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Speaker 2: to talk momentarily with Jackie FeelA, President and CEO of

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Speaker 2: the Hotel Association in Los Angeles. Karen Bass is relentless

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Speaker 2: in destroying the city. Not enough to allow the Pacific

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Speaker 2: downtown LA over the weekend. Now it's about wrecking the

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Speaker 2: hotel industry in the up to the Olympics. It is

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Speaker 2: a she signed. It just happened a short time ago.

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Speaker 2: She signed an ordinance that tourism, hotels and tourism workers

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Speaker 2: are getting a thirty dollars an hour minimum wage. Thirty

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Speaker 2: thirty bucks by July twenty twenty eight, just in time

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Speaker 2: for the for the Olympics. Jackie feel is going to

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Speaker 2: come on now, President and CEO the Hotel Association of

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Speaker 2: Los Angeles, Jackie, how are you?

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Speaker 3: Oh? I am frustrated, but otherwise well, thank you for

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Speaker 2: Well we originally Ray talked with you about coming on

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Speaker 2: because you wanted to send out the word so people

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Speaker 2: could somehow write to or call Karen Bass to not

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Speaker 2: sign this ordinance. But in the meantime she did. And

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Speaker 2: so now you're with the hotel industry in La is industry.

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Speaker 2: What are they what are they left with? What are

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Speaker 2: they going to be facing now over the next few years.

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Speaker 2: It's only two years until the Olympics.

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Speaker 3: Sure, so this is now the highest minimum wage in

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Speaker 3: the country at the worst possible time for Los Angeles.

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Speaker 3: This only applies to the tourism industry, and the tourism

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Speaker 3: industry is struggling it in Los Angeles. We're still recovering

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Speaker 3: from COVID nineteen, fast forward to the January fires and

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Speaker 3: now national rhetoric that is completely decimated international travel. This

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Speaker 3: is an industry that on multiple fronts is struggling, and

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Speaker 3: imposing such dramatic increases in labor, which is the number

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Speaker 3: one cost in running a hotel, is just completely infeasible.

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Speaker 2: I imagine you were lobbying heavily with the city council

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Speaker 2: and with Baths not to do this. What were their responses,

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Speaker 2: I mean the obbvie. The obvious case you make is

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Speaker 2: like this is unaffordable and they don't care or they

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Speaker 4: Well.

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Speaker 3: Unfortunately, like so many pressing issues in the city, and

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Speaker 3: despite repeated attempts by hoteliers and residents to raise concerns

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Speaker 3: about the consequences, Mayer Baths did not actively engage on

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Speaker 3: the numerous impacts this ordinance will have on the city.

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Speaker 3: She was absent in regard to the concerns for the industry,

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Speaker 3: absent on the concerns for the jobs that this industry provides,

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Speaker 3: Absent on the impact of the city's budget and city services.

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Speaker 3: The hotel bed tax alone contributes approximately three hundred million

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Speaker 3: dollars a year when a city is in a severe deficit.

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Speaker 3: She still didn't show up to advocate for the best

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Speaker 3: the impact of the Olympics.

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Speaker 2: What is the current wage because I saw story which

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Speaker 3: The current wage is has historically set to be fifteen

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Speaker 3: July it goes up by the CPI.

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Speaker 1: All right, well, it's going.

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Speaker 2: To be twenty two fifty in July, and then by

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Speaker 3: Well, certainly, and it's important to remember when we think

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Speaker 2: So the hotels, we're going to offer discounted rooms for

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Speaker 2: not going to be offering those discounted rooms. They can't

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Speaker 3: Sure, So again, what the city has done here is

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Speaker 3: they've more than doubled the cost of labor. And so

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Speaker 3: there is a very strict calculation for what you can

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Speaker 3: because the majority of hotels actually did agree to participate

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Speaker 3: For those associated with the Olympics, it's a very strict

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Speaker 3: unfortunately hotels, many of them have already done the math

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Speaker 3: more will do so now that they've heard the mayor

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Speaker 3: that they sign now will make them have them going

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Speaker 2: It happens at a terrible time because tourists into Los

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Speaker 2: thinking LA is not safe, and they're right, it isn't.

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Speaker 2: And then the Canadians are upset over Trump's antics, and

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Speaker 2: at that moment is when they're jacking up the rates

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Speaker 2: to thirty dollars an hour, it certainly.

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Speaker 3: Doesn't make a lot of sense, and it's something that

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Speaker 3: the leaders of the tourism Department, lax the Lava World Airport.

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Speaker 3: Have the city council in discussions about this, but also

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Speaker 3: in discussions of just the city's budget. All of these

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Speaker 3: twenty to twenty five percent for the year, and that

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Speaker 3: is devastating for the industry. But people forget this is

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Speaker 3: also devastating for the city's budget. The bed tax alone

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Speaker 3: is three hundred million dollar contribution to the city. The

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Speaker 2: The city council in the Marriat, they don't seem to

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Speaker 2: It's almost like they dropped out of school when they

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Speaker 2: how businesses need to make a profit. And you can't

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Speaker 2: jack up their labor costs, you know, but by this much.

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Speaker 2: But doubling the labor costs in a few short years,

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Speaker 2: that that that that's just insane, That that is a

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Speaker 3: Well, I think what's really disappointing about this whole process

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Speaker 3: is that the industry actually came to council members, tried

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Speaker 3: to go to the mayor, and wanted to understand what

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Speaker 3: the goals were, and that you know, wages and healthcare

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Speaker 3: were the stage goals, and the industry actually had quite

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Speaker 3: a lot of good ideas about how to get closer

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Speaker 3: and business people employed in the hotels. And one of

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Speaker 3: the things that I think also gets overlooked in this

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Speaker 3: and we just don't see those changes proposed in the

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Speaker 3: because at the end, when you see a lot of

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Speaker 3: and our city residents, we think a lot of them

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Speaker 3: could have been avoided by trying to work with the

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Speaker 2: All right, Jackie, thank you for coming on. Jackie Fale

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Speaker 2: at presidency of the Hotel Association in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for all right.

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Speaker 2: There is a Hotel Angelino if you drive north on

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Speaker 2: the four h five the Sunset Boulevard exit. Years ago,

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Speaker 2: it used to be a holiday inn. It's it's that

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Speaker 2: It's a nice hotel. One of their representatives, Mark Beccaria, says,

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Speaker 2: common sense tells you you cannot raise wages over thirty

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Speaker 2: If this labor if this increase in labor costs passes,

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Speaker 2: we will be forced by the city to consider converting

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Speaker 2: this hotel in the heart of residential Brentwood into a

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Speaker 1: John, a homeless gonna do about that?

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Speaker 2: That is, I can't take this news home. That's about

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Speaker 2: a mile from my house.

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Speaker 5: You be packing up tomorrow, Oh.

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Speaker 2: Geez niate, No, this is just that You're gonna have

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Speaker 5: Those people that live in that area are not going

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Speaker 2: Oh, oh my god, this is like some kind of

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Speaker 2: civil war has been unleashed.

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Speaker 2: on the iHeartRadio app. Well, you just heard that the

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Speaker 2: La Hotel Association is furious. They tried to talk sense

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Speaker 2: to the blockhead Karen Bass and the blockheads on the

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Speaker 2: city Council that you cannot jack up the minimum wage

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Speaker 2: to thirty dollars an hour, that the math doesn't work.

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Speaker 1: And you know, people don't know this or they forget.

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Speaker 2: But every year, let's take Los Angeles City schools. Every year,

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Speaker 2: seventy percent of the children who are graduating high school

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Speaker 2: in LA Unified School District are not proficient at math,

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Speaker 2: and they're also not proficient at reading.

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Speaker 1: But let's focus on the math.

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Speaker 2: So seventy percent not proficient, and you multiply that. By

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Speaker 2: the last thirty thirty five years this has been going on.

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Speaker 2: You have people who are now in their early fifties,

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Speaker 2: how to do mathematics. They don't know. Doesn't make any

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Speaker 2: they are now working for Karen Bassett City Hall. They

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Speaker 2: don't know how to do math. And probably none of

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Speaker 1: Maybe one required class and.

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Speaker 2: That's it, because they all got into social work. You know,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Karen Bass has done a hell of a job here.

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Speaker 2: You imagine all that tax revenue that's leaving number one

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Speaker 5: I mean, what do you do pack one pair of shoes.

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Speaker 1: Anything goes these days, Okay, you know I like to

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Speaker 1: Where are people moving to?

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Speaker 2: Never had this story in the news a few minutes ago,

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Speaker 2: Pods. Pods the big red letters. Well, they have their

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Speaker 2: This is what Kevin Newsom and Karen Bass are doing

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Speaker 2: And for many many years, this is why I'm so

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Speaker 2: So they destroyed San Francisco, they destroyed Santa Monica and

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Speaker 2: Just going through this overcrowding, high cost of living, low affordabile,

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Speaker 1: Why do people want Why do.

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Speaker 2: People keep voting the way they're voting? Why are they

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Speaker 2: Where's the police with the rubber bullets?

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Speaker 5: Drink?

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Speaker 1: Oh, that's gonna be a great idea.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I do not understand that.

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Speaker 1: Hey, it's not bad enough.

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Speaker 2: I know, let's have all these gang members walking around loaded.

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Speaker 2: Let the homeless be completely blasted out of their minds.

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Speaker 1: That'll be good for business. And they have no idea.

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Speaker 5: Well, Governor Newsom, when he hears the rhetoric of people

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Speaker 2: They both just why you just deny it, and the

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Speaker 2: Thanks for making it a lead story with a graphic

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Speaker 2: in sight downtown in LA and they charged onto a train,

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Speaker 2: one of those metro trains that Karen hopes is your

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Speaker 2: first choice for mass transit for travel, and they started

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Speaker 2: spray painting all the businesses in the neighborhood. And like,

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Speaker 2: this is the lowest form. This is not even human behavior.

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Speaker 2: This is the this is this is like if you

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Speaker 2: gave animals in the zoo the capability to hold a

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Speaker 2: spray paint can, what would they do. They would run

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Speaker 2: around in a pack and just start spraying. Because I

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Speaker 2: don't know what they're spraying at right, So they're spraying

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Speaker 2: the train, They're spraying the sides of buildings, the windows,

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Speaker 2: they're spraying the police cars, as you ran. Can you

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Speaker 2: imagine how badly you've been raised that you're willing to

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Speaker 2: run up to a police car and start spray painting it?

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Speaker 2: And why the cops don't mow them down with rubber

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Speaker 2: bullets right away?

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 5: It's the same people think who think, you know, in

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Speaker 5: a tragedy, a disaster, that it's okay to go looting?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, the whole lot.

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Speaker 2: I saw the media was trying to celebrate the fifth

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Speaker 2: anniversary of the George Floyd Riots, but people were having

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Speaker 2: none of it. Did people look back down and say,

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Speaker 2: oh my god, that that unleashed years worth of bayhem?

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Speaker 2: And it was like some kind of stupid nervous breakdown

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Speaker 2: people had. Suddenly it was okay to what? Did they burned?

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Speaker 2: Like eighty eight businesses?

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Speaker 5: That's ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: At the fair fact statuary people.

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Speaker 5: Justify that and they say it's okay to do that.

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Speaker 2: Everything's okay. Every time I think we hit bottom, we

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Speaker 2: hit another bottom.

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Speaker 5: I don't think we've hit bottom yet.

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Speaker 1: No, Uh, I got what I wanted to do. Oh

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Speaker 1: when we come back.

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Speaker 2: It looks like California has is changing the rules all

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Speaker 2: of a sudden regarding transgender athletes because of that guy

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Speaker 2: who won two major statewide events in the long jump.

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Speaker 1: And what was the other thing was here in California.

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Speaker 2: It was the CIF, the California Interscholastic Federation Southern Section.

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Speaker 2: This is, you know, the annual state championships long jump

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Speaker 2: and triple jump. A guy wanted beat all these girls.

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Speaker 2: And Trump came out and thundered against Newsom because Newsom

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Speaker 2: has said that don sense is deeply unfair, but he

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Speaker 2: allows it to go on. Well, I don't know if

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Speaker 2: somebody made a call. We'll tell you about how it

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Speaker 2: turned out when we come back.

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

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Speaker 4: sixty three o'clock.

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Speaker 2: Alex Stone will be on after Debor's news because Southwest

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Speaker 2: is charging big fat prices now for a checked bag.

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Speaker 2: They were supposed to be the cool airline, the funny airline,

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Speaker 2: the cheap airline. Thirty five bucks for a check bag

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Speaker 2: and that's just for starters. So a lot of people

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Speaker 2: unhappy with that. Alex have come on all right, so

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Speaker 2: early on in the show. This is something that broke

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Speaker 2: in the La Times this morning. Trump went off on

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Speaker 2: a rant on his truth social site and said that

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Speaker 2: it was a message to Gavin Newsom that if he

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Speaker 2: continues to illegally allow men to play in women's sports,

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Speaker 2: he is going to cut federal funding. What specific federal

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Speaker 2: funding he didn't say, but there's all kinds of funding,

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Speaker 2: billions and billions of dollars, a lot of it, A

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Speaker 2: lot of money goes to the schools. And Trump said

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Speaker 2: I will speak to him today to find out which

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Speaker 2: way he wants to go. This was triggered by a

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Speaker 2: California high school junior, a boy who won the girls'

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Speaker 2: long jump and triple jump. This was at a big event,

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Speaker 2: a state competition, the California Interscholastic Federation, that's the CIF

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Speaker 2: the Southern Section masters meet and eventually the winners will

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Speaker 2: go on to a state final.

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Speaker 1: So a guy.

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Speaker 2: Won the long jump and the triple jump and the

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Speaker 2: girls were denied.

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Speaker 1: Their honors.

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Speaker 2: And there has been a big uproar, And I'm glad

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Speaker 2: people are finally fighting back against this idiocy, especially the mothers.

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Speaker 2: Where are the mothers here? How do you watch your

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Speaker 2: girls go through the struggles they go through for being

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Speaker 2: women in this world? And I'm still a male dominated

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Speaker 2: society and took them decades and decades to get the

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Speaker 2: right to compete in sports and have their own championships,

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Speaker 2: and now you take it away by putting men in there.

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Speaker 2: And I love how these pro transgender women think they're feminists.

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Speaker 2: I don't know what they're I think they're saying is

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Speaker 2: what they are. Well, there has been a change the

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Speaker 2: state organization that oversees state policies in sports. It's the

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Speaker 2: California Interscholastic Federation the CIF. They have a new entry

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Speaker 2: process to make sure that girls are not displaced from

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Speaker 2: winning a medal. The new process is going to begin

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Speaker 2: for the upcoming track and field state championships, and a

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Speaker 2: biological female who competes and wins but may have been

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Speaker 2: displaced by a guy, they're still going to get their

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Speaker 2: medal any biologically you realize, do you have to read this?

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Speaker 2: This is actually news. This is actually an earthshaking policy.

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Speaker 2: A biological female student athlete who would have earned the

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Speaker 2: medal and did not achieve the mark in their finals

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Speaker 2: are going to be awarded a medal and allowed to

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Speaker 2: move on to the next round of the championships.

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Speaker 1: So are there two winners that are going to be

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Speaker 1: putting the record books. Now I don't know, I don't know.

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Speaker 2: They just won't be blocked out of moving up, and

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Speaker 2: they won't be blocked out of getting a medal. Oh

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Speaker 2: there now could be three first place a second, all right,

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Speaker 2: So they're going to score separately for transgender students.

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Speaker 1: So you'll have the.

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Speaker 2: Boys competition, one winner, there, the girls competition, and then

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Speaker 2: a trans athletes competition.

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Speaker 1: But it may not be a competition. They'll just be

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Speaker 1: scored differently.

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Speaker 2: They'll be competing with the girls, but they will't count

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Speaker 2: towards the standings of the girls.

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Speaker 6: Right, So let's say the trans athlete finish is first

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Speaker 6: and beats out all the other girls. Whoever technically comes

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Speaker 6: in second. Is now the winner is now the actual

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Speaker 6: first place girl, right, and we'll get a first place medal. Yes, exactly,

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Speaker 6: you believe this? And then and then this is a

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Speaker 6: spokeshole for a Gavin Newsom. So I guess this came

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Speaker 6: from Newsom. Ah, so Trump actually shamed him. How the

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Speaker 6: hell is Newing going to run on this nonsense for president? Is?

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Speaker 2: The Garden says the proposal is a reasonable, respectful way

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Speaker 2: to navigate a complex issue. It is not a complex issue.

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Speaker 2: You're born with a penis, you are a guy. If

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Speaker 2: you're born with a vagina, you're a woman. You can

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Speaker 2: do whatever you want privately, you could call yourself whatever

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Speaker 2: you want, but you don't get to steal metals from

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Speaker 2: girls in high school.

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Speaker 1: Geez.

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Speaker 2: Trump threatened to withhold large scale funding from California, and

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Speaker 2: that was specifically over this guy who beat the girls

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Speaker 2: in this track championship. It's just what a stupid, stupid

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Speaker 2: error we're in.

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Speaker 1: Ah.

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Speaker 2: If my mother could could rise out of the grave

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Speaker 2: and witness this, she'd climb back into the grave.

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Speaker 1: She'd say, no, this isn't my time.

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Speaker 5: What would your dad say?

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Speaker 2: My dad would just go, oh, one syllable at a

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Speaker 2: time with my dad, Oh yeah, oh, no, good, Oh

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Speaker 2: all right. We come back Alex Stone and he's covering

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Speaker 2: this Southwest thing where they're charging lots of money. Now

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Speaker 2: to check it back, and Deborah Mark is lied in

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