neighborhood and the community

475
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Speaker 4: up there. The devastation as you talked about, John, it's

476
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Speaker 4: just it's mind blowing. You can't even get your head

477
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Speaker 4: around it. Entire neighborhoods have been wiped out, and so

478
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Speaker 4: my heart really goes out to people who have lost

479
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Speaker 4: so much, because, as you know, you lose a home,

480
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Speaker 4: it's not the structure, it's the memories and all the

481
00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:49,240
Speaker 4: things that make life dear. And so many small businesses

482
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Speaker 4: up there just gone. And the fire is still, you know,

483
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Speaker 4: raging on. And but we're going to do everything we

484
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Speaker 4: can do to support, you know, our Ravangelino's and rebuild

485
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Speaker 4: and certainly support our first responders that are fighting a

486
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Speaker 4: good fight. But I think a lot of tough questions

487
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Speaker 4: need to be asked.

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Speaker 1: By three in the morning on Wednesday, all the fire

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Speaker 1: hydrants and the Palisades area went dry. They ran out

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Speaker 1: of water. Nobody understands this. This is I mean we

491
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Speaker 1: all saw on TV last night, is that homes were

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Speaker 1: burning and the firefighters had had no water to put

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Speaker 1: out the blazes. I mean, what you used to be

494
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Speaker 1: a commissioner with the DWP, you got an idea specifically

495
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Speaker 1: what went on here.

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Speaker 4: Well, actually the fight the heighten stopped working long before

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Speaker 4: three o'clock. I think it was about eleven o'clock and

498
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Speaker 4: even earlier. The firefighters had been complaining to our people

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Speaker 4: about water pressure and then no water. And it's an

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Speaker 4: incredible thing to think about, John, this is the second

501
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Speaker 4: largest city in the United States and we don't have

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Speaker 4: hydrants at work. We had a warning of this. I

503
00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:05,520
Speaker 4: think we've got a big failure of leadership on this.

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Speaker 4: How you cannot be prepared for this now, certainly it's devastating,

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Speaker 4: the winds are terrible. You could have probably never prevented

506
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Speaker 4: all of the damage, but you could have mitigated it.

507
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Speaker 4: And I think it goes back to there's been no

508
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Speaker 4: brush management program the hills that are controlled by the

509
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Speaker 4: city and the state and the county. You know those

510
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Speaker 4: haven't been managed. There's been no control burns for decades.

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Speaker 4: So you had this enormous amount of fuel and this

512
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Speaker 4: fire just took off.

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Speaker 1: Is there a reason for that?

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Speaker 4: You've got a lot of tough questions.

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Speaker 1: Why wouldn't they do the controlled burns?

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Speaker 4: You know, I raised it five years ago. If you remember,

517
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Speaker 4: we have the fire in Brentwood along the four or

518
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Speaker 4: five and thank god it stopped and didn't travel more

519
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Speaker 4: to the west. And I was told the city does

520
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Speaker 4: not have the resources to do it. But all of

521
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Speaker 4: us are old enough we can remember there used to

522
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Speaker 4: be control burns and that hasn't happened. So, you know,

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Speaker 4: we've got a lot of challenges in the city, and

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Speaker 4: I think at the top of it, we've got to

525
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Speaker 4: ask the questions. You know, who's running in the city.

526
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Speaker 4: Are they capable of making good decisions? And it's not

527
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Speaker 4: just about now, it's about for the last few years.

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Speaker 1: But what do you think happened with the water supply?

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Speaker 1: I mean, I know it's an extraordinary event, but we

530
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Speaker 1: have those extraordinary events every so often.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, this isn't the first time the Palisades has

532
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Speaker 4: burned down either, so it's not like we didn't have

533
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Speaker 4: fair historical warning that this may happen again. It happened

534
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Speaker 4: in the sixties. But what I was told is that

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Speaker 4: the reservoirs, that the hydrants there are fed by the

536
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Speaker 4: reservoirs and it's a gravity flow, and they didn't manage

537
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Speaker 4: the water in the reservoirs properly, so it depleted and

538
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:08,280
Speaker 4: weren't refilling them up quickly enough. So from what I

539
00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:10,000
Speaker 4: can see, I could be wrong, But for what I

540
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:13,160
Speaker 4: can see is there is just complete lack of proper

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Speaker 4: management of this, and I think it's negligence. I think

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Speaker 4: the city is, unfortunately, is going to be in a

543
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Speaker 4: very libeles situation for the billions of dollars of losses

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00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:29,920
Speaker 4: in the Palisades. But what we've got to really start

545
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Speaker 4: focusing on in the next days and weeks. We've got

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Speaker 4: to hunker down. We've got to support people that don't

547
00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:40,800
Speaker 4: have the financial means, lost their homes, lost their businesses.

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Speaker 4: We've got to get people back on their feet, and

549
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Speaker 4: then we've got to start rebuilding in this city. I

550
00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:51,120
Speaker 4: pray to God cuts all the red tape, gets behind

551
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Speaker 4: people and helps people rebuild, and let's get out of

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Speaker 4: the business of making life difficult in this city, and

553
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Speaker 4: let's support support these families, because not everybody's wealthy in

554
00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:05,640
Speaker 4: the Palisades, and most of the businesses of the Palisades

555
00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:09,160
Speaker 4: are small, independent businesses that just don't have resources.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, if it's the same people that didn't have a

557
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Speaker 1: brush clearing program for all these years or decades and

558
00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:20,560
Speaker 1: didn't have the water system working properly, you're going to

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Speaker 1: I don't know what to expect to try to help

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00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:29,680
Speaker 1: rebuild the people's lives. It's the same people running LA.

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Speaker 4: Well. I mean, that's unfortunately, that's a problem, and I

562
00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:41,240
Speaker 4: hope this city starts really thinking about who they're electing

563
00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:43,320
Speaker 4: an office. And it's not about me. When I ran,

564
00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:45,520
Speaker 4: i ran, I did my best and I launched and

565
00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:48,360
Speaker 4: that's the way the system works, and I fully accept that.

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Speaker 4: But going forward, leadership matters, and we've got to be

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Speaker 4: electing people that actually are qualified and capable to make

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Speaker 4: good decisions and put the priority of saving lives, making

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Speaker 4: our lives safe. The fact that our mayor and city

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00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:11,960
Speaker 4: council cut the budget of the fire department two months

571
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:18,480
Speaker 4: ago is absolutely unacceptable. And here's what we've got to

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Speaker 4: show for why.

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Speaker 1: I mean I saw that story. Why would they cut

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Speaker 1: the fire department of all places?

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Speaker 4: Do they completely mismanaged the finances of the city. The

576
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Speaker 4: city has a deficit of half a billion dollars. They

577
00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:36,920
Speaker 4: gave a whole bunch of people raises. We've got fire

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Speaker 4: stations and I talked about this when I was running

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Speaker 4: for mayor. We have fire stations throughout the city that

580
00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:45,440
Speaker 4: are closed because they don't even have the resources to open.

581
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Speaker 4: The mismanagement is at the highest level, and it really

582
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Speaker 4: did and it still does today. It looks like a

583
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Speaker 4: third world city out there. It's still burning.

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Speaker 1: I know, it's overwhelming. What's burning and you talk about

585
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Speaker 1: a third world Look, I mean, there's so much garbage

586
00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:10,960
Speaker 1: lying around the city. I'm sure you've seen. It's appalling.

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Speaker 1: Every time you stop at a traffic light or you

588
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Speaker 1: stop near a freeway on ramp and you just see

589
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Speaker 1: the mounds of garbage. It looks like nobody's picked it

590
00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:23,360
Speaker 1: up in weeks or months. And I always look out

591
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Speaker 1: and say, well, what are the city workers doing all day?

592
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Speaker 1: What is city management doing all day? Because the place

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Speaker 1: looks filthy much of the time.

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Speaker 4: And you got to demand more, Johnny, We got to

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Speaker 4: demand more. The residents got to demand more. They deserve it.

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Speaker 4: They'd be a lot of taxes. We don't be a

597
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Speaker 4: lot of taxes. Yeah, very expensive to live in the city.

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Speaker 4: It should be clean, should be safe, it should be

599
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Speaker 4: a happy, wonderful place. They have a business and we're

600
00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:52,440
Speaker 4: just not there. But we got to change it, and

601
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Speaker 4: we're going to change it by rebuilding the Palisades and

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Speaker 4: some of these other communities in a way that will

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Speaker 4: be everlasting.

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Speaker 1: Well, I know you're going to be a big part

605
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Speaker 1: of it. Are our sympathies for the losses you and

606
00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:09,920
Speaker 1: your family have suffered, and uh, you're right. We just

607
00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:12,279
Speaker 1: got to move forward and start rebuilding. But boy, we

608
00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:14,360
Speaker 1: needed we need a complete changeover.

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Speaker 4: Yes we do. But we're going to lean in heavily.

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Speaker 4: The Crusoe Family's going to lean in heavily. And I

611
00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:23,759
Speaker 4: know you and your family are great Angelo's and we'll

612
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Speaker 4: do the same. And we're a strong city. So we're

613
00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:29,920
Speaker 4: going to bring it back. And that policy's community is

614
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Speaker 4: such a dear, wonderful Oh that's a beautiful town.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's a beautiful town. I mean I live right

616
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Speaker 1: next door and we're there all the time. And places

617
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Speaker 1: that we've gone to for years have been destroyed. I

618
00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:46,600
Speaker 1: was just there yesterday, yesterday morning.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we were.

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Speaker 1: We did we did a hike and Petareur Canyon and

621
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Speaker 1: all the blocks that we drove up and down yesterday morning.

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Speaker 1: All the homes are destroyed. Twenty four hours later. It's

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Speaker 1: it's it's overwhelming.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it is overhement. It's going to take a

625
00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:05,720
Speaker 4: massive effort to rebuild.

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Speaker 1: All right, Rick, we'll talk again soon, all right, talk

627
00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:14,399
Speaker 1: to you later, yeah, Rick Caruso, all right, bye, back

628
00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:19,359
Speaker 1: live here. Should have been the mayor. I will never

629
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Speaker 1: until I'm in the grave understand the appeal of people

630
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Speaker 1: voting for Karen Bass, and after her performance over the

631
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Speaker 1: last two days, I am more baffled than ever before.

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Speaker 1: In fact, I wanted to play these back to back

633
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Speaker 1: because I didn't have a chance to do that during

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Speaker 1: the show. We didn't get the Bass interview with Sky

635
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Speaker 1: News reporter David Blevins until the very end of the show. Eric,

636
00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:51,799
Speaker 1: can you play cut four again? All Right? You just

637
00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:54,640
Speaker 1: heard you just heard Caruso for about ten minutes there.

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00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:58,319
Speaker 1: All right, very intelligent to tailed thoughtful. Now listen to

639
00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:00,880
Speaker 1: Karen Bass. She's got a chance to say anything in

640
00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:04,080
Speaker 1: the world as she comes off the plane after spending

641
00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:07,640
Speaker 1: all these days in Africa instead of here in La Do.

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00:36:07,560 --> 00:36:10,200
Speaker 7: You owe citizens and apology for being absent while their

643
00:36:10,239 --> 00:36:14,160
Speaker 7: homes were burning? Do you regret cutting the fire department

644
00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:19,120
Speaker 7: budget by millions of dollars? Madam there? Have you nothing

645
00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:23,960
Speaker 7: to say today? Have you absolutely nothing to say to

646
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:29,160
Speaker 7: the citizens today? Alon Mosk says that you're utterly incompetent.

647
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Speaker 7: Are you considering your position, Madam Mayor? Have you absolutely

648
00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:38,040
Speaker 7: nothing to say to the citizens today? You're dealing with

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Speaker 7: this disaster, no apology for them. Do you think you

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Speaker 7: should have been visiting Ghana while this was unfolding? Back home?

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Speaker 1: Visits are still walking and ignoring lemons, Adam Mayor, Let

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Speaker 1: me ask you just again, have you anything to say

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Speaker 1: to the citizens today as you returned?

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Speaker 7: Full on seconds, Madam Mayor, just a few words for

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Speaker 7: the citizens today as you returned to do you think

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Speaker 7: a postrophe the station?

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Speaker 1: I've never seen anything like it, never heard anything like it.

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Speaker 1: Absolute silence for a minute thirty eight from the woman

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Speaker 1: that the public elected to be the mayor of the

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Speaker 1: second largest city in the country that just had one

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Speaker 1: entire town completely wiped out by fire while she was

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Speaker 1: partying in Africa. You got to say it bluntly. She

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Speaker 1: went to celebrate the inauguration of the new president of Gatta.

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Speaker 1: Why who the hell knows? The El Secundo Times, which

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Speaker 1: Patrick soon Chiong has slowly crawling back to reality. They

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Speaker 1: got a story by David Zandheuser and Matt Hamilton that

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Speaker 1: they just published this evening and they highlighted and they

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Speaker 1: didn't bury it. They highlighted the interaction between Bass and

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Speaker 1: the reporter there, David Blevins. As she returned to the US,

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Speaker 1: Bass faced some brutal assessments of the city's handling of

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Speaker 1: the fires. In one airport, she stood silently as a

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Speaker 1: Sky News reporter peppered her with questions about her decision

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Speaker 1: to go to Africa. You know the confrontation. Bass mostly

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Speaker 1: avoided eye contact as the reporter pressed her on whether

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Speaker 1: she needed to apologize to Angelino's for being in Africa

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Speaker 1: and whether she regretted reducing the fire department budget earlier

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Speaker 1: this year. Madame Bher, have you absolutely nothing to say

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Speaker 1: to the citizens today who are dealing with this disaster,

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Speaker 1: the reporter asked. Bass did not reply to any of

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Speaker 1: his questions and they opened the story. Though for the

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Speaker 1: first twenty four hours of the disaster, Bass was a

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Speaker 1: constant presence on social media. Shit her staff put out tweets.

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Speaker 1: See here's my question. When they were gaming out the

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Speaker 1: wildfire response. Since she wasn't here, who on the staff said, hey,

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Speaker 1: do we have enough water? But if you have a

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Speaker 1: fire on your property or in your kitchen, it's the

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Speaker 1: first thing you think of, Can I get water to

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Speaker 1: put this out?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: What do you pour in a campfire? Poor water? Right?

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Speaker 1: If your grill gets a little, poor water. And here's

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Speaker 1: the detail. As the Palisades fire exploded, it's according to

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Speaker 1: the La Times, and new blazes broke out elsewhere, Marquise

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Speaker 1: Harris Dawson City council president. Does anybody even know who

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Speaker 1: he is? He was this top elected official at news conferences,

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Speaker 1: Marquise Harris Dawson. I bet you ninety nine percent of

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Speaker 1: people in Los Angeles have no idea who this guy is.

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Speaker 1: Could not recognize him if they, you know, if he

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Speaker 1: fell out of the sky on their heads. Bass claimed

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Speaker 1: she took the fastest route back to the US. You know,

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Speaker 1: when you're coming from West Africa, there is no fastest route,

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Speaker 1: and she kept pointing out that she traveled partly on

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Speaker 1: a military plane and she had phone service. That's great.

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Speaker 1: Did she bring up the lack of water during her

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Speaker 1: phone calls? She all right?

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Speaker 2: Here.

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Speaker 1: The National Weather Service began warning of potentially strong winds

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Speaker 1: and extreme fire conditions on Thursday. I was wondering what

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Speaker 1: the official day was cause I couldn't remember Thursday. She

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Speaker 1: came back today, Wednesday of the following week, Ghana. I'm sorry.

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Speaker 1: Bass left for Ghana on Saturday, so the weather servist says,

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Speaker 1: on Thursday, extreme fire conditions. Karen Bass says, oh wow,

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Speaker 1: that sounds awful. I'm going to Ghana two days later

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Speaker 1: because I didn't know when she left, and I don't

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Speaker 1: know when the Weather Service put language in to make

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Speaker 1: you realize it was going to be very bad. But wow,

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Speaker 1: this is worst case scenario. Bass left for Ghana on Saturday.

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Speaker 1: Those warnings intensified over subsequent days by Monday officials who

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Speaker 1: were bracing for potentially life threatening and destructive winden storms.

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Speaker 1: How about that, So you got Thursday warnings, Friday warnings.

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Speaker 1: Bass goes to Gone on Saturday, Sunday, Monday. Now it's Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: Palisades fire breaks out of ten thirty five hours later,

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Speaker 1: pass was enrooted from Ghana three point thirty in the

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Speaker 1: afternoon yesterday. She finally left when the warnings were out

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Speaker 1: last Thursday. Wow. And then while she's in the plane,

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Speaker 1: more wildfires in al Dadina, Pasadena, Ballabou and Silmour. Don't

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Speaker 1: you think that she should have got to Ghana at all?

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Speaker 1: And don't you think she should have turned around and

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Speaker 1: came back as soon as she landed, like on Sunday,

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Speaker 1: Because on Sunday there was a bulletin from the National

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Speaker 1: Weather Service warning of strong and damaging winds and critical

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Speaker 1: fire conditions. This isn't LA's first fire. And then you

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Speaker 1: know when you again, when you have the meeting, the

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Speaker 1: big meeting, Hey, Weather Services, extreme critical fire conditions, life

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Speaker 1: threatening windstorm, the whole or right, they couldn't come up

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Speaker 1: with any any more words. Who at the meeting? Who

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Speaker 1: among the Karen Bass's board of geniuses goes, we have

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Speaker 1: enough water? What a how long is that water gonna last?

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Speaker 1: You know, these fires can go on for weeks. How

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Speaker 1: much water we have? Oh, we have seventeen hours worth?

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Speaker 1: Uh huh. And the winds are gonna be blown white

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Speaker 1: one hundred miles an hour. Uh huh, wow, that's fast.

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Speaker 1: That fire is going to cover a lot of territory. Yeah, sure,

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Speaker 1: you packed enough water there, you know.

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Speaker 3: I just.

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Speaker 1: And use some scolding people for politicizing it all. This

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Speaker 1: has to be politicized because elections put these people in power,

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Speaker 1: and then they make decisions, and their decisions are awful.

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Speaker 1: Either they are involve with some weird, sick ideology, or

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Speaker 1: they're just stupid, or they don't care. Of course it

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Speaker 1: should be politicized, and these people should be replaced in

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Speaker 1: a lot of countries and a lot of cultures. Karen

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Speaker 1: Bass would already have fallen on her sword and said,

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Speaker 1: you know what, I'm embarrassed. This is abysmal behavior. There's

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Speaker 1: no excuse. I'm going home, get somebody better. This isn't

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Speaker 1: for me. We come back. We're going to have human

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Speaker 1: him many doctor Human Jomny. We're gonna have him on

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Speaker 1: right after the two o'clock news. We're going to talk

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Speaker 1: about some of the medical aspects and of the fires,

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Speaker 1: what people are going through, and also he's going to

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Speaker 1: talk about what he describes as the criminal negligence of

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Speaker 1: Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom, their policies which lead to

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Speaker 1: these fires, and not only the huge damage that people

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Speaker 1: are absorbing in their lives now with their homes, businesses

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Speaker 1: being destroyed, but all the medical problems that they're going

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Speaker 1: to be suffering from as well. We'll talk to Human Hamadi,

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Speaker 1: Doctor Hamati coming up right after the news and we're

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Speaker 1: on to three o'clock. Then Nil Savager comes in. We

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Speaker 1: are giving you twenty four coverage, twenty four hour coverage

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Speaker 1: of the fires here on KFI AM six forty, and

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Speaker 1: now we have news live from the twenty four hour

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Speaker 1: Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear the show live

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