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Speaker 1: Are you there? Yeah? I am here. What's going on?

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Speaker 1: and you what are your qualifications for the jobs? And

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Speaker 1: why are you more qualified than the people who were bypassed?

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Speaker 1: There was only one reason. There was only one reason.

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Speaker 1: You can carry out his deeds, right, You aren't going

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Speaker 1: to prosecute criminals, and you were going to let other

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Speaker 1: criminals out early. Right. That that that that's the qualifications. Um.

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Speaker 1: She uh said that she's been referenced repeatedly by name

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Speaker 1: in pieces by right wing media outlets online and in print,

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Speaker 1: in podcasts and on the radio. Oh yeah, we've mentioned

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Speaker 1: all their names. Oh yeah, Well, because look, you took

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Speaker 1: a job and you you made decisions. You do work

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Speaker 1: that leads to people getting killed and people getting getting hurt, attacked, robbed,

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Speaker 1: because you keep putting these guys back out on the

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Speaker 1: streets without any punishment at all in some cases, or

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Speaker 1: minimal punishment. So so like like the like the cops

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Speaker 1: we were talking about, like the two al Monte cops,

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Speaker 1: like the cop who got shot and downy Yeah, the

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Speaker 1: Monterey Park Cops, the Monterey Park cop. I mean that

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Speaker 1: is a direct result of their actions. Gascone and and

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Speaker 1: this woman Tiffany black Now and Alyssa Blair and many others.

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Speaker 1: So I mean, you're creating this mayhem. And that's why

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Speaker 1: your name is mentioned all over the place. I don't

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Speaker 1: know who assisted who assisted Steve Cooley when he was

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Speaker 1: the DA. I'd no idea who those deputies were. So

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Speaker 1: the claim by the deputy das and these actions is

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Speaker 1: that the three of them, that would be Blair, Blacknell

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Speaker 1: and the Seline Joseph, they were not qualified to take

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Speaker 1: a competitive exam to become a grade three or grade

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Speaker 1: four deputy DA. They did not have the required two

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Speaker 1: years of experience at a lower employment grade. So what

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Speaker 1: they're saying is we're following the civil service rules for

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Speaker 1: the DA's office, and these three were not qualified to

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Speaker 1: be put in the positions they were put in. I

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Speaker 1: think it's a great action. I think it exposes Gascon

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Speaker 1: for what he really is. He knew he had to

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Speaker 1: bring in public defender types like himself to carry out

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Speaker 1: his operation because he couldn't find anybody in the District

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Speaker 1: Attorney's office who would make these decisions with him. Nobody

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Speaker 1: else would do it. They have white about eight hundred

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Speaker 1: or so deputy das. Literally none of them would do this,

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Speaker 1: so he had to bring in outside her public defenders.

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Speaker 1: And there's quite a few. I mean, we mentioned three

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Speaker 1: of them, but there's there's a number of others. Right,

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Speaker 1: So we don't know what the decision will be and

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Speaker 1: who makes the decision as to whether or not this

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Speaker 1: will be public or private. I wouldn't plan on attending it,

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Speaker 1: but I would like to see the results of it

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Speaker 1: when they're questioned. Yeah, and they should make public all

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Speaker 1: the depositions too. There should be no secrets. We're paying

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Speaker 1: for Tiffany Blacknail's salary, We're paying for her to release

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Speaker 1: violent prisoners early or not prosecute violent felons. We're paying

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Speaker 1: for this, so yeah, if she was improperly given this job,

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Speaker 1: we should be able to see to see the depositions.

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Speaker 1: We're paying for this legal process here, we're paying for

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Speaker 1: this investigation and hearing. This is all our money. So

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Speaker 1: you have to report back to us and say, Okay,

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Speaker 1: what did you find out? Was she unqualified? Of course,

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Speaker 1: she was unqualified. They all were, all right, we got

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Speaker 1: more coming out John and Ken show kfine, Oh it's

484
00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:15,840
Speaker 1: an oldie, but goody coming up after the news at

485
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Speaker 1: five o'clock, waiting to hear how much we're still on

486
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Speaker 1: the hook for healthcare benefits to retired state workers. We

487
00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:28,960
Speaker 1: have only funded four percent of the money we need

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Speaker 1: to keep providing health and dental benefits for all state retirees.

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Speaker 1: Their dependence and their beneficiaries. Wouldn't pay for their own

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Speaker 1: false teeth, yeah, or their implants? Yeah? Did people still

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Speaker 1: get false teeth? Sure? All false teeth? You mean dentious?

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Speaker 1: I like, I like false teeth. That was replacement. The

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Speaker 1: funnier didn't George Washington have wouldn't teeth? You know what

494
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Speaker 1: they did back then they put in the wooden teeth. Well, well,

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Speaker 1: let let people pay for it. I mean, you know,

496
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Speaker 1: every old loser state worker, we got to pay for

497
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Speaker 1: their teeth. And leading right into it will be the

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Speaker 1: story from lovely Manhattan Beach in the South Bay. There

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Speaker 1: apparently is a contract negotiation going on between the city

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Speaker 1: and the city firefighters, and apparently the average pay for

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Speaker 1: a Manhattan Beach firefighter is three hundred and twenty eight

502
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Speaker 1: thousand dollars a year. I can't even absorb that number.

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Speaker 1: That's unbelievable if you think about it. I don't think

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Speaker 1: it's as dangerous a job as firefighters in many other

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Speaker 1: communities in California. No, I don't. I don't think there

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Speaker 1: are many fires in Manhattan Beach. Not. Maybe there's medical calls, right,

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Speaker 1: there's always some medical right, but those aren't dangerous, not likely.

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Speaker 1: So we'll explore how that happened, because I can tell

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Speaker 1: you in a neighboring town called Hermosa Beach, they replaced

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Speaker 1: them with the county firefighters. There's a point where you

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Speaker 1: kind of have to do that. It might be a

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Speaker 1: cheaper option because if you grow the department over the

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Speaker 1: years and they continue to have the union get bigger

514
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Speaker 1: pay raises, you got to start looking at the bottom

515
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Speaker 1: line deciding we can't be doing this. And I'm in

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Speaker 1: as the pensions as we just talked about. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: I'm looking at the statewide compensation numbers for the top

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Speaker 1: twenty five largest departments, and it looks like Manhattan Beach

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Speaker 1: is just like way an outlier. Yeah, even among the

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Speaker 1: most well paid departments. Yeah, they've they've done a good job.

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Speaker 1: And in terms of they're negotiating their way up, what's

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Speaker 1: that story? And a big chunk of it too, as

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Speaker 1: we'll tell you as overtime, it always plays a part

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Speaker 1: in public employee paid, particularly in police and firework. Lots

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Speaker 1: of overtow much firefighter overtime is necessary in Manhattan Beach. Well,

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Speaker 1: this is a good story by Edward Ring who's been

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Speaker 1: on our show before, his researcher, and he explains how

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Speaker 1: they do it. And we'll tell you that coming up

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Speaker 1: after during the five o'clock is like scammed me. Uh,

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Speaker 1: you know one of the places that John Kobelt is

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Speaker 1: loved to. I'm gonna use the word pick on. I

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Speaker 1: guess all I have to do is say the following

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Speaker 1: two words, and I think we'll know the store we're

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Speaker 1: talking about. Osiago Cheese bagel store. No no, no, oh,

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Speaker 1: well John will tell you where Whole Foods. It's Whole Foods.

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Speaker 1: But but but no, she is right. We've talked a

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Speaker 1: lot about the Ostiago women who clog up the bagel line, right,

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Speaker 1: but you first talked about it in reference reference going

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Speaker 1: into the whole food store and seeing the women's lined up.

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Speaker 1: It's ostiago cheese culture among women. Yes, that's not a

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Speaker 1: cheese that men order. Well, the Whole Foods founder and

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Speaker 1: CEO John Mackie, who's actually retiring, you would think a

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Speaker 1: place like Whole Foods, which attracts a lot of John's

544
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Speaker 1: favorite West Sireeni people to come in and get their organic,

545
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Speaker 1: vegetarian vegan needs and what of our else and lining

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Speaker 1: up for their special cheeses. It's all the non stuff.

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Speaker 1: It's not in GMO. Yes, people like these stores, and

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Speaker 1: they generally are of that ilk because they don't carry

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Speaker 1: the common things that the riff raff eat. No, I

550
00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:16,200
Speaker 1: can get great specialty items. Everything is it's a really

551
00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:18,600
Speaker 1: negative story though right it's brightly colored, but everything is

552
00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:21,840
Speaker 1: about what's not in there. There's no sugar, there is

553
00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:27,600
Speaker 1: no preservatives, there's no gluten, there's no genetically modified whatever

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00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:31,400
Speaker 1: the problem. Huh, what's the problem. I've got into Whole

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Speaker 1: Foods and gotten lots of big goods that are full

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Speaker 1: of sugar. So that's just I know. But the signs

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00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:38,080
Speaker 1: are up. There's a certain I was I was listen.

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Speaker 1: I was reading a whole story on this how people

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00:33:41,320 --> 00:33:46,840
Speaker 1: get manipulated by fake health products, organic products, and a

560
00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:49,280
Speaker 1: lot of this stuff doesn't work. A lot of this

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00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:53,160
Speaker 1: stuff is just neutral, doesn't mean mar but but people

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00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:56,920
Speaker 1: and especially women fall for this stuff when that that affects.

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00:33:57,080 --> 00:34:01,040
Speaker 1: Story was all about how Gwyneth Paltrow makes her fortune

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00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:04,880
Speaker 1: by tapping into this desire to have something that's healthy

565
00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:09,560
Speaker 1: and different and alternative and homeopathic and organic appeals to

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Speaker 1: people's basic wants. They want a better life, they want

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Speaker 1: to live longer. So you just say that stuff and

568
00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:17,640
Speaker 1: they'll gobble it up. No, I want something fatty and salty,

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Speaker 1: and you will die behind that microphone within a year.

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Speaker 1: He put a curse on me. He put a hex

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Speaker 1: on me. How's that cool? Pool? Oh, you're so proud

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00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:37,040
Speaker 1: of being a I'm gonna outlive you. There you go,

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Speaker 1: all right, there's there's something to look forward to. I'll

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Speaker 1: make sure I outlive you. I don't know how you

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00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:47,480
Speaker 1: make sure that you certainly aren't on the right tractitude

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00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:54,840
Speaker 1: with your habits, but uh so, my surprise. This retiring

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00:34:54,880 --> 00:34:59,080
Speaker 1: founder and CEO John Mackie went on a podcast to

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Speaker 1: complain about socialists taken over the US. Here is part

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Speaker 1: of what he said is that that everything is more

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Speaker 1: politicized in terms. My concern is that I feel like

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00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:13,960
Speaker 1: socialists are taken over. They're marching through the institutions. They're

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00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:17,719
Speaker 1: taking everything over. They and taken over education. It looks

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00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:20,880
Speaker 1: like they've taken over a lot of the corporations. It

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00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:26,000
Speaker 1: looks like they've taken over the military, and it's just continuing.

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Speaker 1: So I'm deeply concerned about Um. You know, I'm a

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Speaker 1: capitalist at heart, and I'm a liberal. I believe in

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00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:39,960
Speaker 1: liberty and capitalist and those are my twin values. And

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00:35:40,360 --> 00:35:44,320
Speaker 1: I feel like, you know, with the way freedom of

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00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:50,120
Speaker 1: speeches today, the movement on gun control, a lot of

590
00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:53,320
Speaker 1: the liberties that I've taken for granted most of my life,

591
00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:57,640
Speaker 1: I think are under threat. I just surprised me because

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Speaker 1: when you consider the store and the customers, that sounds

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00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:05,239
Speaker 1: like kind of the opposite see philosophy or ideology. He's

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00:36:05,239 --> 00:36:09,160
Speaker 1: just about making money, that's all. He'll sell whatever nonsense.

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00:36:09,719 --> 00:36:13,680
Speaker 1: He found a niche and he really has h harvested

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Speaker 1: probably quite a fortune out of it. If these silly

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00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:20,399
Speaker 1: fools are obsessed with fake organic products, they I'll sell

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Speaker 1: it to them. Term Apparently he uses his conscious capitalists

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00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:28,480
Speaker 1: well conscious what he should do is stop feeding the socialists?

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Speaker 1: Who do Who does he think is going into all foods? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it is. You know, I don't know whether he meant

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00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:39,080
Speaker 1: like the woke crowd or is that now is that

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00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:41,759
Speaker 1: his term for its socialists or maybe did the same

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00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:46,919
Speaker 1: thing democrats socialists And well it's the people taken over,

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00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:51,359
Speaker 1: you know, the universities, and they've installed their woke curriculum

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00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:54,720
Speaker 1: and they've shut down free speech and their brainwatching the students.

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00:36:54,719 --> 00:36:56,440
Speaker 1: But a point out that now that's moved to like

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Speaker 1: the grade schools in the high school. Oh, it has

609
00:36:58,040 --> 00:37:00,840
Speaker 1: to just be the college university. Oh, it absolutely has.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'll move all the way down. I've seen

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Speaker 1: the curriculum. It's no joke on that. All right. When

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Speaker 1: we come back us some good stuff about pensions and

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Speaker 1: pay for public employees, particularly some firefighters in Manhattan Beach.

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