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Speaker 1: Well, let's get Sayaed Kashani right on here.

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Speaker 2: We just played you about six minutes of say Ed

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Speaker 2: at the Board of Water and Power Commissioner's meeting. He

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Speaker 2: got burned out of his home. He showed up, he said,

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Speaker 2: wearing the only clothes that he owns, and he wanted

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Speaker 2: to know why did they not fill up the reservoir,

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Speaker 2: the San Inez Reservoir. And he even played a clip

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Speaker 2: of Genie Kenonez, the CEO of the DWP, babbling on

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Speaker 2: something about diversity and Hispanic percentages and you know, all

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Speaker 2: the nonsense that they obsess on. He pointed out that

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Speaker 2: they never discussed the empty reservoir, not once during all

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Speaker 2: their meetings of the past year. Sayat Kashani, welcome, how

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Speaker 2: are you good?

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Speaker 3: Pronounce sir? Good to be on your show.

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Speaker 2: That was a great presentation that you made to the

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Speaker 2: DW Did anybody from that board respond to you, either

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Speaker 2: publicly or privately?

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Speaker 3: Commissioner Pinder made some helpful comments. She said they would

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Speaker 3: look into it, that that was appreciated, but no one else.

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Speaker 1: So everybody else had nothing to say.

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Speaker 3: They went about their business. The room was actually full

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Speaker 3: of contractors who were there to get their contracts approved

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Speaker 3: with the DWP, that that was their main business.

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Speaker 1: Right, So you were did you feel like you were

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Speaker 1: in the way?

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Speaker 3: I guess so they didn't seem to want to hear

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Speaker 3: from me.

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Speaker 2: Isn't that? Isn't that falling? I mean I get enraged

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Speaker 2: listening to you. I mean, you controlled yourself quite well.

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure I could have kept my composure the

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Speaker 2: way you did.

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Speaker 3: Well. You know, the problem is deeper than even I

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Speaker 3: had a chance to say. Let's just take an example.

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Speaker 3: One of the points I made is that the city

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Speaker 3: approved Janus Cordonas as director of the Department of Water

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Speaker 3: and Power without a background check. Now, that wasn't rhetorical.

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Speaker 3: There's a council file on her approval that literally says

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Speaker 3: the background check has not been done, has not been completed. Now,

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Speaker 3: if they had completed that background check, one of the

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Speaker 3: things they would have found is that in June twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty two, when Jenny's cornonas was head of gas natural

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Speaker 3: gas operations for Pacific Gas and Electric. Her division was

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Speaker 3: fined one point three million dollars by the California Public

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Speaker 3: Utilities Commission for corroded and leaky gas pipelines. The Commission

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Speaker 3: found three hundred and ten instances of corrooted pipelines and

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Speaker 3: they cited her Genie quanonas as the responsible officer. So

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Speaker 3: this happened at her watch at Pacific Gas and Electric.

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Speaker 3: None of this was disclosed or considered by the city

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Speaker 3: council when they appointed her.

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Speaker 1: So she had three hundred and and ten corroded pipes.

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Speaker 3: That's what the Public Untilities Commission found. They only find

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Speaker 3: her found her division. They find her division of Pacific

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Speaker 3: Gas and Electric while she was head. This happened on

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Speaker 3: her watch. She was head of gas pipeline operations. The

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Speaker 3: Public Commissions find her one point six on one point

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Speaker 3: three million dollars. They found three hundred and ten violations,

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Speaker 3: and they specifically found that these violations quote present an

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Speaker 3: unacceptable risk to safe operations. How far the city hired

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, And then there was that that story you

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Speaker 2: told about Puerto Rico that she was in charge of

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Speaker 2: after the hurricane the electrification program in eighty percent of

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Speaker 2: Puerto Rico is without electricity a year later.

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Speaker 3: Well even to this day, there are still electricity blackouts

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Speaker 3: in Puerto Rico. It's never been repaired.

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Speaker 1: She's not good at this is.

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Speaker 3: It seems that she just went from one failed operation

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Speaker 2: Are you aware of anybody supporting her, as anybody spoke

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Speaker 2: with you as to why she's still is standing, why

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Speaker 2: she's still the CEO of the DWP.

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Speaker 1: Well, what are they afraid of it? By getting rid

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Speaker 1: of her, what would happen?

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Speaker 3: I don't know. The commission appointed to the city council

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Speaker 3: all voting unanimously to appoint her, and the mayor recommended her.

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Speaker 3: So a lot of you know, the entire city government

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Speaker 2: I mean, talk about your situation for a minute. You

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Speaker 2: got completely burned out of.

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Speaker 1: Your home, that's correct. And and do you have a

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Speaker 1: family with you? Do you have a family home with children?

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Speaker 3: They were at school. Their school also was burned down,

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Speaker 3: so it was it was pretty frantic and on the

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Speaker 3: the two children and and uh they lost their school too.

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Speaker 3: In fact, most of the schools in the area burned down.

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Speaker 3: And let me tell you something about that. The schools

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Speaker 3: had sprinklers, obviously fire sprinkler systems. There was no water

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Speaker 1: No, no water.

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Speaker 3: They don't work without water.

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Speaker 2: And who's responsible for that? Were these public schools or

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Speaker 2: private schools a right?

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Speaker 1: Or? Or is this part of the DWP piping that failed?

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Speaker 3: Exactly? The DWP. The DWP provides water for the sprinkler systems,

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Speaker 3: of fire sprinkler systems, but when the necessity came, when

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Speaker 3: the time came, they didn't supply the water.

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Speaker 1: So the whole infrastructure failed.

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Speaker 2: Everybody in Pacific Palisades, the whole water infrastructure and the

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Speaker 2: fire infrastructure as well, just failed.

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Speaker 1: The hydrants weren't working.

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Speaker 3: Exactly, Everything involving fire safety failed. And the worst of

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Speaker 3: it was again the city drained that reservoir a year ago.

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Speaker 3: The Department of Water and Power never told anyone in

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Speaker 3: the area. They never sent up warning to the residents

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Speaker 3: saying extreme fire rists this reservoir which was originally built

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Speaker 3: for fire safety, is now empty, so be advised. They

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Speaker 3: never told that. It's not even clear if the DWP

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Speaker 3: told the fire department that the reservoir was empty. So

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Speaker 3: they just drained the reservoir and left it that way.

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Speaker 3: And the worst of it is they have that cover

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Speaker 3: can't even tell that it's empty because of that cover.

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Speaker 3: I mean the angle that you see it. Before they

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Speaker 3: had the cover, you could tell if it was empty

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Speaker 3: or not. But with the cover, you can't even tell.

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Speaker 3: And they never told anyone.

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Speaker 2: And you haven't heard any information privately. Sometimes people talk.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes people will will whisper and say, look, here's the

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Speaker 2: real story, here's what's been going on. Have you heard

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Speaker 2: anything at all.

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Speaker 3: Well, I've tried trying to find information by going into

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Speaker 3: their archives, and the public library has some information and

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Speaker 3: so forth, and it shows certain things. For example, they

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Speaker 3: drained the reservoir last January. They look for bids to

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Speaker 3: months to even look for bids. They didn't approve a

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Speaker 3: it was the same company that installed the reservoir, so

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Speaker 3: they didn't have far to look, and to this day

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Speaker 3: the reservoir is still empty. So I don't know why

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Speaker 3: it takes them a year to go back to the

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Speaker 3: same company to fix the cover. Even assuming they have

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Speaker 3: to fix the cover. There's been some false reporting that

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Speaker 3: the reservoir leaked. That was not the problem. It was

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Speaker 3: the cover over the reservoir that had a tear in it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and only recently did the law require a cover.

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Speaker 2: And from what I read, the cover should have only

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Speaker 2: taken a month to fix.

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Speaker 1: For one hundred and forty thousand.

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Speaker 3: Well, it was job information said you talk about inside information.

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Speaker 3: One thing I have heard is that some people in

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Speaker 3: the department wanted to repair it in house, but they

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Speaker 3: were refused and told to go to get an outside contractor,

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Speaker 3: and that, of course takes longer. There's been a lot

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Speaker 3: of false information put out by the DWP. Let me

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Speaker 3: give you some examples. On the day of the fire,

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Speaker 3: the one of the tanks of three tanks left small

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Speaker 3: tanks supplying water in the Palisades had already failed by

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Speaker 3: four pm on January seventh, but at six point thirty

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Speaker 3: pm that same day, the DWP get out a public

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Speaker 3: notice in which they stated we're working to provide water

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Speaker 3: for firefighting. They made no mention of the failed tank.

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Speaker 3: They never disclosed that the tanks failed. If they had

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Speaker 3: given even that information, I think some people might have

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Speaker 3: saved some property or maybe even lives if they had

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Speaker 3: known that the water system was failing. But the DWP

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Speaker 2: Can you hang on a second instant? Well, just hold

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Speaker 2: hold on, hold on, because I had to take a break.

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Speaker 2: I want to hear all of this. So we're going

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Speaker 2: to continue with say Ed Koshani, resident in the Palisades,

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Speaker 2: who's done some of his own dest mistigation into the DWP.

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

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Speaker 4: six forty.

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Speaker 2: We're going to continue with Sayed because Shani Sayed was

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Speaker 2: the Pacific Palisages resident who spoke at the DWP meeting

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Speaker 2: last week and wanted to know why the reservoir was empty,

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Speaker 2: and why in the last year nobody did anything to

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Speaker 2: fix the cover, why nobody ever discusses this, and why

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Speaker 2: is Jennie Kinonia still have a job as CEO. Now,

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Speaker 2: say Ed, all right, when we left you right before

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Speaker 2: this commercial break, you were talking about things that you

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Speaker 2: had found out on your own.

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Speaker 1: Can continue. You said, there were several things you told

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Speaker 1: us one give us the next one.

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Speaker 3: Well, the one of the thing. The DWPS releasing a

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Speaker 3: lot of misleading information. For example, on their website they

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Speaker 3: claim the correcting misinformation and they talk about the reservoir.

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Speaker 3: They refer to the reservoir as drinking water. Well, that's true,

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Speaker 3: but it's misleading because the reservoir also supplies the hydrants,

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Speaker 3: the fire sprinklers, and it's not Yes, it does supply

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Speaker 3: drinking water, but that's not its primary purpose. If you

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Speaker 3: go back in history, this reservoir was incepted after the

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Speaker 3: bel Air fire in nineteen sixty one, when it was

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Speaker 3: determined that the city needed more fire to more water

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Speaker 3: to fight these essentially brush fires. The reservoir was accepted

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Speaker 3: in nineteen sixty eight. I think it was completed in

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Speaker 3: nineteen seventy. Yes, it supplies drinking water, but its purpose

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Speaker 3: is emergency fire water. That's made clear in the original

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Speaker 3: documents when they built the reservoir. So when the DWP

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Speaker 3: now is saying, well, this is drinking water, it would

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Speaker 3: not have made a difference. I believe that's misleading and

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Speaker 3: that's not consistent with the record the y water.

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Speaker 1: Besides that, it's irrelevant it should have.

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Speaker 2: Been one hundred and seventeen million gallons available.

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Speaker 1: That's nuts. Go on, go on.

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Speaker 3: Well, the other thing that concerns me is that DWP

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Speaker 3: is talking about a so called independent investigation. They claim

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Speaker 3: they want to model to see what the effect would

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Speaker 3: have been if the reservoir was there. Well, I have

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Speaker 3: many problems with that. Number one, they should have modeled

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Speaker 3: that before they drained the reservoir. Now they should have

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Speaker 3: considered the effect on a fire if the reservoir is

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Speaker 3: drained before they drained the reservoir, not afterwards. Now, who

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Speaker 3: are they going to get to do this investigation? Well,

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Speaker 3: they said they'll hire an engineering company. Any engineering company

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Speaker 3: or wants to do business with the DWP. So how

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Speaker 3: are you going to get an independent assessment from an

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Speaker 3: maybe from a federal agency. Maybe they would investigate it fairly.

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Speaker 3: But the DWP hiring an engineering company that it's not

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Speaker 3: Well, if it doesn't make it different, why did you

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Speaker 2: It seems every ten minutes there's another news story about

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Speaker 2: And if you're eating eggs and drinking milk, are you

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Speaker 1: Just fake it? Yeah, that's all I'm doing there. You go.

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Speaker 2: No, if you eat eggs, you're going to be fine.

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Speaker 2: If you drink pasteurized milk, you're going to be fine.

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Speaker 2: Don't know what starts this blue foreign country.

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Speaker 2: Avian flu has been around for a while. You remember

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Speaker 2: couldn't care less what happens. You know who drinks raw

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Speaker 2: And you know pasteurization is is you heat them, you

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Speaker 1: But he ended up with worms in his brain. That's how.

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Speaker 1: That's how.

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Speaker 2: her home, a one hundred year old barn, all, her

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Speaker 2: horse stalls, a guesthouse, a motorhom a trailer, and she

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Speaker 2: got her home rebuilt, but she still can't get into it.

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Speaker 2: And she's got a warning for those of you at

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Speaker 2: Altadena in the Palace Aids.

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Speaker 1: You don't know what's coming.

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Speaker 2: You don't know what kind of bureaucratic hell is going

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Speaker 2: to be unleashed on your lives, because the people that

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Speaker 2: are supposed to make life easier for you are are idiots,

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Speaker 2: and they're going to make life much more difficult.

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Speaker 1: There is nothing more.

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Speaker 2: Frustrating and more it's just flat out stupid than a

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Speaker 2: bunch of bureaucrats. And that's why we're in the situation

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Speaker 2: we're in. We're going to talk to Cheryl Poindexter. She

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Speaker 2: can't wait to talk about all this. One thing that

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Speaker 2: hit me in this email she sent to us. Eighty

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Speaker 2: five houses in our community burned to the ground. You

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Speaker 2: know how many have been rebuilt, Like take a guess

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Speaker 2: at a eighty five.

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Speaker 1: Four.

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Speaker 2: This is five years later, and a lot of people

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Speaker 2: cannot pay for the code upgrades that the county is demanding.

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Speaker 2: Costs you one hundre of thousands of dollars. We'll explain

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Speaker 2: all this coming up. Yeah, that's why when you see

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Speaker 2: Karen Bass and sober Off standing and going, oh, I'm strong,

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Speaker 2: Oh I'm strong. We're going to be better than ever.

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Speaker 2: They don't tell you what's going to happen. And that's

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Speaker 2: why when that Hollywood agent brought up the absurd permitting

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Speaker 2: in La so sober Off shouted him down and saying, Oh,

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Speaker 2: we're not going to be political here, We're not going

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Speaker 2: to be negative.

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Speaker 1: That's the bust to know.

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Speaker 2: They don't want to talk about how horrible the government

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Speaker 2: is to people and how difficult it's going to be,

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Speaker 2: and they're not going to make it better. All right,

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Speaker 2: let me talk about something that really should make you crazy.

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Speaker 2: And it's not just true in Los Angeles. This is

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Speaker 2: true everywhere, but especially in Los Angeles where nearly everybody

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Speaker 2: in government, in power, the city council, and the last

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Speaker 2: three mayors belonged to the Woke cult. It's a terrible

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Speaker 2: religious cult. And in the Woke cult, there are three

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Speaker 2: groups that are considered sacred above all other mortals, and

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Speaker 2: that is the homeless, the criminals, and the illegal aliens.

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Speaker 2: And I always tell you about all the money we're spending,

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Speaker 2: and maybe you don't believe me, and you think it's

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Speaker 2: hyperbole or I've got some kind of weird political bent.

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Speaker 1: The West Side Current.

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Speaker 2: Has broken down what the City of Los Angeles spends

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Speaker 2: annually in the budget, and this is.

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Speaker 1: The root of why the.

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Speaker 2: Fire, the city fire response was so feeble and was

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Speaker 2: so ineffective. This is from the twenty twenty three to

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Speaker 2: twenty four fiscal year, ten percent of the city's budget,

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Speaker 2: ten percent one point three billion dollars went to homeless services.

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Speaker 2: Ten percent of the budget. The homeless makeup one percent

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Speaker 2: of the population, So ten percent of your tax money

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Speaker 2: in the city of La goes to help one percent

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Speaker 2: of the population. And you could see all these programs

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Speaker 2: are massive failures. In fact, two thirds of the homeless

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Speaker 2: are unsheltered, means they don't even have a shelter bed

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Speaker 2: to go to or one of those disgusting motels. They're

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Speaker 2: in the streets. And that's ten percent of the budget.

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Speaker 2: You know who also gets ten percent of the budget

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Speaker 2: the La Fire Department and emergency medical services. They actually

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Speaker 2: get a little less than the homeless.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: The fire department, though, has to provide fire protection and

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Speaker 2: emergency medical services and disaster services for the entire city

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Speaker 2: of nearly four million people. They have to supply these

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Speaker 2: services fire and emergency medical to four million people, while

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Speaker 2: the homeless department only has to service one percent of

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Speaker 2: the four million, but they get the same amount of money.

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Speaker 2: In fact, the homeless agencies get a little bit more

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Speaker 2: than the apartment. Now, that is an atrocity. That's disgusting,

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Speaker 2: that is wrong, that is foul. I'm out of words.

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Speaker 2: And the thing is you can't go to a Karen

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Speaker 2: Bass because she's a high priestess in the cult, and

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Speaker 2: you can't go to the city council most of them

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Speaker 2: and say, hey, this is wrong. Should you be spending

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Speaker 2: more money on homeless people than the fire department when

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Speaker 2: the fire department has to serve four million and the

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Speaker 2: homeless agencies are serving one percent of that.

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Speaker 1: Right on its face, it's absurd.

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Speaker 2: And this has to go every year because they belonged

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Speaker 2: to this bizarro cult that provide that prizes homeless people

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Speaker 2: as well as illegal aliens and criminals above us ordinary citizens.

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Speaker 2: It is so angering, it is so crazy, but you

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Speaker 2: can't talk them out of it, which is why they

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Speaker 2: have to be removed. They simply have to be removed

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Speaker 2: because this is crazy land. The LAPD gets sixteen percent

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Speaker 2: of the budget. But infrastructure and maintenance programs like brush removal, well,

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Speaker 2: let's take brush removal by itself. We only spend a

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Speaker 2: million and a half dollars on brush clearance, which was

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Speaker 2: one of the reasons the Palisades fire blew up so big.

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Speaker 2: There was so much to burn up there. One and

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Speaker 2: a half million dollars. But we're spending we're spending one

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Speaker 2: point three billion. I'm the homeless who start the fires.

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Speaker 1: It's got to be reversed.

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Speaker 2: Police and fire and emergency services and brush clearance, all

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Speaker 2: that stuff that should be billions of dollars and give

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Speaker 2: the homeless a few pennies to buy them bus there

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Speaker 2: and get them out of town. This experiment should be

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Speaker 2: over done. No further discussion. This has got a hind

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Speaker 2: We come back. We're going to talk with Cheryl Poindexter.

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Speaker 2: Five years ago she lost everything on her property to

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Speaker 2: a fire in Juniper Hills and still can't get into

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Speaker 2: her US. Wait till you hear about the nightmare of

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Speaker 2: actually dealing with the bureaucracy. Maybe somebody called Steve Sobrough

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Speaker 2: and ask him to listen to this, because this is

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