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Speaker 2: podcast and my headphones are shorting it out there we go. Hey, congratulations,

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Speaker 3: Our show, Yes on your show.

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Speaker 1: The three o'clock hour last year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, one special day, one special day, judge, the best ever.

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Speaker 3: That's right, the best ever.

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Speaker 2: People heard that newscast and they smacked themselves in the head, said,

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Speaker 2: I've never heard anything better.

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Speaker 3: Right, I don't know how I do it?

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Speaker 1: On what day was that?

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Speaker 3: It was back in September. I'd have to.

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Speaker 1: Look should second week of FO we should play it.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I can find it for it.

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Speaker 2: Was a stellar news thing again and people are going

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Speaker 2: to be stunned. There'll be traffic accidents. Congratulations. All right,

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Speaker 2: you deserve it and you do a great job.

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Speaker 3: Thanks to you.

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Speaker 2: Really do down to switch your mood. Here are today's airline.

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Speaker 2: Oh god, no disasters. Yeah, I let me see. Let

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Speaker 2: me see how about this one? First, guess which airline

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Speaker 2: and guess which company made the plane.

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Speaker 4: United is the airline and Boeing correct.

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Speaker 2: This is United Airlines flight to London getting diverted to Chicago.

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Speaker 2: Another cracked windshield. That's the second cracked windshield in recent weeks.

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Speaker 2: It landed at eleven thirty last night. It had left

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Speaker 2: from Denver headed to Heathrow in London. And then the

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Speaker 2: crew said, we have a cracked windshield. And we explained

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Speaker 2: the last United bowing cracked windshield that they have several

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Speaker 2: layers so if one cracks, other layers will hold the

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Speaker 2: air pressure in and keep you from getting sucked down.

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Speaker 2: At the same airport O'Hare Monday morning, Frontier Airline's plane

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Speaker 2: evacuated smoking the cockpit. But we're not done with We're

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Speaker 2: not done with United, We're not. Here's a flight diverted

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Speaker 2: after a toilet overflows once again, a United Boeing production.

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Speaker 2: A flight en route to San Francisco. How many times

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Speaker 2: has San Francisco been involved? From Frankfurt, Germany was forced

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Speaker 2: to divert due to an overflow of one of the

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Speaker 2: aircraft's toilets into the cabin. Now how much had to

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Speaker 2: be in there that they couldn't clean it up and

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Speaker 2: continue on with the flight.

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Speaker 3: That is so disgusting.

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Speaker 2: Somebody had had a big lunch. It was United flight

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Speaker 2: fifty nine. It was a bum seven to seventy seven

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Speaker 2: lifted off from Frankfort and about two hours into the

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Speaker 2: flight they started circling over the North Sea and the

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Speaker 2: crew was trying to clean up the spill. They had

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Speaker 2: a maintenance issue with one of the one of the laboratories.

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Speaker 2: Had to go back to Frankfort and everybody were booked.

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Speaker 2: Everybody was booked into hotels and they had to take

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Speaker 2: different flights the next day. The this happened Friday. The

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Speaker 2: aircraft was not returned to service until Sunday. I can't

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Speaker 2: imagine what that was. What could wow?

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Speaker 1: I mean do they not do they?

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Speaker 2: They empty those right, and they empty him over over

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Speaker 2: land while they're flying exactly. So was that a backup

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Speaker 2: from one of the passengers?

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Speaker 1: Yes? What what what did he do to create that

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Speaker 1: much of a mess?

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Speaker 3: Something he ate.

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Speaker 1: It says here.

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Speaker 2: On Thursday, United flight from San Francisco headed for Paris

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Speaker 2: had to divert to Denver because of an engine issue. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: we talked about that one. Then another United flight destined

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Speaker 2: Francisco after a bird strike that damaged the pilot's window.

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Speaker 2: So that's four United flights, three of them involving San

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Speaker 2: about the bird strike. You know what, United CEO though,

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Speaker 2: and the incidents are reminders of the importance of safety.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for that reminder. We'll get on it.

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Speaker 4: I don't know, you know what, John, we have a

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Speaker 1: I heard there's a lot of a lot of women

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Speaker 3: Okay, where is there a close restroom? Right right? We're

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Speaker 3: on the air a lot. Yeah, breaks are not that huge.

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Speaker 4: I had to go take the freight elevator, go down

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Speaker 1: That's a long that's a long wall.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: So if if you see me and you're gonna go

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Speaker 4: to me and I'm not here, you're gonna have to

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Speaker 2: Stall they ought to have a stack of diapers there

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Speaker 2: in the news book for everybody. Oh, I think there's

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Speaker 1: Yeah, right, because I used to run to that one.

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Speaker 3: There's a wall there that was.

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Speaker 1: There's a wall there. Yeah, that's that's tough.

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Speaker 4: You have to go upstairs or you have to go

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Speaker 4: I don't know there's a.

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Speaker 2: Way to get there, but it probably takes longer than

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Speaker 4: So what I'm wondering is, I think there's one two.

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Speaker 4: I think there's four stalls in the ladies' restroom, So

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Speaker 4: why why is the whole thing shut down and the

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Speaker 4: door is locked. I tried to open it because Shannon

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Speaker 3: Nope, April, well it is April first.

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Speaker 1: That's a good idea. Actually save that for niiction.

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Speaker 4: And there's no way we women want to go in

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Speaker 4: the guys.

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Speaker 2: No.

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Speaker 1: I heard you and Shannon complaining about it earlier.

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Speaker 4: Today discussed but I can imagine, and I mean, God

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Speaker 4: knows what Ray does in there.

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Speaker 1: No, you're going to have to You're going to have

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Speaker 4: No, I'm going to maybe be late for a newscast

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Speaker 4: when I have to pee.

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Speaker 2: You don't want to use the same stall that Ray has. No,

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Speaker 2: I have another traveling story.

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Speaker 2: Seven Americans were left stranded in Africa after their cruise

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Speaker 2: ship left without them. Their tour guide was late getting

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Speaker 2: on a South Carolina couple, Jill and j Campbell. This

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Speaker 2: was the Norwegian Dawn Ship and they were in Cape

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Speaker 2: Town to begin their crews and they took a private

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Speaker 2: be late rejoining the group. The ship was still anchored,

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Speaker 3: I'm the captain now, and this is what I say.

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Speaker 2: And the Campbell's restranded in the town of Saotome with

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Speaker 3: I would be screaming, jo Oh, that's.

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Speaker 1: What I was thinking.

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Speaker 2: If you were one of these passengers and you got there,

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Speaker 2: I mean close enough, they could have taken these people

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Speaker 3: That's so not cool.

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Speaker 2: For seven Americans, two Australians, four elderly, one has a

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Speaker 2: This is a Norwegian Cruise line. And the harbormaster tried

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Speaker 3: That captain ought to be fired.

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Speaker 1: You got to be tossed overboard.

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Speaker 3: Let's strand him.

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Speaker 1: And then and.

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Speaker 2: Then one of the Jay Campbell, said he sent emails

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Speaker 2: to the Norwegian Cruise Line and the customer service emergency number,

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Speaker 2: and they said, well, the only way to get in

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Speaker 2: they're not responding to our emails. There's there's there among

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Speaker 2: one of the one of the women is eighty years old,

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Speaker 2: and she'd had a concussion and lost part of her

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Speaker 2: vision after a different cruise. So somehow she got hurt

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Speaker 2: on the last cruise she went on, and now on

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Speaker 2: this cruise she's from the ship. That's bad luck. The

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Speaker 2: emergency contact. Wow, they had They're the only this couple's

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Speaker 2: the only ones with a debit card. Nobody else had

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Speaker 2: any money. So they have paid five thousand dollars to

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Speaker 2: feed everybody and get them hotel rooms. It was a

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Speaker 2: twenty one night cruise. They were going to end up

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Speaker 2: in Barcelona and they were only there about a week.

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Speaker 2: And uh, nobody they they.

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Speaker 1: Missed the final call.

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Speaker 3: And it wasn't their fault. It wasn't their fault.

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Speaker 4: I know that sometimes you hear people that are shopping

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Speaker 2: They keep calling the cruise line and nobody will respond.

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Speaker 2: They keep calling, they keep sending emails. That's nuts. Cross

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Speaker 2: them off your list, Yeah we come back. They want

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Speaker 2: to double the homeless tax in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 1: They really they do. This is crazy.

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Speaker 2: If they're blowing billions of dollars with the last homeless

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Speaker 2: tax in twenty seventeen, this is going to go on

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Speaker 2: the ballot and the suckers that live in Los Angeles

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Speaker 2: All right, this is hard to believe, and what's even

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Speaker 1: My dad was a publish immigrant.

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Speaker 2: He didn't speak much English. He would talk in short bursts,

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Speaker 2: and the English had a heavy Polish accent. But he

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Speaker 2: had a few phrases he would say frequently, and one

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Speaker 2: of them was, Oh, what's wrong with people?

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Speaker 1: What's wrong with people?

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Speaker 2: And I found myself channeling my father today reading the

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Speaker 2: story What's wrong with people?

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Speaker 1: Number One?

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Speaker 2: They want to there's there are activist groups that want

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Speaker 2: to extend the sales tax for homelessness. This was Measure

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Speaker 2: H passed in twenty seventeen by the idiot voters, and

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Speaker 2: it is supposed to run until twenty twenty seven. It

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Speaker 2: was a ten year tax, and now two years early,

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Speaker 2: these activists want to extend the tax.

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Speaker 1: Like we've given it eight years now.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if you remember twenty seventeen that the

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Speaker 2: homelessness was just starting then.

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Speaker 1: And then after we passed this.

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Speaker 2: Tax Proposition H, and then we passed Prop HHH for

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Speaker 2: the county, we gave them billions of dollars, and the

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Speaker 2: homelessness problem exploded, exploded beyond all reason and created just

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Speaker 1: Oh, those nonprofits, they.

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Speaker 2: Got rich and fat, and none of their ideas worked

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Speaker 2: I think it's really easy to list all your programs

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Speaker 2: This is such a cash cow. I mean this, this

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Speaker 2: it's one of those wonderful names that makes it impossible

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Speaker 2: I can't argue against this. It's called the Affordable Housing

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Speaker 2: Homelessness Solutions and Prevention Now.

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Speaker 1: How does that mean?

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Speaker 2: Is that an acronym that I'm not getting Affordable Housing

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Speaker 2: Homelessness Solutions and Prevention now?

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Speaker 1: And it's run.

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Speaker 2: The chief executive of the California Community Foundation, and one

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Speaker 2: of the major backers is a guy named Miguel Santana

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Speaker 2: who's been involved in failing at homelessness, failing at ending

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Speaker 2: to work for another twelve years, finish out this the

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Speaker 2: And they found in an early survey. Now you explain

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Speaker 2: this to me. Is there anybody who says that this

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Speaker 2: before these taxes, almost forty percent said they would definitely

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Speaker 2: So you add that up, it's about sixty percent. So

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Speaker 2: original tax has failed miserably and has wasted billions of dollars.

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Speaker 1: It's a half a billion a year.

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Speaker 2: It's been around for seven years, so it's you know,

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Speaker 2: about three and a half billion dollars they've blown. So

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Speaker 2: what another ten billion? Fifteen billion on what? And it's

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Speaker 2: all the nonprofits that support it, The United Way of

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Speaker 2: the Housing Works Trust South LA. One of those groups

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Speaker 2: I should go get the story was involved in a

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Speaker 2: Says You're Santana, who used to be the LA City

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Speaker 2: administrative officer drafted the city's groundbreaking twenty sixteen homeless strategy.

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Speaker 2: Groundbreaking it's been a huge failure. I should note this

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Speaker 2: Sat Tannis says, for someone like me who's worked on

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Speaker 2: from Measure H and HHH lessons.

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Speaker 1: Learned that none of it worked at your job.

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Speaker 2: If they gave you a budget and you had this

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Speaker 2: singular idea on how to tackle a problem for your company,

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Speaker 2: and you felt that this was your idea and you

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Speaker 2: turned into a big zero, a big failure. Would you

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Speaker 2: go back and ask for another ten billion dollars for

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Speaker 1: Does anybody pay attention to this? Everybody?

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Speaker 2: The thing is we can see it with their own

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Speaker 2: eyes that it's been a failure. Miguel Santana has completely

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Speaker 2: failed with whatever the hell plan he had. This measure failed,

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Speaker 2: and yet there's sixty percent of the city feeling warm

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Speaker 2: about it, and they've got they've got some kind of

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Speaker 2: Karen Bass to La City council members. So it's the

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Speaker 2: same crowd that blew all the money the first time

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Speaker 2: and they want to renew.

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Speaker 1: AM. I out of my mind, what is it? What

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Speaker 2: So my dad said, what's wrong with PIPA? There is

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Speaker 2: only one guy. Quite again, this is the El Segundo

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Speaker 2: propaganda times. There's only one person quoted here, Lance Christensen

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Speaker 2: of the conservative leaning California Policy Center. Is it conservative

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Speaker 2: not to want to spend billions of dollars on failed

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Speaker 2: programs that don't clearly don't work? Oh, well, that's conservative.

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Speaker 2: You should be spending money on failed programs. We should

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Speaker 2: spend billions and fail. Yes, that's progressive. That's Moraley superior.

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Speaker 2: They quote him as saying, the voters are wondering how

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Speaker 2: much how much more tax dollars are going to go

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Speaker 2: to failure?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Not enough of them are warned to ring. There doesn't

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Speaker 2: seem to be organized opposition to this, which is baffling.

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Speaker 2: Why would you give them billions? If the program worked,

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Speaker 2: if they cut homelessness by half or a third, it

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Speaker 2: didn't it increase dramatically. I'm going to go find the

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Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobel's Man from KFI AM six forty.

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Speaker 2: Potholes are everywhere. The government agencies are so bad. Potholes

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Speaker 2: are everywhere. It's now been three weeks since there was

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Speaker 2: a huge rainfall, and then we had more of this

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Speaker 2: Karen Bass, the pothole filling crew is failing, is just

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Speaker 2: completely failing. What we're doing, at what they're doing. People

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Speaker 2: all over my side of town are calling three to

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Speaker 2: one one. They're using the app. They're going outline all

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Speaker 2: the recommendations. You ever go out next door app and

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Speaker 2: you lay out a problem, and there's always some snooty

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Speaker 2: don't you know you're supposed to use the app? You

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Speaker 2: got you gotta use the app, you gotta fill out

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Speaker 2: the form. Well, you can call three one one. Don't

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Speaker 2: you know they got an answer for everything? Except everybody's

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Speaker 2: calling three one one and using the app and nothing works.

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Speaker 2: Story number one. We're gonna play cut number one. Get

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Speaker 2: that ready. This is ABC seven Amy Powell. Potholes on

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Speaker 6: Coultrans really responded right away after getting a lot of

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Speaker 6: calls from frustrated drivers. With all this rainfall, we're seeing

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Speaker 6: a lot of potholes on the roads, this one causing

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Speaker 6: significant damage to cars traveling on the two ten freeway.

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Speaker 6: A bumpy ride along the westbound two ten Freeway in

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Speaker 7: Immediately do would hear the pop and then the car

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Speaker 6: Some drivers struggling to maintain control as they pulled over

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Speaker 2: It was very jarring.

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Speaker 8: I can tell you that it was on the right

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Speaker 9: It was huge and unfortunately all the cars have flats

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Speaker 6: Tow trucks arriving to haul away the most damaged cars.

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Speaker 8: The policeman said that there's been fifteen cars already.

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Speaker 3: That hit that pot hole, and it.

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Speaker 1: Was really hard to miss.

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Speaker 6: The recent series of storms hitting southern California, dropping heavy

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Speaker 6: this afternoon and sent Cruise to the freeway. Some of

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Speaker 9: To see the puncture right here on the side wall,

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Speaker 6: A curtain and Caltrans crews repaired the pothole and the

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Speaker 6: cigalers has been lifted.

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Speaker 2: How come it took fifteen cars getting damaged just in

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Speaker 2: that little time period, that little stretch there before Caltrans

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Speaker 2: came out. How come Caltrans isn't driving around all day

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Speaker 2: and night I flagging the potholes and fixing them immediately.

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Speaker 1: What are they doing all day?

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Speaker 2: How many strip clubs are near the cow Trans office

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Speaker 2: in Pasadena?

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Speaker 1: Really?

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Speaker 2: How many strip clubs? How many hooker motels? What do

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Speaker 2: these guys do all day? They should have teams going

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Speaker 2: up and down and filling the potholes instantly. Last week,

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Speaker 2: last Friday, we had a woman on She and her

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Speaker 2: husband patched some hotholes in Compton after they caught their

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Speaker 2: car was damaged.

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Speaker 1: Thousands of dollars after running through a pothole.

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Speaker 2: And they got a cease and desist lawyer from the Compton,

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Speaker 2: from the Compton City government.

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Speaker 8: Cease and desist.

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Speaker 2: What is the opposite to cease and desist? But go

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Speaker 2: to work and do your job. They don'n Compton. They

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Speaker 2: Samacente Boulevard has lots of potholes, and my wife and

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Speaker 2: I have been zigging, zagging dodging these potholes now for

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Speaker 2: it's like watch that one, Watch that one. And here's

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Speaker 2: a woman, her name is Jaqueline, and she was on

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Speaker 2: on sanma Sente Boulevard they had potholes and my two

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Speaker 2: tires exploded. And now I need to complain to this city.

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Speaker 2: What number do I need to call? And of course

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Speaker 2: there's somebody right there. Try three to one one.

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Speaker 1: They don't do anything.

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Speaker 2: If you call three one one, you could use the app,

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Speaker 2: you can go online, you can do the phone number.

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Speaker 1: I'm they get ah.

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Speaker 2: When you actually call three one one, they say only

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Speaker 2: ask yes, that's been reported, that's been. We're right on it,

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Speaker 2: we're taking care of it. Three weeks later, there's still

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Speaker 2: a pothole. Sometimes somebody puts a cone in front of

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Speaker 2: it until the next guy drives over the cone. In fact,

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Speaker 2: in the replies to this woman, another woman named Lisa's said,

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Speaker 2: my boyfriend had the same thing happened, as had many people.

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Speaker 2: He reported it right after the last big rain, which

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Here's another one, Judith, we had two tires explode on

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Speaker 2: Fairborne off Los Sienaga. We're living in a third world city.

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Speaker 2: There were ten cars at the service place with the

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Speaker 2: same problem. Another woman, My tire blew out on cold water.

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Speaker 2: Mike says, hit that same pothole Sunday, reported first thing

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Speaker 2: Monday morning, and I received an email the next day

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Speaker 2: telling me they canceled my report because someone had previously

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Speaker 2: reported it and all complaints and claims would roll into

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Speaker 2: that one. But nobody could find that claim. Blew both

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Speaker 2: tires out. There's nobody at the city you care. This

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Speaker 2: is Karen Bass's Los Angeles. She is ineffective and over

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Speaker 2: her head. Nothing runs properly. Sean writes the truth here.

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Speaker 2: They don't care. There's three potholes on Samaseni Gon East,

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Speaker 2: they'll destroy your tires, rims and alignment. I see three

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Speaker 2: to four cars per hour on the shoulder fifty yards

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Speaker 2: after the largest one. These potholes have been there for

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Speaker 2: three weeks. Here's another guy justin my rims on my

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Speaker 2: motorcycle ended up getting bent by a pothole on Vineland,

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Speaker 2: and he goes on and on. Here's a woman who says,

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Speaker 2: cost me eight hundred dollars, blew out my front and

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Speaker 2: rear tires. Good and good luck getting the claim. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: they get hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of calls on

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Speaker 2: these potholes, dozens and dozens for a single pothole, and

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Speaker 2: they don't do anything. They're just laying around in the

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Speaker 2: yard caltrans La Department of Transportation. Maybe they're all drinking

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Speaker 2: in Karen Bass's office. But there's nobody working and they're

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Speaker 2: not filling the potholes. And they had three weeks, which

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Speaker 2: is more than reasonable. When we come back, Newsom forced

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Speaker 2: this minimum wage increase on on all the fast food restaurants,

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Speaker 2: and now the unions are holding these propaganda news conferences.

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Speaker 2: Claiming that all these fast food franchises can afford twenty

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Speaker 2: dollars an hour, which isn't true, but hey, that never

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Speaker 2: stopped problem.

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

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Speaker 5: six forty.

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Speaker 2: Potholes are everywhere. The government agencies are so bad. Potholes

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Speaker 2: are everywhere. It's now been three weeks since there was

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Speaker 2: a huge rainfall, and then we had more of this

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Speaker 2: past weekend, and I noticed that at least in Los Angeles,

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Speaker 2: Karen Bass, the pothole filling crew is failing, is just

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Speaker 2: completely failing. What we're doing at what they're doing. People

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Speaker 2: all over my side of town are calling three one one,

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Speaker 2: They're using the app. They're going outline all the recommendations

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Speaker 2: you ever got next door app, and you lay out

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Speaker 2: a problem, and there's always some snooty stay at home,

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Speaker 2: usually an older woman, who goes, don't you know you're

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Speaker 2: supposed to use the app you got? You gotta use

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Speaker 2: the app, you gotta fill out the form. Well, you

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Speaker 2: can call three one one. Don't you know they got

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Speaker 2: an answer for everything? Except everybody's calling three one one

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Speaker 2: and using the app and nothing works. Story number one.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna play cut number one. Get that ready. This

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Speaker 2: is ABC seven Amy Powell. Potholes on the two ten

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Speaker 2: Freeway which wrecked lots of cars.

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Speaker 6: Count Trands really responded right away after getting a lot

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Speaker 6: of calls from frustrated drivers. With all this rainfall, we're

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Speaker 6: seeing a lot of potholes on the roads, this one

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Speaker 6: causing significant damage to cars traveling on the two ten Freeway.

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Speaker 6: A bumpy ride along the westbound two ten Freeway in

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Speaker 6: the Pasadena area, vehicles getting rattled by a particularly rough

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Speaker 6: stretched roadway near the street exit. A massive pothole in

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Speaker 6: one of the lanes, giving tires a beating and leaving

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Speaker 6: some busted.

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Speaker 7: Immediately would hear the pop and then the car star shaking,

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Speaker 7: so we kind of know that we probably hit something,

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Speaker 7: and then we kind of roll over to the sideway.

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Speaker 6: Some drivers struggling to maintain control as they pulled over

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Speaker 6: to the side of the freeway.

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Speaker 1: It was very jarring.

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Speaker 8: I can tell you that it was on the right

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Speaker 8: hand side of the second lane and it was there

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Speaker 8: was no way you could avoid it.

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Speaker 9: It was huge and unfortunately all the cars have flats

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Speaker 9: on the right side.

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Speaker 6: Tow trucks arriving to haul away the most damaged cars.

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Speaker 8: Big policeman said that there's been fifteen cars already that

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Speaker 8: hit that pothole, and it was really hard to miss.

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Speaker 6: The recent series of storms hitting southern California, dropping heavy

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Speaker 6: rainfall in many communities. Caltrans issued a cigarette around this

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Speaker 6: afternoon and send cruise to the freeway. Some of the

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Speaker 6: tires left punctured, others flattened.

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Speaker 9: To see the puncture right here on the sidewall, So

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Speaker 9: that's that you could tell they hit.

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Speaker 6: A curtain and Caltrans Cruise repaired the pothole and the

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Speaker 6: signalers has been lifted.

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Speaker 2: How come they took fifteen cars getting damaged just in

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Speaker 2: that little time period, that little stretch there before Caltrans

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Speaker 2: came out. How come Caltrans isn't driving around all day

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Speaker 2: and night flagging the potholes and fixing them immediately. What

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Speaker 2: are they doing all day? How many strip clubs are

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Speaker 2: near the Caltrans office in Pasadena? Really, how many strip clubs?

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Speaker 2: How many hooker motels? What do these guys do all day?

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Speaker 2: They should have teams going up and down and filling

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Speaker 2: the potholes instantly. Last week, last Friday, we had a

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Speaker 2: woman on She and her husband patched some potholes in

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Speaker 2: Compton after they caught their car was damaged thousands of d.

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Speaker 1: After running through a pothole.

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Speaker 2: And they got a cease and desist lawyer from the Compton,

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Speaker 2: from the Compton City government.

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Speaker 3: Cease and desist.

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Speaker 2: What is the opposite of cease and desist, like go

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Speaker 2: to work and do your job. They don'tn Compton, They

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Speaker 2: don't a cow trans Now on my side of town,

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Speaker 2: Sama Cente Boulevard has lots of potholes, and my wife

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Speaker 2: and I have been zigging, zagging, dodging these potholes now

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Speaker 2: for a couple of weeks. You're just driving down yesterday

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Speaker 2: and it's like watch that one, Watch that one. And

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Speaker 2: here's a woman, her name is Jacqueline, and she was

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Speaker 2: on the next door app and she said, hi everyone,

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Speaker 2: yesterday on Sama Cente Boulevard they had potholes and my

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Speaker 2: two tires exploded. And now I need to complain to

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Speaker 2: this city. What number do I need to call? Of

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Speaker 2: course there's somebody right there. Try three to one to one.

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Speaker 1: They don't do anything.

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Speaker 2: If you call three one one, you can use the app,

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Speaker 2: you can go online, you could do.

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Speaker 1: The phone number.

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Speaker 2: I'm they get when you actually call three one one,

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Speaker 2: they say, oh, yesh, yes, that's been reported. That's been

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Speaker 2: We're right on it. We're taking care of it. Three

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Speaker 2: weeks later, there's still a pothole. Sometimes somebody puts a

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Speaker 2: cone in front of it until the next guy drives

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Speaker 2: over the cone. In fact, in the replies to this woman,

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Speaker 2: another woman named Lisa said, my boyfriend had the same

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Speaker 2: thing happened, as had many people. He reported it right

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Speaker 2: after the last big rain, which was weeks ago. You

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Speaker 2: think with all the complaints they would get it done. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: we had. Here's another one, Judith, we had two tires

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Speaker 2: explode on Fairborne off Los Sienaga. We're living in a

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Speaker 2: third world city. There were ten cars at the service

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Speaker 2: place with the same problem. Another woman, My tire blew

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Speaker 2: out on cold water. Mike says hit that same pothole Sunday.

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Speaker 2: Reported first thing Monday morning, and I received an email

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Speaker 2: the next day telling me they canceled my report because

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Speaker 2: someone had previously reported it and all complaints and claims

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Speaker 2: would roll into that one. But nobody could find that claim.

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Speaker 2: Blew both tires out, There's nobody at the city care.

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Speaker 2: This is Karen Bass's Los Angeles. She is ineffective O

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Speaker 2: and over her head nothing runs properly. Sean writes the

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Speaker 2: truth Here they don't care. There's three potholes on Samda

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Speaker 2: SENI Gon East. They'll destroy your tires, rims and alignment.

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Speaker 2: I see three to four cars per hour on the

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Speaker 2: shoulder fifty yards after the largest one. These potholes have

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Speaker 2: been there for three weeks. There's another guy justin my

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Speaker 2: rims on My motorcycle ended up getting bent by a

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Speaker 2: pothole on Vinland, and he goes on and on. Here's

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Speaker 2: a woman who says, caught me eight hundred dollars blew

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Speaker 2: out my front and rear tires. Good and good luck

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Speaker 2: getting the claim. Yeah, they get hundreds and hundreds and

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Speaker 2: hundreds of calls on these potholes, dozens and dozens for

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Speaker 2: a single pothole, and they don't do anything. They're just

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Speaker 2: laying around in the in the yard Caltrans La Department

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Speaker 2: of Transportation. Maybe they're all drinking in Karen Bass's office.

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Speaker 2: But there's nobody working and they're not filling the potholes.

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Speaker 2: And they had three weeks, which is more than reasonable.

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Speaker 2: When we come back, Newsom forced this minimum wage increase

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Speaker 2: on on all the fast food restaurants, and now the

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Speaker 2: unions are holding these propaganda news conferences claiming that all

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Speaker 2: these fast food franchises can afford twenty dollars an hour,

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Speaker 2: which isn't true, but hey, that never stops propaganda, right,

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Speaker 2: more coming up? Hey, you've been listening to the John

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Speaker 2: Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear the show live

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

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

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