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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk with Joel Pollock. Now Joe Pollock formerly

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Speaker 1: he's still with both. I don't know. The California Post

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Speaker 1: is going to be online soon. It's a as sister

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Speaker 1: California New York Post style journalism, going after what's afflicting

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Speaker 1: all of us here in California, from LA, from San

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Speaker 1: this state and this town need a different flavor of

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Speaker 1: journalism than what we've got. Let's get Joel on. Joel,

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Speaker 1: how are you great? How are you?

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Speaker 2: Thanks for having me on?

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Speaker 1: Are you moving from bright Bart to the California Post?

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Speaker 3: Yes, i am. Yesterday was my last day at brightbart

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Speaker 1: And when is the California Post coming online?

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Speaker 3: You know, we're getting it started up and we're going

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Speaker 1: And I'm assuming this is going to be in the

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Speaker 3: Of the Yes, Sir Yes, with the page six and

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's interesting to start this job.

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Speaker 3: On the day that the Dodgers are having their parade

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Speaker 3: We are placed with incredible resources, but unfortunately, all of

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Speaker 1: So you're going to be covering la in California, all

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Speaker 1: the issues in the politics at Sacramento, I should say

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Speaker 3: That, we're going to try to hold up a mirror statewide.

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Speaker 3: It's going to have to be a big mirror, right

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Speaker 3: But we really want to create a consciousness of what

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Speaker 1: That's really good to hear because we've often talked about

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Speaker 3: We know more about what's going on on a national

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Speaker 1: People don't notice the quality of life that has deteriorated

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Speaker 2: When we can't even handle the basics?

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Speaker 3: And the basics aren't hard to do if you have

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Speaker 1: All right, Can you hang on for another segment? Yes, sir,

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Speaker 1: Joel Pollock. He's with the California Post. This is a

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Speaker 1: written in a piece. Actually, I want to get into

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Speaker 1: nine o'clock. Alex Michaelson has a new show on CNN.

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Speaker 1: He's moved from Fox eleven. It's called The Story Is.

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Speaker 4: In your pajama, you're listening to John Cobelt on demand

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Speaker 1: We'll continue with Joel Pollock. Very excited about this new

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Speaker 1: publication online, the California Post, sister publication of the New

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Speaker 1: California Page six Celebrities and California Sports. And Joel's going

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Speaker 1: to be the opinion editor formerly at Breitbart, And he

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Speaker 1: wrote a piece today that was in the New York Post.

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Speaker 1: Joel you there, I didn't realize the number gotten, This

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Speaker 3: And the funny thing is that when Carl Demio, the

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Speaker 2: So that's what it's costing in public money.

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Speaker 3: Then you added the private donors who are kicking in

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Speaker 1: You know, I start wondering if we people in California,

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Speaker 1: It's like people's emotional obsession with Trump has really derailed

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Speaker 3: And what's interesting is that Newsom has changed in his

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Speaker 3: Newsom says that's not what he wants. He just wants oversight.

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Speaker 1: Joel, it's really good talking with you. Let's talk again,

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Speaker 1: Joel Pollock from the California Post. He's gonna be the

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Speaker 1: this is really infuriating. This story. Prop thirty six past

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Speaker 1: Most of them fall under the Treatment Mandated Felony Act.

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Speaker 5: I don't know if there were too many today, but

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Speaker 1: Look, they got to get their their their craft together

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Speaker 2: And I.

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Speaker 1: Do not understand why they don't fund the air traffic controllers.

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Speaker 1: I don't get it. This is both parties, this is

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Speaker 5: You've got to just take their pay away and give

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, why are we paying Congress, but we're

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Speaker 1: not paying air traffic and it makes no sense. And

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Speaker 1: You should not be scoring around with our our safety,

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Speaker 1: our safety, thank you. The whole system. The whole system

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

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Speaker 4: six forty.

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Speaker 1: John Cobelt's show I'll be on CNN tonight CNN Tonight

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Speaker 1: nine o'clock. Alex Michaelson has a new show. He's moved

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Speaker 1: and we'll talk a lot about the things we've discussed

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Speaker 1: all show. Our podcast comes out in a little bit

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Speaker 1: after four o'clock. John Cobelt Show on demand. It's the

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Speaker 1: whole radio show, all right. So you're gonna hear an

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Speaker 1: enormous amount about Prop fifty tomorrow and then the day

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Speaker 1: after that. And you know what it's about, the redrawing

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Speaker 1: the district lines. It's winning big in the polls. I'm

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Speaker 1: just gonna say this, this proposition is just wrong. It's

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Speaker 1: just wrong, and what the Republicans did in Texas is wrong.

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Speaker 1: The Republicans are now going to do this in a

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Speaker 1: number of other states to account for whatever losses they

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Speaker 1: suffer here in California. So ultimately, Newsom's gambit here is

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Speaker 1: going to backfire. If he's doing this to try to

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Speaker 1: the Republicans probably are going to get ten extra seats

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Speaker 1: That's the projections. Now, it looks like there's many states

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Speaker 1: so it's not even going to work. But again, that's

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Speaker 1: not what Newsom cares about. He just wants to position

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Speaker 1: himself as the great fighter against Trump. It's completely for

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Speaker 1: his ego. But this is doing the voters in this

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Speaker 1: state is terrible. You have of the state votes Republican

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Speaker 1: There'll be forty eight Democrats and four Republicans potentially by

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Speaker 1: got people in northern California and rural areas who've had

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Speaker 1: Republican congressmen for decades and decades. Now I know one

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Speaker 1: of the districts has actually drawn to go from the

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Speaker 1: and suck into that district so that the people in

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Speaker 1: the rural areas in the east will now have to

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Speaker 1: deal with some Bay Area Democrat representing them. That's just wrong.

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Speaker 1: It's wrong that Trump did this. It's wrong that the

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Speaker 1: Republicans do it. It's wrong that the Democrats are doing

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Speaker 1: it here. People really should be entitled when they live

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Speaker 1: in a particular area and you have people with a

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Speaker 1: arbitrarily take it away from them, just to inflate the

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Speaker 1: ambitions of this narcissistic psychopath we have as governor is

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Speaker 1: just wrong. I have no other word for it. And

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Speaker 1: for people to carry on about threats to democracy, well,

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Speaker 1: that's a pretty good size threat when you have the

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Speaker 1: congressman you've voted for for decades wrenched away from you

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Speaker 1: because they need to find Democratic voters in Marin County.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's just that's abominable. Really, Well, talk about

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Speaker 1: this tonight on Alex Michaelson's show on CNN. We'll be

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Speaker 1: back tomorrow on election Day. Hey, you've been listening to

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