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Speaker 2: We are now going to talk with Todd Spitzer, Orange

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Speaker 2: County DA. He and Nathan Hockman have put out a

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Speaker 2: public demand asking Governor Newsom to have a special legislative

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Speaker 2: session to make looting a felony punishable by state prison.

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Speaker 2: I didn't know that looting was not a felon. Is

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Speaker 2: a felony punishable by state prison?

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Speaker 1: Who knew?

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Speaker 2: Let's get Todd on here, Todd, this has got to

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Speaker 2: be some kind of joke.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, let me just clarify just it's a little

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Speaker 3: bit of a nuance right now. Looting in California is

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Speaker 3: a local jail time, so you can't go to state prison.

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Speaker 3: It's still a felony, but it's what we call a wobbler,

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Speaker 3: which means a judge can reduce it to a misdemeanor.

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Speaker 3: We want to take that away, make it a state

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Speaker 3: prison charge. We want to make it a strike. In California.

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Speaker 3: If you look at the report, some of these people

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Speaker 3: being arrested have strikes. Well, if you already have a strike,

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Speaker 3: if it's your third strike, the looting, you can go

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Speaker 3: away for twenty five to life. That's a deterrent. John.

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Speaker 3: That's what we need, right, need these criminals to think twice.

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Speaker 3: But they still have the mindset under George Gascon and

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Speaker 3: the Karen Beth State legislature that nothing happens to you

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Speaker 3: when you hurt good people. And so we want to

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Speaker 3: make it a strike. We want to make it state prison.

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Speaker 3: And the other thing that's not a crime. This is

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Speaker 3: what's not a crime. If you trespass onto somebody's property

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Speaker 3: where their home is ashes and you're trying to find say, jewelry,

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Speaker 3: things that are you know, metals that are diamonds or

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Speaker 3: things like that, that is not a crime. It's a

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Speaker 3: crime to trespass, which is a simple misdemeanor. But if

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Speaker 3: that is not a crime. In California and we want

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Speaker 3: to make that a crime. So if you're digging through

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Speaker 3: right the ashes of these individuals who are like circling

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Speaker 3: like vultures, acting like scavengers and grave robbers, we want

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Speaker 3: to make sure they're punished. Not only punished, John, but

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Speaker 3: they have to understand, these criminals, that there's a deterrent.

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Speaker 3: Who the hell is paying for all this? You and

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Speaker 3: I pay for our homeowner's insurance, our personal property right,

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Speaker 3: We pay our taxes for police and fire. Do you

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Speaker 3: know no one's even thinking about the recovery costs for

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Speaker 3: the National Guard, for all these firefighters and deputy sheriffs

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Speaker 3: who are being deployed to keep people out. We ought

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Speaker 3: to pay for that. Like, at the end of the day,

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Speaker 3: there's absolute consequences for the legislature that Karen Bass created

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Speaker 3: when she was Speaker of the Assembly, and now we're

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Speaker 3: living with the consequences of the people who are criminals

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Speaker 3: in the aftermath of these horrific fires.

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Speaker 2: I had forgotten. I wonder when she was Speaker of

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Speaker 3: I was there, John, I was an assemblyman, she was

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Speaker 3: my speaker. I had fab beyond Nunyaz and Karen Baths

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Speaker 3: fab beyond Nunyaz was the one who murdered the college

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Speaker 3: student when he was going to San Diego. No, I'm

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Speaker 3: sorry Fabyon's son, but that we were dealing with this

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Speaker 3: one is responsible for the consequences of their action. And

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Speaker 3: then look at this is what's happening today. The homeless

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what's stunning. And most people don't know that.

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Speaker 2: They don't remember that Karen Bass ran the Assembly and

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Speaker 2: a lot of these terrible bills that gave criminals such

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Speaker 3: Well, let me just tell you. I mean, you know, Nathan, listen.

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Speaker 3: to the looting statue. Oh that's a great thing.

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Speaker 2: I wondered how many of these guys that they've arrested

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Speaker 2: that Hawkman's prosecuting had long rap sheets and never spent

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Speaker 3: I can tell you without even studying it, all those

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Speaker 3: If their crimes were within the last four years, they

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Speaker 3: can change the law, now, mind you just think about this.

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Speaker 3: If we don't get this special session from the governor,

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Speaker 3: then all the arrests that are being made are still

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Speaker 3: these people or Nathan cannot have cannot charge. We need

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Speaker 3: the law changes immediately so we can use these laws

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Speaker 2: All right, If the law's not changed, and these looting

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Speaker 2: charges could be a misdemeanor or a felony. It's a

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Speaker 2: wobbler who decides that it could be a misdemeanor.

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Speaker 1: Is that a judge?

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Speaker 3: So the DA makes the initial decision what to charge,

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Speaker 3: but a judge can reduce it. And we know with

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Speaker 3: so many of Newsom's appointees now to the Superior Court,

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Speaker 3: he's appointed so many liberal judges, former public defenders, they've

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Speaker 1: Okay, so that's why.

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Speaker 3: You need them.

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Speaker 2: That's why you need this law past to make it

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Speaker 3: That's not exactly right.

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Speaker 2: John can't be reduced to misdemeanor, can't be a wobbler.

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Speaker 2: It's going to be a felony, and you will go

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Speaker 3: Absolutely. We cannot allow the judges. You know, they're like, ah, whatever,

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Speaker 3: they don't care. I mean sometimes they do, but you know,

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Speaker 3: they give a guy a break. These people don't deserve

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Speaker 3: any breaks whatsoever. We are all paying for it. We're

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Speaker 3: going to continue to pay for it. We can't afford

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Speaker 3: and of itself? John, Now tell me what is going on?

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Speaker 2: How could they not fill a reservoir with one hundred

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Speaker 1: How does this all go on?

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Speaker 2: How do they They have underfunded the LA Fire Department

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Speaker 2: by fifty percent.

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Speaker 3: Right, but everybody who's homeless deserves to have a five

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Speaker 3: hundred thousand dollars home. Let's not forget that. Let's not

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Speaker 3: forget the priorities. We're not giving people a tough shed,

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Speaker 1: Door we spend, and yet.

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Speaker 3: We don't have money. So we don't have enough money

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Speaker 3: the government in and of itself. And what you didn't

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Speaker 3: in Congress is guess who was paying for all those trips.

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Speaker 1: We were, We were, we were.

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Speaker 3: We were. So when you're deciding, do I want to

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Speaker 3: go back to the city of Los Angeles and actually

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Speaker 3: it's front and center. That's what local government is. It

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Speaker 2: You know, we paid billions for homeless here in La County,

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Speaker 2: and we got more homeless. We paid billions for that

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Speaker 2: high speed railroad. We have no railroad, and then they

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Speaker 2: underfund fire department by fifty percent and the Palisades burns

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Speaker 3: Well, by the time this is done, the smart people

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Speaker 3: not only because people cannot live here and afford to

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Speaker 3: It will be years before we recover from any of

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Speaker 3: this because of the cost of goods and services and

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Speaker 1: All right, Todd, thank you for coming on.

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Speaker 3: Hi, John, thank you.

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Speaker 2: God Spitzer. All Right, We've got so much more to do.

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Speaker 2: CNN did an extensive story today about LA Fire Department

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Speaker 1: Listen to this. This is from CNN.

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Speaker 2: Data shows that LA Fire Department among the most understaffed

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Speaker 2: city Hall to plead for more resources. Was Karen Bass

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Speaker 2: I don't know her travel schedule, so firefighters said they

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Speaker 2: Freddie Escobar, who's on this show, president of the city's

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Speaker 2: If we cut one position, if we close one station,

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Speaker 2: the residents of Los Angeles are going to pay the

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Speaker 2: ultimate sacrifice and someone will die. He said this twenty

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Speaker 2: one days before the Palisades fire. We had Freddy on

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Speaker 2: everybody afraid is afraid they're going to get fired, demoded, investigated,

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Speaker 2: put on leave, smeared in the media. Everything they say

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Speaker 2: because these stupid bastards in power that everybody keeps voting

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Speaker 2: for over and over again, and then Karen Bass goes

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Speaker 2: drinking in Africa party with the President of Ghana after

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Speaker 2: the fire warning. A CNN analysis of the most recent

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Speaker 2: Chicago, Dallas, and Houston has two firefighters every thousand residents.

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Speaker 1: We have one.

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Speaker 1: Has you seen anybody?

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Speaker 2: Where are they all, all these well progressive jackasses who

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Speaker 2: hiding in their safe homes? That didn't burn down. Nobody

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Speaker 2: Huh, I'm talking about the other fourteen. She warned resources

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Speaker 2: say that over and over again climate change? Oh fires

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Speaker 1: What did you do then? Oh? You drained the reservoir.

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Speaker 2: Good idea. Hey, you know these really bad firestorms are

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Speaker 2: really fearful of climate change, right, you really are afraid

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Speaker 2: you idiots, Tracy Park said, time and again, elected leaders

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Speaker 2: The firefighters say their lack of resources means they have

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Speaker 1: I can't tell you how I mean.

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Speaker 2: Fourteen thousand fires a year started by drug addicts and

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Speaker 2: Garcetti and Bass didn't do anything about. They work over time,

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Speaker 2: double time, They're exhausted, They're emotionally and physically spent. Then

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Speaker 1: Don't tell me. Don't tell me.

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Speaker 2: Forty engines, a thousand firefighters, and one hundred and seventeen

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Speaker 2: Kristin Crowley wrote the same thing the fire chief, and

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Speaker 2: Crowley said that the city's population had own from two

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Speaker 2: this isn't about one budget cycle, It's about a single

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Speaker 2: This is not about a single mayor. This has been

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Speaker 1: Dick Reardon was the mayor.

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Speaker 2: I've had nothing but idiots cutting the budget and not

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Speaker 1: Is in ruins.

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Speaker 2: You vote for these people, you defend them, some of

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Speaker 2: you to the death. I hear people defending bass. Don't

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

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Speaker 4: KFI AM six forty.

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Speaker 2: And I'm going to tell you something, and upfront, I'm

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Speaker 2: may have been some damage. LADWP. Every time we call

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Speaker 2: Next Tuesday, we have to hover for another week in

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Speaker 2: I'm in no danger of anything bad happening. I got

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Speaker 5: Phone for hours this morning talking to LADWP and a

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Speaker 3: They do this on.

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Speaker 1: Purpose, that's the game plan.

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Speaker 2: Everybody at the DWP, they got a little sign on

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Speaker 5: And then I found out something new and interesting. So

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Speaker 2: A crew showed up in front of our house today

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Speaker 1: S it's been seven years. Nobody cut the trees.

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Speaker 5: So in seven years, nobody has cut those trees that

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Speaker 2: I don't ever remember seeing a crew. Suppose it could

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Speaker 2: I don't remember this happening. I'm seeing now tree cutting crews.

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Speaker 5: Well, the Santa Anna's are going to be coming back

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Speaker 1: Then yes, you mean next week, Yes, next week. I

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Speaker 5: They're going to be your Monday, Tuesday, and then the

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Speaker 1: Oh I'm glad they are. But can you imagine the summer.

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Speaker 5: If we hardly get any rain, then we're going to

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and now I know, Now I know.

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Speaker 2: The part of the La Fire Department is fifty percent underfunded,

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Speaker 2: people write memos, people make speeches, and Karen Bass might

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Speaker 2: Please go read it. It's in the La Times. It's

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Speaker 2: written by Paul Pringle, a lean check Mitian Dakota Smith.

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Speaker 2: Headline is LA Fire officials could have put engines in

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Speaker 1: They didn't.

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Speaker 2: This is the La Times acting like a responsible newspaper

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Speaker 2: Chiong had an epiphany and now the orders have gone

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Speaker 1: All right, we'll take it.

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Speaker 2: So they discovered, and they've got proof that the top

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Speaker 2: I don't know. They still had a fire smoldering from

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Speaker 3: Yet.

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Speaker 2: You hear them complaining that they about the cuts in

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Speaker 1: All true.

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Speaker 2: But they had a thousand extra firefighters that they could

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Speaker 2: Crowley is saying, well, we're getting a lot of nine

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Speaker 1: They doubled down trees, down power lines, but.

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Speaker 2: A lot of homeless people starting fires fourteen thousand a year.

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Speaker 2: You've got to connect all these dots. Garsetti. Allowing the

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Speaker 2: and do the basics. Los Angeles Fire Department, a battalion

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Speaker 2: chief Rick Crawford said, the plan they're using now you

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Speaker 2: should have used before the fire. And Crowley, the fire chief,

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Speaker 2: she and her staff are now giving all sorts of

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Speaker 2: different stories. Every time the Times calls they get a

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Speaker 2: differ story. A documents showed that they had a ready

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Speaker 2: reserve of nine engines to go to fire prone areas.

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Speaker 2: The fire department said no. Some officials said no, And

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Speaker 2: at first they said, well, those nine engines were inoperable.

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Speaker 2: Then another spokesman said well, four of the nine were

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Speaker 2: not available. Then a third official had a document that

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Speaker 2: said seven were actually in service at one point or

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Speaker 2: another after the fire ignited. And then you have the

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Speaker 2: Deputy Chief, Richard Fields, who according to The Times, was

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Speaker 2: in charge of staffing and equipment decisions ahead of the fire,

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Speaker 2: said that his plan was appropriate for immediate response. No,

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Speaker 2: it was it Pacific Palisades is gone. But thanks for trying.

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

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Speaker 4: six forty.

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Speaker 2: Only got a minute. I wanted to fit this in.

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Speaker 2: There's still some dope still working at the LA time

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Speaker 2: who think it's twenty twenty. Russ Mitchell writes endless climate

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Speaker 2: change columns, and I wish they had written half as

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Speaker 2: many columns about the LA Fire Department being fifty percent

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Speaker 2: underfunded as they have written articles about climate change. But

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Speaker 2: he had to admit that owning an electric vehicle when

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Speaker 2: fire breaks out and you have to evacuate probably not

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Speaker 2: the best move.

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Speaker 1: He writes.

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Speaker 2: You've plugged your electric vehicle into your home charger, hit

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Speaker 2: the sack overnight high winds, top of the power line,

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Speaker 2: your charger blacks out. Report of a fire evacuation order.

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Speaker 2: Your battery is only charged to twenty five percent, and

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Speaker 2: it's your only car. And now suddenly California car buyers

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Speaker 2: are expressing fears. Yeah, what do you think there's nowhere

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Speaker 2: to charge these cars.

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Speaker 1: On Palisades?

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Speaker 2: Drive trying to get out of the Palisades and your

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Speaker 2: electric car is on low battery. You are screwed. You

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Speaker 2: are going to burn to death and die. Oh and

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Speaker 2: if your electric vehicle catches fire, those things, those things

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Speaker 2: burn for days. And I love this quote. Some industry

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Speaker 2: analysts named Jessica Caldwell well evs require a different relationship

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Speaker 2: with your vehicle that people have had before. They require

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Speaker 2: a lot more planning. I don't want to plan when

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Speaker 2: there's a fire burning in my backyard. I want to

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Speaker 2: get in the car and drive out of there at

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Speaker 2: ninety miles an hour.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to plan. Oh is there an electric

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Speaker 1: vehicle charging station around?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 1: My god.

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Speaker 2: This includes, she says, setting up a home charger, which

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Speaker 2: sometimes requires an electrical upgrade.

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Speaker 1: Don't want to do that.

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Speaker 2: Calculating roots for longer distance travel to find where charging

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Speaker 2: is available. I do that in the middle of a fire.

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Speaker 2: People are insane searching for working public chargers. When charging

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Speaker 2: stations are jammed or chargers are inoperable. Do you know

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Speaker 2: what it would have been like if we had nothing

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Speaker 2: but charging stations in the palisades, all those cars. People

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Speaker 2: just started shooting each other. Yeah, electric cars, good idea, Conway.

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Speaker 6: Buddy, I agree with you, but I think that that

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Speaker 6: we're old school, especially you. You don't go to Costco

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Speaker 6: because when it was price Club, somebody returned all your

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Speaker 6: items thirty five years.

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Speaker 1: Ago, not thirty five years ago. But just to that

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Speaker 1: is right. That's a great story. That's a great story.

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Speaker 1: I hold brudges for a long time. I get it.

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Speaker 1: I get it.

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Speaker 6: You've got to you know, you gotta let them know

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Speaker 6: they're not screwed around with the wrong guy.

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Speaker 1: We've got we got a big show here. Chris Christy's

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Speaker 1: coming on.

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Speaker 6: He's done some amazing work for Channel seven in the

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Speaker 6: helicopter over these fires.

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Speaker 1: For the last week and two days.

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Speaker 6: And then we also have the head of Petco, the

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Speaker 6: director of life saving at Petco coming on to talk

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Speaker 6: about your pets. That's a big story as well. And

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Speaker 6: then a guy named Brad Meltzer, a very popular author.

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Speaker 6: He wrote the JFK Conspiracy the secret plot that killed

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Speaker 6: Kennedy and whyatt failed and so we'll talk to him

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Speaker 6: because now with Trump getting into the Oval office, he

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Speaker 6: might release all that stuff.

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Speaker 2: I know it's sixty years yeah right, yeah, over sixty years, yeah.

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Speaker 1: Sixty two years or so, yeah, sixty two years.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's there must be something in there. Yeah, right,

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Speaker 2: why wouldn't sailed down for sixty two? And even Trump

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Speaker 2: had promised the first time he was going to open

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Speaker 2: it up and then he looked at it, going not

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Speaker 2: now yeah, well now he's not running for reelection, right, yeah,

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Speaker 2: so everything goes. I mean, almost everybody from the era

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Speaker 2: is dead, so yeah, right, everybody.

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Speaker 6: But you know, even all that, you know, the Walter Cronkites,

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Speaker 6: everybody reported.

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Speaker 2: It, you know, all the CIA officer, sure, they're all

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Speaker 2: people with Linda Johnson, right because eveny other suspects.

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Speaker 6: Even if you were in the CIA at twenty, which

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Speaker 6: is very young, you're already eighty two, you know, and

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Speaker 6: that's a long eighty two.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, yeah, you know, you don't know what's

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Speaker 1: going on anyway. Ye uh all right, Conway's next.

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