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Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty.

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Speaker 2: have Tracy Park on in just a moment. Tracy Park

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Speaker 2: is the West Side La City councilwoman. She's the one

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Speaker 2: who replaced Mike Bonnen and the first issue that started

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Speaker 2: the ball rolling and led to his downfall was when

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Speaker 2: Bonn and arbitrarily approved a road diet on the west

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Speaker 2: side Ply Delray and it was disastrous. It backed up

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Speaker 2: traffic all over the place. It was on Vista del

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Speaker 2: Mar near Culvert Boulevard. Venice Boulevard also got a road diet.

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Speaker 2: People were so angry and so furious. And a road diet,

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Speaker 2: if you're not familiar with the term, is when they

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Speaker 2: reduce a four lane road two in each direction and

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Speaker 2: make it a two lane road. Or you take a

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Speaker 2: six lane road three in each direction and make it

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Speaker 2: a four lane road, and by squeezing out one of

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Speaker 2: the lanes in each direction, you put in a bike lane.

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Speaker 2: You put in curbing, you put in these stupid bollards,

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Speaker 2: which are these plastic or metal or cement posts that's

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Speaker 2: supposed to block you from making turns, block you from parking,

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Speaker 2: block you from crossing a bike lane. It Santa Monica

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Speaker 2: is doing this and it is a disaster. In fact,

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Speaker 2: I had to drive through one of the main roads

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Speaker 2: in Santa Monica last night in the rains. I actually

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Speaker 2: I had to stop my car because I couldn't figure

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Speaker 2: out what was going on in front of me. Seriously,

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Speaker 2: they're terrible. Anyway, back in twenty seventeen, we beat back

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Speaker 2: the road diet, the KFI audience did, and Bonnen and

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Speaker 2: Garcetti went running and hid for years on this idea.

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Speaker 2: Now it's back in the form of Measure HLA. You

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Speaker 2: get to vote on it in La City in the

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Speaker 2: March fifth primary. You have to vote no on this

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Speaker 2: because it does what I just told you. You're going

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Speaker 2: to have all kinds of crazy traffic and you're going

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Speaker 2: to see maybe five cyclists an hour using the bike lane.

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Speaker 2: It's a terrible idea. It's about forcing us out of

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Speaker 2: our cars in the name of climate change.

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Speaker 1: For some such nonsense. These are fanatics.

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Speaker 2: These are crazy people, and they got this thing on

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Speaker 2: the ballot and most people don't know about it, and

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Speaker 2: so we're trying to put out a red flag warning

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Speaker 2: here that you got to vote this down. Matt Zabo

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Speaker 2: as he's the chief administrative officer, and he went public

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Speaker 2: yesterday and said this is going to cost over three

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Speaker 2: billion dollars over the next ten years, and we don't

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Speaker 2: have the money. So let's get Tracy park on now,

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Speaker 2: because she represents what was a ground zero in the

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Speaker 2: road diet movement and the anti road diet movement there

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Speaker 2: on the West side. Tracy, how are.

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Speaker 3: You, hey, John? How are you? I'm good things.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I can't believe this monster is back. I

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Speaker 2: really cannot what I know right.

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Speaker 3: Well, and thank you for the reminder to your listeners

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Speaker 3: about the fact that we have tried these experiments on

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Speaker 3: the West Side and already failed at them, and we

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Speaker 3: have on the ground experience dealing with what this is

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Speaker 3: going to mean to the residents of the city of

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Speaker 3: Los Angeles in real time. If measure HLA passes.

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Speaker 2: Did you try to drive through that area and ply

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Speaker 2: to delray? Oh when they put up the road dimit?

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Speaker 2: You explain it. People sometimes think I get too excited

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Speaker 2: and it's hyperbole, and I'm doing an act here.

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Speaker 1: You explain what you encountered, and so.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it was just amazing how they had reduced

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Speaker 3: everything down to one lane of traffic using physical barriers,

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Speaker 3: and it led to absolute gridlock throughout the region. And

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Speaker 3: you may also remember, John that there was about a

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Speaker 3: doubling in the number of accidents. No, no, no, the

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Speaker 3: first month or so after it was installed. And you're right,

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Speaker 3: it led to not only the gridlock, but lawsuits. And

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Speaker 3: eventually on that one the city came to its sensus

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Speaker 3: and ultimately ripped it out. Unfortunately, mar Vista has not

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're still stuck with that Denis Boulevard broad DIARYC

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Speaker 3: They are, And seven years later, people are still complaining

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Speaker 3: There continue to be business impacts, and you know, ultimately,

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Speaker 3: these road modifications were so widely hated that they led

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Speaker 3: to the first recall attempt against my predecessor. And so

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Speaker 3: I think it is really important that we spend some

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Speaker 3: time educating voters here in the city of Los Angeles

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Speaker 3: about what measure HLA is and what it is they're

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Speaker 3: going to be buying for three point one billion dollars

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Speaker 1: Which is money that the city doesn't have.

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Speaker 3: That's right. We are already looking at a half a

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Speaker 3: billion dollar deficit. We've already restricted hiring to try to

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Speaker 3: save money, and this is going to be an unfunded mandate.

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Speaker 3: If it passes, that will require us to make cuts

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Speaker 3: and that includes things like encampment interventions, pre trending street lighting,

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Speaker 3: repairing our parts, and investing in public safety. And that's

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Speaker 3: the hard truth here. This is going to cost about

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Speaker 3: three hundred million dollars a year, which is more than

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Speaker 3: the entire Inside Safe budget.

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Speaker 1: And I am high wait wait wait, hold, stop stop.

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Speaker 2: So we're going to spend more money on road diets,

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Speaker 2: then we'll be spending on the Inside Safe program to

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Speaker 2: get the homeless people in indoors.

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Speaker 3: That's right, And thus the alarms going off about this.

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Speaker 1: Yes, this is insanity. This is really really nuts.

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Speaker 3: And here's here's another aspect of this. You know, we

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Speaker 3: So with so many Angelinos living in the high fire

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Speaker 3: traffic that Sunset Boulevard would be with a road diet.

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Speaker 3: Just imagine people trying to get out of Venice during

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Speaker 3: on Lincoln Boulevard. We've heard already from our first responders,

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Speaker 3: are firefighters and paramedics, that these types of roadway modifications

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Speaker 3: slowed them down. We've certainly seen that with Fire Station

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Speaker 3: our fire engines and ambulances are literally stuck in gridlock.

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Speaker 3: They can't move and because of physical barriers, they can't

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Speaker 3: get around the cars and the cars can't move out

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Speaker 3: of their way. And those men and women who are

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Speaker 2: Well, the LA Fire Department has come out very strongly

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Speaker 2: and publicly. They held a news event voicing their angry

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Speaker 3: You know, I think they are rightfully outraged about this.

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Speaker 3: The fact that HLA takes away their seat at the

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Speaker 3: table in implementing safe streets. The fact that the proponents

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Speaker 3: of HLA never even bothered to consult with our city's

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Speaker 3: that there is no consideration for connectivity usage. This isn't

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Speaker 3: a plan to you know, make smart, sensible connections around

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Speaker 3: the city. This is going to be six hundred and

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Speaker 3: sixty foot stretches of road diets to nowhere, just in

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Speaker 3: time for the twenty twenty eight Olympics.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this, this is a good idea. I'm glad you

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Speaker 2: said that. To explain how this is going to work.

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Speaker 2: Every time the city has a let's say a repaving project,

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Speaker 2: or more, they have to start putting in the bike lane,

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Speaker 2: and they're also going to and they have to begin

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Speaker 2: the road diet. They got to shrink the number of lanes.

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Speaker 2: It will be mandated. So this is going to be

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Speaker 2: slow motion over a long period of time, and the

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Speaker 2: traffic is going to get choked little by little by

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Speaker 3: It could be a bike lane. It could also be

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Speaker 3: a dedicated bus lane. There's a lot of different potential

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Speaker 3: treatments that could come in along these mobility corridors, and

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Speaker 3: that is a real concern when we know that wildfire

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Speaker 3: emergencies and flood emergencies are things that we experience in

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Speaker 3: real time around our city. And something else I want

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Speaker 3: to mention, remember that the proponents of HLA are the

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Speaker 3: very same people who want to tear down the ninety

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Speaker 2: Well, they're fanatics, they're radical extremists who want to force

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Speaker 2: us all out of our cars when there's no viable

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Speaker 2: options for most people obviously, and there's not going to

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Speaker 2: be anytime soon. LA was designed the way it's designed,

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Speaker 2: it's not going to change in that way. And they

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Speaker 2: are so obsessed with this, and this is going to

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Speaker 2: punish people. This is going to make life difficult for everybody.

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Speaker 2: There's no there's no upside to this.

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Speaker 3: It certainly in many ways smacks of exploiting issues that

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Speaker 3: really do require our attention and our investment to push

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Speaker 3: an agenda that may or may not actually align with

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Speaker 3: the underlying problem. So you know, I live in venezz

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Speaker 3: I don't feel safe riding a bike. And some of

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Speaker 3: what HLA calls for better lighting, enhanced crosswalks, more trees,

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Speaker 3: A lot of that is good. I'm already doing that

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Speaker 3: work and see the eleven. I didn't need a ballot

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Speaker 3: measure to tell me to do it, but we have

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Speaker 3: got to have more control over where these go and

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Speaker 3: to ask important questions like does it make sense to

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Speaker 3: terms of traffic impacts to take away or narrow a

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Speaker 3: And how is it going to impact our local neighborhoods

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Speaker 3: where kids are actually riding and playing, riding their bikes

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Speaker 3: and playing. And HLA takes away those discussions and those

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Speaker 3: factors and makes road diets mandatory.

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Speaker 1: Tracy, thank you for coming on. We'll talk again soon.

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Speaker 3: You're welcome, John, I'll talk to you later.

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Speaker 2: How a good day, Tracy, Park councilwoman on the West

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Speaker 2: Side Council District eleven. More on this coming up because

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Speaker 2: we gotta we gotta set the eric. We gotta have

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Speaker 2: that alarm blaring, this is an emergency here.

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

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Speaker 2: H Oh, my goodness, this is this really is an

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Speaker 1: You have no idea how your commuting.

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Speaker 2: Life is going to be turned upside down starting March fifth.

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Speaker 2: If this stupid, stupid, stupid measure h LA passes. Boy,

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Speaker 2: this came out of the bowels, out of the colon

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Speaker 2: of these far left fanatics and the uh. The purpose

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Speaker 2: of this is to reduce traffic light. It's the road

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Speaker 2: diet again. It's the same thing we beat back seven

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Speaker 2: years ago. I remember, I remember when when we took

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Speaker 2: on the road Diet in Plia del Rey. We did

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Speaker 2: a couple of shows on the road there and we

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Speaker 2: stood on the street during rush hour, except nobody was rushing.

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Speaker 2: Everybody was stuck. They had they had shrunked the lanes.

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Speaker 2: And I was saying, we were interviewing people in their

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Speaker 2: at five in the afternoon because they couldn't move there

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Speaker 2: was too much traffic. I believe it was a three

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Speaker 2: What was wide open, though, was the stupid bike lanes

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Speaker 2: supposedly the purpose for this. And there were five cyclists

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Speaker 1: There's five bicyclists an hour. No, it's not. It's all

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Speaker 2: That's what this is about. They hate America and capitalism

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Speaker 2: It's about control over our lives. It's a very radical,

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Speaker 1: If you don't believe me, just wait.

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

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Speaker 2: We're going to have more on Measure HLA. Vote no

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Speaker 2: and so does Mark Recrion from the Center for Immigration Studies.

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Speaker 2: What's the plan that he's got for the state of

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Speaker 5: Well, what's it about is there's an election coming up

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Speaker 5: Yep, just let in. And they probably figured close to

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Speaker 2: So this is a last minute desperation move. If he's

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Speaker 5: That's what it seems like. And I mean, they may

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Speaker 5: a lot of people don't pay attention to stuff that closely.

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Speaker 5: They have one And so if the newspapers all say

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Speaker 2: Trump's last full month in office, the Border Patrol released

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Speaker 5: Eleven thousand, more eleven thousand times the number of people

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Speaker 2: In this has managed to make everybody unhappy. You have

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Speaker 5: I mean, the thing is what they really want, like

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Speaker 5: And the administration actually isn't against that. It's just that

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Speaker 5: bailed out a lot of these Democrat cities that are

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Speaker 5: screaming bloody murder over how much illtegration cost them.

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Speaker 2: All right, Mark, Well, thanks very much for doing all

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Speaker 2: the digging and reporting that you do so that people

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Speaker 2: understand what's going on, because it's very difficult, as you know,

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Speaker 2: to get accurate information consistently from most media corners.

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Speaker 5: That's why I get paid the big money.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I hope you do. Mark, Thanks for coming on.

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Speaker 2: Mark Grecorian and he's got a piece in the New

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Speaker 2: York Post and he's would send for immigration studies, and

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Speaker 2: the White House leaked a portion of Biden's State of

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Speaker 2: the Union address, and in it is this may not

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Speaker 2: actually be there by time he gives the address, but

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Speaker 2: there's supposed to be an announcement an executive order that

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Speaker 2: would dramatically reduced the flow of illegal aliens into this country.

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Speaker 4: We'll see you're listening to John Cobelt on demand from

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Speaker 4: KFI AM six forty.

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Speaker 2: We have much to cover off right to mention, We've

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Speaker 2: got Rick Caruso coming on in three o'clock hour. Rick Caruso,

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Speaker 2: who is the owner of the Grove and many other

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Speaker 2: great shopping centers all over southern California, and as you know,

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Speaker 2: ran from there against Karen Bass.

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Speaker 1: Still baffles me.

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Speaker 2: Anybody could think Karen Bass is a better choice, but

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Speaker 2: she's proving what she is. He's got stuff to say

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Speaker 2: about that, this graffiti tower fiasco, and also on the

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Speaker 2: crime which doesn't seem to be a baiting in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 2: So we'll talk to Rick Caruso coming up after three o'clock.

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Speaker 2: After two o'clock, Robert Sherman from News Nation. He's their

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Speaker 2: national correspondent. News Nation is the hot new cable news channel.

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Speaker 2: You should look it up on your cable system. News Nation,

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Speaker 2: and he's going to give us the latest after the

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Speaker 2: opposition leader to Vladimir Putin, Alexey Navalny, was found dead.

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Speaker 2: He was in that prison north of the Arctic Circle.

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Speaker 2: His widow is speaking out and the family wants access

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Speaker 2: to his body. The widow says she thinks her husband

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Speaker 2: was poisoned by one of Putin's associates. And that'll be

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Speaker 2: coming up after two o'clock here on KF five. Okay,

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Speaker 2: so we just finished with Mark corecoryon about Joe Biden

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Speaker 2: for his state the Union. Supposedly, it's been leaked, is

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Speaker 2: going to announce a major executive border that we'll shut

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Speaker 2: the border down significantly. This after he said some weeks

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Speaker 2: ago that there was nothing more he could do, there's

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Speaker 2: nothing he could do about it. And this is after

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Speaker 2: he and lying Kamala Harris and the lying Homeland Security

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Speaker 2: Secretary Hunter Mayorcis all claimed all.

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Speaker 1: The border of secures. They're not security. Out of the

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Speaker 1: border is secure.

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Speaker 2: They just lie and lie and lie, and Mark Corey

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Speaker 2: and hit on something that's really important. And if you

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Speaker 2: listen to this show and this station you're not one

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Speaker 2: of these people. But a lot of people don't pay

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Speaker 2: attention to anything, and it's easily it's easy to emotionally

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Speaker 2: manipulate them. It's easy to lie to them or misinform

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Speaker 2: and they'll go with.

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Speaker 1: Or I saw by it the other day. He's doing

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Speaker 1: something about the border. Ah, good for him, you know,

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Speaker 1: something have to be done there.

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Speaker 2: And they don't know that he intentionally created a situation

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Speaker 2: of three years. It's it's ignorance and apathy that's the enemy.

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Speaker 2: It's not so much the other side of your political beliefs.

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Speaker 2: It's the ignorance and apathy which is rampant and more

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Speaker 2: than ever. We were talking about how the mayors are

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Speaker 2: so upset with Biden and they want money. Here's what

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Speaker 2: they do with the money.

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Speaker 5: Though.

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Speaker 2: The mayor of New York, Eric Adams, now he hasn't

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Speaker 2: gotten any federal money. He's pissed off about it. But

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Speaker 2: he's spending city taxpayers money and he's got a plan here.

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Speaker 2: It's costing fifty three million dollars. They're giving away money

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Speaker 2: to illegal aliens. They're giving it away. It's prepaid cash

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Speaker 2: cards that you can refill. And this is this actually

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Speaker 2: is a deb card because they're going to keep refilling

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Speaker 2: the UH, They'll keep giving you more money every month.

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Speaker 2: And the New York Post says it has the potential

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Speaker 2: to become an open ended, multi billion dollar Bermuda triangle

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Speaker 2: of disappearing, untraceable cash used for any purpose. Get this,

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Speaker 2: illegal aliens will be able to get ten thousand dollars

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Speaker 2: each in taxpayer money, no ID check, no restrictions, no

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Speaker 2: fraud control. We just did this in California and we

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Speaker 2: blew over thirty billion dollars, no fraud control. What is

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Speaker 2: with these programs? I mean, this was this in California.

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Speaker 2: This was during the pandemic shutdown, and these were supposed

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Speaker 2: to be unemployment checks for people who were forced out

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Speaker 2: of their jobs. Well, in this case, it's going to

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Speaker 2: illegal aliens who willingly came here and broke the law

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Speaker 2: and now they're getting the ten thousand dollars reward and

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Speaker 2: they don't even have to prove their to legal aliens.

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Speaker 2: So what do you think is going to happen in

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Speaker 2: the California case, which is just four years ago. People

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Speaker 2: from Eastern Europe, people from Nigeria, all over the world,

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Speaker 2: we're filing in fake claims and getting the checks. There

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Speaker 2: are checks being paid out to people on death row

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Speaker 2: in San Quentin, including Scott Peterson, and they always have

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Speaker 2: a cover story, And the cover story here is, well,

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Speaker 2: the migrants that stay in the hotels don't eat all

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Speaker 2: their food. We're serving them food, but the food is

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Speaker 2: going to waste, so then let them go hungry. Instead,

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Speaker 2: we're going to give them cash so they could buy

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Speaker 2: food they like.

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Speaker 1: We're giving illegal aliens who are living in.

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Speaker 2: A free hotel cash so they could buy food they like,

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Speaker 2: because city officials thought it was a terrible waste that

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Speaker 2: the illegals didn't like the food.

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Speaker 1: There is a company called doc Go.

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Speaker 2: They got the contract, no bid contract because it was

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Speaker 2: an emergency and they were supposed to provide the illegals

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Speaker 2: three meals a day. Well they were throwing away five

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Speaker 2: thousand meals a day, wasting seven million dollars a year.

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Speaker 2: So the idea is now is any you can go

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Speaker 2: to New York City claim you're an illegal alien. You'll

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Speaker 2: get ten thousand dollars in tax money. No questions asked,

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Speaker 2: not even who are you? They're not even going to

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Speaker 2: ask who are I mean, you gotta give me a

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Speaker 2: name I suppose, but you can make up any name,

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Speaker 2: and then you'll get this debit card. And when you're

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Speaker 2: out of cash, just politely ask them for more money,

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Speaker 2: and Eric Adams will give you more money. Not making

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Speaker 2: this stuff up, all right, two o'clock, we're going to

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Speaker 2: talk with Robert Sherman. You know about Alexi Navonne. He

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Speaker 2: was Putin's nemesis, the opposition leader, and he was poisoned once,

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Speaker 2: eventually captured, put into prison, sent to the Arctic Circle,

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Speaker 2: and now he's been likely poisoned again and killed. And

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Speaker 2: the widow, Julia noval Naya, has been speaking out debor

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Speaker 2: Mark live in the KFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey,

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Speaker 2: you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You

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Speaker 2: can always hear the show live on KFI AM six

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Speaker 2: forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday,

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