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Speaker 2: missed coming up in a few minutes. There's a story

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Speaker 2: this week that came out of San Francisco. Yes, funny.

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Speaker 2: There's one reporter in Sacramento at kcr A TV, Ashley's Valla,

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Speaker 2: who covers the legislature really well, and she has been

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Speaker 2: breaking a lot of news about that pedophile vote they've

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Speaker 2: been having for the last week. In fact, she's got

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Speaker 2: another story and we're going to talk about that later

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Speaker 2: in the hour. But there's also a really good reporter

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Speaker 2: in sam in Francisco at ABC seven, Stephanie Sierra. Now

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Speaker 2: these are statewide stories. We don't have a single Los

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Speaker 2: Angeles based reporter that covers Sacramento government. We don't even

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Speaker 2: have anybody that covers it badly. We just don't have

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Speaker 2: any None of the television stations in town right, two, four, five, seven, nine,

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Speaker 2: eleven that weird Spectrum TV. Are they still doing COVID

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Speaker 2: stories on Spectrum? My friend and I called the COVID

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Speaker 2: channel because ninety nine times out of one hundred for

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Speaker 2: several years, odds are if you turn on the Spectrum channel,

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Speaker 2: you got your latest COVID update. So they don't cover Sacramento.

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Speaker 2: Nobody covers Sacramento. La Times doesn't. Yeah, look at the

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Speaker 2: La Times, clostly they have they have zero news that

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Speaker 2: they generate themselves. But Stephanie Sierra reports for ABC seven

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Speaker 1: And remember Ricarda.

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Speaker 2: Lara, she did a lot on her. We did a lot.

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Speaker 2: She did a lot on him, and so did we.

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Speaker 2: Riccardo Lara is the insurance commissioner who has completely effed

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Speaker 2: up the insurance industry in the state. Virtually everybody I

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Speaker 2: know is angry with their insurance coverage. If they can

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Speaker 2: even get insurance coverage, it's extremely expensive. In a lot

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Speaker 2: of cases, it doesn't exist anymore. And chaces back to

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Speaker 2: Riccardo Lara, who's done this. I wouldn't even call it

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Speaker 2: a half assed job. He travels around. He's taken dozens

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Speaker 2: of trips, many of them on taxpayer expense, just to

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Speaker 2: enjoy himself. Famously, he went to Bermuda for a fifteen

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Speaker 2: minute speech when he was supposed to attend to hearing

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Speaker 2: in Sacramento on this insurance disaster. So Stephanie Sierra has

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Speaker 2: a new report because they're looking through records about his

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Speaker 2: travel and they cannot get any comment or information out

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Speaker 2: of Riccardo Lara and the staff. This is what Bass

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Speaker 2: does down here. They just stonewall everybody and they hope

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Speaker 2: you get bored and you wander away, and then they

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Speaker 2: continue with either their incompetence, their stupidity, or their corruption.

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Speaker 2: So that'll come up in a little bit now. Speaking

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Speaker 2: of incompetence and stupidity, we got Gavin Newsom. You know,

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Speaker 2: Trump's only been in office for four months, not even

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Speaker 2: and they're already doing a lot of polling on who

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Speaker 2: the next president might be in twenty twenty eight. And

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Speaker 2: it shows you how instead of going to Sacramento and

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Speaker 2: covering the pedophile caucus, or going to Sacramento and finding

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Speaker 2: out why Cardilara is stealing so much of our tax

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Speaker 2: money so we could travel travel. They run endless polls

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Speaker 2: and endless stories on how unpopular Gaven Newsom is, and

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Speaker 2: they got another one. This is the La Times and

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Speaker 2: U see Berkeley. They found that most California voters believe

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Speaker 2: by a more than two to one margin that Newsom

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Speaker 2: is more interested in campaigning for the White House than

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Speaker 2: doing anything to fix California's problems. As a pretty stunning poll,

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's an almost total rejection. Fifty four percent

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Speaker 2: Only twenty six percent of voters think he's governing the

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Speaker 2: So three quarters of voters don't think he's doing anything

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Speaker 2: to help the state. That one quarter I'd like to

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Speaker 2: I'd like to talk to. They're probably the same kind

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Speaker 2: of people who were applauding Joe Biden's cognitive decline, and

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Speaker 1: In fact, h.

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Speaker 2: Only forty one percent Democrats think he's governing the state

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Speaker 2: approve him for. What is the up arrow? Six years

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Speaker 2: of Gavin Newsom? Tell me what's better? Is it homelessness?

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Speaker 1: Is it crime? Is it high speed rail?

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Speaker 2: Was it the way he handled COVID locking down the

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Speaker 2: the homeless money that twenty four billion that disappeared? Was

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Speaker 2: it handling the unemployment money during COVID that fifty billion

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Speaker 2: that disappeared? Tell you what it's? The up era budget

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Speaker 2: is way out of whack. Budget's thirty seven billion in

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Speaker 2: the red at least. So like for people who approve

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Speaker 2: of him, what are you approving of exactly? You don't

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Speaker 2: also notice? This is to me, this is media biz

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Speaker 2: all times when they run photos of him, they run

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Speaker 2: a photo of him from about five years ago where

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Speaker 2: he looks younger and his hair is dark, and they

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Speaker 2: don't run photos he's now turning gray and white, and

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Speaker 2: he's starting to getting a little wrinkly and JOWI like.

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Speaker 1: The bloom is the bloom is off.

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Speaker 2: He's starting to wilt, But they don't publish photos of

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Speaker 2: him wilted. They still publish the old photos of him

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Speaker 2: looking young and virile and dynamic divity to speaking of,

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Speaker 2: I should read that email you sent me. Debra got

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Speaker 2: an email from a listener. Let me see.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 2: I'm not going to give his name because it could

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Speaker 2: be embarrassing, but he wrote here, debor Mark, I'm a

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Speaker 2: longtime listener. I often hear John refer to Gavin Newsom

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Speaker 2: as good looking because of his quote air and chin line.

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Speaker 1: It's true.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm a man that likes men. Gavin Newsom is gross.

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Speaker 2: And then he put the vomit emoji. I've never seen that.

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Speaker 3: Oh, you've never seen that, imoments.

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Speaker 2: I've never seen the vomit emoji. You know, it's one

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Speaker 2: of those little yellow smiley guys and he's got his

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Speaker 2: mouth open and there's green vomit pouring out of it.

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Speaker 2: I didn't know what that was at first. Part of

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Speaker 2: what makes somewhat attractive his personality and Gavin Newsom is

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Speaker 2: one hundred percent lacking. I can't find an email address.

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Speaker 2: For John Coblt anymore. And there's a reason for that.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm your secretary.

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Speaker 3: I can't tell you how many messages I get?

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Speaker 4: Can you send this to John?

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Speaker 1: Can you tell John?

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Speaker 2: People ask me, so, how did the audience react? I said,

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Speaker 2: I have no idea how to react. I don't think

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Speaker 2: phone calls. I don't read emails, no text messages, nothing.

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Speaker 2: All right, Uh, you got the moistline I got. We

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Speaker 2: got the more moistline I can take because that's funny.

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Speaker 2: Five minutes to six minutes of the moistline. I'm fine

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Speaker 2: for the week. He writes, Could you please share with

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Speaker 2: him that Gavin Newsom is not good looking and that

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Speaker 2: this is from a qualified professional. He's professionally he's a

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Speaker 2: man professionally interested in other men. Yeah, and I love

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Speaker 2: and support your animal interest. That was to me, Well, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I think follow he should support my animals.

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Speaker 3: You have more animals than I do. That is that

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Speaker 3: is very true. But look, I mean, looks are so subjective.

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Speaker 3: I mean, we know that so many people find Gavin

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Speaker 3: Newsom attractive.

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Speaker 4: You talk about that all the time.

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Speaker 3: That's why this guy wrote you. So he happens to

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Speaker 3: think he's gross because of his personality, you know, to

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Speaker 3: each his own.

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Speaker 2: Uh I just I just he's like just so off

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Speaker 2: putting in in his slickness. Yes, and now that he's

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Speaker 2: changing all his positions to try to position himself for

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Speaker 2: the presidency, it's so obvious, there's nothing subtle.

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Speaker 3: Well, what happens when gas goes to eight bucks a gallon?

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Speaker 4: How's he going to run on that?

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Speaker 1: You would think?

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Speaker 2: In fact, I got to play that clip too, because

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Speaker 2: Channel seven finally covered that story. Sometimes I feel like

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Speaker 2: I'm a howling loon in the wilderness and I'm the

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Speaker 2: only one carrying on about something that's really really important,

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Speaker 2: like gas is going to be almost eight fifty a

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Speaker 2: It's like, really nobody else in the media is interested.

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Speaker 2: But Channel seven ran a short story. But at least

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Speaker 2: they ran something, and they had a clip of Michael

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Speaker 2: MChE On, the professor at USC who's done all the research.

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Speaker 2: Well we come back. What I was getting to is

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Speaker 2: there are a lot of Democrats across the country that

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Speaker 2: are not sold on Newsome. They think there are other

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Speaker 2: better care. It's come twenty twenty eight, and there's one

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Speaker 2: He's a former state senator. He's been involved in presidential

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Speaker 2: politics for decades. His name is Dick Harputlian and his

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Speaker 2: opinion of Gaven Newsom from South Carolina is a crackup.

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Speaker 2: So we'll do that next, and we'll also we'll play

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Speaker 2: about the clip on the gas prices that Channel seven

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Speaker 2: is finally covering.

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Speaker 1: It's a real thing, people. It's not just.

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Speaker 3: Seven bucks a gallon by the end of this year. Yes, yes, yes,

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Speaker 3: six bucks sorry, six bucks and then eight bucks.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. So it's all bad. Wherever it actually lands, it's

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Speaker 2: all bad. And the thing is it has to be

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Speaker 2: that high because of what's happening. You've got two refineries closing,

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Speaker 2: of the California Air Resources Board. So it must happen.

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Speaker 2: It's not a wild eyed estimate. This is the way

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Speaker 2: it's going. By design. They want this to happen.

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Speaker 2: You know, I feel sorry for Gavin Newsom because he

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Speaker 2: was one of these It's one of these little irritating

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Speaker 2: Wiener kids. I'm sure he was a Wiener kid. Who

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Speaker 2: you know, he idolized Robert F. Kennedy when he was

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Speaker 2: very young, and he all he can think about all

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Speaker 2: his life is he wants to be president. And and

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Speaker 2: now he's so thoroughly efed up California that everybody's laughing

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Speaker 2: at him, even a lot of Democrats around the country

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Speaker 2: are laughing at him. And if you're just joining us there,

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Speaker 2: there's a new poll out which says that California voters,

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Speaker 2: by a fifty four to twenty six margin, thinks that

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Speaker 2: he's more focused on winning the White House than fixing

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Speaker 2: all the problems here. And he's got a relatively low

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Speaker 2: approval rating of forty six percent. His disapproval rating is

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Speaker 2: forty six percent. And I know this may come as

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Speaker 2: a shock for those of you who are in love

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Speaker 2: with his dreamy eyes and his slick hair. But that

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Speaker 2: hair is not looking so good anymore. Looking it's looking

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Speaker 2: like dishwater gray, whitish.

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Speaker 3: You know, there's a double standard, John for women when

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Speaker 3: their hair looks like that, people don't like it. Men

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Speaker 3: it looks distinguished, some say.

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Speaker 2: Some say not on him, though, I think he was

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Speaker 2: such a pretty boy like you know, like George Clooney.

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Speaker 6: Right.

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Speaker 2: It really worked well for him because I saw him

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Speaker 2: the other day. He's doing to play in New York.

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Speaker 2: We had to dye his hair, and he does look

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Speaker 2: a lot better silver than it does with a dyed

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Speaker 2: dark brown look. But do some I don't know, he's

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Speaker 3: He's going to hear you and he's going to go seriously,

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Speaker 2: some other governors are much more popular in their states.

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Speaker 1: He'll run.

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Speaker 2: And if he makes it to January of twenty twenty eight,

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Speaker 2: then his life is over. There was no other purpose

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Speaker 2: she's auditioning for First Lady. I saw a story on

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Speaker 2: She wants to be first Lady so bad. Now here's

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Speaker 1: I don't know how he gets out of this.

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Speaker 2: The Phillip sixty six refinery in Los Angeles is closing

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Speaker 2: less than a year from now. Those two refineries being

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Speaker 1: Here's a report from Channel seven.

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Speaker 7: Mad But we could soon be paying more for gas.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, California.

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Speaker 9: A University of Southern California professor says that could be

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Speaker 9: the case if two refineries close in our state. Phillip

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Speaker 9: that could send prices soaring to nine dollars a.

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Speaker 1: Gallon a reduction in supply relatively stable demand.

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Speaker 2: In more layering on of legislative costs, price is going

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Speaker 7: To compensate for the closures, California would have to import

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Speaker 7: Doing so would only add to the costs. In response

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Speaker 7: to intensify collaboration with refineries to maintain a stable and

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Speaker 2: Sir, fineries are closing, there's nothing news can do collaboration

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Speaker 2: with refiners. They're closing, they're going in that business, they're

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Speaker 2: glad Channel seven covered the story for what fifty nine seconds?

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Speaker 2: But do you realize how bad it is when you

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Speaker 2: California Air Resources Board. That voice you heard in the

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Speaker 2: middle of the story was Michael mcche the professor from

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Speaker 2: is projecting gas to be about eight dollars and forty

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Speaker 2: three cents in a year and a half. Eight forty

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Speaker 2: three in Mississippi. You can get it for two sixty four.

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Speaker 2: Eric saw two thirty nine in Austin, Texas just over

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Speaker 2: the weekend. I paid myself in Florida, and we're looking

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Speaker 2: Newsom run for president with eight forty three gallon per gas.

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Speaker 1: In his state?

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Speaker 2: What he is so he wants it so badly, but

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Speaker 2: he's so self destructive. He joined that stupid global warming cult,

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Speaker 2: the climate change cult, and now he's stuck idiot. Why

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Speaker 2: are we run by idiots? Why? All right, we come back.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna get the full story on how much tax

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Speaker 2: money Ricardo Lauer, our idiot insurance commissioner, is wasting on

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Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM

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Speaker 5: six forty.

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Speaker 2: We're on every day from one until four and then

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Speaker 2: after four o'clock John Cobelts Show on demand on the

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Speaker 2: iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 1: Oh, we're gonna play now. Forgot what we were doing here.

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Speaker 2: There is a reporter up in San Francisco for ABC

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Speaker 2: of reports on the insurance commissioner, Ricardo Lara, who has

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Speaker 2: on dozens and dozens of trips just to have a

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Speaker 2: good time. I mean, you know, there's usually some well

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Speaker 2: in Bermuda. Best example, he gave a fifteen minute speech

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Speaker 10: As you know Michael, for months now, we've been trying

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Speaker 10: commissioner's international taxpayer funded travel. We've yet to get a

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Speaker 8: Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lada is a national leader, He's.

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Speaker 1: A global leader.

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Speaker 6: This is California Insurance and Commissioner Ricardo Latta's Deputy Commissioner

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Speaker 6: of Communications, Michael Soller, a staffer we've been emailing over

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Speaker 6: the past year while struggling to get answers about the

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Speaker 6: state's insurance crisis, including most recently, why the commissioner was

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Speaker 6: absent for nearly all the Senate insurance hearings since assuming

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Speaker 4: Or while the business purpose.

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Speaker 6: For nearly a dozen all inclusive tax pay funded trips

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Speaker 6: to be made public.

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Speaker 4: This was last month.

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Speaker 8: Oh, I'll provide you a complete list. Every single trip

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Speaker 10: These are documents that are held within the department that

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Speaker 8: I appreciate that, and we do take this to the

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Speaker 8: We want to make sure that we're answering a question

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Speaker 8: we're not.

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Speaker 1: I'll certainly follow up on that.

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Speaker 6: We reached out out not once, not twice, but three

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Speaker 6: times since Sawler said that two weeks went by no response.

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Speaker 6: Earlier in the interview, I asked, three months.

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Speaker 10: Ago we made this initial request and we never got

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Speaker 4: Is there a reason for that?

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Speaker 8: Well, I know you've been making public records requests and

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Speaker 1: And respond to those requests.

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Speaker 8: You know, I hope you feel that we are responding

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Speaker 10: You, I haven't felt that way.

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Speaker 6: And here's why. Let's go back to January thirteenth of

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Speaker 4: In the weeks that followed, we checked.

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Speaker 6: Back again and again and again, each time with specific

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Speaker 11: The departments having stuff from the cloud, so a lot

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Speaker 6: But the next day we were told we have conducted

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Speaker 6: To give Soler the benefit of the doubt, we followed

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Speaker 12: It was arguably one of the most unproductive email exchanges

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Speaker 4: I feel like a broken record here, but.

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Speaker 12: Each time the questions very simple what was the business

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Speaker 6: Result, And his last email shared no answer, but this

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Speaker 6: I'm glad we were able to help you. Fast forward

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Speaker 6: three weeks later to this interview.

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Speaker 4: Again.

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Speaker 10: Our hope was just to try to hear your side.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, no, and I really appreciate that, because you know

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Speaker 4: We never got that yet. He did say.

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Speaker 1: Every trip has an important business purpose.

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Speaker 6: Fifteen datas since this interview, we got a response from

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Speaker 6: list we've already provided four times. Instead of identifying the

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Speaker 4: Going on to say he's meeting the moment.

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Speaker 6: The detailed email failed to provide any specific regulatory action

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Speaker 11: It's hard to believe if the thirst dog recommendation that

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Speaker 4: We know they did.

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Speaker 11: What's the issue? I mean, we're not playing hide and seek,

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Speaker 11: I believe, but it seems like somebody is.

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Speaker 10: We also have a significant chunk of records that are

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Speaker 4: Is that something you can help us with?

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Speaker 8: Yeah? Absolutely, please reach out to me.

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Speaker 4: I wasn't aware of that.

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Speaker 10: So if there's things that are making sent you several

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Speaker 10: emails like explaining that, but I'll reforward them to you.

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Speaker 6: Seven on your side found the Commissioner made at least

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Speaker 6: forty six trips across the globe since assuming office in

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Speaker 6: twenty nineteen, but the records provided by his office are

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Speaker 6: missing receipts and required travel documents from at least thirty

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Speaker 6: of those trips. State laws, specifically CALHR requires a rigorous

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Speaker 6: process to get taxpayer funded out of country travel approved,

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Speaker 6: including a series of forms that look like this where

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Speaker 6: the mission critical purpose needs to be identified.

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Speaker 4: After our first story aired, we requested those forms again.

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Speaker 10: But I just want to be able to hear that

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Speaker 10: from you. If that is something you could prioritize for us.

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Speaker 8: Absolutely, yeah, please reach out to me again. We take

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Speaker 8: this with this record's request, you know, very seriously. We

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Speaker 8: have a team that works on that so I can

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Speaker 8: follow up.

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Speaker 6: Yet we never got them in fact aside from one,

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Speaker 6: the department only provided records of a handful of trips

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Speaker 6: that we already had and in some cases stand forwarded

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Speaker 6: emails showing these records do exist, it failed to attach them.

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Speaker 2: That's a great story, and that is Stephanie Sierra from

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Speaker 2: ABC seven in San Francisco. Does it make you furious?

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Speaker 2: I mean, we all have insurance problems. The fire insurance

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Speaker 2: in the state, home insurance, car insurance. Everything's out of

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Speaker 2: sight at a sight, expensive, going up dramatically every year,

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Speaker 2: unaffordable in a lot of cases for a lot of people.

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Speaker 2: And there seems to be nobody working to help ease

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Speaker 2: all this pain here.

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Speaker 1: A lot of people can't get insurance. A lot of people.

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Speaker 2: Leather insurance canceled in the Palisades, for example, and in Altadena,

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Speaker 2: and the fair plan they were dumped into has a

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Speaker 2: pretty tight cap and it's broke anyway. And while I

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Speaker 2: was listening to SHARE's report, by the way, the idiot,

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Speaker 2: the bozo who's the communications Deputy Commissioner of Communications and

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Speaker 2: Press Relations, Okay, Michael Solar, that was the guy who

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Speaker 2: kept spewing nonsense, just generic cliches, pretending that he's helping

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Speaker 2: and he was lying every time, and I was writing

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Speaker 2: down the phrases. It's customer service phrases. I appreciate that.

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Speaker 2: You know, we want transparency. We'll deal with that expeditiously.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for reaching out all these lame corporate cliche

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Speaker 2: words that these little wieners and weasels use. Michael Solar,

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Speaker 2: you have you have Lara going to Paris, Bogatah, Chile,

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Speaker 2: forty six trips and the receipts and records are missing

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Speaker 2: for thirty of the trips and this is all state law.

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Speaker 2: And then you had this embarrassing fool, Michael Solar. And

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Speaker 2: you can look him up s O l l e

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Speaker 2: r on Insurance dot ca A dot gov. And he's

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Speaker 2: got an email address there. I'll give it to you.

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Speaker 2: You can tell my own press you were Michael Dot

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Speaker 2: Solar s O l l e r at Insurance dot

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Speaker 2: ca A dot gov. That's Michael dot Solar, s O

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Speaker 2: L L E r at Insurance dot ca A dot gov.

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Speaker 2: Just go to the page and you'll see it, and uh,

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Speaker 2: just tell him you know what you thought of all

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Speaker 2: he's mean. Look look at your insurance bill right before

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Speaker 2: you write to him. Lara's running a scam. He's flat

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Speaker 2: out stealing taxpayer money and he's traveling all over the world.

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Speaker 1: But he's meeting the moment. Yeah, yeah, he did see that.

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Speaker 1: He said he's beating the moment.

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

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Speaker 1: Moistline eight seven seven Moist eighty six.

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Speaker 2: We still have some vacancies in the Looney Tune Hotel

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Speaker 2: eight seven seven Moist eighty six. Or use the talkback

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Speaker 2: feature on the iHeartRadio app and leave your insane opinions

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Speaker 2: and observations and we'll play them tomorrow twice.

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Speaker 1: Coming up right after three o'clock.

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Speaker 2: Well, we have a new contingent that has joined the

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Speaker 2: battle to make it a felony to buy teenagers for sex.

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Speaker 2: You know, that's been the big fight in the Assembly

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Speaker 2: in the last a week or two. The prostitutes showed up,

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Speaker 2: excuse me, the sex workers. Yes, a group of prostitutes

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Speaker 2: showed up to lobby against the bill and they were

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Speaker 2: immediately taken into chambers by the Assembly lead. We will

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Speaker 2: give you the details. I'm not making it. It's a

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Speaker 2: true story. It's from Ashley Zavalla, KCRA and Sacramento. The

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Speaker 2: it was one of two reporters that covers Sacramento government

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Speaker 2: in the entire state none here in La. All right,

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Speaker 2: do you have any knee problems? No?

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Speaker 1: And there's a reason you don't I found out today. Yeah. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: This study is published in os dr Arthritis and Cartilage,

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Speaker 2: and it found out that, uh, they just looked at

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Speaker 2: people in their thirties, average age thirty three, and nearly

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Speaker 2: two thirds already had cartilage damage or bone damage. Two

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Speaker 2: thirds and a lot of them aren't even feeling knee

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Speaker 2: pain yet. But they discovered that the knee decay starts

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Speaker 2: real early and then eventually you feel it, and you know,

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Speaker 2: they looked at two hundred and eighty eight people MRI scans. Uh,

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Speaker 2: sixty percent were women, average age thirty three, and they

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Speaker 2: found out the main reason they're too fat. Too much

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Speaker 2: weight on the body and it pounds and pounds and

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Speaker 2: pounds on. Yeah, that's right, that's why you don't have

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Speaker 2: any new problems because you eate eighty nine pounds and

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Speaker 2: it wears away your cartilage, It creates bone marrow, lesions,

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Speaker 2: it creates what they call small bone growths called osteophytes.

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Speaker 2: You get, you get, you get like like or extra

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Speaker 2: bone growth, which could be painful. And primarily it goes

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Speaker 2: back to just eating too much. You're too fat, because

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Speaker 2: there's only so much, so much abuse that your your

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Speaker 2: system can take. Yeah, so if your knees are bothering you,

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Speaker 2: it's not because you played too much tennis. It's not

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Speaker 2: because it's an old football injury. Well, if you'ny, if

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Speaker 2: you're skinny, then it may be that you play too

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Speaker 2: much tennis. Right, you have worn it out, but barring

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Speaker 2: an extensive athletic career, just the food. Put the fork

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Speaker 2: down for a minute, give your knees a break. When

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Speaker 2: we come back. Yes, the prostitutes have shown up, and boy,

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Speaker 2: those assembly members were happy to meet them.

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Speaker 1: Huh.

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Speaker 2: The meeting is still going on. It started last night.

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Speaker 2: They haven't come out yet. Debra Mark is live in

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Speaker 2: the CAFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey, you've been listening

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